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showed tliat they were not doing so well. The 

 artichokes were again given, and they soon did 

 as well as ever. 



Mr. Noble also used the lops for fodder. He 

 cut them in October, just before frost cnnie, dried 

 and housed thetn. They were fed to the stock 

 in winter, and were evidently preferred to corn 

 fodder. 



Mr. N. is so well pleased with artichokes, that 

 he is raising them this year on a larger scale. 

 They require hut little cultivation ; it being only 

 necessary to keep the ground clear of weeds till 

 the artichokes get a gootl start. 



Mr. T. M. Johnson, o( Greensboro', Alabama, 

 lately informed us, that he is this year growing 

 30 acres of artichokes. He considers them the 

 most profitable vegetable he can raise. In that 

 climate they can be dug any time in the winter. 



There are several varieties of artichokes, but 

 that culled the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus 

 tuberosus) is considered best. From the fibres 

 of the tops or stems, a cordage is sometimes 

 manufactured in some parts of Europe. — Albany 

 Cultivator. 



" Boys, mind your Mother." 



Come, boys, here is a story for you. I want 

 you ail to come together and listen. I was a boy 

 once, and I recollect a little how boys feel. I am 

 a man now, but I have had about as much to do 

 with boys as I have with men. 



I suppose you all have a mother. What I want 

 to tell you now is, how you ought to treat your 

 mother. When I was a Iwy, no larger than you 

 are, my mother used lo tell me that she never 

 knew any one to prosper who did not treat his 

 mother well. She said when she was young she 

 knew several children who did not honor their 

 mothers, and they all came to a bad end. 



There were several boys among my acquaint- 

 ance whom 1 knew to have disobeyed and ill- 

 treated their mothers. I thought I would remem- 

 ber them, and see how they turned out in the 

 world. 1 should think it was as much as fifteen 

 years ago. I will call these boys William, George, 

 and Herbert. I rememberas distinctly us though 

 it were but yesterday. They were my class- 

 mates at school. I remember their mothers per- 

 fectly well, for many a play afternoon have I spent 

 at their houses. 



William was a very pleasant boy an<] a fine 

 scholar ; he njade as rapid progress in Latin as 

 any one in school. One afternoon I was at his 

 lather's house. We were playing on tlie green 

 in front of the door. William's mother stepped 

 upon the door stone, and called him. We were 

 busily engaged in play with some other boys, and 

 William took no notice of his mother's call. 

 After she had spoken seveial times he stopped a 

 moment to hear what she had to say. 



" I want you to go down to the store, and 

 carry this box to your father," said his mother, 

 *' But I don't want to go, mother." " Well, you 

 must go." " Hut I am playing, 1 can't go," 

 " William, 1 tell you you must go, for your father 

 must have this inmiediately." 



"Just then one side of the party, who were 

 playing ball, had beaten tlie oilier. William 

 heard the merry hurra, and exclaimed, " Well, 1 

 won't go, there.'' He picked up a stick, and 

 throwing it at his mother ran eagerly off to join 

 the victors. I tiuMied just in time to see the stick 

 fall fi'om his mother's dress, and to see how sad 

 she looked as she went into the house. 



I never before saw a hoy strike his mother, 

 and it made me feel so badly that I could not 

 play. — I told the boys I believed I mu.st go home. 

 I walked away, thinking what my mothor had 

 told me. I thought 1 would always remember 

 William, and see if he prospered. Perhaps it 

 would have been better if William's mother had 

 spoken more kindly to him; but that was no ex- 

 cuse for William. But what I want to tell you 

 is, what became of him. Before he grew up, he 

 was taken very sick, and after many years of 

 great suffering, he died. 



The next boy was George. His mother in- 

 dulged him very much. She used to let him do 

 pretty much as he chose; and any thing he 

 wanted, she was sure to do for him ; but any- 

 thing she wanted, he was sure not to do for her. 

 In fact, he seemed to have much less regard for 

 his mother than for an older scholar, who used 

 to be a leader in all our sports. He never minded 

 unything his mother said to him; and she might 



as well have talked to the currant bushes in the 

 garden as to have asked him to do an errand. 

 He always acted as if he felt, if he did iMJt^say, 

 " I don't care for my mother." Well, George is 

 dead too. He became dissipated, lost his cha- 

 racter, and died a miserable death. 



