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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
TEACH CHILDREN TO LOVE NATURE, 
School teachers may do much, and parents 
may do more, to implant in the minds of the 
young an enthusiastic and profitable love of 
nature. We mean by this, animals and in¬ 
animate nature ; the birds and beasts, the 
butterflies and insects, as well as the plants 
and flowers, the trees and the hills. 
Teachers in the summer schools may give 
such lessons every day as shall make a child 
happier and more useful every day he lives. 
Show them the beauty of a Spring morning; 
teach them the colors and changes of morn¬ 
ing and evening clouds, and the kinds and 
forms of noonday clouds. Help them to ob¬ 
serve the bursting buds of spring, the grow¬ 
ing foliage of summer, the ripening fruits of 
autumn, and the cold, dead sleep of winter. 
Quicken the power of observation, and the 
sharpness of the reason, by noticing and re¬ 
flecting on all these changes, their causes 
and reasons. And you will be doing more 
for the children, to keep them from vice, 
than many direct moral exhortations. 
The man who loves nature, its wonderful 
phenomena, its glowing beauties, its divine 
significance, and sees beyond all these a God 
of majestic goodness, can hardly be vicious 
or unhappy. Every morning, noon, and 
evening, he is filled with profiting reflections, 
and with improving emotions. Such an one 
is a better citizen, a better friend, a better 
neighbor, a better father, brother or Chris¬ 
tian. We say, then, to all teachers, improve 
the summer to make your children love na¬ 
ture better, and teach them also how to adorn 
and improve it; how to plant and tend flow¬ 
ers in the garden, shrubs on the lawn, and 
trees by the roadside ; how, in fine, to make 
this world of beauty more worthy of be¬ 
ing the residence of intelligence and good¬ 
ness. __ 
One’s Mother.— Around the idea of one’s 
mother the mind of man clings with fond af¬ 
fection. It is the first dear thought stamped 
upon our infant hearts, when soft and capa¬ 
ble of receiving most profound impressions, 
and all the after feelings are more or less 
light in comparison. Our passions and our 
wilfulness may lead us far from our filial 
love ; we may become wild, headstrong and 
angry at her counsels or opposition ; but 
when death has stilled her monitory voice, 
and nothing but calm memory remains to 
recapitulate her good deeds, affection, like a 
flower beaten to the ground by a rude storm, 
raises up her head and smiles amidst her 
tears. Around that idea, as we have said, 
the mind clingswith fond affection ; and even 
when the earlier period of our loss forces me¬ 
mory to be silent, fancy takes the place of 
remembrance and twines the image of our 
departed parent with a garland of graces and 
beauties and virtues, which we doubt not 
that she possessed. 
Geology.— Geology supplies us the med¬ 
als of the past; the worlds history is written 
on stones ; link by link we unite the chain 
4£hich assures us of a Divine architect. 
A vine, like a soldier, is trained—has ten¬ 
drils—and shoots. 
If you want to be honored and beloved, 
“ Do unto others as you would have them 
do unto you.” 
“ Our party is the bone and sinew of the 
country,” said an electioneering office-hold¬ 
er to a farmer. “ And what are the bones 
and sinews worth without the brains 1" re¬ 
plied the farmer. 
Loss of Appetite.— The Russian bear at 
first tried to swallow the whole of a Turkey, 
but afterwards begged only for a peace ! 
“ Grandma,” said a little urchin, “ your 
specs are upside down. Do you wear them 
thus to see to sew.’’ 
“ No, my dear ; I wear them so to see." 
INDEX. 
Blackberry vines killed in Kentucky.206 
Calendar of Operations, June, 1856.Editorial.. i94 
Camels for U. S. Army. .Editorial.. 196 
Cattle—Comet.(Illustrated)..204 
“ —Fairy.(Illustrated). .205 
Cheesemaking, Farmer’s wife on.204 
Children, Teach them to love Nature.216 
Corn Experiments, Premiums for.N’lmporte. 201 
“ Starting Early and protecting.199 
“ Principal varieties.202 
Correspondents. Notes to.212 
Cows, Milk fever- how prevented.Com.. 204 
“ To prevent holding up Milk.Editorial. .203 
Curculio Premiums.209 
Dog-breaking.Editorial.. 200 
Exhibitions, Agricultural for 1856.199 
Gardens and Flowers.207 
Garden, cheap watering and manuring_Editorial. .209 
Grasshoppers, where they come from.203 
Grave, the little Winter.Poetry. .211 
Guano, recent experiments on grass.Editorial.. 196 
Hay Caps.Editorial ..196 
Hybridizing Plants.Editorial.. 197 
Irrigation.Editorial.. 198 
Land, Economy in the use of.U. R. T. .206 
Lawns, Directions for dressing.Editorial.. 205 
Lucerne.E ditorial ..196 
Manure absorbents.Editorial.. 196 
Marriage, getting ready for.211 
Mice, Ravages of.Editorial.. 206 
Millet, Experience in raising.203 
Milking, frequent.205 
Molasses, Boiling.203 
Mother, One’s .216 
N. J. Agricultural Exhibition,.Editorial. .212 
Painting and Papering, Mrs. Brown’s_Anna Hope. .210 
Pasturage for dry Weather.Editorial. .194 
Poetry sobered down.211 
Potatoes, how planted in Southern N. J.Petit. .198 
Poultry, Lady’s Experience with chickens.. .Huldah. .210 
Prices, Weather <fcc„ Review of.Editorial. .212 
Radishes, not fit to eat.Editorial. .209 
Rats, novel method of expelling.211 
Rattle Snake bite cured.194 
Scratching Pole.205 
Spring, song for.207 
Strawberry freak.209 
“ after treatment of.Editorial. .209 
Strychnine Lard not an antidote.212 
Stumn Puller, Willis’s.Illustrated. .201 
Tim Bunker's view of the Bird Law.Editorial.. 197 
Turnip growing, a Farmer’s Experience.199 
Waterloo Correspondence.S. W..201 
West, Eastern Farmers Going—No. 3.Editorial- 200 
WesternFarm Lands—Inquiries about. 199 
Woman and the Garden.208 
Work for the Month .Editorial.. 193 
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FIFTEENTH VOLUME 
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