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English Thorn or Hawthorn. 



Vox. III. 



many years ago. He was prudent, careful, 

 and industrious, and made up his mind to eat 

 his brown bread first, that is in the beginning 

 of his career, and the consequence was, that 

 he became respectable and rich, and then he 

 could eat his white bread at his leisure, and 

 it was found in the end that he had accumu- 

 lated a stock of it, so large that it was suffi- 

 cient to supply another generation. This old 

 gentleman in the latter part of his time when 

 walking the streetof his native village and see- 

 ing a saddler's shop, stepped in and inquired 

 of the proprietor how he was getting alon^^ 

 in his business. The reply was " bad enough. 

 Oh ! Mr. J., we hav'nt such times now as 

 you had when you followed the business ; we 

 have to pay high prices for our stock, and then 

 we can't get such prices for our work as you 

 did many years ago. This put the old man 

 on the inquiry about the price paid for leather, 

 which was soon discovered to be less than it 

 was in his day ; and then followed questions 

 about the price saddles, bridles, and other ar- 

 ticles sold for; when it was found that the 

 rates at which they were sold was considera- 

 bly more than he had received for the same 

 description of articles in the most prosperous 

 period of his business. This developement 

 led the old gentleman to point out to his 

 young neighbor the cause which he appre- 

 hended produced the hard times complained 

 of, and to give him some hints which were 

 not altogether lost. He observed that hard 

 times were generally of people's own making, 

 that industry and economy, care and close at- 

 tention to business were much more liberally 

 rewarded at that time, than they ever hed 

 been within his recollection, and that if he 

 had been favored with sucii a golden harvest 

 as then rewarded the mechanic, his property 

 would have increased to more than twice 

 the amount he was then worth. "Avoid ex- 

 travagant expenses," said he, " be industrious, 

 spend less than you earn, be careful in making 

 investments, and if you are favored to live to 

 an advanced age you will be rich ; and nine 

 chances to ten your children will be spoiled 

 and injured by it; for this is the way things 

 work in this country : every body almost wish 

 to eat their white bread first, and then as a 

 matter of course the brown has to be eaten 

 last, bitter as it may be, and it don't relish 

 near so well as when taken t'other end fore- 

 most J. J. 



Endeavor to be first in thy calling, whatever 

 it be : neither let any one go before thee in 

 well doing ; nevertheless do not envy the mer- 

 its of another, but improve thine own tal^t. 



No false pride, or foolish ambition to appear 

 as well as others, should ever induce a person 

 to live beyond the income of which he is cer- 

 tain. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Engli§h Tborn or Hawthorn. 



In some parts of our country where timber 

 is becoming scarce, and stone cannot be ob- 

 tained, it is of much importance for farmers 

 to inquire of each other, in order to give the 

 required information, whether there be no 

 cheaper method of fencing than by railing; 

 the repairing and renewing of which, adds so 

 considerably to the expenses of a farm. 

 Fences, the farmer may consider as his frontier 

 line of defence against depredations from and 

 upon the exterior, presenting alike encroach- 

 ments from without, as desertion from within. 

 The peace and welfare of nations frequently 

 depend upon the strict and just observance of 

 this rule, and no farmer should consider it of 

 less moment to the successful issue of his 

 enterprise. Are his fences in bad condition'? 

 His cattle will stray away, become restless, 

 and do not fatten well. He loses time, which 

 is money to the thrifly farmer, in searching for 

 them. In fact they destroy his own crops, 

 injure his neighbors ; his neighbors become 

 aggrieved because injured by his negligence, 

 and he forfeits all claim he may previously 

 have acquired to the name of a good manager. 

 To sum up the whole, all is loss, and there is 

 no gain by bad fences. But to obtain the 

 cheapest, which I conceive to be the best and 

 most durable, is the object of the following 

 inquiries: 



I shall, Mr. Editor, give you my opinion as 

 to what I consider the best and cheapest 

 ferice, in the hope that some of your nume- 

 rous correspondents may do likewise, in order 

 that in the end, by comparing the result of our 

 different experience, we may come to a know- 

 ledije of what is the best material for fencing 

 where there may be a deficiency of the usual 

 materials, (timber and stone,) so that through 

 the medium of the Fanners' Cabinet, we may 

 derive that information by an interchange of 

 ideas, which is f()r our common benefit ; which, 

 were it not through your own and similar 

 publications, I perceive not how farmers could, 

 as it were, daily communicate and receive 

 communications who are residing unknown 

 to each other hundreds of miles apart, as they 

 now can and do, and which, to my mind, de- 

 monstrates more fully the utility of a free 

 circulation and general perusal of agricul- 

 tural papers. 



The Virginia thorn appears to be affected 

 with disease generally throughout the coun- 

 try; (though in the limestone regions, and in 

 places where it i.s not cut as formerly, but 

 allowed a more natural growth, appears yet 

 to flourish,) and shortly must be useless for 

 fencing, without a remedy be speedily applied 

 to stop the rapid progress of its destruction. 

 The New Castle thor^i, I am informed, is not 



