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Art. XXXVm. 



^ome Remarks on the Drill Hu/bandryy extraSied 

 from a Letter^ to the Secretary, 



[By Jos. WiMPEY, efq.] 



[The following Extrail is a fhort one, but as it contains 

 the pra£lical fentiments of an old and ingenious cor- 

 refpondent, and perhaps are the laft lines he ever pen- 

 ned on agriculture, they are here inferted ; the gentle- 

 man to whom the principal allufion is made, and for 

 whom Mr. Wimpey had a high refpedt, would doubt- 

 lefs oblige many members of the Society, by any ne- 

 ceflary explanation.] 



MY DEAR FRIEND, Brotton-Clovdly, Otl. 4, I795. 



"VrOUR much-efteemed favour of the 15th ult. 

 •^ is now before me. I received the 7th volume 

 of the Society's Papers at the fame time, for which 

 you have my bed thanks. It gave me pleafure to 

 fee the name of the Rev. Mr. Close in the table of 

 contents; but in the perufal was miferably difap- 

 pointed by its concifenefs, and total barrennefs of 

 detail. The fafls afferted are of the mofl: important 

 nature; and a particular defcription of the feveral 

 proceffes would have been an invaluable treafure to 

 the praftical farmer. I have the highefl opinion of 

 Mr. C.'s Ikill, ingenuity, and veracity; but he is a 

 very extenfive cultivator indeed, if he faves more 



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