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in the taking care of the crops, that no part of the same is wasted ; — 

 in not permitting the ploughs, harness, and other implements of 

 husbandry, to be unnecessarily exposed, trodden under foot, run 

 over by carts, and abused in othsr respects. More good is derived 

 from attending to the minutia3 of a farm, than strikes people 

 at first view ; and examining the farm yards, fences, and look- 

 ing into the fields to see that nothing is there, but what is allowed 

 to be there, is often times the means of producing more good, or at 

 least of avoiding more evil, than can be accomplished in any other 

 way." 



" There is much more in what is called head work, that is, in 

 the manner of conducting business, than is generally imagined. 

 Take two managers, and give to each the same number of laborers, 

 and let the laborers be equal in all respects. Let both these mana- 

 gers rise equally early, go equally late to rest, be equally active, so- 

 ber, and industrious, and yet, in the course of the year, one of them, 

 without pushing the hands under him more than the other, shall 

 have performed infinitely more work. To what is this owing ? 

 Why, simply to contrivance, resulting from that forethought and 

 arrangement, which will guard against the misapplication of labor, 

 and doing it unseasonably. In ploughing, for instance, though the 

 field first intended for it, or in which the ploughs may actually have 

 been at work, should from its situation, be rendered unfit (by rain 

 or other cause) to be worked, and other spots, even though the call 

 for them may not be so urgent, can be ploughed, this business 

 ought to go on, because the general operation is promoted by it. 

 So with respect to other things, and particularly carting, where 

 nothing is more common, than, when loads are to go to a place, and 

 others to be brought from it, though not equally necessary at the 

 same moment, to make two trips, when one would serve. These 

 things are only mentioned to show, that the manager, who takes a 

 comprehensive view of this business, will throw no labor away." 



The intrinsic good sense in the foregoing remarks, as well as tht 

 authority from which they come, will commend them to the favour- 

 able notice of every farmer, who is at all aware, that *' Time is 

 Money," and that he that makes the best use of the one, will be 

 most likoJy to accumulate the otJtcr. 



