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period, they ought to have the best food the farm will afford them, with dry and comfortable shelter.

Fences—One of the most useful applications of the leisure afforded by the winter season, is making good the fences upon a farm, and when the importance of this business is considered, the constant losses which must surely accrue from its neglect, together withits disreputable appearance, it is not a little wonderful, that in a country with such high pretensions to cultivation, this neglect should be so often seen. There is another species of negligence no less prevalent in many parts, that of suffering improper stock to run at large with- out a keeper; these will break through the best fences, and are doing constant mischief both to their owner and his neighbours. The example of a spirited farmer, who will suffer no trespasses of this kind, without requiring ample amends, and who has a strict regard both to the state of his own fences, and to the keeping his cattle

_ within bounds, is of real utility in a parish.

Drain1nc—When thevast and immediate be- nefit of draining landis considered, it seems strange to behold any in a wet and unproductive state, in the occupation of a man of property. Meadow land, in particular, is neglected, and suffered to remain in a state of swamp or bog, over-run with flag, rushes, and all kinds of sour and useless rub- bish, to the immense loss of the infatuated owners, and of the public at large, which properly drained, seeded, and kept clean, would produce abundant crops of the most valuable herbage; and the far

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