No. 10. 



The Day for Labour, the Night for Rest. 



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seen good crops on this ground for some years 

 after it was cleared off. In the year 1837, 1 

 made np my mind to see what I could do 

 with this dormant piece of land ; I therefore 

 stacked upon it some hay, peas, and straw ; j 

 foddered them out on the land, drew on and i 

 spread twelve cords of manure to tlie acre, 

 mostly compost, and in the spring of 1838, 

 I ploughed it carefully to the depth of five 

 inches, which brought up some yellowish 

 dead loam. I then harrowed and planted it 

 to corn about the 10th and 12th of May. It 

 came up appearing rather sickly, being on 

 this dead loam. I then had it plastered and 

 hoed; and until the roots had reached the 

 manure, it wore the same forbidding appear- 

 ance that the lot had shown for years past. 

 It was ploughed and hoed three times. It 

 finally returned me fifty-eight bushels and 

 some quarts to the acre. In the following 

 spring of 1839, I sowed it to spring wheat 

 and oats, after ploughing it six inches, which 

 was an inch deeper than it was ploughed in 

 sward. It gave me twenty bushels wheat 

 and forty-five bushels oats to the acre. For 

 the wheat on this land, the Committee of the 

 Berkshire Agricultural Society gave me the 

 first premium. 



J. K. Lawton. 



The Day for Labour, the Night for Rest. 



This is the arrangement of Providence, 

 and our observance of it in its leading prin- 

 ciples is essential to health of body, strength 

 of mind, and the most perfect exercise of the 

 moral faculties. I do not believe that an in- 

 stance can be found where a wilful and long- 

 continued departure from this principle has 

 been indulged, and the transgressor not ex- 

 perienced some sensible inconvenience from 

 it. It is no less important to the labouring 

 part of animal creation than to man. I have 

 many facts which I could produce as confir- 

 mation of this, but one among these will am- 

 ply express the conviction of my own mind, 

 as made up from personal observation. For 

 a number of years I had occasion to travel 

 considerably. • I used my own horses. At 

 first, if I had a long or hard day's ride to 

 make, I was accustomed to rise quite early, 

 and go on some distance, feeding my horse 

 or breakfasting myself; but finding, as I sup- 

 posed, that my horses suffered inconvenience, 

 and perfectly confident that I did myself 

 from this course, I changed my manner, gave 

 my horses time to eat, took my own break- 

 fast, drove probably faster, and made shorter 

 stops, the result of which was, or I was un- 

 accountably deceived, my horses would get 

 through the service with less exhaustion, and 

 I am sure that I experienced much less fa- 

 tigue. 



There are other reasons, I know, beside 



the one first suggested, wliy travel must be 

 more exhausting to the horses and labour of 

 all kind to cattle in the night than the same 

 would be by day : tliese come in as additional 

 considerations, and should not be overlooked 

 in reasoning upon the subject; but it must 

 not be forgotten that the great governing con- 

 sideration is to be found in tiie fact that the 

 wise and benevolent Governor of the uni- 

 verse has so constituted the labouring por- 

 tion of the creation, that when the sun ariseth, 

 they should go forth to their labour until the 

 evening ; while those who sleep so as to gain 

 the refreshment which tiiis wonderful princi- 

 ple in our nature is designed to afford, must, 

 as the apostle observes, sleep in the night. 

 If Jehovah, in accordance to our necessities, 

 docs stay the evils which an occasional de- 

 parture from this order would naturally pro- 

 duce, we have no encouraging grounds to 

 expect he will do it when these departures 

 are habitual or consulted. Therefore it must 

 be an act of ignorant or foolish presumption 

 for any to expect the best success in any bu- 

 siness, while the laws by which God directs 

 the universe are disregarded. Apparent ex- 

 ceptions there may be to this observation ; 

 these, however, could the real causes of the 

 exception be fully searched out, would be 

 jfound to originate in other causes, and their 

 existence not in the least possible degree to 

 invalidate the general truth of the observation. 

 The laws of the physical, mental and mo- 

 ral world just as certainly bring poverty, in 

 the wide sense of the expression, poverty in 

 substance, bodily health, mental vigour and 

 moral discernment, upon those who work un- 

 reasonably by night as upon those who sleep 

 unreasonably by day; and there are as many 

 considerations why persons should be regular 

 in their hours of rest, as there are why they 

 should be regular and fixed in their hours of 

 business. The Maker of all has so planned 

 his works, while the reason and experience 

 of men both bear testimony to the general 

 wisdom and goodness of such arrangements. 

 — iV. E. Farmer. 



Dry rot may oftentimes be prevented in 

 living trees if the wounds are carefully co- 

 vered with a composition made of rosin, tal- 

 low, beeswax, and ochre, melted and mixed 

 well together — and where it is necessary, for 

 want of time in the spring, to resort to win- 

 ter trimming, this method of prevention 

 should be re'sorted to. It is cheap, simple, 

 and adheres to the wood, excluding moisture, 

 until it is healed over. 



Every person wlin has any tiling to do with cooliing 

 oiieht to l<novv, that when water is once made tn boil 

 all that is further necessary, is.jnst to keep it up to that 

 temperature ; any additional fuel added is wasted, for 

 water heated in in ordinary culinary vessel, cannot be 

 made more than boiling hot. 



