PREFACE. 



If "method is the soul of management, then the pros- 

 perity and happiness of a family depend greatly on the 

 order and regularity established in it. There is eco- 

 nomy, as well as comfort, in a regular mode of doing 

 business." 



Many husbandmen and housewives attend to tlie va- 

 rious duties devolving upon them in their domestic con- 

 cerns without any rule, system, or order, and therefore 

 trust entirely to the precariousness of chance. 



The design of this work, is to obviate this difficulty, 

 by giving, in few words, such rules as will secure bene- 

 ficial results in the most important branches of Domestic 

 Economy. 



THE COMPILER. 



