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■eye in the street, or at two years of age, with a clear hve weight of 

 one hundred and twenty-five pounds, be thrust into a sty, to wallow in 

 filth, and be reduced in six weeks, to killing order, upon flint corn in 

 the ear! Bald-headed, hairy-limbed, light-quartered sheep, with a 

 scanty covering of coarse wool u])on the back and sides, will be entirely 

 displaced by Leicesters, South-downs, Saxons or Merinos. Neat stock 

 ■will range in green pastures, well fenced, shaded and watered in sum- 

 mer, and in winter will no longer shiver over their scanty allowance in 

 open yards, or wend their way two hundred rods over a slippery path, 

 in search of water, and then be compelled to take it kneeling, like 

 a Mahomedan at his devotions. Horses by close breeding, keep and 

 proper training, wall become what nature designed them to be, the 

 most active, useful and beautiful of domestic animals. We shall no 

 longer see them with head and tail projecting towards the ground at an 

 angle of forty-five degrees, creeping along, with every kind of gait and 

 no gait at all, upon two legs and a couple of setting poles — galled upon 

 back and breast, — troubled with thisteloes, glanders and heaves, and 

 limping with pin-hip, ring-bone, curb and spavin. The truth is, our 

 domestic animals have been stinted by cruelty, and dwarfed by neglect, 

 untU beauty, size and proportion have all disappeared. Let the sin 

 and shame rest where they belong. 



The change of which we are speaking will extend itself to the con- 

 veniences, comforts and even luxuries of domestic living. Taste, neat- 

 ness and methodical arrangement will be evinced in the buildings, 

 fixtures, fences, orchards and gardens of the farmer. Shade and orna- 

 mental trees wuU take their proper position in the yards, around the 

 dwellings, and at judicious points in every field. Flowering shrubs 

 and fruit-bearing vines will be clustered, and trained over trellises, de- 

 lighting the eye and gratifying the taste. The choicest varieties of 

 fruit, from vine, shrub and tree, will each, in its season, add to the 

 pleasures of the family table and give a zest to toil itself. 



Literary, scientific, moral and religious papers and periodicals will 

 enliven, instruct and amuse the family cu'cle. A choice seclection of 

 books at home, aided by a constant draft upon circulating and township 

 libraries, will furnish ample employment for all leisure hours. And if 

 the children are blest with a musical taste, assorted melodies, with some 

 favorite instrument, the piano, harp, melodeon, dulcimer or guitar, will 



