He bought iron, and thus paid _tribute_ to England, while our own land could, by an effort, be made to produce iron as well as England.

He bought coal, cloths, and oranges, thus paying _tribute_ to New Brunswick, France, and Sicily, very unnecessarily; for coal may be found, doeskins may be made, and oranges may be forced to grow, within our own territory.

He paid tribute to the foreign miner and the weaver; our own servants could very well mine our iron and get up native doeskins almost as good as the French article.

He did all he could to ruin himself, and gave to strangers what ought to have been kept for the benefit of his own household." Full of this reasoning, our headstrong fellow determined to change the routine of his crops.

He divided his farm into twenty parts.