1848. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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" Well, you don't want him to-day. Send the cradle 

 home, and tell him it is cradled." 



" tTadled ! who did it?" " I did it." 

 "When?" " This morning." 



The look of astonishment and admiraticm with which Mr 

 Butler regarded John, was not unobserved by Lizzy, and 

 led her to meditate on the propriety of anollier retreat to the 

 pantry. She adopted, however, the expedient of holding a 

 coffee cup to her lips for a very unnecessary length of time. 

 " What shall we go at to-day after we have shocked up 

 the buckwheat?" said Hendricks. 



" I don't know ; what do you think we had best do ?" 

 " Have the rye in where we took the corn off." 

 " Well, we will go at that, then." 



In like manner John's advice was asked daily and follow- 

 ed ; so that before winter set in, the farm presented a very 

 different aspect from that which it usually wore at that time. 

 Commonly, some potatoes were frozen up, and some por- 

 tion of the intended sowing left undone, in consequence of 

 the frost overtaking the plow. But now, every crop was 

 secured, the grain sown, and up quite green, the house 

 banked, and quite a "string of stone wall" made. That 

 the corn was all husked in season, might have been owing 

 to the fact, that the turning over the new leaf had inspired 

 the family with such a spirit of industry, that Lizzy had 

 joined them in their evening huskings, and took her seat 

 near John, that he might break off such of the ears as were 

 beyond her strength. It happened on one or two occasions 

 that these two continued their labers long after Saul and 

 his father had gone to bed. 



In the course of time it came to this, that Mr. Butler used 

 to ask John what he was a going to do, as though his right 

 to direct operations was unquestional^le. For example, one 

 morning John had a stone boat, with several crow bars in 

 it, at the door. 



" What%re you going to do ?" said Mr. Butler. 

 " I am going to build a stone wall, on the east side of the 

 meadow. The ground is high enough there for a wall to 

 stand, and there are stone enough on the knoll there which 

 ought to come out to make it." 



Sir. Butler made no reply, but together with Saul went 

 to digging stone. 



" This looks like a new farm," said Mr. George one day 

 to his neighbor, as they rode by Mr. Butler's house. 



"Yes," replied kis neighbor, "there is a new hand at 

 the bellows." 



" Does Hendricks work it on .shares ?" 

 "No, he works by the month." 

 " Does he ? What makes him drive on so ? " 

 " I don't know for certain, but I guess Butler's daughter 

 is at the bottom of it." 



When winter set in, Saul, though he was a good boy to 

 work, felt a desire to have a little more furniture in the up- 

 per story, asked leave to go to the Center to school. " Un- 

 cle Zeb says he will board me if I'll come." 



"I don't see howl can spare you. We must build in 

 the spring, and we have all the timber to get out, and logs 

 to get to the mill," said Mr. Butler. 

 Saul looked rather down hearted. 



"You can go," said John, who was sitting before the 

 blazing fire, between Saul and Lizzy. "I'm a going to 

 stay, that is, if they will let me. I tell you what it is 

 turning to Mr. Butler, if you will give me this critter, lay 

 ing his hand on Lizzy's arm, I'll stay and work for you at 

 any lay you choose." 



Lizzy turned very red, but neither ran for the pantry, or 

 pushed away John's hand. 



"Well," said Mr. Butler, who had recently seen what 

 things were coming to, " that must be pretty much as you 

 and she can agree, musn't it mother?" 



"I guess so," said Mrs. Butler, dropping several stitches 

 in a stocking she was knitting for John. 



" There won't be much difficulty about it then, I guess," 

 said John. " Saul must go to school. He may go to col- 

 lege if he has a mind. I can get his support out of the 

 farm without hurting .any body, I reckon." Then turning 

 to Lizzy, he said, "The road is good, aad Jack wants to 

 stir himself, and I want to go over to mother's. Suppose 

 you just hop into the wagon and ride over with me." 



Lizzy looked towards lier mother, and rose up and went 

 to " put on her things." The horse was soon at the door, 

 and Lizzy was soon in the wagon, and the wagon w^as soon 

 at John's mother's, and John's mother viras soon introduced 

 to Lizzy, who soon became her daughter-in-law, that is to 

 say, on New Year's eve. 



Yates County Agricultural Society. 



The annexed preamble and resolutions, adopt- 

 ed at a recent meeting of the Yates Co. Agricul- 

 tural Society, embody some excellent ideas and 

 suggestions : 



Whereas, it is conceded by all classes that the science 

 of agriculture is, of all subjects, the most interesting, and, 

 indeed, absolutely necessary to the existence of the human 

 family ; therefore it should claim the greater share of their 

 attention. It is a self-evident truth that in union there is 

 strength, and that by associated action, the standard of ag- 

 riculture may be very much advanced among us, not only 

 in theory, but in attaining to more perfect and certain re- 

 sults in practical farming than we have yet aspired to. — 

 Knowledge, the motive power of every science, must be 

 brought to bear upon this subject. This can only be done 

 in the science of agriculture by experiments — these must be 

 extensive, and carefully and accurately compared until 

 effects can be traced to their causes. Agricultural knowl- 

 edge can in no way be so well disseminated and experi- 

 ments so well compared as by agricultural societies. — 

 Therefore, 



Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the 

 Yates County Agricultural Society should, as a matter of 

 vital interest to us, be sustained ; and that it would be- 

 come a large proportion of the farmers of Yates, to throw 

 aside the appellation, so often used by them, of "your so- 

 ciety," and make it their own, lending it their cordial sup- 

 port. 



Resolved, That we consider it advisable to hold our next 

 annual Fair two days — the first to be set apart for the exhi- 

 bition of Stock, Farm Implements, &c., and, upon which 

 all articles may be brought in ; the last for the plowing 

 match, the hearing of the reports of committees, the address, 

 &c. The intervening evening may be profitably spent in 

 holding an agricultural talk. 



Resolved, That at each annual meeting, members be ap- 

 pointed to attend the Agricultural Fairs of the adjoining 

 counties, two members to each, in order to collect such 

 information as may be for the benefit of this Society. 



Resolved, That our neighbors of the adjoining counties 

 be requested to visit us at our Fair ; and to extend their 

 invitation to counties adjoining them, so that a chain may 

 be formed between the several agricultural societies of the 

 State. 



Resolved, That we request the Legislature to continue 

 the appropriations to the several Agricultural Societies 

 throughout the State. 



Resolved, That the above Preamble and Resolutions be 

 published in the county papers, the Genesee Farmer, and 

 Cultivator. CHARLES LEE, President. 



Artemus BiGELow, Secretary. 



Bilious Colic. 



The following recipe we are assured is a certain remedy 

 for that distressing disease, as it has never keen known to 

 fail in a single instance : 



" Take, say a fourth of a pound, of chewing tobacco, tear 

 it well to pieces, and put it into a vessel and pour on to it a 

 sufficiency of boiling water to moisten and swell the leaves, 

 then lay it on a cloth and apply it to the seat of the pain." 

 Relief will be obtained in less than fifteen minutes. — Maine 

 Farmer. 



Our friend Dr. Holmes should be cautious 

 how he encourages the application of tobacco 

 juice to the bowels, or other parts of the human 

 system. We have used it to aid in the reduction 

 of a strangulated hernia, when the absorption of 

 the poison through the skin over the abdomen 

 produced bad symptoms. Medical books abound 

 in cases where persons have suffered severely by 

 the absorbtion of a decoction of " chewing tobac- 

 co." It is a powerful anodyne — allayer of pain 

 — but should be used with caution. 



