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of it, and a model which I have prepared for 

 the Board of Agriculture of England, at 

 their request. Mr. Strickland, one of their 

 members, had seen the model, also the thing 

 itself in use on my farm, and thinking favorably 

 of it, had mentioned it to them. My purpose 

 in troubling you with it is to ask you to ex- 

 amine the description rigorously, and suggest 

 to me any corrections or alterations which you 

 may think necessary. I would wish to have 

 the idea go as correctly as possible out of my 

 hands. I had sometimes thought of giving it 

 into the Philosophical Society, but I doubted 

 whether it was worthy of their notice, and sup- 

 posed it not exactly in the line of their publi- 

 cations. I had therefore contemplated sending 

 it to some of our agricultural societies, in 

 whose way it was more particularly, when I re- 

 ceived the request of the English board. The 

 papers I enclose you are the latter part of a 

 letter to Sir John Sinclair, their president. It 



