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Our grounds are so often taken up, we have no wild grasses to 

 eradicate. Bushes and briers arc, or should be, dug up around 

 the walls and fences. 



We compost manure in the barn cellar, as before stated, by 

 mixing it with the stable manure which we buy, and apply it to 

 different crops, in the manner ali-eady mentioned. 



Milk is usually sold by us, at the door, to men who carry it to 

 the city. Our sales last year amounted to $277.07, and we re- 

 tained sufficient milk to supply two families. 



We have had but little experience in raising cranberries. Keep 

 no bees. Have done but little in reclaiming pasture or meadow 

 lands. Peat abounds in our vicinity, but it is not profitable to 

 convert it into fuel. 



The comparative value of native and foreign workmen would 

 require an article too long for insertion here, and we therefore 

 omit it. 



In looking over your circular again, I perceive that many 

 questions are not answered fully ; but I have not time, at present, 

 to enlarge these replies. Indeed some of your questions would 

 require long articles to answer them fully. 



I have no doubt it Avould be a great advantage to our farmers 

 to have a thorough discussion of them and to see clearly the course 

 which it is for their interest to pursue. It would benefit them, 

 for instance, to understand fully the comparative profit of making 

 or buying manure. I believe it is an admitted fact, that those 

 farmers who accumulate most manure and take most pains to pre- 

 serve it, have the best farms and make the most money. Now 

 could all be convinced that their interest requires them to employ 

 all their leisure in collecting articles for the compost heap, with 

 the same industry which the mechanic is obliged to use in foster- 

 ing his trade, they would find, at the year's end, that the quantity 

 of manure thus collected was, indeed, of great value. Let a me- 

 chanic leave his employment for a single day, and he sees, at 

 once, that the day has been lost ; for the number of articles he 

 makes is to be measured by the days he has devoted to his work. 

 Not so with the farmer. If he does lose a day, now and then, 

 his crops will be growing meanwhile, and there is nothing, in par- 

 ticular, to remind him of his loss. If he would devote all his 

 spare hours to the increase of the compost heap, although he 

 might, at the time, suppose himself to be working for notliing, he 

 would yet be convinced, in the end, that the day of small tlungs 

 is not to be despised. 



Manure is the great and almost the only want of farmers. Few 

 complain of a want of more land, but all complain of the want of 

 more manure. " Give us more manure," they say, " and we can 



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