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pabilities, as to labour and means, reduce us. That this 

 can be done, in no small degree, by superior attention and 

 management, no doubt ought to be entertained. In the stages 

 of advance to the state of prosperity, with which, heretofore, 

 we have been blessed ; constant proofs have been afforded, 

 of the increase of products, by improvements in our style 

 and systems of husbandry. Let any who recollect, (as some 

 of us do,) the forlorn situation of our old settlements, before 

 the Flaster and Clover-Husbandry was introduced, and be- 

 came general, now view the fields transformed from barren- 

 ness to fertility ; and contemplate the enviable state of com- 

 fort and wealth enjoyed by their present possessors. They 

 are the owners of the soil they cultivate ; which has grown 

 fruitful and durably profitable, under the labours of their 

 own hands. The *♦ 52c vos non voUs^' of other countries, is 

 inapplicable here. — Let, then, those who have thriven, teach, 

 by their encouragement to the diffusion of agricultural in- 

 formation, those who require it, to thrive. It is a duty de- 

 manded of them, in return for the blessings they enjoy. 



Our new countries, owing to the circumstances in which 

 the first settlers are placed, are incapable of exhibiting pat- 

 terns in the art of husbandry. This must be done, in our 

 old settlements. It can be, and has been, accomplished ; so 

 as to exceed, in uniformly profitable product, any thing 

 known by the cultivators of newly cleared lands. Such lands 

 may, and do, throw up luxuriant crops, for a short period ; 

 but their continuance, in a constant and systematical succes- 

 sion, is not experienced. A¥hen they are exhausted by bad 

 management, other lands must be sought for ; to be also 

 worn out by similar ill-treatment. No farmers of well and 

 long cultivated fields, now wish to sacrifice the remnants of 

 their timber, to the acquisition of a new surface. They 

 know the advantages of renovated old lands. But much as 

 they know, they have yet much to learn. A life may be 

 spent in acquiring information, from individual experience. 

 But knowledge is soon gained, from publications in which 



