204 The Principles of Part V. 



alone, whole duty mall be, to receive fingle 

 and detached experiments, put them in a 

 proper drefs, if they ftand in need of it, 

 and publifh them to the world at ftated 

 times, like a public paper. This manner 

 of appearing feems well calculated to raife 

 a fpirit of experimental farming over the 

 country. 



THE narrator, on his part, fhould deli- 

 ver the experiment in the plaineft and 

 moft diftinft manner, and feparate the 

 facts from his reafonings. Peripicuity and 

 exa&nefs are the chief beauties in experi- 

 mental writing. The plain fad mould be 

 firfl told, with all its concomitant circum- 

 ftances ; fuch as, the fituation of the 

 ground, nature of the foil, previous cul- 

 ture of it, quality of the feed, country 

 where the experiment is made, ftate of the 

 air, at fowing and after, with regard to 

 heat and cold, drought and rain, wind, 

 &c. The reafoning on the experiment 

 fhould then follow, and fhould be fuch as 



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