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proportion as the debt to the Benevolent Society is discharged, a corre- 

 sponding portion of interest shall cease. When the whole shall be paid off, 

 the cows shall become the property of the. association. 



" Each member shall be furnished with a garden, consisting of 64 rods of 

 ground, which shall be kept free from weeds, and cultivated in the follow- 

 ing manner, which is calculated to afford food for the cows, both in winter 

 and summer, or in any other manner to the satisfaction of the proprietor, or 

 his agent, as farther experience may point out. Thirty-six rods must be 

 cultivated for food for the cows, viz. . 



No. 1 to 8 Potatoes. 

 9 to ] 4 Cabbage. 



15 to 16 Yellow Beet. 



17 to 22 Turnips. 



23 to 24 Yellow Beet. 



25 to 50 Lucern. 



51 Parsnips. 



52 Carrots. 

 33 to 36 Tares. 



57 to 44 Buckwheat. 

 " Every member will be furnished with a pig, as soon as his garden shall 

 be in a state to keep it ; also a hive of bees, and necessary tools ; all which 

 he is to pay for by instalments. 



" The whole year, of 365 days, shall be divided into 1 85 days of summer, 

 and 180 days of winter. Every member shall, during the 185 days of sum- 

 mer, beginning on the 20th of the fifth month (May), and ending on the 

 21st of the eleventh month (November), bring or send to the dairyman 

 twenty-five pounds weight of good green food per day, either cut-grass, 

 lucern, tares, cabbage, yellow beet leaves, or mangel-wurzel leaves, or any 

 other green food which the dairyman shall approve of; and the dairyman 

 shall be at liberty to reject such food as he may think not good enough. 



" Every member shall, during the 180 days of winter, beginning on the 

 21st of the eleventh month (November), and ending the 20th of the fifth 

 month (May), bring or send to the dairyman 

 5 pounds of boiled potatoes. 



8 pounds of yellow beet root, or mangel-wurzel root. 

 8 pounds of Swedish turnip root, or parsnips, or carrots." 



Mr. Allen gives short and judicious directions on the sub- 

 ject of manure, and the cultivation of the different crops. 

 The following extracts deserve attention : 



" This plan is adapted, not only to the agricultural labourer, but to the 

 labourer in manufactories also, where ground can be procured within two 

 miles of his work, — the effect upon health and morals would be incalcu- 

 lable ; and if a season of distress should arise, from a stagnation in the 

 current of trade, the workmen would not be in immediate danger of 

 starving, as has often been the case with the miserable silk-weavers in Spital- 

 fields, and those who work in cotton mills, where the health, comfort, and 

 morals of the labourers are disregarded. Labourers with such a cottage 

 and land would be able to make deposits in the Savings' Banks, and thus 

 provide for sickness and old age." 



" As the moral instruction of the children is an object of the highest im- 

 portance, every cottager should be bound to pay 6d- per week towards an 

 education fund. One of the cottagers should have a school-room capable 

 of holding all the boys, another, a room capable of holding all the girls, and 

 a third, a room for an infant school. One of the cottagers should be a 



