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progress, and Practical Agriculture is striving to advance along 

 with it. In some respects, however, its advancement is ham- 

 pered by customs and ideas which have come down from other 

 times ; and it has been my endeavour to remove these as far 

 as possible. Having been guided by personal experience of a 

 somewhat extensive nature in preparing this Work, I offer it, 

 therefore, to the Public, in the hope that it will be found useful 

 in promoting the important object for which it is designed 

 namely, the Improvement of Landed Property, and, as a neces- 

 sary consequence, the general welfare of the community. " The 

 profit of the earth is for all ; the king himself is served by 

 the field." 



WASS, OSWALDKIRK, YORKSHIRE, Jan. 1869. 



