152, THE KUPcAL SOCRATES. 



he pointed to this field, and felicitated himfelf with 

 having contributed to the relief of a p >or and indiiflri- 

 ous man, '^ You cannot believe (faid he) how fmall an 

 ' aid is requidte to be given to an indigent man, to ena- 

 '" ble him to make a little fortune. 1 co\dd prove this 

 ^ by many examples of peafants^ who have been adilled 

 ' by the Ecojiomic Society, They begin fometimes by 

 ' buying a cow with the money they receive ;• which 



* not only furnifnes the fanriiJy with the necefTary milk^ 



* but gives them at the lame time manure to tertilize 



* their little piece of land ; which encouraging and le- 

 *• doubling their induftry, they buy (out of their favings 

 ' or upon loan,) neglecfled fields, of which they know 

 ^ how greatly to augment the value in a few years." 



p. 225'-226. Bat to return toKliyogg. To the weH: 

 of his farm are condderabie fields, belonging to the pea- 

 fants of I^umlingen. This village, for many years, has 

 employed itielf in ipinniiig (lockings ; and is mad 

 enough to facrince agriculture to this occupation, which 

 7S little lucrative ; and in particular it lacrifices to it the 

 fields in queftion, v,^hich it fcarcely tills once in thiec 

 years. Kliyogg rents three acres of thefe, merely to 

 In(lru(5l this village in its true interefls : But hitherto 

 his example has produced no citeTr, except to engage 

 one (ingle peafant to make an ellablidiment there, which 

 perfecHv fucceeds, 



p. 226—250. Kliyogg now led his guefls into a mea- 

 dow behind his woods, and extending to his fields. — He 

 pointed out as he went aU^ng, a fleep bank, which for- 

 merly by the little trees or fhrubs with which it was 

 covered, did much harm to the neighboring wheat. 

 Thefe he rooted up, and burned ; Ipreadingthe a{lics,and 

 the leaves which had rotted on this foot during many 

 years, upon hisfields. -This was a freQiinftance of indefat- 

 igable labor of Kliyojrg in recurring toeverypollible me- 

 thod of mannung his lards — The meadow in 



queftion confiiled of eight acres ; and its low fituation 

 gendered it moid and marlliy. Khyogg began by car- 



