ould advise
the new-comer to have nothing to do until he has made himself
thoroughly acquainted with the process.

[* This article is very extensively made in nearly all the new
settlements, and may be considered one of the staples of the country.
The process is very simple; but great care must be taken in collecting
the ashes clear of sand or dirt of any description. If your ashes are
well saved and from good timber, ten acres should produce at least five
barrels of potash, each barrel containing five hundred weight. Several
things should be considered before the emigrant attempts the
manufacture of this article. Firstly, his land should be well timbered
with oak, elm, maple, and bass-wood. Secondly, it must have a stream of
water, near which he may erect his works. And, lastly, it ought to be
within reach of a market and a remunerating price, which, to pay the
manufacturer, should not be less than twenty-five shillings, Halifax
currency, per cwt.

The best situation to erect an ashery upon, is the side of a bank,
beside a running stream; and if there should be fall enough in the
creek to bring a supply of water over head into the leaches, a great
deal of labour will be saved. An ash-house, six or eight leach-tubs, a
pot-ash kettle, and three or four coolers are all the requisites
necessary. Most persons use a small portion of common salt and lime in
the manufacture of pot-ash. After the lye is run off it is boiled down
into black salts, which are melted into pot-ash, cooled off, and packed
into air-tight barrels ready for market.]

As soon as the settler has cleared up fifteen or twenty acres, his
first care should be to erect a frame or log-barn; I should strongly
recommend the former, if boards can be obtained in the neighbourhood,
as it is undoubtedly the best and cheapest in the long run. If I were
commencing life again in the woods, I would not build anything of logs
except a shanty or a pig-sty; for experience has plainly told me that
log buildings are the dirtiest, most inconvenient, and the dearest when
everything is taken into consideration.

As soon as the settler is ready to build, let him put up a good frame,
roughcast, or stone-house, if he can possibly raise the means, as
stone, timber, and lime, cost nothing but the labour of collecting and
carrying the materials. When I say that they "cost nothing," I mean
that no cash is required for these articles, as they can be prepared by
the exertion of the