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tendency to great utility; I wrote a letter, direfted 

 to the Secretary of the Bath Agriculture Society, 

 mentioning how defirous Mr. Rack, with whom I 

 had exchanged feveral letters on the fubje^t, was, 

 for the publifliing an edition on dairying alone, (my 

 firft having contained a treatife on orchards, and on 

 vegetation) which he thought, as it would come 

 cheaper, would be an inducement to hufbandmen 

 and dairy-women to purchafe, and apply it, I did 

 cxpedl the Society would have ordered fome of 

 them, as Mr. Rack afTurcd me they highly approved 

 of the work, and defired him to fignify the fame to 

 me; and alfo that they would take care to have 

 them difperfcd as much as lay in their power, for 

 publick benefit. I fhould have fent one hundred 

 copies to Mr. Rack, if he had lived till after they 

 were publilhed. He had at different times fome 

 dozens of the former edition, which he diftributed 

 where he thought they would be ufeful. Meffrs. 

 Wilkes, of Leicefterlhire, who I exped many of 

 the Society are acquainted with, ordered one hun- 

 dred of them, and have had feveral dozens of the 

 fecond edition. 



Lately reading in the Appendix to the Monthly 

 Review fome remarks from a publication on the 

 phyfical and chemical properties of milk, tranflated 

 from the French, I was led to take notice of their 



experiments 



