"Agriculture is the most healthy, the most useful, and the most noble employment of man."-WASHINGTON.

THE

AMERICAN FARM BOOK;

OR

COMPEND OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE;

BEING A

PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SOILS, MANURES, DRAINING,
IRRIGATION, GRASSES, GRAIN, ROOTS, FRUITS,
COTTON, TOBACCO, SUGAR CANE, RICE,

AUTHOR OF DISEASES OF "DOMESTIC ANIMALS," AND EDITOR OF
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST,"

NEW YORK:

C. M. SAXTON, 121 FULTON, STREET.

1850.