mers. Their fuperiority in general know- 

 ledge, in reading, and obfervation, may be 

 of ufe to them in farming, and demand as 

 much to be carried to their account as the 

 fuperior induftry, common knowledge, and 

 attention of thefarm ers entered to theirs. 



If there are any new difcoveries in huf- 

 bandry or if beneficial practices, common 

 in one part of the kingdom, are to be in- 

 troduced to another, the benefit of fuch 

 have nothing to do with the farmer ; be- 

 caufe, we may be certain that he, from 

 habit and confined views, will have nothing 

 to fay to them. But the gentleman, with 

 more enlarged ones, may be fuppofed to 

 reap advantages in this field. 



Here it may be faid, that fuch advantages 

 are very ideal fpeculative and uncer- 

 tain ; and, in many cafes, much more 

 unprofitable and pernicious than bene- 

 ficial : But, in anfwer to this, I obferve, 

 that fuppofing the objection true, yet it no 

 ways impeaches the propriety of confider- 

 ing it as a capability in favour of the gentle- 

 man ; it is true, he may apply it to his pre- 

 judice, but is that any argument againft 

 it? The farmer may carry his frugality 



into 



