&l)c JTarmcv's iHontljln llisitov. 



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Can a Man make .Honey by Farming I 



A new year lias commenced mid formers 

 should look ubout iliem and determine whether 

 limy can muke any money by farming ; for if they 

 in ill, on inquiry, tliey cannot, they may as well 

 . go to California first as last, ami live on a product 

 that is all ready to he picked up ill the fields, and 

 which they may exchange off at almost any lime 

 for bread and clothing. 



All must not go at once, however, for if there 

 is nut In imiI enough and to spare in some parts 

 of the earth, even gold will not bring it, and it 

 is noise to have gold and nothing else than bread 

 and nothing else. If man may not live on bread 

 alone it seems certain he should not live on gold 

 almi '.' Gold and bread are both good in their 

 places, hut bread is the more ini| orlant article. 



Money has been made by farming, and what 

 has been may he again. Therefore money may 

 be made by (arming, But we have many fann- 

 ers who make no money. So we have many 

 mechanics and merchants who make no money. 

 There art vaiioiis reasons for failure. Some un- 

 derstand but litlle of the business they engage 

 in. Some begin without capital and depend on 

 loans. Some count on making a fortune with- 

 out toil. They are too lazy even to oversee and 

 Watch the workmen they employ. 



Young men who have served as clerks in 

 stores and shops till they have arrived at twenty 

 or twenty-one years of age, must set up lor 

 . themselves at once. Borrowed capital in most 

 cases is relied on, lor most young men with cap- 

 ital are quite above engaging in any business. 

 The banks are applied to lor loans — and as the 

 hanks always want sureties, two or three ol these 

 moneyless young men are surety for each oilier. 

 And though the books say that all the cyphers in 

 creation never can equal a unit, yet at the banks 

 cyphers are often estimated in a different man- 

 ner. 



Well, after a few payments of small sums, 

 punctually made, the young borrowers have a 

 standing at the bank, or banks, for it is more 

 convenient to have two banks than one. Pay- 

 ments to one being made by loans from anoth- 

 er. Money is plenty and the banks waul to keep 

 out as large a sum as possible on interest when 

 they can have sureties. 



Hut money is not so plenty at one time as at 

 another. Too many goods have been imported 

 on credit and foreigners will not take our hank 

 bills in payment. Hard money must go. Hard 

 money is drawn from the banks. Discounts 

 must be curtailed. — Ajnl filially all who owe 



■ banks any thing must " pony up." " Our specie 

 is drawn out and we have nothing to discount 

 upon." Money of course must he scarce when 

 three fourths of the hank bills that circulated are 

 now returned to the banks to procure specie to 

 send abroad. 



Well, "now pay up, young men, we have ac- 

 commodated you when we had so much money that 

 wo could not circulate it, and now you must ac- 

 cotnnioilale ns. We are obliged to call on you, 

 for hard money is scarce." The poor fellows 

 must now pay up or stop. Some lengthen out 

 their days a little by going to the brokers and 



'agreeing to pay at the rale of thirty six per cent. 

 for money. How long can the best of this class 



• live by dealing in this way ? One in fifty may 

 engage in a lucky speculation or may stumble on 

 a lump or two of gold that may help him along. 

 But oihers despair and accept of the offer made 

 to them by the legislature to go through Chan- 

 cery and Repudiule. 



Fanners can succeed quite as well as other 

 classes, but they must not count on becoming 

 rich at once. Young farmers, of small capital 

 Blntld a much better chance than young traders 

 of small capital. Neither should set up for 



' themselves Without a competent stock of know I- 

 edge and some capital of I heir own. Young far- 

 mers are sure to accumulate capital if they will 

 but labor for others who have it, and who lake 



■ all the risk on themselves. 



But ibis is too slow a process for our young 

 go-a-heads. They would be rich at once. They 

 sigh (or a fortune on which they may retire, and 

 .enjoy themselves free from care, not considering 

 tin- (lunger of having nothing to do. They are 

 unacquainted with the wisdom which teaches 

 that " the very first step out of business is into 

 vice or folly. 



