MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
safe fence, though we think rather expen¬ 
sive. If it was made wdth two strong wires 
for a selvedge, and fdled in by twisting the 
wires into the net mesh, like the u])per screen 
of a fanning mill, it wo\ild be a very perfect 
article—combining strength and beauty— 
and a detergent to all animals larger than 
the cockchafFer or May bug. 
YVc think well of a slight ditch and rais¬ 
ed bank, to assist the heiglit and reduce the 
quantity of wire; whoJi once .sodded it would 
bo permanent A stone wall two feet in 
height, with the posts well built in and mor¬ 
tared, w'ould have the same advantages, and 
cause the posts to last almost an unlimited 
time. ... 
FENCING.-HEDGES. 
1 HAVE read with interest several articles 
in the Kurae New-Yorker on Wire Fen¬ 
ces. It must be observable to every farm¬ 
er, that, ere long, our country bids fair to 
be most w'ofully destitute of fencing mate¬ 
rial. In some sections, timber may last for 
rail fence, for perhaps the present genera¬ 
tion; but in most parts of Western New 
York, even before that time, the scarcity of 
material must be a great desideratum in 
the value of farms, and they will rate ac¬ 
cordingly. 
As far as my experience goes, I would 
pronounce it out of the question, for ■wire 
ever to become the fence of our land. It 
may serve the purpose around dwellings, 
especially betw'een pleasure groimds, and 
pa.stures, where horses and cattle are gra¬ 
zing, and thus give the appearance of exten¬ 
sive grounds; but for common farm fence, 
for many reasons, I think it never can come 
into general use. 
What then are we coming to ? what is to 
be our fence two hundred yeare hence ?— 
I know tarmei's often ask eacli other this 
question, but seldom or never receive a 
satisfoctory answer. Some selfish ones con¬ 
clude, they have what will kxst their time 
—let others look out for themselves. But 
in looking, we naturally cast our eyes to old¬ 
er countries, to see how they have done in 
the cfisc. With scai’cely an exception, we 
find they use the hedge: then wdiy not w'C ? 
Have we any good reason for not doing the 
same ? I think not. It was my lot, five 
years ago, to spend a year in England. 1 1 
then observed that, with the excej)tion of I 
some few districts, such as the “Cleaveland 
Yalley,” and some others, (where the Haw¬ 
thorn grew particularly well,) they were no 
ways tenacious of w'hat they used for hed¬ 
ges; shrubs of many descriptions, Ever- 
gTeens, Crab Trees, Wild Rose, Broom—in 
fact anything that was most convenient and 
adapted to the soil. 
Now, even the Hawthorn will do as >vell 
here as in many parts of the old country. 
This I am satisfied of, by some hedges now 
gTowing in front of my house. But I be¬ 
lieve we have within our reach, that which 
will suit us better—the Hawthorn being too 
slow a grow'er, for such a go-ahead people. 
I allude now to the Apple; that we know 
to be hardy, adapted to all soils, at least suf¬ 
ficiently so for the purpose, and above all 
exceedingly easy of propagation. What 
matter if it does bear fruit; to say the 
least, it is ^none the w'orse for it, and by 
properly cutting dowm the firet, second and 
third years, will make a stiff, durable fence, 
impervious to everything but birds. Its 
large leaves will form a perfect screen, the 
great object between pasture and crops; 
(which, by the by, is the true prohibiture 
of breachy cattle; not as some suppose, the 
long thorns alone, deter the animal—what 
he sees not, he w'ants not.) 
W'hat a charm it would throw' around our 
homesteads—iastead of that bleak and bar¬ 
ren view', which first strikes the foreigner so 
forbidding—instead of those decaying rails 
with their didl and dead stare, polluting the 
atmosphere—producing a living verdure, a 
beautiful landscape, and air, redolent with 
health—fit scene to inspire a second Mrs. 
Hemans, to sing of us, as she sung of her 
own land, when gazing on their green fields, 
and living hedges— 
“The ‘Happy Homes’ of England, 
How beautiful they stand; 
Amid the tall ancestral trees, 
O’er al! their pleasant land." 
W. H. 
Millville, Orleans Co., 3d 7no., 1,1850. 
. The Cincinnati Advertiser states that 
the whole number of hogs slaughtered in 
the valley of the West, during the past 
year, was one million and ninety-seven 
thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven. 
MAPLE SUGAE. 
