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GLORY VS. GOOD HUSBANDRY, ETC. 
great cardinal and starting point with me is this: 
" Lead them not into temptation." House all your 
grain in properly-constructed granaries, and you 
remove the first great cause of temptation. If you 
have no granary, build one at once, and take my 
word for it, you will never regret it ; and in order 
to assist those in need, [ send you the adjoining 
sketch, which, I think, combines. neatness and con- 
venience : — 
Mr. Buckminster, of the Massachusetts Plow- 
man, says, that rats and mice, are the most 
unprofitable stock that a farmer can winter; and 
this, I suppose, no one will gainsay. Still, we all 
know very well, that, if grain is unprotected, the 
farmer will have to winter a herd of this kind of 
stock — aye, and summer them too. 
Fig. 55, is a sketch of a granary, or corn house, 
which explains itself. The size can be varied to suit 
the wants of the. owner; only mind and let it be large 
enough to hold all the grain or corn you can raise. 
The roof should be steep, tight, and well shingled, 
with a good projection; the sides covered with 
strips of board, four. inches wide, leaving spaces of 
half an inch between the ends, boarded tight, with 
a window at each ; and a good batten door, with a 
lock on it, completes the establishment. 
The interior arrangement can also be varied. 
A very good plan is, to have two or three tiers of 
shoal bins, on each side, for the various kinds of 
grain, while our great staple of New England, 
Indian corn, should occupy the floor. A wide 
shelf, also, should be put up at the back end, for 
all grain measures and bags, where they should be 
kept when not in use, so that they may always be 
ready when wanted, keeping in view Dr. Frank- 
lin's motto, " A place for everything' and every- 
thing in its proper place." The exterior can be 
made a little more perfect, by furnishing the sides 
with sliding shutters, to cover up the spaces be- 
tween the boards in foul weather ; but as the de- 
sign has a projecting roof, this would hardly be 
necessary. J. B. Davis. 
Boston, July 10th, 1849. 
VISIT TO COL. CAFRON'S. 
Col. H. Capron, of this place, is one of the 
most intelligent, and his works show him to be one 
of the most enterprising improvers that I have ever 
met with. He has now growing, one of the best 
fields of wheat I ever saw; and this upon land 
that would not produce five bushels to the acre, a 
few years ago. Some of his cattle are equal to 
any northern herd. He has, also, some most 
superb horses, and most decidedly the best mule 
teams that I ever saw in harness. He keeps 80 
cows, the milk of which being made from his most 
excessively luxuriant clover fields, commands the 
highest price, (13 cents per gallon,) in the Balti- 
more market. His barn and stables, as well as 
all the arrangements about the dairy, and as every 
other of his farming operations, are a little supe- 
rior to anything else in the south, and, in my 
opinion, equal to anything in any country. 
Nearly all of his land that required it, Col. C. 
has under-drained, making use of hard bricks to 
form the drains. The benefit of draining some 
pieces of land that did not, to one unacquainted 
with the effect, seem to require such an improve- 
ment, have been wonderful. Indeed, all his opera- 
tions have been so. For he has not only, by his 
own energy, built up a large manufacturing vil- 
lage, but has shown to all the people around 
him, that these old, barren, tobacco fields, can be 
made productive; and, at the same time, be made 
to pay all cost and produce a profit. 
Solon Robinson. 
Laurel Factory, Bid., June 7th, 1849. 
GLORY vs. GOOD HUSBANDRY. 
We frequently see the announcement in one or 
other of the states, and not unfrequently among 
our larger cities, of the presentation of a sword to 
some military hero in our late war with Mexico, 
the cost and workmanship of which are elaborately 
paraded before the public ; but we have not yet 
seen the first notice of gift, diploma, nor even com- 
mendation, to any one who has distinguished him- 
self or benefitted his country by the improvement 
of the soil, or increasing the agricultural products 
of the United States. 
The man who leaves the world, with 10,000 less 
persons in it, bereft of life through his agency, is 
worthy of all honor and public gratitude; but he 
who has shown how 10,000 persons could live in 
comfort and happiness, where scarce 1,000 could 
have subsisted in penury, is unworthy any notice 
or reward. Such at least is the practical judgment 
of bodies legislative, and cities corporate. 
The soldier who does his duty in a just war, is 
worthy of his pay, rations, and a respectable sta- 
tion in society. But is he entitled to aught beyond 
his equally meritorious, and perhaps even more 
laborious countryman at home, who has toiled and 
suffered to promote the good of his fellow beings, 
as the other has necessarily been engaged in their 
injury and destruction ? 
The spears and swords shall yet be beaten into 
pruning hooks and plow shares, but at the rate we 
are going on, it will be some time before this is 
done in the United States, among our professedly 
intelligent, reasonable, agricultural community. 
« — 
Fact in Planting Lima Beans. — On several 
occasions, complaints have been made, that Lima 
beans, sold at our warehouse, did not come up 
well, which was attributed to some bad quality in 
the seed; but the complaints appeared to us to be 
unfounded and unexplainable, as others, who 
bought seed from the same parcels, succeeded in 
raising good crops. In a recent conversation, how- 
ever, with Mr. Jacob M. Vreland, an experienced 
market gardener, of Bergen Point, New Jersey, he 
informed us, that, if the beans are planted in a 
rather stiff soil, with their flat sides upward, or 
parallel with the surface, few, if any of them, will 
vegetate and grow; but if the eyes of the beans 
be carefully placed downward, at the time of plant- 
ing, they will generally come up, if not covered 
with more than three fourths of an inch of earth. 
Effects of Certain Manures on Plants. — 
As a general rule, nitrogenous manures force the 
green leaf and stalk ; the phosphates dispose to 
seed; the sulphates and salt to solidity; and pot- 
ash to healthy and vigorous growth. 
