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season ; also, 400 bushels r» corn. You also see, at 
the same time, more than two thousand bushels of 
potatoes. These, when boiled, produced the pork; 
this again, produced the manure, which in its turn, 
will produce corn again, and, at the same time, raise 
the productive value of the land ; and thus you see 
how my former remarks (under the articles. Manure, 
and Stock) are verified. The size of this farm, also, 
shows how great wealth, with a little expense, can 
be drawn from a small farm, with proper manage- 
ment. The profits and the reputation, arc worthy of 
the first attention. 
Cut your cions for grafting, from such fruit as you 
wish to propagate ; be snre to select from the ends 
of the most thrifty, and best bearing limbs, upon the 
most thrifty, and best bearing trees, and of the last 
year’s growth only, excepting so much of the growth 
of the preceding year, as may be sufficient to fix in 
the earth to j)reserve them moist; let this be done by 
lying in separate bunches, the several kinds, with la- 
bels, and fix the bunches in the ground, in some dry 
part of youi' cellar, where they will stand secure until 
wanted for use. 
If the weather is warm at the close of this month, 
fotnmcnce the pruning of your orchards and fruit- 
trees, generally. Cut off all the old dead limbs from 
youi- old trees ; but preserve the young shoots ; 
diey will come forward and bear, when the standing 
parts of your trees are dead. When you trim your 
young trees, cut ofl' such limbs as incline to droop, 
are defective, or intersect each other; ^ little atten- 
lioii in pruning your fruit-tress, will carry them up in 
a handsome, regular shape, and both improve the 
• juantity and quality of your fruit and your tillage un- 
derneath. To effect these two objects, it will be- 
come an object of your attention to accompany your 
trimmer, and both watch and direct his trimming; a 
person on the ground can gcacrally judge better than 
me upon the tree. I neyd OQt repeat, that your orchards 
