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life of health, usefulness and respectability in the country. Almost 

 all persons as they advance in life seek peace and quiet in the retire- 

 ment of the country ; whilst the young are seldom content if not 

 surrounded by the noise, filth and disease of a city. There is no 

 more honorable employment than that of farming — no more free 

 from care and anxiety. To the man who receives a fair compensa- 

 tion for his labor in the field, there is little or no care. He need 

 not have an anxious thought of what to-morrow may bring forth. 

 He lies down to a sweet sleep and rises in the morning in renewed 

 strength. 



How diiferent is this from town life, where he is in a perpetual 

 •Vfhirl — anxious, care-worn and feverish — with restless nights and 

 uneasy mornings — uncertain to-day that to-morrow may not produce 

 his ruin, and cast him penniless upon the world. For quiet happi- 

 ness, the country is the place ; and the only wonder is, that men 

 remain in cities during the heat of summer, sacrificing the health of 

 their wives, and lives of their children, when they can afi'ord to 

 place both in the country, to inhale the balmy and invigorating air 

 and to recruit their enfeebled frame. Nothing would induce us to 

 endure the heat of the city and destructive odors which are always 

 arising in warm weather if we could make our escape to a shady 

 retreat in the country. 



" If more young men would become farmers, they would more 

 certainly contribute to theif health and happiness, and to the general 

 prosperity of the nation, than by spending their time in the idleness 

 of city life. 



THE SORGHO AND IMPHEE, OR THE NEW SUGAR CANE. 



This is the title of a book just placed in our hands, embracing a treat- 

 ise on the Chinese and African sugar canes by Henry S. Olcott. 

 It furnishes us an account of the origin, varieties and culture of 

 this new plant. It treats of its value as a forage crop ; the manu- 

 facture of sugar, syrup, alcohol, wines, beer, cider, vinegar, starch 

 and dye stufFs. It also presents us with a paper by Leonard Wray, 

 Esq. of CafFraria, and a description of his patented process for crys- 

 talizing the juice of the imphee to which are added copious transla- 

 tions of valuable French pamphlets. 



