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must be the inconveniences, how many the 

 excitements in those families where nothing 

 has a place, or where if things have their 

 places, the members are negligent about put- 

 ting them there. — New England Farmer. 



Order and Regularity. 



The patriotism of men may be doubted, 

 (or at least their state pride questioned,) who 

 have no order, taste, nor convenience, about 

 their homes. Men cannot be happy, (at least 

 married men,) whose families are subject to 

 perpetual change of residence. Females 

 are not likely to form attachments to their 

 homes, .without something to ornament and 

 adorn it, which may be rendered doubly dear 

 by their assistance in that decoration. Hence, 

 until the people of Mississippi look on their 

 residences with that soul-cheering emotion 

 inspired by the poet, of " home, sweet home," 

 — in vain may we look forward to permanent 

 improvement, from the efforts now on foot 

 in the state, through the state and county agri- 

 cultural associations. Tn travelling through 

 the country, you are forcibly reminded, at 

 almost every plantation by the way, of the 

 commendable enterprise and industry every 

 "where to be met with, and yet equally im- 

 pressed with the reflection, that apart from 

 the wide-spread cotton fields and gin houses, 

 that the inhabitants are but the tenants of a 

 day. But few farmers present to the eye 

 of the traveller the neat country cottage, 

 partly hid by the ornamental shrubbery 

 surrounding it, with the apple, the peach, 

 and other necessary fruit trees, "standing 

 in bold relief," feasting the eye and the 

 appetite. Though this part of the culture 

 may not be a source of much profit to the 

 owner, yet it may well be questioned whe- 

 ther without it there can be those endear- 

 ments to our homes that follow with it ; 

 will not the family ties be strengthened by 

 that which may be the joint care of all its 

 members'? — our daughters pointing to the 

 woodbine, the honeysuckle, the jessamine, 

 and other vines which they have trained ; 

 and our sons to the " trees they planted." If 

 the education of our sons as farmers be de- 

 sirable, may it not with propriety be asked, 

 how there can be a plan better calculated to 

 teach the " young idea how to shoot V 

 How essential then, that order and good 

 taste should surround the dwelling, either in 

 ornamental or vegetable culture ! Whether 

 we intend them for farmers or for professional 

 life, is it not more likely that being thus 

 surrounded, their minds will become better 

 systematized, than when confusion, or no 

 order at all prevails ? 



"Train up a child in the way he should 

 go, and when he is old he will not depart 



from it." Train them up as farmers, and 

 whether we are fond of the ornamental, or 

 the more profitable portions of culture, let 

 order and good taste abound — thereby layino- 

 the foundation of a proper system of edu"^ 

 cation for the young farmer. — Mississippi 

 Farmer. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 A Avord for Morns Mnlticanlis. 



Sir, — Now, that the multicaulis fever has 

 passed, and we are shivering under its ef- 

 fects, it would be well for us to look abroad 

 and ascertain what has been the real cause 

 of the dire disaster that has overspread the 

 land like a funeral pall, chilling the very 

 heart-blood of those, who a year ago were 

 rioting in the unnatural excitement which 

 had so unaccountably pervaded all ranks of 

 people, from the highest even to the lowest. 

 And all this has taken place within the mem- 

 ory of the great Merino mania, which seems 

 to have raged in this country with more fury 

 than in any other quarter of the globe. In- 

 deed, I think I could point out more than 

 one individual who has suffered from the 

 gripe of both these monsters — so that the 

 proverb, " forewarned, forearmed," is not 

 always correct. 



Now there never has been the slightest 

 falling away in the promises wJiich were made 

 by the morus multicaulis any more than in 

 those of the Merino sheep; they were both 

 perfectly adapted to the end for which they 

 were designed, and will continue to hold their 

 ground in spite of the chills and/ecers of the 

 tens of thousands who are now suffering for 

 their own folly. Fine wool and silk are still 

 as valuable as ever, and are still in request 

 in those countries " where the people stand 

 too thick for the free use of the plough ;" 

 but in this glorious hemisphere, where the 

 people can walk upright in the fear of God, 

 but not of man, they will not, for a great 

 many years to come, consent to bend their 

 backs, and become an emaciated race of silk 

 manufacturers, who are proverbial for de- 

 formity of body and imbecility of mind, fit 

 slaves for a monarchial government. And 

 let any one who has passed through the silk- 

 growing countries of Europe of late, bear 

 witness to the correctness of the picture here 

 drawn. The fact is, people ought not to for- 

 get that there are other things of importance 

 in tlie range of our necessities, besides fine 

 wool and silk. There is not — there never 

 was a doubt that silk garments can be made 

 in this country — and I should like to be 

 told what there is that cannot be made in 

 this land of light and liberty 1 but while the 

 people can do better — while there are mil- 



