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his advice the impracticable fcheme of the Tuliian 

 culture of oats and barley. 



With refpect to the premium for fattening Tur- 

 kics; how that can be a national object is perfectly 

 incomprehenfible to me. When it is confidered, 

 that whatever food will fatten a turkey will alfa 

 fatten a hog; that pork is food for the lower 

 clafles; and that poultry in fuch a kingdom as 

 this, mud always be beyond their expenditure; it 

 may not perhaps be thought of no confequence, 

 but rather (tending to make pork dearer) it may 

 appear to be more prejudicial than ufeful. 



Thus, gentlemen, I have troubled you with a 

 few obfervations oa your laft year's premiums. It 

 is a fubject that nearly concerns all the focieties 

 of the kingdom ; for as the benefit they do mull 

 be chiefly by thefe means, it is an object: of no 

 trifling import, that they be devifed with great 

 caution, forefight, and knowledge of the fubject. 

 A confiderable degree of efteem and reputation 

 belong to men who give their time, attention, and 

 money, for the publick good. Errors in them 

 have a large range, and 3 proportionable efTeft. 

 The miftakes of an individual may concern only 

 himfelf ; If you commit one, three provinces will 

 feel the weight. For this reafon I think there is 



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