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the agreement which was made with you, 

 whilst you are attentive to your part; but 

 it is to be remembered, that a breach on one 

 side releases the obligation on the other. If, 

 therefore, it shall be proved to me that you 

 are absenting yourself from either the farm 

 or the people, without just cause, I shall 

 hold myself no more bound to pay the wages, 

 than you do to attend strictly to the charge 

 which is entrusted to you, by one who has 

 every disposition to be 



Your friend and servant, 



Geo. Washington. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 The Quince. 



As the time for planting fruit trees will 

 soon come round, I wish to call attention to, 

 and invite a more extended cultivation of 

 the quince tree. The fruit of this tree, ei 

 ther green or dried, always commands a 

 very generous price, and the market is never 

 overstocked with it. The quince produces 

 the finest fruit when planted in a moist soil, 

 and in a sheltered situation ; it may be pro- 

 pagated by layers or cuttings, or by grafting 

 The younger trees produce the finest fruit, 

 and they should be renewed every 10 or 12 

 years, as by that time they become aged, 

 though they will survive for a much longer 

 period, but not generally to produce fine and 

 fair fruit. 



The trees being small, they occupy but 

 little room, and are not very liable to be in- 

 jured by cattle, if placed near a fence. A 

 field of 10 acres, is 660 feet on each side, 

 and at a distance of 10 feet apart, which 

 will be sufficient, will well accommodate 

 264 trees around the fence, without inter- 

 fering with the agricultural operations with- 

 in the enclosure. In a few years this num- 

 ber of trees would produce, on a very 

 moderate calculation, 66 bushels of quinces 

 annually, which at the lowest price they 

 were ever known to sell, would net a sum 

 clear of all expense, far greater than < an ho 

 produced by any other crop occupying the 

 same space. The usual price of the graen 

 fruit is from four to six dollars per bushel, 

 and the dried article sells proportion ably 

 high. Why is it that the West, which for- 

 wards so large an amount of dried peaches 

 and apples to our eastern cities, sends no 

 dried quinces, which would sell for more 

 than double the price ? A 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 High Prices and Low Prices. 



Farmers should bear in mind, that low 

 prices have always heretofore been followed 

 by high prices; and extravagant and high 

 prices are uniformly succeeded by low oiks; 

 the oldest farmer living, cannot point out a 

 deviation from this rule ; in fact, it may al- 

 most be said to be a law of nature ; it is the 

 way things have always worked throughout 

 the whole world ; where is the man that has 

 experience to contradict itl In times of de- 

 pression it is a mark of wisdom to go ahead 

 and prepare for a better state of things. — 

 Manure your land and bring it into a better 

 state of cultivation, now when it can be 

 done cheaply, and be ready to set sail when 

 the tide turns; never wait till the market 

 is up to begin to improve your land, or you 

 will be sure to have but little to sell when 

 the day of generous prices comes about 

 again, which it surely will do. It is best 

 for a farmer always to keep his hand in, as 

 the saying is, and not go to sleep on his 

 dung fork, when his land needs waking up 

 with some stimulating nutriment. Those 

 whose memories are sufficiently retentive to 

 remember 1819 and 20, may recollect the 

 desponding of that period ; all the products 

 of agriculture were low, very low indeed, 

 and many thought they would never rise 

 again — a gloom spread over the wmole coun- 

 try, and not a few suffered their ^arms to 

 deteriorate, thinking it useless to spend 

 money and labour in their improvement. 

 Well, what followed! — a time of prosperity 

 and money getting and spending, to such an 

 extent as has rarely been known in any 

 country. Something like this may again 

 happen; at all events, when our unwise law 

 makers get tired of trying foolish and perni- 

 cious experiments, and permit the mechanics 

 and manufacturers to work for the fanners 

 without too much competition from foreign- 

 ers, and the farmers to feed them and to 

 supply them with the raw materials to work 

 upon, we may look for more prosperous times 

 and better prices for agricultural products. 



W. 



It is said that Bronchitis, and all similar 

 affections, may be prevented by bathing the 

 neck and breast every morning with cold 

 water. The experiment is at least worth a 

 trial. 



Shipley Church, in Sussex, repeats 21 

 syllables. In the whispering gallery of St. 

 Paul's Church, London, the faintest sound 

 is faithfully conveyed from one side to the 

 other, of the dome, but is not heard at any 

 intermediate point. In the Cathedral of Gir- 

 genti, in Sicily, the slightest whisper is 

 borne with perfect distinctness from the 

 great western door to the cornice behind 

 the high altar, a distance of 250 ft.— Pierce 

 on Sound. 



