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Observations on Colonel Taylor’s Letter, by R. Peters. 
Belmont March 15th, 1809. 
Dear Sir, 
I return you Colonel Taylor’s letter, which I have 
read with the same pleasure all his communications in- 
spire. His letters cannot be too long; I wish those of 
equal ability to give information (if many such there be, 
among those devoted to agricultural occupations) would 
take half the pains, either to establish facts or to commu- 
nicate them. His mode of substituting the clothing of 
its own surface, in place of artificial, or factitious ma- 
nures, is new to us, om the scale he ex/ubits. The dif- 
ference of the vegetation, ploughed.in dry or succulent, 
has always, with me, been in favour of the latter greatly. 
But when I compare my relatively small husbandry, 
with his expansive performances, over so vast a surface, 
I feel like a dwarf along side of a giant: conscious of 
some powers, according to weight and inches,—but 
Jost in comparative inferiority. Yet, after all, the prin- 
ciples of small or large husbandry, though they may dif- 
fer as to the extent of application, are the same. And 
my opinions, suited to my capabilities, have always been 
in favour of the ‘‘ exiguum colito.”? I think there is more 
gained by it, in proportion. If I can get as I have done, 
from 30 to 50 bushels of wheat off a few acres—sup- 
pose 20—I gain more than the southern farmers do off 
100; both in product, and saving expence. But they 
have slaves individually fed and cloathed cheaply, and 
paid no wages. ‘The drones,—the old—the young—the 
