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ing them in, they would in the course of a few years 

 gather a large bundle of Odds and Ends, more interesting 

 perhaps than mine, although my first lot have proved 

 interesting enough to cause them to be copied into many 

 other papers. What a gratification to think I have been 

 able to interest and amuse my fellow creatures, and 

 lighten the toil of the laborer — to enable them to improve 

 the mind, as well as the soil. 



Storing small Grain. — You in the east, who have 

 large barns and graneries, and convenient saw mills and 

 lumber yards, cannot conceive the difficulty that you 

 might encounter when settled on a new farm in the west, 

 forty miles from a saw mill. How would you store a few 

 hundred, or a few thousand bushels of thrashed grain? 

 Easy enough, if you only knew how — so could Careless 

 have sealed his letter, if he had only known how. I will 

 tell you how, and when you emigrate to the west, don't 

 forget. Take fence rails and lay down a floor, a little 

 from the ground, and build up the sides by notching 

 straight rails so they will be steady, and then take fine 

 straw or hay, and tramp a layer smooth upon the floor, 

 and caulk the cracks between the rails, and pour in the 

 grain, and stack some straw over the top to keep out the 

 rain, and your grain will keep better than in a close 

 granery, and not waste a bushel in a hundred. 



Buckwheat may be thrashed upon just such a rail 

 pen, covered over with rails, much better than upon the 

 ground; the grain falling through the rails into the pen 

 below. 



A love of Reading, is one of the passions, which like 

 all other passions not so good, grows by what it feeds 

 on; and that parent who can, and does not furnish the 

 means of whetting an appetite so salutary, when well 

 directed, is guilty of the grossest injustice to his children. 

 Newspapers are the mustard of food suitable for such 

 appetites. Reader, do you take one? 



Solon Robinson. 



Lake C. H. la., 1842. 



