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expediency of following in every thing the 
7'everse of his example f * 
We now beg to tak'e leave of your Lord- 
ship, with a recommendation to you and the 
other Members of the Board of Agriculture, 
that instead of contributing to the establish- 
ment of experimental farms upon Sir John 
Sinclair s plan, which, in all human proba- 
bility, will have as little success as your Se- 
cretary's method of feeding pigs, you endea- 
vour to cultivate, near your respedlive seats 
or residences, certain portions of land ac- 
cording to the most generally adopted sizes 
or farms in your several neighbourhoods, 
upon plain, rational systems of agriculture, 
agreeably to the nature of the respeefive 
This gentleman^ at a certain time, conceived that the 
best mode of feeding hogs would be upon boiled potatoes : 
he accordingly provided a large copper for the purpose, and 
determined personally to attend the first part of the experi- 
ment. 1 he swine were summoned to the caldron ; and as 
Mr. Young conceived they would thrive best from taking 
their food in Uie hottest state, it was so delivered to them! 
but he mistaking the wrigling of their tails, then a symptom 
of e treme pain, for that of pleasure, supplied them plenti- 
!U.ly with fresh and hot pc tatpgs, di! he killed them hi. 
