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weeds; and it will alfo be choaked with weeds if 

 not well hoed, which is an expence and trouble 

 that indolent farmers will not readily fubmit to. 



I cannot help remarking what one of your cor- 

 refpondents fays in the flrft volume of your feled: 

 papers,* <f that the time has been when a farmer 

 would carry a cruft of bread in his pocket to 

 market, and get a pint of three-half-penny beer 

 there, and jog home contented. " What made me 

 take notice of it was, that it breathes the fame 

 fpirit manifefted by a great land -fte ward in our 

 neighbourhood, who cannot ufe one inftrument 

 in Agriculture, and has but little feeling for far- 

 mers: as though any thing were good enough 

 for them ; and as though farmers are, or at leaft 

 ought to be, made and ufed like beads of burden, 

 loaded hard and abufed at their pleafure. Surely 

 fuch gentlemen (if they may be called fo) never 

 read that old-fafhioned book the Bible, in which 

 we read, " Thou fhalt not muzzle the mouth of 

 «* the ox that treadeth out the corn:" And that 

 the hufbandman muft or ought to be the firft par- 

 taker of the fruits. But I hope there is no pcrfon 

 in your Society who is actuated by fuch a fpirit; 



* We do not recollect this paflagc in any of the letters publilhed 

 by the Society* 



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