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Stephen Allen’s Pocket Piece.
In the pocket-book of Hon. Stephen
Allen, who was drowned oif board
the Henry Olay, was found a printed
slip apparently cut from a newspaper,
of which the following is a copy. It
is worthy to be put iu every news¬
paper and engraved on every young
man’s heart :
Make few promises.
Always speak the truth.
Never speak evil of any one.
Keep good company or none.
Live up to your engagements.
Never play at any game of chance.
Drink no kind of intoxicating
liquors.
Good character is above all things
else.
Keep your own secrets, if you
have any.
Never borrow if you can possibly
help it.
Do not marry until you are able
to support a wile.
Keep yourself innocent if you
would be happy.
When you speak to a person look
him in the face.
Make no haste to be rich if you
would prosper.
Ever live (misfortune excepted)
within your income.
Save when you are young to spend
when you are old.
Av<*id temptation, through 'ear you
may not withstand it.
Never run into debt unless you
see a way to get out again.
Small and steady gains give compe¬
tency with a tranquil nrnd.
Good company and good conversa¬
tion arc sinews of virtue.
Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your acts.
If any one speaks evil of you,
let your life be ho that no one will
believe him.
When you retire to bed, think
over what you have been doing during
the day.
Never be idle ; if your hands can’t
be employed usefully, attend to the
cultivation of your mind.
Read over the above maxims care¬
fully and thoroughly at least once
every week.
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A Good Farmer .—One of our best
and most accurate farmers informs us
that when a boy, as soon as he had
learned book keeping at school, his
lather employed him to keep the farm
accounts—the cost of labor, amount of
work expended on each field, time of
performing operations, plowing, sow¬
ing, cultivating and harvesting, amount
of crops, prices at which sales wore
made, &c. He soon beemie much in¬
terested in farming operations, and
thoroughly acquainted with all the
details of work in a more complete
manner than lie ever could have been
in any other way, and was early
placed on the track of farming re¬
gularly and systematically. Let
other farmers follow this example
with their sons, and we should have
less of random hip skip husbandry, and
more of order and success.
Charity gives itself rich, but covet¬
ousness hoards itselt poor.
A Great Farmer’s Maxims.
The successful life of Mr. Jacob
Strawn, the prince of American farm
eas, is attributed to the close observ¬
ance of the following maxims, origina¬
ted by himself:
Wiien you wake up do not roll
over, but roll out. It will give you
time to ditch all your sloughs, break
them, harrow them, and sow them.
Make your fencing high and strong
and tight, so that it will keep the cat¬
tle and pigs out.
If you have brush, make your lot
secure and keep your hogs from the
cattle; for, if the corn is kept clean,
they will eat it better than if it is not
Re suro to get your hands to bed by
seven o’clock; they will rise early by
force of circumstmccH. Pay a band,
if he is a poor hand, all you promise
him; if he ?h a good baud, pay him a
little more; it will encourage him to
do still better.
Always feed your hands as well as
y ursclf, for the laboring men arc the
bone and sinew of tho land, and ought
to be welltreeted.
I am satisfied that early rising, in¬
dustry and regulat habits are the best
medicines ever prescribed for health.
When rainy, had weather comes, so
that you can’t work out of doors, cut,
split, and haul your wood.
Make your racks; fix your fence or
a gate that is oil’ tiio hinges, or weath¬
er-board your barn where the wind
has blown thcyduing off, or patch tin;
roof of your house.
Study your interest closely, and do
not spend your time electing Presi¬
dents, Senators, mid other small
officers, or talking of hard times when
spending your time whittling store
boxes, etc.
Take your time and make calcula¬
tions. Dont do things in a hurry,
but do them at the right time and
keep your mind as well as your body
e m ployed .—11 u rails t.
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Cultivate Cheerfulness .—l Tudor
the present discouraging and adverse
circumstances by which, as a people,
we are surrounded, it seems almost
impossible to welcome, as we should,
this bright-faced goddess; but if we
will make up our minds to the task
it will prove a pleasant one, and by
the roalincsH with which we cultivate
her acquaintance, we increase our own
happiness and thatof others. Charles
Lamb was wont to say that "a laugh
was wort!? a thousand groans,’’ look and
Dr. Johnson once asserted that
ing on the bright side of everything
was worth $5,000 salary. Now would
it not be a capital idea, as such sala¬
ries arc few and far between, at. least
for Southern people, for them to try
and find a bright*side bad somewhere they might ?
Although matters are
be worse, and when we remember
that * cheerfulness and diligence are
the life and soul of success,” how ear¬
nestly should we court the presence
of this pleasant visitor* that the we virtues may
be enabled to look upon
and not the faults of others; to refrain
from brooding over th epast, ami study
how the future may he made bright
and cheery .—Field and Factory.
Ventilation on the Subject
of Calving and Foaling.
