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EXTRACTS 



From Washington's Agricultural Notes — written in IT^'J. 



*' It is the indispensable duty of liim, who is employed to over- 

 look and conduct the operations of a Farm, to take a prospective 

 and comprehensive view of the whole business, whicli is laid before 

 him, that the several parts thereof may be so ordered and arranged, 

 as that one sort of work may follow another sort in proper succes • 

 sion, and without loss of labor or time ; for nothing is a greater 

 waste of the latter, and consequently of the former, (time produc- 

 ing labor, and labor money,) than shifting from one thing to another 

 before it is finished, as if chance, or the impulse of the moment, not 

 judgment and foresight, directed the measure. It will be acknow- 

 ledged, that weather and other circumstances may at times inter- 

 rupt a regular course of proceedings, but if a plan is well digested 

 before hand, they cannot interfere long, with a man who is acquaint- 

 ed with the nature of the business, and the crop he is to attend to." 



** Every attentive and discerning person, who has the whole bu- 

 siness of the year laid before him, and is acquainted with the nature 

 of the work, can be at no loss to lay it out to advantage. He will 

 know, that there are many things which can be accomplished in 

 winter as well as in summer ; others, that spring, summer and 

 autumn only are fit for ; in a word, to use the wise man's saying, 

 that " there is a time and a season for all things," and that unless 

 they are embraced, nothing will thrive or go on smoothly. There 

 are many sorts of in-doors work, which can be executed in hail, 

 rain, or snow, as well as in sunshine ; and if they are set about in 

 fair weather, (unless there be a necessity for it,) there will be noth- 

 ing to do in foul weather ; the people therefore must be idle. The 

 man of prudence and foresight will always keep these things in 

 view and order his work accordingly, so as to suffer no waste of 

 time, or idleness. These observations apply with equal force to 

 frozen ground, and to ground too wet to work in, or which if work- 

 ed will be injured thereby." 



" Nothing but system and method are required to accomplish any 

 reasonable requests." 



" Economy in all things is as commendable in the manager, as 

 it is beneficial and desirable to the employer. This manifests itself, 



