INTRODUCTION. 



IT is doubtful if any book on agriculture has ever been written in 

 this country of which the writers have had opportunities for such 

 extensive and varied experience as have the authors of this work. 

 AVILLIAM CROZIER is, perhaps, now better known than any other 

 farmer on this continent, principally from the fact that for the past 

 twenty years the exhibition of his fine stock and other farm products 

 has enabled him to take more prizes than any other working fanner 

 in the country, and that to-day the dairy and farm at Northport, 

 Li. I., on which these products have been raised, are models worthy 

 of imitation by the tens of thousands engaged in farming who have 

 failed to make it the profitable business that it has been, and still con- 

 tinues to be, to Mr. Crozier. The co-author, PETER HENDERSON, the 

 senior member* of our firm, although not a farmer, has long been con- 

 sidered, as is well known, an authority on all matters relating to practical 

 garden work. His book, Gardening for Profit, now in the hands of 

 probably 100,000 readers, has shown how to make gardening pay. 

 In the present work Mr. Henderson tells in plain words the manner 

 of growing such Vegetables and Fruits as can best be made profitable 

 on the farm, besides interchanging with Mr. Crozier his opinions on 

 such operations of the farm as his long practice in cultivating the 

 soil enables him to do. 



Mr. Crozier and Mr. Henderson have had the project in contem- 

 plation of getting up a work on American farming for the past ten 

 years; but both being engaged in the active work of their large 

 operations on the farm and garden, it is doubtful if they would ever 



