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     grows plentifully, by the road side and through the 
     
     woods; it is very valuable as manure. Make it a‘ 
     
     rule, that each child shall every day in summer gather 
     
     an arm full, and throw In the pig sty or cow house;- 
     
    

    
     autumn, when the leaves fall, gather as many as‘ 
     
    

    
     on can, and throw in the cow house; every spring, 
     
    

    
     turn all out of the cow house and pig sty, and make 
     
     it into a heap. Every little helps, and 1n a year or 
     
     two by the time you want manure, you will have a 
     
     respectable pile. I often see new settlers selling 
     
     ashes; don’t do this—the trifle you get for them is not 
     
     worth the time wasted in bringing them to market. 
     
     Keep every quart of your ashes, and mix it with mud 
     
     if you can get it, if not, with earth and sods from the 
     
     road side; if you don’t want it the year you make it, 
     
     it will improve by keeping. Some will say, we are 
     
     obliged to sell ashes, and every thing else that will 
     
     make a penny. I know that some new settlers are so 
     
     destitute, that present subsistence can only be obtain- 
     
     ed by means injurious to their future operations. The 
     
     poor emigrant, when he arrives, has more obstacles 
     
     to overcome than the native settler; anxious to form 
     
     a home for himselfand the little family dependent on 
     
     his exertions, but unacquainted with the climate, and 
     
     unskilled in the use of the axe, he attacks the forest 
     
     under disadvantages which a strong arm, a bold heart, 
     
     and indomitable perseverance can alone overcome. 
     
     Necessity may compel you, and many in like circum- 
     
     stances, to sell what should be kept as avaluable 
     
     manure, to be harder onthe land you first clearthan 
     
     you would wish, and to do many things good hus- 
     
     bandry forbids. To such I would only say, do not 
     
     persevere in taking repeated crops of grain or hay 
     
     ofi‘the same land, or 1n selling ashes, or neglect col- 
     
     lecting everything which will make manure, one year 
     
     longer than you can possibly help; and after you once 
     
     get fairly under way, the stumps out of a few acres, 
     
     and the plough to work, you will have no excuse for 
     
     treating the land you clear each year badly. Then 
     
     commence at once with the proper system; each acre 
     
     of new burnt land will yield you turnips to feed your 
     
     stock, will give you a crop of grain, and a crop of