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*t We woiild recommend the fiill-grbwn Shropfhire 

 hogs, fuch as are purchafed by tjie diftillers at about two 

 guineas a head when lean, as. the fprt moft likely to pay a 

 good price for the potatoes. Thefe hogs, purchafed in 

 November or December, fliould be kept at leaft fifteen 

 weeks, improving the quality of their food by a gradual 

 addition of meal." ■ **^ 



Article XLVIL 



Defcription of the Model of a Bartty forivhich a Pre- 

 mium was granted by the Society to Mr. Henry 

 DoBSON, Carpentery of Nonvich. 



[With an accurate Copper-plate of the Model.] . 



Gentlemen, 



FROM a defire of promoting the laudable de- 

 figns of a Society ellabliflied for fo important 

 a purpofe as the improvement of agriculture, I 

 have endeavoured, in compliance with its wiflies, 

 to conflrudt a barn, on a plan which I believe the 

 model herewith fent, and the following facfts, will 

 prove to be much fuperior to any now in ufe. 



I have compared, as well as calculated the dif- 

 ference, both of fpace and quantity of timber of 

 the prefent model, with a common barn without 



porches of the fame area. 



The 



