duced one-third more crop than that manured pirations encircle the globe, see to it, that their with compost or guano. His communication will sons do not continually annoy their neighbors by be given next week. Why does Vermont wheat make bread that is moist, while that made from Western wheat is dry? Is it owing to the presence of gluten? J. E. K. "Newport, N. H., April 11, 1855. The stage from this place still goes upon runners. Snow in abundance." BOYS' DEPARTMENT. PROFANITY. you profanity? The Revised Statutes of Massachusetts contain the following declarations concerning profanity: "If any person, who has arrived at the age of discretion, shall profanely curse or swear, he shall on conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace, be punished by fine, not exceeding five dollars, nor less than one dollar." We read of one of olden times that neither feared God nor regarded man. If there be any such as have arrived at the age of discretion," and are habitually indulging in profanity, they should not be unmindful that they are liable to fine and cost, for every violation of the aforesaid statute. When every other means fail, the law should have its course.-Amherst Express. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. DOMESTIC RECIPES. This is one of the marked vices of the boys of the present day. What multitudes of them are addicted to it. Are parents fully aware of this? Do you know that your sons, when away from home by day as well as by night, are mingling with profane associates? Or rather, do know that they have not such companions? Are there not parents in nearly every town in our favored Commonwealth, who are famous at home, and it may be abroad, as moral reformers, whose sons are suffered to grow up at home habituated to the use of profane language and all its kindred vices whose number is legion? Said a boy not long since in our hearing, "The boy or the man that will swear A VERY NICE RICE PUDDING.-Take half a teawill drink and smoke and be guilty of other kindred vices." Said another in reply, "Now we cupful of the best rice, put it in a small pie-dish do not think so much of persons who indulges in with three tablespoonfuls of moist sugar. Fill up profane language as of those who do not," a re- the dish with milk and water in equal proportions, It is eaten cold. mark fully concurred in by all who were engaged and bake very slowly. EGGS AND SAUSAGES.-Boil four sausages for five minutes, when half cold cut them in half lengthways, put a little butter or fat in frying-pan and put the sausages in and fry gently, break four eggs into the pan, cook gently, and serve. Raw sausages will do as well, only keep them whole, and cook slowly. in the conversation. OMELETTES.-Break four eggs into a basin, add Boys-our advice to you all is to avoid the half a teaspoonful of salt and a quarter ditto of pepwicked practice of using profane language-and per, beat them up well with a fork, put into the all idle words approaching it. There are persons frying-pan one ounce and a half of butter, lard, or who would not swear, but continually interlard oil, which put on the fire until hot; then pour in their conversation with such expressions, as, "I the eggs, which keep on mixing quick with a spoon vow"-"I swan," and others of similar kind, that until all is delicately set; then let them slip to the will suggest themselves to the reader; also persons edge of the pan, laying hold by the handle, and that would think it awfully wicked to take the raising it slantways, which will give an elongated name of God in vain, yet are very familiar with form to the omelette; turn in the edges, let it set such oaths as, "by Jesus," "by hoke" and by a moment and turn it over on to a dish, and serve. every thing else, almost. There are persons, how- It ought to be a nice yellow color, done to a ever, who see little difference between "I swan" nicety, and as light and delicate as possible. It and "I swear," and, therefore, as a matter of taste, may be served in many ways, but the following is if they use either, choose the latter. Now is it most common: two tablespoonsfuls of milk, and any more wicked to say "I swear," than "I vow," an ounce of the crumb of bread cut in thin slices or "I swan ?" If so, we confess our inability to may be added. discriminate. Let these things be carefully considered in the light of divine truth, and all these idle words will be abandoned. TO MAKE FINE PAN-CAKES, FRIED WITHOUT BUTTER OR LARD.-Take a pint of cream and six new Let all the boys who read these remarks, who laid eggs; beat them well together; put in a quarhave; already, become addicted to the vice of pro-beaten mace-which you please, and so much as ter of a pound of sugar and one nutmeg or a little fanity, resolve to break themselves of it by imwill thicken-almost as much as ordinary pan-cake mediate, total abstinence from every variety of flour batter; your pan must be heated reasonably profaneness. Let such also as have not yet become habituated to it, resolve to be free from it-to hot, and wiped with a clean cloth; this done, avoid associating with such as indulge in its use. spread your batter thin over it, and fry. Swear not at all, for it is not noble, mor brave, TO CLEAN WINDOW GLASS.