THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
53 
Even the substantial, thrifty farmer, whose life 
is, or mi.^ht be, among the happiest, is apt to 
train his darling son for a prolession or put him 
in a store. He laudably wishes to put him for- 
ward in the world, but he does not think that 
half the time and expense bestowed in makmg 
him an average lawyer, or doctor, would suffice 
to make him an enainently intelligent and sci- 
entific farmer— a model and blessing to the 
whole country. Why will not our thrifty far- 
mers think of this"? The world is surfeited 
with middling lawyers and doctors — the gorge 
even of Iowa rises at the prospect of a new 
batch of either 5 of tolerable clergyman there is 
ce:tainly no lack, as the multitudes without so- 
cieties bear witness, and yet here is the oldest, 
the most essential and noblest of employments, 
on which ffie full blaze of science has hardly 
yet poured, and which is to-day making more 
rapid strides, and affords a more prominent field 
for intellectual power than any other, compara- 
tively shunned and neglected. Of good, thor- 
oughly educated, at once scientific and practical 
farmers, there is nowhere a super-abundance. 
Every where there is need of this class, to in- 
troduce new processes and improve old ones, to 
naturalize and bring to perfection the plants, 
grains, fruits, &c. we still import from abroad 
when we might better produce them at home — 
to introduce a proper rotation and diversification 
c>f crops — to prove and teach howto produce 
profitably the most grain to the acre — in short, 
to make agriculture the pleasing, attractive, en- 
nobling pursuit it was originally intended t 6 be. 
There is no broader field of usefulness — no 
surer road to honorable eminence. The time 
will come when, of the men of the last genera- 
tion, Arthur Young will be more widely hon- 
ored than Napoleon. But while the true farmer 
should be the most thoroughly educated and 
welt informed men in the country, there are 
many of our old farmers even, who will cheer- 
fully spend a thousand dollars to qualify one 
son for a profession, yet grudge a hundred each 
to educate the three or four less favoreu who 
are to be farmers. There are farmers who cul- 
tivate hundreds of acres and never look into a 
book on agriculture, thounh they would not 
countenance a doctor or clergyman who studied 
no works on medicine or theology. What a 
world of mistakes and inconsistencies is dis- 
played all around us ! 
There are thousands in all our cities who are 
well employed and in good circumstances; we 
say, let these continue, if they are content, and 
feel certain that the world is better in their daily 
doings. There are other tens of thousands who 
must stay here, as things are; having no means 
to get elsewhere, no skill in any arts but those 
peculiar to city life, and a very limited knowl- 
edge; these must stay, unless something should 
transpire out of the common course of events. 
There are other tens of thousands annually ar- 
riving from Europe, who, however valuable ac- 
quisitions to the country, must contribute to glut 
the market and depress the price of labor of all 
kinds in our city — some of these must remain 
here till they can obtain means and knowledge 
tog o elsewhere. But lor youngmenofour own 
happier agricultural districts to crowd into the 
great cities or into villages, in search of clerk- 
ships and that like, is madness— inhumanity to 
the destitute — moral suicide. While nine-tenths 
of the States are a waste wilderness, and all our 
marts of trade overflow with eager seekers for 
employment, let all escape from cities who can, 
and all who have opportunities to labor and live 
in the country, resolve to stay there. 
From the Tennessee Agriculturist, 
TO YOUNG LADIES, 
Having formerly addressed young ladies on 
gardening, &c., I take the liberty of presenting 
them another subject, in which I feel a deeper 
interest, and which is to them of far more im- 
portance. The Christian Religion is my theme 
now, and I am particularly anxious to engage 
the young in the study of this noble science. I 
call it a science, because it can be learned only 
by study. 
It is not something we can pick up in this 
place or that— it will not come in a slill small 
voice, or run over us like a shock of electricity, 
paralysing the faculties and rendering us inca- 
pable of sensible thought or action. No, as I 
said before, it is a noble and beautifu': science, 
to attain a correct knowledge of which, requires 
the exerci.se of the best powers of the soul — the 
most earnest desires of the heart. I speak to 
the young, because it is in the morning of life 
we should commence the acquisition of this 
knowledge, should lay up the rich stores which 
w'ill make us wise unto salvation, 
I know the lightness, the gaiety, peculiar to 
youth, causes the Christian Religion to be re- 
garded as something dull and gloomy — some- 
thing that is calculated to lessen its happiness ; 
but let me tell you, that it forbids nothing that 
is not ultimately injurious. Does it forbid the 
amusements in v'hich the thoughtless votaries 
of pleasure engage with so much eagerness, and 
which often cause their ruin, temporal and eter- 
nal I If it does, it is because they are hurtful. 
They may give a transient glow of pleasure for 
the present, but leave a sting behind. I have 
seen the young, the gay and the beautiful, die, 
without hope and without God in the world, and 
have heard them lament, with their last breath, 
that their parents had not restrained them in 
their gay career — had not taught them to live 
for eternity as w'ell as for time. 
Had they, in early life, been taught to regu- 
late their lives and conduct by the Christian 
Religion, how much anguish would have been 
spared them in that last sad hour, when death 
feels about the heart with his icy fingers, blast- 
ing the bright hopes and stopping the warm 
pulse of life. 