No man should think of living longer Ihan he 

 can be useful to society anil his liunily. Farm- 

 ers cannot often accumulate property with ra- 

 pidity — hut farming is the safest business that is 

 followed. And limners are less dependent on 

 other classes than oihers are on them. Farming 

 too is the most healthy business that has ever 

 been followed, and it culls into action the ener- 

 gies of the mind as well those of the body. — 

 Massachusetts Ploughman. 



Mercy to Animals. 



II Y MARTIN P , T U P P E R . 



bnys and men of British mould, 

 With mother's milk within you 7 



A simple word lor young and old, 



A word o warm and win you ; 

 You've each and all got human hearts 



As well as human lealures. 

 So hear me, while I lake Ihe parts 



Of nil ihe poor dumb creatures. 



1 wot your lol is sometimes rough ; 



But theirs is something rougher — 

 No hope , no loves — but pain enough, 



And only sense lo sutler ; 

 You men and hoys, have friends and joys 



And homes and hopes in measure, 

 But these poor brutes are only mules, 



And never knew a pleasure ! 



A little water, chaff and hay, 



And sleep, ihe boon of heaven, 

 How great returns lor these have Ihey 



To your advantage given : 

 And yet Ihe worn-out horse, or ass, 



Who makes your daily gaining, 

 Is paid wiih goad and ihong, alas! 



Though nobly uncomplaining. 



Stop, cruel hov ; you mean no ill, 



But never thoughi about n — 

 Why beat that palient donkey still ? 



He goes as well wiihoul it: 

 Here taste and try a cul or two, 



Ha ! you can shout and feel it, 

 Boy — tri.it was Mercy's hint lo you, — 



la shorter measure deal it. 



Stop, sullen man ! I well can tell 



How ill the world has used von j 

 The fanners did'llt Ireat you well, 



The squire himself refused you : 

 But is that any reuson why 



A bad revenge you're wreaking 

 On that poor lame old horse — wliose eye 



Rebukes you without speaking ? 



think not thou that this dumb brute 

 Has no strong Friend lo aid him ; 



.Nor hope, because Ins wrongs are mute, 

 They rouse not God who made him! 



A liule while, and you are — dead, 

 Willi all your bitter feelings; 



How will ihe Juoge, so just and dread, 

 Keward your cruel dealings ? 



Go, do some good before you die 



To those who make your living; 

 They will not ask you reasons Why, 



JNor tax you for forgiving ; 

 Their mouths are mute ; but most acute 



The woes whereby you wear them; 

 Then crime with me, and only see 



How easy 'i is to spare Ihem ! 



Load for'ard ; neither goad, nor flog; 



For rest your heasi is flagging ; 

 And do not lei that willing dog. 



Tear out his heart with dragging ; 

 Wail, wait awhile; Ihose axles grease. 



And shilt Hns buckle's netting j 

 Anil give that galling collar ease ; — 



How gralelul is he gelling ! 



So poor yourselves, and short of joys, 

 Unkmuly used, unfairly, 



1 sometimes wonder, men and boys, 



You're merciful so rarely ; 

 If yon have lell how hun-er gripes, 



Why lamish and ill use Yin.' 

 It you've been weal'd by sores and stripes, 



How can you beat and bruise 'em 1 



O fear ! lest Cud has taught in vain, 



And so your hearts you harden ; 

 hope ! lor Lo! He 'calls again, 



And nuw's Hie lime for p.rdon : 

 Y'es, haste lo-day lo put away 



Y'our cruellies and curses — 

 And man at least, if not his beast, 



Shall bless me lor my verses. 



Bricks from Europe.— \n the early days of this 

 republic, most of Hie bricks used in New Fork 

 were brought from Holland. A ship arrived at 

 New Bedford, Mass, recently, wiih 50,000 bricks 

 from Bremen, Germany. 



From the Boston Cultivator. 

 The Past and the Present. 



BV KI.ORA FIELDING. 



