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great for them to begin. On the contrary, 

 he plants many acres of them himfclf, 

 feeds cows with them, and makes the dairy- 

 wives tafte of the butter; fats oxen with 

 them, and fliews the beads to their huf- 

 bands ; keeps five times the number of 

 ilieep by means of this vegetable, that they 

 can do on the fame extent of land without 

 them. Thefe are all convincing arguments ; 

 but they mufl fee the efFed: for feveral years 

 before they will be induced to copy the 

 practice. 



The gentleman fliould take the fame 

 meafures in the introdudion of clover, 

 fainfoine, &c. &c. and his fuperintendant 

 fhould keep exad: accounts of every article 

 of culture, expences, and produce. 



In the trial of fuch pradices as are not of 

 acknowledged utility, and fuch as the new 

 hufbandry in the culture of wheat, barley 

 and oats, &c. &c. he fhould be cautious of 

 advifmg the farmers to follow his example. 

 He may poflibly make fuch practices anfwer 

 without there being any probability of 

 common hufbandmen doing the fame. In 

 fuch, and many other cafes, he fliould tell 

 them, that thcfe experiments are calculated 



fokly 



