PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



Our various Essays upon Agriculture are often 

 more suited to the taste of the Gentleman Farmer, 

 than to the wants of the practical Husbandman; 

 they are too expensive for the purse, and too learned 

 for the unlettered mind of the humble peasant. It 

 has been my object to supply such information as my 

 own judgment and experience, and the published 

 obsen'ations of much better Agriculturists, have 

 suggested. 



The Agricultural Societies of the County of Wex- 

 ford, by their zeal and hberality, have already effected 

 so great an improvement in the habits and practice of 

 the Small Farmers of their County, that it gives me 

 great pleasui-e to co-operate with them in promoting 

 the comforts of that class, as well as gratification in 

 extending to Farmers, on a greater scale, the infor- 

 mation I have been able to collect. 



Martix Doyle, 



Ballyorley, 



August, 1828. 



