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We may render ourselves useful, by collectins; 

 and diffusing the information contained in books re- 

 cently published in Europe or America. In Europe 

 tlie principal nobility and gentry are paying due ho- 

 nours to Agriculture. Chemistry has been called to 

 her aidj from which important discoveries must re- 

 sult. Earths, miueials, and manures of all kinds 

 are analysed. Philosophy is in the right path. Facts 

 are first ascertained, and then accounted for. The 

 increased power of magnifying glasses, lays open the 

 liiddeu parts of plants, and minute animals. Hence 

 may be discovered the causes and consequently the 

 cure^ of many disorders by which plants are infest- 

 ed. Already it is asserted, (I vouch not for the truth 

 of it) that the disease in wheat called the S7nut, is no 

 other than a parasite plant, which adhering to the 

 seed-wheat, grows with it, and may be destroyed by 

 proper applications, before the seed is sown. Per- 

 haps some fortunate observer may let us into the na- 

 ture of that scourge of Agriculture, known by the 

 name of the Hessian fly, so that we may get rid of it, 

 as we did of the weavel fly, some forty years ago. 

 Such a man would deserve a statue of gold, and 1 

 think the farmers would gladly erect it. 



Another point of duty, to which we have not been 

 wanting, is the importation of such foreign grains, 

 grasses, and plants, as are suitable to our climate. 



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