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CHAP FER NVI:

MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS

SIC I.— Agricultural Societies.

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HERE has been a ſociety of agriculture eſtabliſhed at Mancheſter, for a number of years, which is conducted with ſpirit; and the ſeveral premiums offered annually, have been frequently claimed, and adjudged. A report is annually

publiſhed, e the premiums, which are offered for the eniuing

Year, and a lift of the perſons to whom they have been already adjudged, is made public; but they have not yet publiſhed any

volume of papers which they may have received on different ſub-

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jects; and of which tl ey are In poſſeſſion, The ſurveyor, when

at Manchefter, A upon the ſecretary, and examined theſe

pers, with a view of collecting ſomething that might be of ſervice to him in this Report. The papers are many of them upon important ſubjeds.

The Rev. Mr.-J. Stainbank, of Halton-ha 1, writes,& That the principal great towns, through the diferent Counties, a where they chooſe to form- themſelves into ſocieties, ſhould be connedted with the Board of Agriculture, as emanations frora that great body, and be ſupplied thence with books of inſtructions, and other aſiſtance during their infant ſlate; and that each ſociety ſhould adapt ſuch a ſyſtem of premiums, as would be moſt E for exciting a ſpirit of agriculture in, and Pome the greateſt poſible i improvement 05 its r tive diſtrict.

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Similar hints have been dropped by other correſpondents, but not ſo fully explained,

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