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OUR VIEWS AND REVIEWS. 



The Winter, after a fall of great beauty and salubriousness, has been, thus far, 

 one of unparalleled severity. On the twenty fourth of December, ISuo, the day 

 before Christmas, the cold weather sat in, almost without premonition ; and from 

 that to this, we have been enduring a degree of cold almost hyperborean. The 

 sleighing has been good: the Ohio River, opposite Cincinnati, has been for two 

 weeks so frozen as to permit safe passage for teams and loaded waggons. But, 

 amid all the unusual severity of the season the public health has been excellent, 

 and no unusual degree of destitution and suffering known among the poor. But 

 the winter of 18o5-6, will be long remembered in this region, as the coldest 

 known since the settlement of Cincinnati. 



For the particulars we refer readers to the Meteorological Table, for the month, 

 kept at Farmers' College, and published with this number. And it is perhaps 

 proper to here assure our patrons, that each number of the Magazine will here- 

 after contain a tabular statement of the meteorology of the preceding month 

 similar in form to the pre.-ent tables. And these, being compiled for the uses, 

 also, of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, will be kept with all possible 

 precision and studious care. 



An Address before the Warren County Agricultural Society^ by John Melijkin, Eaq. — 

 Published by the Society, Lebanon, Ohio, 1855. 



A pamphlet, neatly printed, bearing the above title, has been laid on our table ; 

 and, upon perusal, we were gratified to find that the writer had embodied so much 

 of plain, out-spoken philosophy with so much of eloquence and poetic beauty of 

 manner. The farmers of Warren county may well pride themselves on such an 

 address, and their liberality in giving it to the public in a form so attractive 

 seems to signify their full appreciation of its merits. 



Mr. MiLLiKiN shows, with startling force, the utter neglectfulness of our govern- 

 ment, State and national, in regard to agriculture. Indeed, his address abounds 

 in solid, home-thrusts of truth, well calculated to awaken attention, and to be 

 felt where they hit. 



Speaking of what constitutes a good farmer, he says : " There are more things 

 necessary to constitute good farming than ' have ever been dreamed of in our 

 philosophy.' It consists in the proper application of labor and capital, and in 

 the just management of farming operations, so as to secure, with a given amount 



