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jo guard it more effe6hially from its grand 

 , enemy the fly; by the ravages of which fo 

 much real calamity is frequently produced. 

 Of the latter fubjeft, treated by Mr. Wim- 

 pey, it would be needlefs to expatiate on 

 its general utility. The enormous advance 

 of the prices of butter and cheefe, efpecially 

 the latter, within the laft very few years, 

 has rendered an enquiry into the general con- 

 du£l of the Dairy, and of Dairy farming, 

 particularly commendable; and it muft give 

 the Society and the Public great pleafure to 

 find, that men of Mr. Wimpey's abilities 

 and information turn their attention to a de- 

 partment of rural ceconomy, fo much con- 

 ne&ed with the comfortable fupply of the 

 rich and the poor man's table. 



The extrafts of letters from Sir Thomas 

 Beevor are interefting in their kind, as might 

 be expedted from the elegant pen of fo accu- 

 rate an experimentalift ; and it is not with- 

 out reafon that we hope to receive from Sir 

 Thomas, as well as from feveral other Gen- 

 tlemen, 



