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The correfpondence of Mifs Henrietta 

 Rhodes, whofe attentive obfervation and ju-' 

 dicious opinions do equal credit to herfelf 

 and her fex, the public cannot be wanting to 

 value j and this Society wifhes her continued 

 remarks on the curious fubject of her parti- 

 cular attention. 



Mr. Winter's own publication has anti- 

 cipated what we might otherwife have had 

 pleafure in communicating from his pen; 

 but too much credit cannot be given him for 

 his praftical exertions, and endeavours to 

 promote the Drill hufbandry. His drilling 

 machine, of which we give a reprefentation 

 by his own plate, promifes much utility on 

 lands favourable to fuch a mode of crop- 

 ping ; and the public has great reafon to ex- 

 pert the gradual advancement of this mode, 

 through different paFts of the kingdom, to 

 the great increafe and perfeftion of the dif- 

 ferent fpecies of grain, as well as the faving 

 of prodigious quantities of feed, heretofore 

 loft to the nation. 



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