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If Agriculture is to be improved by learning, 

 why ihould not this clafs of people, the Farnners, 

 be better educated ? They are capable of improve- 

 ment. Let them be well inftrudcdj and rmprove- 

 ments in hufbandry will foon make their way into 

 every village, perhaps without much afliftance from 

 premiums. However, when inilrudlion is (limu- 

 lated by premiums, the great end, 1 truft, will be 

 ftill more effcdtually anfwered. 



Every one who refledls juftly muft be fenfible, 

 that it is with Agriculture as with phyfic. While 

 facts and experiments are producing and increafmg 

 the beft knowledge, it is necefTary that thofe who 

 may hereafter engage in either of the profeffions, be 

 inftrufted in the firft principles of the one, and the 

 pradice of the other. 



Agriculture is a fciencc as well as an art j and 

 fbme general fcientific knowledge is requifite before 

 that art can be praclifed with any rational hope of 

 full fuccefs ; unlefs quacks may be allowed to per- 

 form perfe(5lly well in Agriculture, although they 

 are continually breaking the fixth commandment 

 in phyfick. 



Mr. Young indeed obferves, that " experience 

 is an admirable foundation for any kind of ftrudure; 



but 



