%]ji Notices for a Young Far mo. . 



jbens are preventives* In airy and roomy, yet moderately 

 warm pens, paved or boarded and often cleaned, they are 

 healthy and thriving. They shew a disposition to be cleanly, 

 however otherwise it is supposed; and they always drop their 

 ejections in a part of the pen different from that in which 

 they lie down. No animal will thrive, unless it be kept clean. 

 When cleanliness becomes habitually practised, it is easy to 

 preserve it, But if filth be suffered to accumulate, the re- 

 moval is a task — irksome and procrastinated. 



XXIII. Keep accounts of all your expenditures and re- 

 ceipts; and notes of remarkable occurrences on your farm, 

 Recording even your errors will benefit yourself in future 

 avoidance ; and become warnings to others. Your successful 

 practices will be examples. You owe it to yourself, your 

 children and your country, to register and promulgate them. 



XXIV. Read, and do not slight, either foreign or domes- 

 tic books of reputation for principles and practice, on agri* 

 cultural subjects. Climates may and do differ ; but princi- 

 ples are invariably the same. If you have, as you ought, a 

 desire to be well acquainted with your art, gain some know- 

 ledge of subjects elucidating its principles ; and particularly 

 of Chymistry, as connected with agriculture ; although you 

 need not aim at being a perfect Chy mist ; nor qualify your- 

 self as a disputant on theories and vain and unprofitable dis- 

 cussions, Which produce no beneficial result ; but, on the con- 

 trary, bewilder those to whom information of plain principles 

 and facts, and practical lessons, are the most necessary. 



Home's Principles of Vegetation, Darwin 9 s Phytologia, 

 Hunter'' s Georgical Essays. Antler son's Essays, Lord Dundo* 

 nalds Connexion of Agriculture with Chymistry, Davy's Agri- 

 cultural Chymistry, are among the books, giving a general 

 view of principles ; and books of practice you can obtain at 

 pleasure. The former you can use as lawyers read Black* 

 stone's Commentaries ; and the latter as theij apply to reports, 

 for detailed and practical information. 



XXV. Experiments are highly commendable, but do not 

 set out as an habitual experimenter ; as if husbandry were a 

 new art, (however defective it may be,) and every thing de- 



