

If it be a fact, as has been alledged, that 

 the greater part of the farmers, by the way 

 they manage their farms, are not only hurt- 

 ing themfelves, but greatly injuring the pub- 

 lic ; many of them will not be convinced 

 that they are wrong, being fo wedded to 

 their old fchemes. Now, it is only propofed 

 that government mould give large premiums 

 to thofe who raifed the greateft crops by foU 

 lowing the national plan ; and thofe who did 

 not chufe to follow this plan, might be al- 

 lowed to follow their own, upon paying fix- 

 pence per acre, in order to raife a large mm 

 to be given in premiums, only to let every 

 farmer fee, how very large crops the foil can 

 be made to produce in ordinary feafons, when 

 under proper culture. And as it is propofed, 

 that an annual regifter mould be kept, men- 

 tioning the greateft crop each diftricl of the 

 whole nation produced, and publifhed every 

 year in the newfpapers, this would mew, at 

 one view, where the largefl crops were raif- 

 ed ; then the farmer would judge for himfelf, 

 if it was for his intereft to adopt the national 

 plan. 



It would be every farmer's intereft to con- 

 tribute to fuch a fcheme, whether he was 



bound 