Herbert was much like William and George — 

 worse if anything. He not oidy did not care 

 for what his njother said, but used to ridicule her 

 before the boys. He used to do it, to be sure, in 

 a good humored way ; hut after all it was a great 

 way oft' from the respect that was due to his mo- 

 ther. And what do you suppose became of Her- 

 bert? His end was more miserable than that of 

 William and George. I shall not tell you exactly 

 what became of him, for it is a more dreadful 

 story than 1 love to relate. But I can never 

 think of him without remendiering the text, 

 Prov. XXX. 17, "The eye that mocketh at his 

 father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ra- 

 vens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young 

 eagles shall eat it." — Rel. Mag. 



Vermont Cattle Shows. 



During the past year, several Ag. Societies 

 have been organizerl in 'i^ermont, and their fairs 

 are exciting the attention of the farmers as Ihey 

 have done in other places. The fiist fair of the 

 Windham County Society was held at Newfane 

 on the 25th and 26th Sept. The meeting is said 

 to have been the largest ever held in the county, 

 with the exception of a political meeting in 1840. 

 There were over 1200 waggons present. Among 

 the cattle, was a team of60 yoke of oxen from West 

 Newfane, and there were many fine animals of all 

 kinds present. The show of domestic manufac- 

 tures, butter,|cheese, maple sugar, fruits and vege- 

 tables, &.C. was very fine. An address was de- 

 livered by Hon.Charles Hudson of Massachuseti.«. 

 The premium for the best crop of wheal, was 

 given to D. Dexter, jun. Dover — 424 bushels per 

 acre ; and that for the best corn, 82 bushels per 

 acre, to Martin Gates, Diimmerston — for the 2d 

 best, 70 bushels, to W. H. Willianis, Newfane. 



The Addison County Fair was held at iMiddle- 

 bury on the 1st Ocl. — 3000 were estimated to be 

 present. The exhibition of stock, iinplement.", 

 iiousehold manufactures, &c. was highly gratify- 

 ing, and an address "admirably adapted to the 

 occasion, was delivered by Farmer Jeunisoii, 

 former governor of the Stale." We give the pre- 

 miums on sheep at the request of a subscriber 

 for fine wool buck, 1st, to 1) & G. Cutting, Slioie- 

 ham— 9d, to P. Ellitliorp, Briilport— 3d, to Mr, 

 Northrop, Shorehain — 4th, to T. Stickney, Shore 

 ham. For best fine ewes— 1st and 3d, to T 

 Sticknev — 2d, to D. & G. Cutting. For best five 

 lambs— 1st & :in\, to D, & G. Ciutiiig— 2d, lo T. 

 Stickney. Mr. Hinds of Brandon, preseiue<l for 

 exhibition only, a Rambouillet rum, from the 

 flock of Mr. Collins of Hartford, Ct., which, says 

 the Northern Galaxy, was " strongly constituted 

 and a beautiful specimen of the animal, and for 

 fineness, combined with those qualities which 

 render a fleece valuable, would well compare 

 with any buck present." 



Caledonia Ag. Society. — The exhibition took 

 place on the third of Octoijer. There was a 

 good show of live slock in general, (with the ex- 

 ception of sheep,) and fine specimens of imple 

 ments, dairy piodiicts, fiuits, vegetables, and 

 household fiilirjcs. — Cxdiiralor. 



Take Care of yonr Woodlands. 



There are very few things in which farmers in 

 general exhibit such gross waste and want of 

 forethought, as in the lieatment of tlieir wood- 

 lands. Dependent as the great majority must al- 

 ways be on these for fuel ; diminishing rapidly 

 as they must be in our climate aimnally ; a large 

 proportion timbered uitli irees that do not rea- 

 dily shoot up, and will not grow aaain without 

 some protection ; we still see the noble trees of 

 our original forests as carelessly and as uselessly 

 felled as if they were not the growth of centuries, 

 and like Jonah's grourd v\oidd spring up again 

 in a night. In the management of our wood- 

 lands some things are deseiving of notice, that 

 are too generally entirely overlooked. 



The first thing, and it is an indispejisable one, 

 is, that the woodlands should be well fenced. 

