vol.. XIV. NO. 3B. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL, 



277. 



9 (laiigiT that (oo many young mon nnd women 

 till profiT what they eonsider a more fash ioiiahle 

 inployment aiul a more olesiant education. And 

 ou, as/a Society, perhaps eannot do much to ex- 

 >ose the mistake or to remedy the evil. It has 

 lowever, occurred to nie that it would be no por- 

 ersion of your fmids if yon were to ofi'er snita- 

 le premiums to such faithful, diligent, temperate 

 nd skilful man or woman as liad remained for 

 ne or more years in the employment of any 

 iietrdier of the Society ; besides, as an additional 

 'Uiageinetit and reward for their faithfulness, 

 hey might receive the Society's certificate, ac- 

 ompaniiid by some useful treatise on rural econ- 

 or domestic duties, such as Fesscnden's 

 'omplcte Farmer, for the males, and Mrs Child's 

 rugal Housewife, for the females, so tliat the 

 ery means of rewarding, should be an encoiir- 

 gement and guide to greater excellence. 



But if as members of this society you can do 

 ut little to remedy this evil abroad, as members 

 f a more limited society you can do much to 

 jmedy it at home. Fathers and mothers, you 

 and at the fountain ; with the lightest trace of 

 our finger on the yielding soil, you can give a 

 irection to the infant stream. You can send it 

 liding down through verdant fields and flowery 

 wns, imparting new fertility and beauty, and 

 ion contributing its strength to propel the com- 

 icated machinery of industry : or you can send 

 dashing, foaming over precipices, to join with 

 her impetuous, headlong streams, carrying de- 

 istatiou in their course : or you can suffer it to 

 ill i<s sluggish way into some stagnant pool, af- 

 rdinga refuge for loathsome reptiles, and poison- 

 Ig the atmosphere with its pestilential vapors. 

 I infancy and at home, the deepest and most 

 iting impressions are made ; your children may 

 ve able and faithful instrueters, but there are 

 any lessons of practical wisdom which are not 

 ught in the schools. The mind of your child 

 constantly busy — he will be learning a lesson 



you when you least think of it. To your 

 ild your remark is wisdom ; your observation, 

 perience ; your opinion, sound doctrine ; and 

 lur word, a law ; your child is learning a lesson 

 Dm every look and action — but most of all, your 

 ample is educating your child. It is a book 

 nstautly open before him, and which ho is con- 

 intly studying. Be careful, anxious father, fond 

 other, that you insert no page which hereafter 

 u may wish to tear, no line yon may wisli to 

 )t — be careful that you admit into that much 

 ad volume no sentiment which you are unwil- 

 ig your child should transcribe on the fair tablet 

 itliin his own ijjnoceut bosom. 



Fear not that I am about, at this late hour to 

 flict on you a lecture on general education. — 



hools, academies and colleges have been founded 

 r the education of the n)ind and the heart ; to 

 ese we must leave them ; but what has been 



ne to encourage the education of the hand ? — 

 he heart and the mind should indeed be enlight- 



ed, pure and undefiled, but the hand must be 

 isy and skilful. The great secret of happiness 

 insists in never suffering the energies to stagnate, 

 ortunately in the farmer's business there is no 

 ant of constant era))loyment; if you can accustom 

 )ur children to patient and cheerful labor, you 

 ive secured for them the means of happiness 

 id independence. In other stations of life there 

 ay be unfortunates, 



*' Strulflied on thii fick of a too ensy chair. 

 Who by their everlasting yawn ninfess 

 Tile {lain.'iand penultics of idlcni;ss" — 



hut this mortal sin should never invade a farmer's 

 dwelling. In training your children to a willing 

 indnslry, do not overtask their strength — let them 

 feel that they ca:i be useful, and that their assist- 

 ance is valued — There are various employnicnls 

 in the house, the garden and the field that an: 

 adapted to their tender years ; n .'ver let their la- 

 bor be such in kind or amount as shall make it 

 disgusting, and if possible make them derive from 

 their labor some compensation in money or relax- 

 ation or indulgence; never withhold the merited 

 jiraise or reward. Accustom them never to ex- 

 jiect another to do for them that which they can as 

 u ell do for themselves, but to rely upon their own 

 strength, a[id to|rust their own energies. Wliat- 

 ever may be their prospects iu life, teach them to 

 depend on their own resources. Help them to 

 cultivate an affectionate, accommodating disposi- 

 tien, moderation in their expectations and mode- 

 ration in their pleasures. Teach them to reve- 

 rence God and to love work — " neither to despise 

 labor nor husbandry, which the Most High has 

 appointed." " Teach them to bear the yoke in 

 their youth, and to do with all diligence whatever 

 their hands find to do" ; so shall you deserve 

 their assistance in the management of your house 

 and your farms ; so shall you secure for them 

 that competence and happiness of which the mis- 

 chances of this world cannot deprive them. And 

 when you shall have performed all life's duties 

 and enjoyed all life's pleasures, when your earthly 

 tabernacle shall fall into ruins, when your wearied 

 frames shall find quiet repose beneath the soil you 

 have faithfully cultivated, and when your spirits, 

 like shocks of corn' fully ripe, shall be gathered 

 into store houses not made with hands, eternal in 

 the heavens — your gratefid children shall arise 

 and bless your memory ; they shall be living mon- 

 uments which shall bear record that you laid for 

 them, in early habits of patient, cheerful and con- 

 tented industry, the foundation for a manly, vir- 

 tuous and honorable independence. 



