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show that the iimstcr is " !it liome;"the hniii 

 yiinl, which is not so iienr tlie lioiiso that nil the 

 ipiUlir iiiul clieese enaiiiil'actmed is flavored with 

 th<^ clihjvia, exliihits the etiiiio nealnesH, even 

 where all the leliise of other places is collected 

 till- eiiiichiiig in due tiriio the rest of the liirni. 

 A liuiiier ol' our iicqiiaiiitaiice, with IGO acres, in 

 whose- (in-ni-jard we could scaieely ever discover 

 a wjs|i of straw in the wron>^ place, remarked, 

 " O, 1 don't attPtnpt to make a yreat deal Irom m.v 

 faiiM — I expend so innch in improvements, that 

 mv clear prohis are only ahniit a thousand dollars 

 a year." Anothej- of those neat larmers in whose 

 fields cockle, docks and chess nhiain no Ibothold, 

 nor alnii^ whose fences a solitary elder-hiisli or 

 nettle is ever seen, raised twenty-seven hundred 

 dollars worth of farm produce at the prices of 

 1844 ; and hoth of these farmers live in Western 

 N(!W York, where prices are com(iaratively low, 

 entirely away from the peculiar advantages of 

 market which nearness to jjreat cities gives. 



Now, let no one say that tiiese remarks are 

 made jit the wrons season of the year, and that 

 iiothiriiT can he done for neatness and or<ler in 

 the winter. 'I'he same general rule, in some 

 shape or variation, has a.n almost infinite luunher 

 ol' applications. The care of domestic aidmals 

 in winter, needs preeminently the application 

 ot this rule. No animal can thrive well in [he 

 midst of dirt. Even a pig does not love dirt for 

 dirt's sake — he only happens to he so niixdi of a 

 philosopher, or rather stoic, that he is willing to 

 endme dirt for the sake of a soft and cool hed in 

 summer; for it has heeii foimd that these aniujals 

 thrive hetler and fatten much faster when kept 

 ch'aii ami ircll curried. 



Hor.ses and cattle are often nealected in clean- 

 liness. We have aciiially know n some who did 

 not cl"an ihe manure from horse stahles for 

 months, .allowing it gradually to thicken under 

 foot with the aecunmlating litter till a foot in 

 thickness — and reasoning doubtless as the hoy 

 did who cinnhed his hair once a month, and was 

 astonished that such tortin'e and troid)le from the 

 operation could he endured daily hy other peo- 

 ple. A farmer who does his own chores, can 

 hardly afford to keep his horses so finely as the 

 gentleman of wealth, w ho has a man for no oth- 

 er pm'pose; hut every one should have his stahle 

 floor [lerfectly clean at least Hvice a day, once in 

 the morning, and once at idaht, before littering, 

 and oftener would be better. Remember that 

 the oftener it is done the easier it is accomplish- 

 ed. 



There are many other parlicidars where neat- 

 ness may be attended to in winter. Gate hinges 

 and gate fastenings often need repair, that they 

 may shut like clock-work ; boards become loose 

 on old barns and hoard fences ; tools become 

 awkward for use and ui'ed remodelling or renew- 

 ing ; and many other small matters, in doors ami 

 out, require sutenliou. VVe are aware that to 

 many of our reailers, who are already examples 

 for others, such hints as the [)receding are not 

 applicable — to such we can sny that they need 

 not read them — like the man who chisseled on 

 the stone at the fording place, " When the watc^r 

 comes to this stone it is nnsaie to cross." — Mbany 

 Cull. 



tojhave them evenly distributed. As soon tis this 

 is the case, say about the middle of August, dig 

 imdcr the whole of the old plants with a light 

 coat of manme. 'J'he surface may be then sown 

 with tiu'nipsor spinnage, wluch will come oif be- 

 fore the next setison of frnit.-i. 



Ill this way the strips or beds, occupied hy the 

 plants, are reverse<l every season, and the same 

 plot of ground ma}' thus be continued in a pro- 

 ductive state for many years. 



Hoth of the above modes are so superior to 

 the coil mon one of growing them more closely 

 in beds, that we shall not give any directions re- 

 specting the latter. — Downing. 



Cultl'he of Strawberriks i.\ Alternate 

 Strii'3. — A still more easy and economical mode 

 than that of culture in rows, is that of growing 

 the sirawberrv in alternate strijis. 