-Take finely pulnor wise, nor the sign of good culture, nor any- verised indigo, dip it into a linen rag moistened thing else that is pure, lovely and of good report. with vinegar, wine, or water, and apply it briskly Would every girl and woman frown upon this vice to the glass. Wipe off and polish with a dry cloth. and those allied to it, all but the abandoned and This method of cleansing window glass imparts a hopeless would soon forsake it. Will parents and brilliant polish, and is far more expeditiously acteachers strive to check the growth of this vice? complished than cleaning with soap-suds or whitWill those philanthropists whose benevolent as-ing. We select the following from a large number of similar notices with which we have been favored from time to time by our cotemporaries : We improve this opportunity to call the attention of our agricultural friends to the New England Farmer, published in Boston, as one of the most valuable publications of the kind in the United States. There are few farmers so well informed that they might not derive advantages from its perusal, a hundred fold beyond its cost. It is published monthly, each number containing 48 large octavo pages, at only $1.00 a year.-[Hampshire Gazette, Mass. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-The August number, as usual, is filled with matter of great importance to the farmer. There are no better works reach the home of the agriculturist than this. Its articles are timely, able, and instructive-and its illustrations are fine.-[Telegraph, Penn. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-The New England Farmer is a first rate monthly, devoted to agriculture, horticulture, and their kindred arts and sciences, which we unhesitatingly recommend to our farmers and reading community. Each number contains about forty pages, and the last two we have read with pleasure, finding them filled with practical, valuable and instructive articles. Several who have exainined the numbers we have received were much pleased with them.-[Monmouth Inquirer, N. J. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-This is one of the best agricultural papers the farmer can find. It is well adapted to the wants of the farmers in New England, and should have an extensive circulation among them.-Greenfield Republican, Mass. We omitted last week to credit the article headed "Farm Work for September," as we should have done, to the best Agricultural paper in New England, the N. E. Farmer. It was so good we supposed all would know where it came from.-[Amherst Cabinet, N. H. NEW ENGLAND FARMER -This excellent agricultural periodical, under the editorial charge of Simon Brown, Esq., assisted by Frederick Holbrock and Henry F. French, is a work which recommends itself to the attention of every farmer. This monthly cannot fail of a good support under its present management, and we hope it will meet with the success it so much deserves.-[Dover Gazette, N. H. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-This valuable weekly paper, chiefly devoted, as its name indicates, to practical farming intelligence, has no superior in the excellence of its agricultural essays, and in the general tone of its news and miscellaneous departments. The two selections on our outside of last week, under the caption of Farm Work for May," and the "Garden," should have been credited to the New England Farmer, and are fair samples of the ability and good taste exhibited in the management of the paper. It is edited by Simon Brown, Esq., formerly of Newport, in this State. Many of its best correspondents are also from New Hampshire.-[Manchester (N. H.) Democrat. tions of cordial brotherhood with this excellent agricultural NEW ENGLAND FARMER-We are happy to renew our salutaand miscellaneous newspaper, with its first issue for the new year. And there is no paper out of the State that furnishes more reliable and valuable information, and we are always happy to see it on the farmer's table with our own sheet. The New England Farmer is edited by Simon Brown, Esq., with Hon Frederick Holbrook and Henry F. French, Esq., as associates (a strong team,) and is published by Joel Nourse, Boston, at $2.00 per annum.-[Granite Farmer, N. H. We exchange with a goodly number of Agricultural papers, most of them of established merit and usefulness; but among them all we peruse the columns of none with more interest and comfort than those of the New England Farmer. There is a good deal of old-fashioned home fire-side feeling infused into its language, which reminds us of the capacious hearth and glowing winter fires of long ago, while in the elements of progression and practical usefulness it ranks among the first jour The NEW ENGLAND FARMER, & monthly devoted exclusively to Agriculture and kindred subjects, making a fine volume of 576 pages a year. The Farmer is edited by Simon Brown, assisted by Frederick Holbrook and Henry F. French, published by Joel Nourse, Quincy Hall, Boston, at $1.00 a year in advance. The Farmer continues to maintain its high and well-earned repu-uals in the land.-[Carlisle (Pa) Herald. tation. [Ohio Farmer. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-We advise our agricultural friends who are in want of a work devoted exclusively to their interests, without being mixed up with the notions of old fogies on politics, to subscribe for the New England Farmer, which is published in a pamphlet form, monthly, at $1.00 per annum. Joel Nourse, publisher, Quincy Hall, Boston.-[Plymouth Rock, -Mass. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-The April number of this useful agricultural work has been received, and merits the praises that have been so universally bestowed upon it. It is, in fact, the cheapest agricultural work in the Union. It is published monthly at Boston on the first of each month, in book form-devoted, exclusively, to agriculture, horticulture, and their kindred arts and sciences. Each number contains 48 pages, making at the end of the year, a neat volume of 576 octavo pages. Terms $1 per annum in advance. All orders and letters should be addressed to Joel Nourse, Quincy Hall, South Market Street, Boston, Mass. -Norristown Register, Penn. The New England Farmer, for March, has come to hand in good season, and this number fully sustains the excellence of those preceding it. It presents a valuable index for the farmer's use, besides a great variety of valuable miscellaneous reading, which cannot fail to interest those pursuing other vocations than the tilling of the soil.