ceptable. We are but novices in the great art of Agiiculture, 

 and any thing that will give us light, we hail with gratitude and 

 pleasure. We shall, from time to time, give our readers ex- 

 tracts from the work. — Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer, 



Elements of Agriculture. By John P. Norton, M. A., Pro- 

 fessor of Scientific Agriculture in Yale College, 

 This is a neat volume by one whose reputation for agricultural 

 science stands high, and whose writings on this subject we have 

 read with interest and instruction. Simplicity of language and 

 distinctness of illustration are its prominent characteristics. The 

 author has, in a good measure, happily avoided the use of techni- 

 cal and unusual terms. No treatise of the kind, so well suited 

 to form the basis of agricultural instruction in our public schools, 

 has come to our knowledge. We trust it will be found highly 

 useful as a text-book for popular instruction. 



Many things are here stated as simple elements, the demon- 

 stration of which has been the result of much observation and labor. 

 It not unfrequently happens, that the most useful truths when 

 known and distinctly stated, awaken surprise, that they should 

 have so long passed without notice. One of the greatest obsta- 

 cles to the acquisition of agricultural science, has been the forbid- 

 ding garb in which it has been arrayed. — New England Farmer. 



Elements of Scientific Agriculture. 



The bare annunciation of such a work, by Prof. Norton, will be 

 sufficient to awaken, among all friends of agricultural improve- 

 ment, a general desire to possess it. So far as we have been able 

 to examine its pages, our high expectations have been fully met. 

 Prof. Norton has a common sense way of presenting the various 

 topics connected with agricultural science, and it is to the common 

 sense of every man, that his conclusions commend themselves. 

 Would that every farmer in Michigan were in possession of this 

 book. — Michigan Farmer, 



Norton's Elements of Scientific Agriculture. 



No work which has been issued from the press in this country, 

 is of so much importance to the agricultural interest as this. 

 The author has been completely successful 

 in his treatise, and has produced a work, which, while it illus- 

 trates fully the principles of science in their application to the 

 practical work on the farm, is so plain and familiar in its illus- 

 trations, that no one we think can fail to appreciate them, and to 

 apply them if need be to the Dractical purposes of agriculture. 



we can not doubt it is des- 



