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the dairy-farmers in abandoning all cultivation for the dairy. Now to 

 say nothing of the advantages to be derived in the support of the 

 stock and the increase of the produce both on the sheep and the 

 dairy-farm from an abundant supply of esculent vegetables and grain ; 

 yet the neglect of the advantages to be gained in such cases from the 

 ample supplies of manure, which might be obtained by proper 

 management, is a great practical error. A stock farm and an arable 

 farm, unless in the most untoward circumstances, should be always 

 conjoined ; and thus the beneficent institution of divine Providence 

 be constantly regarded in causing the earth to be replenished and 

 enriched by its own products. This is one of the beautiful laws in 

 the constitution of nature ; and as certain in its operation as is man's 

 obedience to its dictates. When man performs his part, nature is 

 never wanting in hers. 



3. Domestic Economy. In looking over my returns, I was 

 struck with the remark of a man of much practical wisdom and one 

 of the best farmers in the Commonwealth. He says " that a farmer 

 should produce upon his farm all those supplies for his family, which 

 the farm can be made to yield." In his case this is done within 

 doors and without ; for there the spinning-wheel has not forgotten to 

 turn round, nor the shuttle to speed its flight. In this cottage, 

 whose neat and beautiful arrangements cannot be surpassed, the 

 clothing, the bedding and the carpeting were all the product of their 

 own fields and flocks. I shall not soon forget the unpretending and 

 hearty hospitality of these enviable dwellings. I have slept many a 

 time under a silken canopy, and trodden many a carpet as soft as the 

 pride of eastern luxury could make it ; but never with any thing like 

 the sentiment of honest pride and independence with which I saw 

 here the floors spread with carpets made from their own flocks, 

 which for fineness and beauty the foot of a princess need not dis- 

 dain; and on a cold night slept in woollen sheets from their own looms 

 as soft as the shawls of Cashmere ; and wiped my face with towels 

 spun with their own hands from their own flax, of a whiteness as 

 transparent and delicate as the drifted snow. In such beautiful examples 

 of domestic management, it is delightful to see with how limited 

 means the best comforts and luxuries of life may be purchased. 

 Nor were these instances few. The county of Berkshire abounds with 

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