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which are accessible to diflercnt parts of the County. These are 

 articles therefore for which the farmer may command ready money. 

 By the way however we greatly object, unless it is very near, to the 

 farmer himself going onco a week to the market* where he is most 

 likely to be tempted to waste a whole day and to incur needless ex- 

 pense. We recommend therefore that our farmers should do as is 

 done in many parts of Worcester county, where some established 

 market man goes once or twice a week to Boston and sells the pro- 

 duce of his neighbors in poultry, butter, eggs, &c. on a fair commis- 

 sion. The profits of a Dairy under the best management will not 

 be great — but may be a fair compensation, especially if the cows 

 are well fed in winter and succulent food is provided for them as it 

 may easily be in summer, by the raising of corn sown for the pur- 

 pose of cutting green and keeping up their milk, when the pastures 

 fail. 



The next object is the fattening of pork. We cannot in Essex 

 County raise our pigs so cheaply as we can purchase them from 

 New York and Vermont ; but if we purchase them at a suitable age 

 and of a good kind, why may they not be fattened here without loss 

 and perhaps with a small gain? If there is no loss, the manure ob- 

 tained and the consumption of the offal of the Dairy and farm is of 

 great moment. We are aware that much must depend on the ac- 

 tual price of corn here, for on that we must mainly rely for fattening 

 them ; but this is always as low on the seaboard as it is one or two 

 hundred miles in the interior. On this subject we do not presume 

 to speak with confidence ; but we propose it as matter of fair and 

 accurate experiment to some of our intelligent farmers, feeling a 

 strong persuasion, especially if boiled carrots are as beneficial as 

 they are represented to be,'|" that the result will be favorable. 



We shall speak of but one subject more, in which we call upon 

 our female readers, should any such honor our remarks with a 

 perusal, to aid in the labors of husbandry and to share likewise lib- 

 erally in its profits. 



The town of Mansfield, in Connecticut, produces annually, as 

 appears by authentic statements, from forty to fifty thousand dollars 

 worth of silk ; almost the whole of which from the hatching of the 

 worms to the reeling of the silk is the produce of female and child- 

 ren's labor. The expense of capital, required to begin an establish- 

 ment on the Connecticut plan is, we are told, very small indeed. 



♦• See Note C. i See Note D. 



