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246 AGRICULTURAL. DANIEL LEE, !H. D., Editor. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1859. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. There is no department of political economy or human industry, that so abounds in gross er rors and misrepresentations, as what are called “ official statements - ’ relating to agricultural statistics. The very word “ statistics” is of re cent origin in our language or any other; and the science is confessedly in its infancy. It is, however, useful in many respects, when not perverted nor vitiated by falsehoods. More un truths may be published to the world on one page of figures, than can be printed on twenty pages of words of the same size. We have been impressed by this fact on reading the lTm pending Crisis of the South," by 11. R. Helper, in which the industrial statistics of the North and South, as shown by the last United States census, occupy a conspicuous place. On page 17 lie says: "And here we may remark, that the statistics which we propose to offer, like those already given, have been obtained from of ficial sources, and may, therefore, be relied on as correct.” Table 8 professes to give a correct account of the “actual crops per acre on the average in the free and in the slave States, in 1850.” The crops cited are wheat, oats, rye, Indian corn and Irish potatoes; and the state ment is made in bushels per acre. After giving his table of figures, the author says: “ Examine the table at large and you will perceive that, while Massachusetts produces sixteen bushels of wheat to tho acre, Virgiuia produces only seven; that Pennsylvania produces fifteen, and Georgia only five; that, while lowa produces thirty-six bushels of oats per acre, Mississippi produces only twelve; that Rhode Island pro duces thirty and North Carolina only ton; that, while Ohio produces twenty-five bushels of rye per acre, Kentucky produces only seven ; that Vermont produces twenty and Tennessee only seven; that, while Connecticut produces forty bushels of corn per acre, Texas produces only twenty; that New Jersey produces thirty-three and South Carolina only eleven; that, while New Hampshire produces two hundred and twenty bushels of Irish potatoes to the acre, Ma ryland produces only seventy-five; that Michigan produces one hundred and forty, and Alabama only sixty.” Now, what must every fair-minded man, both North and South, think of the above statistics and their author, when his attention is called to tho undeniable fact that the census ol 1850 does not return the y ield per acre of either wheat, rye, oats, com, Irish potatoes, or any other crop, in any State whatever. Tho statements, as pre sented by Mr. Helper, are but little short of forgery, for he places “ 1850 ” at the head of the table, where these so-called official returns are given. In not one census, from 1790 to 1850, inclusive, has the yield per acre of any one crop ever been given. The writer had charge of the Agricultural Bureau in 1849, when the schedules for collecting the statistics of tho agriculture of the United States in 1850 were arranged, and was consulted in the matter. It is not probable that the author of the “ Impending Crisis" fabri cated this table, so false in its figures and de signedly injurious to the South; but most likely some other abolitionist performed the dirty work. In what light does this disclosure place the Hon. William H. Seward, whose endorsement on the cover of Helper’s book reads as follows: “ I have read 1 The Impending Crisis of the South’ with deep attention. It seems to me a work of great merit, rich, yet accurate in statis tical information, and logical in analysis.” Its general aceurac}' and the soundness of its logic may be inferred, when the reader is in formed that the author labors long to make out an indebtedness on the part of slave holders to those who own no slaves in the South, of over seven and a half billion dollars , for the alleged depreciation in the market value of their farm ing lands! The book is something of a curiosi ty in abolition extravagance and absurdity; yet we are not surprised that sixty-eight members of the House of Representatives, U.S. Senator and other distinguished characters of the Black Republican stripe should regard it as a most tel ling production in behalf of anti-slavery fanati cism. The way to meet it, is not to prohibit its circulation as an incendiary publication, but to show its want of truth and the utter impracti bility of its scheme to send some four million slaves to Africa, that white laboring persons may till their places. The appeal to the latter to get rid of negroes on all rice, cotton and su gar plantations, that free white men may do their work, is not likely to excite any special ad miration. It would not be a difficult task to answer every argument of this elaborate work fairly on its merits, and show that the industrial statistics relied on to prove that, slavery is un profitable and incompatible with solid progress, are either misrepresented, misunderstood, or both. Losses are charged to the account of slavery, with which it haS no more connection than with late frosts in spring and early frosts in autumn. Sifted to the bottom, three-fourths of all the evils ascribed to slave labor are seen to arise from the equally unjust and unwise re strictions thrown upon the use of this kind of productive.industry by blind, unreasoning pre judice. These restrictions must give way, or the one milliont hree hundred thousand voters who cast their suffrages for Fremont, and who affect to believe that “the soil itself soon sickens and dies beneath the unnatural tread of the slave,” will soon swell their numbers sufficient ly to have and hold the government in their own hands. For the friends of the institution to practice eithei concealment or exclusiveness, is to place themselves in the wrong, invite at tack, and jeopard the most vital interests of tho South. To secure the confidence of all non-slave XKX govsnut VXS&B MTU EIB.KSIDK. holders, free and open discussion, not distrust and timidity, should characterize our public pol ioy. The silly estimates of Mr Browne of the agri cultural department of the Patent Office, of the value of all the different crops given in the Uni ted States, furnish anti-slavery writers with their best arguments against the value of slave labor for agricultural purposes. In 1848, com missioner Burke set down the hay crop as worth eight dollars a ton to the producers, who live mainly in the free States. In that year, or ear ly in 1849, we proved beyond