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life ; but it \voulcl often be more advantageous to 

 lay down a plan to be pursued within doors as well 

 as without: such ideas may not always be prac- 

 ticable, but the mere aim will not be without use. 

 Our young farmer, on entering his farm, must ne- 

 cessarily arrange his plan of life and house- keep- 

 ing, a subject which should not be wholly omitted, 

 yet admits but a few cursory hints that may possibly 

 give a turn to his reflections, and being properly 

 worked on in his mind, may possibly produce a be- 

 neficial effect on his conduct. It is not every man 

 that has the power of thinking to any marked uti- 

 lity; but he whose mind is inquisitive, may think, 

 to advantage on every subject. A prudent eco- 

 nomy, free from all sordid avarice, will by every 

 one be admitted as right; but it demands some re- 

 flection on entering life, or a farm, every day 

 so to arrange -circumstances, that they shall flow 

 from the plan adopted ; or at least that such, 

 plan shall have no tendency to counteract. In re* 

 gard to house-keeping, the safest way is to assiga 

 a stated Weekly sum for it, which should on no ac- 

 count be exceeded ; an annual one for his own 

 dress and personal expences ; the same for his wife 

 and young children. And he should, in prudence, 

 keep the whole allotted expence so much within hij 

 probable income, as to possess an accumulating 

 fund for contingencies, children, &c. &c. And if 

 he expects the blessing of the Almighty on his in* 

 dustry, he will not forget the poor in such distribu- 

 tion : I do not mean by rates, but by charity: and 



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