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Article XXII. 



Cultivation of Madder recommended. 



[By a Gentleman in Dorfetihire.J 

 Gentlemen, 



BEING a fincere friend to your inftitution, I 

 beg leave to communicate a few thoughts on 

 your premium for the cultivation of Madder; 

 which I think is a very juft one, for two reafons: 



Firft\ It is certainly confident with true na- 

 tional policy, to cultivate every thing confumed 

 cither in food or manufactures, to which our foil 

 and climate is favourable. And fecondly, becaufe 

 Madder, while it yields a confiderable profit to 

 the planter, cleans and meliorates the foil in a 

 remarkable degree. 



The vaft fums annually paid to the Dutch for 

 this article, proves the neceility, in point of found 

 policy, that we are under of railing it at home. 

 The too commonly received idea, that we cannot 

 equal the Hollanders in this branch of agricul- 

 ture, is erroneous. It has indeed been proved 

 totally falfe by the fuccefsful experiments of Mr. 

 Arbuthnot, who carried it to the greateft per- 

 fection, 



