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probability, by inhaling noxious, acrid gases, such 

 as are the product of foul stables ; for we never 

 see esses of this disease among horses who breathe 

 a pure, uncontauiinatcd atmosphere. Horses which 

 are kept iu confmed stables in cities, wliore the ma- 

 nure and urine are deposited in cellars underneath 

 Iheni, are most subject to this disease. The reme- 

 dy, or rather the mode of iirevenlinr the dir^ease, is 

 so obvious, that cvory jjersuu wliu Ins ch.irjrt' ul' 

 so valuable an animd as the horse, should be ap- 

 prised of the importance of keeping a clean stable, 

 so as to insure a pure atmosphere, that the lungs 

 or brain may not suffer injury by inhaling ammonia- 

 cal gas or spirit of hartshorn, which tonds to pro- 

 duce irritation and inllammation of the fine, tender 

 membranes, which line the nasal processes and the 

 lungs of all animals. 



The disease called li;llow liorn in cattle, is in- 

 flammation of the interior of tlie htud and horns, 

 which comnainicate with the nasal jnoccsses, and 

 very probably proceeds from the same cause which 

 produces mad staggers and glanders in horses ; to 

 wit, foul acrid gase.-?, inhaled insufficient quantities, 

 and for a time sufficient to irritate the very delicate 

 membranous structure of the interior of the head, 

 so as to excite inflammation, and finally suppura- 

 tion, mortification and death. This is rendered the 

 more probable, as horses and cov.-s when stabled aje 

 generally enveloped in one common atmosphere, 

 and the disease does not often show itself till 

 the season is considerably advanced, when the foul 

 malaria has had a long time to operate on the ten- 

 der parts to whicl) it is constantly applied while 

 breathing. Milk cows are generally more closely 

 confined than bulls or young cattle, and it is be- 

 lieved they are much the most frequent subjects of 

 the disease. It is hoped this subject will claim the 

 careful examination of all intelligent farmers, and 

 it is desired that tlieir observations 'may b€ record- 

 ed and published, whether they go to sustain the 

 above theory or to destroy it. Of one thing we are 

 all certain, that to breathe pure, uncontaminated air 

 is more oonducive to health, than to inhale lliat 

 which is foul and irritating to the lungs. An oc- 

 casional smell of a hartshorn bottle may not be disa- 

 greeable or unwholesome, if it is not too concen- 

 trated ; but to he enveloped in an atmosphere of it 

 for half our time, during the winter season, which 

 is the case with a very large proportion of our hor- 

 ses and cattle, cannot be expected to promote the 

 healthy action oftiie system, but on the contrary to 

 produce disease and premature death. 



AGRICOL.'V. 



From the same. 



A LETTER FRO.M PETER JONES ABOUT 

 BOYS. 

 Mr C.\bim:t — A neighbor farmer who reads the 

 Cabinet with a great deal of pleasure, and speaks 

 highly of its merits, hopes your correspondents will 

 continue to favor the public with a continuation of 

 their favors. lie says he is growing old and stiff", 

 and is not able practically to carry out the many 

 valuable suggestions contained in your monthly 

 sheet. He has several boys, as he terms them, 

 though they are all grown to man's estate ; yet he 

 insists on calling them boys, and he says he is ap- 

 prehensive they will continue to be boys all their 

 days, yet he hopes they will be benefited by your 

 paper. The fact is, .Mr Cabinet, these boys were 

 not reared right, although they are pretty steady. 



moral young fellows, but they were permitted when 

 young 10 fall into desultory, idle habits, working or 

 letting it alone, as best suited their inclinations ; 

 the conse(]uence is, that having now become men 

 in age and size, they are boys still, and boys likely 

 to bo, unless your Cabinet eloquence should arouse 

 them out of their present state of apathy. 'I'hey 

 know well enough w III! is ri^'ht, but they hate to 

 dci it; tiiry wil _; mieti' :ps u-.i!; pretty well for a 

 short time, and then relapse suddenly into their old 

 idle, lazy habits, and let things take care of them- 

 selves. Now this is what I suppose doctors call a 

 constitutional or chronic complaint that takes time 

 to cure. These are the sort of chaps thai are con- 

 stantly trying to get something for nothing; to 

 achieve great ends with little means ; or as a friend 

 of mine observed, to bore an auger hole with a 

 gimblct ;. which you know is not an easy matter, 

 and reqr.iics a full grown man of very considerable 

 abilities to accomplish it, With any kiud of decency, 

 so that it is hardly woith while for a common lazy 

 scrub of a fellow to undertake so difficult an opera- 

 tion. Besides there has so many embarked in th;-; 

 mode of getting along through life of late, that the 

 competition is so great as to produce great discour- 

 agement in the operators of latter time. 



Agricultural produce lias of late in consequence 

 tifa concurrence of circiunst.r.ices. iin.trd with too 

 nmch legisladon, and that of a vicious quality, be- 

 come much reduced in price, so that it behoves far- 

 mers to look sharply about them and see if they 

 cannot make some improvements in their domestic 

 arrangements that will counterpoise the low price 

 of the products of their farms. One of the first 

 movements in this reformation, perhaps, ought tobe 

 that of more econoni}', particularly in that valuable 

 commodity called time, for " time is money," as 

 P'or Richard said, about one hundred years ago; 

 it having stood the test of a century, and it is true 

 still, showing in a remarkable manner the truth of 

 the saying, that "truth is truth to the end of the 

 world." 



