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and longlived husbands, sons and daughters, they must know how to 

 make good broAvn bread. If the daughters would be well qualified 

 to take their mothers' places, they must be ambitious to excel, not in 

 the work of the toilet, the graces of the drawing-room, the arts of 

 embroidering, painting and music, only ; but in that of baking, espe- 

 cially. This is woman's right, and should be her pride, rather than 

 harranguing public assemblies, and managing the affairs of State. 

 It is to be hoped that, next year, instead of eight, there will be, at 

 least, twenty-eight entries of brown bread. That the daughters, as 

 well as mothers, will have a hand, and a name in them, and the re- 

 sponsibility of judging and reporting upon them. Certain it is, that 

 among all the arts of women, which are many — but fev/ have a high- 

 er practical importance, than that of making plain, good and whole- 

 some bread ; essential qualities of which are, siocetness, lightness, 

 and (to coin a word) doncncss. In order to this, the materials must 

 be well selected, well mixed, well raised, and well baked. Then it 

 will be well eaten and well digested ; and the husbands, fathers and 

 sons, will thank the Giver of all good, or ought so to do, — not only 

 for this "staff of life," but for the hands which he has prepared to 

 furnish it. Of the housewife who excels here, it is to be presumed, 

 that "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he 

 shall have no need of spoil." that "She looketh well to the ways of 

 her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness" — that "Her 

 children rise up and call her blessed ; her husband also, and he 

 praiseth her.''' 



REPORT 

 ON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



BY CII.VrvLES H. FIELD. 



" Mi>'D makes the man." It may be said with as much truth, that 

 mind makes the community or nation. The yankec mind is said to 

 be peculiarly inquisitive. Whether inquisitivencss and inventive 

 genius are necessarily co-partners, we will leave for Doctors and Phi- 

 losophers to decide, inclining, however, to the opinion tbit they are. 

 The live Yankee, with his bosom companions, a jac'v-knife and pine 



