1.54 troublesome by destroying the eggs. If allowed to range at liberty after they are fit for feeding, they wash away their flesh and their fat, and destroy the economy of keeping them.

All kinds of poultry ought to be taken up at due times and fed for the larder.

Mashed potatoes, (of the refuse,) with cabbage, and other vegetables; the dust of corn mills, buckwheat, and the like, fhould be employed in preparing all these birds for the kitchen, and the stock for breeders carefully attended to. Capons too among our dunghill fowl has fallen into disuse, which occasions a considerable lofs, as capons take on much sooner than others, and preserve the tranquillity of poultry yards.

In light lands buckwheat may be raised to great advantage as a lucrative crop *. When green, it is a fine feed for milch kine, and when ploughed in a fine preparation for the land.

It fattens pigs with great economy, and passed through the mill, is, with carrot, a capital feed for work horses.

Accept, Mr Editor, of these slight notices from your constant reader and humble servant, PHILOGUNES.

ANECDOTE OF

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AGLIABECHI.

MAGLIABECHI, SO much noted for his uncommon memory, you know was librarian to the grand duke of Tuscany. An Italian gentleman once told me a very diverting anecdote of a stupid theft of his, of a parcel of curious books,

I have some doubt if buckwheat can be reared in Scotland with profit. I have tried it on several soils, and in various situations, but always with so little succefs, as to induce me to think, if it can ever be cultivated with profit in Scotland, this can only be in a few very uncom mon situations.

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Nov. 28, which he caused to be packed up in a box in his li brary, under pretence that he had got them from abroad, when they were traced and searched for. But he caused the box to be made big enough to hold them all; and it was accordingly of a size that could not have entered the room either by the doors or windows, so that he was detected. So true is it that memory and judgement seldom go together.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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THE Communication from Brito is received and will appear soon. it have been fhortened a little it would have been still more acceptable.' Should this correspondent favour the Editor with farther communications, a little greater rapidity in the narrative, would heighten the interest of the reader.

The hint by R. fhall be attended to.

The Editor thought that he had formerly acknowledged the receipt of the piece signed one of the people. The direction given respecting it shall be attended to.

The essay by C. L. is received, and shall be duly attended to.

The reading memorandums by an Old Correspondent are thankfully received.

The Editor is obliged to Clio for his hint; but he doubts if it will be in his power to comply with his request, for reasons that could only be communicated in private.

The favour of Asiaticus is received, and shall appear soon.

The Editor regrets that Humanus fhould put himself to so much expence in postages, as his writing is not legible without great difficulty; and were the Editor to try to decypher it, he fears many of his readers would not thank him for the trouble. As it is always his wifh however to indulge his correspondents, he gives the following as a fhort specimen. If more of it be called for by his readers, he will try to decypher some more of the lines:

To the Editor.

Your last to me, Sir, was so very short,
But for regard to you I'd tane the dort;
And as therein you could not me indulge,
It's hop'd th' inclosed song you will divulge,
That I thereby may claim the small relief,
As by your Bee t' immortalize my grief.
That you may see I am no ways unjust,
But what I afk do seriously request,
Still as you valet the favour of a friend,

Or would a constant reader not offend. HUMANUS.

This word cannot be made out.

OBSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS OF J. W. SPENCER.
Continued from p. 88.
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