If people were taxed by the State to the amount 

 of but one-tenth part of the time that is idled away 

 or mis-spent, it would be deemed such an act of 

 tyranny and oppression, that it would soon produce 

 a revolution in the commonwealth ; but voluntary 

 taxes are cheerfully paid, whilst those that are im- 

 posed on us v.iihout our consentare grudgingly dis- 

 charged. 



Those who emidoy laborers to do work which 

 fuight to bo performed by their own children, not 

 only give away their money, but are doing a per- 

 manent injury to their own offspring ; for every boy 

 that is intended to be educated for a farmer, should 

 be put through a regular course of /H-«c(ica/ instruc- 

 tion in every branch of business belonging to agri- 

 cultural life adapted to his age and strength. The^e 

 should be no selection of tit-bits for a favorite boy, 

 if his best and permanent interests are truly re- 

 garded. There should be no entrance through the 

 cabin windows, as sailors say ; if a boy is intended 

 for a seaman, a farmer, or for any other occupation, 

 begin with him at the beginiring, and put him through 

 every part of the process thoroughly; if you spare, 

 you spoil him. Many fine children are ruined for 

 life by the indulgence of foolish fathers or silly 

 mothers, in the endeavor to protect them from what 

 they consider the hardships incident to a life of in- 

 dustry, and yet they are willing to ascribe the re- 

 sult to any other cause than the true one. 



Instruct a boy thoroughly and practically in any 

 useful branch of business — implant in his mind a 



strong sense of religious obligation — instil into him 

 the indispensable importance of industry and econo- 

 my, and of the necessity of preserving himself free 

 from every moral taint, and you may turn him out 

 into the world witluiut a cent in his pocket or a sec- 

 ond shirt to his back, and ho will succeed ; he will 

 establish a character and a name for himself; he 

 will become a man of business in the true sense of 

 the term; lie will rise to eminence in his calling, 

 what 'ver it may be; whilst those who appeared to 

 have the start of him in the outset of life, being edu- 

 cated in indulgence and ease, with a prospect of 

 ample means and influential friends to set them 

 afloat, will lag behind and finally he lost sight of 

 in the distance. 



It is the poor boys of the present generation who 

 are to be the men of business, the rich men of the 

 next; and the rich boys of the present stock, if they 

 don't mind their P's and Q's, will be their servants 

 and hirelings. So argues a thinking old man of 

 my neighborhood. Pkter Jones. 



Bucks Co., March Isl, 1840. 



PROFESSIONAL LIFE. 

 The ambition of adopting professional life of all 

 kinds, at the present day, is the source of countless 

 instances of misery. Every profession in England 

 is overstocked ; not merely the prizes are beyond 

 the general reach, but the merest subsistence be- 

 comes difficult. The "three black graces, law, 

 physic and divinity," arc weary of their innumera- 

 ble worshippers, and yearly sentence crowds of 

 them to perish of the aching sense of failure. A 

 few glittering successes allure the multitude ;chan- 

 cellorships, bishoprics, and regiments figure before 

 the public eye; and every as|)irant from the cot- 

 tage, and the more foolish parents of every aspirant, 

 set down the bauble as gained when they have 

 once plunged their unlucky ofl'spring into the sea 

 of troubles, which men call the world. But thou- 

 sands have died of broken hearts in these pursuits, 

 thousands who would have been happy behind the 

 plough, or opulent behind the counter; thousands, 

 in the desperate struggles of thankless professions, 

 look upon the simplicity of a life of manual labor 

 with perpetual envy ; and thousands, by a worse 

 fate still, are driven to necessities which degrade 

 the principles of honor with them, accustom them to 

 humiliating modes of obtaining subsistence, an'' 

 make up, by administering to the vices of societ) 

 the livelihood which was refused to their legitimat 

 exertion. — B'.hckwood. 



Canker Worms.— Ur David Bufi'nm, of Middle- 

 town, R. I., states that having an orchard of up- 

 wards of one hundred apple trees that had been bad- 

 ly eaten by the canker worms for a number of years, 

 he, in the fall of 1838, had one-half of it guarded 

 with the leaden roof and trough, invented by Jona- 

 than Dennis, jr., of Portsmouth, E,. I., and he is sat- 

 isfied that if timely care and attention be paid to 

 keep the troughs well supplied with oil at the time 

 when the grubs ascend the Jrees, it will prove a 

 thorough remedy. He states that he was so well 

 pleased with the result of the trial, that he had the 

 otlier half of his orchard furnished with the leads 

 in the fall of 1839. The part that was supplied the 

 first produced about seventyfive bushels of apples, 

 whereas the other part i>roduced scarcely any, hav- 

 ing been eaten very much by the worms, while the 

 pan secured by the troughs w-is scarcely eaten at 

 all — Exchange pap. 



