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pleafures and amufements, are made 

 conducive to the eafe, the affluence, the 

 happlnefs of mankind. 



I have endeavoured, in thefe flieets, to 

 elucidate fome points relative to the practice 

 of rural oeconomy, which have not hcen 

 fo much attended to by preceding writers 

 as they deferved. I am very fenfible, that 

 my endeavours have produced but a flight 

 Iketch ; but flight as it is, it opens a field 

 for more penetrating inquirers to move 

 in, and to reduce fuch points as 1 have only 

 conjectured, to abfolute certainty. Huf- 

 bandry is fo much the tafte of the prefent 

 age, that any inquiry that tends to enlighten 

 and further its pradice, cannot, I think, 

 be ill received, provided it is the effe6t of 

 real experience. My fubjed: being new, 

 Ihould influence the reader to judge with 

 candour. No part of agriculture is more 

 important. — It is the foundation of every 

 other. — A vaft number of the errors every 

 day to be obferved in praEilce^ flow from 

 one falfe idea at fetting out ; the fuppofi- 

 tion, that more land may be managed with 

 a fum of money than is faCt. This is the 

 fource of almoft perpetual and general 

 error. I have endeavoured to trace it 

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