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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



Jd^ 



WINTER WEEDING. ! 



Winter weeding what? Why, the "Golden 

 !rnil Flowers" that cluster srnnnd the parent's 

 irth — the domestic garden of immortal minds 

 t is entrusted to you. It "ill assuredly want 

 edinu and careful cultivation this winter, and 

 n't ne<;lect it, for upon it depends the most im- 

 taiit harvest of life. How are the implements? 

 ;h as district school, books, and other things 

 lessary for this important wotk ? Much, very 

 ch of the benefit depends upon ihu management 

 parents and guardians — upon the interest they 

 e in them — upon the encouragement which they 

 e their children, and upon the aid which they 

 der them in their studies. Many think, that if 

 y spare their children during the day to attend 

 lool, they have discharged their whole duty, 

 is is a great mistake. It is hardly the begin- 

 iir. Children, as a general thing, not seeing or 

 lizing the advantages of knowledge, are con- 

 ually putting aside their studies, not through 

 ;ness — that's a mistake, for children are never 

 B — but for pleasure, for sport ; for real down- 

 ht hard work under the name of play, something 

 t is of immediate enjoyment. This is the fir.st 

 ig to be guarded against. The natural vivaci- 

 and activity of children should n't be cramped 

 ■crushed, but restrained and directed. Parents 



DESPISE NOT SMALL BEGINNINGS. 



It is related of Chantrey, the celebrated sculp- 

 tor, that when a boy, he was observed by a gen- 

 tleman in the neighborhood of Sheffiield, very at- 

 tentively engaged in cutting a stick with a pen- 

 knife. He asked the lad what he was doing ; 

 when with great simplicity of manner, but with 

 perfect couitcsy, he replied, "I am cutting old Fo.n'.s 

 head." Fox was the schoolmaster of the village. 

 On this, the gentleman asked to see what he had 

 done, and pronouncing it to be an excellent like- 

 ness, presented the youth with a sixpence. And 

 this may be supposed the first money Chantrey ever 

 received for a production of his art. 



This anecdote is but one of a thousand that 

 might be cited of as many different men, who from 

 small beginnings rose to great renown, and shows 

 the importance of not despising the day of small 

 things, in any condition or circumstances of life. 

 All nature, in fact, is full of instructive lessons on 

 this point. The mighty river, rolling onward its 

 accumulated waters to the ocean, had its beginning 

 in some oozing rills, trickling down some hill-side. 

 The tree that sweeps the air with its hundred 

 branches and mocks at the howling tempest, was, 

 in its small beginning, but a little shoot, that the 

 leaping hare might have forever crushed. 



Every thing around ua tells us not to despise 



uld inciuire of their children how they progress ; I small beginnings, for they are the lower rounds of 



a ladder that reaches to great results. 



Despise not small beginnings of wealth. 



The Rothschilds, Astor, Girard, and most of the 

 richest men, began with small means. From cents 

 they proceeded to dollars; from hundreds to thou- 

 sands ; from thousands to millions. Had they neg- 

 lected these first earnings — had they said within 

 themselves, what is the use of saving these few 

 cents ? they are not of much value, and I will just 



ly should watch them, and mark in the evening 



results of the day's tuition ; should put to 



Tti questions of a practical nature and help 



Ti to solve the difficulties that occur. Above 



they .should watch with untiring vigilance the 



Tress of moral developement. This business 



form the most difficult part of your task. In 



:ticing the rules of arithmetic or of grammar — 



xercising their skill in penmanship or in reci- 



; a task in geography, there is no natural incen- 



to do it wrong — there is in fact a natural de- 



to do it right, but in moral action it is, alas, far 



irwise : temptations throng the child as well as 



e of riper years, and where judgment, discre- 



and the precepts of religion are not yet ma- 



d, the chances of being led astray by pleasure 



the evils which perpetually surround us are a 



■ sand fold greater than they are of leading us 



t. The moral department is always the weedi- 



)art of the garden, and the good cultivator will 



himself with unwearied zeal and patience to 



icate them all. There cannot be too much cir- 



spection on the part of teachers, parents and 



dians in this respect. A school is a world in 



ature. There may be found all the passions, 



le propensities, all the motives, good and bad, 



h are found in society of larger size and 



th — all of them as capable of being turned to 



od or a bad account according to the manner 



verning or conducting them. It is necessary, 



:fore, for us all to be ''wide awake," and not 



cct the '' winter weeding." — Maine Fanner. 



STRAW. 



"How ciin I make my cattle cat straw ?" I have 

 often asked of some experienced farmers. "Give 

 them less Imy," was the general reply. Not lik- 

 ing this mode,, however, and knowing that good 

 farmers in England and this country, made free use 

 of straw as food for cattle, I resolved last summer, 

 when threshing, to change my plan. I stacked it 

 as usual, but in the progress of the work, sprinkled 

 on from one to two bushels of salt. I used the 

 ■' Pitto Thresher," which gave me the additional 

 advantage of mixing the chafT through the whole. 

