80 AGRICULTURAL PUBLICATIONS IN U. S. 



known to ibe agricultural community ; and other communica- 

 tions of which we leave others to speak. 



These comprise all the reports of Agricultural Societies in the 

 country which have been given to the public in a pamphlet or 

 book form, of which I am in possession ; though I believe an 

 Agricultural Society, both in New Hampshire and Connecticut, 

 have issued some publications. Of course I do not include the 

 pubUcation of mere anniversary addresses, though some of them 

 have great value. 



Of single publicationa by individuals, we have had a respecta- 

 ble number, and most of them highly deserving of attention. I 

 will proceed to enumerate those which have come within my 

 knowledge. 1 have njentioned above, Eliot's Essays ; next fol- 

 lowed, 



The New England Farmer, or Georgical Dictionary, by Sam- 

 uel Deane, D.D. 



The date of the first publication I cannot ascertain. The 

 second edition was published in 1797. The third, under the 

 editorial care and emendation of Thomas G. Fessenden, learned 

 in the science, in 1822. 



The Experienced Farmer, by Richard Parkinson, of Doncas- 

 ter, Eng., Philadelphia, 1799, 2 vols. 8vo ; and a Supplement 

 on Turnip and Pea Fallows, printed in Washington city, 1801. 

 This man's works, for 1 have likewise his Treatise on Live 

 Stock, published in London, seem to me to deserve little confi- 

 dence. 



The Rural Socrates, or the History of Kliyogg, a celebrated 

 philosophical Swiss Farmer, was republished in Hallowell, Me., 

 in 1800, under the care of Benjamin Vaughan, LL.D., former- 

 ly member of the British Parliament ; and with notes from the 

 pen of this most learned and excellent man. All I shall say of 

 this work at present, is, that for its practical utility, as present- 

 ing a most admirable example of industry, economy, persever- 

 ance, decision, and good sense, and for its fine moral tendency, it 

 is not surpassed by any book that I have ever met with, saving, 

 of course, that with which no other is to be put in comparison. 



Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs, by I. B. 



