72 



SILK M A r^ U A L , AND 



A pair of horses 5 years old cost 



Interest 8 years 



Harness for 8 years 



Shoeing for 8 years 



Keep and attendance for 8 years 



Deduct horses sold 



160,00 

 80,60 

 50,00 

 50,00 



575,20 



924,80 

 100,00 



Total cost of 8 years' work hy horses 824,00 

 Total cost of 8 years' work by oxen 324,80 



Difference in favor of oxen 



$500,00 



If the above estiniation be correct, (and if it be 

 not, I believe that a near ajiproximation to the 

 truth will be found to increase the balance in favor 

 oxen) it will be seen that two pair of oxen may be 

 kept with less expense than one pair of horses. 

 — Ohio Farmer. 



A KITCHEN GARDEN. 



The importance of a little spot to raise vegetables 

 for family comfort, convenience and economy is 

 not known to every one. I have practised for 

 jnany years raising my own potatoes, beets, car- 

 rots, parsnips, cabbages, ^ c, ; also, sweet corn, 

 and beans, peas, squashes, and other garden vege- 

 tables for my family table. Thus I obtain a very 

 wholesome food, and save much expense of pur- 

 chasing meat; — I am not plagued with a big 

 butcher's bill, — nor do I require so much bread, 

 as when I have none or few of these valuable 

 fruits. The labor, too, which I perform with my 

 own hands has its benefits ; it is both healtiiful to 

 the body, and a saving of expense. I often find 

 myself with a sweaty brow and a tired limb; but 

 what of this ? It surely brings health, and no one 

 ought to be ashamed to handle the hoe or the mat- 

 tock : it is man's natural employment. We were 

 made to till the earth, and it is a good preventive 

 against a thousand ills, moral as well as-physical. 

 Besides, what mechanic or farmer can bear to set 

 down, day after day, to a dish of nothing but pork 

 and potatoes, when, by half an hour's work each 

 day in his garden, he might be well jirovided with 

 various dishes of green sauce ? If he has a fam- 

 ily of young children, it is still more inqiortant that 

 he should attend to this matter. 



Now, ye men of industry and economy — ye 

 lovers of life and of money — I enjoin it upon you 

 to have a kitchen garden — a little quarter of an 

 acre, where you can employ yourselves for a while 

 both morning and evening, in bringing to maturi- 

 ty those good things, so useful and so healthful in 

 your families. The earth is the mother of us all, 

 and on her we all depend for our nourishment. 

 We therefore must not forsake her. If there is no 

 labor of the husbandman, then our bread will fail 

 \\». Thq soil must be cultivated, in order to its 



producing jtlenteousness for the food of man and 

 beast. The professional man, and the mechanic, 

 and the man of trade, should not be so exclusive 

 in his occupatii.n, as to refuse an occasional and 

 personal attention to these things. To a man who 

 takes pleasm-e in beholding the progress of vege- 

 table nature, it will be no task to attend to the 

 trimming of his garden plants, thus giving vigor 

 to his body, and a profitable cn)ployment to a 

 thoughtful mind. Is it a mean thing to be seen 

 with a hoe or a spade upon your shoulder? 

 Fudge! 'tis the j.rejudice of ignorance. Awake, 

 then I " In the morning sow th}' seed, and in ths 

 evening withhold not thine hand." — BriJgeteater 

 Patriot. 



Sowing Mulberry Seed. — A Avriter in the Silk 

 Culturist, who is an experienced cultivator of the 

 mulberry, says that any time in the month of Au- 

 gust is a suitable season for sowing the mulberry 

 seed ; that the plants may be protected through 

 the winter by a covering of straw and horse ma- 

 nure, and in the si)ring they will start early and 

 grow vigorously, and attain by the fall to nearly 

 as great a height as though they had been sown 

 the i)receding spring. But little straw should be 

 used in covering, otherwise rats and mice may be 

 induced to burrow in it, and destroy the plant. 

 Ihere is one advantage in this late sowing — new 

 seed may be obtained and sown, which is more 

 sure to vegetate. 



Garden Thieves. — We are requested to say 

 that an association has been formed, whose deter- 

 mined object it is to pursue and j;unish to the law's 

 extent those plunderers, young and old, who are 

 in the habit of committing depredations upon va- 

 rious enclosures and garden spots — especially 

 those situated a few miles from town. A watch 

 is set for these skulking pilferers, from whose vi- 

 gilance it will be difficult to escape. 



Simple Remedies. — Cotton wool wet with 

 sweet oil and paregoric relieves the ear ache very 

 soon. 



Honey and milk is very good for wo.ms; so is 

 strong salt water. 



A poultice of wheat bran or rye bran, very 

 soon takes down the inflammation occasioned by a 

 sprain. 



Low blackberry leaves made into tea is ex- 

 tremely beneficial for a sore mouth occasioned by 

 taking calomel, or from any cause. 



New Wheat. — On Thursday, the 6th inst., new 

 wiieat was selling in Rochester, at a dollar a bushel. 

 The Rochester papers say the new wheat is of 

 excellent quality, and that the crop comes in well, 

 as to quantity. 



