the offensive atmosphere which the morning congregation had left in it. There was a 

 stove-heat and no ventilation; and the sexton did'nt know enough to letdown the top aash 

 of a gallery window on each side, to let out the pestilent stuff between services. On no 

 one subject can the " schoolmaster" start out on his travels, to more advantage than this. 



Artificial Feeding of Fish. — ^Tt is a matter of surprise that our country residents pay 

 so little attention to the cultivation of fish, in a thousand places where they might con- 

 duct their fine little hill-brooks and spiings into beautiful ponds, which would cost next 

 to nothing in their construction. Not to speak of the profit, or the convenience of having 

 a fine mess of fish now and then for the table, the amusement of breeding and tending the 

 fish, would be ample compensation for the trouble. It is not a difficult thing at all. 

 Trout, to be sures cannot be bred in every stream, particularly in limestone waters. But 

 perch can be bred everywhere, and they are a beautiful docile fish, and fine for the table. 

 Boys, and girls, and "old folks," can attend to this, — the first to keep them out of mis- 

 chief, and the others for amusement. Actual labor, there is little of, in connection with it. 

 Fish breeding is one of the round of interesting objects that make up the variety in home 

 attractions in the country; and wherever the water can be commanded, a fish pond should 

 as much be one of the appurtenances of a country-house, as the chicken-coop, or the pig- 

 stye. 



j1 Country School-housa.—^A very neat design — picturesque, cheap, and tasteful. This 

 model cannot be too extensivel}'^ practiced upon. AVhat a beautiful array of station-hou- 

 ses, something in this style, the Harlem and some other of our railroads, have along their 

 lines. If people only knew how much the style of their school-houses, and other build- 

 ings of a public character, have to do with the pleasure they give to those who look upon 

 them, and the improvement they add to the places they occupy, they certainly would 

 study to put up better ones, arcliitecturall}', than they do. 



j^gricuUural Education. — We believe the Editors of the Evening Post belong to that 

 class of politicians who imagine that government has nothing to do but collect taxes and 

 pay its own salaries, and let the people take care of themselves. Very well. Then sponge 

 out at one sweeping dash, all government connection with, or care of, all institutes and 

 seminaries of learning of every kind, whatever, and let those who want them, get them up, 

 as the.se editors think the farmers can get up agricultural schools — on their own hook. We 

 don't object to that, provided all interests shall be served alike. One would suppose that 

 men as observant of our institutions as the Editors of the Post, would know that no such 

 political teachings as are practiced in the Prussian Agricultural Schools, could be taught 

 in the schools of this country, under any circumstances. It is just such stuff as this that 

 pervades the minds of many of the farmers themselves, and has prevented our having, j'ears 

 ago, at least one leading agricultural school in this boasted " Empire" State of New- York. 

 Everjf winter, for years past, a proposition has been introduced into our legislature to cre- 

 ate an institution of this kind; and at once, a majority of the farmer members, like the old 

 rat in the fable, di.scover " a cat in the white heap yonder." Thus, year after j^ear, our 

 great agricultural interest is cheated by its own guardians, out of its equal share in the 

 common property of the state, for its own improvement. When we see anything better, 

 it will be, probabl}', when a new generation of farmer legislators rise up, who, knowing 

 what their true interests are, will have the courage to serve them. The measure could 

 now, in three weeks time, be accomplished, if our farmers in the legislature would only 

 say the word. But they prefer lending their aid to the "soulless corporations" of the 

 non-producers, to doing anything for the benefit of the wide-spread, and long-neglected 

 class to which they, themselves, belong. 



