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But befides the circumftances of foil and 

 culture being perfectly adapted to the 

 nature of the crop, another point not to 

 be overlooked, is the chance of ill fuccefs 

 from feafons. A gentleman may, in 

 the experiments he forms on vegetables 

 not ufually cultivated, hit of even the 

 very beft methods, and yet fail of fuccefs. 

 The moft common of crops fown univer- 

 fally by farmers fail fometimes. It would 

 be a ftrange rcfolution in any one, becaufe 

 he loft a crop of turnips, to determine 

 never more to have any thing to do with 

 that vegetable. 



For thefe, and many other reafons, It 

 is much to be wiflied, that gentlemen, 

 when they amufe themfelves with farming, 

 would give fome of their attention to the 

 devifmg and trs^ing experiments on fuch 

 parts of agriculture, as are peculiarly con- 

 nected with their foils and fituations. It 

 is of great ufe when they confider thefe 

 attentively, and penetrate into their defi- 

 ciencies, that they may condud their trials 

 with an eye to genuine utility : the happieft 

 fuccefs cannot fail of rewarding fuch atten- 

 tion ; and, furely, it is a very pleafmg 

 idea in any one to reflcd, that even his 



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