BY

GEO. E. WARING, Jr.,

CONSULTING AGRICULTURIST.

The effort to extend the dominion of man over nature is the most healthy and most noble of all ambitions.—Bacon.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

346 & 348 BROADWAY.

M DCCC LIV.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by