Q20 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



and effectual refiftance, to that government 

 which (hall prefume to affix limits to the pro- 

 perty of its conftituents : and (alas, it is ever 

 my fate to difagree with both parties) I defire 

 to be underftood, as having no partial or in- 

 terefted referve. 



The afpecl of the times, both prefent and 

 future, appears to demand the full exertion of 

 all the ability in agricultural fcience, which 

 can be found in the nation. Plenty of corn, 

 and fecurity for its continuance, perhaps can 

 only be infured by grov/ing to fuch an ex- 

 tent, as to command foreign markets; and in 

 this, we muft fooii expect powerful compe- 

 tition from emancipated, and enlightened 

 France. Nothing, however, can be more ini- 

 mical to national views, like thefe, than the 

 defire which certain bodies are ever fo for- 

 ward to maniiHt, of confining the complicated 

 and fcientific bufinefs of cultivation, and its 

 adjuncts, to the mod ignorant, fecluded, and 

 uninformed, confequently the moft obflinate 

 and bigotted of mankind; and this too in 

 the very teeth of all experience. With thefe 

 reafoners, ignorance, a fmock-frock, and low 

 circumffances, form the J?ne qua non of agricul- 

 tural ability ; as according to the account of 

 the narrator of Lord Anfon's voyage, a liberal 

 education is, in the vulgar opinion, incompati- 

 ble with the duties of feamanfhip. 



But 



