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be over (probably in five or fix years), they will, of 

 courfe, become very expert, and fit to engage io 

 the general planting; and, as this bufmefs encreafes, 

 others, of courfe, will be coming forward. After 

 ferving fo long a period in the infant part of the im- 

 provement, they will be found more ufeful than 

 grown-up perfons, picked up indiicriminatdy through 

 the country at large. At lead boys, thus trained, the 

 writer knows, from long experience, to have uni- 

 formly turned out the belt planters and ground- 

 workers, having, by early habits, acquired a degree of 

 fmartnefs and activity, vrhich they feldom depart from 

 when grown up, or even in an advanced ftage of life. 



Perhaps in this place it may not be amifs to fliew 

 how to fecure boys, fo as to make them attend regularly 

 to the works of a demefne, till they may become of more 

 general ufe to themfelves and to their employers. Un- 

 lefs fome effec>ual method be taken, they will always 

 wifli to wander upon every trifling occasion, or any 

 advantage they think may turn out in their favour. 



The method followed at Rafh I {hall briefly ftate. 



Boys, from ten to twelve years of age, are ufually 

 taken in from time to time. .They remain two years 

 at 4^. a day, the third year they receive $d\ the 

 fourth, and fometimes not until the fifth year, the 

 wages are advanced to 6d.\ and, in the courfe of a 

 year or two after, they are raifed to man's wages, or 

 Sd. a day. 



When 