Early in April or August, being provided with 

 n good stock of strong young plants, select a suit- 

 able piece of good deep soil. Dig in a heavy 

 coat of manure, pulverizing widl and raking Ihe 

 top soil. Siri!;e out the rows, lliree feet apart, 

 with a line. 'J'he [danls should now be plaifted 

 along each line, about a loot apart in the row. 

 They will soon send out runners, which should 

 be allowed to take possession of every alternate 

 strip of three iiiet — the other strip being kept 

 bare by continually destroying all runners upon 

 it, the whole patch being kept free of all weeds. 

 The occupied strip or bed of rntmers will now 

 give a heav y crop of strawberries, and the open 

 strip of three feet will serve as an alley from 

 which to gather the liuit. After the cropis over, 

 ilig and prepare this alley or strip, for the occii- 

 pance of the new runners for the next season's 

 crop. The runners from the old strip will now 

 si>eedily cover the new space alloted to theiri, 

 and will [lerhaps require a partial thinning out 



STTNSIIINE. 



BY MARY HOWITT. 



New 

 this 



I love the sanshine every where — 



111 wood ami lieltl and glen; 

 I love it in the husy liauata 



Of town-inipiiscned men. 



I love it when it strcamelh in 



'I'he hunihle coltnge door. 

 And casts the cliequeied casement shade 



Upon the red brick floor. 



I love it wdiere the children lie 



Deep in the clovery grass, 

 To watch among the twining roots 



The gold-green beetles pass. 



I love it on the breezy sea, 



To ghince on sail and oar, 

 AVhile the great waves, like molten glass, 



Come leaping to the shore. 



I love it on the niountain-lops. 



Where lie:) the ihuwless snow. 

 And half a kingdom, bathed in light, 



Lies stretching out below. 



And when it shines in forest-glades, 



Hidden, and green, and cool, 

 'I'huuigh nios.^y houghs and veined leaves. 



How is it beautiful ! 



How beautiful on little stream, 



W'hen sun and shade, at play. 

 Make silvery meshes, while the brook 



Goes singing on its way. 



How beautiful, where dragon-fiies 



Are wondrous to behold. 

 With rainbow wings of gauzy pearl, 



And bodies blue and gold ! 



How heantiful, on harvest slopes. 



To see the sunshine lie; 

 Or on the paler rer.ped fields. 



Where yellow shocks stand high ! 



Oh, yes ! I love the sunshine ! 



Like kindness or like mirth. 

 Upon a human countenance. 



Is sunshine on the earth ! 



Upon the earth; upon the sea; 



And through the crystal air, 

 Or piled-up cloud; the gracious sun 



Is glorious every where ! 



Dn. .Iackson's Geological Report. — To 



those who, at some future time, intend to furnish them- 

 selves with a copy of this useful work — and every 

 family (to say nothing of literary institutions) in the 

 State should possess one — we would commend the fol- 

 lowing remarks in relation to it, which we copy from 

 the Statesman : 



" The Final Report of Dr. Jackson is a work vyliich 

 ought to be in the possession of every citizen of the 

 State who is able to obtain it. It is not often the case, 

 we believe, that a work of this character, is accessible 

 to private purchasers, the State usually appropriating 

 the whole edition to ils own use. In' the pn.'sent in- 

 stance, however, our Legislature authorized a moderate 

 provision to meet the demands of individuals. But 

 this chance, we learn, is not likely to continue long. 

 The whole edition consisted of eleven hundred copies. 

 Of these the .State reserved to itself six hundred; and 

 all of the rest have been sold but about two hundred. 

 iiy the decease of Mr. Carroll, one of the publishers 

 and proprietors, it has become necessary to dispose of 

 this remainder within the time prescribed by law for 

 the setdement of estates; those, therefore, who intend 

 to have the work will do well to apply for it soon. 



" One thing we have learned which is not at all to 



the credit of our State. W"e refer to the fact that more 



I than one half of all the copies sold to private individ- 



uals, have Iieen purchased by persons living oat of I^ 

 Hampshire. This ought not so to he. A Work of 

 kind should be bought up at home. We are quite un- 

 willing to believe that New Ibimpshire men have no 

 desire to appropriate to themselves so important and 

 exclusive a source of information respuctiiig the agri- 

 cultural and mineral resources of their own soil. 



