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and general crop. Wiftiing you fuccefs in your 

 laudable undertaking, I remain. 



Gentlemen, 



Your obedient fervant^m ■{} ■ 



JOSEPH WEBB. 



Porif^a, Hants, yan. iS, f]^^. 



Article XLI. 



A new Method of Jhortening the Operation of Churning 

 defcribed and recommended. 



Sir, 



MY ears having of late been often ferenaded 

 with the monotonous mufick of the butter-, 

 churn from morning till night, I have endeavoured 

 to find out fome contrivance for accelerating that 

 operation, fo particularly tedious at this feafon of 

 the year; and I have the fatisfadlion to inform you, 

 that my endeavours have not been unfuccefsful. 



I recolledlcd to have heard when a boy, that a 

 bit of foap dipt into the churn, would effcdlually 

 plague the dairy-maid, by preventing the cream 

 from ever producing butter. Whether this effedt 

 would follow, I never had the mifchievous inclina- 



X 3 tion. 



