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refufe licences to ale-houfe-keepers who harbour fuch men, 
it might at leaft drive them to brewing at home, and their 
families would get the fmall beer. 
My next remark is in the fame page, that the chief dearth 
of work here, is, after barley is fown, till hay-cutting and 
turnip-hoeing come in; this argues in favour of fowing 
Mangel-Wurzel, of manuring the land for turnips, in pre- 
ference to that for wheat, and of hand-hoeing drilled crops. 
In page 223, Mr. Pew propofes “ to compel them, if 
poffible, to lay up fomething, &c.”” Could it be contrived 
to give fatisfaCtory fecurity for the principal, and pay every 
one regularly the intereft of their own favings, leaving them 
the power of bequeathing the capital at their death, this 
would fecure them the attention of their kindred in old age. 
In page 225, it appears that rs. 10d. per ann. has fufficed 
in that infiance to fupport the laudable inftitution, from 
which the fubfcriber had a claim to 6s. a week for the firft 
fix months of illnefs, and 3s, afterwards, with a provifion 
for his funeral. Who can withhold his admiration of fo 
wife a meafure?—I fhould be happy to enter into an affo- 
ciation of the kind, on a larger feale. Mr. Pew’s fociety I 
. fuppofe to have been of the lower clafs of tradefmen, who 
had fome pride in not applying to the club; but does it not 
frequently happen to clubs of mere labourers, that a heavy 
charge in the outfet renders their fund bankrupt, to fay 
nothing of the frequent frauds of their ftewards?—And as 
no earthly good is without an attendant evil, I muft obferve 
the annual inconvenience I experience on the day of the an- 
niverfary dinner; on the laft the care of every thing about 
my farm devolved upon one boy. My men did indeed 
come home fober; but when a number get together, the 
odds are againft them. 
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