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population, jou most successfully improve the entire tasta of society. 

 This department opens with the opening session. A number of names 

 are already entered to pursue its course. Stimulated with the belief 

 that such a department, though novel, will be hailed with universal 

 favor, we are encouraged to make liberal outlays. The board having 

 secured for this object the purchase of one hundred acres of good land° 

 endowment of professorships, erection of buildings, and improvement 

 of grounds, some hundred thousand dollars. 



Seed Corn.— Farmers, if they would have the best seed corn, and 

 improve their kind for another year, must not neglect to select the 

 earliest and fairest ears this fall, and preserve them carefully for seed. 

 They may be gathered by the hand from the fields as soon as the husks 

 turn white, and should then be traced and hung up where the air will 

 circulate all winter, and where the rats and mice can not reach them. 

 In all fields some ears are earlier than others. The earliest selected 

 for seed, will insure a field, nearly the whole of which will be ripe as 

 early next year as the ears you gather out for seed this season. If 

 you allow the later ears to be taken for seed, you will find a late crop 

 next fall. The surest way, therefore, to improve a crop is to be care- 

 ful in selecting the seed; for it is a universal law of nature, that 

 "like begets its like." 



Swine.— Swine intended for fattening should be fed more liberally. 

 One month's feeding now is worth more than two late in the fall or 

 winter, as all animals take on fat much faster in mild weather than in' 

 cold. Give them early pumpkins, the refuse apples, small potatoes, 

 etc., and if cooked and mixed with meal, so much the better. At the 

 present and prospective price of pork, it will pay to give swine extra 

 feed and attention 



Truths Simply Expressed.— It is not what people eat, but what 

 they digest, that makes them strong. It is not what they gain, but 

 what they save, that makes them rich. It is not what they read, but 

 what they remember, that makes them learned. It is not what they 

 possess, but what they practice, that makes them righteous. These 

 are very plain and important truths, too little heeded by gluttons, 

 spendthrifts, bookworms, and hypocrites. 

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