No. 3. 



Fragments — Ice Houses — The Jlpple Year. 



101 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



" Gather up the Fragments, that nothing he lost." 



TOP DRESSING. 



Nature always manures the soil by top- 

 dressings, the rains carryintj down the decom- 

 posed wjlution to the roots of plants : ran man 

 do better than to imitate and assist her in her 

 operations for his benefit 1 



PREPARATION OF FOOD. 



It is not what goes through an animal that 

 nourishes him, but what remains in him. — 

 Therefore prepare the food for animals, so that 

 it will be thoroughly digested, that it may 

 become a component part of their bodies, and 

 " not be cast off in the draught." 



HUSHAND YOUR MANURE; 



It is the stuff out of which grass and grain 

 is made. 



ECONOMY. 



The crumbs of manure should all be care- 

 fully swept up for preservation and use. Ma- 

 ny littlps make muck, and much wants more. 

 Enough is more than we have. 



FAMILY CONVERSATION. 



Sensible, judicious conversation in the fam- 

 ily circle, exercises an important and salutary 

 influence in forming the minds, and regulat- 

 ing the opinions of children and young people, 

 and should be resorted to, as the most efficient 

 means of regulating their future movements 

 in life. 



NECESSITY OF GOOD EXAMPLE. 



Children are prone to follow the e.xample, 

 and to fall into the habits of those they asso- 

 ciate with; hence the importance of excluding 

 them from the society of the immoral, the ig- 

 norant, the vulgar and the lazy; for it is as 

 much a duty to protect them from moral as 

 from physical disease, and of the two, the 

 former is most to be dreaded. 



APPEARANCE INDICATIVE OF CHARACTER. 



The appearance of a farm, its buildings, 

 and the live stock belonging to it, indicate 

 with surprising accuracy the character and 

 I etandmg of its owner; if" they look well, 

 I well ; if bad, bad. A judicious traveler won't 

 I miss in summing up his opinion once in fifly 

 I times. 



BOYS 



That have been properly reared are men in 

 point of usefulness at sixteen, whilst those 

 that have been brought up in idle habits are 

 nuisances at twenty-one. 



REMEDY. 



The best remedy to prevent a failure of 

 crops, is plenty of manure and good tillage. 



A GOOD RICH SOIL 



Retains moisture much longer than that which 

 is exhausted and poor. 



THE FOOD OF PLANTS 



Is neither more nor less than the principle 

 of which they themselves are composed. 



THINKING. 



Those who don't think correctly, will not 

 be likely to act well. 



TRUE PLEASURE. 



The pleasure resulting from having done 

 something useful, is without alloy. Who has 

 not observed witii satisfaction, the cheerful, 

 pleasant countenances of children, beaming 

 with delight after having executed some lit- 

 tle duty, or work of utility. 



THE POWER OF SCIENCE. 



The transmutation of the baser metals into 

 gold and silver, is a small affair compared with 

 changing darkness into light, want into plen- 

 ty, misery into happiness : yet science can do 

 all this. R. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Ice IIousc§. 



" Home," Sept'r. 29th, 1838. 



I observed a communication in the last 

 number of the Cabinet by " Subscriber," say- 

 ing the larger the house the better the ice 

 keeps — now this is self-evident. But the 

 matter is to construct one suitable for any 

 private family that shall preserve the ice from 

 January to January. I should be much in- 

 debted for such a communication, as I wish 

 to build one this season. 



Subscriber says one nine feet square by nine 

 fept deep will hold 27 cart loads; my opinion 

 is they must be small cart loads ; it matters 

 not; we know these dimensions will hold 

 just so many solid feet — therefore need not 

 be measured in any other way ; hut I think 19 

 cart loads would come nearer filling it. 



Also in the same number is another article 

 over the signature of "A Phila. Co. Farmer," 

 which looks to me to be about the thing. — 

 Would he be so liberal as to extend his view 

 and state for in'brmation how many cartloads 

 it takes to fill those dimensions — 16 feet by 

 12, and 16 feet deep. 



Public Good. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



The Apple Year. 



Why do our apple orchards bear tis a full 

 crop every second or third year only] Are 

 the trees so much exhausted by overbearing 

 as to require an intervening year to recover 

 their energies, or is it the habit of the tree 

 so to do ? If the first be the cause, the effect 

 would be prevented by raking ofl^ when qtiite 

 small, about one-half of the apples. If the 

 second, I would suggest that stocks be bud- 

 ded from trees that bear well in the interval 

 to equalize the product, and make every year 

 an apple year. Pomum Secundum. 