-[Statesman, Vt. The New England Farmer, from the columns of which our readers have seen many good articles in the Mail, is one of the best agricultural papers, for the common farmer, that comes to our table. It has recently been much improved, and in addition to the weekly is now issued monthly, at 1 a year. Mr. Simon Brown, the editor, successor to the late Mr. Cole, seems to have caught the full idea of the actual wants of the farmer.[Eastern Mail, Maine. In the paper of this week will be found a finely written article upon "The Farm in November," which is the leading article of the November number of the New England Farmer, which has just come to hand. Those of our farmers who do not subscribe for this work, we recommend to do so. It is among the best monthly publication going.-[Suffolk Gazette, N. Y. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-An Independent Journal, devoted to Agriculture and General Intelligence. Terms $2 per annum in advance-Joel Nourse proprietor, Boston, Mass. This is the best paper for a farmer we have on our exchange list, and most cordially do we recommend it. To the intellipaper may be the means of saving fifty dollars a year, indepengent, enterprising young man, just beginning the world, this dent of the pleasure derived from reading it. To such we say, don't fail to send your two dollars for the New England Farmer. -[Ellsworth (Me.) Herald. Every farmer in Vermont, besides patronizing the papers Farmer. We have known it from its "youth up," and know it of his own State and vicinity, should take the New England to be a first-rate paper; always filled with choice and important matter for the man who would cultivate his farm and his mind at one and the same time, and do it in the best manner. We shall treat our readers to many articles from its columns.[Vermont Watchman and Journal. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-We consider this broad and beautiful sheet among the best, if not the very best family journal in the United States. The bold and manly tone evinced by its conductors upon all questions of State and National polity, renders its opinions worth adopting, whilst as a newspaper, its columns afford as abundant a supply as is needed by any family. In the immediate vicinity of its publication, its markets and local new must be particularly valuable, but the world-wide importance of its agricultural statistics is what will specially recommend it to our readers. The price is only $2 per annum, which, for a paper of its size, style of print, and manner of getting up, is exceedingly low.-[Louisville (Ky.) New Era. The New England Farmer, we would remind our readers, is an excellent agricultural paper, and now is just about the time to make the editor a "New Year's Gift," of renewed subscriptions and some new subscribers.-[Greenfield (Mass.) Republic. We know of no better agricultural paper in the Union, than the New England Farmer, published at Boston. It should be in the hands of every farmer who would know how to farm. -[Banner of the Union, Phila. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-We call attention to the advertisement of the New England Farmer. This is probably the best weekly agricultural paper in New England. Its editor, Simon Brown, Esq., is a practical farmer, and its other writers are men who write from practical knowledge of the great branch of industry to which the paper is mainly devoted. Those of our people who wish for an agricultural paper published out of the State, will not find a better one.-[Concord (N. H.) Patriot. NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-This is another good agricultural paper, and we take pleasure in recommending it to the public, It is devoted to agriculture, horticulture, and their kindred NEW ENGLAND FARMER.-This is one of the best agricultural arts and sciences, embellished with numerous engravings. The journals in this country, and should be in the hands of every matter is mostly original, and from the best agricultural writ-person engaged or interested in any one of the various branches ers of the day.-[Expositor, Mich. of agriculture.-[Exeter (N. H.) News-Letter. Manure your Fruit Trees in early Spring.- Plant a Grape vine.-Hoeing in dry weather, 252 Long and short Manures.- Spring.- Locust Trees,... 253 Guano and other things.- Plum Trees.-Tap root.- Potatoes, 255 The dawn of May.-About the State of Maine potatoes.- Practical effort,. 256 257 A few facts for Farmers,. 258 .... Worms in Corn-stalks.- Peach crop and cold.-The philosophy of Rain,· Physical Morality.- Culture of Stony Ground. The Tap Root, A hint from Shakspeare.- Grafting large limbs, Pruning and Grafting Fruit Trees,.. Wood land.-Answer to Query.-Salt for Animals, Fertilizers and Flowers.-The Sleep of Plants,⚫ Extracts and Replies, Experiment with Hen Manure.- Pruning,· Labor and Luxury,·· Cultivation of Millet. Thoughts upon soil analysis and specific manures, Animals foretelling the weather. The Blue Birds.- Cure for black knot, Agriculture of Massachusetts.- Lumbering. The cheapest food, Useful Receipts,.. Scatter ye seeds.- Indian Corn — its culture,· Stone for Building.- Pruning,. Hard and stony Land.- Fish as Food, Hardy border Plants. A good Hog. It can't be helped,. 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 272 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 Woodward's Improved Seed Planter and Manure Dropper.- Common things, POSTAGE.-The Postage on the Monthly Farmer to Subscribers, is now twelve cents a year, to be paid quarterly or yearly, in advance, at the office where it is received. |