98 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



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(a) Sir Thomas Beevor obferves — " Where has it been 

 ,{ found that firs and pines are beft felled in the months of 

 {t July and Auguft ? Since that practice is, here, too novel to 

 " have had its truth confirmed by experience. Is not the 

 " exudation of the fap of all trees, from its infpiffation in the 

 " winter, lefs abundant, and the turpentine retained in 

 " thefe trees a prefervative to them ? Some trees taken down 

 «• 7 or 8 years ago, at that feafon, by the writer of this note, 

 " give him reafon to think the converfe of Mr, Berney's pro- 

 *' pofition to be true." 



(b\ Mr. Dan has the following remark: — " Notwithftand- 

 " ing I applaud the motive, I doubt the propriety of this 

 " praftice ; conceiving that potatoes are injurious to young 

 " trees, from the injury I have experienced, when they have 

 H been planted amongft hops." lam, however, of a different 

 opinion to Mr. Dan, and from confiderable experience, I 

 have obferved, that potatoes keep the foil loofe, moift, and 

 clean from weeds, and do trees great fervice in their early 

 ftase. 



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(c) The following is Mr. James's remark, and breathes the 

 true fpirit of philanthropy: — " Here is an example worthy 

 " of general imitation. — Every man, in every fituation in life, 

 " is placed within a certain fphere of aftion, and, whether it 

 « is extenfive or confined, if he but does his duty, and em- 

 " braces every opportunity, which prefents itfelf, of doing 

 «' good, the path of life would be deprived of its ruggednefs ; 

 «' and if a cloud fhould now and then intervene between us 

 et and the fun-fhine of our happinefs, it would only fervc as 



" a very 



