22 INTRODUCTION. 



slovenly and the careless. Fix well then in 

 your minds the old maxim, for it is worth a 

 thousand times more than its weight of gold, 

 "Have a place for every thing, and keep erery 

 thing in its place." 



I shall conclude my introduction with some 

 useful lines, which I think it would be well for 

 every young farmer to learn and every old 

 farmer to practise : 



Let order o'er your time preside, 



And method all your business guide. 



One thing at once, be still begun, 



Contrived, resolved, pursued, and done ; 



Ne'er till to-morrow's light delay, 



What might as well be done to-day. 



Neat be your barns, jour houses neat, 



Your doors be clean : your court-yards sweet ; 



Neat be your barns ; 'tis long confessed, 



The neatest farmers are the best. 



