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NEW ENGLAXD FARMER, 



Oct, 



elevate and refine, to the highest degree of per- 

 fection, the better faculties of our nature. 



The profits of productive farming would, when 

 conducted scientifically, enable the farmer to ac- 

 cumulate wealth, and enjoy all the comforts and 

 luxuries of refined lif3. Every community could 

 be made up of the best society — every family 

 could have a good library', and its accomplished 

 sons and daugliters ; farmers' sons need not leave 

 the favorite pursuit of their fathers, and go into 

 the learned professions, from the erroneous idea 

 that they are more honorable or profitable. Farm- 

 ers' daughters need not despise the delightful and 

 healthful employment of the dairy, the kitchen, 

 or the loom, and seek elevation in the miserable 

 pursuits aud fashions of the city. 



Nothing conduces more to the elevation and 

 refinement of the mind than the study of nature ; 

 the man who holds frequent communion with na- 

 ture, and studies and ob^ys her laws, is always 

 made abetter and happier man. 



But it is said that the working man cannot 

 study ; that study and labor are incompatible and 

 uncongenial. Washington and Franklin both 

 posses.^ed that kind of knowledge which enabled 

 them to be eminently useiul to the world, and 

 yet both wore emphatically laboring tuen ; labor- 

 ing not only in directing others, but with their 

 own hands. Many other signal examples might 

 bo cited to strengthen the point, were it necessary. 



"Manual labor," says the Phrenological Journal, 

 "when not excessive, invigorates the body, and 

 rouses the mind. Muscles strengthened by exercise, 

 and a brain refreshed by pure blood, enable the 

 mind to conceive with clearness, and act with vig- 

 or and force. The delicate lark soars high, but 

 soon falls ; it is only the eagle, with broad and 

 strong wing and clear eye, that can sustain long 

 flights in the upper air, and gaze at; the sun. 



"The man with a learning mind, who digs the 

 ground, or sows the seed, makes rapid progress. 

 He sees the benevolence of God in every opening 

 bud and blushing flower. He learns lessons of 

 utility, of design in the natural world, and with 

 a soul enlarged, he applies to books and art the 

 exponents of other men's minds, — and looks into 

 his own to discover the laws liy which it is gov- 

 erned, and the links by which ho is bound to his 

 fellow- men . 



"The working man, in all ages of the world, 

 has l)een more successful in doing good, in advan- 

 cing the interests of humanity, than a man learned 

 only in book knowledge. The latter may desire 

 to do as much, but never can accomplish it, being 

 ignorant of the material on wliicli he is working. 

 "As the world advances, its workers take a 

 higher position ; the dignity of labor becomes ap- 

 parent. The time draws near when he who docs 

 nothing will be nothing, and when there will be 

 no aristocracy but that of labor ; no noblemen but 

 the workers." 



But the worker must also be a thinker ; he must 

 become nature's ardent student, and work out, 

 and think out the wonderful processes ever going 

 on in her strange crucible. He must not be dis- 

 couraged that he knows so little yet of those things 

 which are constantly under his observation ; that 

 the knowledge man has accumulated in all the 

 generations of his existence, forms but a small 

 mound in comparison with the unknown. 



A FAKMER'S WIFE I'LL BE. 



I'm a wild and laughing girl, just turned of sweet sixteen, 

 As full of miscki'jf auG of fun as ever you have seen ; 

 And when I aiu a woman grown, uo city beaux for me — 

 If e'er I marry in my life, a farmer's wife I'll be 



I love a country life, I Ioto the joyous breeze, 



I love to hear the singing birds along the lofty trees ; 



The lowing herds and bleating f!i)cks make music sweet for me— 



If e'er I marry in my life, a farmer's wife I'll be. 



I love to feed the chickens, and I love to milk the cow, 

 I love to hear the farmer's boy a whistling at his plough ; 

 And fields of corn and waving grain are pleasant sights to me— 

 If e'er I marry in my life, a farmer's wife I'll be. 



I love to see the orchards where the golden apples grow, 

 I love to walk in meadows where the bright streamlets flow ; 

 Aud flowery banks and shady woods have many charms for 



me — 

 If e'er I marry in my life, a farmer's wife I'll be. 



Let other girls who love it best, enjoy the gloomy town, 

 'Mid dusty walls and dusty streets, to ramble up and down ; 

 But flowery fields, and shady woods, and sunny skies for ma— 

 If e'er I marry in my life, a farmer's wife I'll be. 



FACTS FOR BUILDERS. 



One fact is, that a square form secures more 

 room with a given cost for outside wails, than 

 any other rectangular figure. Great length, and 

 little width mayafl'^rd convenient rooms, but at 

 an increased expense. 



Another fact is, that ventilation is an essential 

 in a human dwelling. No other consideration 

 should exclude this. The halls, windows, and 

 doors, should be so situated with regard to each 

 other, that a full draught of air CiXn be secured, 

 at any time, in the summer season, by day and 

 by night, through the whole house. The stories 

 sliould also be sufficiently high to afibrd a suffi- 

 ciency of air in all the rooms. Nine feet is a 

 good height for lower rooms, and eight for upper. 

 Bed rooms sliould also be larger than they com- 

 monly are. Great injury to health is the result 

 of sleeping in small, close apartments. 



The third fact is, that a stoop roof will not on- 

 ly shed rain and snow far bettor than a flat one, 

 but will last immensely longer, at the same time 

 that it secures increased room for chambers, or 

 gai'ret. 



The fourth fact is, that a chimney in or near the 

 centre of the building will aid to warm the whole 

 house, while if built at one end or side, the heat 

 will be thrown out and lost. 



The fifth fact is, that a door opening from the 

 outside into any principal room, without the inter- 

 vention of a hall or passage, costs much more 

 than it saves, in tlie free ingress of air into it. 



The sixth fact is, that the use of paint is the 

 best economy, in the preservation it afl'ords to all 

 wood work. — Prairie Farmer. 



