ufactures is calculated, not only to increase the gen- 

 eral stock of useful and productive labor, but to 

 improve the state of agriculture in particular, cer- 

 tainly to advance the interests of those, who are 

 engaged in it." " If a manufacture be established 

 in any rich and fertile country, by convening a 

 number of people in one place, who must all be fed 

 by the farmer, without interfering with any of his 

 necessary operations, they establish a ready market 

 for the produce of his farm, and thus throw money 

 into his hands, and give spirit and energy to his 

 culture." Farmers in the immediate neighborhood 

 of flourishing manufactories would derive an addi- 

 tional advantage over their fellows in the interior, 

 by the extensive culture of culinary vegetables, a 

 species of produce that renders most liberal profits. 

 Those more remote would increase the profits of 

 their farms by devoting them to the growing of 

 wool, which would soon become a staple product, 

 and if the business of manufacturing should prove 

 only moderately successful, so that the mills should 

 be kept in operation, a fair and uniform price for 

 the article would soon be established. The fluctu- 

 ations, hitherto, in the value of this product, have 

 materially discouraged its growth. The confidence 

 of the farmer is impaired, and his sheep are sent to 

 the slaughter. But let woollen manufactures be 

 sufficiently protected by government, so, at least, as 

 to secure to them our own markets, and these ruin- 

 ous speculations will cease. The farmer may then 

 calculate, in advance, the value of his wool, with as 

 much certainty as he now can, that of his rye and 

 corn. His flocks would revive, and his pastures 



