NOTICE BY THE PUBLISHERS. In times past, the European emigrants, and even the settlers from the Atlantic States who removed to the West, were exposed to numberless trials and disadvantages, chiefly arising from the dearth of essential informa tion concerning the various novel circumstances in which the change of their abode and habits of life unavoidably placed them. A luminous and ample Directory and Guide, comprehensive and minute, the result of experi ence and observation, has long been desired by both of the classes of persons referred to; and also by those who have been born and nurtured in the newly opened dis tricts. The Publishers are gratified that they are enabled to satisfy the universal demand, by a volume which comprises a mass of superior materials, partly derived from the most authentic sources, and partly obtained by extensive and protracted research. Some of the most valuable articles have been taken from the transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society; others have been selected from the periodical miscellanies devoted to the concerns of a farm and to the manner of life in the new settlements. To a monthly work published at Chicago entitled the "Prairie Farmer," the author has frequently adverted, as a most useful and necessary instructor for all those who would derive advantage from long-tried skill and practical attention to the multiplied efforts of those who have passed through all the gradations of a settler's life; from the primary chopping of trees and a log-cabin, to the enjoyment of all the beauty and comforts of a luxuriant and fertile garden-spot, replete with opulence and ornament. The contents of the "Farmer's and Emigrant's HandBook" can be accurately known and duly estimated, only by a recurrence to the Index of subjects; which occupies twenty-four columns, comprising about fifteen hundred different points of information respecting the management of a Farm, from the first purchase and clearing of the land to all its extensive details and departments. The necessary conveniences, the household economy, the care of the animals, the preservation of domestic health; the cultivation of fruits, with the science and taste of the arborist, and the production of the most advantageous articles for sale, are all displayed in a plain, instructive, and most satisfactory manner; adapted peculiarly to the classes of citizens for whose use and benefit the work is specially designed. Besides a general outline of the Constitution, with the Naturalization and Pre-emption Laws of the United States, there is appended a Miscellany of 120 pages, including a rich variety of advice, hints, and rules, the study and knowledge of which will unspeakably promote both the comfort and welfare of all who adopt and practise them. The Publishers are assured that the commendations which the "Farmer's and Emigrant's Hand-Book" has received are fully merited; and they respectfully submit the work to Agriculturists, in the full conviction that the Farmer or the Emigrant, in any part of the country, will derive numberless blessings and improvements from his acquaintance with Mr. Marshall's manual. |