iv INTRODUCTION. 



May not fuch a book as this in fuch a 

 cafe be of great ufe ? I have had my eye 

 particularly to the farmers want of time to 

 confider; and thrown out many cautions 

 and hints for their ufe at periods too fhort 

 for their own ideas to come fully into 

 play. 



To take one walk over a farm, which 

 confequently can be only at one feafon — 

 to difcover at once the nature of the foil — 

 to fee into its evils, as well as advantages, 

 by figns peculiar to every feafon— to guard 

 againft the deceit occafioned by feafon s 

 favourable to particular foils — to compare 

 the covenants expected in the leafe, with 

 the nature of the land — to obferve the ftate 

 of the fences, borders, bogs, barren fpots, 

 &c. &c. that an eftlmate may at once be 

 made of extraordinary Isihour — to minute 

 the fields w^hich mufc be particularly fa- 

 voured to ameliorate them after an ex- 

 haufting tenant — to remark the ftate of 

 the roads — to gain information of tythc> 

 taxes, poor, and a multiplicity of other 

 circumftances, v;hich may be afked as a 

 man walks over the fields, and minuted in 



his 



