No. S. 



Fragments. 



257 



tide some months ago, in the September 

 number of the Cabinet. I omitted an import- 

 ant item : I should have stated that the whole 

 frame, including the doors and roof, all about 

 six inches thick, is weather-boarded, outside 

 and inside, and the space or vacuum well 

 filled with tanners' bark, instead of the dou- 

 ble frame. The roof may be shingled out- 

 side of the rafters and boarded inside, filling 

 np the interstice with bark as the roof pro- 

 gresses. This plan, on top of the ground, has 

 entirely superseded the old system of digging 

 a vault or well. By using rye straw plenti- 

 fully around the sides and on top, it is found 

 to waste much less than the old system un- 

 der the earth. 



Wm. Penn Kinzer. 



Springlawn Farm, Paquea, Lan. co., \ 

 Pa., February 2Sth. 1839. S 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Fragments.— rVo. V. 



"Gather up the Fragments that nothing be lost." 

 OIRLS. 



Girls, be industrious, and observe economy 

 in every thing, even in time ; be neat and 

 tidy, rise early, and keep stirring to some 

 useful purpose ; dress so as to preserve your 

 health, leave nothing for others to do, that 

 you can accomplish yourselves, cultivate your 

 minds, and eschew the least appearance of 

 evil in your manners and conduct ; so shall 

 you enjoy as much comfort, happiness, and 

 independence as is allotted to mortals in this 

 uncertain world, and you will stand a very 

 fair chance of becoming united to some clever, 

 industrious youth in the bands o? matrimony, 

 and of becoming a first rate wife and mother, 

 "ruling your own household well," and dis 

 pensing blessings all around you. 



ENTAILED ESTATE. 



Every man who desires to entail a valu- 

 able and enduring inheritance on his children 

 which cannot be docked ; of which rogues 

 cannot defraud them, and on which the she 

 riff can't levy execution, and which they 

 can't alienate by a gGnerz\ assignment ; may 

 accomplish his wishes by bringing them up 

 in habits o^ persevering industry in any use- 

 ful calling, by instilling into them habits of 

 sound economy; and, above all, by imbuing 

 their minds with correct and practical views 

 of moral and religious obligations. 



BOYS. 



Boys, treat the horses mildly, the cows 

 gently, the sheep kindly, the hogs mercifully, 

 and the poultry prudently ; so will you be 

 promoting your own true interests, and be 

 aiding in carrying out practically a religious 

 obligation, enjoined on all, to treat dumb 

 creatures with humanity. 



' HARD BED, 



Parents, who endeavour to protect their 

 children from labor, and encourage them to 

 seek self-indulgence, in.stead of animating 

 iheni to become as industrious and useful as 

 possible; are foolishly and certainly preparing 

 for them a hard and a thorny bed to lay upon 

 at a subsequent period of their lives. 



FATHERS AND MOTHERS, 



Fathers and mothers, be kind and affeC' 

 tionate, but frm and rennlute ; ami, above 

 all, always reasonable ; so shall you command 

 the respect and obedience, that your station 

 at the head of a family so imperiously requires. 



l^NGEVITY. 



There are none who enjoy better health of 

 body, and more vigor of mind, than those 

 who are daily engaged in bodily labor; and it 

 is only the industrious or laborious who live 

 frugally and temperately, who enjoy true 

 comfort and survive to a great age. 



MOTHER. 



A mother who works her fingers' ends off; 

 in order that her daughters may attain and 

 preserve a delicacy of constitution, is more to 

 be blamed for her folly than praised for her 

 diligence, or extolled for her wisdom. 



A New England farmer said, that last year 

 he had made 1500 dollars by minding his 

 own business, and 500 dollars by letting the 

 business of others alone, in all 2,000 dollars; 

 a pretty handsome sum this for doing right 

 for one year. Query 1 what would this 

 amount to, reckoning it an annuity of 2,000 

 dollars at 6 per. cent., compound interest, for 

 thirty years. Ans. $158,116 37 cents. 



The farmer who hires laborers to perform 

 the work which ought to be executed by his 

 own sons, may reasonably expect to die in 

 debt, and leave a thriftless po.sterity to in- 

 herit a small estate. 



The truly wise, who have acquired much 

 knowledge, doubt often, and are modest in 

 opinion : whilst the very ignorant, who have 

 not attained knowledge enough to form a hook 

 to hang a doubt on, are hasty and presump- 

 tuous. 



Those who say " come boys," effect muck, 

 and do it well; while those who say "go 

 boys," accomplish little, and that badly. 



The best farmers are those who combine 

 the most intelligence with the most practical 

 industry, sound economy, and good taste. 



The worst agriculturists are the ignorant 

 and conceited, who mind every bodies busi- 

 ness but their own. 



A farmer who sells hay, should buy ma- 

 nure, otherwise, he will soon have his land 

 poor. 



