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are paid off on Fridays. Some smart boys 

 go to school., and work after hours, making 

 good wages. One little fellow apparently 

 not over eight years old, who is too small 

 to reach up to the bench, sits on top of it 

 and works away industrously with his 

 little maul. He generally earns a dollar 

 and twenty cents a week. The boys sing 

 and whistle at their woik, and .appear 

 very cheerful. They are the poor chil- 

 dren of the neighborhood, some of them 

 troublesome enough to manage at home, 

 being accustomed to severe usage there ; 

 but kind treatment and the stimulus of 

 wages keeps them in good subjection. 



North Devons— The Proper Cattle for 

 the South. 



We have observed with much care dur- 

 ing a series of years, the capacities of the 

 planting portions of the South for the sus- f 

 taining of neat cattle, and the adaptation 

 of all the breeds introduced, to the treat- 

 ment usually ^iven to them. The short- 

 horns were more generally introduced, and 

 the least beneficial results have been effec- 

 ted by this breed. The Ayrshires, a 

 smaller animal, and hence better adapted 

 to the " ahort commons" of the South than 

 the colossal Short-horns, have in some lo- 

 cations done better ; but they, with the 



One family is wholly supported by four of i Short horns, labor under a natural defect 

 the boys who work in the place. Grocers ' in their breeding, which renders it impos- 

 send their wagons and buy from 1000 to ■ sible to constitute them the basis of an 

 2000 at a time, paying $1 50 per hundred, j ameliorating breed, or of a profitable cross 



on the common cattle of the country. — 

 The Shorn-horn is a composition breed, in- 

 corporating such a variety of blood and 

 habit, that the crosses ran into an endless 

 variety of form and color. The Ayrshire 

 is only a miniature Short-horn, bred with 

 a view to develop more largely, according 

 to size, their milking capacities, and labor 

 under the same natural disabilities as to a 

 composition of blood, rendering (heir 

 crosses more objectionable than the pure 

 bred native cattle, which have at least a 

 constitutional habit, enabling them to sus- 

 tain life in our climate, and to glean a sub- 

 stance from our short pastures. The 

 North Devons, to our notion, are better 

 adapted to the improvement of our stock 

 of neat cattle, than any of the improved 

 breeds. They are an original breed, and 

 without cross or admixture of blood, they 

 have sustained an improving superiority 

 amongst the best breeders wherever they 

 have been introduced and bred with care. 

 The least admixture of Devon blood shows 

 its mark, and it is so indelible that it can 

 never be obliterated — the rich red color 

 and distinguishing peculiarities of form 

 arid carriage always prevailing The fol- 

 lowing points of this breed have lately 

 been adopted by the New York State Agri- 

 cultural Society, and were drawn up by 

 Mr. Rocth, who is an acknowledged judge 

 of cattle : 



" Points of North Devons. — Purity 

 of blood, as traced back satisfactorily to 

 importations of both dam and sire, from 

 known English breeders, or as found in 

 the lately established Herd Book for North 



and retailing it at 2 cents the bundle. 

 Dealers in charcoal also buy up large 

 quantities of it with which to supply their 

 customers. Families also purchase wood 

 as they require it for use. During the 

 panic there was a slight falling off in the 

 sales, more from the want of money than 

 any other cause, but it is now brisk again. 

 Many families who heretofore have bought 

 two or three loads of wood at a time, now 

 step into the grocer's and buy it by the 

 bundle. The sale is increasing, and he 

 says he could easily dispose of ■ 10,000 

 bundles daily if he could get it made up. 

 They also sell the same kind of kindling 

 wood by the box; the price being about 

 30 cents the box. Mr. Barnard has had 

 the contract for supplying the public 

 schools of New York with kindling wood. 

 He has tljis Fall sawed and split up 

 three thousand cords of wood for these 

 schools. — Exchange. 



New Method of Governing Vicious 

 Animals. — Mr. B. F. Shannon, of Berk- 

 shire, Franklin Co., Vt., has written us 

 that he has discovered a new plan for 

 subjugating unruly animals, as follows : 

 Put into a leather bag two or three pounds 

 of stones, aftd tie it fast to the tail of the 

 animal. He says he has never known 

 one to jump a fence while undergoing 

 such treatment. 



Peas are of unknown origin. 



Vetches are natives of Gormnny. 



The Garden Bean, from the East Indies. 