It is well fur us, who are enjoying so richly 

 the benefits of freedom, and basking in ihe sun- 

 shine of prosperity, to occasionally roll hack ihe 

 tide of years and stand on that lonely rock, wiih 

 the pilgiini-banil, who sought in ihe wilderness 

 a home Irani oppression and freedom to worship 

 God. Carry ourselves back in imagination lo 

 Puritanic days, when the broad cultivated fields 

 now bilore us were one dense loie.-l, w hich had 

 never echoed ihe woodman's axe,— silent, ami 

 unbroken save when made vocal Willi ihe songs 

 of ihe feathered tribe,— or when the shrill cry of 

 ihe war-hoop, as it came shrieking upon ihe air, 

 proclaimed that ihe red men were wending their 

 way into its deep sombre .-bade,— when ihe Ptirl- 

 i g smoke wreathed darkly up from savage huts: 

 rendering more heauiillll by iis own magic hand, 

 the workmanship of nature's self, and adding io 

 the comfort and convenience of civilized beings. 



We stand with thai pilgrim-baud, and stretch- 

 ed out before us tin- and wide, is one howling 

 wilderness. Hideous eye-halls glare, and v isa^ 

 ges grim swarm around us — all is one scene of 

 desolation, How palient and protracted must 

 he the efforts of man, lo rear in ihe midst of 

 such barbarism, ihe fabric, of civilization and re- 

 finement. We pass over ihe thrilling events, 

 connected wiih the sentiment of our lauds,— the 

 bloody scenes of Ihe revolution — ihe various 

 struggles of each period in our nation's liistorv, 

 and we find that patient, persevering effort has 

 reared the noble structure, ihe admiration and 

 praise ol every clime. The savage has ili.-a|i- 

 peare.d at the sound of the woodman's axe, and 

 the towering finest lies low beneath its heavy 

 stroke. The stubborn glebe, which once gleam- 

 ed wiih the council-fires, now yields to ihe mel- 

 lowing plough, and rich fields of waving grain 

 repay the laborer's toil. Thriving low ns anil vil- 

 lages now rise up to view, where once ihe wig- 

 wain of Ihe savage stood. The shrill cry of the 

 war-whoop has ceased, and in its stead, is heard 

 the shriek of Ihe u hislle, ihe panting of the iron 

 steed, wheeling the clattering car, where once 

 darted wiih agile limb, ihe dark form of ihe In- 

 dian. Surely, '• ihe desert bus been made lo bud 

 and blossom as ihe rose, and the wilderness and 

 solitary places have been made lo rejoice." The 

 toils and sufferings which have achieved such 

 glorious results, it was not oUr's to endure; the 

 present is ours to enjoy. Our civil ami religious 

 institutions secure to ns privileges, lin- superior 

 to any other on the globe. Honest industry and 

 frugality here gain a livelihood, ami peace and 

 plenty sii smiling at the social board. The foun- 

 tain of knowledge is open equally to all; the 

 high and ihe low, the rich and the poor, may 

 alike slake their thirst al ihe perennial spring. 

 Oihers may roam among the vine-clad hills of 

 France — repose beneath ihe Italian skies — 

 hreathe the rich fragrance of oriental climes, 

 hut dearer far lo me, is my quiet New Eng- 

 land home. 



A Noei.f. Boy.— A boy was once tempted by 

 some of bis companions, to pluck some rich ripe 

 cherries from a tree which his father had forbid- 

 den him to touch. 



You need not he afraid, for if your father 

 should find out that you b,u| them, he is so kind 

 thai he would not hurt you. 



'•That is the very reason," replied the boy, 

 "why I would not touch them." 



"It is line, my fuller would not hurt me; yet 



my disobedience, I know, would hurt my father; 



and that would be worse lo me than any thing 

 i „ J n 



else. 



A boy who grows up with such principles 



would he a man in Ihe best sense of the word. 



It betrays a sacred regard lor rectitude that 



would render him trustworthy in ihe hour of 



trial. 



Don't believe it. — It is said that llipre are peo- 

 ple in the '• Moimiaiii Districts" of Kentucky so 

 green thai ihey followed a wagon which happen- 

 ed to pass thai way, twenty miles, "just lo see 

 whether the hind wheels would overtake the 

 fore ones." 



