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it at all, it will be seen requires a great expenditure 

 of strength over that which is necessary to a shovel 

 balanced and handled as those are which are used by 

 us. Then it will raise scarcely more than half as 

 much at a time, and is raised hardly more than half 

 as often. Let any man calculate the difference in 

 the work accomplished, and he will find that there 

 is not the difference in the actual price of labor that 

 there is in the daily pay. A day's labor in the one 

 case is a very different matter from what it is in the 

 other, and we shall make a great mistake, if we 

 suppose that in both countries they have reference 

 by the same expression to the same quantity of work 

 done. 



The same principle applied to all the operations of 

 the culture of land, illustrate to the proprietor how 

 much he depends upon a judicious mode, to obtain 

 large wages or returns for his labor. 



As to the cultivation of crops, it has been for 

 some years said of grains, that it has cost more to 

 raise them here than they could be obtained for 

 from the west and south ; and yet the means of 

 communication are constantly improving, and bring- 

 ing us more immediately into competition with those 

 states. But this scarcely diminishes the value, 

 and does not at all dispense with the necessity for 

 these crops upon the farms of New England, either 

 in a public or private point of view. Whatever 

 the farmer raises by his own labor, he is not com- 

 pelled to find the money for its purchase. And 

 the cultivation of corn and grain is a part of the 

 process by which he is enabled to furnish fresh 

 butter, beef, and pork for the market, the sale of 

 which, is, in a great measure, his resource for the 

 supply of those things which his farm will not 

 produce. Besides, it prevents the money being 

 sent away for their purchase in other places, by 

 which a tendency to its scarcity, and the consequent 

 depreciation of all prices, is avoided. 



The committee deem it worthy of some future 

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