| Show lot FOB FARMERS ild AND GARDENERS 11 A female agricultural and horticultural school is sought to be established on long island A few years since a tract of land about forty fort v miles from new york city on the long island rail rall railroad road new hampshire was recommended as a good location for such a school to this there were some objections and chete the matter rested but in a late number of life illustrated lust rated we find that mis alis elzabeth eizabeth lan lau laudon landon laugdon don has deduced facts communicated to the american institute showing that these objections were not well weil founded mrs langdon being much interested and bild considering farming pursuits as practicable and advantageous ven even for or a woman purchased a small email tract adjoin ing log the one above spoken of we presume mrs mis langdon was a widow and w vias aa ambrious ambi ious to gain for herself ller lier seif self an honorable nono rable independent livelihood she believed that 46 grasses and grains will come to as great perfection ard yield as abundant harvest if nurtured by her care as though man had bad sown and reaper ed have been leen expected in the outset she shii met with some difficult difficulties ies fes and discourage ments meals but these only stimulate slim siim her to greater efforts she intended all the work in person i her ifer second years experience we give in her own words word the second year I 1 commenced planting out ont troi frol trees 01 f cavous kinds buch tuch huch 43 peaches apples appleb pears peari and plu piu or of which do exi ext extremely remely well but I 1 find the sell fell particularly par adapts adap teti teil to the growth grovu th ot of all the varieties vt of pears pear especially the bartlett the year atter after ter planting plant ine lne these jrees they tirey perfected as fine specimens th of fruit trull as I 1 I 1 ever SAW MW and eo so many in number that I 1 was obliged to prop the trees irmes to keep them from br breaking breakie eakin her reach trees did not bear the fruit having havin lavin 9 beer blasted by a late frost but she feels assured they will bear because peaches were raised by a neighbor the year previous apple tree trees she says will do well will as also grapes blackberries and raspberries rasp berries for which the soil coil is peculiarly adapted and all the valle raile ties smaller fruits two years amo ago ago 0 last february she cleared the ground of the scrub oaks onks and in the spring prepared antl am planted it with wilh potatoes the yield and quality of which were wele highly satisfactory and remunerative it is not to be expected that a woman would forget the floral department she says flowers grow bre ahre b re richer in brilliancy and odor than I 1 have seen anywhere the ehe le except on ou the beautiful prairies of Texas the so knes Knea a jand and aud clearness cle cie anieca of the atmosphere mo sphere their cultivation eay eaty eav in the air and here may the lover of nature bal bak bask la in the gorg ou oun lessof sot such sunsets as I 1 hive never heeti aceti ri elsewhere wheres either on the sea or land she closes her communication by asking Z should not this spot possessing all the requisites for such a schoel school be chosen for the pur purpose purposed she argues that if one woman with comparatively little scientific knowledge on the subject could in such a short time produce such results what might not be done dona by the application of science time and numbers here is certainly an opening for the he dis display p I 1 of female industry aria ana skill in the most noble ol 01 employments blat 0 at of cultivating the soil anc ano doubtless there are multitudes who would gladly embrace the opportunity offered by a school such as that proposed if conducted upon principles who now linger out an existence ir in the millinery and fancy fashion shops of our oui larga eastern cities citie sand and are only relieved per the pent up u air and consumptive postures of their work shops by deathy deaths death who in th pallid cheek and sunken eye had bad early marked t them hern as his bis victims there is something in the proposition of an agricultural and horticultural school for females that partakes strongly of the philanthropic nol not lh that we would advocate the adoption by of sll ajl the cares the labors the duties the avoca 1 tioff and responsibilities of man F far ar from it bin but the advantages that would accrue from th organization of such a school to BO so largo f number gumbei of respectable lit ellig gent females who wh are compelled I 1 to earn their livelihood and who generally in the eastern portions of the union where wire the fer females pales are largely in the ascendant seek beek employment in the numerous dress bonnet ribbon and othen other fancy shops that decorate lh prominent of the cities of c the east are the bases of sound in favor ot 0 such euch aa an establishment lo 10 look ic at ba broad badway way and canal street new york HoW now sany gany nany a guileless unsuspecting 0 giri girl has aepli edat ed atthowe ose shops for employment and cupoo bein refuse refused dibas has accepted from some bome false or assumed friend a mo momentary merita ry protection like that vultures give to lambs and been finally ruined from hence yo