INTRODUCTION. 



There are at present a variety of obstacles to the 

 advancement of Agriculture In these kingdoms, or to 

 the produAion of the greatest quantity of food from the? 

 soil. Amongst this variety there are those of a nature 

 not to be removed but by the arm of Government ; whilst 

 there arc others which only require due exertions on the 

 part of individuals. I 



The slow progress which Agriculture has hitherto made 

 as a science, is to be ascribed to a want of education on 

 the part of the cultivators of the soil, and the want of 

 knowledge, in such Authors as have written on x'^grlcul- 

 ture, of the intimate connexion that subsists between this 

 science and that of Chemistr)^ Indeed tliere Is no opera- 

 tion or process, not merely -mechanical, that does not de- 



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