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THE farmer’s manual. 
enal ’ us to educate them in such a manner, as to 
gi'-e rhein the means of improving to the best ad- 
vuiUige lie surplusage of our earnings, and thus 
cotitiniie the family name with respectability, to the 
latest generation. 
No man was ever too old to learn ; and a correct 
expansion of the rain5, .hd information of the un- 
derstanding, is more prerious to the owner, than sil- 
ver, and renders him more valuable to the communi- 
ty, than gold. 
FEBRUARY. 
Your stock are now snug and warmly housed ; your 
beef-cattle, cows, sheep and working cattle, are re- 
gularly fed with potatoes, or carrots ; your clover is 
at proper times regularly apportioned in your racks, 
with straw, that your stock,, by passing from rack to 
rack, may feed on clover and straw alternately, as 
they choose. Your threshing is now progressing as 
fast as possible, and every possible opportunity im- 
proved to finish your sledding for the next season. 
Your hemp and flax, are also the objects of your 
particular care ; get them forward as fast as possible ; 
the market, and the spinning-wheel, will now begin 
to urge the work. Every cent you save in domestic 
manufactures, is three cents gained ; first, from its 
extra durability, and next, from the saving of your 
money, and above all, the promotion of domestic in- 
dustry. One piece of handsome domestic manu- 
facture, will go further to raise the reputation of 
the young ladies, than the most expensive foreign 
dress. If you have stored more turnips than are suf- 
ficient for the use of the table, give them to any 
stock that will eat them, except your sheep; give 
to them potatoes, but not turnips, at this season ; 
they will injure their lambs. It will be needless to 
give any directions for the preservation, and manage- 