to multitudes annually tc to swell the he list of prostitution and infamy who il agricultural institutions ons or schools w wire f re organ orlan j izes upon a practical and judicious plan might ie be arrested arrest pd from such a course and rendered useful honorable liono rable rabie members of society mothers perhaps of statesmen and anti sages 1 who will say that the factories of lowell massachusetts where thousands of girls are annually employed and from whence have emanated virtuous mothers and industrious economical housewives houe house wives are not a benfit to the state mrs mra langdon makes the f following ol lowing very sensible allusions it may mity be said I 1 ty y some that it li 13 a macul lne employment wholly unfitted to the he gentler sex ex but which Is to the more wore desirable I 1 would ask to see females coming from buch huch a school with finely developed frames Int elliget intelligent cheerful and happy faces aces with cheeks that setin dhave stolen their bloom from rom the their thein irown own rosem rosec going botn forth over our beautiful country with high purposes and alms giving to the world the fruit fruits of their knowledge or to see nee I 1 them themy for the want of something better betler flocking to cities I 1 to eam cam an uncertain living exposed to wants want degradation and the numerous nume ious evils of city life there is a question of ol national importance here involved besides the undisputed advantage to be derived by females becoming acquainted 0 to o some extent with the principles of agriculture practically and scientifically and the accruing result of increased vitality and longevity there ther e would be a decision of character imparted which would eminently fit such females for occupying the exalted sphere of mothers to the generations of american posterity who are destined to perform a prominent part in the great b drama of social ical idal and national reform in asherin us ushering herin 0 upon the ha world the hie dawn of universal peace and liberty success to the female agricultural school project we shall rejoice to see such institutions flourishing flouri shim under well ordered regulations faithfully carried out in every thickly settled portion of the union and there can be bu but little question that it would be productive of happy results if practical agriculture and horticulture were introduced as a part of the course of education in our colleges as well as female seminaries to lle ile lie the abridgement abridge ment if necessary of the time devoted to the study of the living french and the latin greek and other dead languages jacob strawn of morgan county illinois writes a three column autobiography of laconic hints to farmers lie he is an odd old chap but some of his lis ideas are very good ilear hear him there has been a continual complaint of hard bard times giad people it you will take my advice I 1 do believe we will have easy times in less than nive five years I 1 am afraid it will take three years of close attention to business and good economy with it to get out ut of debt I 1 feel certain tb there e Is g rold gold 0 id enough within less than one loot of or the top I 1 rth of the e ear earth th to pay ten times as much as a we all owe aud pi lit use one and all ail Pay strict attention and I 1 will teil ted I 1 you how bow to find it then lie he leads out with telling the farmer farmers when he goes to town to get everything et ery cry thing lhing he wants so that he wont be compelled to visit town so often not more than once in two or three months lie he urges the farmer to get his firewood in the early part of the season after planting time and to cut and split it ready for use in the hext next place lie ha says say see that you have plenty of flour meal and meat to hold out until after harvest ile he wants the plows hoe harrows and all the farm tools kept in their places and in good repair and continues everything about tar far farming driving stock fattening cattle cattie and raising horses and hogs hogg and almost everything about my whole business I 1 have learned by experience I 1 tee feo so certain that ther I 1 such a large laige lav lar ge amount of gold in the soil soils that I 1 am anxious that all should try and find lt it ile he says ay make it an universal rule to go to bed at 7 7 A from the of october to the st of april and get up at 4 winter and summer he reprobates the practice of lying in bed after one ii awake doubtless that sound sleep is a boon which every honest hardworking hard bard working man is entitled 0 to o and that if lie he sleeps deeps thus soundly and ard goes to bed at the prescribed hour nature will have become sufficiently resuscitated after lit or eight hours of repose and the hour of waking in the morning even if before daylight should be the signal for the commencement men cement of active operation i therefore says lie he when you wake in the night do not lie in bed awake but instead of ly laig mg and rolling over roll gut cut and get at something that wants to be done by following this advice some men do a days work before their neighbors are out of bed those neighbors all the while how such men get on so well welt I 1 jacob is opposed to losing a moment cf spring time in commencing farming operations and his theory is to