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 grafping at too much land, or at numerous 

 inquiries at once. 



It is a public misfortune, that more of 

 the gentlemen who make farming their 

 amufement, do not form clear ideas of 

 experiments; a fpecies of hufbandry the 

 moft entertaining, and, to the public, the 

 moll: beneficial. In thefe trials many points 

 fl-iould be laid down as rules of condu6t to 

 the diredtor of them, who cannot be fup- 

 pofed to have adequate ideas of the nature 

 of trials founded on the principles of 

 vegetation, and carried on with a philofo- 

 phical precifion. 



In the culture of wafte lands, the judi- 

 cious management of an experiment con- 

 fifls in opening a clear account of all the 

 difburfements, which fhould be thrown 

 together unmixed w4th other articles of 

 cultivation, and the interefl: of the amount 

 carried to the fucceeding annual expences. 

 The account of which, and the produce, 

 fhould be regularly kept, that the degree 

 of profit may be afcertained : a point of 

 vaft importance to the public good. 



Perhaps the common farmers in tlie 

 neighbourhood manage their pafture lands 



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