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substance you can collect and spare for litter foi 

 your stock, it will not only keep them warm and thus 

 save hay, but be the means of giving life and vi- 

 gour to all parts of your husbandry, by the manure it 

 will make. 



The long winters of New-England are generally 

 considered as being a great damage and expense to 

 the farming interest, generally; this is true to all such 

 as choose to make them so ; but directly the reverse 

 ;o all such as consult their true interest. Our nor- 

 thern winters are not longer than are best for the 

 improvement of the mind, education of our childM^ 

 cultivation and improvement of our stock, thresjMj 

 out our grain, dressing our hemp and flax, making and 

 collecting manures, the provision of fencing stuff, fuel, 

 &c. together with the promotion and enjoyment of that 

 social intercourse, which is the life of society, the en- 

 livener and polisher of manners, and the basis of the 

 good order and best interest of the community. Now 

 is our time to combine all these advantages, and reap 

 the benefit of them. 



Let the merchant and the artist boast of their 

 nice calculations, their stocks in business well laid 

 in, and contemplate their profits, amounting to vast 

 stores of wealth, in expectancy ; the success of all 

 their schemes, and even their own personal support, 

 depend on the farmer. 



As well might the Apiarian construct his splendid 

 hives, and stock them well with bees ; if the fields 

 yielded no blossoms for their support, his stock 

 would all perish ; his fine calculations would all fail, 

 and his vain expectations end in disappointment. 

 Just so the calculations of the merchant, the ar- 

 tist, and even the government, and the nation itself 

 would fail, without the labours of the husbandman, 

 and the blessing of God, to crown those labours with 

 success. 



These are the plain practical truths of common 

 sense, and common experience; let me call on every 

 description of character in the community, and say, 



