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that their harness fits, and does not gall them, recollect- 
ing that these animals, though dumb, can feel as well as 
myseh'. 
7. Cattle . — I shall daily see that the cattle have been 
penned, that they have good water to drink; and I shall 
at once see how 1 can best procure a pasture for them I 
shall let the cattle minder know that he is watched and 
held responsible for these things 
8 MLcJi Cows . — I shall comrive to procure these the 
best pastures, if possiole. I shall feed them night and 
morning, and shall so man ige it as always to have some- 
thing for thdm to eat when penned. 
9, Hoitse.’i, Pences, — I shall endeavor never to let 
these get out of order. The moment I discover any of 
them oat of repair I shall have them attended to, never 
forgetting that “a stitch in time saves nine.’’ 
i‘0. Carts, Wagons, tf-c. — 1 shall observe the same rules 
about these as about the horses, &c , and shall never put 
off attendmg them until I may want to use them, when J 
shall not have time to do so, 
1 1. Tune . — i will always recollect that my time is not 
my own, but tny employer’s, and I shall consider any 
neglect of his business, as so much unjustly taken out of 
bis pocket. 
12. Visits — If any one calls to see me I shall entertain 
him poli-ely ; but 1 shall never forget to attend to business 
en that account. “Business first, and amusements after- 
wards” shall be my motto. If any of my friends are dis- 
pleased at this rule, the sooner they cease to be friends 
She better. 
Heavy V/heat in Texas — The Southern CuUivaior 
for July has been received, and as usual is full of interest- 
ing matter to Southern farmers. 
This number in copying an article from the Advocate 
in relation to the weight of the wheat raised in this coun- 
ty, seems to express a doubt as to the correctness of our 
figures. This is not to be wondered at, 8S wheat weigh- 
ing 60 lbs. to the bushel is called good in any part of the 
United States. We can assure the Editors of the CuLtiva- 
ior.) however, that the merchants of this town have recenl- 
3y caretuliy measured specimens of this wheat fiorn dif- 
ferent farmers, in sealed half oushels, and have found it to 
weigh some as high as 70 and none less than 65 lbs. to 
the bushel. From 25 to HO bushels to the acre was the 
yield, although the season has been unusually unfavor- 
able — Texas Advocate, July 18. 
I Will the inform us whether the wheat was 
*^struck” or “heaped,” in measuring 1 If the former, Tex- 
as is certainly emided t<' the pHlrn for heavy wheat. — Eds.J 
liANBCCAFS WITii itEI^ATIOI^ 
to Rural Houiea. 
Editors Southern Cultjvatoh— A beautiful landscape 
involving JNbiure in its greatest subfenity, is the cynosure 
o/ an artists’ dreams, and its truthful portraiture the 
xilumatum of his most fxalied ambition. Hence the ap- 
preeiaiing admirer of unadorned nature is. in ail instances, 
pmpxtgnuied, somewhat, with th^^ genius that inspired the 
iinasler limners in the creation of those works which per- 
petuate their morialuy. 
America, with its multifarious climate and territory, 
presents more landscapesque eflfecls of an interesting 
, «haracier ihan any other q'torter of the globe. France 
becomes voluble over iheKhine; iisfeudal reminiscences 
and vine elad slopes. America, with equal energy, ratioci- 
asales of the ron»antic Hudson, guarded by the hovering 
spitits ot departed Knickerbockers. The former made 
cheerful with the growing vint ige, and historically remi- 
3jiseent of ye a^ictente limes when lordly bibbers of Bur- 
gundy wines, sallied from impregnable castles, followed 
by a numerous train of lusty vassals, all to put a lance be- 
twixt a neighbor’s ribs. Those peaceful liills bespotted 
with the vestiges of a bygone architecture — crumbled 
ruins, impt'sing facades, spacious halls that once resound- 
ed with boistrous mirth, echoed by broad jokes and the 
“wassail bowl,” once resonant of clanging armor, clash- 
ing battle axes and the shrill neighing of excited war 
steeds, are amongst the beauties that emulate our transat- 
lantic friends to prate so long and loudly of their inland 
water. The coat-buttons of a renowned warrior, who has 
shed his cret/n-g of clay, become invested with an extrinsic 
value exceeding many times their intrinsic worth. So 
with the beauty of the extolled Rhine Panegyrised beyond 
reason, rapture exhibited, interest excited while viewing 
meaningless piles Not be.HUtiful from its landscape, but 
surpassingly so witli the odor of historic associations as a 
medium of retrospection. We look not upon the Rhine as 
it is, but as it was. 
Not so with tiio Hudson — although the Rip Van Winkle 
legends lend a charm that gdds somewhat the glow that 
sparkle on her waters, and dissports. fitfully over the hills 
whose feet she leaves The magnificent, joyous Hudson, 
typical of that home beyond the tomb. Thy bosom a ve- 
hicle of commerce ; thy barks luxuriant of scenery, and to 
the husbandman’s toil, a gra'.efui reciurocant of thy pleasing 
fulness. Thou solace to saddened and disappointed 
hearts. Thou Mecca to which artists resort to worship, 
to be instructed in the great secrets ©flight and shadow, 
to witness the sombre tints, and deepening shades of the 
labarynth, and the sunlight dancing on the velvet sward. 
Thou alembic, refining gioss natures and exorcising that 
malevolence which embirters life’s pilg'-image. Thou Jor- 
dan to the indwellers of cities. Man becomes old and 
passes away, but time to thee brings no senescence. 
Cosy cottages nestle in thy valleys, enshrouded by creep- 
ing vines, and emboson Qj by patriarchal tree.s. Happy 
they who have wrung from the nervous hand of specula- 
tion, dollars enough toreiire amid scenes that exhume 
those latent feelings of love, which the perplexities oflrade 
had banished into professlonel obscurity. 
It was on the bunks of the Hudson ihatFowning drank 
inspiration from nature’s chalice, and perfected his lastc 
for the art of landscape gardening Nature admits of n • 
conventionalities; she is trammelled by no formal rules; 
she exacts no geomeiry, and is only desecrated by the 
efforts of many professional gentlemen, whose ski!! scarce 
extends further than the use of their mattocks and theodo 
lites 
The budding proclivity of the better informed for rural 
homes in this country should be fostered and developed 
by superior minds, lovers of nature, men whose ambitions 
aspire to nobler rewards than evanescent praise from the 
rabble, or of that other incentive, pecuniai-y emolument. 
Just think of majestic trees, educated like soldiers — drili- 
ed in platoons on a well shorn lawn, and then again 
scampering in true Indian file, down straight avenues; 
trimmed to a nicety; not one pendulous branch allowed 
to grace the visia Out upon the v.anilals who mar our 
homes — empurics who war with God’s exquisite works foj 
gold ! 
All beauty becomes monotonous and palls upon our ap- 
preciation unless attended by profuse variety. Hence, 
in improving the exterior of our homes, all the conducing 
causes of beauty, in landscape effects, should be brought 
into requisition, amongst which may be enumerated 
veiley, hill and slope The chasm, with its apparently un- 
fathomable ard startling abyss; the rivulet that mtanders 
quietly across the iawn, leaps the rocks beneath theshadu 
of o’er-aichtng trees and finally melts aw’ay into ih« 
the graat bosom of a placid lake; thegiantoak, wiihgiiiinti 
wide spreading arms protecting lesser vegetation ensr ona* 
beneath its umbrage; graceful ennife*® swaying with the 
breeze that makej their foliage murmur; predaceous 
