6 The Utility if Experimental! Farms.[July

I am Sure your intelligent readers will find it quite unneces- Sary for me to enlarge on the expence of carriage that will be Saved, ou tbe protection that will be given to the broken rick. on the waste that will be avoided, and on the Several advan- tages in other respects that will be derived from the adoption of this expedient.

O!d Windsor, I am, Sir, yours,

July 2, 1804. 9%. PZ

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To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. SIR, y' OUR correspondent Agricola Meridionalis Seems to have

taken a pretty wide Scope in assuming,“that almost every acre of our territory could be made ten times more Productve,"(No. 59, p. 417.) and yer I am not a little in- clined to concur with him in opinion.

Admitting this, with mary grains of allowance however, 1 would result, that the means are not wanting to us of pro- viding for an increasing population, more consonant to the feelings of our nature, than by resorting to the System Sug- gested by the Rev. Mr. Malthus, in a late publication of his, entitled,“ An Bssay on the Principle of Population,"&c.

1 perfectly unite in Sentiment with the late worthy baronet, Sir John Call, that“zhe density of our poputation hath in- creased, 18 increaSing, and ought not io be diminished 3" be- Cause 1»councelve that our vational energy and importance will ever be in the ratio of Such density; none, however, ought to be idle, but every one usefally employed.

It is on all hands allowed, that the culture of the Soil, even in this country, Is but very imperfectly uuderstood, insomuch that it is n0 uncommon observation by men of the most ex- tensive and enlightened practice, that zl Science zs merely 77» 2ts infancy.

That it has made Some progress, particularly within the period of about forty years past, 1 can scarcely doubt; but€ really persuade myselt zt zs highly Susceptible of advancing witb tentold'celerity, when we bring into action a moderate portion of the means in our power.([ mention nothing of the interposition of government on the Subject, further than that probably Some occasional pecuniary Stuinulus from that quar- ter might tend to facilitate the eflect.

The establishment of provincial Societies, Somewhat in the manner In which they actually exist, would appear to be the Proper and rational mode of proceeding in the first instance: but to promote improvement in a Sspirited and eflectal

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