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The only fair mode of reasoning upon 
this subject is by analogy. There is now 
scattered about this island a variety of farms, 
on various soils, in the hands of individual 
noblemen and gentlemen, which may very 
properly be called experimen'al, upon which 
every new scheme, every new grass, grain, 
implement, and mode of cultivation are at- - 
tempted. What has been, in most cases, 
the result, may we pronounce in onewvord 
of truth — it is disappointment. Have any of 
those amateurs produced to the public a 
journal of the proceedings upon any one 
spot, with a debtor and creditor account of 
profit and loss? 
Indeed we have seen one gentleman make 
the attempt, and he, unfortunately, forgot 
to bring the annual rent of his land into the 
account. From the ordinary farmers, who 
form the great mass of pra6fitioners, the 
main resources are to be drawn. By them 
the markets are to be regularly supplied : 
and those are a description of men who must 
be shewm, by tlie plainest of all demonstra- 