It is hardly probable that the sugar crop 
will be very large this year, as the season 
has thvis fiir been extremely unpropitious, 
at least in these parts. Still there will, in 
all probability, be some made yet in this 
j month; and it may not be unprofitable to re- 
j late a process of refining that w'eonce learned 
in the days of our hish-whacking, which we i 
know to be simple and quite superior to 
most practices in use. 
I W^hen the sap is boiled to about the con¬ 
sistence of good sale molasses, set it by to 
cool, preparatory to applying the finings.— 
Both milk and eggs are used, but eggs are 
entirely preferable, as in the rising of the 
ciu-d to bring up the impurities, tlie whole 
material of the egg coagulates and rises, 
while the milk only sends up the curd, leav¬ 
ing the whey to mix w’ith the sugar, and in¬ 
jure its qualities. 
Take three or four eggs to each gallon of 
syrup, and beat them well and thoroughly 
— mix them with the syrup w'hile cold.— 
Then heat it slowly, and bring it to near the 
boiling pointy and .skim till no more rises.—. 
Then pass it through a woolen cloth (wool¬ 
en, mind that,) in preference to any other; 
for this is one of the important features of 
the manufacture, to strain through flannel 
after fining, aiid it is all the straining on set¬ 
tling that is required during the w'hole pro¬ 
cess. Reduce it by boiling, till, when drop¬ 
ped int<j cold w'ater, it will retciin its shape 
and not dissolve; take off the wdiite scum 
and it is ready for graining. 
It is a curious fact, that the process of re¬ 
fining maple sugar till it is entirely wdiite, 
de.stroys its peculiar delicious flavor, and 
renders it a simple sweet, like cane sugar. 
I __ 
GREEN AND DRY WOOD. 
I sEJS that this subject is discussed in the 
New-Y'orker, and it is quite desirable to 
know' the truth in so important a matter. 
I perceive that the advocates of green wood 
admit that dry actually throws out the 
most heat, but that a great part of it is lost 
by being sw'ept' up the chimney. At any 
rate, no one can insist that jis much heat is 
given out by the combustion of a certain 
amount of fuel, where a part of the heat 
must necessarily be latent or liiddenin evap¬ 
orating a large quantity of Avater. For 
heat, sufficient to raise the temperature a 
thousand degrees, is lost in evaporating the 
moisture, the vapor of w'hicli, unless confi¬ 
ned in a close and veiy strong vessel, can¬ 
not rise higher in temperature than 212 
degrees. 
Repeated and careful experiment has 
shoAvn me that the actual amount of heat 
thrown out by good, sound, well seasoned 
Avood, (not Avater-soaked and then half de¬ 
cayed before the seasoning Avas accomplish¬ 
ed,) is about twice that emitted by green. 
But in a fire-place nine-tenths of this is sent 
up the chimney, and a very large portion 
in a stove, Avith a strong draught But the 
emission of heat by fuel is one thing, and the 
Avasting of it after emitted is another. The 
difficulty lies in the fire-place and stove, and 
not in the dry Avood. I have used for many 
years a hot-air furnace; and for many more, 
an air-tight, self-regulating stove. In both 
of these, the draught Avas very small, and 
a very small portion of the heat went up 
the cliimney. The superiority of well sea¬ 
soned AA'ood, (not in thin splinters, but) in 
large blocks, six inches or more through, 
Avas here most striking, possessing tAvice the 
efficacy of gTeen. Hence I find it to my 
great advantage to buy all my AVOod tAvo 
years in advance,'that it become thoroughly 
seasoned in the large wood-house which I 
liaA'e built for this purpose. Senex. 
Grain Fields of the West, —Jame Da- 
A'is, of WaA'crly, Ross County, Ohio, culti¬ 
vates 1,800 acres exclusiA'ely in Indian corn, 
and has this w'intcr a com crib filled, Avhich 
is three miles long, ten feet high, and six 
feet wide. We presume this is one of the 
largest corn fields in the AA'orld OAvned by a 
single indiAudued. On the great Miama Bot¬ 
tom, near LaAvrenceburgh, Indiana, about 
25 miles beloAv Cincinnatti, there is one field 
seven miles long, by three miles broad, ex¬ 
tending in fact to Aurora, which has been 
regularly planted down to corn for nearly 
half a century. Although corn is one of 
the most exhausting crops, no manure is ev¬ 
er used and the soil is <as fertile as ever.— 
The Wabash Valley is also remarkable for 
the extent of its corn fields. We should be 
glad to see the statistics of some of the corn 
fields on the Illinois prairies.— Cin. Gaz. 
