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aver.age of the wages throughout the country. But, 

 then, mind, the farmer has nothing (for, really, it is 

 not worth mentioning) to pay in poor-rates ; M'hich in 

 England, must always be added to the wages that 

 a farmer pays ; and, sometimes, they far exceed the 

 wage?. 



314. It is, too, of importance to know, what sort 

 of labourers these Americans are; for, though a la- 

 bourer is a labourer, still there is some difference in 

 them ; and, these Americans are the best that I ever 

 salt). They mow four acres of oats, wheat, rye, or 

 barley in a day, and, with a cradle, lay it so smooth 

 in the swarths, that it is tied up in sheaths with the 

 greatest neatness and ease. They mow two acres and 

 a half of grass in a day, and they do the work Mell. 

 And the crops, upon an average, are all, except the 

 wheat, as heavy as in England. The English farmer 

 will want nothing more than these facts to convince him 

 that the labour, after all, is not so very dear. 



315. The causes of these performances, so far 

 beyond those in England, is first, the men are tall 

 and well built ; they are bony rather than fleshy ; and 

 they live, as to food, as well as man can live. And, 

 secondly, they have been educated to do much in a 

 day. The farmer here generally is at the head of his 

 " boys," as they, in the kind language of the country, 

 are called. Here is the best of examples. My old 

 and beloved friend, Mr. Jajiks Pai;i., used, at the age 

 of nearly sixty to go at the head of his moicers, though 

 his fine farm was his own, and though he might, in 

 other respects, be called a rich man ; and, 1 have 

 heard, that 31r. Elias Hicks, the famous Quaker 

 Preacher, who lives about nine miles from this spot, 

 has this year, at seventy years of age, cradled down 

 four acres of rye in a day. I ^ish some of the 

 preachers of other descriptions, especially our fat 

 parsons in England, would think a little of this, and 

 would betake themselves to " work with their hands the 

 " things which be good, that they may have to give to 

 " him who needeth," and not go on any longer gorman- 

 dizing and swilling upon the labour of those who 

 need. 



