VOL. XIX NO. 40. 



AND HORTICULl'URAL REGISTER 



8J7 



Forlhe N. E. Farmer. 



RULES FOR YOUNG MEN IN THE EMPLOY 

 OF GENTLEMEN. 

 Mr Editor— Sir — Tlie author of the folluwiiig 

 rules has now labored for several years in theCaini- 

 lies oT oentleinen, and has found by cari'fully 

 adopting them, that they liave been the means of 

 procuring- for him gnod places, constant eujploy- 

 ment, and of filling- his pockets with money. For 

 the benefit of those young men who are continu.-illy 

 coming from the country to seek employment with 

 the genteel in this vicmity, you may, if you please, 

 insert them in your very valuable paper. 



Yours, &,c. O^F". 



Med/onI, Mass. 



1. Rise early and make good fires, with as little 

 noise as possible. 



2. Keep your barn neat and your horses and 

 cows well fed and well cleaned. Have your horses 

 ready lo use at all times and see that your harness 

 is clean, well oiled and in every respect perfect. 



3. Always be good nalured to the hired girls 

 and your employers, doing whatsoever tliey ask you 

 to do without murmuring, and that too as soon as 

 it is pnssilile after they call upon you. 



4. .Mways move quickly, and as though it was 

 not a hard task to obey orders. 



5. Always finish the piece of work vou begin as 

 soon as, practicable, and be sure not to have many 

 unfinished jobs upon your hands at once. 



6. Always be manly. Say no more than is ne- 

 cessary. Never act out the boy by telling comi- 

 cal stories, or by much and loud laughter. 



7. Never drink ardeni spirits. Never smoke 

 about the premises. If you chew tobacco, (which 

 no man ought to do,) do not spit about the house, 

 carriages, or any other place where it will make 

 dirt or be ofTensivo. 



8. When sent on an errand, never stop to tell 

 long stories. Do not forget half, or do your errands 

 imperfectly. 



9. If you have an errand of your own to do, do 

 not sneak away to do it unbeknown to your em- 

 ployer, but be open and honest with respect to the 

 time which you take to yourself. 



10. Always dress according to your work, that 

 you may make no unnecessary labor for any one. 



11. Always do all your work as well as you 

 know how to do it, thoroughly and in its season. 



12. lie perfectly honest in all things relating to 

 your employer's work or property. 



13. Keep your tools all in order. Have a place 

 for every thing, and keep every thing in its place. 



14. Be careful to put your employer to no unne- 

 cessary e.xpense for any thing. 



1.5. Keep your room and clothes neat at all 

 ;times. 



16. Never manifest too much affection for the 

 ihired girls where you live, or spend too much time 

 with them or any others. 



17. .\sk not for your pay oftener than is neces- 

 sary. Take good care of your money and spend 

 but little for amusements. 



18. If you have any leisure moments at any 

 time, spend them in such a manner as will benefit 

 you ind also your ei.iployer. 



I'J. Do not take your employer's time to read 

 books or newspapers, unless by his own request. 



20. Never use deception in any case, but always 

 let the truth and the whole truth govern your ac- 

 tions and words. 



21. Use not profane or vulgar language about 

 the liouse or your work. 



22. If any thing takes place contrary to your 

 wishes, do not fly into a passion, but try to quell 

 and bring your temper under due subjection. 



23. Never undertake a job until you understand 

 fully how your employer wishes to have it done. 



24. Make it a rule to ahvays attend religious 

 worship somewhere all the sabbath. 



2.'). Try to take as much care upon you as pos- 

 siblo, and always see that all doors are locked and 

 every place well secured, which it is your duty to 

 see to. 



20". Always try to be at home as much as possi- 

 ble evenings, and do not go out to stay late with- 

 out your employer's knowledge. 



27. Do not lounge about grog shops and tav- 

 erns on any account wjiatever. 



2b. The best manner in which you can spend 

 your evenings is at home, in reading, writing and 

 study. 



29. Always be careful with lights and fire, at 

 all times. 



30. Never have but few visitors, and especially 

 go notout yourself among the,.'- multitude who do 

 evil." 



These rules might be extended, but I forbear, 

 hoping that these few may be regarded by all young 

 men who wish to gain a good character, wealth 

 and honor. 



From the Farmer's Gazette. 



TOWN ROLLER. 



I say a ioivn roller, because there is but one in 

 our town for all the farmers to use. And I miglit 

 almost say a town horse-rake, were it not for the 

 fact that the individual who owns it, has use for it 

 in the haying season, and consequently cannot lend 

 it to all his neighbors at once. However, within 

 the last year, another horse-rake that had been lor 

 a long time thrown by in a dilapidated state, has 

 again been put in operation, so that we have two 

 in a population of about 1200. But the roller for 

 aught I can see, nmst continue to roll its " solitary 

 rounds." 



