VOL. XXI. NO. IS. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



115 



EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES. 



Next Id [juverty, delinquent subscribers and duns, 



which most editors nro siil)ject, their greatest 

 lifficulty is to picasfl '-tiie public." For so great 

 s the Viirioty ol' public tnsie and feeling-, that had 

 .he conductor of a periodical pnper as many heads 

 ind as many pens as his paper has readers, he could 

 lever hofie to please all, for they cannot please 

 hemselves. Does he sficak out in language plain 

 nd simple ? it is mere common-place ; the taste 



if the learned is not gratified ; it is fit only for the 

 tili'ar. Does ho aspire to elegance ? the unlearn- 

 •d cannot uiiderst'ind, and the learned pronounce it 

 icdantry. Does he show his colors, and boldly 

 nnlend for his ground ? he is too severe. Does 

 le hide himself behind a mass of etinivocal matter ? 

 ,e is a teri;pcirizing hypocrite. If he publishes ex- 

 racts that are better than he can write, he has no 

 alents of his own to display ; and if he fills his 

 laper with original matter, he might have given 

 umething better from the works of others. If he 

 ttempls to philosophize, it is dull and uninterest- 

 ng ; and if he write on plain and familiar subjects, 

 is ideas are stale ; every body knew them before. 

 •)oe3 he attempt to instruct ? he needs to be in- 

 truded. Does he endeavor to amuse ? it is flat 

 nd insipid. People generally are fond of being 

 raised, and one would suppose this might satisfy 

 lem. But let an editor try the experiment, and 

 e will soon find out his mistake. For such is the 

 ower of envy, that no one will thank him for 

 raising Iiiiit, and every one will hate him for prais- 

 ig others. .Most people are fond of hearing their 

 eighbnrs slandered ; but if you attempt to point 

 ut either the vices or follies of mankind, every 

 ne will find something applicable to himself, and 

 ere again you encounter the hatred of the mass. 

 Ivery person can tell you how to conduct a paper 



1 please himself, and of course to offend every one 

 Ise. These being stubborn facts, there is no al- 

 ?rnative but for an editor to please himself, if he 

 iin, and hazard the consequences. If he does this 

 e will be certain of satisfying one, which is more 

 lau he can hope to accomplish if he tries to please 

 It. — Upland Union. 



TO KEEP VERMIN FROM GRANARIES. 



We were exceedingly pleased with a plan which 

 e lately saw adopted by a farmer in Essex Co., 

 [ass., for preventing the depredations of squirrels, 

 lice and other creeping things in his corn crib 

 lid granary. The building was mounted on four 

 osts, about three feet high, and on the head of 

 acli post was placed an inverted tin pan. No 

 irther explanation is necessary. It is plain to 

 II, that neither rat, mouse, weasel, nor reptile, can 

 y any means approach the building near enough 

 > lielp themselves to corn, however open the sides 

 f the building may be for the purpose of ventilla- 

 on. — Amer. Mechanic. 



Somebody says, that a piece of block tin, or pew- 

 ;r, being rubbed on a razor strap, prepares it to 

 roduce a finer and keener edge, than the best me- 

 Ulic paste in use. 



The capital invested in the manufacturing busi- 

 ess in Lowell, Mass., is $10,500,000 ; the number 

 f operatives employed is about 10,000, of whom 

 000 are females. 



APPLES FOR CATTLE AND .SWINE. 



!\In CooKF. — Sir — In the autumn of \'6'X\, having 

 a good supply of apples, about the 20th of Septem- 

 ber I gave my cows, with some young cattle, free 

 access to my orchard, having previously gathered 

 up what lay on the ground, to prevent their inju- 

 ring themselves by eating too many at first. The 

 cows ate the apples as they fell from the trees, and 

 probably did not get more, on an average, than a 

 bushel apiece per day. The effect was, tlmt the 

 milk of the cows was increased forty per cent, in 

 quantity, and much improved in quality — making 

 butter not inferior to that made in June, with clover 

 feed. The young cattle thrived remarkably well, 

 their hair having a glossy appearance, as when fed 

 on grain. They had no additional feed, except 

 what grew in the orchard, (containing four or five 

 acres) which had been close fed in August. The 

 apples were mostly early, and a mixture of sweet 

 and sonr, with scarce an unpalatable one in the 

 orchard, and were generally mellow when they 

 fell from the trees. 



I tried an experiment last fall, by feeding my 

 cows with hard, sour apples — giving them about 

 half a bushel apiece, night and morning. I could 

 not perceive any diflierence in their milk, either in 

 quantity or in quality. 



I have tried various experiments in feeding hogs 

 with apples, and always with good success when 1 

 used good apples. 



