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Article XXXIX, 



On various SuhjeBs, 



[In a Letter to the Secretary.] 



L , South'lVales^ Nov, 27, 1789. 



Sir, 



TAM favoured with yonr's, and fliall always be 

 "*• glad to promote the patrlotick views of your 

 Society, by communicating my obfervations on 

 Agriculture, but as I have not time to corred: what 

 I write, I beg that my name may not be made 

 publlck.* 



I very much approve of fubftituting horfe-hoeing 

 crops, efpecially inftead of fummer fallows, which 

 are tedious and expenfive. Our ableft and bed far- 

 mers have for the laft fifty years been accuftomed 

 to lay on their fummer fallows for wheat from four 



. • After fuch a requeJQ: the Committee cannot feel themfelves at li- 

 berty to publifli the name of this pra<flical and intelligent gentleman ; 

 but as the letter is not, anonymous in itfelf, and . the ftyle and good 

 ferfe of the compoCtion are ftriking, no apology to our readers can be 

 jieceflary, for departing from a general rule In i'upprefling a fignature, 

 "We wllh an increafcd number of fuch correfpondents on any terms, 

 and Agriculture many more fuch friends, ' ^ _ 



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