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ing business. When the season has become so severe that 

 little can be done abroad, much may be done relative to farm- 

 ing operations, and other good works, by the fireside, in con- 

 trivirg the proper course of crops for each field, settling ac- 

 counts, reading useful and entertaining books, and laying the 

 foundation, by mental culture, for the usefulness and respecta- 

 bility of those who compose the farmer^ s family . 



