NO. 1. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET. 



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a Farmer appear in company penteoly dressed 

 in homespun, I think of fcsoloninn's descrip- 

 tion of a good wife — " her husband is known 

 in the gates wlicn he sittetli among tlie 

 elders," and most cordially do 1 congratulate 

 the possessors of such a prize. 



Jack Planter. 



Tlsiii^s a Fariiicr •>lioiild not do. 



A farmer should never undertake to culti- 

 vate more land than he can do tlioroughly ; 

 half tilled land is growing poorer; well tilled 

 land is constantly improving. 



A farmer siiould never keep more cattle, 

 horses, sheep, or hogs, than he can keep in 

 good order; an animal in high order the first 

 of December, is already half wintered. 



A farmer should never depend on his 

 neighbor for what he can, by care and good 

 management, produce on his own fiirm ; he 

 should never beg fruit while he can plant 

 trees, or borrow tools while he can make or 

 buy ; a high authority has said the borrower 

 is a servant ot the lender. 



The farmer should never be so immersed 

 in political matters, as to forget to sow his 

 wlieat, dig his potatoes, and bank up his cel- 

 lar ; nor should he be so inattentive to them 

 as to remain ignorant of those great questions 

 of national and state policy which will always 

 agitate, more or less, a free people. 



A farmer should shun the doors of a bank 

 as he would an approach of the plague or 

 cholera ; banks are for men of speculations, 

 and theirs is a business with which farmers 

 should have little to do. 



A farmer should never be ashamed of his 

 calling; we know that no man can be en- 

 tirely independent, yet, the farmer should re- 

 member, that if any one can be said to pos- 

 sess that enviable distinction, he is the man. 

 No farmer should allow the reproach of 

 neglecting education to lie against himself 

 or family; if knowledge is power, the be- 

 ginning of it should be early and deeply laid 

 in the district school. 



A farmer should never use ardent spirits 

 as a drink; li', while undergoing severe fa- 

 tigue, and the hard labors of the summer, he 

 would enjoy robust health, let him be tem- 

 perate in all tilings. 



A farmer should never refuse a fair price 

 for any thing ho wishes to sell; we have 

 known a man who had several hundred bush- 

 els of wheat to dispose of, refuse 8s. 6d. and 

 after keeping his wheat six months, was glad 

 to get 6s. 6d. for it. 



A farmer should never allow his wood- 

 house to be emptied of wood during the sum- 

 mer months; if he does, when winter comes, 

 in addition to cold fingers, he must expect to 

 encounter the chilling looks of his wife, and 



perhaps in a .series of lectures, to learn, that 

 the man wiio burns green wood has not mas- 

 tered the ABC of domestic economy. 



A fanner should never allow iiis windows 

 to be filled witli red cloaks, tattered coats, 

 and old hats; if he does he will most as- 

 suredly accjuire the reputation of a man who 

 tarries long at the whiskey; leaving his wife 

 and cliildien to freeze or starve at home. 



There are three things of which the man 

 who aims at the character of a prosperous 

 farmer will never be niggardly, manure, till- 

 age and seed ; and there are three things of 

 which he will never be too liberal, promises, 

 time and credit. — Genesee Farmer. 



S^veet Corn. 



This article has been prepared by the Sha- 

 kers of Lebanon in great perfection. If 

 cooked properly, it is as sweet and fresh as 

 though just in the milk and from the stalks. 

 Let it be soaked 24 hours in water, and then 

 boiled in milk and water for the table. — 

 Nothing of the kind can be better. 



To drive bugs from Vines. — The ravages 

 of the yellow striped bug on cucumbers and 

 melons may be eflectually prevented by sift- 

 ing charcoal dust over the plants. If re- 

 peated two or three times, the plants will be 

 entirely free from annoyance. There is in 

 charcoal some property so obnoxious to these 

 troublesome insects, that they fly from it the 

 instant it is applied. 



Plastering Corn- 



The following experiment, performed ma- 

 ny years ago by John Taylor, of Virginia, 

 suggests a practice which may be adopted at 

 the present season with great propriety by 

 almost every farmer : 



" Sowed twenty-three bushels of plaster 

 on twenty-three acres of corn, in a large field. 

 Ploughed in part immediately, harrowed in 

 part, and left part on the surface ten days 

 before it was worked in. The corn was four 

 inches high. The weather moist. There 

 was no diflerence between the three divi- 

 sions. The seed of the whole field had been 

 rolled in plaster. These twenty-three acres 

 exceed the adjoining crop 25 per cent ; its 

 blades and tops also dried sooner. 



§tarch from Potatoes. 



We are informed that the manufacture of 

 Starch from potatoes has engaged the atten- 

 tion of our enterprising neighbors in Ver- 

 mont, and already become an important arti- 

 cle of commerce, it being employed to a 

 great extent by the New England cotton 

 manufacturers and calico printers, with much 

 success, as a substitute for wheat starch for 



