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Article XVII. 



Experiments on Plants eaten or rejeEied by Cattle ^ 

 Sheepy and Hogs^ recommended. 



Gentlemen, 



THOUGH the ufe of botanic kknce has been 

 principally feftridled to medicine, yet it cer- 

 tainly has a natural and infeparable connexion with 

 agriculture; fome of the moft important branches 

 of which depend on the knowledge of it, particu- 

 larly that which refpefts the feeding of cattle. 



That Agriculture has not been ftudied, or en- 

 couraged in proportion to its great importance, 

 or advanced with equal rapidity as divers other 

 arts or branches of knowledge, is a fad generally 

 admitted. 



From an indubitable ccnvidlion of this truth, 

 we may date the origin of thofe publick inftitutions 

 for its fupport and improvement which refled ho- 

 nour on our age and nation. 



The commendable fpirit which appears in the 

 Society inftituted at Bath, furniflies encoui'agement 

 rohope that agriculture will receive much addi- 

 tional 



