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it) let him try it the fecond, third, and even the 

 fourth time. Upon a frnall feale, the lofs cannot 

 be great, even although the repetition fhould not 

 fucceed ; but if it (hould anfwer, the difcovery 

 may be xery important, perhaps more fo than any 

 that has been made in agriculture for this century. 



3^/y; That if the ideas of the Bath Society 

 fhould coincide with mine upon this fubject, they 

 ought to take the moft fpeedy and effectual mea- 

 furcs to make their approbation publick, fo as that 

 the practice of harrowing and rolling corn after 

 it is fprung, may thereby the fooner become ge- 

 neral; and that they fhould invite every perfon 

 who may have already followed that practice, or 

 who may do it in future, to communicate to them 

 their experiments, their obfervations, and their 

 opinions, of the advantages or difadvantages re- 

 fulting therefrom. 



tfhlyi That they fhould alfo invite fome of the 

 mod ingenious Botanifts to follow up the expe- 

 riment, fo fuccefsfully begun by Mr. Miller upon 

 wheat, and alfo to extend it to oats, barley, rye, 

 buck-wheat, &c. &c. 



^thly\ That as it is very material to know the 



moft proper time to harrow and roll corn, in re- 



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