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But after the mafler has fketched the 

 experiments he defigns to make, with 

 whatever penetration, flill much muft re- 

 main on his deputy in attending to the 

 execution. In which province he muft 

 have particular injunctions to be accurately 

 pundlual, both in feeing the operations of 

 every kind, and alfo in regiftering them : 

 nor muft this latter circumftance be omitted, 

 although the gentleman ftiould have no 

 thoughts of publiftiing the refult; for even 

 with refpedt to his own ufe and fatisfadion 

 alone, w^hat a vaft difference between gene- 

 ral, and confequently, confufed ideas of 

 former experiments, and a well-ordered 

 regifter of every circumftance ! If a man 

 forms experiments only for the pleafure of 

 converfing on the fubjed: in company, 

 vanity demands that he ftiould have fome 

 better foundation for his aiTertion than 

 memory alone. 



It is much to be wiflied, that fuch of 

 the nobility and gentry as make the practice 

 of agriculture a part of their rural amufe- 

 ment, would give fuch orders to their 

 agents in thcfe matters, as would render 

 their pradlice of fuch general utility as 1 

 liave ventured to hint. 



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