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 cable to the John-trot ProfefTors of the 

 common hufbandry of their neighbourhood. 



A gentleman of large fortune pradifmg 

 farming without improving upon the 

 cuftoms of his neighbours, inilead of 

 deferving praife, merits nothing but dif- 

 grace. It is rather the exertions of a paltry 

 (Economy, than a dehre of being ferviceable 

 to the public, in throwing new lights on 

 the practice of hufbandry. 



It is warmly contended by fome gentle^ 

 men, that their farms 2iX^ profitable to them; 

 that they make as much, or more than a 

 common farmer by them, with other fuch 

 aflertions, as if it was a matter of confe- 

 quence whether they gained or loft. Thefe 

 are very falfe and mean ideas ; profit ought 

 not to be the aim in thefe purfuits, but the 

 good of mankind. 



There are a multiplicity of improvements 

 every where to be made on common prac- 

 tice, which, one would apprehend, muft 

 ftrike the attention of all gentlemen farm- 

 ers. If the method of laying down arable 

 land to grafs is faulty ; if wet lands remain 

 fuch without draining ; if waftes lie as fuch 

 through miftaken notions concerning the 



advantage 



