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often be led into errors that would end in lofs and 

 difappointments. 



Premiums have a tendency to excite a fpirit o^ 

 emulation and induftry, to incrcalc the produce of 

 the earth, according to the different mode to which 

 any diftrid or county hath been accuftomed ; but 

 a common farmer^ fliould he become a candidate, 

 will have no more chance of fucceeding againil per- 

 fons of a liberal and extenfive acquaintance with 

 the principles and practice of Agriculture, than any 

 one of his draft horfes. could have in attempting to 

 keep pace with his landlord's hunter. 



Can the bare donation of premiums give in- 

 ftrudlion to the mind ? Ought not this to be com- 

 municated in youth, when the difpofnion is docile ? 

 Enlarge the views by cultivating the underftand- 

 ings of young perfons while they are mod fufcep- 

 tible of imprefllons,.and free from prejudices, and 

 they will be continually increafing in knowledge 

 as they grow in years; but if the mind be not im- 

 proved early, the confequence will be, in general, 

 (for the exceptions are but very few) that they 

 will pertinaciously adhere to old cuftoms, however 

 abfurd. " 



Whoever 



