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and ought not, to be kept so wallas if they were fatting, 

 or had lambs by their side. 



149. From the first of December to the first of Fe- 

 bruary, Mangel Wurzel and white turnips would keep 

 the sheep and cattle and breeding sows plentifully; for 

 the latter will live well upon Mangel Wurzel ; and my 

 hundred hogs, intended for fatting, would be much more 

 than /dflZ/'fat upon the carrots and parsnips. I should, 

 however, more probably keep my parsnips till Spring, 

 and mix the feeding with carrots Avith the fieeding with 

 corn, for the first month or fifteen days, with regard to 

 the fatting hogs. None of these hogs Mould require 

 more than three bushels of corn eacli to finish them 

 completely. My other three hundred bushels would be 

 ibr sows giving suck ; tlie ewes, now and then in wet 

 weather ; and for other occasional purposes. 



1.50. Thus all my haij and oats, and wheat and rye 

 might be sold, leaving me the slraw lor litter. These, 

 surely, would pay tlie rent and the labour; and, if I 

 am told, that I have taken no account of the mutton, 

 and lamb, and pork, that my house would demand, 

 neither have I taken any account of « hundred summer 

 pi(/s, which the fourteen sows Avould have, and which 

 would hardly fail to bring two hundred dollars. Poul- 

 try demand some food; but three parts of their raisin*' 

 consists of care; and, if I had nobody in my house to 

 bestow this care, I should, oi' course, have the less num- 

 ber of mouths to feed. 



1.51. But, my horses ! Will not they swallow my hay 

 and my oatsf INo : for I want no horses. But, am 1 

 never to take a ride then ? Aye, but if I ilo, I have no 

 right to lay the expense of it to the account of the far7n. 

 1 am speaking of how a man may live by and upon a 



farm. If a merchant spend a thousand a year, and 

 gain a thousand, does he say, that his traffic has gained 

 him nothing I Wlien men lose money hy farming, a.s 

 they call it, they forget, that it is not the farming, but 

 other expenses that take away their money. It is, in 

 fact, tliey that rob the farm, and not the farm them. 

 Horses may be kept for the purposes of going to church, 

 or to meeting, or to pay visits. In many cases this 

 may be not only conyenient, but necessary, to a family; 

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