C 37 ] , 
'do not presume to enter fidly into a compa- 
rative estimate of the merits of tlie respec- 
tive reporters, we cannot but observe a great 
contrariety in their information upon very 
many important agricultural subjedfs. 
Wc have perused Sir John Sinclair's plan 
for the establishing, by subscription, a ‘ Joint 
Farming Stock Society/ 
We cannot look at this scheme in any 
other light than as a chimerical projedf. 
Were all the gain which the proposer pro- 
mises to subscribers to result from it, mono- 
poly would be the natural consequence ; and 
the public might consider extended farming 
combinations in the same light as tliey do 
the East India, or any other overgrown 
trading company, with only this distressful 
difference, that the monopoly of the latter 
extends only to luxuries, which we may 
purchase or rejedl; the other to the mere , 
necessaries of life. If Sir John's plan suc- 
ceed exadfly to his present expedvations, ''We 
shall probably, in particular seasons, find 
'old beans to be as dear as nutmegs. 
