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 He is therein a true patriot, and merits the 

 thanks of his country. 



Every one, I apprehend, will allow, that 

 there is more pleafure in experimental 

 than In common hufbandry. In the latter 

 the fatisfadlion of feeing a pretty good 

 crop, fpeaks, it is true, to a man's avaricg, 

 but not to his imagination ; but in trying 

 various improvements, and in comparing 

 them with the common methods, a new 

 world opens to the view. Every ftep pre- 

 fents new fcenes, and truth is gained by 

 degrees, with as much entertainment in 

 the purfuit, as importance in the pofieflion. 



To fuch gentlemen as are not folicitous 

 about profit, I w^ould humbly propofe, that 

 they fhould throw their hufbandry into a 

 feries of experiments on points which pecu-. 

 liarly concerned their neighbourhood. And 

 here I fhall offer a few hints upon the con- 

 dud: of experiments, which will not be 

 foreign to my prefent defign. 



A man of large fortune muft not be 

 fuppofed to give a minute attention to the 

 conducing each trial through every opera- 

 tion from feed-time to harveft. Such 

 accuracy is (with him) no more neceflliry 

 3 than 



