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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Feb. 



Mothers, strive not so to educate your children 

 that they may be considered prodigies of learning, at 

 the expense of health, perhaps life. Let mental and 

 physical education go hand in hand — let health and 

 knowledge embrace each other. 



Female Education. — It was a judicious resolu- 

 tion of a father, as well as a most pleasing compli- 

 ment to his wife, when on being asked what he 

 intended to do with his girls, he replied ; " I intend 

 to apprentice them all to their excellent mother, that 

 they may learn the art of improving time, and be 

 t fitted to become, like her, wives, mothers, heads of 

 families, and useful members of society." Equally 

 just, but bitterly painful, was the remark of the 

 unhappy husband of a vain, thoughtless, dressy slat- 

 tern : " It is hard to say it, but if my girls are to 

 have any chance of growing up good for anything, 

 they must be sent out of the way of their mother's 

 example." 



A Good Daughter. — A good daughter ! There 

 are other ministers of love more conspicuous than 

 she, but none in which a gentler, lovelier spirit 

 dwells, and none to which the heart's warm requitals 

 more joyfully respond. There is no such thing as a 

 comparative estimate of a parent's love for one or 

 another child. There is little which she needs to 

 covet, to whom the treasure of a good child has been 

 given. But a son's occupation and pleasure carry 

 him abroad, and he resides more among temptations, 

 which hardly permit affection that is following him 

 perhaps over half the globe, to be mingled with 

 anxiety, until the time when he comes to relinquish 

 the shelter of his father's roof for one of his own, 

 while a good daughter is the steady light of her 

 parent's house. — Mary Mmcatl. 



Science in the Kitchen. — Professor Liebig, in a 

 letter to Prof. Silliman, says: — "The method of 

 roasting is obviously the best to make flesh the most 

 nutritious. But it does not follow that boiling is to 

 be interdicted. If a piece of meat be put into cold 

 water, and this heated to boiling, and boiled until it 

 is 'done,' it will become harder and have less taste 

 than if the same piece had been thrown into water 

 already boiling. In the first case the matters grate- 

 ful to the smell and taste, go into the extract — the 

 soup ; in the second, the albumen of the meat coag- 

 ulates from the surface inward, envelopes the interior 

 with a layer which is impregnable to water. In the 

 latter case, the soup will be indifferent, but the meat 

 delicious." 



Corn Bread. — We are in the daily habit of eating 

 corn bread made after the following recipe, by our 

 good landlady, Mrs. Norton, of Astoria. It is equal 

 to anything we ever tasted : — To one quart of sour 

 milk add two teaspoonfuls, well stirred in, of finely 

 pulverised salairatus, two eggs well beaten, one table- 

 spoonful of brown sugar, and a piece of butter as 

 large as an egg. Salt to suit the taste, and then 

 stir in the meal, making the mixture about as stiff" as 

 for pound-cake. Now comes the great secret of its 

 goodness. Bake quick — to the color of a rich light- 

 brown. Eat it moderately warm, with butter, cheese, 

 honey, or sugar-house molasses, as most agreeable to 

 the palate. — American Agriculturist. 



Bops' department. 



A WORD TO BOYS AND YOUNG MEN. 



An intelligent farmer remarked to us, a few days 

 ago, that we " must talk to the boys, the young men 

 of America, about increasing the circulation of this 

 journal. They are the ones who are to be benefitted 

 by the dissemination of books and papers devoted to 

 agriculture and horticulture — for they are soon to 

 cultivate the farms and manage the estates of their 

 fathers. The ' old heads' — men of forty years of 

 age and upwards — do not like to begin improvements 

 in the decline of life, but prefer to continue in the 

 track of their ancestors. In this age of progress, 

 however, those farmer's sons who are entering upon 

 active life, must avail themselves of the aid afforded 

 by science and experience, or be and continue in the 

 rear — a reproach to the age and their profession." 



There is much good sense in the remarks of our 

 friend, and we commend them to the careful consider- 

 ation of our young readers. The great improvements 

 being introduced will be adopted by the shrewdest 

 and wisest, who will thereby realize profit ; while 

 those who, through either ignorance or prejudice, 

 continue in the old track, will be losers. But a 

 great many of the boys and young men of America 

 are thinking and acting aright. We have now before 

 us letters from several of them, the contents of which 

 convince us that there is an increasing desire to cul- 

 tivate the mind as well as the soil, and at the same 

 time. They are doing much to increase the circula- 

 tion and usefulness of the various agricultural jour- 

 nals of the country. The following letter from a 

 young man in Erie county, N. Y., speaks to the 

 point on this subject. Had we space, we could give 

 letters from still younger friends (some only 15 years 

 of age,) residing in different and distant sections of 

 the country, who are actively engaged in dissemina- 

 ting books and periodicals pertaining to agriculture, 

 horticulture, fee. 



Mr. Moore : — I commenced taking your valuable paper 

 when I was 17 years of age, and have now taken it three 

 years, and hope to be always blest with that privilege. — 

 Considering the importance of such a paper to the agricultu- 

 ral portion of community, I have embraced every opportunity 

 in order to obtain as many subscribers as possible ; and 

 although I met with many prejudices it only increased my 

 ambition — for I know that the Genesee Farmer is one of 

 the sunbeams which will eventually melt the ice of preju- 

 dice that has so long bound our country in relation to Scien- 

 tific as well as Practical Agriculture. And I think, if the 

 time has not already come, it is not far distant, when the 

 name of farmer will be crowned with many honors. 



I have increased the number of subscribers from 17 (which 

 I think was the number taken the past year,) to 45 — and, 

 with the hope of getting more, I remit for fifty copies. 



Oscar Warren." 



PREMIUM ARITHMETICAL QUESTIONS. 

 BY I. A. CLARK. 



Friend Moore: — I have noticed ir> some of the late num- 

 bers of the Farmer arithmetical questions for farmer's sons : 

 and as some may have leisure during the long wintereve- 

 nings to solve a few more, I send you the following. Some 

 hard nuts for farmer's hoys to crack : — 



$5 Premium. — On the side of a mountain grew a lofty fir, 

 which, being broken by the wind but not severed, the top 

 [ C,] struck'below the foot of the tree [ 15.] 50 feet, and a 

 right line [ B. E,] from the base of the tree to the body is 30 

 feet. What is the length of the pieces — the height of the 

 tree [ I?, C,] being 150 feet ? 



$3 Premium. — In two right angled triangles A, B, E, and 

 D, B, C, right angled at B, we have the side A, B, = 40, 

 B, C, =50 and D, E, =30 ; required D, B, and B, E. 



