PREFACE. * 



fcme may be prevailed upon, by regard either 

 to the public Good or their own private Intereft, 

 to give the Method here propofed a fair and 

 impartial Trial : For could it be introduced in- 

 to feveral Parts of this Country by Men of ge- 

 nerous Principles, their Example might, in 

 time, eftablifli the Practice thereof, and bring 

 it into general Ufe; which is not to be expected 

 by any other means. 



It is therefore to fuch only, as are qualified to 

 judge of a Theory from the Principles on which 

 it is founded, that the Editors addrefs them- 

 felves, defiring they will give this Effay another 

 Reading with due Attention : and at the fame 

 time they beg leave to remind them how unfit 

 the common Pradifers of Hufbandry are to pais 

 Judgment, either on the Theory or Practice of 

 this Method ; for which Reafon it is hoped that 

 none will be influenced by fuch, but try the 

 Experiment themfelves with proper Care. 



As a Motive to this, it is to be obferved that, 

 although the Method of Culture here propofed 

 has made little Progrefs in England, it is not like 

 to meet with the fame Neglect abroad, efpeci- 

 aliy in France-, where a Tranflation of Mr. Tulh 

 Book was undertaken, at one and the fame time, 

 by three different Perfons of Confideration, with- 

 out the Privity of each other : But afterwards, 

 Two of them put their Papers into the Hands 

 of the Third, Mr. Du Hamel du Manceau, of 

 the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and of 



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