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This circumftance gave rife to another plan, in 

 itfelf mod honourable and benevolent, namely, the 

 cftablifhment of a Society in London for the encou- 

 ragement of Agriculture, &c. who, by bellowing 

 large premiums for the greateft crops on given 

 quantities of ground, cfFe<5lually fecured the farmer 

 under any rifque he might run. It w^s naturally 

 imagined this would have anfwered the end pro- 

 pofed. But if we may determine from Mr. Baily's 

 regifter of the perfoqs to whom premiums have 

 been adjudged, moft of the candidates have been 

 far above the rank of common farmers. 



The diffufive plan adopted by that illuftrious 

 Society was intended to include every farmerj but 

 we find it has attracted the notice of very few, ex- 

 cept the rnore civilized part of them; while many 

 parifhes, I was going to fay almoft whole counties, 

 at a diftance from the capital, remain uninterefted 

 about every thing relative to the Society, if not 

 totally ignorant of its cxiftcnce, 



However, the advantages arifing from that ex- 

 cellent inftitution excited and cftablifhed others of 

 a fimilar nature, in counties remote from the me- 

 tropolis; ^ach of which hath thrown additional 

 light on the fubjefts of Agriculture, Many expe-. 



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