52 Report of the Briti/h Conful in PruJJlaf Jan. 



furing the greateft proiportion of nourifliment to the animal ; 

 namely kiln-dryhig, which, when properly done, and the 

 grain afterwards broke, affords, in any feafon, a moft valua- 

 ble nourifliment, particularly in fuch a one as the prefent. I 

 know it will be objected to by fome farmers, on account of 

 the bulk of the article, and the trouble and expence with 

 which the drying and breaking fo much grain would be at- 

 tended -, a trouble which, I confefs, is confiderable ; but which 

 will, upon trial, be found more than repaid by the attention 

 recommended. A great proportion of both draw and hay are 

 this year exceedingly bad ; and nothing but an uncommon 

 degree of attention can prevent an evil, which at prefent 

 appears to be a molt extenfive one. I am, S:c. 



A Frletid to Agriculture. 



TO THE CONDUCTORS OF THE FARMEr's MAGAZINE. 



The foUo'mnp valuable paper nvas tranf/mtted by the Britijh Conful 

 in Pritffia, to the Lords of the Committee of Council for Trade^ af.'d 

 obligingly eommtmicated by Mr Chalmers, their Secretary, to Sir John 

 Sinclair, Bart. As it belongs to a branch of Hufbandry which at all 

 times has been viewed as of impsriance to the profperity of Great Britain^ 

 I trufl it luill readily find a place in your Magazine ; in which cafe^ 

 feme other papers of the like nature, received through the fame channel, 

 and nonv in my hands, f jail afterwards be fent you. I have only to add, 

 that the public are infinitely obliged to Mr Durno for ihe trouble taken 

 in drawing up fuch an ufefd and fatisfa6iory Report ; rx'hich certainly 

 defcribes the Flax Hufbandry of Ritfjiai Poland, and PruJJia, ivith the 

 greatefi perfpicuity. I am, l^c, 



N. 



JMr DURNO's Report concerning the method of cultivating Flax 

 and Hempy in FruffiUy Ruffiay and Poland ; dated Berlin^ d^th 

 November 1789. 



As Mr Durno cannot be fuppofed individually to poflefs a 

 competent knbwledge of this fubjedl, he thinks it necelTary 

 to premife, in order that the foundation on which the credit 

 of his Report refts may be known, i/?, That, for the purpofe 

 of obtaining the beft information pofTible, he formed a chain 

 of queftions ; and, availing himfelf of the advantage of an 

 extenfive acquaintance throughout the interior parts of the 

 countries in queftlon, forwarded thefe — not to the Learned, 

 becaufe he could have expected from them only theory — nor to 



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