C H Y M I S T R Y 



APPLIED TO //a^^&t^ it, 



AGRICULTURE. 



By JOHN ANTONY CHAPTAL, 



COUNT OF CHA5TIL0UP, PIER OF FRANCE, MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE, &C. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE SECOND FRENCH EDITION. 



Omnium rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agriculture melius, nihil 

 uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil libero homine dignius. — Cicero. 



Good husbands will find the means, by good husbandry, to improve their lands ; 

 but it will not be amiss that they be put in mind thereof, and encouraged 

 in their industries. — Lord Bacon. 



BOSTON: 

 HILLIARD, GRAY, AND CO, 



1839. 



