DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



also bent on improvement , and has also unlimited 

 access to books; he learns to think fur liimself 

 — to see that a practice is not necessarily right 

 because it is old ; lie becomes favorably disposed 

 to the adoption of every useful improvement, 

 and the whole circle of his ideas and intelligence 

 is permanently enlarged ; he makes his profes- 

 sion an interesting study, not a mere routine 

 of hard work, and while better paid for exer- 

 tion, as superior well directed knowledge al- 

 ways is, he takes a higher rank in society as a 

 man understanding his own business better than 

 those who have not enjoyed like opportunities. 



It is intended to offer free tickets to the 

 courses on Scientific and Practical Agriculture, 

 on Geology and Mineralogy, on Entomology, 

 and probably on Engineering, Anatomy and 

 Physiology, to two young men in each senatorial 

 district of the State, the tickets to be at the 

 disposal of the several Senators. The same 

 privilege will be extended to each of the colleges 

 in the State, the students to be selected by the 

 faculty of each college from the graduating 

 class of the previous year. It is hoped that 

 this liberality may be continued in subsequent 

 j'cars, that in this way sixty-four young men 

 may be annually aided and sent out to all parts 

 of the State, to disseminate the valuable infor- 

 mation which they have obtained. The tickets 

 for the Agricultural lectures will be $10; for 

 the Geological $10; for the Entomological course 

 $5. All are payable in advance, but the student 

 only attends such as he may select. 



The price of board in respectable families 

 varies from $2 to $2.50 per week, exclusive of 

 washing. Two or more young men, by club- 

 bing together, can hire a room respectably fur- 

 nished, for the purpose of lodging and study, 

 for fifty cents each per week, and can furnish 

 themselves with food, fuel, light, and every- 

 thing except washing, at a total expense of from 

 $1,374 to $1.50 per week in winter. 



For farther information apply either to Prof. 

 James Hall, Albany, or to B. P. Johnson, 

 Esq., Secretary of the N. Y. State Ag. Society, 

 Albany. 



Another circular, in pamphlet form, stating 

 the general objects and plan of this University 

 at length, will soon be issued, and can be had on 

 application as above. 



The Country in Autumn. — A leaf from 

 nature is never out of place, and having an ul- 

 terior object in view, we resume our woodland 

 sketches, though a little after date. Trees have 

 many a moral as well as economical lesson. 



This is the month when the thistle is in blos- 

 som, and its fragrance breathes by the road-side. 

 The sunflower also turns its golden circlet of 

 leaves, and its black ripening seeds to the great 

 luminary, and a few autumnal flowers, besides 

 the flaunting faded dahlias, are beginning to 

 struggle for possession against the summer 

 weeds. The mower's work is almost ended for 

 the season, and the reaper's is begun, so that the 

 fields put on their show of stubble, though the 



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meadows and pasture grounds, refreshed with 

 rains and coolness, display a tender green, like 

 the spring growth of grass, uncropped and un- 

 shaven. But the forests are still in all their glory. 

 A deeper, darker green, verging in grand ma.ss- 

 es of foliage towardsthe brownand purple, with 

 an hidurated glossy lustre, is all that indicates 

 the time of changing hues, and the fall of the 

 leaf, and the departure of the glories of sum- 

 mer as near. 



I am now in a region of great woodland rich- 

 ness, variety and beauty. The vast sweeping 

 undulations, and fair sloping terraces, and dis- 

 tant long waving ridges of country, rising at the 

 horizon into mountain ranges, are covered with 

 deep forests interspersed with cleared and richly 

 cultivated farms, so fair, so smooth , so green with 

 lawns and fields of grain and meadows, that 

 nothing can be more beautiful . The deep masses 

 of the woods are con)posed mostly of the pine 

 and maple, beautifully intermingled, the maple 

 being far predominant. It grows to an immense 

 hight and size, so that the forests here are truly 

 magnificent. In the coolness and freshness of 

 the dewy morning, how sweet to pass at early 

 dawn into the depth of these grand old woods, 

 or after seeing sunrise in the open glades, or on 

 the upland lawn, to enter the forests when the 

 trees are casting their earliest shadows, and the 

 sun is throwing his slant beams upon the clusters 

 of the topmost foliage. These majestic, tall, old 

 trees, the growth of centuries, how solemnly they 

 rise towards heaven, upholding and outspread- 

 ing in such pendant arches, a waving roof of 

 thick, fretted, interlacing foliage, over avenues 

 of dim cathedral aisles. And when the wind 

 breathes softly, or sweeps with surging gales 

 over the leafy branches, how the whole forest 

 whispers with the music, or roars like the thun- 

 der of the far off sea ! 



These mighty trees are the growth of centu- 

 ries, and what depth of soil from centuries of 

 decay! Here and there a vast tree lies along, 

 the bark of which looks so sound that you would 

 not dream of its being a tree in form only, and 

 in reality a mass of moist vegetable loam ; but 

 you set your foot to walk upon it, and you 

 plunge into it as you might into a huge rotten 

 squash or melon. Sf)metimes the decaying trees 

 are piled one upon another, moss-covered inches 

 deep, the giant corses of the vegetable world, 

 laid there by kindly nature in their open sepul- 

 cher, death amidst life, death nourishing life, 

 new trees .springing fresh and majestic from the 

 skeletons of the old, and dropping the annual 

 autumnal shroud of withered leaves over their 

 former compeers in the forest. The heart of 

 such a deep unbroken wilderness is trulj- a sub- 

 lime, impressive, solemn spectacle. How many 

 lessons it teaches, if only this human heart is in 

 that suggestive, moral mood, in which, in such 

 a spot as this, meditation may think down hours 

 to moments. Nay, Cowq)er might have said 

 ages to days ; for you realise here somethin; 

 the truth, that one day is with the Lor 

 thousand years, and a thousand years are 



