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out their muskets and shoot them down. This is wrong, for it is a 

 well known fiict that tribes of insects have increated in proportion 

 to the decrease of birds, who are their natural enemies, and who 

 were designed by the Creator to check the too great propagation of 

 these loafing, cruel savages that are found hovering around the trees 

 in the twilight of the eveninir. 



During the day, they cling to the boughs, infuse poisonous deposits 

 into the sap of the tree, which in time works into the organization 

 of it, and allays its growth. 



If a man's business is farming, the higher principles of his na- 

 ture should be, by experimental knowledge, to correct and mako 

 pleasant that vocation, by sparing the garden birds, who eat what 

 they like, wipe their mouth on a limb, return thanks with a song, 

 and wing their way to a quiet nook, to doze or meditate, snug from 

 the hawk that skips above them during the day and the wily enemies 

 who prey upon them during the hours of night. 



It is to be lamented that birds are an the decrease for the last 

 twenty years; and should it progress in the same ratio for the com- 

 ing twenty years, it will be diificult and almost impossible to keep 

 up the produce of the country. Do not, therefore, be averse to the 

 feathered ones ; it is, to say the least, a mean and contemptible 

 baseness to shoot down the robin red-breast that renders the field 

 and door-yard vocal, and beautifies creation. 



FAKMINa 



If the young men of the present generation would take heed to the 

 following remarks of an old and experienced man there would be 

 less dissipation and less crime. Cities are, generally speakino-, the 

 hot-beds of crime and are the worst places in the world to raise 

 children The farmer is the only true independent man and there 

 is plenty of room in Uncle Sam's domains and even on the prairies 

 of Illinois to accommodate any or all enterprizing young gentlemen 

 out of situations. 



Farming is a wholesome occupation. It promotes health and 

 physical and mental strength. It induces the mind to "look through 

 Nature up to Nature's God," and yet how many young men prefer 

 leading a brief life of idleness and dissipation in the city to a long 



