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enough to make up ; instead of making one hundred acres 

 do the work of three hundred, he buys more land, and 

 allows three hundred to do only the work of one hundred. 



4. A young woman, with a little pains, can have three 

 times as many clothes as she needs, and then not look so 

 well as a humble neighbor who has not half her wardrobe ; 

 wherefore, we close with some proverbs made for the occa 

 sion: 



Active little is better than lazy much. 



Carefulness is richer than abundance. 



Large farming is not always good farming, and small 

 farming is often the largest. 



SELECT LIST OF APPLES. 



IT is impossible to frame a list of apples which will suit 

 wery cultivator. Men s taste in fruits is widely different. 

 The delicacy and mildness of flavor which some admire, is 

 to others mere insipidity. The sharp acid, and coarse grain 

 and strong flavor which disgust many palates, are with 

 others the very marks of a first-rate apple. The object of 

 the cultivator in planting an orchard, whether for his own 

 use, for a home market, for exportation, for cider-making, 

 or for stock-feeding, will very materially vary his selection. 



The soil on which an orchard is to be planted should also 

 determine the use of many varieties, which are admirable 

 only when well suited in their locality. 



Regard is to be had to climate, since some of the finest 

 fruits in one latitude entirely betray our expectations in 

 another. The hardiness and health of different varieties 

 ought to be more an object of attention than hitherto. As 

 in building, so in planting an orchard, a mistake lasts for a 

 century, and a bad tree in a good orchard is like bad tim 

 ber in a good mansion. 



