Vol 1.— No. 45. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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contagion in hs example. Willi such men, 

 learning is every thing, and that very every 

 thing is mere literature. With a vacant 

 i ■ i i i ■ 1 1 , but a stuffed memory, such men are 

 full of learned nonsense, bin have no actu- 

 al knowledge of any of the business of life. 

 Their day, with that of legitimacy,' and 

 tli ! ' divine rights' of hereditary usurpers, 

 has gone by : the Palace of Power, is now 

 the Temple of Industry. Men must do 

 something, as well as know something, and 

 not merely be boohs, or guide posts! The 

 drones of literature, the very soft heads of 

 the underlings that come from College into 

 the ' learned professions.' and from these in- 

 to our Common Schools, as Teachers, are 

 exactly the wrong sort of men for that office, | 

 in all that concerns the well being of the 

 Farming interest. 



How, then, are our Farming neighborhood 

 Common Schools, which aie very niimer 



Teacher, by casting lots, from the boys of to 'drawback,' for there are no expoits. 



With the fashion, goes also the pride, like 

 the down of the thistle, always carrying the 

 seed with it. 



September 5, 1831. 



ous, to be supplied with Teacher 

 swer, select from among the Farmers' sons, 

 of the same district, some young man of 

 good sense, of good disposition, distinguish- 

 ed for his good qualities, and love of learn- 

 ing, and let him be your winter schoolmas- 

 ter. He is a Common School man, and a 

 common sense man, to whom one or two 

 winters of experienc , in teaching, may be 

 of no small use, much to the satisfaction of 

 the whole district. Try it once, in this way, 

 and you will probably discover that the ail 

 of Teaching consists principally in the art 

 of governing, and this in aining the atten- 

 tion, by means of the affections, and by hav 

 ing something to impart, as food for the 

 mind. I have tried this plan, both as 

 Teacher, as a Trustee of schools, and in 

 sending to them, as a parent, and with the 

 most perfectly convincing evidence of suc- 

 cess. 



Much has been said, within a few years, 

 about Educating young men, as Teachers 

 of Common Schools, and plans have been 

 suggested for Schools designed solely for 

 this purpose. It has been partially tried, and 

 those very young men make it a road to oth- 

 er pursuits, and thus leave Common Schools 

 to take care of themselves. We do not 

 want men devoted to this business. Wher- 

 ever there is a school district, and a school 

 house, and school, there are also schol- 

 ars, and of suitable age and qualifications, 

 to serve in turn in the office of Teacher ; 

 and so it will always be, unless the British 

 ' Rotten Borough' system, shall come into 

 practice in our school districts, of which 

 there is not much danger. The Teachers of 

 Common Schools, should have received their 

 learning in Common Schools, and by pur- 

 suing this plan, for a "few years, more will 

 have been effected towards ' raising their 

 character,' of which much has been lately 

 said, than by even a College, for supplying 

 Teachers, or an Academy, for the same pur- 

 pose in every county of the slate. This is 

 my opinion, Mr. Editor, and the result ol 

 as much experience as falls to the lot of 

 most men. with an, pie opportunities for ob- 

 servation, as well in reading men, and things, 

 — the schools, of all orders, and those who 

 direct their ope atic-ns, — as in reading books, 

 and ruminating a little, occasionally. lint 

 of all mistakes, so common, that of em 

 ploying young men who are fitting for Col- 

 lege, to act as Teachers in Common Schools, 

 is certainly one of the most pernicious, as 

 yespects the interests f those who patron- 

 ize such schools. I would rather take a 



the district, because his whole mind, what- 

 ever it might be, would all be in the school, 

 and his efforts would he directed to the com- 

 mon good. He must he a rare bird, that 

 has spare food for others, while on the wing 

 to catch Hies for his own journey, a bird of 

 passage, only, whose example gives a wrong 

 direction to the minds of Farmers' sons. 



Some people, not absolutely devoid of 

 good sense, however much they may seem 

 to lack, in some of their conclusions, ap 

 pear to act as if they thought affability, and 

 good breeding, belonged only to fine clothes' 

 They will be very polite when ' dressed up ' 

 as they call it,, but most slovenly in their 

 manners, at all other times. This is what I 

 call a false exterior, an assumed character, in 

 dress, but the real, in dishabille, undress, 

 common dress, your every-day apparel. — 

 That man, or that boy, or woman, or girl, 

 who is not such, independently offine clothes, 

 is not fit to be a Farmer, or a Farmer's son. 

 or wife, or daughter. The consciousness of 

 self respect, must rest on something very dif- 

 ferent from mere dress, or even personal ap- 

 pearance, as to being finely or coarsely clad, 

 fashionably or unfashionably, in full dress 

 for a ball room, or in the garb of business. 

