iae THE farmer’s manual. 
This may now be easily acquired by the assistance 
of the small school Geographies, with their Atlasses, 
which cost about 75 cents ; and thus your winter 
erenings may be converted to the pleasure and im- 
portance of acquiring the valuable science of Geogra- 
phy, so that when you read in your news-papers the 
events, occurrences and transactions of foreign na- 
tions, you may, by the assistance of these school 
maps, bring those countries before you, and thus 
render them as familiar to your minds as the towns, 
or societies, in which you live. In this way, this 
news- pa per foreign intelligence will be both interesting 
and useful. In this way, the general instruction of 
your families will be greatly improved, and a free and 
pleasant social intercourse heighten the enjoyments 
of a w'inter’s fire-side. The study of Astronomy and 
Natural Philosophy, shbuld also make up a part of 
these useful and social enjoyments. Philip’s Lec- 
tures on Astronomy, and Blair’s Grammar of Philoso- 
phy, are cheap and valuable books adapted to the 
capacities of children as well as men, and will im- 
part all the knowled|;e upon these important subjects, 
useful or necessary in common life. This system of 
instruction your children cannot obtain in your com- 
mon schools; but with your encouragement and as- 
sistance, they may become ambitious to obtain it, and 
by a proper spirit of emulation, they may be made to 
excel in these sciences; this will not only render 
them familiar to your own minds, and thus become 
a source of enjoyment to you, but they will afford 
you the lasting satisfaction of witnessing the improve- 
ments of your families. In this way, a laudable emu- 
lation amongst children of the same family, and of the 
same neighbourhoods', may be excited, and thus the 
most valuable improvements of the mind become the 
medium of the most social and familiar intercourse. 
It must be understood, that the farmers of all coun- 
tries are the pillars of the State, and that the wealth, 
support and well-being of all communities, depend on 
