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At prefent, however, let us attend to the advan* 

 tagcs accruing from each of the above plans j prc- 

 mifing only, that lediircs on the theory of hufban- 

 dry muft, by all means, be accompanied with a clofe 

 attention to the practical part of it, in fuch a manner 

 as may tend to corredl the miflakes of fpeculation, 

 to open and enlarge the mind, and to giv^e a clearer 

 infight into the nature of vegetation, and the very 

 fundamental principles of Agriculture. 



Were Schools eflablifhed in different parts of the 

 kingdom for the education of farmer's fons who 

 might be but in low circumftances, gentlemen 

 would never want fenfible and rational improvers 

 of their eftates, who would likewife be the moft 

 proper perfons to inftru6t parifh apprentices and 

 inferior fervants. This old experienced Varro 

 reckoned to be of principal importance. * The 

 * bailiffs', fays he, * fhould be men of fome erudi- 

 ' tion and fonne degree of refinement.* But more 

 .cfpecially ought a bailiff to be well Jkilled in rural 

 ceconomics:* he (hould not only give orders, but 



• Qui prsefint, effe oportere qui Uteris fmt et aliqua humanitate im- 

 buti, — Prseterca potifiinium eos praecfTc oportet, qui periti fmt rcrum 

 nifticarum : non folum enim debere impcrare, fed etiam facere, ut 

 f&cientem imitentur, ct ut animadvcrtant cum cum caufa fibi prseeflcy 

 qui fcientia pncftat et ufu. Lib. I. cap. 17. apud Autbores dc Re 

 Ruftica. Edit. Jucundi Veronenfis, X5a9. 



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