iv THE EDITOR 



The reader will perceive that the in- 

 tention of this publication was to extend 

 the practice of the celebrated Mr Tull's 

 Horfe-hoeing Huibandry, according to 

 the genuine method of that gentleman^ 

 upon his lateft improvement of it. 



To obtain this end, Mr. Forbes had 

 alfo prepared for the prefs an accurate 

 edition of Mr. Tull's Eflay, containing the 

 final rules he drew from the whole courfe 

 of his experience, and his many valuable 

 remarks, that lie aimed fmothered in 

 the polemical appendixes, &c. to which 

 Mr. Tull was provoked by thofe literary 

 vermin, that are as injurious to the agri- 

 culture of England, as the fly is to oiyr 

 turnips. And this work will not be loft 

 to the public, mould a charitable difpo- 

 fition, to a poor widow and diftrefled 

 family, fufficiently prevail among the 

 friends to rational agriculture. 



