For remarks,&c.

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effect; that interest(if no better motive) will, I hope, soon in- fluence the minds, of bigotted, and contracted farmers, to adopt those very methods, they before reprobated and deemed wild in- novation.

It must be admitted, that Berkshire has to boast, of as many of these enlightened agriculturists as any county; but the minute methods followed by them, or any particular system not generally practised, would here be misplaced, and improper. Ish all there- fore proceed in reporting, in a general way, the present husbandry of the county; and annex under each head, as I proceed, what strikes me as the practicable outlines of improvement.