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venient manner — every room should be as easily acces- 
j sible as possible. Next, the wood and water should be 
I brought to the door. Never suffer your family to run a 
j single rod for either. It would be far better indeed to 
ha,ve the water brought into the house or wood-shed, then 
j in cold weather, there woul ! be no trotting out after water. 
The cistern should always discharge itself into a sink, or 
in some convenient nook or corner of the kitchen. A 
i good wife will look to these little conveniences. Every 
^ family, almost, needs a good smoke-house, ash-house, and 
^ ice-house. Every family in the country, at least, needs 
these. Then the work-shop, the barns, and stables, should 
: all be located so as to be easy of access. Built in some 
neat style, the barn may be placed very near the house, 
and if icood sheds are provided for the manure of the ani- 
I mats, the stables need not be a mile away. The saving 
, of time is the saving of money. “Have things handy,” 
then, and you add much to your store . — Prairie Fo.rmer. 
OUE HOMES. 
BY MRS. TAMAR DAVIS. 
Our homes! how beautiful they stand 
Amid the orchard groves, 
Scattered o'er all the pleasant land. 
Where’er the zephyr roves : 
The vine beneath each casement flings 
Her wealth of fruit and flower, 
The bee her honey’d treasure brings, 
And smiles the harvest hour. 
Our homes ! by thousands on the plain, 
Their snowy turrets gleam. 
Along the forest’s green domain — 
By each rejoicing stream; 
Where sleeps the vale, or towers the height, 
Or spreads the sapphire sea ; 
And bold, high, happy hearts of might, 
In all are proud and free. 
Our homes! how blest each ruddy hearth, 
The seat of love and truth; 
Where rings the voice of childish mirtli, 
And beams the face of youth. 
By hoary age of other days. 
The burning tales are told, 
Or woman pours the artless lays 
That nerved the good of old. 
Our homes ! o’er which the Sabbath-time 
Of stillness breathes the spell, 
Save the harmonious tones that chime 
From each awakened bell ; 
And sounds of praise and prayer that thrill 
The holy quietness ; 
And sweet influences instil. 
To sanctify and bless. 
Our homes 1 how fair, and free, and blest : 
Beneath their pleasant shade. 
Secure of harm, the lowly rest, 
With none to make afraid. 
Then ever while the heaven around, 
The sun beams brightly grand. 
May souls of mighty strength abound 
To guard their native land. 
Our homes ! forever let them rise 
By each old battle ground. 
By streams once flushed with crimson dyes, 
By many a martyr’s mound ; 
And while our children press the sod, 
Or breathe the holy air. 
Freedom, their Country, and their God, 
Their heart of hearts shall share. 
ShtrltEtmenls. 
plantation and garden fertilizers.' 
T he Subscriber has con.stantly on hand the following- concen- 
trated MANURES, a single trial of -which -svill prove to the 
most incrednlous their value as a restorer of fortuity to worn out 
soils and their adaptation to increasing largely the products of the 
Garden and the Orchard. 
Numerous testimonials from gentleman who tried them last sea- 
son have been received, all of whom concur in saying that their ex- 
periments were satisfactory and profitable bcvond their anticipa- 
tions .- 
PHOSPHATED GUANO. — In barrels of about 250 lbs., at 2 
cents per lb. 
SPTPER PHOSPHATE OF LLME.— In barrels of about 250 lbs. 
at 2 cents per lb. 
COARSE GROUND BONES.— In barrels about 175 lbs. at If 
cents per ib. 
FINE GROUND BONES.— In barrels of about 200 lbs., at 1.!- 
cents per lb. 
PERUVIAN GUANO. — In .sacks of about 140 ibs., at 2'. cents 
per lb. 
POUDRETTE, or de-oderized Night Soil, in powder $1.75 per 
barrel. 
LAND PLASTER.— At $1.75 per barrel. 
Also, ROCK SALT, in barrels of about 300 lbs. at 1 cent per l]j. 
