TO THE PUBLIC. 



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farms are the only records in which it 

 is regiftered, and even there it is as 

 fleetins as the hour in which it is per- 

 formed. Nothing but actual obferva- 

 tion, and immediately regiflering in 

 writing the feveral operations, as they 

 pafs throughout the year, can render 

 the pradtice of individuals of extenfive 

 fervice to the Public. 



In fhort, the art of agriculture muft 

 ever remain imperfe(ft while it is fuffer- 

 ed to languiih in the memory, and die 

 with the practitioner : Record, only, 

 can perpetuate the artj and System, 

 alone, render the fcience comprehen- 

 five *. 



Mr. Marfhall has already fubmitted 

 to the Public a regifter of his own 

 pracftice during five years -, compre- 

 hending a plan for acquiring agricul- 

 tural knowledge, fyflematically, from 



* What Dr. Johnfon fays of Language is applicable 



to Agriculture -*' Didtion merely vocal is always 



'* in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence 

 " behind him, the new generations have all to learn," 

 '^joiitfiry to the IVfJtern IJlandi of StotlancL 



A 4 feif- 



