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Second, To attend carefully to the rearing of fences, draining of 

 land, and the bell and mod expeditious way of cleaning and 

 working different foils. 



Thirdj To examine the nature of different manures, and afcer- 

 tain the bell mode of applying them. 



Fourhy To find what (lock is beil calculated for certain fitua- 

 tions, to compare the relative quantity of food confumed by 

 diifcrcnt kinds of flock, what food is moft congenial, &c. 



As accuracy, however, fliould be the leading principle of the 

 Society, its experiments cannot, of courfe, be numerous •, but 

 ihould fimilar Societies be formed, and enter into a correfpond- 

 encc with each other, the experiments might be mukiplied in a 

 great degree, and accuracy Hill retained. 



Rules. 



1. This Society flirill be limited to twenty-one members. 



2. The Socic^ty fliall meet four times in the year, between the 

 I ft of -February and the 5th of November (both days exclufive) 

 at Rudiyford. The time of meeting, eleven o'clock in the fore- 

 noon. 



3. A vacancy happening in the Society fliall be filled by bal- 

 lot^ — Two black balls excluding a candidate. 



4. A Committee, confifting of five members (three to be a 

 quorum) flrall be annually chofen, at the firft meeting in the year, 

 as alfo a Prefident, Vice-Prefident, and Secretary of the Society. 



5. The Members of the Committee Ihall be re-eligible. 



6. If a vacancy happen in the Committee, it fhall be filled 

 up by the remaining members, until the next annual ele6lion. 



7. The expediency of any propofed experiment fliall be de- 

 termined upon by the Committee, previouily to its adoption by 

 ^le Society. 



8. When any member undertakes an experiment adopted by 

 the Society, two members fliall be appointed as vifitors, to view 

 with him the (late of the land previous to the experiment, infpecSt 

 its progrefs, and report the refult. 



9. That the proceedings of each meeting fhall be entered by 

 the Secretary in a book kept for that purpofe. 



1 o. If fimilar Societies fhall be formed in other counties, tJiis 

 Society fhall exprefs its defirc of entering into a correfpondence 

 witH them. 



II. The Society fhall admit correfponding members, the can- 

 didates being propofed at one meeting, and balloted for the next, 

 two black balls being a rejedlion. The perfon propofed muft not 

 be a rcfident of that part of the county of Durham which lies 



between 