 We can never have a growth of young limber, 

 parlicuhuly on lands originally covered with 

 beech and maple and their kindred trees, unless 

 this done. It is true thousands of young trees will 



germinate, but so fond are cattle and sheep of 

 their young fijiiage, that none to which these ani- 

 mals can iiave access will be permitted to grow. 

 It is only after a thick growth of underwood, suf- 

 ficiently tall to be beyond the reach of cattle, has 

 been secured, that any animals should be admit- 

 ted to the wood lots. We have seen a beautiful 

 wood lot on which many thousands of thrifty 

 young trees from three to five feet in height 

 were growing, reduced in a year or two to the 

 condition of an open wood, and the young growth 

 entirely destroyed, by being carelessly tfjrown 

 into a callle range ; and there is scarcely any 

 wood lot, however deslitute of young trees it may 

 now be, that will not be covered with them in a 

 short time if kept safe from the intrusion of ani- 

 mals. 



The second thing to be remendiered is, never 

 to cut a tree needlessly. There are many who 

 when they want a piece of timber, no mailer how 

 small it may be, instead of first seeing whether 

 the want cannot be supplied from some already 

 fallen, or tindier already on hand, lake iheiraxe 

 and improvidently prostrate any tree they can 

 make subserve their present purpose, without re- 

 ference to fulure value or use. Never fell a tree 

 until you have ascertained its value for general 

 purposes, for fiiel, and not till you have found it 

 is al)solutely necessary. 



Another thing not to be forgotten in the treat- 

 ment of woodlands is, always to select those trees 

 which have arriveil at maturity, are the slowest 

 in their erowth, or have begun to decay. In a 

 thrifty woodhind, ihe greatest amount of growth 

 is usually with Ihe youngest timber ; for though 

 there will be some large trees that will increase as 

 fast as smaller ones(and consequently give a much 

 greater annual increase of wood from their great- 

 er diameter) yet there will also be many with no 

 perceptible growth, or on which the process of 

 decay has actually commenced. Such are the 

 trees that should be selected for timber or fuel ; 

 and a double advantage will result from this 

 course, thrifty tind)er will be saved, and the 

 yonmier giowth benefited by the more ample ex- 

 posure to the sun and air. 



It will be Ibiind of essential service in the pre- 

 servation of woodlamis, and in increasing their 

 value, lo kce|) all vacancies that may occur, either 

 naturally, or by the falling of irees, filled by 

 transplanting. We know of some fiirmers who 

 keep a nmseiy of locust for the express purpose 

 of increasing the value of their wood lots by 

 transplanting this excellent timber tree where- 

 ever an opening offers. Others use those kinds 

 of young trees which are readiest at conunand, 

 or to which ilie soil seems most conjienial. The 

 kind of tree traiisplanied is comparatively oi' little 

 consequence, provided it is of sure and quick 

 growth, and is fit when grown lor either limber 

 or lor fuel. By attention to the points we have 

 here indicated, "the value of our wood lots might 

 not only be greatly increased, but the scarcity of 

 wood with which so many of our farmers are al- 

 ready severely threatened, be averted. — Albany 

 Cvltivalor. 



Foreign.— The Crops. — Tlie English pniiers 

 inform us that favorable weather has enabled the 

 farmers lo secure their grain-cro|)S in good order. 

 The yield of wheat is pronounced a aooii one. 

 The Mark Lane Exfiress says— "Taking this 

 year's produce of the grain crops, from one end 

 of the country to the other, we maintain, and we 

 think upon "the best authority, that it has never 

 been exceeded, though it ndglit have been 

 equalled in quality in any previous year." * * 

 " [t is admilicd on all hands, ihoiigli of course 

 partial deficiencies are to be met xvith, that tl;e 

 yield of wheat this year, for England, is a very 

 iarge one ; consideralily alx)ve an average of 

 years." Oats and barley are not so abundant, and 

 some importations will l)e required to supply the 

 deficiency. From Quebec and Montreal 370,000 

 liariels of flour have l)een sent to England tliis 

 sfason. Last year there were sent 180,000. 

 With American provisions the markets are well 

 supplied. The quality being good, a liiir demand 

 has sprung up, and prices have slightly improved. 



A cargo of American hay has been received at 

 Liverpool. It was not very well liked — being 

 pronounced coarse, and not well cured. 



Hops. Owing to the generally li;;lit cmp in 

 most districts the present year, and ihe small 

 quantity of old hops on hand, the prices of hoj a 



