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a v^vy probable, as well as a very fair and rational argument for a farmer to ufe, who In 

 many inftances, makes his improvements and lays out his money at considerable hazard — 

 the expence of his experiments is certain— the event of them is uncertain. Should they not 

 fully anfwer his expeftation, and only partially fucceed ; in that cafe, even if his improve- 

 ments are 'not tythed, he lofes his time, his labour, and in part his money : but if his tythes 

 are taken in kind, although the farmer himfelf is a lofer by his experiments, ftill the tythe- 

 owner is more or lefs a gainer — he gains an addition to his tythe, which cofl him nothing 

 to obtain, whilll the farmer is deprived of a tenth of his additional produce, the whole of 

 which would neither have repaid him his expences, nor made him amends for his trouble. 

 Thus tythes taken in kind, (here more efpecially, where agriculture is carried on at fo 

 great an expence) are not only injurious to the farmer, but are every day becoming a great 

 grievance to the public; inafmuchas they difcourage, and frequently prevent, thofe experi- 

 inents and improvements, by which the community would receive infinite advantage. 



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