32 A HISTORY OF 



him. These will be found in the catalogue of books 

 belonging to the Society reproduced at pp. 170-2. A 

 Mr. Teddyman was employed to translate the Dutch 

 mill book. A number of madder sets were also 

 ordered from Holland, and a model of a Dutch mill 

 for fining flax was to be made. With a view to 

 encouraging the import of good grass and garden 

 seeds, the Society offered to lend ^150 on good 

 security, this being the first occasion on which the 

 system of loan and bounties, so characteristic of its 

 later working, began to be tried. 



A committee was appointed to draw up heads of 

 a treatise on the present state of the coin in Ireland, 

 and the inconvenience resulting to trade from the want 

 of small coin. 



Sir William Parsons sent up from Birr what he 

 called a " terrier," an instrument for pulling up small 

 trees by their roots ; promising that a scoop spade for 

 throwing up with ease and expedition strong roots 

 of wild parsnips and other weeds would follow. Sir 

 William had already favoured the Society with a plan 

 and account of his biangular harrow. Thus, we see that 

 nearly two centuries ago, the noble house of Rosse had 

 already given evidence of the inventive genius which 

 has made the name of Parsons famous, and also had 

 exhibited that anxiety for the success of Irish methods 

 of husbandry and agriculture which has been evinced 

 in a marked degree by successive generations. 



George Berkeley, the illustrious Bishop of Cloyne, 

 was an intimate friend of both Prior and Madden, and 

 he sought to help them in their efforts to stimulate the 

 industries of the country by the publication of his 

 Querist, which appeared anonymously in the year 1735. 

 The volume was edited by Dr. Madden, and Mr. 

 Lecky remarks that very pregnant hints on industrial 



