Preface
_ From the Twelfth London Edition.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PETER B. MEAD, EDITOR OF THE HORTICULTURIST.
1860
Preface to the Twelfth London Edition.
This little volume has been received with so much favor, both by the public and the press, that I cannot refrain from expressing my gratitude for the kind treatment I have experienced. From many of the criticisms which have appeared respecting "Our Farm of Four Acres," I have received not only complimentary remarks, but likewise some useful hints on the subjects of which I have written. With the praise comes some little censure； and I am charged by more than one friendly critic with stupidity for not ordering the legs of our first cow to be strapped, which would, they consider, have prevented both milk and milker from being knocked over. Now this was done, but the animal had a way of knocking the man and pail down with her side； every means was tried, but nothing succeeded till her calf was parted with. We ha

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