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SPRINGFIELD, SEPTEMBEH, 1859. 



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CONTENTS. 



On the SmbolltflhmratofaQotiiitrf Ilome 321 



Our nck t county 7air.....^«~js:i»«><>—< 333 



Wl>i«1tJr(..~- :.... ; 324 



Oalls and Wonode on Horses »^.... ...^....324 



The Squhsh Bug ...-..^;..;„w......~ -. ....325 



Bowing Graig Seed on Buckwhent On>ai))d 325 



Trial of Mole Plows ..- 326 



Balky Horses 828 



BomosricatiiiD of Wild Aniuaals 3'J6 



Tlie TiniM 327 



Strawberry Culture „....327 



I'arly Cprn 327 



Sowing Timothy ~ 327 



The Times— The Causes 327 



The Wheat Crop - _ 329 



Farmers' Club 329 



Items 330 



Cut Worms aofi Corn Qrnbs 330 



' 'ashin^tou's Habits as a Farmer 330 



i.ook <a> fnr breakers 331 



Sugar Mills „..331 



The Alanthns tree >. 331 



Plums „ 331 



When Is the tims to sow timothy. _^ 331 



Cultivation of wheat ^31 



Miikine butter 532 



Domestic matters 332 



A prairie farm 333 



Specific for bugs on vines 333 



Something for cattls dealers 334 



Rye — Its value „..' ~H 



UnJordrainlng 3^4 



Recipes 334 



Wheat inspection 3:>6 



Markets - 335 



ON THE EMBELLISHMENT OF A COUNTRY HOME. 



Bt Miss. Fsancis E. Willuii), of JanesTille, irisccnsin. 



[first PREMIUM.] 



Were this itgfe less utilitarian, this ar- 

 ticle need never have been written, and 

 its subject would have been already 

 brought from the ideal world, with which 

 every man has communings, to the real 

 world, in which every man labors or 

 ought to labor. Had our subject recei- 

 ved far more attention at a far earlier 

 day, not so many of the youth of our 

 land had left their homes for adventure 

 and, we must add, in too many cases, 

 for failure. Not so many hearthstones 

 had been left desolate — not so many 

 Rachels had been mourning for their 

 children; for, on looking back from effect 

 to cause, we see, in many instances, un- 

 attractive homes and rayless firesides as 

 the perhaps unsuspected but no less real 

 cause of this ..rfortunate desertion on 



the one hand, and this lonely regret on 

 the other. ' \ ; 



Make home a pleasant place, and your 

 children will not leave it. You yourself 

 will live longer, faster, better. Your 

 old age will be brighter, and you will 

 ever feel the impetus for good thus 

 given. This needs no proving. Your 

 heart said "yes" as jqu saale these 

 thoughts your own. '" A ii ■■••'-/• -• ; 



Now, if this is a matter of such im- 

 portance, it behooves every one to think 

 and act upon the subject. To some sug- 

 gestions on this point, and upon the ways 

 and means by which so desirable an end 

 is attainable, this article shall he de- 

 voted. 



The senses, of sight, hearing and 

 smelling, to reduce our ideas to first 

 principles, are addressed, and are to be 

 pleased or otherwise, in the surround- 

 ings of a home. To make the effect 

 pleasurable, the eye must be furnished 

 with a view of grounds, tastefully laid 

 out; buildings of harmonious proportions 



