i LETTERS 



TO THE 



BATH AGRICULTURE SOCIETY. 



Article I. 



On the Improvements in Agriculture that have 

 been fuccefsfully introduced into this Kingdom 

 within the lajl Fifty Tears. 



BY improvements in agriculture, I underftand 

 fuch an artificial management in the culture 

 of land, as may increafe the value of its produce 

 more than in proportion to the expence which has 

 been incurred in procuring fuch increafe; or, in 

 other words, Improvements confift of, and are efti- 

 mated by, the increafe of nett profits or gain, ac- 

 quired by means of art and fuperior management 

 ufcd in the cultivation of land. 



The means of fuch improvements, I conceive, 

 may be fitly clafled or arranged under the following 

 general heads, viz. 



Vol. V. B i. Improve- 



