123 THE farmer’s manual. 
substance you can collect and spare lor litter for 
your stock, it will not only keep them warin, and thus 
save hay, but be the means of giving life and vigour^ 
to all parts of your husbandry, by the manure it will 
The long winters of New-England are generally 
considered as being a great damage and expense to 
the farming interest generally ; this is true to all such 
as choose to make them so ; but directly the reverse 
to all such as consult their true interest. Our nor- 
thern winters are not longer than are best for the 
improvement of the mind, education of our children, 
cultivation and improvement of our stock, threshing 
out our grain, dressing our hemp and flax, making and 
collecting manures, the provision of fencing stufl, fuel, 
&c. together with the promotion and enjoyment of that 
social intercourse, which is the life of society, the en- 
livener and polisher of manners, and the basis of the 
good order and best interest of the community. Now 
IS our time to combine all these advantages, and reap 
the benefit of them. 
Let the merchant and the artist boast of their nice 
calculations, their stocks in business well laid in, and 
contemplate their profits, amounting to vast store.s 
of wealth, in expectancy ; the success of all their 
schemes, and even their own jjcrsonal support, depend 
on the farmer. 
As well might the Apiarian conslimct his splendid 
hives, and slock them well with bees ; if the fields 
yielded no blossoms for their support, his stock 
would all perish; his fine calculations would all fail, 
and his vain expectations end in disappointment. 
Just so the calculations of the merchant, the artist, 
and even the government, and tlie nation itself, all 
would fail, without the labours of the husbamiman, 
and the blessing of God, to crown those labours with 
success. 
These are the plain practical truths of common 
sense, and common experience ;.let me call on every 
description of character in the community, and say, 
