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Here is another great inducement held out; namely, 

 fome of the boys, through merit, deferve higher wages 

 than others. Dexterity in pruning, grafting, inoculat- 

 ing, making cuttings and layers, clipping hedges, with 

 many other nice works, which naturally occur in fuch 

 an extenfive demefne, are motives to give encourage- 

 ment to the moft deferving. The afpiring lads do, 

 therefore, avail thcmfelves of fuch opportunities as lie 

 open to them. The moft active will, of courfe, be firft 

 promoted to ferve gentlemen as planters, &c. ; the next 

 clafs ftep into the place of the firft, and the third into 

 that of the fecond, and fo on, ftep by ftep, to the 

 loweft boy. Thus, like the army, there is always a 

 feries of promotions after the firft takes place. 



Here it may not be amifs to point out the moft likely 

 ways of employing the boys to advantage the year 

 round, fince the cafe is not the fame with them as with 

 grown-up labourers, who may be fet to many kinds of 

 flock-jobs in all weathers ; whereas with young lads 

 there muft be works laid out fuited to their ftrength 

 and conftitution, particularly in the winter months; 

 otherwife they will not be found ufeful. 



I ftiall now ftate the principal works fuited to boys, 

 and particularly fuch as occur at Rafli, and {hall begin 

 with the fpring quarter, at which feafon there never 

 can be a lofs for ufeful employment for them. 



The moft aukward of the planting labourers are ge- 

 nerally employed in making holes for trees ; the moft 



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