THE FARMERS MAGAZINE. 



This Day is Published^ 

 BY ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & Co. EDINBURGH, 



A-ND 



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THE FARMERS MAGAZINE, a periodical work, pub- 

 lished quarterly, exclusively devoted to Agriculture and Rural 

 Affairs, for the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 

 1807, 1 808, , 1809, 1810, and 1811, i8 Numbers, (and Supple- 

 ment to 1808.) 



*^* The establishment of a Board for promoting Agriculture and 

 internal improvement, brought Husbandry into fashion, and directed 

 public attention to an art which, before that period, had been un- 

 dervalued and neglected. From this change of public sentiment, 

 the Proprietors of the FARMERS MAGAZINE were encouraged to 

 bring forward a periodical work, which both contained interesting 

 discussions upon agricultural subjects, and furnished select and im- 

 portant information respecting the state of markets, produce of crops, 

 rate of rents, and value of labour in almost every district of the 

 island. The design, at least the latter part of it, was new, there- 

 fore was not carried into execution till the assistance of numerous 

 respectable Agriculturists, both in Scotland and in England, was 

 sought for and obtained ; and to the active and steady exertions of 

 these friend?, may be attributed the uncommon and unprecedented 

 success of the work since its commencement a success far beyond 

 that of any agricultural publication hitherto attempted in this or any 

 other country. 



In the volumes of the FARMERS MAGAZINE already published, 

 may be found regular Essays or Dissertations upon every agricul- 

 tural subject which can be mentioned, together with an immense 

 number of hints or observations, all calculated for the improvement 

 of agriculture, and the benefit of those connected with it. What is 

 of great importance to husbandmen, information is given in a plain 

 and practical manner, neither clouded by theory, nor enveloped in 

 technical terms. That eminent writer on husbandry, the Rev. Mr 

 Harte, in his Treatise on Agriculture, says, tc The plain practical 

 author pays his little contingent to the republic of knowledge with a 

 bit of unstamped real bullion, whilst the vain-glorious man of science 

 throws down an heap of glittering counters, which are gold to the 

 eye, but lead to the touchstone." 



