THE present Volume is the fifth of a series of seven which, 

 among them, discuss the Cultivation of the Farm, its Live 

 Stock, and its Cultivated Plants, Farm and Estate Equipment, 

 the Chemistry of Agriculture, and the Processes of Animal and 

 Vegetable Life. Among the writers who have been engaged on 

 them are Messrs. T. BOWICK, W. BURNESS, G. MURRAY, the 

 late W. T. CARRINGTON, the Rev. G. GILBERT, Messrs. J. HILL, 

 SANDERS SPENCER, and J. C. MORTON, Professors J. BUCKMAN, 

 J. WORTLEY-AXE, and J. SCOTT, Dr. M. T. MASTERS, F.R.S., and 

 Mr. R. WARINGTON, F.C.S. 



It will be seen from the above announcement that a seventh 

 volume is added to the six originally contemplated the Processes 

 of Animal and Vegetable Life requiring more than one for even the 

 elementary discussion of them, which alone is here attempted. 



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