Observations on Colonel Taylor'' s Letter, 73 



count ; I wish I could get such a person as Colonel T. 

 to establish in his own domain a little pattern farm ; 

 where he could (as he would) pursue, on a small scale, 

 the best systems of neat and improved husbandry. This 

 would be a school and example, for his own benefit, and 

 great amusement ; as well as for imitation by his neigh- 



be made. It Is probably, however, owing to the ease with 

 which our wants are well supplied, and a competence obtain- 

 ed, and, of course, so i^w paupers, and all taxes light, that 

 our agriculture is not better. We do not feel that necessity, 

 which is not onlv the spur to exertion, but, according to the 

 trite adage, the mother of invention : we are assuredly ad- 

 vancing, commendably and profitably, in most branches of our 

 husbandry. Long may we continue to possess the salutary 

 and substantial enjoyments derived from it ! Obtained, His 

 true, by an inferior style of cultivation and economy ; but 

 without the painful feelings, which not only the amount, but 

 the subjects^ of tzvo of these heavy annual contributions, would 

 excite.— -Not because the ministers of religion should be des- 

 titute of decorous and plentiful support ; or the poor be com- 

 fortless, or ill supplied. But because we are accustomed to 

 choose our own pastors ; and take our own modes of support- 

 ing Mem and no others. We have not the numbers of poor, in 

 proportion to population, to demand such contributions, or af- 

 flict our sympathies. TFars, either of necessity or ambition, 

 or too extensive manufactures, have not yet withdrawn our 

 people from extending the cultivation of our soil, however 

 in artificially ; nor most deplorably increased, the numbers on 

 ©ur poor list. Should it ever happen that these consequences 

 attend manufactures, it will be a warning that they are car- 

 ried too far. 



R^ Peters. 

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