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

GEO. E. WARING, Jr.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

TO

MY FRIEND AND TUTOR,

PROF. JAMES J. MAPES,

THE PIONEER OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IN AMERICA,

This Book

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY HIS PUPIL,

THE AUTHOR.