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with tools of good construction, adapted to the purpose, 

 and with tools of bad construction, may be the (^ntire 

 difference between a successful and a ruinous husbandry. 

 This has been before remarked in regard to the plough. 

 In many other branches of labor have there been almost 

 equal improvements. Instance the gathering of hay, by 

 the use of the horse rake. If I am rightly informed three 

 fourths of the labor of raking may be saved by it. This 

 is a matter of great consequence, when time is so valuable 

 as in the haying season. The cultivator too does much, 

 when properly applied, in a short time, far better than 

 it can be otherwise done. The roller, how few of our 

 farmers rightly understand the advantages to be derived 

 from this ! In the most approved processes of managing- 

 lands, a roller is as indispensable as a plough. Still I 

 doubt whether half our farmers have ever had one on 

 their farms. Many other less prominent implements 

 have been equally improved, and demand of the farmer 

 who would labor to best advantage to be brought into 

 use. The grand difference between a thriving farmer, 

 and one that does not thrive, is — the one looks out for 

 the fractions, the other does not. In farming, nothing 

 should be lost ; nothing should be neglected ; every- 

 thing should be done at the proper time ; every thing 

 should be put in its proper place ; every thing should 

 be performed by its proper implement. When these 

 rules are observed, the farmer will surely prosper — 

 though his gains may be slow, they will be certain and 

 sure. His dividends are under his own control, and are 

 not liable to embezzlement. 



Among the improvements of a few years past, there are 

 none that promise more, than those in the cultivation of 

 grass; — a crop of greater value and extent than any 

 other to the Essex farmer. A crop that demands a par- 

 ticular notice at an Exhibition in Ipswich, distinguished 

 before all other places in the County for its hay prod- 

 ucts. The peculiarity of this culture, first brought to 

 the notice of the public by Mr. Phinney, is, that the land 

 is continued in grass, year after year, without the inter- 

 vention of any other crop, except occasionally Indian 