plow two inches deeper than you ever plowed before which is excellent in practice liels he is decidedly in favor of fall fail wheat and says always sow your wheat in september 5 2 if you havo have old oid land he remarks plow it ten or twelve inches deep in the fall or fore part of winter wn ter which wit promote promoted a greater yield with less labor ile he thinks colts should run with their mothers that there is no doubt that the mothers of the young oung colts wean them as our mothers wean us dr franklin said riches are like the ark he growth of it is not in one year the daily of pence in time makes full purses fo to which old jake gives the following if understand him bim he maans it if you cannot get lre ire e dollars per day take what whal you can get rather than lo 10 nothing nothings and pet get into mischief as many an idle fel ow does for it takes mapy many a hard bard year of 0 labor to pay he penalty penally of crime beside besides the loss of character which li the worst of all when had they been hern at work or two bits a day it would be much better for them and lave saved their friends from distress some home of those thriftless mortals who will never work but prefer idling away their heir precious moments unless they can get larce larse wages and the iest of pay aid alid who frequently are the very nn liiri least to be relied on who are eternally of doin doln doina doing k too much of earning I 1 more iii ill than an their heir wages 11 would do well to profit by the old jake when he be was about IG 16 went to rake hay for jacob rusche one of the wealthiest nen men of Pennsyl vanh ile he worked from tiie ilia time the dew was off the hay bay close and tight tights until lark ark and went two and a half halt miles after his noney money and got seven and a quarter cents for his lays work together with a great deal of praise or being a good boy mr rusch bought farms for his sons one at of them reuben rusch would get up at tit noon oil yli monday morning and thrash wheat till twelve at night and so half of tile he night all the week not one of the rusch boys is do doing 11 g well though furnished furns furn shed bed by their father with farms and everything to work them hh ills head is right when he lie says that crit it is much better to bring up our children to industrious and steady habits and give them a good common education if we cannot give them one dollar for as he shrewdly observes A child whose head bead in not right is only injured to crowd in dead languages all superfluities and excrescences of modern scholastic lore may henceforth be safely dispensed with for the reason that according to jacob strawns strains autobiography there is being educated in jacksonville morgan county enough lawyers doctors and fools fouls to supply the globe the practice common with some of louigi lounging ng and gabbling babbling gab bling in the streets and saloons of the city gets a wipe from old jake it deserves severely re baking study your interests Int erest crest el clely belt beit sely and do not spend one twentieth pirt uirt of your tinie time in electing senatore or 0 other lier iler small haerb office officered Hc erB rey and talking ot of hard times while spending our time in town sitting cluing on the tiie store boxes a and g i all the bott bolt wood up instead of leaving it to kindle fire with by utterly discarding this practice and keeping at work all the seaon sea on all the ifie year round doing something useful he thinks we would starve tile the lawyers and whip the doctors the pay and treatment of hired help receives a passing notice pay a land hand if be Is a poor hand all you promise him if he is 13 a good hand pay him a little more it will encourage him to do still better nor are the girls forgotten listen girls acour best lf if thy chy they would go so to bel bed three hours earlier than their urual usual time and get up two hours bouts sooner which would give them thein one hour more to sleep alian ber bey they her now gaetand when they aid ald help get the break rat raft ra t wah the dishes antt anil cling the be pots around not eo so as is to overstrain over saralu strain themselves the ihms they y would be much health ler ter more handsome and get better ile he says he is 11 satisfied that getting up early industry and regular habits are the best medi madi cines cities ever prescribed relative to the assessment and payment of old jake shows that lie he has some soul lie ile calls the attention of every person of every sex vex name and nation to the fact that we all ought to be assessed to work on the state stale and county roadS road siu sin ilu jiu proportion to our property on tic count account of the he bad roads wood the tile common price of which in itt Jackson jacksonville vEle was 3 per cord had commanded 8 when at the same time they had the soil materials materiale mater laia iala and tools to excel the world if we would use them and make our tracks to advantage 1 jake wind winds up his lis epistle by telling his readers that he is no gram m marun aria ii that he nevor swai swallowed a dictionary that his parents were plain lolk loik foik Tolk folk stells tells where bebas he was born the moving of his fath fathers erys family and his bis own thinks the tha region of jacksonville 3 morgan county |
