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that the next fummer will alfo be a ivct one ; as, on the night of 

 the 19th of INfarch lalt, we had an cxcelhve high wind froni 

 iouth or Ibuth-vvcft, but rather more to the fouth. 



Your Conilant Reader, S. E. 



RoxhurglftJirCy April 4. 



rOR THE FARMER S Af.A ^/i. 7 f XE. 



[Though we are not fond of inferting papers in our work al- 

 ready printed and circulated, or of imitatincr the pracSlicc of 

 * cotemporary editors, who eke out their Numbers in that 

 way, yet the following account of an Experimental Agricultu- 

 ral Society recently inilituted, and the rules adopted by them, 

 are fo much to our mind, that we are induced to lav them 

 before our readers. Wifliing the Society every kind of fuc- 

 cefs, and truiting to be favoured with periodical accounts 

 of their proceedings, we earncftly recommend their plan to 

 the confideration of AgricultuHfls in other diihicls^l 



Experhiiefital Agriculture in the County of Durham. 



An experim.ental farm Ijas been a favourite part of the fchemc, 

 in moft of the plans fuggefted for the improvement of agricul- 

 ture J but the great expence attending it, the difhculty of find- 

 ing a farm containing a fulHcient variety of foils, of procuring a 

 proper perfon to manage it, and of arranging matters fo, that the 

 experiments tried thereon fliould be reported with accuracy, have, 

 together with other obftacles, prevented it, though promifmg in 

 theory, from being reduced to practice. 



On confidering this fubjeft, however, it was fuggefted, that 

 by a few individuals, fond of agriculture, aflbciating together, 

 and agreeing to try experiments on their refpecSlive farms, under 

 fuch regulations as mxight tend to prevent miftakes, many of the 

 advantages of an experimental farm might be obtained : And this 

 fuggeftion gave rife to the idea of forming a Society, the general 

 objects of which fliould be — 



FirJ}, To examine, by experiments, the different kinds and me- 

 rits of grafs, feeds, and grain ; to invefligate their habits, 

 and endeavour to afcertain what foils are beft adapted to 

 each kind ; and to devife mean's to obtain fuch feeds, &c. 

 ptirc. 



SeconJ^ 



