Agricultural . Make Farm Labor Fashionable.

At the base of the prosperity of any people Bcs this great prim iplc—make farm labor fash­ionable at home. Enlist the heart and the in­tellect of the family in the support of a domes­tic system that will make labor attractive at the homestead. By means of the powerful influ­ences of early home education, endeavor to in­vest practical labor with an interest that will cheer the heart of each member of the family, and thereby you will give to your household the grace, peace, refinement and attraction which God designed a home should possess.

The truth is, we must talk more, think more, work more, and act more, in reference to ques­tions relating to home.

The training and improvement of the physi­cal, intellectual, social and moral powers and sentiments of the youth of your country, require something more than the school house, acade­my, college university. The young mind should receive judicious training in the field, in the gar­den, in the barn, in the work-shop, in the par­lor, in the kitchen—in a wd, around the hearthstone at home.

Whatever intellectual attainments your son may have acquired, lie is unfit to go forth into society if he lias not had thrown around him the genial and purifying influences of parents, sisters, brothers, and the man-sawing influence of the family government. The nation must look for virtue, wisdom, and strength to the ed-cation that control and shape the home policy of the family circle. There can be no love of country where there is 110 love of home. Patri­otism, true and genuine, the only kind worthy of the name, 4fcrives its mighty strength from fountains that ^ftrsli out around the heathstone; and those whe forget to cherish the house-hold interests will soon learn to look with indiffer­ence upon the interests of their common coun-try. \

We must"tUlfi^Bpthc roots, not the tops. We must make t^c family government, the school, the farm, the church, the shop, the agri­culture fairs, thcMttboratories of our future great­ness. We mfBj^nicate our sons to be farmers, artizans, architects, engineers, geologists, bot­anists, chemists—in a word, practical men. Their eyes must be turned from Washington to their States, counties, townships, districts, and komes. This-is true patriotism; and the only patriotism that will perpetually preserve the nation.— Gov. Wright.

The Gninea Fowl. The XJuinea lien, or Pintado, is nearly an ev­

erlasting layer. They are said to unite the properties of the turkey and pheasant. They ire a native of Africa, though said by some to belong equally to this country, and arc easily domesticated. Its flesh is more like that of the pheasant than the common fowl, both in color and taste, and is reckoned a very good substi­tute for that bird. It assimilates perfectly with the common fowl, in its artificial habits and kinds of food. Its wait is peculiar, as arc its cries. They are fond of marshy places, and al­ways perch during the night in high situations, or on trees. It is singular that American farm­ers do not turn their attention to these fowls. A Jerseyman, named David Bonner, from Eng­land, hired a pateh of five acres, four years ago, and commenced raising eggs for the New York market. Bonner has never hired any help, and at this moment owns a farm for which he paid $4,700, of which the buildings cost over $?3,000. His farm is all paid for; he owes not a cent in the world, and he ownes a flock which varies from 800 to 1,200 Guinea hens.

Preserving Butter. The farmers of Alberdeen, Scotland, if# «aid

to practice the following method of curing their butter, which gives it a great superiority over that of their neighbors.

"Take two quarts of the best common salt, one ounce of sugar, and one ounce of saltpeter; take one ounce of this composition for one pound of butter, work it well into the mass and close it up for use. _ The butter cured with this mix­ture appears rich and of a morrowy consistence and fine color, and never acquires a brittle hard­ness nor tastes salty. Dr. Anderson says: "I have eaten butter cured with this composition that has been kept for three years, ana it was as sweet as at first. It must be noted, howev­er, that butter thus cured required to stand three weeks or a month before it is used. If it is sooner opened, the salts are not sufficiently blended with it, and sometimes the coolness of the nitre will be perceived, which will totally disappear afterward/'

Buckwheat for Hens. Buckwheat contains a large portion of lime,

and is consequently one of the best articles that can be fed to hens. It is also nutricious and stimulating, and when fed to barnyard fowls, never fails to prove promotive of fecundity,—by supplying fresh meat, lime, oats, water, chopped vegetables, and buckwheat to hens, they will lay as well in the winter as they will in the -spring and summer season. They should be kept in a warm place, and have good boxes in which to lay, with a plenty of good straw in which to make their nests.—Many who keep hens complain that they do not pay oxpenses. This results from carelessness and neglcct on the part of the owner, for it has been abundantly demon­strated that the hen, when judiciously managed and supplied with suitable food, is not only ca­pable of "paying expenses," but of becoming a source of considerable profit. ^ 7 '/'

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Imitation Apple Pie. * Hrrui Larkin writes:—"Use raw punkin in­

stead of green apples; slice thin; add equal parts of vinegar and water, thicken with wheat flour, season to suit the taste, and bake thoroughly. It requires more salt and longer baking than apple pie, tart when done it in no respect in­ferior.

