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the (Economical detail of the operations of hufban- 

 dry; the other relates to that degree of fcientifick 

 knowledge which directs to thofe operations that 

 ought to be performed. In the firft fenfe he may 

 be compared to a mafon, in the laft to an architect 

 of a new building. Now, though it fhould be ad- 

 mitted, that, by a conftant courfe of attentive expe- 

 rience, a man may in time acquire fuch a knowledge 

 of the detail of the practical operations of husban- 

 dry as could not otherwife be obtained, and might 

 thus come to know, by a fort of mechanical habi- 

 tude, without much forethought or reflection, the 

 various obft ructions that ufually occur in the courfe 

 of bufinefs, and the eafieft means of furmounting 

 them; — though he may come to know in what man- 

 ner to conduct his different operations, fo as not to 

 interfere with, or to interrupt one another, and be 

 thus able to make fuch ufe of time, as that none of 

 it be either mifapplied or loft by the different per- 

 fons he has occafion to employs — yet all thefe al- 

 lude only to the firft department of bufinefs, which, 

 of whatever importance it may be to the fuccefs of 

 thofe who follow the bufinefs of agriculture for a 

 fubfiftence, is only a part of that profeffioni and 

 much knowledge remains to be acquired in the 

 other department of agriculture, with regard to 



which 



