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Article IV. 



Of the Necefjity of adapting or fuiting the Crop to the 

 Nature, Condition, and Circumftances of the Land 

 to be planted j with an Account of an Experiment 

 to af certain the Quantity of Butter and Cheefe pro- 

 ducible from a given Quantity of Milk, 



[By Joseph Wimpey.] 



THE firft and principal object of every hufband- 

 man is, to obtain the moll profitable crops 

 from the land he occupies. In order to this, it is 

 abfolutely necefiary, that he fuit the articles he 

 plants to the nature of the foil. When art is made 

 to co-operate with nature, our hope is founded on 

 rational grounds. To a£t in repugnance thereto, 

 is to fail againft wind and tide, and there can be 

 little or no hope of making a fuccefsful voyage. 

 It is true, that amazing things may be effected by 

 unremitting perfeverance and unlimited expence : 

 but the hufbandman's province is not to enquire 

 after what is poflible, but what is profitable; not 

 what may amufe the curious, but what will reward 

 the diligent, for the benefit of the community of 

 which he is a member, as well as for his own. 



Though 