 Well, during the warm weather in the first part of 

 last December, rry cattle, instead of wandering 

 about with but little appetite, might he seen any 

 day eagerly engaged in filling themselves with 

 straw. At night, when the cows were tied up to 

 receive their roots, their hay would be almost un- 

 touched. Their rotund appearance left me no ap- 

 prehension of their starving, liowever. This was 

 continued until about the 22d December, when I 

 was obliged to reserve the remainder of the stock 

 for the use of the stables. Nearly a month's feed- 

 ing of hay was saved. — Correspondent of Mb. Cult. 



CASTOR OIL. 



" A case has recently occurred in England, in 

 which the death of a horse was evidently produced 

 by the effects of a quart of castor oil given as a 

 putgative. It operated powerfully, but the animal 

 soon died. On examination, a large intro-susception 

 of the jejunum was discovered, and the mucous 

 membrane of the stomach and intestines exhibited 

 marks of severe inflammation." 



I lately mot with the above in an old number of 

 a medical journal, which brought to mind two cases 

 that fell under my observation at Lexington, Ky., 



spend them, and enjoy myself as I go— they would j "> 



which the death of two valuable horses was 



never have risen to be the wealthiest among their supposed to have resulted from the same arncle 

 fellows. It is only by the economical husbandin, administered to them .n abou the same do e as a 

 of small means that thev increase to large sums, purgative. Symptoms of violent intestinal irita- 



tion ensued, and aflrr a few days the animals died. 



apparently exhausted by the powerful purging. I 



It is the hardest part of success to gain a little ; 

 that little once gained, more will easily follow. 



Despise not small beginnings of education. 



Franklin had but little early education; yet look 

 at what he became, and how he is now reverenced. 

 Ferguson, feeding his sheep upon the hills of Scot 



should give castor oil to a horse with great reluc- 

 tance, and never if I could procure any other pur- 

 gative. It is a pity that so little attention is be- 

 stowed upon the disorders of this invaluable ani- 

 mal, by men of sense and intelligence, and that 



ice on Cattle. 61 new Fact. — A correspondent 



e Maine Farmer says: "Lice on cattle at this 

 in of the year, are on the butt end of the horns, 

 roy them now, and you will not have it do in 

 vinter or spring. Strong tobacco juice or al- 

 1 will destroy them." 



is certainly the part of prudence to trust no- 

 ; but whether for good or for evil, God made 

 1 any thing but prudent. 



and, picked up merely the rudiments of learning, mal, by men ot =^"^«/"" '"^-^'-'^X ' hlVfll 

 out ubsequently rose to be one of the first astrono- they are so generally turned over when they fa 

 mers in Europe Herschel, also, the great astrono- sick, to the tender merc.es of 'l^l 'S°° .^"'^wJ/ 

 mer, was in his youth a drummer-boy to a marching conceited horse-leech— C orr. Kentucky Jlgrxcult. 



regiment, and received but little education; but — - 



his name is now associated with the brightest dis- Remember the Poor said the greatest philanthro- 



coveries of science, and is l)orne by the planet | -^ ^j^^ „.orld ever saw, or ever will see. The 

 which his zeal discovered. We have "O'f ^"^""S j gi,i)ig|i faces in our streets, the shivering boy in 

 us a notable illustration of our position, in Elihu , j^.^ tatters hurrying along, the bowed widow gath- 

 '" *' ■--"" ering her thin garment still more closely around 



her shrunken form, and especially that old, bent 

 woman, who is now picking up chips beneath our 

 window, remind us that the season has come when 

 this command is particularly emphatic. 



Remember ike Poor — for the wheel of fortune 

 may in its unceasing whirl, one day place you 

 among them. 



Remember the Poor — for kindness to them will 

 return back upon you a hundred fold. 



Remember the Poor — That old woman is starving! 

 Dare you hoard up the surplus in your hands and 

 let her starve on ? Send her some food, and her 

 prayers and blessing will fall upon your head like 

 a shower of jewels. — Selected. 



Burritt, " the learned blacksmith" of Massachusetts. 

 In the intervals of his labor at the anvil, he made 

 languages his study, and is now doubtless the first 

 linguist in America, being acquainted with upwards 

 of thirty different tongues. A host of instances 

 rise up to testify that, by properly improving the 

 small and perhaps imperfect beginnings of knowl- 

 edge, they may become the foundation stones of a 

 temple of learning, which the future shall gaze up- 

 on and admire. — Savannah Georgian. 



Solomon has said, "There is nothing new under 

 the sun ;" and perhaps destruction has caused as 

 much novelty as invention ; for that is often a re- 

 viva) which we think a discovery. — Lacon, 



