PREFACE 



TO 



THE FIFTEENTH EDITION. 



[PUBLISHERS' NOTE. When the lamented death of Dr. William Fream 

 occurred in 1906, it appeared that he had not taken in hand the 

 preparation of a new edition of this work to succeed the Fourteenth 

 Edition issued in 1900 ; and the Publishers count it a fortunate circum- 

 stance that the preparation of the present edition has been undertaken 

 by Mr. W. E. BEAE, himself a writer of high authority on Agricultural 

 subjects, who was numbered amongst Dr. Fream's personal friends and 

 professional associates. 



As Youatt's COMPLETE GRAZIER, the earlier successive editions of the 

 work had for several generations been universally accepted as a high 

 standard authority, when in 1893 it was so thoroughly revised and 

 reconstructed for the Thirteenth Edition under Dr. Fream's editorship, 

 that thenceforward it became identified as much with the name of its 

 new Editor, as with that of the Author of the original work; and as 

 Youatt and Fream's COMPLETE GRAZIER it has since more than main- 

 tained its ancient high reputation. 



For the Fourteenth Edition of 1900, such further revision as was 

 necessary to incorporate new features in Agricultural practice which 

 had established themselves in the intervening seven years was carried 

 out under the supervision of Dr. Fream himself. The several respects 



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