THE 



FARMER'S MAGAZINES 



MONDAY, 7. NOVEMBER 1803. 

 (N°- XVI.)' 



I ■ ■ ■ .1 ■ ■ — . 



BRANCH I. 

 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



TO THE CONDUCTORS OF THE FARMEr's MAGAZINE. 



Account of the EddleJJofie Fm'ming Club, 

 Sir, 



1 HE extenfive circulation of your Magazine, has excited a ge- 

 neral fpirit of inquiry among farmers, as the exifting fpirit of in- 

 quiry has tended to the more extenfive circulation of your Ma- 

 gazine. Farmers are forming themf\2lves into clubs, for the pur- 

 pofe of difcufling farming topics, inftead of that of hard-drinking. 



I cannot but approve of fuch inftitutions, as both a rational and 

 improving mode of fecial intcrcourfe ; but, as example (limulates 

 to imitation, more powerfully than precept to obfervance, I fliall 

 lay before your readers, a fhort account of the inftitutions, and 

 the proceedings of a Club of practical farmers, which commenced 

 laft winter in the parifti of Eddleftone and county of Tweeddale, 

 that thofe who are pleafed with the precedent may go and do 

 likewife. 



The club is limited to fuch numbers as can conveniently meet 

 alternately, once a month, at each other's houfes ; where the land- 

 lord gives a plain dinner of beef and greens, with whiiky punch, 

 for the encouragement of the growth of barley. 



To prevent all chances of difcord, the topics of religion and 

 politics are excluded, and difcuffion is confined to farming ; — for 

 the fame purpofe, one black ball, at the ballot, excludes any new 

 member propofcd for admiflion. 



To prevent confufion, one only muft fpeak at a time, addrcfling 

 himfelf to the prefes ; wfeo has power to impof^J (ojall fines fd^ 



YOfc. IY« NO. XYt, M :g) n^ rudenefs, 



