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quantity in each year ; the quantity of grain, meal, and flour exported ; 

 the quantity of flax and hemp raised and exported ; the most approved 

 and profitable mode of cultivating those productions ; value of articles 

 consumed at home ; quantity and value of the whole produce. 



8. The native and imported grasses ; the quantity of each kind pro- 

 duced on an acre ; the proportion of meadow to arable lands ; the 

 improvement of the country by irrigation, draining and diking. 



9. Manures ; the different kinds, and their effects ; the best time 

 and mode of applying and increasing them, and of preparing them for 

 particular crops. 



10. The best seed time, and harvest time ; the best time and mode 

 of preparing lands for seed ; of extirpating weeds, and of preserving 

 grains from insects ; the effects of a change of seeds ; the most ap- 

 proved rotation of crops ; remarkable instances of good and bad sea- 

 sons ; unusual failure of crops ; the known or supposed causes, and 

 the temperature of the seasons at the time. 



11. Fences; the materials and modes of erecting them ; the best 

 modes of improving them, and the introduction of substitutes for those 

 used ; modes of cultivation ; implements of husbandry ; teams. 



12. Number of sheep, swine, neat cattle, and horses ; and the best 

 mode of multiplying and improving them, and of preventing their de- 

 struction from disease or other causes. 



13. Fruit trees, and esculent vegetables; the best kinds, and best 

 modes of improving, cultivating, and preserving them ; the state of 

 gardening ; the quantity and quality of cider, beer, wine, and spirits 

 made, and how made. 



14. The state of manufactures ; the kinds, quantity, and quality 

 made in families, and manufactories ; the history of any useful manufac- 

 ture, including its increase and decline, and the causes ; the quantity, 

 quality, and value of articles manufactured for domestic use, and for 



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