No. 1. 



Marl — Family Government. 



37 



I should prefer tlieir being sown with oats or 

 barley, as the seeds could be covered more 

 regularly with the harrow, and their vegeta- 

 tion would be secured. I do not apprehend 

 injury from frost in early sowing, but I dread 

 the effects of drought from late. I have nev- 

 er suffered from early, but hare generally 

 had cause to reuret the evils of late sowing. 

 I consider orciiard grass the best herbage 

 for pasturage upon uplajid — for hay it cer- 

 tainly cannot be excelled. 



Moiitgoirinry Co., Pa- 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



ITIarl. 



Through the medium of the Cabinet I 

 make my acknowledgments to your corres- 

 pondent% "Evesham" and " B." for the very 

 satisfactory information they have given in 

 your May number, of the green sand, its com- 

 ponent parts, and their experiments. I have 

 tried it in .so many ways that J cannot be 

 mistaken. In 1835 I had drawn on ploughed 

 land about 300 small loads of the black, 

 from the side of a marsh which I thought was 

 mud, but on examining it after it dried, I 

 found some small pieces of bone, which, on 

 crushing, looked like magnesia. I then began 

 to think more of it. It is now called Mica- 

 cues marl. Its effects on the wheat were not 

 so great as I expected, though very percepti- 

 ble. It then lay in pasture, covered with 

 white clover and plantain, where I never saw 

 either before. It is now in corn, and the 

 benefit surpasses my expectation. In 1837 

 I had some corn rolled in green sand and 

 planted on one side of plaistered corn, and on 

 the other dry corn. It was evident to all 

 who saw it to be much better than the dry, 

 and quite as good as the plaistered corn if not 

 better. I have several kinds. The deep 

 fi^recn, with blue veins through it, as blue as 

 indigo; this is in boggy places. On the side 

 of the hill we get the green sand and red 

 clay. Its effects were so soon discovered on 

 clover, that when I mentioned it, I could see 

 a doubtful smile, as much as to say, you are 

 too sanguine. The mere sprinkling on oats 

 has, in some places, rai.sed them 50 percent. 

 I have sowed the green sand on oats like 

 plaister, with a material benefit. I have but 

 one regret, that is, I cannot get enough out. 

 My intention is to sow it on oats as plaister. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



Kent. 



Premature Frnit. 



All immature apples, plums, or other fruit, 

 that fall from the trees, ought to be eaten 

 by hogs, or be carefully gathered up and burnt 

 to destroy the eggs or worms therein con- 

 tained, which otherwise will produce insects 

 to commit depredations next year on your 

 truit trees. 



For the Furmers' Cabinet. 



Ou Family Oovernment; 



" Mix kindness with authority ; and rule more by dis- 

 cretion than rigor." 



Mr. Cabinet, — As agricultural operations 

 cannot be carried on with pleasure or profit 

 without good family government,! fo» ward Uie 

 following judicious observations or. that im- 

 portant subject, to be used at discretion. 



B. 



As nothing more clearly evidences the 

 weakness of a legislature than a strong pro- 

 pensity to multiply laws beyond what real 

 and absolute need requires, so alao is it in re- 

 gard to domestic government. In familie?, 

 as well as in larger communities, there often 

 is too much law. A few rules an; necessary 

 for the government of children, and but a few. 

 These should be too plain to be misunder- 

 stood ; too reasonable to admit of any dispute 

 or doubt; and too important to be violated or 

 neglected. They should be engraven early 

 upon the memories of children, and enforced, 

 when need requires, with steady and inflexi- 

 ble firmness ; — and, by-and-by, they will grow 

 into habits. Submission and obedience will 

 become natural and spontaneous. 



Children managed in this manner from in- 

 fancy, and by parents too, whose example 

 comport with their rules and injunctions, and 

 whose exercise of authority carries along with 

 it evident marks of affection. — Children rear- 

 ed up under this steady, mild, and yet firm 

 discipline, soon become tractable, except in 

 extraordinary instances of perverseness. 

 They feel the yoke to be easy, and are with- 

 held from acts of disobedience, more out of 

 filial love and respect, than from the dread 

 of chastisement. Hence it is that, in some 

 houses, family government goes on with sin- 

 gular regularity, though so silent as to be 

 scarcely perceived. There is no violent scold- 

 ing; no boisterous threats; no fierce looks. 

 Both the father and the mother, are so mild 

 and even in temper and behaviour, that they 

 seem scarcely to display any authority at all; 

 and yet their children are orderly, submis- 

 sive, and dutiful, in a very uncommon degree. 

 A single word, or a mere glance of the eye, 

 from either the one or the other, they mind 

 more than the children of some families do 

 the pelting of hard blows. 



Neither is it the only advantage of this 

 method of family government, that it accom- 

 plishes its object the most effecti}ally, and 

 with the least trouble ; there is another of 

 equal, if not greater moment. Children thus 

 managed are led to delight in the company 

 and conversation of their parents, and to re- 

 ceive counsel readily from their lips; and 

 when they come of age to act for themselves, 

 the transition from the state of subjection to 



