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ong'ht to be encourag'ed to devote their time and ritteR- 

 tion to this most important object ; and to exert them- 

 selves, either to improve the various sorts of implements 

 now in use, or in the invention of superior ones, as cir- 

 cumstances may require. The invention of an useful 

 implement, by which the labours of agriculture can be 

 brought to a higher degree of perfection, anil the ex- 

 pense of cultivation at the. same time dimini-^hed, must 

 prove of the most essential service to the farmer. 



For the benefit of those who are anxious to avail 

 themselves of the great improvements which have al- 

 ready been made in agricultural implements, it may be 

 proper to state, that Repositories for Agricultural Im- 

 plements and Machinery, have been estabhshed in the 

 cities of New-York and Boston, and we sincerely hope^ 

 that the exertions of the proprietors, may, by a judicious 

 public, be liberally rewarded. 



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There cannot, says Mr. Madison, be a more rational 

 principle m the code of agriculture, than that every farm 

 which is in good heart should be kept so ; that every 

 one not in good heart should be made so ; and that what 

 is right as to the farm, generally, is so as to every part 

 of every farm. Any system thereibre, or want of sys- 

 tem, which tends to make a rich iarm poor, or does not 

 tend to make a poor farm rich, cannot be good for the 

 owner; whatever it may be for the tenant or superin- 

 temhmt, who has transient interest only in it. The 

 profit, vv^here there is any, will not balance the loss of 

 intrinsic value sustained by the land. 



Experiments which have been made with the spade, 

 shew how great is the yield w hen that instrument has 

 been employed ; and though it would be impossible to 

 introduce it when labour is high, yet it affords a useful 

 lesson, and shews that there is little danger of working 

 our land too much. 



Ncthinof is better calculated to ward off the effects of 

 droughts, which are often so injiirious in this country 

 jhan good cultivation by ploughing sutiiciently deep, and 



