1863. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMER. 



309 



tion. The perspiration is suddenly checked, and 

 a severe illness is frequently the result. Cold 

 baths daily, sleeping with an open window and 

 warm clothing, are the most eifectual preventives 

 against taking cold. When you know that you 

 huve taken cold, do three things : First, cat noth- 

 ing ; second, go to bed and get warm as quickly as 

 possible; third, either drink freely of cold water 

 or some hot herb tea. Bathing the feet in hot 

 water, of placing bottles of hot water in the bed, 

 and getting the feet very wra-m in that way, are 

 also excellent. If these remedies do not produce 

 relief in forty-eight hours, the cold is a serious 

 sickness, and ought not to be trified with or to be 

 experimented upon." 



To the above I would add, that an old Patent 

 Office Report which I Iittcly examined, recom- 

 mends the cutting of timber in the fall of the year. 

 I give the above in ansvrer to your correspondent 

 D. G. W. — Country Gent. ■-, 



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From the Journal d' Agriculture. 



Stable Dung— How it Operates. 



Stable dung, or farm dung is a normal manure- 

 it contains all the principles necessary for the 

 nourishment of plpaits; for this reason it is the 

 most certain in its action. It contains all the 

 constituent parts of plants, but not all the same 

 proportion in which they existed in the cereals 

 and fodder ; for the entire elements of the crops 

 are not converted into dung, the grains having 

 received another destination, by which a consider- 

 able quantity of phosphoric acid has been carried 

 off the land. 



Stable dung has also physicnl netion on the soil; 

 it communicates lieat to it, and during its decom- 

 position into water, carbonic acid and ammonia, it 

 contributes powerfully to the dissolution of mineral 

 substances. The effect that dung produces by Viis 

 physical action is 'often greater than tluxt which it 

 produces as the food of the plants. These simple 

 principles, which have just been eet forth, explains 

 ail the other phenomena. 



As plants only draw all their solid nutriment 

 from the soil by the extremeties of their radicles, 

 the quantity of nourishment contained in the earth 

 must be much greater than that which is absorbed 

 by one crop. 



Bconotcy in a Family. "^ 



Tliere is nothing which goes so fir towanl plac- 

 ing young people "beyond the reach of^ V^J^^J. '^^ 

 economy in the manageiucnt of houselioid ah.jirs. 

 It matters not whether a man furnishes little or 

 mueh for his family, if there is a cor.tinua! leak- 

 age in his kitchen "or parlor; it runs away he knows 

 not how, and that demon Waste cries, More ! like 

 the horseleech's daughter, iintil he that provides 

 has no .more to give. It is the hu?bnnd's duty to 

 bring into the iiouse, and it is the duty of the wife 

 to see tliat none goes wrongfully out of it. A man 

 wants a wife to look afcer his aflairs, and to assist 

 him in his journey througli life, and not to dissi- 

 pate his property. The husband's interest should 

 be the wife's care, and her greatest ambition to 

 carrv her no farther than his welfare or happiness, 

 together with that of her cliiidren ! This should 

 be her sole aim, and the theatre of her exploits lu 

 the bosom of her family, where she may do as 

 much towards making a fortune as be can in the 

 counting-room or the work-shop. 



It is not the money earned that makes a man 

 wealthy — it is what he saves from his earnings. 

 Self-gratification in dress, or indulgence in jqipe- 

 tite, or more company than his purse c^n well en- 

 ertain, are equally pernicious. The first adds 

 vanitv to extravagance, the second fastens a doc- 

 tor's bill to a long butcher's account, and the lat- 

 ter bring intemperence — the worst of all evils — m 

 its train. — Bx. 



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The T ime to Cut Timber. 



A correspondent in the Seieniifx American of 

 March I-lth, gives the result of twenty years ob- 

 servation and actual experience, that timber cut 

 in the months of August, September and October, 

 or after the snp is ased up in the growth, until 

 freezing weather again comes, will in no instance 

 produce the powder post worm ; that the wood is 

 harder, heavier — as proved by actual experiment 



more elastic, durable, and is less liable to crack 



than if cut in 'the winter months. He says that 

 February is the worst month to cut most, if not 

 all kind's of hard-wood timber. Birch, ash, and 

 most all kinds of hard-wood will invariably powder- 

 post, if cut anv time after the tree is frozen. He 

 is fully persuaded that nine cords of wood cut m 

 the above-named months, will go further than ton 

 cords cut in the winter months ; that the wood 

 will burn clearer, the eoak will be more soM, and 

 will retain their heat double the length of time. 



Fruitfmlness of ITew Jersey. 



Placed between the cities of New York and 

 Philadelphia, and favored with a good soil— to be 

 enriched still further by inexhaustible beds of cal- 

 careous marl recently discovered— New Jersey is 

 growing what is known down East as "garden 

 sass," on a large scale. Her farmers are becoming. 

 rich in this business. The Nevrark Advertlsei 



says: 



They have wisely turned their attention to th« 



cutivation of macket produce and fruits, the per 



i«hable nature of which, forbids their growth ij 



the iiiimitable but remote West. The result ha 



not only the enriching of those of our farmers wh< 



have pi'omDtlp accepted the new order of thing; 



but also of the laud vdiichhas been devoted to it 



Whole sections of our StP.te, ^dneh wore once bai 



ren sands, have been reclaimed and are now cor 



verted into fertile fields, bearing a wealth of cro 



that exceeds anything that has before been wi 



' nessed, and we have the promise before us th; 



those portions of our Staje which are accessible- 



and nearly all of it is so-— our now great centres i 



consumption — New York and Philadelphia wit 



their populous shrubs — will become garden instea 



j of fields and orchards ; nurseries and fruit patchi 



instead of woodland and swamp and pine barren 



