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derful difcovery of Mr. Miller's, in hopes that, 

 under your patronage and prorecYion, it may be 

 rendered ufefui to the improvement of hufbandry. 



By this experiment, we have obtained the mod 

 clear and inconteftible proof pf the fecundity 

 and divifibUity of wheat; it therefore remains, to 

 follow the moft probable means, the means that 

 may bid the faireft for improving upon this prin- 

 ciple, and making it applicable to the pracTice of 

 farming. I agree with the Author who begins 

 your Appendix, " that nothing can be expeded 

 ,c from it in the hands of common farmers;" from 

 them we mail have, " // may be fo> but I don't 

 il know:' But from fuch a Society as your's, I 

 exped: every thing. 



Where men poiTefs liberal ideas, and a great 

 (hare of publick fpirit, it cannot be fuppofed they 

 will defpife a hint, and treat it with contempt, 

 merely becaufe it is fuggefted to them by a per- 

 fon who is not a farmer by profeflion : I may 

 indeed fay, not even in theory, for I never read 

 any book on the fubjecT: of agriculture, excepting 

 that of the Bath Society. But within this month, 

 I have become fuch an cnthuiiait in the doclrine 

 and principles of the divifibility of grain, after 

 it is fprung up, that I can think upon no other 



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