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bJy be benefited thereby; the modus operandi of 

 which may literally, though in a grofs fenfe, b$ 

 certainly imputed to the aclion of the fertilizing 

 matter depofited by the water in the form of an 

 unctuous fediment, in the fame manner as all lands 

 are benefited or improved by the acceflion of ma- 

 nure, by whatever means it is depofited there. 



I am, dear Sir, 



With great refpecl: and efteem, 



Your mod humble fervant, 



JOS. WIMPEY. 



Article XXV. 



On Rearing Calves without Milk. 



Sir, H -/, April 24, 1783. 



LOOKING into the premiums offered by the 

 Society this year, I find the eighteenth is a 

 Silver Cup, value fix guineas, to the farmer, who, 

 from January 1783 to January 1784, fhall rear 

 the greater! number of calves, not lefs than five, 

 without milk; and who fhall difcover to the So- 

 ciety the belt and cheapeft method of fo rearing 

 them. 



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