ADVERTISEMENT. 



NOTWITHSTANDING the vast facilities of intercourse which the 

 Railway System has opened up to the Farmers of the present 

 generation, and the development and diffusion of Agricultural 

 Literature by a Cheap Press and a Cheap Postage, it is a matter 

 of surprise to many who have had their attention called to the 

 subject, that the practices of one district should so often be 

 comparatively unknown in another, and that such different 

 modes of treating the same subject should continue to exist. 



In Agriculture, as in all Arts dependent upon the laws 

 governing the physical world, there are certain " principles" or 

 fundamental rules which never vary they are alike, always 

 and everywhere wherever cultivation is carried on they are 

 the same. Practices, however, necessarily vary; varieties of 

 soil, of climate, and the markets, necessitate modifications, to 

 compensate for the altered circumstances, whatever they may 

 be. These modifications, to be successful, must be in harmony 

 with the causes that gave rise to them; in no case can the 

 principles of cultivation (vegetable reproduction) be departed 

 from with impunity. 



The object of the present Work is to discuss the principles 

 and practices involved in the cultivation of " OUR FARM CROPS" 

 to make known in popular language, and as free from techni- 

 calities as possible, those which are based on sound deductions, 

 and to offer such evidence in their favour as may induce a com- 

 parison between them and the existing practices of a district, 

 and thus, in some cases, it is hoped, lead to improvements in 

 the general system of Cultivation. 



