EDITOE'S PREFACE 



THE present volume is based upon a series of articles 

 on "Farm Crops and Cropping," which has appeared 

 within the last few years in the " Journal of Agri- 

 culture, and Transactions of the Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society." Much of the matter therein given 

 has been here availed of, but the whole has been re- 

 modelled, and a large amount of new material added, 

 in order to bring the volume within the scope of the 

 Miscellany, of which it forms a part, and up to the 

 most recent date of practical experience. From the 

 interest which the articles above alluded to excited 

 at the period of their publication, it is hoped that in 

 their new, amended, and greatly-extended form, they 

 will serve in the much wider circle this Miscellany 

 addresses, and aims at reaching that practically use- 

 ful and suggestive purpose the author, in their pre- 

 paration, had in view, and which he has here en- 

 deavoured more fully and completely to realize. In 

 succeeding Parts of this important department of 

 Farming Literature the Culture of its Crops the 

 subjects of Oats, Barley, Beans, Pease, Turnips, Man- 

 gold Wurzel, Cabbage, Artificial and Natural Grasses, 

 Clover, &c., &c., will be consecutively taken up, and 

 fully discussed and illustrated. 



