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would tend more to (Dreading a true practical knowledge of 

 agriculture than any other that could be executed ; and the 

 union of a manufactory of implements unites with it perfectly. 

 To inform a backward country .of right fyftems has its ule, but 

 it is very weak compared with the actual practice and exhibi- 

 tion of it before their eyes ; fuch an object in full perfection 

 of management, with an annual publication of thveiult, fim- 

 piy related, would tend more to the improvement of the nati- 

 onal hufbandry than any other fyftem. The farm {houid not be 

 lefs than five hundred acres, it {hould have a tract of bog and 

 another of mountain ; one thoufand pounds fhould be applied 

 in the neceflary buildings ; five hundred pounds immediately in 

 fences ; ne thoufand pounds a year for five years in (locking 

 it; one thoufand pounds for eftablifhing a manufactory of im- 

 plements, not to be fold but given away by the fociety as pre- 

 miums ; five hundred pounds a year allowed to the fuperinten- 

 ciant for his private emolumer.t, that r.o diftreffes of his own 

 might interfere with the public views ; and in addition, to ani- 

 mate his attention, ten per cent, upon the grols product of the 

 farm. The fociety to delegate their power over it to a felect 

 committee, and no member to be eligible to that committee, 

 who had not in his own occupation one hundred acres of land, 

 or more. The firft expence would be fevcn thoufand five hun- 

 dred pounds, and the annual charge five hundred pounds ; this 

 would be an effective ellablifhineni that could not fail, if the 

 manager was properly chofen. He fhould be an active, fpirited 

 man, not fo low as to have ro reputation to lofe, but at the 

 fame time more a practical than a ipeculative farmer, and who 

 could teach the common Irifh, with his own hands, the opera- 

 tions he wifhed them to perform. The annual charge of only 

 one of the fociety's warehoufes is equal to this, and the capital 

 appropriated to it near twice as large ; how much more bene- 

 ficial would this application of the money be ? 



Relative to the premiums for the encouragement of agricul- 

 ture, I {hall venture to hint feme which I apprehend would be 

 of great advantage ; and by throwing them into the word^ 

 common in offering premiums, my meaning will be better ex- 

 plained. 



i. TURMEP HUSBANDRY, 1779. To the perfon who 

 iliall cultivate the moil land, not lets than twenty acres, in the 

 following courfe of crops during four years, viz. i. Turneps. 

 2. Barley or oats. 3. Clover. 4. Wheat. The turneps to 

 be twice thoroughly hand.hoed and eaten where they grow by 

 fheep, and to make a full report of the cultivation, expences, 

 produce, and effect of the turneps on the fheep fed, a piece 

 of plate of the vulue of one hundred pounds, with a fuitable 

 miuiption. Accounts to be delivered in in the year 1784. 



. 2. For the next greatefl quantity of land, not lefs than ten 

 acres fo cultivated, a piece of plate of the value of fifty pounds, 

 w:tii a fuitabie infcription. 



3. To 



