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Whoever hath been much converfant with the 

 common farmers, (and it is by them chiefly that our 

 lands are cultivated) muft have obferved that they 

 generally affociate together, communicate their ideas 

 to each other in their own way, gaining no more 

 information from one another than the knowledge 

 each hath obtained, can beftow^ and that their 

 obfervations are founded on their own cuftoms in the 

 country where they refide. They are a clafs of 

 people /«/ generis^ and (land at a diftance, as it 

 were, from a man of learning; and unlefs he can 

 make himfelf very familiar with them, and con- 

 verfe in their own ftile, it is moft probable that 

 they will either entirely miftake his meaning, or 

 inwardly fneer at fome expreflions which they do 

 not underftand : and thus go away unimproved as 

 they came/ or refolved not to follow his advice. 

 Of great importance, therefore, is Education, to 

 extend and call forth the powers of the mind, and 

 to render it du(5lile and teachable ! 



Therefore, until Agriculture is creeled on this 

 enlarged bafis, will it not continue a vague and ab- 

 flrufe ftudy in itfelf, and remain far fhort of that 

 degree of perfedion, which our public-fpirited and 

 ufeful Societies would wifli to fee it attain ? 



If 



