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REVIEW. 



Art. I. The Farmers Guide to Scieiiiific and Practical 

 Agriculture. By Henry Stephens, F. R. S. E., author 

 of the Book of the Farm, &c., «Scc., assisted by John P. 

 Norton, A. M., Professor of Scientific Agriculture in Yale 

 College, New Haven. Nos. 1 to 8. Published in semi- 

 monthly numbers. New York. 



We have neglected to notice this publication, eight num- 

 bers of which have now been issued. Mr. Stephens is al- 

 ready favorably known to American agriculturists as the 

 author of the Book of the Farm, a work which has passed 

 through one American edition. The Farmer's Guide is 

 merely a reissue of the same publication, but rendered much 

 more valuable by the notes of Professor Norton, of Yale 

 College, adapting it to this country. We regret that the 

 title of the work has been altered, but the publishers give 

 the following reasons for this course : — " It may be necessary 

 to explain to you, what we have not announced to the pub- 

 lic, that the title of the work is changed from that by which 

 the foreign portion of it is now known. The British author, 

 Mr. Stephens, published several years ago a work called 

 ' The Book of the Farm,' which was republished in this 

 country, and is still in the market. The work we have 

 now commenced to publish is a second edition of that book, 

 published under a new title, with additions by Professor 

 Norton of Yale College, adapting the work to this country. 

 In adopting this new title, we have been actuated by a 

 desire to benefit all parties — the patrons of the work, the 

 publishers of the first edition, and ourselves. Although in 

 Great Britain it is called a second edition of the Book of the 

 Farm, we are assured by the British publisher, in successive 

 letters received from him, that ' it is so changed, enlarged, 

 and re-arranged, in short so thoroughly rewritten, as to be, 

 in fact, a new book.' * * * ' xYll discoveries in science, as 

 applied to agriculture, are of recent date, and are but sparingly 

 given in the first edition : whereas in the second, science, so 



