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sequence greater, and one inducement to leave home is removed. 

 Make that home attractive by its physical, intellectual and moral 

 beauty, and many inducements to remain, are held out. 



Plans and descriptions of farm buildings, published in agricultural 

 journals, and in such other papers as have large country circulation, 

 would tend also to the same end. If farmers themselves, who have 

 good and convenient buildings, would furnish plans and cost of con- 

 struction, with description, showing the advantages or disadvantages 

 of particular arrangements, it might save some young farmer from 

 error and loss, and consequent disappointment and disgust with his 

 business. 



Agricultural societies, by the offer of premiums for the best plans, 

 models or essays, may bring the subject before the people in an in- 

 structive form. 



Farmers' clubs may do much, by making rural architecture a 

 frequent subject of discussion. Let a plan or model be submitted, 

 with estimate of cost ; let it be examined, discussed, and its advan- 

 tages or disadvantages pointed out. Let each member produce a 

 plan of his own buildings, and point out the actual results of such 

 an arrangement, and show how much saving of labor may be made 

 by a different one. 



■ Lastly, let every one who feels that the true wealth of a country 

 is in her soil, and in the ability of her citizens to develope its resour- 

 ces, do what he can to make the business of the farmer remunerative 

 and desirable. Let him do what he can to remove inducements to 

 leave home, by making the labor less and the pay greater, through 

 more convenient arrangements, and by rendering the country attrac- 

 . tive through her appeals to the love of the beautiful. 



New Lands of Northern Maine. 



About the end of August last, a party met at Phillips, in Frank- 

 lin county, for the purpose of exploring a track for the continuation 

 of the road leading northward from Farmington, (the present 

 termination of the Androscoggin Railroad,) through Phillips to 

 the Rangely lakes, onward, through unsettled territory to the 

 boundary of Canada. Deeming this a good opportunity to examine 



