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with a small cow-liousc. He lays off for each a very 

 small farm, and engages to give summer grazing for one, 

 perhaps two cows, with some immediate assistance neces- 

 sary for new settlers. Admit them to arrive ; how can 

 they proceed I The new colonist cannot maintain his cow 

 in the winter, for he has not hay ; he cannot till his small 

 farm, for he has not manure ; — and as he cannot avail himself 

 of what alone his landlord can give him, his domestic 

 industry, whatever it may be, cannot reach so far as to 

 supply his entire food, his other necessaries, and also to 

 pay his rent— he must of course soon migrate. 



A very little attention to the preceding statement will 

 show, where the progress of our alpine colony was ar- 

 rested. Winter sustenance for the settlers' cows was not 

 provided ; hence no source of manure. 



Hay, no doubt, is the grand desideratum in all highly 

 elevated countries. The knowledge of this induced me to 

 compose mv preceding Chapter, on the improvement of 

 Grassy Mountains, in which I limited myself to the pro- 

 duction of Hay alone ; and as I conceive I have fully es- 

 tablished the facility of forming, at a trifling expense, most 

 productive meadows in all parts of such mountains, I 

 shall not repeat what I have said, but, merely referring to 

 that Chapter, I shall at once assume the practicability of 

 forming luxuriant meadows wherever we please, by the 

 simple operations oi' draining, weeding, and top-dressing, 

 with cheap and contiguous materials, as I have there more 

 fully detailed. 



The proprietor, having now taken me into his council, 

 resumes his operations ; and as he commences the build- 

 ing of the cottage, he at the same time incloses — suppose 



