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Ix 1777, after having given unremitted attention, during acourse of years, to prac- tical agriculture, and seen its defects among practitioners in general, I was led to the idea of establishing schools, or colleges, for its advancement; and sketched a Plan, for that purpose, in the digest of the Minutes of AcricuLTuRE.

In 1790, after having attentively surveyed the practices of professional men, of the higher orders, over the principal parts of the kingdom, and by‘this means seen, still more evidently, the probable utility of pub- lic seminaries, I again brought forward the proposal, and gave an outline of the plan, in the Rurat Economy of the Minsanp

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