THE 



FARMER'S MAGAZINE: 



MONDAY, APRIL 14x11 1800. 

 {No- 11.) 



PART I. 

 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS 



FOR THE farmer's MAGAZINE. 



The Rural Ifiqiilrery No. i. 



I 



T would be an ingenious and ufeful objeft, to invefti- 

 gate the ancient (late of hufbandry in this country, and 

 to trace out the various caufes which have contributed to 

 promote improvements in that important and neceflary 

 fcience. Perhaps, the field from whence faSls could be 

 gathered for fuch an invelligation, is too llerile for pro- 

 ducing fatisfa£lory information j which might occaiion, 

 in many cafes, conje£lure and tradition to be fubftituted 

 for pofitive evidence and written teftimony. Be this as 

 it may, we do not propofe to undertake fuch an arduous 

 talk J but mean to devote this number of our inquiry to 

 a fhort flvetch of the fubflantial and valuable improve- 

 ments made in Scotland fince the Union of tJie two 

 kingdoms ; which are more exienfive than in any other 

 nation with which we are acquainted. 



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