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OCTOBER. 



.SON. 



IT is necessary to remind the reader, that a cir- 

 cumstance takes place in respect to this month, which 

 scarcely holds with any other in an equal degree : by 

 Ottol-er, is to be understood that period oi" good or 

 tolerable weather which usually takes place before the 

 change by rain, snow, or frost stops most field opera- 

 tions ; what is now directed to be done must often be 

 executed in November : if the farmer cannot effect it 

 in the first of theso months he must do it in the 

 ^second. 



HIRING FARMS. 



This is commonly the month for hiring and stock- 

 ing farms, and moving from one to another. Upon 

 such occasions, the farmer should have his attention 

 awakened : he should be equally clear-sighted to the 

 advantages of a farm and to the disadvantages, that 

 he may be able to draw a balance between them, and 

 compare that balance with the rent demanded. Let 

 him remember, that he must equally discard a too 

 solicitous prudence, which doubts every benefit, and 

 a too daring courage, which overlooks or lessens real 

 evils. It must be open to almost every person's ob- 

 servation, that many lose themselves in deliberating 

 concerning a farm : they have so many mistaken rules 

 of judging, that we sometimes see them reject farms 

 which soon after are hired by others, and prove the 



fortunes 



