AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
345 
LADY MILLXCENT. 
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The above is a portrait of a Short Horn 
cow imported, by Mr. Jonathan Thorne, the 
past season. She is considered one of the 
most valuable of his different importations, 
being large in size, and finely developed in 
all her points. Annexed we give her pedi¬ 
gree : 
Lady Millicent, roan, calved May 26, 1847. 
Bred by F. H. Fawkes, Farnley Hall, Eng¬ 
land. Imported by Jonathan Thorne ; the 
property, of Samuel Thorne, Thornsdale, 
Washington Hollow, Dutchess County, N. 
Y. Got by Laudable (9282); dam, Millicent 
by Gouchy (6051); Fair Frances by Sir Thos. 
Fairfax (5196); Feldom by Young Colling 
(1843); Lily by Red Bull (2838); Lily by son 
of Holling (2131); by Partner (2409); by R. 
Alcock’s bull (19). 
Lady Millicent is in calf by Lord of Braw- 
ith (10,465). Her dam Millicent is out of 
Mr. Ambler’s celebrated prize heifer, Miss 
Frances. 
Our readers will recollect the notice we 
gave of Mr. Jonathan Thorne’s stock, at 
page 369 of our last volume. Since this, 
Lady Millicent and several others have been 
imported by him, for the purpose of increas¬ 
ing his herd, and giving it still greater varie¬ 
ty of blood. His son, Mr. Samuel Thorne, 
being very desirous to become a farmer and 
breeder of choice stock, Mr. Jno. Thorne 
disposed of all his Short Horn cattle and 
South Down sheep to him last November. 
Having ample means and accommodation, 
the public may be assured that this celebra¬ 
ted herd and flock will lose nothing by the 
transfer; but that they will continue to be 
bred with great care, and in the best and 
most scientific manner. 
It is now snowing, and very cold. 
The Monongahela Valley Agricultural 
and Horticultural Society. —This Society, 
during the past summer, leased five acres of 
river bottom, and inclosed the same with a 
high fence, at an expense of over $500, be¬ 
side paying their premiums ; and they have 
now a surplus in the treasury which will en¬ 
able them to offer more liberal premiums at 
their next fair. The present officers are : 
D. Moore, President. 
.1. W. Smith, Recording Secretary. 
Bradford Allen, Cor. Secretary. 
Wm. J. Alexander, Treasurer. 
BOARD OF MANAGERS. 
John A. Hopper, Geo. V. Lawrence, 
John King, John Gilfillan, 
Geo. W. Allen, Brisbon Wall, 
Wm. S. Mellinger, H. M. Bentley, 
James Sansom. 
Acknowledgements. —From Messrs. Vil- 
morin, Andrieux & Co., of Paris, France, we 
have received a pamphlet entitled “ Recher- 
ches sur le Sorgho Sucre," par M. Louis Vil- 
morin. We shall look this over soon, and if 
we find it sufficiently interesting to our far¬ 
mers and planters, will translate it for the 
columns of the American Agriculturist. 
Addresses before the Aquidnech Agricultu¬ 
ral Society. —Some attentive friend has sent 
us three of the above. One by Nathaniel 
Greene, delivered September, 1852; one by 
Thomas R. Hazard, September, 1853, and 
one by J. Prescott Hall, September, 1854. 
The latter we had noticed, in an exchange 
paper, and made some extracts from it; the 
two former we shall look over soon. 
Messrs. Fowders & Wells, 308 Broadway, 
have sent us a work entitled “ The Ways of 
Life,” by the Rev. G. S. Weaver, author of 
“ Hopes and Helps.” The work bears a 
high moral tone throughout, and may be 
read profitably by all classes. Price 50c. in 
cloth. 
PRACTICE VS. PREACHING. 
It is very easy to keep house on paper. Good 
rules may be given for rising and retiring, 
for cooking and washing dishes; yet nothing, 
after all, can take the place of practical 
common sense and experience. If every¬ 
thing in our domestic arrangements moved 
on like clock-work, and never got out of 
order, we could live by rule, and it would all 
be very easy—but, unfortunately for such an 
experiment, babies will not always go to 
sleep at the right time, and they will some¬ 
times wake long before the proper moment. 
Children will tear their clothes just when 
lliey should not, and they will fall down in 
the mud, and require a change of garments, 
at a time appropriated to some important do¬ 
mestic duty. Sometimes, too, they will be 
ill, and they must be attended to, even if they 
do manage in such a disorderly way ; and 
sometimes, also, the housekeeper herself 
breaks all her good rules, and does nothing 
but lie still and take medicine from morning 
till night. 
It is very easy, too, to bring up children 
on paper. They can be made quite perfect 
little beings. Their faults disappear so 
readily before a gentle reproof, that it is diffi¬ 
cult to imagine they belong to the same race 
as ourselves, for we must be conscious that 
it often requires more than one effort to 
overcome a bad habit. Full-grown men 
often find it more than they have resolution 
to accomplish to give up self-indulgence in 
some of its forms, but a mere child, on 
paper, can do what man scarce dares at¬ 
tempt. If he is choleric, all you have to 
