bound or not. It cannot, indeed, be expect- 

 ed, that this plan can be accomplifhed with- 

 oiis the interference of the legiflature. Many 

 would not join, although it fhould be for 

 their mtereft ; but an aft of parliament would 

 fcafily eftablifli the fcheme. 



Suppofe a farmer had 200 acres, which, 

 according to this plan, fhould be one half in 

 grafs and the other in corns ; if he thought 

 it was more for his intereft to have only 80 

 acres in grafs, in that cafe he would have on- 

 ly to pay i o s. each year, and fo on in pro- 

 portion to his, and every other farm. 



No farmer that had 200 acres could fay it 

 would be hard for him to pay i o s. when 

 this very money was given for experiments 

 whereby he himfelf might reap perhaps every 

 year ten times the fum he paid, or confidera- 

 bly more ; for this fcherne would be the 

 means of diffufing univerfal knowledge 

 throughout the whole nation, and would 

 prove, in a few years, what has been faid be- 

 fore, that it would be much for the intereft 

 of the farmer and the nation at large, to have 

 a regular rotation of corns, grafs crops, and 

 fallow. 



After pondering much upon what might 



be 



