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and shrubs, shade trees, ornamental trees and fruit trees which 
do more to adorn and beautify a home, than the superfluities of 
the cunning workmanship of the upholster or the cabinet¬ 
maker. * * * 
Farmers, and matrons of the farm house: I pray you, re¬ 
member that you have other duties than the mere raising of 
swine and beeves, or the growing of grasses and grains. These 
works are your prerogative, and there is need that you perform 
them better than heretofore; but it is also your imperative duty 
to contribute to the elevation of your profession, by making 
the farm and the farm house an attractive and pleasant home 
for your children, and furnishing them with that knowledge, 
which is essential to success in their calling, as well as to an 
honorable position in society. The minds of the boys and 
girls who spend their youthful days beneath your roof demand 
attention. Let them not dream through the long winter evenings 
by your fire-side, and toil unceasingly through the long days, 
or, if thinking, have their whole thoughts on the bedecking 
of their persons with flimsy ornaments, for the youthful mind 
will be active for good or evil. Supply them with good publi¬ 
cations to read, as well as send them to school ; enlist their 
sympathy in their work, and seek to direct aright their active 
imaginations. Thus will you perform a holy work, and minis¬ 
ter to the wants of a fellow being, no less than those who put 
bread in the house of the famishing poor. The gratitude of 
their hearts, when arrived at years of discretion, will repay 
you, for the joys of home will not be to them in after life, a 
a name unknown. 