Microscopic vikw of Milk. — If you submit 

 milk to examination by the microscope, you will 

 observe that it. consists of a niindier of globular 

 particles which float in a scuons Huid. — Kaspail 

 says they appear strongly c<dorerl, nnd black on 

 the edges, on account of their niinutenKs.s. They 

 are not more than half the size of the globides 

 of human blood; their diametir.s, therefore, will 

 be about one ten thousandth of an inch, 'i'hey 

 are com])Osed of a fatty matter — butter — and a 

 coagulable substance of the nature of albumen', 

 but which slightly differ.'!, and, in fact, is caseum, 

 constituting the basis of cheese. These globules 

 being specifically lighter than the liquor iu which 

 they are separated, easily sefiarate by standing, 

 and form cream. We cannot help being struck 

 with the remarkable analogy which exists between 

 milk and an emulsion {as that made with almonds.) 

 Both have a whitish appearance and a sweetish 

 taste ; both, on an examination by the microscope, 

 are found to contain an immense number of oily 

 globules, held in suspension by an albuminous 

 matter and sugar, and both are intended for the 

 nourishment of young living beings. — Percival's 

 Lectures. 



From the Georgia Telegrapli. 



Cotton Seed Oil. — A Gentleman of Upson 

 countj' whose two sons have there a spinning 

 Factory of six or eight hundred spindles, is now 

 constructing in the same neighborhood, under 

 water power, a set of machinery for cleaning and 

 hulling Cotton Seed, and for expressing the oil, 

 which for lamps has been found at the Petersburg 

 Va. Factory, to be superior in more than one res- 

 pect, to most of the Sperm oil. It burns with a 

 clear brilliant light without odor, and is less affect- 

 ed by cold weather than the oils generally used. 

 It is said to have been tested in New York as a 

 paint oil and foiind good, and the Cold Pressed 

 pronounced by a French gentleman to be equal 

 to Olive oil for salads, &c. 



This manufacture is quite a desideratum to our 

 Planters as w'ell as the oil maker, as from each 

 bale of cotton come about thirty bushels of seed, 

 and every three bushels of seed yield at least two 

 gallons of oil. Rating the seed at twelve and a 

 half cents per bushel, each bale will produce to 

 the grower $3, 75 more than at present. The oil 

 expressed will be twenty gallons, worth at least 

 87i cents or one dollar per gallon, supposing the 

 Sperm oil to cause a reduction in its price. 



/ C. 



A EiG Pot. — A potter, in Austria, by the name 

 of Ignatius Carlier, finding it difficult to procure 

 employment, though not from any want of skill 

 in his art, resolved to do something which should 

 bring him into public notice. He resolved, there- 

 fore, to make a pot which should astonish all be- 

 holders ; and after laboring three months, he 

 produced a vessel capable of containing 4000 

 measures, or a quantity of soup sufficient for 

 12,000 men. The sides were ornamented with 

 garlands, the imperial eagle, and a representation 

 of the temptation of Adam and Eve. This stu- 

 pendous pot being exhibited, procured him the 

 requisite notoriety, and orders from all quarters 

 poured in upon him in such profusion that he is 

 now in a fair way to make his fortune. 



A MAN BURIED IN THE SNOW. — A man named 

 Taylor, a resident of Monroe in this county, was 

 ascending the bank of Deerfield river, a day or two 

 after the recent heavy snow-storm, when a drift 

 which he was trying to struggle through, broke 

 away from the bank, took him off his feet, and 

 after carrying him some distance down the decliv- 

 ity, left him fixed, head downwards, with five or 

 six feet of snow above him. He struggled vio- 

 lently to liberate himself, but ineffectually, till his 

 strength failed him, and it seemed to him, by his 

 own subsequent account, as if the bitterness of 

 death were past. It so hapjiened that his sudden 

 disappearance was noticed by some persons who 

 were on a hill at a quarter of a mile's distance — 

 help was procured, and after a long and fatiguing 

 search, he was finally dug out, two hours from the 

 time when this wintry tomb closed over him, and 

 in a state of suspended consciousness, from which 

 he recovered slowly and with great difBculty. — 

 Greenfield Mercury. 



To PREVENT BRASS VESSELS TROM C0NTRACTIN6 



VERDIGRIS AFTER BEING USED. — Instead of wip- 

 ing them dry it has been found, that by constantly 

 immersing them in water, they are kept perfectly 

 innoxious, and wi 1 remain for years, fully as clean 

 and nearly as bright as when they first came out 

 of the hands of the workmen. 