Grasses for Pastures. Timothy alone, or timothy, red ton and blue

grass, will make a permanent meadow, which will produce heavy crops of good hay for many years, if well treated. So orchard grass alone, or orchard grass and red clover, will make a good permanent meadow, with reference to the. pro­duct of which no reasonable man will have cause to complain, unless he feeds it off too close the first year, and suffers it to be abused subsequent­ly. But for good permanent pasture, fnany grasses are wanted. Yet in one section of our State, we find land laid down to blue grass; in another section to timothy; in a third, to orch­ard grass and red clover combined, ltarely do we find more thin two or three grasses growing in the same pasture; yet not less than one hun­dred species have been described by botanists as growing spontaneously in the great Mississip­pi valley.

In England, as many as twenty-two species of grass have been found growing upon a square foot of ancestrial pasture, that had been grazed unremittingly through many generations. And English pastures wear well, producing food for a long period, from very early in the spring to very late in the fail. Why? Simply because in­stead of being confined to one or two grasses that start about the same time in the season, and ma­ture about the same time, as in the American custom, they seed down the lands intended to remain for a series of years in pasture, with all the varieties that will grow upon them, and thus secure a regular succession of succulent and nu­tritious fcxxl the season through.—Louisville (Ay) Courier.

Ketchum's Reaper and Mower. That old Pioneer Machine Ketchum's Reaper

and Mower, is on exhibition at our National Fair, under the supervision of R. L. Howard, proprietor and manufacturer, Buffalo, N. Y.— Last year, in competition with the best machines manufactured, it bore off the palm at several of our leading State Fairs, and the article brought forward here, embodies essential improvements for 1859—18(30. We may, we imagine, safelv predict the same success at the U. S. Fair, which has attended Ketchum's machines on similar oc­casions. In adaptability, elegance of finish, sim­plicity and cheapness, it has no rival. The pub­lic having long demanded a mower which may be worked with one horse, Mr. Howard has pro­duced and patented one. It has been thorough­ly tested within the last year and found exactly the article required. It, also, is on exhibition, open to inspection. Our readers will bear in mind that Ketchum's is the oldest Reaper and Mower made, and if we wished, we could refer to some of the first agriculturalists of the Union for its reputation as a superior article, or quote from the report of the U. S. Agricultural Socie­ty upon the trial of reapers and mowers at Sy­racuse in 1857. We wave all this, as space will n^t permit. With other articles entered bv the enterprising proprietor we notice "Sandford's Farm Mill," an article worthy of the examina-1 tiou of ail visiting the grounds, and a "Bean | Harvester," harvesting beans with one horse and the greatest rapidity.—Chicago Herald.

Usefulness of Lime in Transplantiig Trees.

An English publication says that a large plan­tation of trees has been formed in that country, within a few years past, without the loss of a single tree, by putting a small quantity of lime in the hole when planting the tree. Four bushels of lime are said to be sufficient for an acre. The lime is thoroughly mixed with the soil, in order that it may be reachcd by the roots with equal facility in every direction, as its principal effect is to push forward the tree dur­ing the first precarious stages of its growth.

The local editor of the Buffalo Republic must have got up in a bad humor the other morning, and the complaint of "the rest of mankind" that congregate in that village about the warm weath­er, together with the temperature, caused his "vials of wrath" to boil over in the following strain: "The weather is a great deal better than such a fashion-loving, Christian-hating, money-worshiping, style-adoring, God-forsaken commu­nity as ours is, deserves. To have weather equal to the deserts of half the people in our midst, iron would melt in the shade, and cattle walk the streets "roast beef well done," perspiring gravy. We commend this to that class of peo­ple lor whom salvation was never intended, and who do not intend or deserve to be saved."

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3d—a Freo Season Admiss ion to the Gal le r ies , 548 Broadway.

In addition to which, the large and valuable collec­tion of works of art will be given to subscribers in Jan­uary next.—No person is restricted to a single sub­scription. Those remitting $15 are entitled to six memberships.

Subscribers in California, the Canadas, and the Pro­vinces, will have to remit $3 50 instead of $3 for mem­bership, in order to defray tlicir extra postages.

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