§40 7 Plan of Experimental Farm. 
ture refleftion and better judgment of 
the fubferibers. No ftep would have 
‘been taken towards carrying the projeét 
into execution without previoufly con- 
fulting thofe who may be inclined to 
promote it; but it was fo effentially ne- 
ceffary to the fuccefs of the undertaking, 
that a fufficient number cf active and 
intelligent practical farmers fhould act 
in the committee, that it was deemed 
improper to folicit the concurrence of the 
public, until that firft great point had 
eea fecured. Meffrs. Collins, of Barmp- 
ton and of Ketton; Mr. Mowbray, of 
Sherburn; Mr. Mafon, of Holywell ; 
Mr. Grainger, of Heugh; and Mr. 
Forfter, of Eroomyholme, have removed 
this dfficulty, by promifing their aid; 
and, from the liberal fpirit of the yeo- 
manry, there is every reafon to look, in 
general, for their affiftance. The fup- 
port, therefore, of the public 1s alone 
wanting ; and the promoters of the un- 
dertaking are willing to believe that it 
will not be withheld from it. The im- 
provement of agriculture, indeed, pre- 
fents fuch great and mantfeft advantages 
to every clafs of the community, that the 
enlightened and benevolent muft be anxi-_ 
gus to promote it. 
Outlines of ibe Plax. 
1. The focicty to take a farm, for the 
purpofe of purfuing fuch expe riments as 
tend to improve agriculture ; of afford- 
ing to the neighbouring tenantry an ex- 
ample of the moft improved manage- 
ment of land, and of the beft implements 
of hufbandry ; and of introducing into 
the country the moft valuable breeds of 
fick. 
2. The management of the farm to be 
placed in a Committee, to be annually 
cho en by the fociety, and a fkilful huf- 
bandman, to be brought from fome one 
of the counties where agriculture fiou- 
rifhes moft, for the purpofe of working it. 
3. A journal of the farm to be kept, 
together with a regular table of the flare 
of the weather; and to fubmit them to 
the members of the fociety, at their 
general meetings, which it is propofed to 
hold four times a year. 
‘4. The farm to be viewed .by the 
members on the morning of the quar 
terly meetings. At the e meetings alfo 
the progrefs of experiments under trial 
to be reported and future experiments 
tobe propofed. Any affociate who pro- 
poles an experiment (of which the ma- 
jority approves) to be requeited, jointly 
Aug. 
with the committee, to fuperintend its 
execution. 
The committee to difpofe of the 
produce of the farm, and apply the mo- 
ney in aid of the neceflary expences 5 
the deficiency to be fupplicd by fub- 
{cription. 
6. If the funds of the fociety be 
adequate to the farther expence of efta- 
lifhing an Agricultural Library, it would 
add to the utility of the inititution. 
4. In the choice of the farm, the fo- 
ciety, or their committee, will, no doubt,. 
toke care that its fituation be centrical ; 
that it poffcfs a due variety of foil 5 be 
conveniently placed for procuring a va- 
riety of manures, and afford (as far as 
can be expeéted) an ample range for exe 
periment. . 
N.B. Gentlemen defirous of affifting 
this plan, will pleafe to fignify their in- 
tentions to Dr. Fenwick, or to Mr. Pen- 
nington, printer, Durham. 
Since the circulation of the foregoing, amect- 
ing bas been held of the COMMiTTEE, at 
Durham, when the following Jpecifa 
refoluizons were entered into: ‘ 

1. That to carry the plan into execu- 
tion, it will require a farm of at leaft 
two hundred acres. 
2. That to furnifh the farm with a 
due variety and proportion of the beft 
breeds;of ftock, and with proper ma- 
chinery and implements of hufbardry, 
&c. not lefs than one thoufand pounds 
will be neceflary. 
z. That from the kinds of foil chiefly 
wanted, the rent of the farm will pro- 
bably be about one hundred and afty 
pounds a year. 
4. That as it Is of great importance 
that the perfon to whom the immediate 
management of the farm ts committed 
fhould be able, aétive, well mfermed, and 
refponfible, his falary cannot be taken at 
Jefs than one hundred pounds a year. 
Inftru€ted by fuch a maa, it is expected 
that the labourers employed on the farm 
will prove highly valuable as fervants in 
hufbandry. 
- g. That as the ftock cannot for fome 
time be expected to make any return, 
an arinual {um of three hundred pounds 
will be required to fupport the inftitution 
in its infancy. ; 
6, That in the beginning of the in- 
ftitution, the committee fhould meet at 
leaft once a month. 
7. That the committee fhould confift 
of fix practical farmers, three other gen~ 
tlemen, 
