232 The Rev. E, Cartwrigk's Essay, Sec. 



indeed, been my object, I might have compiled and put together nearly as many 

 volumes as I have now written pages, and (the manual labour exceptedj with as little 

 trouble. But such an occupation would have been a needless waste of time, a mere 

 repetition of what has been repeatedly communicated to the public already. I 

 thought it sufficient, therefore, to describe those modes and operations which have 

 had the preference in my own practice : some of which, so far at least as I have 

 seen or heard, are peculiar to myself. It has not, however, been from any affecta- 

 tion of singularity that I have in any instance deviated from established customs or 

 opinions. In agriculture, as in all other arts, those practices only are worth adopting 

 which have utility for their basis. Of that, which has no other title to notice than 

 its novelty, it is a slender commendation to say that it is new. 



