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farmer thinks his very worft cuilom pre- 

 ferable to the beft which another county 

 makes ufe of, there can be no hope of 

 feeing the beft adopted and brought into 

 general pra(ftice, and the v/orft wholly 

 exploded, but by the intervention, and 

 example of gentlemen of property^ who 

 may perhaps be able, by time, and perfe- 

 verance, in a great meafure to effcd: fo 

 defirable an alteration. Many and vari« 

 ous are the good and bad practices I al- 

 lude to ; and 'tis not the tafk of any one 

 man to feparate them 3 but many hints 

 from different people, if they are ground- 

 ed upon found experience, may in time 

 form a complete fyftem of pradicable 

 hufbandry. According to this idea, I 

 have always conceived the Miifeiim Rujli- 

 cum, to be one of the moft ufeful modern 

 produ6lions j becaufe well-meaning men 

 have thrown in their refpedive mites of 



inftrudion. 