 He who is suitably clad, for his avocation, 

 is most honorably clad, and need not blush, 

 at the presence of others any more than the 

 bee should, when seen by a butterfly 



Our cousins, in town, are town- people, cit 

 izens, — citizens of some note, in a city of 

 some note, — and we are country Farmers, 

 plain, homespun folks, as Farmers should 

 be. When they visit us, it is all ' cousin this 

 one,' and 'cousin that one,' hail-fellows-we 

 met, and so, indeed, it is, when we visit 

 I lien), to do them justice, — for they really 

 are good kind of folks, — and yet — I must 

 speak plainly — they hardly ever ' cousin' us, 

 in town, before some of their most wealthy 

 and genteel acquaintances ! Unless, indeed, 

 as sometimes happens, the girls have all just 

 been prinketed up, in city mode, when they, 

 perchance, may have the honor of such pre- 

 sentation ! Now, sir, for my philosophi- 

 zing. The true philosophy, in my opinion, 

 is, for Farmers to be Farmers, at home and 

 abroad, and always to act like themselves, 

 an dress in their own way. Let town peo- 

 ple continue to call us 'rusticated,' while we 

 call them prinketed, and there let these mat- 

 ters rest, cousin or no cousin. If country 

 Farmers would all come to these conclu- 

 sions, and live up to them, we should hear 

 no more about the blushing of the working 

 bees, caught in their working dress by the 

 eye of the butterfly, sporting away us biief 

 houis of life in a more showy raiment We 

 could then visit our town acquaintances, 

 without new wardrobes, and return with more 

 money than band-boxes, so as to keep our 

 Farm clear of mortgages, and the market- 

 ing produce would become a very pleasant, 

 instead of a painful business. 1 know ma- 

 ny a Farmer, who dreads going to lown, e- 

 ven with the produce of his Farm, and no 

 mean quantity, as he would going to a horse- 

 race, because of the many attendants, and so 

 many wants. If these people could see the 

 fashions only to laugh at them, as town peo 

 pie do ours, real Fanner fashions, their oc- 

 casional visits to town would do them no 

 harm. But the mischief is, that some peo- 

 ple want to be what they are not, oi to ap- 

 pear to be, and hence comes the misery. — 

 The ' imports' of fashion are never entitled 



BLIGHT IN PEAR TREES. 



The disease of the pear tree, termed 

 blight, has been less prevalent this year than 

 during years past. But it seems to have as- 

 sumed a new character, or changed its 

 mode of attack. In the early part of the 

 season 1 discovered that the epidermis on 

 i he bodies of several trees, of two to four 

 inches in diameter had become brown in 

 spots, and was cracked and separating from 

 the true bark ; and in some instances, I found 

 the disease had extended to the wood I 

 immediately had them washed with a weak 

 solution of chloride of lime, which seems to 

 have restoied them to health. I applied the 

 chloride the preceding year to the stumps of 

 some amputated branches, in some of which 

 cases the disease had exlended down upon 

 one side of the bole of the tree. In every 

 case the disease was checked, and the live 

 parts have protruded beyond the dead wood. 

 Although Mr. Lowell, whom I highly res- 

 pect, and whom I am ambitious to propi- 

 tiate, detests all theories, I am neverthe- 

 less induced to hazard my theory in this 

 case. It is this, that the disease is owing to 

 a minute insect, which preys upon the bark, 

 and vitiates and poisons the elaborated sap; 

 and that the chlorine destroys the insect 

 and becomes an antidote to the poison.— 

 From partial experiments, I am induced to 

 believe, that the chloride will prove an effi- 

 cient preventative to the mildew on grapes 

 also. These suggestions are hazarded in 

 the hope that they may lead others to make 

 more satisfactory experiments. J. Buei. 

 Oct. 20. 



The Horse. — The Horse commonly 

 ives to the age of 20 or 25 years, but from 

 the cruelly of men, and art misapplied, his 

 days are very much diminished,by the ear- 

 ly application of over exertion and the un- 

 remitting continuance of it. His race is 

 frequently begun before he is three years 

 old. In the brake, lunge, or riding school 

 at four years. At five and six, his utmost 

 speed is exerted in the summer, on the trot- 

 ting course, as a hackney, against time ; 

 and in winter, slipping and sliding about 

 before a sleigh, when forced without feeling 

 or fear, by an inhuman driver. At seven, 

 he is either blind, foundered or spavined. — 

 At eight, he gallantly shines in a stage 

 coach, mail-stage, or Broadway Omnibus. 

 \t nine, he is seen to falter and stumble 

 before the oyster or clam cart. At ten 

 completely worn out with disease and in- 

 anition. And lastly, he falls a victim to 

 the instrument of a veterinary surgeon, and 

 old age gains him an honorable, exit at the 

 Corporation Dock ! ! ! — .V. Y. Fanner. 



To PREseiiVE 1'eatiiers.— Some our fair o 

 eaders may not deem it uninte: esting to learn 

 the following very simple process for preser- 

 ving ornamental f'eatliprs. ^-c , Ironi the injury 

 iiy insei its. The articles must be sp nged with 

 .voak lime water, and then dried Thrp 

 should be kept in a very dry place, and wht.u 

 ibout. to be used should Ite slightly beaten aen 

 ibe shaken in the aiF. — [Boston Transcridy 



