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and their establishment presents a beautiful illustration of the advan- 

 tages of well directed industry, neatness, and order. The great rule 

 of domestic economy " a place for every thing, and every thing in 

 its place," is nowhere more strikingly exem})lified ; and though they 

 make no pretensions to the fine arts, and have little of what is called 

 taste, yet all their arrangements, and the products of their labor, ex- 

 hibit the proofs of thoroughness, permanency, utility, and substantial 

 comfort. 



Their dairy is exquisitely neat in every part of it. Their piggery 

 is the exclusive concern of a single individual ; and illustrates the 

 utility in a large concern of a division of labor and of individual respon- 

 sibility. They have attempted an improvement of their neat stock, 

 by the introduction of some of the improved breeds, and the young 

 stock which they were raising from this cross, promised extremely 

 well, though no opportunity had been had to test its qualities for 

 milk. Their land is considered in a great measure unfavorable to the 

 production of grain : and a large portion of their bread stuff therefore 

 is purchased. They have likewise occasionally hired extensive 

 tracts of meadow on the Mohawk river in the state of New York, 

 which they have cultivated by colonies, in order to obtain brush for 

 the manufacture of brooms, a branch of business which heretofore 

 they have carried on to a considerable extent. They keep a large 

 flock of sheep ; and all their woollen fabrics are manufactured among 

 themselves. They likewise are very extensively engaged in the 

 raising of garden seeds, which are put up in a very neat manner, as 

 is well known, and distributed over the country. 



A three story brick building or college, erected for one of their 

 families, is most remarkable for its neatness and the excellence of the 

 materials and workmanship. What by the " world's people," is 

 called taste, that is a study of symmetry and beauty in the forms of 

 objects, is studiously abjured by this remarkable community. Yet 

 in the perfection of finish, which they bestow upon every production 

 of their mechanical industry, they show that native perception of fit- 

 ness, order, and liarmony, which constitute the elements of the most 

 cultivated and refined taste. The same amount of expense and la- 

 bor, of which they are never spaiing, already devoted to the con, 

 struction of their buil lings and the arrangement of their grounds, had 

 »hey indulged themselves even in a slight degree in tasteful ornamenj 



