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excited, and the good which the public might 
have derived from an agricultural institution 
properly grounded, has in a great measure 
been lost by the too apparent imbecility of 
the exertions of this. 
That the public has paid or is pledged to 
pay lOOOl. to Mr. El king ton for the dis- 
covery of a professed secret in the art of 
drainage which was pra6lised by Dr. An- 
derson, and published by him twenty years 
since. 
That the attempt to improve the breed of 
cattle and sheep was not proceeded upon in 
a proper manner. 
That it would have been more proper to 
have contemplated the peculiar properties 
of each variety of animal in the several dis- 
tridfs, than upon any limited and partial 
grounds to have considered only the peculiar 
perfedfions of a few. 
That the Board has not pursued the proper 
means of discovering the wise intentions of 
Nature why horns were given to animals of 
one distridl and withheld from those of 
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