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as require fludy, than in that kind of labour ulitre no lludy is 

 fleceflary ; but Hill It has, and certainly ought to have, Ibnic ck- 

 gree of influence. What we complain of is, that workmen, in 

 the firit initancc, reforted to the price of provifions as their rea- 

 ibn for ralfing the value of their labour ; but will not allow us to 

 refort to the lame thing, in order to leilen the value of their work. 

 Here there is no rellridlion on labourers, but a very fevere tax upon 

 tlieir employers. If labourers inliil on our adhering to one crite- 

 rion, whereby to fix the value of their labour, ought their em- 

 ployers not to have a right to infill on their abiding by what they 

 themfelves have pointed out to regulate their wages ? I think 

 they ought. 



Where the time of labourers is all for which they are paid, re- 

 ftrittion is, in my humble opinion, necelTary. I think alfo, that 

 the work of mafons and carpenters, whofe arts do not require 

 either much fludy or much time in their acquifition, fliould be in 

 fome meafure rellricled in its price, by adhering to the price of 

 provifions for its regulation. I fhould be much gratified, wers 

 fome of your correfpondents, whofe ftudies and experience qua- 

 lify them for the taik. to take up this fubjed, and favour us with 

 their reafonings. It certainly deferves ample difcuffion, and is 

 worthy of attention from the cultivators of the foil efpecially. I 

 am, Sir, yours, &c. George S. Mackenzie. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER S MAGAZINE. 



Information requefed concerning the mojl expeditious IVay of 

 Taking up the Roots of Trees. 

 Sir, 



I SHOULD efteem it a fingular favour if any of your correfpond- 

 ents will take the trouble to point out a more expeditious method 

 of extracting roots of large trees, which have been cut down with- 

 in thefe few years bypalt, and are of courfe quite frefh in the 

 ground, than tliat commonly adopted, of digging round them with 

 fpades, and cutting every fibre by axes and mattocks, which is 

 attended with confiderable expence, and is befides a very tedious 

 operation. 



I have heard of Inllruments for ralfing (tones of immenfe weight 

 from the bottom of deep rivers ^ but never faw any of them. 

 Perhaps a fimilar apparatus might be ufeful in the cafe I have tak- 

 en the liberty to ftate. I am, Sir, your moit obedient fervant. 



Cup a r- Angus . J« 



BRANCH 



