In the Press, and will be Published in December, 1824. 



BY 



MESSRS. LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, 



AN 



ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE ; 



^ 



ficotp attfc practice 



VALUATION, TRANSFER, LAYING (JUT, -IMPROVEMENT, AND 

 MANAGEMENT OF LANDED PROPERTY; * 



THE CULTIVATION AND ECONOMY OF THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE 

 PRODUCTIONS OF AGRICULTURE, 



INCLUDING 



ALL THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS; 

 A GENERAL HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN ALL COUNTRIES; 



AND 



3 Statistical fltteto of its present State, 



WITH 



: SUGGESTIONS FOR ITS FUTURE PROGRESS IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 





By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S., &c. 



AUTHOR OP THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING. 



Illustrated ivith upwards of 700 Engravings on Wood, by JBranston. 



-L HOUGH the term Encyclopaedia applied to any single art may be sufficiently indicative 

 of the comprehensive manner in which it is intended to treat of that art ; yet it may not be 

 improper to state the grounds on which this work lays claim to being the most complete 

 body of Agriculture hitherto submitted to the public. 



The subject of Agriculture admits of two grand divisions; the improvement and 

 general management of landed property, which may be termed territorial economy; and 

 the cultivation and treatment of its more useful animal and vegetable productions, which 

 is properly husbandry or agriculture in a more limited sense. Numerous as have been 

 the publications on rural matters during the last twenty years, there are but few of them 

 whose titles might lead to a supposition that they embraced both departments. Of 

 these few, the two principal may be cited : the " Complete Farmer," as the most volu- 

 minous, and the " Code of Agriculture," as the most recent. The " Complete Farmer, 

 or Dictionary of Husbandry," in two thick quarto volumes, with numerous plates, was 

 published in 1807 ; it is copious to excess; was the best dictionary of husbandry at the 

 time it was published, but is now obsolete, both as to its letter-press and engravings, 