" Every academy in New Hampshire ought to have 

 the work, as a matter of course. The gilt of it to each 

 might very properly have been made liy the State, and 

 a movement to this ellect was made at the late session 

 of the Legislature. On examination however, it was 

 found that only about twenty-five or thirty copies were 

 left, and these it was thought prudent to reserve. The 

 Institutions that hope to possess the work will be obliged 

 therefore, to rely upon theirown resources to procure it. 



*' The work, as all wdio have seen it know, isa hand- 

 some quarto of nearly 401) pages. It is illustrated hy 

 several colored 4to engravings of striking scenery, two 

 plates representing eight sections (colored) of the rocks 

 of the State, and a large geological map. On this hist 

 every town in the State is represented, and the dilier- 

 ent rocks, ores, and metals found in each, are indicated 

 by distinctive marks. Besides these larger plates, there 

 are numerous wood-cuts, some of wdiich represent ob- 

 jects of curiosity, others the geological siructure of va- 

 rious localities, others plans and sections of furnaces 

 for reducing metals. A hundred pages of the work are 

 devoted to .Agricultural Geology. Lvcry f iriucr will 

 find this part especially iiitcresling, from its bearing 

 upon his own interests. .Another Impoitant portion is 

 that vvhirh treats of metallurgy, or the art of reducing 

 metals from the ores. 



" '1 he price whirdi was fixed hy the Legislature, is 

 §'2,87 per copy. This, of course, is far below the cost 

 of such a work, if got up in the vvav oi" private enter- 

 prise. We mention this as an additional inducement 

 for the purchaser, as it may have been thought by those 

 who have not seen the work, that its price must neces- 

 sarily be high. And indeed, we havedoubted whether 

 it is generally known that it can be had at any price. 

 We hope this representation will do something to awa- 

 ken that interest in the matter that it deserves." 



Hints on Matrimony. — No woman will be 

 likely to dispute with us when we assert that marriage 

 is her destiny. A man may possibl}' fill up some sort 

 of an existence without loving; but a woman with 

 nothing to love, cherish, care for, and minister to, is 

 an anomaly in the universe, an existence -without an 

 objint. it is as natural for a woman to have some one 

 to look to for protection, some one to look to foradvice 

 and assistance, as to breathe. W'ithout it no woman 

 ever was or ever can be happy. It is the want of her 

 nature, and nothing can satisfy her heart with such a 

 void unfilled. Now, with the exception of some occa- 

 sional irregularities in the relative proportions of the 

 sexes, produced hy circumstances, such as the settle- 

 ment of new countries, there is no reason why every 

 not good enough for him; he must make love to some 

 fine lady who is one age in advance, tliat is her grand- 

 father was a mechanic instead of her father, a very 

 aristocratic distinction. On the other hand, the girl 

 who works for her living, earning it by her honest la- 

 bors, would not deign to encourage the addresses of a 

 laboring man; she would set he cap for a gentleman, 

 forsooth. The mechanic's daughter, educated on her 

 father's earnings to be a fine lady, encourages the at- 

 tentions of a set of fops and danglers, who drive hon- 

 est men away from her in disgust, and she becomes 

 the victim of some sorry sharper or shallow fool. Now 

 this is all wrong — deplorably, wretchedly wrong. — 

 Girls should know that men superior to themselves, in 

 education and position, do not aUvays associate with 

 them for good. Men should kuow that by marrying 

 girls educated in habits of life above their fortunes, 

 they are not likely to ha\e good wives. A little sound 

 sense will enable any man to see that it is better to 

 have a wife grateful for more than she expected than 

 grumbling at les^. It is delightful going up the hill of 

 fortune; hut horrible, jolting, aggravating work to come 

 down. 



A letter writer from the Cherokee country, describ- 

 ing the cheapness of luxuries and liveahles in that na- 

 tion, puts down corn at 20 cents a bushel, beef at 2 

 cents per pound, eggs 5 cents per dozen, chickens 12 

 or l(j cents per p;iir, butter 8 cents per pound, and ev- 

 ery thing in priiportiou! He says a gentleman perfect- 

 ly fimiliar with the resources of the country and the 

 cost of living, informs him that a man may live there 

 on less than a dollar a week — $30 per annum. 



Starting up. — The new Prescott noils have their 

 complement of machinery now nearly in running order, 

 and will be put in motion in a few d;i}S. There must 

 be a pretty smart demand for girls here this fall, not- 

 withstanding the reduced taritf. There are several 

 other mills rapidly progressing to completion, the ma- 

 chinery of which must be put in motion within a year. 

 Where are the girls coining from .' — Lowell Vox Pop- 

 nli. 