Asa farming implement, the roller should be 

 deemed indispensably necessary. Ne,\t to the har- 

 row, it is the best, and in fact the only effectual 

 leveler of ploughed lands. There is scarcely a 

 field sown with the small grains, that would not be 

 benefited by rolling. It brings the earth into more 

 immediate contact with the seed, causing it to 

 vegetate much sooner, and with greater regularity ; 

 at the same time it does not have the effect to con- 

 solidate the earth to that depth which many have 

 supposed. It is an implement hardly to be dis- 

 pensed with in the laying down of lands to grass. 

 However smooth the general surface may have 

 been left by the harrow or the bush, (as many still 

 prefer,) there are still tufts of ^rass or grass roots 

 not entirely decomposed, the butts of corn stalks 

 and the like that are left upon the surface, and 

 which no harrow can cover, but which the roller 

 will reduce to their proper level, with greater ease 

 and with loss expense than by any other method. 



It has been found of great service in rolling 

 wheat lands in the spring, where the plants have 

 been partially thrown out by the action of frost. 

 Newly seeded grass lands for the same reasons, 

 are also much benefited by rolling, and particularly 

 where the preceding crop of grain has left a rank 

 stubble, or where the ground is more or less cov- 



ered with loose, small stones, obstacles of no small 

 moment to him that swings the scythe, or handles 

 the revolving horse-rake. Where turf lands are 

 ploughed plane for a corn crop, it is of inculciila- 

 hie benefit, and can hardly be dispensed with, by 

 any one who values his reputation as a scientific 

 cultivator of the soil. And any one who lias wit 

 or ingenuity enough to cut a saw log, can make a 

 roller. Will those farmers who have always bur- 

 rowed, make one, and if you find no use for it, your 

 neighbors will, and that too in less than one month, 

 so now is the time to make a roller. 



LEXOS. 



From the Farmer's Cabinet. 



SUBSOIL GARDENING. 



The period has arrived when gardening must 

 commence, and those whose garden plots are un- 

 derlayed with a stiff, tenacious subsoil, would do 

 well by considering whether some measures might 

 not be taken with it th.it would render it more cer- 

 tainly productive. It has been demonstrated be- 

 yond cavil, that when a tenacious subsoil is dug 

 and loosened up, without bringing it to the sur- 

 face, or mixing it with the vegetable mould of the 

 surface soil; if the season is very wet, the water 

 descends into it readily, and the plants are protect- 

 ed from the injury of their food being too much di- 

 luted with water; and if a drought comes on, the 

 roots penetrate deeper, and are benefited by the 

 reservoir of moisture which lies below ; and the 

 capillary attraction in the earth brings the mmsture 

 upwards to the surface, and feeds and refreshes the 

 vegetables. Any way you may fix it, it does much 

 good, like all those good, himest old rules that 

 work well either end foremost. 



The way to work it is, to dig a little gutter a 

 spit deep and the width of the spade, along the 

 side of abed, and throw the surface earth which 

 comes out of it to the other end of the bed which 

 is to be dyg, where it will be required for the pur- 

 pose of filling the trench which will be left at the 

 conclusion of the work. Then begin atone end 

 of this gutter and dig it up, and turn it over in the 

 bottom, from end to end ; when this is done, begin 

 and dig in the usual way, turning down the sur- 

 face soil on to the subsoil, which has just been dug ; 

 doing this from end to end properly, will leave 

 another gutter, which dig and overturn as before ; 

 and so proceed till the bed is all dug two spits 

 deep; the subsoil being turned topsyturvy, but 

 none of it being brought up or mixed with the sur- 

 face mould. 



Now what is the objection to putting a garden 

 through this salutary process .' None at all, ex- 

 cepting that it will require twice the amount of la- 

 bor ; and this may appear to some a serious objec- 

 tion, but its adoption once in four or five years may 

 be sufficient. The foregoing plan has no novelty 

 in it, for it has been often done, with the greatest 

 advantage resulting from it. Should it be too se- 

 rious an undertaking to overturn a whole garden 

 in this way in one season, try a single bed this 

 spring, and become convinced of the importance of 

 doing every thing you undertake in the best way 

 you are capable of. jj^ 



It has been wisely ordered by a beneficent Pro- 

 vidence, that the necessities of man properly ad- 

 ministered, should become sources of physical and 

 mental enjoyment. 



