No. 8. 



Facts.-^— Intemperance. — Protection of Sheep. 



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For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Facts. 



" FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS." 



1. A POOR farmer will be a poor man. 



2. A large manure-heap makes a full gra- 

 nary. 



3. Intelligence to plan, industry to exe- 

 cute, and economy to preserve — prosperity 

 follows. 



4. Ignorance, idleness and waste are fol- 

 lowed close in the rear by distress, poverty 

 and want. 



5. The interest and happiness of the owner 

 of all domestic animals are promoted by kind 

 treatment, full feeding and cleanliness. — 

 Try it. 



6. Poor tillage, poor crops. 



7. To raise an abundance of grass is the 

 foundation of all good husbandry, and should 

 be the first and last effort of every person 

 who desires to be a successful and prosperous 

 farmer. 



8. Plants derive their nutriment from the 

 soil, and every crop removed takes away part 

 of its productive power, which an honest 

 farmer will take pleasure and derive profit 

 from restoring as soon as possible. 



9. Those who trespass on the kindly dis- 

 position of the soil to produce crops, without 

 making adequate returns to it, are soon 

 brought to judgment. 



10. A wise man will spread neither his 

 manure nor his labour over more ground than 

 will enable him to attain a maximum result. 



11. Postponing doing right, is doing wrong. 



12. A well-cultivated garden is the most 

 profitable part of a farmer's domain. A. 



Intemperance. 



It is this that fills the dockets of our 

 courts with cases of dishonesty and fraud ; 

 that furnishes the loathsome dens of our jails 

 with inhabitants, and supplies our gibbets 

 with victims. It lays the axe to the root of 

 all happiness ; destroys all order, peace, and 

 quiet in communities, and is the death of all 

 friendship, esteem and love in families. It 

 is the poison of friendship ; the bane of so- 

 ciety, the ruin of governments, and the grave 

 of religion ; it enfeebles health, destroys 

 wealtl), overthrows happiness, and blights the 

 moral feeling ! No human imagination has 

 ever yet conceived one half the horrors of 

 this giant-vice ; in its ferocity it regards nei- 

 ther age, sex, or condition ; the crowned 

 head is not too high for the fiend to drag to 

 the gulf of ruin, nor the beggar too low for 

 it to plunge into the vortex of woe. This 

 vice alone costs our country annually one 

 hundred millions of dollars, and gives us, in 

 return, nothing but poverty, blasphemy, infi- 

 delity and crime ; and while it opens up the 



flood-gates of misery upon us, it is, vampyre- 

 like, sucking away our strength, and exhaust- 

 ing our energies, weakening the means of 

 our existence, and paralyzing the arm of our 

 strength ! " In a single year," says an elo- 

 quent writer, " could all the eflects of this 

 vice be collected into one group, it would 

 present to the eye an army of three hundred 

 thousand drunkards — not made up of the 

 old, the feeble and decrepit, but of the mid- 

 dle-aged, the stout and the hearty, enlisted 

 from all professions, the shop, the counter, 

 the bar, the bench, and the pulpit — seven- 

 ty-five thousand criminals, and two hundred 

 thousand paupers : and in the group would be 

 seen thirty thousand of our countrymen an- 

 nually dragged to the grave ! With such 

 an army Bonaparte might have overrun all 

 Europe, and decked his brow with the gar- 

 land of universal triumph !" Nash. 



Protection of Sheep. 



The increase in the growtii of sheep, and 

 their aptitude to fatten, when fed in a shed 

 in an open yard, is extraordinary ; and yet 

 the principle is one which we all acknow- 

 ledge, namely, every thing that eats, if it has 

 plenty of food, warm shelter, and nothing to 

 do, must increase : but I have discovered, by 

 repeated experiments, that such animals not 

 only increase more rapidly in their condition 

 and weight, than those exposed to the open 

 air, but also that they consume a much 

 smaller quantity of food, less by at least one- 

 third, while their increase is a third greater 

 in weight. 



At the beginning of the season for fatting, 

 I built a shed to contain eighty lambs, cover- 

 ing the floor with a few planks, thinking this 

 better than to give them straw to lie on, for 

 when wet, this is apt to give them the foot- 

 rot. I brought in my sheep, at Christmas, 

 and found that before the end of two days 

 they did not eat so much as when they were 

 in the field, by the proportion of three to five, 

 for while abroad, they ate fifty baskets full of 

 turnips, but, confined to the yard, they ate 

 only thirty baskets a day, therefore their im- 

 provement was in the inverse ratio of their 

 cost in food ; yet such great progress did they 

 make, that one would have thought they were 

 eating fifty baskets a day while shut up, and 

 thirty while in the field. I gave them a 

 small quantity of oil-cake with their turnips, 

 and the size which they attained was so 

 great, that, at thirteen months old, I sold 

 them for 8 dollars and 50 cents a-piece, with- 

 out their wool. I calculate that turnips, 

 pulled and brought to the sheep in the sheds, 

 will go twice as far as when consumed by 

 them in the field. 



J. W. Childers. 