The memory ought to be a store-room. 
Many make theirs a lumber-room. 
THE TRUE FARMER, A SCIENTIFIC MAN. 
Agriculture, from various reasons, has 
not taken its proper place among the ai-ts 
and sciences^—has not been held in that 
esteem, nor wielded that influence w'hich 
was rightly its due. Among these causes 
the most prominent is, that the profession 
^ of a farmer has not been held by himself 
and others of the importance which really 
belongs to it. The knowledge, energy and 
skill necessary to a successful prosecution of 
tliis apparently simple, yet in fact, compli¬ 
cated pursuit, have either been underA'alued 
or not duly appreciated, and men have fled 
from its drudgery to that more seA'ere, less 
useful, calling for less intellectual culture 
and effort, but ranking liigher among the 
uppermost classes of community. The hon¬ 
est farmer who has, by skillful and industri¬ 
ous foresight, made the “ Avildemess to bios- , 
som as the rose,” and gathered around him 
all the comfoTts, and most of the real re¬ 
finements of life, misled by this idea, instead 
of teaching his sons to follow and honor his 
example, learns them to be ashamed of the 
calling of their father, and that honor, and 
influence, and refinement are only to be 
found in professional life. 
SaA'e in those byways of our land, AA'here 
agricultural newspapers are 7iot needed, and 
Avhere book-farming is scouted as Avasteful 
and mistaken economy, the idea that knoAvl- 
edge, and. the teacliings of science are un¬ 
necessary and useless to the farmer, is an 
exploded one, becoming daily more and 
more obsolete, and its dark domains more 
circumscribed, so that they cannot long es¬ 
cape the light, nOAv of almost universal dif¬ 
fusion. 
How the matter is looked upon by the 
eye Avhich takes in a large extended vicAv of 
human knoAvledge and research, the folloAA'- 
ing finely written extracts fumish a beauti¬ 
ful example. They are from No. 401 of 
Blaclcivood’s Magazine : 
“Look at that magnificent ship which cleaves 
the Avaters, noAV trusting to her canvass and wafted 
bv favoring breezes; now, despite the fiercest gales, 
paddling her triumphant way over hill and vallej', 
precipice and ravine, which the raging sea, out of 
her fertile materials, is every moment fashioning 
beneath her feet. Is there any product of human 
art in Avhich more intellect is embodied than in 
this piece of living mechanism? The timber can 
tell of the axe of the woodman on far distant hills, 
and of the toils of many craftsmen in fitting it for 
its ])resent purpose. The iron of the researches of 
the mineralogist, the laborious skill of the miner, 
the alchemy of the smelter, the Avonders of the 
tilt-haiamtrAhe ingenuity of the mechanist, and 
the almost 'inconceivable and mathematical nicety 
by which its various portions arc fitted to each 
other, and, like the muscles and sinews of the hu¬ 
man body, made to play together for a purpose 
previously contemplated — and uninstructed man 
might almost say, previously agreed upon among 
themselves. The steam, of what hidden secrets of 
nature!—the mysteries of heat, which could not 
hide themselves from the searching genius of 
Black,— the chemistry of Avater which the ever- 
pondering mind of Watt compelled from unwil¬ 
ling nature,— tlie endless contrivances by which 
its fierce poAver was tamed to most submissive obe¬ 
dience in the AA’orkshops of Soho. * * And 
when, as the mid-day sun mounts to the zenith, 
the sextant and the quicksilver appear, how does it 
fla.sh upon us that modern navigation is the child 
of astronomy; and that the mind embodied in the 
latest Rossian telescope is part and parcel of the 
inappreciable mass of thought to Avhich, ‘walking 
the waters as a thing of life,’ that huge steam 
frigate owes its being! 
What a concentration of varied knoAvledge is 
seen in this single work of art! From hoAV many 
sources has this knoAvledge come!—how many 
diverse .pursuits or sciences have yielded their ne¬ 
cessary quota to the common stock!— hoAV many 
varied talents have been put under contribution to 
contrive its many parts, and put them fittingly 
together! 
But, to tlie pursuits of the humble farmer, more 
aids still contribute than to those of the dauntless 
navigator. His patient and quiet life on land is 
as dependent upon varied knoAvledge, draws its in¬ 
struction from as many sources, and is more bound 
up in visible union with all the branches of human 
science, than even the active and .stirring life of the 
dweller on the sea. 
