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packing in close sweet vessels, (those of stone are the best,) and sto- 

 ring in a place where the air is cool and pure. 



This paper will be closed with a few remarks on farm buildings. 

 That there is a sad neglect of attention to this matter, is evident to 



all. Our farm building-s are too often large, inconvenient. 

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Buildings, and unfavorably located. No attention is paid to the posi- 

 tion of the farm; the great object seems to be to get as near the road as 

 possible. Our farmers seem to have something of the feeling that ac- 

 tuated the English stage-driver, who, when dying, requested to be bu- 

 ried as near the road as possible that he might have the satisfaction 

 of hearing the carriages pass. The general situation of the farm, the 

 ease of working it, the moving of the crops and manures, ready ac- 

 cess to water, good ground for yards and buildings, and a healthy 

 spot, should all be considered when fixing on a location for farm 

 buildings. How often do we see farm houses fixed in the edge of a 

 swamp, or at a distance from water, simply because the road happen- 

 ed to pass at that point; thus endangering health and incurring con- 

 stant inconvenience to gratify an idle whim. In building, utility 

 should always, as far as possible, be combined with good appearance, 

 and when a correct taste governs, this is easily done; but convenience 

 must never be sacrificed to show. Whatever is built, let it be done 

 well. Slightness and cheapness are the two last things to be con- 

 sulted in farm buildings; firmness and durability are the essential 

 requisites. 



In managing a farm well, there must be economy, there must be 

 labor. The head must be intelligent and the hands active. The 

 master's eye and the master's influence, must be every where, that all 

 may move harmoniously, and the desired results be certainly produ- 

 ced. No more work should be laid out, than can be done well and 

 in time. No more land must be cultivated than can be so manured 

 as to preclude the possibility of its growing poorer. The farmer 

 must labor, but there is no necessity of his being a slave; and he 

 should never for a moment forget that honest industry, vvhatever may 

 be its nature, is, and always will be, honorable. 



