.TiiE FARMER'S MANUAL. 107 



DECEMBER. 



Your farming is now all done, and 1 trust weli 

 done; no man hos thrown away a dollar unnecessa- 

 rily upon new and visionary schemes, by making 

 experiments upon English farming in our country; 

 or lost two dollars in saving the expense of one cent 

 in not increasing his stock of manure, ploughing, 

 and tilling his fields, draining and hogging his wet 

 mowing grounds, or not manuring, plastering, or 

 washing his dry mowing grounds, or by not rinsing 

 and steeping his seed-wheat, or by sowing too spar- 

 ingly, or by not steeping and plastering his seed-rye, 

 oats* barley, &c. or by neglecting to steep his Indian- 

 corn at planting, and rolling it in plaster, or even by 

 not plastering or ashing the hills, or even by neglect- 

 ing to plaster his potatoes at planting, or at hoeing; 

 or what is worse than all, by neglecting to plaster 

 his young clover, and suffering his fences to be out 

 of repair, and thus waste his crops; with all the 

 train of evils which follow ; poverty, disgrace, dis- 

 tress and ruin. I a?n persuaded that every farmer 

 who reads this work, has applied his money liberally, 

 and to the best advantage, and is now prepared to 

 amuse himself in the care of his stock, in the social 

 enjoyment of his friends, his family, and his fire-side, 

 through the long approaching winter, with his heart 

 full of gratitude to that God who is the parent of Na- 

 ture, and of all her productions, and who has thus 

 enriched him with the bounties of his common provi- 

 dence, rewarded liberally the labours of hi hands, 

 and given him all things so richly to enjoy. 



F/irmrrs, you are, under God, the lords of this 

 lower creation ; in obedience to the command of God, 

 you till the earth, nature's vast store-house; into 

 your hands she pours her wealth, through a thousand 

 tributary streams, and from your stores are fed the 

 inhabitants of the palace, and the cot. This high,. 

 this elevated, this ennobled rank in life, is calculated 



