3793* tn agricultural sur'oejf. £5? 



33. What improvements can be suggested either 

 Jn regard to the steck or the hufbandry of the dis- 

 trict ? 



34. What are the names, desertions, and directions 

 of those proprietors, or farmers, who are the most ac- 

 tive, or the most Ikilful improvers in the district, and 

 who are the most likely to be useful correspondents to 

 the board of agriculture ? 



It is proposed, for the sake of making such surveys as 

 easy as pofsible, tliat each person, who may undertake 

 them, (hall have a district that may be gone over in five 

 or six weeks : so that it may be undertaken by those 

 who have a good deal of businefs of their own, without 

 much inconvenience. Thus also the board will have a 

 greater variety of information, and a greater mafs of 

 instructive observations, from a greater number of intel- 

 ligent men, for their consideration and guidance. 



It is farther proposed, that the reports received by the 

 board, fhall first be circulated as much as pofsible, in the 

 counties to which they relate, for the benefit of receiving 

 the observations, and additional remarks of every farmer 

 and gentleman in the district. From the information 

 thus accumulated, a complete state of its agriculture 

 will be drawn up and publiftied j copies of which will 

 be presented by the board, to every individual, who may 

 liave favoured them with his afsistance. 



The board can only make an allowance, at the rate of 

 5I. per week, for the expence of such a tour. Indeed 

 some gentlemen, with great public zeal, and much to their 

 credit, have undertaken to survey several districts gratui- 

 tously. But that 13 not always to be expected, particu- 

 larly from profefsional men. The payment of their ex- 

 pcnces, they are well intitled to expect, if they give their 

 lime and trouble for nothing. Profit, however, must 



