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mer time with confi derahle “advantage. 
Where horfes are turned out to grafs, 
_.there certainly is a great deal of trouble 
oF “faved, but there is a great deal of food. 
Sdetvoyed, and the land is but little bene- 
‘fiited by the dung of the animals. By 
littering a yard, where there isa thed, and 
mowing vetches or clover for the horles, 
we make much good manure; and, if it 
be true, that one acre of mown grafs will 
‘go_as far as two acres that are fed down, 
‘we havea clear faving of much hay for 
the (cythe: at this time of the year tco, 
many of us mow the borders of all our 
fields, and carry the ftuff into the horfe- 
_yard. By this meihod, we prevent the 
weeds, &c. from feeding, the horfes eat 
fome of the grafles, é&c. and the relt ferves 
as flover, which 1s trampled into zzuck. 
Indeed, 
minions is fo bad as: your correfpondent 
from South Wales has reprefented it-to 
be. In my opinion, it isnot very cre- 
ditable to the Board of Agricuiture that 
their exertions have not been mere effec- 
tive in that part of the kindom. We have 
particular books enough publifhed on 
the fubject of agriculture, but of what ufe 
are thefe to Welch farmers, who never hear 
of them, or who never read them. Sir 
Jobn Sinclair has publithed propofals for 
the eftablifhment of a number of experi- 
~> mental farms in different pzrts of the 
kingdom: his fcheme is a good one, and 
I with it fucceis : let the Board of Agri- 
culture take the hint: let them hire or 
~~. purchafe a hundred or two acres in every 
- county of South Wales, and fend fome in- 
telligent man ro cultivate each farm. The 
fociety, it is likely, would foon be repaid ; 
and the waiives, by feeing fuperior crops 
refult from {uperior management, would 
prefently increale the produce of their 
country : foon fhould we fee 
Fleecy flocks the hills adorn, 
And valleys {mile with wavy corn; 
Soon would the crooked paths be made 
firaight, and the rough places plain. 
¥Yontis.ére.. 
A FarMer. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N a paper communicated to you fome 
time fince, I alluded tothe joolnGa,a 
~ fingular kind.of verfe in the Greek Antho- 
logia': a tranflation is here fept of two 
and as little or no‘notice has been .taken 
~< of them, Iwill; if agreeable, fend am ¢x- 
She Noahs oy 
Y= 
Exaggeration of the Wosllen Manufadiory. 
Mr. Editor, I was fericuily a 
concerned to learn that the ftate of agri 
culture in every part of the Britifh-do-- 
planation in a future number, not as 2 
teftimony to their value, but as anexample 
_ of tuneful trifling, or, at-belt, of unprofi- 
table induftry. ; et 
TEOVHOA ; or Verfes containing equal 
Numbers Two or. Two. <*> 
uss cor rode ypappea yeveO\ramebowy EY GZbsy 
Ka.zap, NetXain Moura Atawdean 
Karasomne Fae: anamvoy aet Guog- ers OE VEwTay 
Hy ebeans, Suze THOE WeeiceeTeca. 
. joe 
Ceefar, a bard from Egypt’s fertile plain, 
To thee his oftering fends, a birth-day ftrain ; 
A fmokelefs facrifice this joyous lay ;— 
Henceforth, perchance, a brighter I thall pay. 
\ Another.---One to One. 
95 bya dndoresy srazeTat, ov duo Soseige 
Ov ya PETh siTegya THY dorcxoygacpiny. 
. --Franflation. 
Po: one. verte’ cosntsaéal, two before 
_Bcguiapppt. } Topg-writiog chocfe no more; 
&e. 
oes “Tam, Sir, Your’s 
bs G. DYER. 
— 
To the Editor of the. Monthl y Magazie. 
SIR, 
WAS much pleafed to fee that your 
correfpondent J. J. G. (fee rf article 
for-June) had taken notice of the prodi.. 
gioufly exaggerated ftateinent of the peti- 
tioners in behalf of the wodllen manu- 
faéturers; which, when I firft read in the 
newfpaper, ] was tempted to think that 
the petitioners had come from Gafcony, 
and that the Houfe of Commons did not 
think it worth while to notice it. So ab- 
{urd a itatement {carcely ever did appear, 
‘and how the Houfe let it pafs without ani- 
madverfion I am at a lofs to conceive 
Of eight, or at moft nine, millions “of. 
perfons in Great Britain, three millions, 
at leait, are in the metropolis and Scot- 

land, and have fcarcely any connection 
orth the woollen bufine(s ; of fix millions 
that remain, are we then to be periuaded 
that one half are concerned in the woollen- 
bufinefs ? ‘It is true, the petitioners qua- 
lified the exprefiion by faying, direély or 
indire#ly concerned, ther eby feeming to 
-comprehcend farmers, graziers, landlords, 
and a numerous body of perfonsioterelted 
in the fuccefs of raw wool: but the na- 
ture of the petition excludes thofe; for, 
to (uch, opening a new market will be an 
advantage; and as the petition was made 
in order to'prevent fuch new market from 
being opened, it went dire&tly to the fup- 
part.of thofe who manufacture wool into 
cloth, &c..and.to their fupport only. 
Now; ee fix millions of perfons, fuch 
: : ag 
