TO MY BRETHREN, The Lawyers of the Agricultural Districts, AND The Patrons of Husbandry, This volume is respectfully dedicated, with the hope that it may prove convenient and useful to them all. PREFACE. The writer, for fifteen years, superintended his farm and also practiced law, having his office in a neighboring town. For something more than two years he has acted as the attorney of the several "Grange" corporations at San Francisco, and has been so situated as to become aware that there exists considerable demand for a book adapted to the wants of farmers, country lawyers, justices, and factors of country produce, giving, tersely, the law applicable to farming, and its kindred pursuits of dairying and stock-raising. This demand the author has attempted to meet by the preparation of this book, hoping that his lack of ability to do justice to the subject may be in some measure obviated by the amount of labor which he has put into the work, and by which he has, as he believes, been able to present all that appears in the statutes, reports, and text-books which belongs in a treatise under the distinctive title of "The Law of the Farm." November, 1876. A. W. THOMPSON. |