Excerpt from The New-England Farmer; Or Georgical Dictionary
It is much to be regretted, that the most complicated of all the arts, in which the brightest genius may find sufficient room to exert and display itself, should be slighted and neglected, by a people not generally wanting in ambition. And it is equally strange and unaccountable, that the most useful and necessary of all employments should have been considered, even by the enlightened people of New-England, as below the attention of any persons, excepting those who are in the lowest walks of life; or, that persons of a liberal or polite education should think it intolerably degrading to them, to attend to practical agriculture for their support.
Perhaps, one occasion of the low esteem in which husbandry has been held, in this country, may have been the poor success which has most commonly attended the labours of those who have embraced the profession. Not only have most of them failed of rapidly increasing their estates by it, but too many have had the mortification of making but an indifferent figure in life, even when they have used the strictest economy, and worn out their constitutions by hard and incessant labour. The misfortune has been, that a great proportion of their toil has been lost by its misapplication. To prevent this evil in future is a leading design of the present publication. And since many among us begin to be convinced of the urgent necessity of having the attention of the publick turned to agriculture, it is hoped that the following attempt to promote the knowledge of its mysteries, and a spirited attention to the operations of it, will meet with the greater approbation and success.
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