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felf, who would carry on the undertaking with zeal and 

 energy -, who would take fome (hares in the propofed un- 

 dertaking, as a fecurity for their good behaviour, and a 

 pledge of their being interefted in its fuccefs ; and who, 

 in every other refpecl, would, I am perfuaded, be found 

 perfectly adequate to the talk. And here, I beg to re- 

 mark, that it is hardly poflible to fuppofe any perfon plac- 

 ed in a more defirable fituation than the Mar^ager of fuch 

 an Experimental Farm, if he felt a zeal in the caufe ; nor 

 more likely to be detetled, if he was either negligent of 

 the duties he had to perform, or was guilty of difhonefty. 

 He would lye under the neceflity of making regular 

 weekly reports of all his tranfaclions ; the books of the 

 farm would be conftantly liable to infpe£tion, and the 

 farm itfelf open to the examination of the fubfcribers, 

 and perhaps, at ftated times, of the public. A man^ 

 placed in a fituation fo peculiarly oftenfible, mud be both 

 honefb and diligent. If he fucceeds in his management, 

 he has the credit of accomplifliing one of the moft im- 

 portant objetlsthat any individual could undertake; and, 

 if he is detected in a<Sl;s of negligence or difhonefty, his 

 guilt could not be concealed : it muft neceflarily become 

 public, and he is ruined for ever. With fuch induce- 

 ments to a£l well, and fuch ferious grounds of apprehen- 

 fion, if he Should aft otherwife, it is fcarcely poffible to 

 fuppofe that any human being, of common underfland- 

 ing, could be deficient in his duty. 



In regard to the particular plan of experiments to be 

 purfued, the following meafures may be adopted. As 

 I'oon as a farm is taken, an accurate plan of it Ihould be 

 obtained, diftinguliliing the different foils, and every 

 other circumftance connected with it. Every affiftancc 

 will then be procured from the moft fkilfuj prafticai 

 farmers in the kingdom, to draw up a regular courfe of 

 experiments, and a rotation of crops beft calculated for 

 the different fields ; and fuch a plan muft be rigidly 

 adhered to by the manager, unlefs the committee of 

 management give ciretTlions to the contrary. Thus, the 

 inan.iger will only be accountable for the ilri£t execution 

 of the orders he receives ; and, as thofe orders will be 

 given in confequence of the moft mature confideration, 

 Jience the whole fyftem, it is to be liopcd, will be carried 

 on with the utmoit regularity and corredlnefs. There 

 would not then be a fingle principle in agriculture, that 



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