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waste in our woodlands, we must cut sparingly ; instead of 

 feeding or cutting down the underwood and shoots, we must 

 carefully preserve them. Greater economy must be adopt- 

 ed in cooking our food and warming our houses. The all- 

 devouring chimnies of our ancestors must give place to the 

 stove and the furnace. Our houses must be made a better 

 defence against the cold, and their materials must be taken 

 from the earth rather than the forest. 



There is one species of trees entitled to your particular 

 regard. It is the sugar maple. This flourishes on almost 

 any soil, yields to none in cleanliness and beauty, is excel- 

 lent for fuel, and furnishes sugar little inferior to that of the 

 cane. One hundred of these extended on the margin of 

 your fields, or set in the form of an orchard, would afford 

 an ample supply of sugar and molasses for half a century or 

 more, and when they began to decay, reward you with fifty 

 or an hundred cords of the best fire-wood. The expenses 

 of transplanting them will be but trifling, their injury to the 

 land, if any, inconsiderable, and a few years will give to 

 them great beauty and value. 



The value of the locusts and of the mulberry deserve 

 particular notice, but they are behoved to be duly appre- 

 ciated by your Society. 



In the management of your various animals, having se- 

 lected the best bloods, you have only to provide for them 

 warm, dry, and commodious shelters, and deal out to them 

 sweet and wholesome fodder, and pure, clean water. Neat- 

 ness and cleanliness in this department will contribute much 

 to the health, growth, and corpulency of your stock. A 

 slattern in the house is not more disgusting and unprofitable, 

 than a sloven in the barn. In the treatment of those patient 

 and docile animals which perform your labor, let me crave 

 your mercy. Neither suffer them to moan with hunger or 

 thirst, nor to be loaded or driven beyond their strength. A 

 mild and generous usage will secure their attachment, excite 



