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who had undertaken to fupply the nation cither 

 with food, or materials for carrying on the linen or 

 woollen manufadures. 



Who are.the perfons that have fo increafed the 

 produce of wheat, that the London Society admit 

 no claims for the premium under five quarters per 

 acre ; although the average quantity, produced the 

 laft very favourable year, [ 1 7 8 1 ] did not, in all 

 probability, far exceed three quarters per acre, 

 throughout the kingdom,* if you except the eftates 

 of gentlemen? 



Who are the perfons that have fb much pro- 

 moted the growth of cabbages, carrots, madder, 

 &c. by field culture ? Who have been and arc 

 likely to be, in general, candidates for the premi- 

 ums of the above laudable Society ? And who are 

 they that are attending to hufbandry according to 

 its true principles ? — Not the uninftruded farmers, 

 who are yet but little acquainted with the fubjeft 

 as to feveral of its eflential and fundamental points. 

 They are ignorant of the various properties of dif- 

 ferent manures, and how they refpedively operate, 

 particularly on different foils j nay, on the fame 

 foils when differently circumftanced j as well aii 



* In thit, we believe, the Author is miiUkea. 



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