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ICAN HERD-BOOli' 



DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry.— Liebio. 



Vol. XI.— No. 7.] 



Slid mo. (February) 15tli, 184T. 



[Whole No. 144. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY JOSIAII TATUM, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — For conditions see last page. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Settling in NeAv Countries. 



Mr. Editor, — In No. 6, of last volume, 

 I commenced a series of papers adapted to 

 that portion of farmers who were contemp- 

 lating a home in a new — and to them unex- 

 plored — country. Owing- to an uncommon 

 epidemic that has prevailed throughout all 

 this region, my labours at tiie time were in- 

 terrupred. I now propose, since the arrange- 

 ments of a benign Providence in the ele- 

 ments of nature, have caused the influences 

 of one season to neutralize the poison of an- 

 other, to continue my communications. 



In commencing with some advice to those 

 about opening new homes, and other fields 

 of labour in a new country, we would say 

 in the first place, do not be too much under 

 the influence of former experience and hab- 

 its; they should have their influence with 

 you here to be sure, but they should be regu- 

 lated by circumstances. 



Cah.— Vol. XL— No. 7. 



I Before effecting a permanent location, — 

 before you have squandered all your means, 

 stop and reflect; take a good look around 

 [you — do not be in such haste as to fix your- 

 self in a moment, for you have a great deal 

 at stake, and when you are fixed, if you 

 have made a bad bargain, it is not so easy a 

 matter to extricate yourselves. 



Now the first and greatest consideration 

 to bo kept in view, is to secure a healthy 

 situation, so that yourself and family, and 

 those around you may enjoy health; for 

 health is one of the greatest blessings that 

 Providence has bestowed upon us. Without 

 health, life is scarcely enjoyed. In all nev/ 

 countries, a certain portion, or all, more or 

 less, are subject to extremes of sickness and 

 fatality. Many people, ignorant of the laws 

 that govern human life, have had the hardi- 

 hood to tell us, there is no difference between 

 a river or a marshy situation, or a high and 

 dry one for living. But we have noticed, 

 from long observation and experience, that 

 jthe foolhardiness of those people, finds its 

 [termination in premature sufTering and death. 

 In a word, the sickness of a new country is 

 manufactured by local causes — rotten, de- 

 caying vegetable matter, which has been 

 collecting in stagnant pools and marshes for 

 centuries. Avoid all such locations, and 

 flee from them as you would from the hydra 

 headed monster. Do not look so much to 

 the advantages of being near a market, or 

 just such rich black soil, as to sacrifice your 

 health. Secure then, a high and dry situa- 



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