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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
FARMER'S BOYS. 
Out in every tempest, 
Out in every gale, 
Buffeting the weather, 
Wind, and storm, and hail: 
In the meadow mowing, 
In the shadowy wood, 
Letting in the sunlight 
Where the tall oaks stood. 
Every flitting moment 
Each skilfullhand employs— 
Bless me! were there ever 
Idle farmers’ boys ? 
Though the palm be callous, 
Holding fast the plow, 
The rounded cheek is ruddy, 
And the open brow 
Has no lines and furrows 
Wrought by evil hours, » 
For the heart keeps wholesome. 
Trained in Nature’s bowers: 
Healthy, hearty pastime, 
The spirit never cloys ; 
Heaven bless the manly, 
Honest farmer’s boys! 
At the merry husking, 
At the apple-bee, 
How their hearts run over 
With genial, harmless glee . 
How the country maidens 
Blush with conscious bliss 
At the love-words whispered 
With a parting kiss; 
Then the winter evenings. 
With their social joys ! 
Bless me I they are pleasant, 
Spent with farmer’s boys! 
The English term “ husband ” is derived 
from the Anglo Saxon words, hus and band, 
which signify the “ bond of the house and 
it was anciently spelt, “housebond,” and 
continued to be spelt thus in some editions 
of the English Bible after the introduction 
of printing. A husband, then, is a house- 
bond—the bond of a house—that which en¬ 
girdles the family into the union of openness 
of love. 
OtiGH. —Hon. Horace Mann, in a lecture 
on spelling, uses the following language : 
“ Ough is pronounced differently in each of 
the following words : bough, cough, hough, 
though, thought, through, thorough, tough ; 
and surely, this is tough enough. From this 
combination was formed the celebrated 
couplet. 
“ Though the tough cough andhiccough plough me through 
O’er life’s dark lough 1 still my way pursue.” 
Seen you SoxMewhere. —A lady, who gave 
herself great airs of importance, on being 
introduced to a gentleman for the first time, 
said, with much cool indifference, “ I think, 
sir, I have seen you somewhere, “ Very like¬ 
ly,” replied the gentleman, with equal sang 
froid, “ you may, ma’am, as I have been there 
very often.” ___________ 
A genius has just invented a stove that 
saves three-fourths of the wood, while the 
ashes it makes pay for the remainder. 
A half-brother to the above genius (half 
Paddy), when asked to buy a Patent Stove, 
because it saved half the fuel, immediately 
ordered two of them in order to save the 
whole. 
“Mr., I owe you a grudge, remember 
that!” “ 1 shall not be frightened, then, fori 
never knew you to pay anything that you 
owed.” 
Camphorating Mice. —“They say” that 
pieces of camphor gum mixed with seeds, ox- 
placed in drawers, boxes, &c., will keep 
mice at a distance—that they don’t like the 
odor. Easy to try—hard to believe without 
trial.__ 
Transcendentalism Defined.— “Transcen¬ 
dentalism in the spiritual cognoscence of 
psychological irrefragability, connected with 
concutient ademption of uncolumnient spir¬ 
ituality, and etherealized contention of sub- 
soltory concretion.” 
Punch says the reason why editors are so 
apt to have their manners spoiled is, because 
they receive such vast numbers of evil com¬ 
munications. 
INDEX. 
About our independence.128 
A card.128 
Agriculture, capital in...127 
Agricultural Society, U. S.123 
Asparagus bed.130 
“ early.127 
Baltimore guano trade.131 
Barbarism of the farm.132 
Bee-hive, peeps into a. 131 
Birds, sight of.135 
Book notices.140 
Boys, help yourselves.130 
Chiccory, is it a bad weed.132 
Clerk and the plow-boy.135 
Cochineal.133 
Economy, a stroke of.125 
Encouraging.125 
Farmers, about going west.120 
Fencing.139 
Fish ponds for country places. 134 
Fruit trees, loss of.129 
“ improvement in.139 
Grain, cutting early.128 
Grease about.133 
Guano and stable manure.129 
Horse shoeing.133 
Horses, influenza in.138 
“ cheap food for.125 
Household matters.129 
Millet growing.133 
Fear trees, hastening.130 
“ why d-on’t we set out.139 
Potatoes, butt ends vs. seed ends. 136 
“ new Chinese.137 
Pumpkin, more about that.133 
Rhode-Island Society, &c.137 
Roses.122 
Salutatory.128 
Steam engines for farmers.123 
Strawberries, raising.124 
Texas, hard winter in.124 
Tomatoes, how to get early.123 
Vine-dressers wanted.133 
Violet, Its perfume. 135 
White-cake—plain dough nuts .126 
Willows, how about those.137 
Wool from different kinds of food.131 
Workforthe month.121 
Wyandott corn.132 
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FIFTEENTH VOLUME 
A Leading and Standard Agricultural Journal, 
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