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enable us to educate them in such a manner, as to 

 give to them the means of improving to the best ad- 

 vantage, the surplusage of our earnings, and thus 

 continue the family name with respectability, to the 

 latest generation. 



No man was ever too old to learn ; and a correct 

 expansion of the mind, and information of the un- 

 derstanding, is more precious to the owner, than sil- 

 ver, and renders him more valuable to the communi- 

 ty, than gold. 



FEBRUARY. 



Your stock are now snug and warmly housed ; your 

 beef cattle, cows, sheep and working cattle, are re- 

 gularly fed with potatoes, or carrots; your clover is 

 at proper times regularly apportioned in your racks, 

 with straw, that your stock, by passing from rack to 

 rack, may feed on clover and straw alternately, as 

 they choose. Your threshing is now progressing as 

 fast as possible, and every possible opportunity im- 

 proved to finish your sledding for the next season. 

 Your hemp and flax, are also the objects of your 

 particular care ; get them forward as fast as possible ; 

 the market, and the spinning-wheel, will now begin 

 to urge the work. Every cent you save in domestic 

 manufactures, is three cents gained ; first, from its 

 extra durability, and pextJJfrom the saving of your 

 money, and above all, thr promotion of domestic in- 

 dustry. One piece of handsome domestic manu- 

 facture, will go further to raise the reputation of 

 the young ladies, than the most expensive foreign 

 dress. If you have stored more turnips than are suf- 

 ficient for the use of the table, give them to any 

 stock that will eat them, except your sheep; give 

 to them potatoes, but not turnips, ot this season; 

 they u ill injure their lambs. It will be needless to 

 give any directions for the preservation, and manage- 



