Excerpt from The Rural Economy of England, Scotland, and Ireland This Essay is a fragment of the course of Lectures which I had undertaken for instruction in Rural Economy at the Agricultural National Institute. Although denied the opportunity of using them in the way of oral teaching, I considered that these notes might prove useful in another form, and began by publishing extracts from them in the Emma dos Deux M ondes. The kind reception which the series met with, both in France and in England, has induced me now to collect them into one volume. I hope soon to give a sequel to this publication. In the years 1851 and 1852, during the short existence of the Agricultural Institute, I found time to compose a complete course of Rural Economy. I am now revis ing my Lectures, and hope soon to publish them. But I thought it advisable, for the sake of the science itself, to precede the preceptive part of the subject by a practical demonstration of its utility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.