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EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS 



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Mr. Chancellor LIVINGSTON. 



^ I "^HE ufe of Gypfum as a manure, feems in fome meafure to 

 -"- have created a new aera in agriculture ; prior to this it was 

 generally admitted, that tho' farming might rank among the 

 rational amufements, it could not be confidered as a profitable 

 employment for thofe whofe avocations or difpofitions do not 

 permit them to attend to that infinite catalogue of minutas, 

 that high wages to the labourer, and the low price of produce 

 render effential in our rural oeconomy. The farmer's profit, 

 being the joint refult of the fertility of his ground and his labour, 

 the excefs of the firft can only compenfate for a deficiency 

 of die laft. Thus the acquifitions of the gentleman farmer, 

 (who may lay his account in being worfe ferved than the com- 



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