PREFACE. 



NUMEROUS as the publications 

 on hufbandry have become in 

 almoft every part or Europe, few of 

 them let us in o its aclual ftate in any- 

 country. Authors feem to have dif- 

 dained recording the practice, fo much 

 have they been employed in prefcribing 

 alterations. Several reafons may be af- 

 figned for this omiffion : to defcribe the 

 agriculture of a province, it is necef- 

 fary to travel into it, and among the 

 writers who have been moil volumi- 

 nous upon this fubject, the greater 

 number have been confined to their 

 own farms, — perhaps to their fire fides. 

 It was impoffible for them to have giv- 

 en detailed defcriptions of what tney 

 had never feen. 



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