Excerpt from The Farmer's and Emigrant's Hand Book

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 information 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 experience 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 districts.

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.

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