^2 Hi/Its to Fanners. April 



my barn under my bolder, and nothing Is too fmall for 

 my attention. " 



This is the firfl: leflbn to farmers, on which it is 

 needlefs to enlarge. 



I remember another (lory relating to farming. When 

 Cockburn of Ormifton, Scott of Duninauld, and Lord 

 Kames, had firft fet the proprietors in Scotland to think 

 of fcientific farming, and the learned ProfefTor Francis 

 Home had enriched the art with authentic principles in 

 the philofopliy of vegetation, a Scots laird, full of the- 

 ory, but deficient in pra(Slice, was bragging to one of 

 his principal farmers of his knowledge, and laying down 

 with emphafis the chimerical analyfis of foils and ma- 

 nures, and had at laft come to the end of his harangue, 

 with a — '* Well, Sandy, what think you of this ? how 

 do you manage your farm ? " " Why, really, Sir, and 

 pleafe your honour," faid Sandy, " I am as ignorant as 

 the child unborn of all that you have faid. My only 

 fcheme has been, to make my farm dry ; to make and 

 keep it clean ; to muck it well with good and clean 

 dung ; fow it at a right time with principal and well 

 liquored feed ; keep the vermin off my corn, and take it 

 off the ground when it is perfectly ripe. Indeed, Sir, 

 I have little more to fay ; your honour has inclofed all 

 my land ; I will never allow a gap in my fences, or a 

 filthy weed to be feen in my land. I like a cann of 

 good ftrong ale or cappy ; but I hate whilky, and never 

 loiter in public houles. I am fure your honour will not 

 be angry at any thing I have faid, as I am never a week 

 behinfi with your fa6lor at term-time. " 



This is the iecond leffon to farmers. B, 



(jTo he continued.^ 



[The following Regifers of the Weather, during the years 

 1782 and 1799) have been fcnt us by an intelligent and re- 

 fpeclable Farmer ; and, as the confeqnences attending thefe 

 ttvo fatal years have b^n nearly fimilary we judge, a compa- 

 rative view of the caufes which occafioned them, will be in- 

 tercfling to our Readers. The further favours of this Cor~ 

 refpondetit will be highly acceptable.) 



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