# ^ # vf ^ 
tloAV much intellect, from the earliest daAvn of 
civilization, has been lavished on the soil!—how 
many branches of knowledge are at this moment 
uniting their strength to develop its latent capabil¬ 
ities ! Geology yields the raAV materials upon which, 
in after ages, the toils of the husbandman are ex¬ 
pended. She explains what are the variations in 
the natural quality of these materials; how such 
variations have arisen; \A-hore they lead to increas¬ 
ed, and Avhere to diminished fertility; hoAv and 
Avhere the still living rocks may contribute to the 
improvement of the dead earth which has been 
formed from them; and how, in some apparently 
insecure regions, the unsleeping volcano showers 
over the land, at varj ing periods, the element of 
an endless fertility. Mineralogy lends her aid to 
unravel the origin, and nature, and wants, and ca¬ 
pabilities of the soil; and, as the handmaid and 
Avilling folloAver of geology, dresses and classes 
the fragments Avhich geology has let fall from her 
magnificent formations. But chemistry, especial¬ 
ly, exhausts herself in the cause of the husband¬ 
man. No branch of rural art is beyond her prov¬ 
ince and control. * # * 
Upon the soil the plant groAvs. WhataAA'onder . 
and a mystery is t||ie plant! A living, and groAving, 
and breathing existence, that speaks silently to the 
eye, and to the sense of touch, and to the sense of 
smell — speaks kindly to man, and soothingly, 
and appeals to his reasoning poAA'ers — but is mute 
* That agriculture may rank as an art AA ith paint¬ 
ing, poetry, and sculpture, let landscape gardening 
show — which is art seeking to perfect nature — to 
bring into one view all of the congenial possible of 
natural beauty and scenic effect intermingled Avith 
the highest grandeur and lov^dst of art and sci¬ 
ence combined. 
to the most open and wakeful of all his senses, 
and by no verbal sj>eech reveals the secrets with 
which its full vessels are bursting. Hoav many 
Avise heads haA’e watched, and tended, and studied 
it—the humble plant—interpreting its smallest 
movements, the meaning of eA'ery change of hue 
upon its leaves, and floAA’ors, and gathering pro- 
fouudest Avisdom from its fixed and voiceless life. 
* * * 
And on the plant as it groAvs, and as a perfect 
Avhole, chemistrj’ expends entire and most gifted 
intellectual lives. Of what the plant consists, 
Avhence it draws its subsistence, how it takes it in 
— in AA'hat form, in what quantit}', at Avhat period 
of the day — hoAV the air feeds it, hoAV the soil 
sustains it, Avhy it grows Avell here and badly 
there — Avhat are the nature, composition, action, 
and .special influences of manures — where and 
AA'hcn, and of what kind, they should be applied 
to the plant — hoAV this or that elToct is to be pro¬ 
duced by them, or this, or that defect remedied. 
Still the life of the plant is an unravelled thread. 
The steam frigate appears to Ha'C, and thunders as 
: she moves, breathing fire and smoke. But the 
! still life of the plant aAves and subdues more than 
all this. Man may forcibly obstruct the path of 
the groAA'ing twig, but it turns quietly aside and 
moves patiently on. The dead iron and AVOod, 
and the forceful steam, all obey man’s AA’ill — his 
.intellect overmasters their stubbornness, and tames 
them into crouching slaves—but the life of the 
plant defies him. That life he can extinguish; 
but to use the living plant he must obey it, and 
study its wants and tendencies. Hoav vastly easier 
to achieve a boastful triumph over the most stub¬ 
born mineral matter, than to mould to man’s will 
the humblest floAA'er that groAvs!” 
Thus Ave see that the fanner’s life is, and 
should be far from an unintellectual one— 
far from being a pursuit unworthy the best 
energies of the most cultivated minds of 
our age. As a business pursuit, it is the 
basis, the groundwork of all others — min¬ 
istering to the deepest wants'and highest 
aspirations of society and intellect. And, 
Avhile all other sciences are making steady 
improvements, and gaining daily progress 
tOAvards perfection, Ave are happy to see in 
the existence and prosperity of such peri¬ 
odicals as the Rural Neav-Yoreer, bright 
omens that the agricultural community are 
RAvake to their OAvn interests, Avhich are, at 
the same time, the best interests of the 
countrA' and community at large. 
J. H. B. 
Royalton, N. Y., Feb. 25, 1850. 
