78 On Gypsum. 



closing system to afford this pabulum ; nor will they 

 prevent a clean culture, if their vegetating periods are 

 attended to. Is it certain that an annual plant sprouting 

 late in the spring, and suddenly covering the earth after 

 wheat is reaped, may not be made as useful as a peren- 

 nial one ? 



The object of a pattern farm mentioned by Judge 

 Peters, is the exact object to which I am aspiring ; but 

 it is pursued rather on a large than a small scale, be- 

 cause it is necessary to combine considerable profit with 

 the experiment, for the subsistence of my family ; to 

 face the objection that my system is fit only to create 

 a pretty garden at great ex pence ; and to allure men by 

 exhibiting the most powerful temptation in my own ac- 

 tual success to imitate the example. A draining expe- 

 riment upon the point of being finished, will soon deve- 

 lope it in all its parts, and if it should then satisfy my 

 own judgment, and meet with the approbation of others, 

 I will give you the best account I can of such items as 

 may be embraced by the design of the society. 



I am very respectfully, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



John Taylor. 



Dr. James Mease. 



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