 Husbandry, and think the public may be much benefited by them ; but, if the farmers in your neighbourhood are as unwilling to leave the beaten road of their ancestors as they are near me, it will be difficult to persuade them to attempt any improvement....  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 3591822Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pages
...SIR, , I have perused your two Essays on Field Husbandry, and think the public may be much benefited by them ; but, if the farmers in your neighbourhood...a return, they are very averse to the running any risk at all, or even expending freely, * The date of this letter is uncertain ; but it was probably... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...SIR, I have perused your two Essays on Field Husbandry, and think the public may be much benefited by them ; but, if the farmers in your neighbourhood...a return, they are very averse to the running any risk at all, or even expending freely, where a gentleman of a more public spirit has given them ocular... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 652 pages
...the public may be much benefited by them ; but, if the farmers in your neighbourhood are as unwi.ling to leave the beaten road of their ancestors as they...a return, they are very averse to the running any risk at all, or even expending freely, where a gentleman of a more public spirit has given them ocular... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 496 pages
...Husbandry, and think the public may be much benefited by them; but, if the farmers in your neighborhood are as unwilling to leave the beaten road of their...a return, they are very averse to the running any risk at all, or even expending freely, where a gentleman of a more public spirit has given them ocular... | |
| |
