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ihould be applied only to afllfl in making manure for 

 potatoes, they, notwithftanding, pay amply for the 

 trouble attending them. Indeed there are few works 

 boys can be better employed at on a cold winter's day, 

 than collecting of leaves. 



Boys are employed to a very good purpofe, ia 

 bringing the prunings and loppings of trees to con- 

 venient places for cars to get at them conveniently. 



Thefe are but few among the many works, that this 

 little army are ufefully employed in , the nature of the 

 place, and other circumftances, always point out the 

 moft ufeful works to engage ia. 



By good management, there can be no doubt but 

 boys may always be found ufeful; but, even if this 

 Ihould not be exactly the cafe in winter, it is good 

 policy to retain them under half-pay, or for fome 

 trifle, till the bufy feafon, in order that they may not 

 be altogether a burden to their parents, and that they 

 may be at hand, and in readinefs, when there is a 

 preffing call, and not fufFered to wander through the 

 country, as, probably, it might not be eafy to collecl: 

 them again when mofl wanted. 



There is fcarcely a labourer now (1802) at Rafh, in 

 any department, who was not formerly employed when 

 a boy, and from one flage of pay advanced to another, 

 till he arrived to man's wages , no wonder, there- 

 fore, that it fhould have, within the laft twenty years 

 (ending 1802), produced a great number of ufeful 



hands, 



