PUBLISHED BY JAMES RIDGWAY, 169, PICCADILLY ; SOLD BY R. E. PEACH, BATH; F. MAY, TAUNTON; "He that goes about to forward agricultural improvement must begin by finding out the true reasons of what is called routine, or the custom of the country.' It sometimes happens that these reasons are only accidental, and then you may dismiss them fearlessly; but it often turns out that every-day practice rests on a solid foundation of facts; and then if you make an onslaught on local prejudices, they will be sure to beat you. "The true course for the agricultural improver is, to take one step at a time, to gain a clear insight into facts by experience, not to try to go too fast, and to trust to the work of time. "If practice which sets up to do without theory is contemptible, theory without practice is foolhardy and perfectly useless." From the Rural Economy of England, Scotland, and Ireland. By LEONCE DE LAVERGNE. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, Implements in the Field. By JOHN CLARKE and CLARE SEWELL .. .. III. Report of Personal Experience on a Farm, up ards of 500 acres, IV. The Sheep of the West of England. By HENRY TANNER, Professor of Agriculture, &c., Queen's College, Birmingham. Prize Essay 57 .. V. On Carts and Waggons. By T. W. P. ISAAC, Northgate Street, .. Agriculture, &c., Queen's College, Birmingham. Prize Essay.. 146 VIII. Agriculture in France. By EDWARD SPENDER, Mannamead, Ply- X. On the Barnstaple Exhibition (Arts and Manufactures Depart- ment). By Dr. Scorr, Deaf and Dumb Institution, Exeter 205 XI. An Elementary Introduction to the Principles and History of Art. |