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fervlent to the public good, which it is greatly 

 in their power to do, if they pradllce huf- 

 bandry in the experimental ftile. Certainly 

 there are many who follow this mode of 

 farming, and it is impoffible but the know- 

 ledge they and their neighbourhood thereby 

 acquire, muft turn out to the great benefit 

 of their country. 



But unfortunately, a vaft range of expe- 

 rience is fometimes gained ; and yet, para- 

 doxical as it may appear, very little experi- 

 mental knowledge. This is owing to a want 

 of adopting fome plan of agricultural opera- 

 tion, and giving an attention, either in perfon, 

 or by a deputy to be depended upon, to the 

 regular progrefs of the bufinefs. I do not 

 herein mean, that people of high rank or 

 large fortune fhould tie themfelves, in the 

 purfuit of an amufement, to the formal 

 pradice of a bufinefs. There is no kind 

 of neceffity for any extravagance of this 

 fort ; all I would venture to recommend is, 

 to give fome attention to the farming expe- 

 riments; a pradice which abounds with 

 infinite amufement to fuch as love agri- 

 culture in general. 



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