Excerpt from The Agriculture of the United Provinces: An Introduction for the Use of Landholders and Officials

The welfare of the cultivator may be affected for good or for evil by the actions of two distinct classes, the officials with whom he has to deal and the landholders (or their subordinates) under whom he holds his land. The two classes have at least one feature in common, that they know very much less of the cultivator's business than he knows himself. It is true that an observant man may, in the course of time, collect a mass of information on the subject, but the process is in any case slow, the power of independent observation is comparatively rare, and thus it happens that even experienced land agents and officials may do a great deal of harm merely from ignorance and thoughtlessness. The present volume has been compiled with the object of supplying an introduction to the subject which may be of use to all who have to deal with the cultivator, not by. saving them the trouble of observing for themselves, but by furnishing them, so to speak, with a framework on which they can arrange the knowledge they acquire.

The book is divided into two parts: the first aims at giving a general account of the subject, while the second gives some details concerning the different agricultural regions of the provinces, and the various crops that are grown. The method of description adopted in the opening chapters calls for a word of explanation.

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