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giaes, the flone cutter, the mafon, the carpenter, the mariner who tin- 

 ports the (lone, or the corn, the miner, who digs the coal, that -warms the 

 drying loft ; — all thefe perfons mufl contribute their aid, before the art or 

 occupation of the miller can be axerclfed. But it would be an abufe of terms 

 to call thefe ancillar)^ Perfons, manufacturers of flour. The machinery be- 

 ing erefted, little Ikill is requiiite, few hands are employed about the com- 

 modity. The apparatus for the preparation of animal food, is lefs expen- 

 five, lefs ingenious, and lefs implicated. — Stages, and flieds, for faking, 

 and curing ; fmoke houfes, for drying fifli, — coopers yards, and ware- 

 houfes, barrels, and fait. — For the trade in beef, pork, and butter. — a 

 few hands may prepare a vafl: quantity of the commodity, to a great amount 

 in value. This fmall number of perfons, perform only fimple operations. 

 Little or no previous inftruftions are requifite ; few inftruments, or utenfils 

 are neceffary. One perfon may perform the operation, jufl; as well as ano- 

 ther, few produftive hands being employed. 



Trades, like thefe, do not contribute much to the encreafe of population, 

 or, to the extenfion of agriculture ; on the contrary, as far as they prevail, 

 they tend, todraw the proprietor of land, from the cultivation of grain, to the 

 grazing of cattle, to the difcouragement of induftry and population. Arts, 

 like thefe, neither fcem to require, nor do they deferve, the particular at- 

 tention, and encouragement of the legiflature. The demand of the home 

 market ; and the fpeculations of the merchant exporter, will, of themfelves, 

 carry thefe branches of produftive' labour, to' as great an extent, as is com- 

 patible with the public good. Where fcience, and the divifion of labour, 

 have little or no place, legiflative encouragement, can have little or no 

 avail ; and, if it could, an objeft, which interferes with the population, 

 the agriculture, the produftive labour of the country, does not feem to de- 

 ferve fuch an encouragement. 



The arts, which properly demand the proteflion and encouragement of 

 the legiflation, are thofe, wherein the fcience, and ingenuity of man, may 

 make vifible progrefs ; may increafe the produftive power of individual la- 

 bour J may facilitate the fabrication of commodities, requifite for the conve- 



( 3 F 2 ) nience. 