FOOD OF FOWLS. 
• —^— 
There is nosorrof insect, perhaps, Avhich 
foAvls Avill not eat They are exceedingly 
fond of flies, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, 
and every species of grub and maggot— 
We find it quite advantageous in the sum¬ 
mer to open our gates occasionallj', and gii'e 
the foAA'ls a run in the garden an hour or so 
in the afternoon, Avhen insects are plenty. 
Mr. Stimson, of Galway, a feiv years 
since connected the business of rearing 
' jioultiy Avith the useful purpose of protect¬ 
ing his garden. His method is simply tliis: 
a sufficient number of coops are construct¬ 
ed, and are placed in different parts of the 
garden, and the hens Avith their broods are 
put into these coops; the chickens then 
roam over the garden, and devour every fly, 
bug, or insect, which falls in their way.— 
There is one objection, hoAvever, to this, 
Avhich we found by experience, and that 
is, if left in the garden too long, they be¬ 
come so attached that it is diflicult to keep 
them out when grown up. We would 
therefore recommend removing them to the 
poultry yard as soon as they get in feather. 
Experiment with Plaster on Corn.— 
As accurate experiments are what Ave all 
Avant, I give below the result of one Avhich 
may be of interest to some of your readers. 
Last spring I procured two barrels Plas¬ 
ter of Paris, at $2 25 per barrel, which was 
put on 20 acres of corn, Avith the exception 
of four strips across the field, that I might 
observe the difference. Forty-eight rows in 
the most oven part of the field was chosen 
for the experiment—16 rows plastered up¬ 
on each side of 16 rows not plastered; ffil 
haA'ing the same cultivation—the roAvs 120 
hills in length. The corn where plastered 
grew much faster than the other, Avhich en¬ 
abled me to Avork closer Avhile small, and 
when cut up, the stalks averaged about 18 
inches taller. When measured, strip No. 
1 , yielded 35 bushels; No. 2, (not plaster¬ 
ed) 28 bushels; and No. 3, 35^ bushels.— 
(There Avas no apparent difference in the 
soil.) This gave me 7 bushels, or one-fifth 
more corn for what cost me only 36 cents. 
— Cor. of Ohio Cult. 
New Mode op Raising Wheat.—A n 
experiment has been tried in loAva, and re¬ 
corded in the Prairie Farmer, by J. A. Ros- 
seau, where two bushels of Avheat and one 
of oats were mixed and sown together in 
the fall, on one acre. The oats shot up rap¬ 
idly, and were, of com'se, cut doAvn by the 
frost. They hoAvever furnished a Avarm 
covering for the earth, and when the’snoAv 
fell among the thick stalks and leaves, they 
kept it from bloAving aAvay. This cover¬ 
ing prevented the Avinter-killing of the 
Avheat, and the oats yielded a rich top-dres¬ 
sing for the crop the folloAving spring. The 
result Avas—an abundant crop, while land 
precisely similar along side of it, and treat¬ 
ed in the same manner, AA'ith the exception 
of omitting the oats, was utterly worthless. 
Will some of our readers try this experi¬ 
ment the coming season, and give us an ac¬ 
count of the results ? 
ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT. 
The winter meeting of this Society was 
held in Canandaigua on Tuesday last.— 
We are pleased to learn that there was 
an unusual large attendance, and that 
a great degree of interest was manifested. 
The folloAving is a list of the premiums 
awarded:— 
GRAIN CROPS. 
1st premium on Wheat, Henry W. Willson, 
Canandaigua, $7,00. 
2d do., Uriah Beach, East Bloonifield, $5,00. 
3d do., John Rankine, Canandaigiia, ,$3,00. 
Ist premium on Barley, E. M. Bradley, East 
Bloomfield, $5,00. 
2d do., Orrin Smith, Farmin^on, $3,00. 
1st premium on Oats, E. M. Bradley, East 
Bloomfield, $5,00. 
2d do., George Rice, East Bloomfield, ,$3,00. 
3d do., R. A. Andrews, Bristol, $2,00. 
1st premium on CloA'er Seed, Oliver Babcock, 
Hopewell, ,$7,00. 
2d do., John B. Cooley, Canandaigua, .$5,00. 
David Pickett, ) 
TIvICT- r3-ATT«Q -Tr V 
Benj. Gauss, Jr., V Com. 
B. F. Gage. ) 
FAT CATTLE. 
