ADVERTISEMENT. 



The Essex AgTicultural Society, to whom, in the necessary ab- 

 sence of the writer, the following address was presented, having 

 desired that it might be published, he thinks it proper to say, 

 that, proposing to offer for consideration some useful facts and 

 observations having a direct relation to the great object of the 

 association — an improved system of agriculture — he sought to 

 exhibit them in plain and familiar language, adapted to the sub- 

 ject. Improvements important in their nature will be impor- 

 tant in fact, in proportion to the extent to which they are intro- 

 duced. Practical farmers must bo satisfied of their reality, to be 

 persuaded to adopt them. And they will be the sooner and 

 better satisfied, if the accounts of improvements be given in lan- 

 guage easy to be understood. Many words familiar to the 

 scholar, are to the more practical farmer " an unknown 

 tongue." When words of art, not used in popular style, are 

 unavoidably introduced into papers intended for his reading, a 

 short note might explain their meaning. 



The introduction of lotal words, used and understood only in 

 some districts, probably cannot be wholly avoided ; because 

 those who use them are not always aware that they are local; 

 but they embarrass the reader in another district. To agricul- 

 tural gentlemen in Boston and its neighbourhood, so many 

 " bucks" or *' buck-loads" of manure, appear to be words famil- 

 iarly known ; yet probably were never heard in Essex. To 

 an inquiry for their meaning, this answer was given : "A buck," 

 or " buck-load," is the load drawn by one pair of oxen, and a 

 " double buck" the load drawn by two pair of oxen. 



To interest, in the important object of the institution, a class 

 of civizens who are men of reading and science, the writer of 



