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practical farmers, consider it a personal and imper- 

 ative duty to bring- out, and place upon record in our 

 annual publication, all the valuable I'esults of their 

 experience. In this way our " transactions" will 

 exhibit a transcript, as it were, of the agricultural 

 mind and heart of the county, and thus true know- 

 ledge, founded on experience, may be multiplied and 

 diffused. 



The wisdom of the world is founded on the expe- 

 rience of the world. This is emphatically true of 

 the art, which it is our design to promote. Every 

 farmer, who pursues his calling with that zeal, 

 enterprize and intelligence, which all men should 

 endeavor to bring to the prosecution of their lawful 

 business, whatever it may be, will learn something 

 every year, which it is important that others should 

 know. That something should be communicated for 

 the common benefit. It should be found in our 

 records, so as to vbe known and read of all men. 

 The lights of experience and true knowledge should 

 not be suffered to expire in one's own breast, but 

 should shine forth on our published records in all 

 their richness and variety of coloring, for the illumi- 

 nation of the general mind. 



To this end, let every farmer who has good reason 

 to believe that in any one thing he is wiser this 

 year than he was the last, bring up here a brief nar- 

 rative of the matter, to whatever branch of husban- 

 dry it may relate ; and if this duty should be fully 

 discharged by our intelligent yeomanry, abstracts 

 might be prepared for publication, from such narra- 

 tives, which would be of invaluable service in ad- 

 vancing the agricultural interests of the county. 

 Essays and treatises on the different branches of 

 husbandry may be made exceedingly useful, and 

 should occupy more or less space in our annual vol- 

 ume; but if our farmers, while they avail themselves 

 to the fullest extent of all the sources of information 

 at their command, will bring out to the public view, 

 from time to time, the results of their own expe- 



