86 APPENDIX. 



I believe I need not point out, that weeding and 

 cleaning the plantations, nurferies, feminaries, ditches, 

 &c. muft form the moft eflential parts of the fummer 

 works. For thefe works boys are extremely well cal- 

 culated, fmce a boy, in fuch cafes, may be found as 

 ufeful as a man, and frequently more fo. 



The regulations, with refpeft to tools and imple- 

 ments, may probably, with fomc propriety, be intro- 

 duced here, though fome hints have already been 

 given upon that head. 



Each boy is furnifhed with a fcuffler or pufhing- 

 hoe, a weeding-knife, &c., which are numbered and 

 charged to their refpeftive accounts , otherwife thofe 

 articles could never be kept together with any degree 

 of regularity. At the latter end of the feafon, when 

 the works of the nurferies, &c. are over, the imple- 

 ments are put up, and the charge taken off the boys 

 till the enfuing feafon, when it commences again, and 

 fo on. But this fyftem is not confined to the planters 

 alone ; it is general in all other departments in the 

 dcmefne. 



As the care and management of tools and imple- 

 ments in an extenfive demefne is a matter of great 

 confequence, and one which the mafter of works 

 fhould be particularly attentive to, I (hall throw out a 

 few obfervations by way of advice. 



The firft thing to confider is, to take an exacl in- 

 ventory of all the tools and implements in the place, 



ranging 



