6 EleGrical Query.... Agricultural Féte at Waoburn, 
ties which have flourifhed moft, and been 
enabled to fulfil all their engagements, 
the numbers of which they. confift, and 
the annual ftate of their receipts, dif- 
burfements, and capital, would undoubr- 
edly have a very good effet. It would 
furnifh important data, and operate as a 
fimulus: and enceuragement to fimilar 
undertakings: ‘ 
~ It were. alfo much to be wifhed, that 
the legiflature, or the focieties_ for the 
encouragement of arts and agriculture, 
would offer premiums for the beft prac- 
tical differtation on this important fub- 
Bicee. 
If thefe imperfeét hints fhould furnith 
any ufeful materials to a more able hand, 
and contribute, in the leaft, to promote 
an object of fo much confequence to the 
welfare of his fellow citizens, the writer 
of them will have obtained Js reward. 
Sbrecufoury, J. Woop. 
Fuly 8th, 1797- 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
iS your Magazine for May, a corre- 
fpondent finds himfelf difappointed in 
the improvement he expected from the 
flat board conductor. Jt 1s no wonder 
that he failed, for he acknowledges that 
he formed a metalic communication with 
the ground. | prin 
conduétors in elefiricity is, that they be 
well infulated. A metallic communication 
from the ground fhould only exift from 
each of the exterior boards. 
« Any of your eleétrical correfpondents 
will do well to account for the following 
effect which J have lately difcovered : jars 
are pierced witha {mall hole in charging, 
when they are coated within with brats 
file-duf&, ftuck on with rofin, and tin foil 
without. I have four quart flint bottles 
which have played me that trick with 
lefs charge than aa ounce phial would 
hold.—If you think this worthy of your 

attention; I fhall probably communicate: 
fome other effects, thar are as difficult to 
account for on the prefent theory. The 
fame jars, when coated with paite, held 
as great a charge as they could contain ; 
- it appears, therefore, that tome unknown 
property in the rofin caufed the perfora- 
tion. 
Fyne 20, 1797. EDMUND BUNTING. 
P.S. Pleafe to correct the error of my 
being an Ironmongér, in your notice of 
my patent in the Magazine for May: 
read, St. John’s-Square, late Pittman’s 
Buildings, Ironmonger-Row, Old-Street. 
The principle of prime. 
{July, 
To the Edstor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I GENERALLY run my eyes over 
your Monthly Mifceilany, becaufe 
I find in it much to intereft, and fome- 
thing to inftruét. As you protefs to be 
agricultural, and indeed foilow up your 
profeilions with ufeful articies of infor- 
mation on the fubje&t, I expeéted to have 
{een fome notice taken in your laft num- 
ber, of the WoBURN SHEEP SHOW, as 
it. caught the’ attention of fome of the 
daily prints, and is highly worthy of being 
remembered. I therefore fend you a 
fketch of the nature and purport of the 
meeting, and of what paffed during the 
three days that it continued. 
Mott of your agricultural readers have 
doubtlefs heard of the ram fhows of Lei- 
cefierfhire, eftablifhed feveral years ago 
by that extraordivary man, the late Mr. 
Bakewell of Difhley. The meeting at 
Woburn was, in part, of a fimilar na- 
ture. The duke of BEproRD, among 
other extraordinary exertions in agricul- - 
ture, has feleéted and improved, with 
judgment and perfeverance, two diftiné: 
flocks of -fheep : one of them of what is 
called the new Leicefterfhire breed, or 
the Bakewell. or Difhiey breed; the 
other of the Southdown breed, that was 
formerly peculiar to Suffex, but which is 
now, like the Leicefterfhire fheep, fpread- 
ing faft over every part of the kingdom. 
Thefe two flocks are kept entirely fepa- 
rate ; they are not only under the care 
of different fhepherds, but different bai- 
liffs, being kept on diftinét parts of the 
eftate. . 
In cattle, too, the duke is advancing, 
with rapid ftrides, to excellence. He has 
fele&ted, with fuperior judgment, the 
moft valuable breed, namely, that which | 
is found common in Herefordthire, De- 
vonthire, and Suffex ; and has drawn to- 
gether, from thefe feveral counties, the 
mot valuable individuals. 
’ In the draining and watering of lands, 
his Grace has been equally fuccefsful ; 
and, with refpeét to conftru€tion of farm- 
buildings, much has lately been done, 
though not with the fame uniformity of 
_ defignthat marks his other improvements. 
The examining thefe prominent 
features, and viewing the general im- 
provements of the. farm-grounds and 
magnificent. domain of Woburn, were 
the ample fources of amufement and in- 
formation. Each day had its allotted 
portion : the fhowing and letting of rams, 
of the Leicefterfhire breed, being the 
leading objects of the two firft PP 
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