I have not as yet been able to ascertain whether 

 apples are most nutritious when boiled or in a raw 

 state. lam confident there can be but little diffe- 

 rence. One thing is certain ; apples should not 

 be fed out till they are ripe. 



I am not able to decide upon the comparative 

 merits of sweet and sour apples ; some varieties of 

 sour being more nutritious than some varieties of 

 sweet. The nutritive property of the apple con- 

 sists principally in the saccharine matter which it 

 contains ; and sour apples have been found, by 

 actual experiment, to contain as much of this as the 

 sweet ; the acid being superadded to the sweet. 



I intend to continue experiments with apples, 

 and hope others will, also — so as to thoroughly 

 test their value as food for fatting and store swine. 

 — larmers'' Museum, 



Jieadinf;. — Of all the amusements that can pos- 

 sibly be imagined for a hard-working man after his 

 daily toil, or in its intervals, there is nothing like 

 reading an interesting newspaper or book. It calls 

 for no bodily exertion, of which he has already had 

 enough, or perhaps too much. It relieves his home 

 of its dullness and sameness. It transports him 

 into a livelier and gayer, and more diversified and 

 interesting scene ; and while he enjoys himself 

 there, ho may forget the evils of the present mo- 

 ment fully as much as if he were ever so drunk, 

 with the great advantage of finding himselfthe next 

 day with the money in his pocket, or at least 

 laid out in real necessaries — and without the drunk- 

 ard's misery of mind and body. Nay, it accompa- 

 nies him to his next day's work ; and if what he 

 has been reading be any thing above the idlest and 

 liglitest, gives him something to think of besides 

 the mere mechanical drudgery of his every day oc- 

 cupation — something he can enjoy while absent, 

 and look forward with pleasure to. If I were to 

 pray for a taste which should stand me instead un- 

 der every variety of circumstances, and be a source 

 of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, 

 and a shield against its ills, however things might 

 go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would 

 be a taste for reading. — Sir J. Herschel. 



Idle Daughters. — It is, says Mrs. Ellis, a most 

 painful spectacle in families where the mother is 

 the drudge, to see the daughters elegantly dressed, 

 reclining at their ease, with their drawing, their 

 music, their fancy work, and their reading; be- 

 guiling themselves of the lapse of hours, days and 

 weeks, and never dreaming of their responsibilities 

 or their duty. These individuals will often tell 

 you with an air of affected compassion — for who 

 can believe it real ? — ^that " poor dear mamma is 

 working herself to death." Yet no sooner do you 

 propose that they should assist her, than they de- 

 clare she is quite in her element — in short, that she 

 would never be happy if she had only half as much 

 to do! 



"Been a gunning, Jake?" 

 " Yes." 



" What did you get ?" 

 " Got tired." 



" Husband, I don't know where that boy got his 

 bad temper; — not from me, I'm sure." "No, my 

 dear — for I don't perceive that you have lost any !" 



Early Formation of Good Habits. — If a child is 

 neglected till six years of age, no subsequent edu- 

 cation can recover it. If to this age it i.s brought 

 up in ignorance and dissipation, in all the baseness 

 of brutal habits, in that vacancy of mind which 

 such habits create, it is in vain to try to reclaim it 

 by teaching reading and writing. You may teach 

 it what you choose afterwards, but if you have not 

 prevented the formation of bad habits, you will 

 teach in vain. With children under the age of six 

 years, learning — school learning — should not be 

 the chief consideration, but the formation of moral 

 principle. — Brougham. 



Large Yield. — Our fellow citizen, Mr Robert Ol- 

 iver, has raised from two acres of ground, one hun- 

 dred and fortyseven and a half bushels of oats, of 

 good quality, or almost seventyfive bushels to the 

 acre. — H'attrtown Jefftrsonian. 



A Sensible Girl. — The New York Express gives 

 the following reply of a young Mies to a gentleman 

 who had solicited her heart and hand. It may 

 serv;; as a model : 



C , May 25, 1842. 



Dear J. : — I received yours of the 16th, informing 

 n>e of your attachment for one who is no less at- 

 tached to you. Having consulted my parents, I 

 find they have no objections. Knowing it was a 

 contract for life, I have considered well the subject, 

 and have come to the conclusion to accept your 

 offer. It is something I did not expect ; but since 

 I have been the object of your choice, may I prove 

 worthy of your love. 



Very sincerely, jours, Ann. 



Cost of War. — When Napoleon was asked the 

 expense of his first campaign in Italy, he replied, 

 " I spent two thousand men every month." A dear 

 thing is military glory. And what benefit did the 

 world reap, that justified this stupendous sacrifice 

 of human life ? 



How much of most men's lives is made up of 

 their faults, their follies, and their misfortunes. 



