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cular branch of management, on fome 

 certain foil and fituation -, and a general 

 knowledge of Agriculture mull: not be 

 expected from the pradtice of any one 

 man. 



A man, nevefthelefs, who has fpent 

 a long life in the praftice of fome certain 

 department, muft necefiarily have ac- 

 quired a confiderable (liare of know- 

 ledge of that particular department : 

 and it is probable, that were the know- 

 ledge of the individuals who excel in 

 the feveral departments of huibandry, 

 — were the. knowledge of the ableft 

 farmers in the beft-cultivated parts of 

 the ifland colleded, Englifn Agri- 

 culture would be found, at this day, to 

 be far advanced towards perfedion. 



But the individuals who excel in agri- 

 culture, are unknown to each other -, 

 and, if affociated, could not probably 

 communicate their knowledge, with 

 any degree of precifion : for their art 

 being the refult of habit, it is too fa- 

 miliar to be minutely defcribed. Their 



farms 



