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the tenant's capital stocky becaufe this capital is all laid out in 

 the raifing of the produce. Inftead of being i ol. per cent, 

 upon the rent, as very miftakenly fuppofed by fome people, 

 it may amount to ten times more, where the farm is poflefled 

 under a lucrative leafe, or in the hands of a farmer who is an 

 adept at his bufinefs. 



Under the fedion of Aveights and meafures, p. 1 94, it is 

 faid— 



*• The Board of Agriculture could not do the public a greater 

 fervice, than by bringing forward a regulation of weights and mea- 

 fures. One weight and one meafure, derived from the fame root, 

 and increafing or decrcafing in a ten-fold ratio, would introduce fuch 

 fimplicity, eafe, and perfpicuity, into all tranfaftions of bufinefs, 

 (where calculations are necefTary), as would prevent the numbeiiefs 

 miftakes and errors which are daily happening. 



*• Preparations for remedying this great inconvenience, have been 

 made at different times ; and we believe there are fufficient materials 

 for perfecting the meafure, whenever it is thought proper to bring it 

 forward." 



A very animated conclufion is given ; but we are forry that 

 want of room prevents us from inferting it. In this branch, 

 the means of improvement are brought under one point of 

 viewj and we can juft mention them. They are, drilling of 

 feas and beans — luatering of ineadoivs — draining — planting. — ' 

 An increafed attention to the live stock of the country. — Single- 

 horfe carts — public farms, " where youth might be inftrufted 

 in agriculture, and experienced farmers might vifit with ad- 

 vantage." 



Upon the whole, it is but juflice to the authors of this 

 Report to fay, that while it contains a large fund of found 

 pra6tical information, it is written with fpirit and perfpicuity, 

 and cannot fail to prove highly interefting to thofe who fearch 

 after a detailed account of Britifli hufbandry. We have re- 

 ceived much pleafure in perufing fuch an intelligent work j 

 and ardently wifli that every report prefented to the Agri- 

 cultural Board, had been executed uoou the fame liberal and 



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fcientilic principles. 



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