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the fame day ; but as the number of the 

 gentleman's labourers may not near admit 

 of this, we may fuppofe him to fet a man 

 to ev^ery divifion at once, and then their 

 advancing regularly will carry an equality 

 through all ; but for fuch exadnefs, five 

 or fix men are neceflary at one time to one 

 experiment. Such a trial, we may fuppofe, 

 to be m.ade on wheat ; but a perfon would 

 naturally turn his attention in the fpring 

 alfo towards barley, oats, peafe, and beans ; 

 and efpecially, as he will in the news- 

 papers perceive, that the Society offers 

 the fame qold medals for each. If he 

 is fond of hufbandry, lie will infallibly 

 extend his trials. Nothing is more amu- 

 fmg ; no entertainment more rational ; and, 

 at the fame time, he cannot fix on a fingle 

 method, but fomc book or other will promife 

 him much profit from it. 



Befides corn, he cultivates artificial 

 graffes : this is indifpenfible in the modern 

 elegant field of hulbandry. Of thefe we 

 will fuppofe lucerne, fainfoine, and burnet 

 claim his attention, and then comes the 

 variations in the method of fowlng and 

 planting each kind. 



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