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rye might be sold, leaving me the straw for 

 litter. These, surely, would pay the rent and 

 the labour ; and, if I am told, that I have taken 

 no account of the mutton, and lamb, and pork, 

 that my house would demand, neither have I 

 taken any account of a hundred summer pigs, 

 which the fourteen sows would have, and which 

 would hardly fail to bring two hundred dollars. 

 Poultry demand some food ; but three parts 

 of their raising consists of care; and, if I had 

 nobody in my house to bestow this care, I 

 should, of course, have the less number of 

 mouths to feed. 



15 J. But, my horses! Will not they swallow 

 my hay and my oats ? No : for I want no horses. 

 But, am I never to take a ride, then ? Aye, but, 

 if I do, I have no right to lay the expense of it 

 to the account of the farm. I am speaking of 

 how a man may live by and upon a farm. If 

 a merchant spend a thousand a year, and gain 

 a thousand, does he say, that his traffic has 

 gained him nothing ? When men lose money by 

 farming, as they call it, they forget, that it is 

 not the farming, but other expenses that take 

 away their money. It is, in fact, they that rob 

 the farm, and not the farm them. Horses may 

 be kept for the purposes of going to church, or 

 to meeting, or to pay visits. In many cases this 

 may be not only convenient, but necessary, to 

 a family ; but, upon this Island, I am very sure, 



