The farmer's manual; being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees

Introduction

errors, by exhibiting a plain practical system of farming, derived from the best, and most approved practical writers, and cultivators ; together with my own practical experience for more than thirty years.

I have arranged this treatise in monthly order, embracing the several descriptions of husbandry that belong to each month, to enable the practical farmer, at one view, to derive the greatest advantage from such truths as may be found useful. To impress this the more forcibly, 1 have introduced each month with a general recapitulation of such improvements as should have been made, or such labours as sho'uld have been performed the preceding month.