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the farmer’s manual. 
to show you your dependence upon God, the author 
of nature, of nature’s laws, and of nature’s works; 
to teach you such hundlity as will necessarily result 
from these conclusions, that although you can plough 
and plant, sow and reap, yet of yourselves, you can- 
not produce one spire of grass, or explain how it is 
produced ; you cannot effect the formation of one 
shower, or explain its effects upon the vegetable 
world ; this should teach you love to God, and bene- 
volence to men ; freely you have received, freely 
wive. From the vast store-house of nature, your 
cup overflows witli her richest blessings ; it becomes 
your duty to use them without abusing them. Select 
a full share of the best for your own comforts ; impart 
in fair market, for the support of the community, 
such as the consumption demands, and the reasonable 
support of your revenue requires ; and, with the re- 
mainder, be liberal to the virtuous and industrious 
poor. These are plain practical duties; but sources 
of incalculable satisfaction and enjoyment. 
In my remarks under September, the care of your 
orchard was noticed; let me call yoqr attention to an 
important article of this valuable and productive 
part of good farming. Select some convenient part 
of your garden, or field, contiguous to your house ; 
plough it early in this month ; harrow and strike it out 
with your plough into rows four feet asunder ; strew 
these furrows with pumice from your cider-mill, (se- 
lect the pumice from such fruit as you would wish to 
cultivate,) and cover it lightly with the plough; keep 
down the weeds for 2 or 3 succeeding years, until 
your trees have acquired the height of 3 or 4 feet ; 
thin out and transplant, at the same time, leaving the 
trees in your rows 6, 8, or 10 inches asunder. At 
tills stage of your jiursery, (2 or 3 years growth,) you 
may propagate such fruit as you may choose, by bud- 
ding, (a mode more safe and expeditious than gicft- 
ing;) without checking the growth of your trees. 
For particulars on budding and grafting, see Garden- 
