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NEAT ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



purpose for which it is used, depends the success 

 or I'aihire of the farmer — the f:ict whether or not 

 he makes these crops at a profit over cost. 



The farmer, like the manufacturer, pursues his 

 business to earn a livelihood for himself and fam- 

 ily, and to accumulate a small store for a rainy 

 day. No manufacturer would boast of his large 

 productions, or think that tie was doing a business 

 that he had reason to be |)roud of, if what he made, 

 cost all it was worth in its production. The farm- 

 er may grow sixty or seventy Ijushels of wheat to 

 the acre, and proclaim the fact all over the coun- 

 try — obtain the first premium for the largest crop 

 grown in the State or nation, and the wonderfid 

 performance be heralded through all the papers 

 in the land ; yet, if this large croj) cost more in 

 its manufacture than it would bring in the market, 

 what has been gained, and who would like to fol- 

 low such an example for a living P The farmer 

 that raises thirty bushels, at a price that would al- 

 low him a fair profit over cost, would be far more 

 worthy of praise and imitation. He that can 

 make corn and wheat at the lowest possible price, 

 and meat and butter cheaper than his neighbors, 

 is the best farmer ; it being always understood 

 that he is not using up his capital — the fertility of 

 his soil. — Rural New-Yorker. 



SUSPENDED ANIMATION. 



A friend communicates the following transla- 

 tion, from a Prussian paper, of an infallible test 

 ■whether a person be really dead : 



"To be buried alive is a most dreadful thought, 

 and occurs oftener perhaps than we aie aware of. 

 Yet there is a very simple and infallible way to 

 guard against it. All practicing physicians agree 

 that, wlien the eyes of a corpse are opened about 

 two days after death, and the pupils are found to 

 be mixed up so that nothing of them is to be seen, 

 but the whole of the eyes is dissolved into a whey- 

 ish or jellied mass, then real death is evident. 

 Where this symptom is wanting death, is uncer- 

 tain." 



Turning Heavy Cheeses, has always been a 

 severe tax upon the strength of most dairy wo- 

 men. I saw a device for accomplishing tliiswork 

 in a safe and easy manner, in the cheese factory 

 of Mr. Cox, in Mesopotamia. In his curing room, 

 Mr, Cox uses, as supports for his cheese, two 

 stringers of scantling, some ten inches apart ; on 

 these scantling stand the cheese, each upim the 

 inverted cover of a cheese of a size a trille lager 

 than the size of the cheese. When the attendant 

 goes to turn the cheese, she takes another cover 

 of the same size, puts it on the top of the cheese 

 to be turned, then, with one hand on top of this 

 cover and the other hand at the bottom cover, 

 flops the cheese over, with only the strength of a 

 child, since, when the cheese is tilted up a little 

 to one side, the opposite side balances down be- 

 tween the two scanthng, and the cheese goes over 

 easily. Another and greater advantage of this 

 method of turning cheese, is that there is no dan- 

 ger of bruising or breaking the corners in turning, 

 as they are perfectly protected by the rim of the 

 co\*er. This mode of handling, is equally applica- 

 ble to cheese on shelves, hut in that case you do 

 not have the advantage of self-balancing, the same 

 as on stringers. — Ohio Farmer. 



LOVE OF HOME. 



"Inhabitiveness" is the name given by the 

 phrenologist to a protuberance on the head sup- 

 posed to be the outward and visible- sign of an in- 

 ward and earnest desire for a permanent home. 

 Bedouin Arabs and Yankee pedlars are said to be 

 deficient in this bump, and it may be assumed that 

 if the Wandering Jew could be caught and phren- 

 ologized, a considerable hollow would be found 

 where the organ of Inhabitiveness ought to be lo- 

 cated. Not being a fi:ngerer of skulls, we are not 

 prepared to assert that the magic pea, Inhabitive'- 

 ness, is exactly under the thimble designated as 

 its habitat by the conjurors who profess to read 

 character as the blind read books, with their fin- 

 gers and thumbs. It is quite certain, however, 

 that the faculty exists in more or less intensity in 

 I the minds of a large majority of tire human fami- 

 ly. Were it otherwise we should all be as erratis 

 as the itinerant tinmen of Connecticut or the no- 

 mads of Arabia. 



Heaven be thanked that most of us appreciate 

 the value of a home, and that we live in a land 

 where every industrious man can acquire one. 

 The sentiment of Inhabitiveness is a grand sen- 

 timent. It settles new countries, builds cities, 

 forms governments, -erects mighty States. It is 

 the basis of all patriotism. We love the country 

 of our birth, or our adoption, because it is our 

 home. We defend its government and institu- 

 tions, because in their permanence we see the only 

 guaranty for home security. 



It would be well, perhaps, if this instinct of In- 

 halntiveness — this longing for, and love for a per- 

 manent home — this desire to dwell under one's 

 own roof and on one's own land, and to make 

 them a family heritage, wei'e stronger in Ameri- 

 cans than it is. If we were more doniestic we 

 should be more patriotic. Surely that man has 

 reached the climax of human misery who exclaims 

 in the bitterness of his soul : 



"A home and a country remain uot forme." 



GET ENOUGH SliEEP. 



We have often heard young men remark that 

 four or five hours' sleep was all they wanted, and 

 all the human system required. The habit of go- 

 ing without sufficient sleep is injurious. Thou- 

 sands, no doubt, permanently injure their health 

 in this way. We live in a fast age, when every- 

 body seems to be trying to pervert the order of 

 nature. If folks will persist in tui-ning night into 

 day, it is not to be wondered that few last out the 

 allotted term of life. No matter what be a man's 

 occupation — physical or mental, or, like Othello's 

 "gone," and living in idleness — the constitution 

 cannot last, depend upon it, without a sufficiency 

 of regular and refreshing sleep. Joe Hunter, the 

 great surgeon, died suddenly of spasmodic affec- 

 tion of the heart, a disease greatly encouraged by 

 want of sleep. In a volume just published by a 

 medical man, there is one great lesson that hard 

 students and literary men may learn, and that is, 

 that Hunter probably killed himself by taking too 

 little sleep. "Four hours' rest at night, and one 

 after dinner, cannot be deemed sufficient to recruit 

 the exhausted powers of the body and mind." 

 Certainly not ; and the consequence was, that 

 Hunter died early. If men will insist in cheating 

 sleep, her "twin sister, Death," will avenge the 

 insult. — Exdiange. 



