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But as I made a point of attending feme of 

 the principal fairs, and of minuting the ob- 

 ferv^ations which ftruck me vvhilc they were, 

 frefh in the memory, I forbear faying any thing 

 further refpedting them in this place ; but 

 refer to the Minutes themfelves ; which. I pub- 

 lifti the rather, as nothing gives a more lively, 

 and juft idea of what may be called the 

 ECONOMY OF LIVE-STOCK in a given Diftrid:, 

 than the bufinefs which pafTes at the fairs of 

 that Diftrid:. Belides, fairs and markets are 

 the great ftumbling-blocks to gentlemen-far- 

 mers ; who, through want of affability, or 

 want of cournge, remain in general entirely 

 ignorant of the bufinefs of fairs and markets ;. 

 even when they have made conliderable pro- 

 grefs in the bufinefs of the farm. — This is my 

 only motive for giving the minutias of the 

 Minutes as they (land in my Minute-book ; for 

 on a fubjed: fo totally new as this is, I believe, 

 to written agriculture, every incident becomes 

 valuable ; I mean to thofe, whom, in this par^ 

 ticular, I moft efpecially wilh to inform. 



For obfervations on St. Faith's fair (1781), 

 f&e MiN. 27. 



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