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which might be profitably added to the produc- 1 ciety, let us have them thoroughly instructed in 

 tions of Virginia are so simple as to require little | some of the mechanic arts, and put them at the 

 additional skill upon the part of the farmer. — head of an establishment smaller or larger, as 

 Where skill is required, either for agricultural our means may allow. This is the best educa- 

 or manufactured articles to which our circum- t.ion we can give them. — it is the best legacy we 

 stances are adapted, let it be obtained. If the can leave them. Hundreds of avenues to wealth, 

 present generation is too old to learn, let us have honor, and distinction, are open to the youth of 

 our children taught. Instead of crowding the Virginia, who have the spirit and independence 

 professions, as they are called, with promising to throw off old prejudices under which they 

 young men, who for want of employment fall are wasting away the vigor and energy of 

 into evil habits and become a nuisance to so- manhood. 



SUFFOLK PUNCH. 



We have said before, that every farmer in 

 Virginia ought to raise his own horses. It is 

 frequently urged that the food consumed by a 

 colt will sell for more in Eastern Virginia than 

 will suffice to purchase a good horse from the 

 West. These sort of calculations do very well 

 on paper, but observation has satisfied us that 

 those farmers prosper best, who raise most and 

 purchase least'. 



With respect, to the cost of raising horses, the 

 food consumed should never be calculated at the 

 market price ; because in many cases the trans- 

 portation, the expense attending the contracting, 



&c, consume one half of the amount. More- 

 over, a great deal of inferior food may be fed to 

 a colt which would be hardly worth carrying to 

 market, and which but for this disposition of it, 

 would be entirely lost. Not that we mean to 

 recommend an inferior or indifferent style of rais- 

 ing ; the colt should always be kept in good 

 order, and it is for the want of the observance 

 of this principle, that so many farmers in this 

 part of the country are complaining of the want 

 of bone and muscle in the blooded horse. 



Our engraving is a representation of the Suf- 

 folk Punch, a family greatly admired in England 



