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much knowledge, I can easily satisfy myself, that a penny saved 

 is a penny got ; and I perceive also that if all our pennies go 

 into the Company's stores, or into the hands of the shipping 

 gentlemen, or are sent to England, our purses must be very lank; 

 and this is, I verily believe (nay I am perfectly convinced), the 

 reason we are not so rich as we might be. I never thought of this 

 until I read Homespun's story ; which made me think it was at 

 least probable there was something wrong or rotten at bottom. 



Now I see it plainly ; and I will no longer be slack in trying 

 to mend my ways, and my fortune ; by such means as are in ray 

 power. And, now, to conclude. — From all I have said, I think 

 I have shewn you clearly, that I am no longer of " the mulish 

 tribe." I heartily wish my conversion maj' open the eyes of my 

 dear countrymen, whose welfare I have sincerely at heart, in 

 order that they may follow my good example. 



There is one thing I forgot to mention, and I hope it is not too 

 late, that if we can raise barley for the breweries, we can at the 

 same time have plenty of straw for our cattle, if a dry season 

 should happen, and also we might have plenty of manure, which 

 I see by two or three papers in your Register is reckoned a good 

 way of making our lands yield better crops. Perhaps you may 

 have heard that we have not much come into this practice yet, 

 and that we do tolerably well without manure, that is, we can 

 have twenty or thirty successive crops of potatoes, without ever 

 once thinking of manure, and yet I find it is considered absolutely 

 necessary, and is very much the practice in the country you came 

 from. 



But to tell you the truth, Mr. Editor, I have not found that my 

 lands pay so well after so many croppings. Something there- 

 fore is wanting, and this something, I take to be manure. So 

 very bad indeed are some of the lands near me, that after 10 or 