1st premium on Oxen, fatted for slaughter, Dan¬ 
iel S. Baker, West Bloomfield, $5,000. • 
2d do., Daniel S. Baker, W. Bloomfield, $3,00. 
3d do. do. do. do. $2,00. 
4th do. do. do. do. Vol. Trans. 
Ist premium on Steers, Daniel S. Baker, West 
Bloomfield, "$5,00 
2d do,, Daniel S. Baker, West Bloomfield, 
$3,00. 
3d do., Myron Adams, East Bloomfield, $2,00. 
1st premium on Cows, Mvron Boughton, Victor, 
$5,00. 
2d do., D. S. Baker, West Bloomfield, .$3,00. 
CvRus Gates, ) 
Daniel Taylor, > Com. 
Henry Knapp. ) 
ROOTS. 
1st premium on Cmrots, Ira C. Williams, Na¬ 
ples, $3,00. 
2d do., D. S. Baker, West Bloomfield, $2,00. 
3d do., Elisha M. Bradley, East Bloomfield, 
Vol. Trans. 
Beets, Elisha M. Bradley, East Bloomfield, $2. 
Rutabagas, Nathaniel Smith, Gorham, $3,00. 
George Rice, ) 
WiLMOTT Smith, > Com. 
Oliver Babcock. ) 
Mr. Elisha M. Rradley, of East Bloom¬ 
field, was elected Recording Secretaiy, in 
place of Mr. Wm. W. Gorham, resigned.— 
This is a capital choice. Mr. Bradley is a 
practical farmer of much experience and 
deeply interested in the welfare of the So¬ 
ciety. 
The Society also passed a resolution, of¬ 
fering a premium of $10 to the toAvn Avhich 
should exhibit at the October meeting the 
best team of cattle, consisting of ten yokes, 
and OAvned entirely by members of the So¬ 
ciety. Here is a chance for the towns to 
distinguish themselves. It Avill be more 
glory to any tOAvn to take that premium, 
than to carry off the banner on either side 
in a heated political contest.— Ont. Hep. 
COWS FOR THE DAIRY. 
Mr. Robert Gray, near Fredericton, N. 
B., in ansAver to an inquiry from the Direct¬ 
ors of the St. John Agricultural Society, 
says:— 
“ From my experience in the matter, I 
give a decided preference to Ayrsliire coavs 
for the dairy. I believe they Avill yield a 
greater quantity of milk, in proportion to 
the food they consume, than any other 
breed. Besides this, they are docile and 
hardy, and Avill thrive on pasture, and with 
a description of keep where such breeds as 
the Short-Horns Avould starve. They also 
possess more than average feeding qualities 
of their OAvn, and AA'hen crossed Avith the 
Short-Horn or Durham bull, the produce is 
an animal remarkable for early maturity 
and a disposition to fatten. If proof were 
wanting of the excellence of the breed, 
it Avould be found in the circumstance that 
they are carried to almost CA'ery quarter of 
the globe. Large droves are every year 
taken to England, and during the last ten 
years, considerable numbers have been ta¬ 
ken to the Cape, the Isles of France, to 
Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, and the United 
States.”— Cultivator. 
Disease in Swine. —A breeding sow 
was turned off to fatten. A fcAv days after 
she was noticed to stand with her head 
doAvn, and to be breathing with great dis¬ 
tress, but yet, Avithout any perceptible sound. 
This continued for a day or two, when sup¬ 
posing she was laboring under an attack of 
inflammation of the lungs, I cut off her tail, 
from which she bled freely. This was fol- 
loAved by immediate relief, and in a day or 
two she Avas quite Avell. — Am, Ag. 
Enjoyment of Life.—Tavo wealthy citi¬ 
zens of Boston, now considerably advanced 
in life, were lately conversing in regard to 
the period when they had best enjoyed 
themseh'es. “I Avill tell you,” says one, 
“ when I most enjoyed life, soon after I was 
21, I AA'orked for Mr.- , laying stone 
wall, at twenty cents per darj!" 
“Well,” replied the other, “that does not 
differ much from my experience; Avhen I 
was 20, I hired out at scA'en dollars per 
month. I haA'C never enjoyed myself bet¬ 
ter since.” The experience of these two 
indiAoduals teaches—1st, that one’s happi¬ 
ness does not depend on the amount of his 
gains or the station he occupies; 2d, that 
very small beginnings, Avith industry and 
prudence, may secure Avealth. 
Life is the hyphen between matter and 
spirit. 