Orders bj-, mail or otherwise promptly attended to. *A 
pamphlet, containing further particuiars and directions for usihg 
the above fertilizers will be sent by mail, on the receipt of postage 
stamp, to any one desh-mg it. D. C. LOWBER, 
August56 — ly 98 Magazine st.. New Orleans. 
“ SPEED THE PLOW.” 
I T is admitted by the best judges that 'WARLICKS’ IMPROV- 
ED PLOW is the best implement of the kind now in use. It 
is a Southern invention, and is pecularly adapted to agricultural 
purposes in the South. The best farmers of Alabama, Georgia 
and South Carolina, say it is the very thing tliey need. Its ex- 
cellencies consist luainly in the following particulars : 
1. It is the cheapest and most ec-oniical plow that can be. used 
2. It is acknowledged to be the plow for subsoiling clay lands. 
3. It is of lighter th’aft, and more easily managed by the hand 
than any other plow. 
4. All the plows used in the South may bo attached to the stock, 
and it is equally useful both for breaking up land and cultivating a 
crop. 
5. It is not liable to choke in grassy or rough lands. 
Preinimns were awarded to this Plow at Agricultural Fah-s in 
four Southern States ui 1855. Certificates of the most flattering 
kind could be appended if necessary. The best rvay, however, to 
test the truth of the above .-itatements, is to try the plow. 
Those wishing to purchase plows or to obtain plows on trial, or 
to obtaiir any information concerning it, will please address the 
subscriber, at Atlanta, Ga. For plowing m whea.t m grassy lands 
this plow is far superior to all others. li. WILLIAIMS. 
.Atlanta, Ga., July 3, 1856. August56 — 6t 
GREAT SALE OF NORTH DEVON STOCK. 
T he whole and enttire Herd of ])ure NORTH DEVON C.V'i'- 
TLE, imported and bred b}- R. H. Van Ren.sseiaer, of Mor- 
ris, Otsego County, will be sold without reserve by public .-^ale, at 
Watertown, on Tuesday, the 3d day of October, at 1 o’clock, on 
ground appropriated to the New York .State Agricultural .Society' 
on the 30th day' of .September and 1st, 2nd and 3rd .days of October 
next. Consisting of twenty-three females and three males, which 
includes the celebrated and imported bull “Megunticook,” winner 
of the first prize at the Show of the American Institute in 1850 and 
also the first prize at the New York .State Show m 1851. 
Nothing is risked in pronouncing this herd one of the three best 
herds of North Devons in the United States and unsurpassed by 
any' one of them. 
Catalogixes will be funn.shed on applica,tion at the offices of .Se- 
cretary of the New Yoi'k .State Agricultural .Society, Boston Culti- 
vator SLWtX Albany Cultivator, by Col. L. G. Morris, 'Fordliam,West- 
c-he.stcr county', N. Y., and ihe undersigned at Butternuts, Otsego 
county', N. Y. H. .STURGE.S. 
AugarstSO — 2t 
TURNIP SEED. 
’’'E are now prepared to furni.-^h the following sorts which 
have given such general satisfaction for past years. 
.Skirvings’ Improved Ruta Baga, 50 cents per lb. 
Purple Top do. 50 “ 
Large White Flat or Globe 50 “ 
Large AVliite Norfolk 50 “ 
Early' White .Stone 75 “ 
Yellow Aberdeen 75 •' 
Yellow .Stone 75 “ 
and at reduced rates in large quantities. 
JAME.S M. THORBURN A. Co.. 
August56 — It 15 John street. New York. 
FALL AND WINTER CABBAGE SEED. 
A .SUPPLY of Late Flat Dutch, Drumhead, Drumhead Savory, 
Green Cnrled Savory', Green Glazed and Large Bergen CAB- 
BAGE SEED, suitable for the season, just received and for sale by 
August56— It WM. II. HAINES. 
