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room. A stove would do the same, if the doors of it 

 could be kept open ; but then we must keep an extra 

 one of those animals called '' help," to take up the dirt 

 of the floor and hearth, and cast it out into the draught, 

 instead of brushing it, in a moment, into the fire-place, 

 to be mingled with the ashes, to be laid on the corn. 

 Economy must be our word in hard times ; and if you 

 find us recommending modes of culture that are ex- 

 pensive, that cost more than they come to, why, stop 

 our paper, and say we are leading you astray, and you 

 prefer to make no advances in your profession. We 

 know we are often misled by theoretical writers. We 

 know we cannot farm it by book. We also know we 

 cannot 7^e7nain stationary. 



Look abroad and see the designs of the Almighty in 

 his works of wisdom. Has he created us of full size 

 at once ? Has he given us a soil that needs no im- 

 provement ? Has he created any thing that is not pro- 

 gressing ? Nothing is at rest. Our earth, our platform, 

 is flying through space at the rate of about 2,000,000 

 miles in a day. Man is formed in weakness. He 

 comes not to maturity at once. His farm will never 

 be perfectly tilled. He must not hope for more than 

 an approximation to perfection, but he must advance. 

 Let none of us say loe cannot improve^ we will not 

 alter. 



The times are changed. We cannot now send the 

 same proceeds to market as formerly. We must not 

 raise grain in the county of Middlesex to send to the 

 Boston market, as formerly. We must be governed, 

 in some degree, by the prices in the market. At the 

 present price of pork and beef, we can do well to fat- 

 ten and supply the market; but we cannot expect these 

 prices to continue, and we must make our calculations 

 on taking a more general view. And, even at present 

 prices, we can hardly aff'ord to fatten pork wholly on 

 grain. By the aid of the dairy and of vegetables that 

 ^re not saleable, mixed with a small portion of grain, 



