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I perceive by your premiums that you have 

 aimed at all thefe, and various other objects. 



In whatever manner individuals of fortune may 

 amufe themfelvcs, and with whatever fuccefs, ltill 

 I am of opinion that, relative to the general agri- 

 culture of a diftricT, no refinement, no complex, 

 difficult, or doubtful practices, mould be intro- 

 duced or recommended. Thefe are the parts of 

 the art that very often fail, and no endeavour fails 

 without doing great mifchief to a whole neigh- 

 bourhood. Suppofe a gentleman in fome remote 

 part of Wales, where clover is quite unknown, 

 inftead of fimply recommending the plant to be 

 fown on clean land, drills and horfc-hoes it, he 

 fails; probably the plant itfelf in that diftricT: will 

 lie under fuch a ridicule that it would be rejected, 

 even when others, where no fuch failure had hap- 

 pened, had received it. 



Your premiums for the culture of turnips are 

 in the right channel, the great outline; but why 

 a horfc-hoe for turnips? Can you wifh for a 

 greater improvement than to cover your dry lands 

 with the noble crops of Norfolk? But (the fields 

 of poflibly two or three whimfical gentlemen ex- 

 cepted) there is not a horfe-hoed crop of turnips 

 in that county; yet I have walked over fields near 



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