The Religion of Christ is the preservative 
principle. It is the salt of the earth. Without 
it, the character of woman, old or young, is de- 
fective. When well understood and practiced, 
it gives a dignity and propriety of conduct, a 
sofiness and gentleness of disposition, that ren- 
ders youth most engaging, most lovely. A wo- 
man, who is uninfluenced by the pure princi- 
ples of the Gospel, is a branch from which ema- 
nates no verdure, for the principle of life is want- 
ing. I have seen some who would even sneer 
at the sacred volume — at the world’s best friend, 
the only hope of man. If you have ever spok- 
en lightly of, or treated with .scorn, the Gospel 
of the Saviour, let me persuade you, for your 
own sake, from the consideration that the Chris- 
tian Religion has done so much for woman, to 
refrain from what appears so odious. Willis, 
speaking on this subject, makes some beautiful 
and suitable remarks ; 
“Oh, what is woman, what her smile, 
Her lip of love, her eye of light — 
What is she, if she still revile 
The lowly Jesus'? Love may write 
His name upon her marble blow, 
And linger in her curls of jet: 
The young spring flowers may scarcely bow 
Beneath her step — and yet and yet. 
She is, she is, and still must be, 
A lighter thing than vanity. 
I have to leave off at present ; but, nothing 
preventing, I wish to speak to you of the impor- 
tance of becoming Christians eaily, that you 
may be educated, that you may be trained for 
the society of Heaven. You know that here we 
have to be trained for good society before we 
can enjoy it. So it is with regard to the future 
life. Were we placed among the pure spirits 
of the Holy Land, we would be miserable, un- 
less previously prepared to participate in their 
enjoyments. At some future time, I will speak 
to you of this important preparation. Lucy. 
Cure for the Bloody Murrain. — A sub- 
scriber called on us a few days since, to say that 
cattle may be cured of this disease, by giving a 
table spoonful of Mandrake root pulverised, to 
each animal. This, he says, will almost al- 
ways eflect a cure, but may be repeated in half 
the quantity after an hour, if the first does not 
answer. 
T^. Y. Central Farmer, 
From the Boston Cultivator. 
COWS HOLDING UP THEIR MILK. 
A farmer observes that he was troubled with 
a cow holding up her milk, and he could devise 
no means to remedy the evil ; when his son, on- 
ly 9 years old, took the management of the cow, 
in th s respect, and succeeded well. This son 
V as afterwards at his uncle’s, who had the same 
trouble, and feared that he should lose his cow, 
as she had not given down any milk for several 
days ; the boy said that he could milk her. He 
went to work performing the operation precisely 
as though the cow gave down her milk, though 
for some time she gave none; he still persever- 
ed, and after some time the milk flowed freely 
and he obtained nearly two pails lull. ’ 
This shows that mildness and steady perse- 
verance is necessary in this business. Some 
persons become fretful if they cannot succeed in 
milking at once, and then abuse the cow forner 
obstinacy, instead of persevering, and succeed- 
ing as they might in many cases. It is doubt- 
less most natural and easy for a cow to give 
down her milk, and when she holds it up she 
puts herself under a restraint, and this requires 
a constant exertion, of which she will become 
tire 1 after a while, if the milker perseveres. 
These are our views, and we advise those who 
are so unfortunate as to have a case of this kind, 
to try the effect of perseverance, if necessary. ’ 
PEACH STONES- 
A writer in the Massachusetts Ploughman, 
says : 
“ Deposit the stones, after being taken from 
the peach, in sand or dirt ; put them in the 
ground, slightly covered, in the fall. As for the 
cotton-bag in which to keep them underground 
I have never tried il, or any other covering but 
the ground itself. Take up the stones early in 
the spring, crack them and plant immediately 
the meats or pits. In a w'eek or ten days, they 
will all be up, without fail, just as certain as so 
many peas, or kernels of corn.” 
Another writer in the same paper thus states 
his practice : 
“My manner of propagating from the stone, 
is to gather the stones soon alter the peach har- 
vest, before they become extremely dry, and 
scatter them upon the surface of the ground in 
my garden, there to remain until the garden is 
plowed the next spring ; when, in the course of 
a few weeks, or nearly as soon as other vegeta- 
tion comes, they will be seen coming up pretty 
abundantly. These I transplant soon alter they 
spring up, to some convenient place of cultiva- 
vation, where they remain one or tw'o years 
just as purchasers prefer.” ’ 
This writer states that he has planted, for 
many generations, the seed of two varieties of 
the peach, and that he was no: able to perceive 
the slightest variation from the original fruit . 
The two varieties were planted together. 
From the Boston Cultivator, 
BEES. 
Bee hives should be shaded until the snow is 
off, and the weather so warm that the bees can 
go out without injury from the cold. When 
the sun shines on a hive, it produces a heat that 
invites the bees out, when it is so cold that they 
become chilled, and fall upon the snow or cold 
ground, and cannot recover. In this way thou- 
sands are lost. We should as soon think of al- 
lowing calves, lambs, chickens, ducks, &c., to 
go out and perish in cold storms, as to allow the 
destruction of bees for want of care. When the 
hives are in the shade, and it is rather dark 
around them, the bees will not be invited out till 
it is so w’ann that they can generally return in 
safety. Besides the great evil we have named, 
the bees on going out discharge the contents of 
their stomachs, as may be seen around the hive, 
and which they never do in the hive ; conse- 
quently they must fill them again, and thus 
cause a needless consumption of food. 
