PREFACE. 
T HE great object of this work is to collect all the most 
yaluable improvements in husbandry, both in Europe and 
America, as they stand recorded by the most learned and 
approved authors, and reduce the whole to one plain prac- 
tical system of American farming, adapted to our climate, 
the state of our markets, and more particularly to the high 
price of labour in our country. 
Having been engaged in farming upon a large scale, for 
about thirty years, and in the course of that time, tested 
by my own experience, most of the European systems ; I 
enter with some confidence upon the labours before me ; 
but with what success, the public alone can decide. 
By abridging the learned work of Mr. Huish on the 
Culture of the Bee, as an addition to the work, together 
with a few practical' remarks on Gardening ; 1 have en- 
deavoured to compress into one cheap volume, all that is 
both valuable and useful in the science of husbandr*, and 
ibr the special use of the plain practical American Farmer. 
The whole is interspersed with occasional remarks of the 
Author. 
Farming has generally been considered, in our country, 
as a rustic, old fashioned business, that any man of com- 
mon sense could do, if he chose ; and what was really be- 
low the attention of a gentleman ; but happy is it for our 
country, such sentiments are daily passing under the lash 
of public opinion, and the true worth of the farmer, and 
the art of farming are rising to their true scale of public 
estimation. 
The Agricultural Societies of our country, will, in a few 
years, excite an emulation that will make our farms, in 
some measure, resemble the Salem Alms-House Farm, and 
our farmers become the Paul Uptons of their country. 
The numerous benefits resulting to every family from 
