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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug. 





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acts as a guarantee to the social and political in- 

 stitutions of our country. 



The farmer of the present clay is not satisfied 

 with the results which rewarded the patient labor 

 of- his ancestors. He knows from experience, as 

 well as by reading and observation, that farming 

 is an art of almost unlimited capabilities, and that 

 it is the part of prudence to avail himself of all 

 the aids which science, by its numerous discover- 

 ies, has so beneficently placed within his reach. 

 The benevolent and well directed labors of his 

 predecessors, who have demonstrated the certain- 

 ty of improvement in the art, have slowly, yet 

 surely, wrought out encouraging results. Great 

 problems have been solved, and satisfactory con- 

 sequences produced by comparatively insignificant 

 means. The fields and smiling uplands exhibit 

 evidence that enlightened mind has directed the 

 hand of culture in their management, and that 

 the golden harvest has well repaid the tiller for 

 his cash and toil. In his house there is also evi- 

 dence of progress. Comfort is seen in all the ap- 

 purtenances and surroundings. If we step with- 

 in and scrutinize the interior arrangement and 

 discipline < there displayed, we shall find that the 

 farmer's wife and daughters have also participat- 

 ed in the blessings of progress, and are emulous 

 of performing well the part which nature and the 

 genius of domestic life has particularly assigned 

 them in the great work of improvement. 



While we commend the spirit which wisely 

 aims to ameliorate the condition of society by 

 alleviating the burden of the toiler, we are not by 

 any means in love with that sentiment of false re- 

 finement which is too frequently allowed to mod- 

 ify the conduct of so many of our pseudo-reforms. 

 Innovations which promise nothing valuable, eith- 

 er in the present or the future, but which tend 

 rather to weaken or divert the mind, are to be 

 deprecated as antagonist to our prosperity and 

 peace. A false and corrupt refinement is the 

 bane of society and of nations. Athens, Rome, 

 felt equally the satanic influences of this great 

 leveller, and it is against this, more emphatically 

 than against any other cause that is likely to as- 

 sail our liberties, that we would raise a warning 

 voice. 



If we labor on moderately, but diligently, and 

 are faithful to all the trusts reposed in us, leaving 

 the issue to the Disposer of events, all will be 

 well with us, here and hereafter. 



Liability in Respect to Contagious Dis- 

 eases. — A New York court. has lately awarded 

 $5000 damages against the Harlem Railroad Com- 

 pany for turning out their horses infected with 

 farcy and glanders, in a meadow adjoining the 

 stable of the plaintiff (Willis) whereby his horses 

 took the disease and many of them died. 



SYSTEM AND ECONOMY IN FAMILIES. 



There is far more depending on a well-ordered 

 household, than a vast majority of married wo- 

 men would seem to believe. In looking around 

 we see on every side how much system and econ- 

 omy would accomplish if properly observed. I 

 began married life early ; my husband had no 

 other income to rely upon than the labor of his 

 own hands. We lived in a small house, having 

 attached to it a small garden. Providence blessed 

 us with health. My duties multiplied by increase 

 of years ; but they were carefully laid down and 

 punctually performed. We rose early, breakfast- 

 ed, dined and supped at exact hours, as most fam- 

 ilies do. Every hour in the day had its allotted 

 duty or arrangement, and everything was done" in 

 accordance with it. By this means a perfect sys- 

 tem was maintained, reducing the labor of a fam- 

 ily nearly one-half; and in this way I had ample 

 time for reading, receiving and returning visits, 

 out-door exercise, &c. Expenditures in every 

 department were made carefully, and thus while 

 we wanted for nothing which persons in moderate 

 circumstances needed, there was an exact account 

 kept of the amount of income and outlay, and 

 we made it a point always to keep safely on the 

 right side. By degrees our pecuniary means in- 

 creased ; capital was supplied for a more extend- 

 ed business on the part of my husband, and prof- 

 its augmented until we have a full, and I may say 

 an abundant share of this world's goods. My 

 husband and I unite, however, in the conviction 

 that this fortunate result of circumstances is 

 mainly owing to the system and economy estab- 

 lished in our young married career, and the smiles 

 of Providence upon our industry and our efforts 

 to perform our duty in every relation of life. 



The great error committed by young house- 

 keepers, is the thoughtless and unnecessary ex- 

 penditure of money which they cannot afford, 

 perhaps in imitation of extravagant neighbors. 

 And in young husbands wasting their time in 

 visiting play-houses, billiard-rooms, club-rooms, 

 worthless exhibitions, parades and other places of 

 resort, instead of remaining at home with their 

 wives and families, enjoying domestic comforts, 

 which will in the end be found to be more endur- 

 ing and satisfying than all the rest combined. 

 Young wives, also, should find their highest hap- 

 piness in their homes — in meeting and welcoming , 

 their husbands to the spot which ought to be their 

 mutual paradise ; and, I am clear, their safest 

 road to prosperity is in establishing and observ- 

 ing strictly system and economy. — Germantuicn 

 Telegraph. 



An Easy and Simple Yeast. — Take a jar 

 or quart pitcher and mix in it flour and warm wa- 

 ter, with a little salt, somewhat thicker than bat- 

 ter, and about half full. Then set the pitcher in 

 a kettle of warm water, about the same tempera- 

 ture, which must be kept up by adding warm wa- 

 ter occasionally. It must stand thus for five or 

 six hours, and be stirred now and then, till it be- 

 gins to rise. It will at last fill the pitcher,* when 

 it will be sufficient for two or three loaves of bread, 

 by being mixed with more flour and warm water 

 in the usual way. If you use water half of which 

 is boiling, mixed with half quite cold, it will give 

 you the proper degree of warmth. This bread 

 never turns sour with age, and is very easily made. 



