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Show The FiR.MEti's Scrap BooK.--E?ery farmer should keep a scrap-book. Many valuable receipts, useful hints and beautiful thoughts are floating round in the various newspapers that may be preserved in this way for convenient con-venient references. The book may bo arranged in different departments the scientific, the floral, the agricultural, agri-cultural, the poultry, the ornamental and each article placed under its proper headiug. Thus an index will bo unnecessary, and you can readily return to tho article to which you wish to reler. Tbe value of such a i book will, wo think, be apparent to overy farmer, and its compilation ft pleasant amusement. The lives ol i valuable animals may be saved by j roference to its pages; the corn and 1 'other grain may bo cultivated morei successfully, or other and better varieties vari-eties obtained. Many a pleniant hour may bo pawed by the winter fireside reading its pageH, for if the selections are good it is an interesting and valuable encyclopiu-Jia of rural affaire. Let the children have a do partment of their own devoted to pigeons, rabbits and other pets. You will thereby instil into their minds a love of nature, a desire for study and methodical habits. -A-aien'-'au Stock Journal. |