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cases been highly successful. Here, in many cases, the land 

 might be wholly cultivated with a spade, and the expense of a 

 team be saved, which now oftentimes consumes a large portion 

 of the products of a farm, especially where the farm is small, a 

 full or complete team being as much required for the cultivation 

 of a small as of a large farm. 



In reference to this subject, though it may not be deemed 

 exactly in place, I may be allowed to remark that, as far as my 

 observation extends, nothing of this sort is done in England ; no 

 farm being ever connected with a pauper establishment, and only 

 the smallest avails being had from the labor of the inmates 

 Indeed, it is obviously judged best a conclusion which 1 

 regard with great distrust to prevent rather than employ the 

 labor of the paupers. At one of the Unions for the poor-houses 

 in England go by that name, being maintained and managed by 

 several towns or parishes uniting together for this object I saw 

 a well-dressed and respectable-looking man employed in sweep 

 ing the walks, and trimming the grass-plats, in the front yard : 

 and, upon my inquiring whether this man were a pauper, I was 

 answered in the negative, and informed that he was hired as a 

 w laborer in the establishment, because it was deemed bad policy 

 to employ any of the paupers in any such work, lest the place 



\ should be rendered too comfortable and attractive. I said to 

 myself, and I hope not to give offence in publishing my 

 thoughts, The English certainly have their own ways of doing 

 things.&quot; I am not, by any means, prepared to say, they are not 

 the best that could be adopted. Indeed, we perhaps ought to 

 think them the best, if we consider how much experience they 

 have had, and how many means they have possessed for making 

 the most full experiments. But they are certainly, in this respect, 

 very different from what prevail on the other side of the water. 



f It is an extraordinary condition of things, when, in the midst of 

 want and suffering, human labor must be thrown away, 01 



V rather the exertion of it forbidden. 



