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fecms to have proceeded more from the motive of 

 ielf-prefervation than any love of, or difpoiition 

 to hufbandry. 



In the year 1759, a few ingenious and publick- 

 fpirited men at Berne in Switzerland eftablifhed a 

 Society for the advancement of agriculture and 

 rural (Economics. In that fociety were many men 

 of great weight in the republic, and mod of them 

 perfons of a true call for making improvements 

 in hufbandry, being enabled to join the practice 

 with the theory. 



Nor mud we here omit to mention, that the 

 juftly celebrated Linnaeus and his difciples have 

 performed great things in the North of Europe, 

 particularly in difcovering new kinds of profitable 

 and well-tafted food for cattle. 



About the fame time, Sweden largely aug- 

 mented a commerce that had long been confined 

 within narrow bounds ; and with a fpirit worthy 

 of general imitation, bellowed fuccefsful labours 

 on a foil which had before been looked upon as 

 cold, barren, and incapable of melioration. Of 

 this the Stockholm Memoirs will be a lading 

 jmonument. 



Denmark, 