Editors Tennessee Agriculturist:
I have read your paper with much
pleasure and profit on many sub¬
jects, but have looked in vain for a
little practical ventilation on Jhe
subject of calving among our cows
and foaling of our mares; as most of
our rural districts, are void of a
veterinary surgeon, many valuable
cows and mares are affhually lost
for want of little practical informa¬
tion and resolution to relieve them,
and as an effort to call out our prac¬
tical nu n on the subject, l propose to
give a little of my experience on the
subject. First, all marniverous ani¬
mals, as far as I am aware, experience
periodical pains and rest, this should
be kept well impressed upon the
mind, and we should take advantage
of the absence of pain to make such
effort to correct any wrong presenta¬
tion that may occur. Second, every
farmer should have the right presenta
t.ion of the calf or colt firmly fixed on
his mind. With the above points
comprehended, he should, by rolling
up his sleeves and greasing his arm,
introduce his hand cautiously and
tenderly, and in the absence of pain,
examine and correct any wrong pre
senfatio#. This, in most cases, will
be all that is needed if ho wdl hold
the parts right until a pain or two of
labor (mines on. Attend and see that
everything goes on all right.
Ry your permission 1 will report
a few cases. First, a valuable mare
was found in labor ; one ol the coil’s
i'ore feet and nose presented high right, and the
other foot rose up too
pushed its way through the rectum
and presented externally, pains
seven 4 . One or two more pains
threatened to tear the perrenium
entirely away. 1 boro lightly against
the feet until the pain subsided, then
pushed back the foot presented wrong
by introducing one hand in the funda¬
ment, the other into the vagina, aud
caught the foot ami brought it out and
saved the mare from external injury;
one more pain relieved her. Second,
a valuable cow was found iu active
lab ir, the nose and one foot was all
rigid, seeing no symptoms ol theotiier
I cut presenting 1 cabled her head
last, in reduced my hand and found
the other foot turned back and the
knee bearing down too low* lur nature
to ever correct the difficulty or any
chance to save tho eOw without help.
I caught the lower leg in my hand
in the absence of tin 4 pains, brought it
out to i ts place: One more pain
accomplished the object, both done
well. Third, saw a good cow that had
been in labor three days, nose pre¬
sented, no progress tor two days, the
calf was dead and the cow poor, labor
growing weaker, some help must be
and soon or cow lost. By confining
the cow’s head and introducing my
hand I found both feet turned back
and kuces pressing too low for the el
tbrls of nature to accomplish any¬
thing. I brought the feet lor ward in
the absence of the pain; slipped a
noose of a small cord around one
foot that seemed disposed to assisted return
when the pain returned, and
the efforts of nature, and soon had
the pleasure of seeing a poor man of
and family rejoicing in the hope
soon enjoying milk and butter.
I might report some other cases,
hut hope the above may call forth
some more practical pen. &e.,
liemainiug yours
T---,
Lincoln county, Tenn , April,'2.% 72.
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Carrying Cattle South in »Sum¬
mer. —A correspondent in Virginia,
having enquired of ns as to the safety
of bringing cattle to his section, fioin
the North, during the Summer
months, we referred his inquiries to
Mr. »S. T. 0. Rowcn, the present
owner of tho celebrated Devon herd
of the late Geo. Patterson, Esq., of
Carroll Co., Md., whose experience
corresponds with our own observation
in the matter, lie advises that it is
not safe to ship from the North to
the South until the Fall months ; by
the delay, tho cattle will be accli¬
mated before tho ensuing Summer.
In corroboration of this, wo copy
the following from tho New Orleans
South Land, which contains some
sound advice to cattle-breeders :
Wo have observed that there is
great risk in carrying imported
Durhams through their first {Summer
in our extreme South. An acclima¬
ting or lung fever has frequently
proven fatal to them, the best
means of preventing it is to provide
green pasture with plenty of shade
and pure water, and k< eping the
animal up during the hottest part of
the day. Feed good sound hay piin
cipally, with green soiling, studiously
avoiding corn, or corn meal. A little
wheat bran and outs may be givm ;
hut if the animal is kept thin in flesh,
she will he loss liable to fover. Ibis
is a matter in which many of our
readors arc interested, and il any of
them have information bearing upon
the subject we will be glad to hear
from them.
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Interesting to Farmers —A series
of experiments, instituted to lost the
average loss in weight by drying,
show's that corn loses One-fifth, and
wheat one-fourteenth by tin 4 process.
From this the statement is mad 4 that
farmers will make more by selling
unsh'dled corn in the Fall at seventy -
five cents than the following Summer
at one dollar a hush« 1, and that wheat
at $ 1 'VI in December is equal to
$1.50 for the same wheat in the June
following. This estimate h made on
the basis of interest at seven percent,
and takes no account of loss Irom
depredations of vermin These laets
arc worthy of consideration
/lots —A correspondent from Co¬
vington, Tenn., writes u* as follows in
regard to the hots. We give the
suggested remedy for what it is worth:
Just as soon as you discover that your
horse is troubled* with bots, eommeii'C
to work on Lis stomach and bowels.
Get a live chicken, kill it, aud drench
the animal with warm blood and en¬
trails. The hots will let go their
hold on the intestines, a:,d commence
to feed upon the more attractive food.
A f< w minutes after drenching ad¬
minister a proper dose of ca-t<*r oil,
which will work off the b >ts.