the reach of cavil both in the Genesee Farmer and Southern Culti vator, that his estimate at that time was too high by one half. Mr. Browne has set down the average value of hay to American farmers at eleven dollars twenty cents a ton. For more than twenty years some twenty thousand horses have been employed on the Erie canal in trans portation during the summer, which are boarded by the large companies that own them, in win ter where their keep is cheapest. Experience has proved that a farmer can do better to feed these horses on hay at five dollars a ton, and throw in the labor of watering them, he getting their manure, than feed his hay to sheep and produce wool and mutton; or to young neat stock, and thereby rear heifers and steers to be sold when three years old; or to dairy cows, of which New York contains about one million. It is by estimating hay at two prices as hag, and then estimating the live stock, wool and dairy products at high figures, formed by hay and oth er crops twice estimated, that northern agricul ture is made to excel that of the south. It is by this system of statistics that Helper proves that tho hay crop of the free states is worth more than the cotton, tobacco, rice, hay, hemp, and cane-sugar of the slave states. Ohio grows nearly eighty million bushels of corn a year; at least such is the estimate, which is very properly credited to her industry and enterprise at its full value. This done, the credit for this staple should cease; but instead of that, full credit is taken for all the fat hogs and cattle, and all the whiskey, produced by the consumption of this identical corn. Esti mated over and over again as grain, as whiskey still-slop, pork, beef, lard, tallow and hides, Ohio corn, like her hay, and that of New York, counts up rapidly in all agricultural compari sons. But the most deceptive and extravagant industrial statistics in all America, and probably in the world, are manufactured in the state cen sus of Massachusetts, for 1855. It would seem that, industrious and skillful as her citizens have been for many generations, they somehow con trived to augment their productive labor to tho extent ol about one hundred and fifty million dollars a year, in the short space of five years from 1850 to 1855 ! How this was done, we will explain at another time when we have her last state census before us, which we have not at present. These official statistics are the handiwork of sectional politicians who resort to every fair and every foul means to fill the minds oi working classes at the North with self-esteem and conceit, united to a very low estimate of the intelligence, industry, and strength of the planting States. John Brown was a represent ative man not less in his bitterness, than in his policy toward tho slaveholders of Virginia and tho South. Much of this lamentable bitterness, which tolle d bells and held prayer-meetings at Brown’s execution, can be traced to that system of false statistics which we have not ceased to expose and condemn from its beginning. When Virginia sends her tobacco to market, and other southern States their cotton, rice, hemp, and sugar, these crops are set down at their cash returns, and once only. When the millers of Massachusetts import from the West five mil lion bushels of wheat worth a dollar and a half a bushel in Boston, for growing which the west ern farmers have full credit in their local agri cultural statisiics, Massachusetts industry cred its itself with having produced eight million dollars worth of flour, simply because it has expended not over three hundred thousand dol lars' worth of labor in passing this imported wheat between the upper and nether millstones. As we intend to review the industrial statistics of that State, and of New York, carefully and critically, nothing more need bo said on that head at this time. Truth is national, and will befriend all sound interests; while falsehood begets sectional strife and hatred, and tends directly to all the horrors of civil war. It was by circulating false reports concerning Masonry, that Mr. Seward was first made a Senator and then Governor of the State of New Yo rk, and his friend Thublow Weed, State Printer, and the founder of the Albany Evening Journal. The early success of tho An ti-masonic schemers, induced Joseph Smith, of Ontario county, to invent the Golden Bible of Mormonism, one of the first printed copies of which fell into our hands. Mormonism having flourished about as well as Anti-masonry, the Misses Fox, of Rochester, invented the mysteri ous art of Spiritualism.went to New York and set up business under the patronage of the Tribune —giving the most satisfactory information about friends and foes in the spirit-world for a trifling consideration. These girls have turned not on ly tables, but the heads of learned Judges on the bench, United States Senators, and even a mind so s -ientific and acute as that of the late Dr. Hare of Philadelphia. Helper is ambitious to become a second Joseph Smith among tho poor white people at the South; and if he follows the teachings of Greeley, Weed and Seward, he will probably succeed; for these three men have done more than all others to create, diffuse and intensity the anti-slavery feeling of the coun try. — Corn and Cob Meal. —Persons feeding corn to live stock, will find it good economy to grind corn and cobs together, and feed the coarse meal thus formed in place of feeding whole corn alone. The bulk of the cob is perhaps more im portant than its nutrient elements. COTTON CULTURE IN ALGERIA. A letter recently received from Tunis by a gentleman in Philadelphia, says that the attempt to raise cotton in that country has resulted in a failure, both in the hands of private planters, and those of an English Arab Company engaged in the experiment. This is the second failure. “ Cause, the want of organized and controllable labor.” Slowly the English and French are learning wisdom from experience in their attempts to pros' eeute tropical agriculture with free laborers,who cannot be governed by any mind but their own. In temperate and cold climates, there are exter nal influences which sternly impose on all men the necessity of manual labor far beyond what exists in tropical and semi-tropical regions. Un der the constant pressure of this necessity, hab its of greater industry and economy are formed, so that steady employment becomes a kind Os second mature in the very constitution of the people, no matter what their color or race. Os course, a stupid, ignorant, brute-like community, whatever may be the rigors of the climate, or the poverty of the soil, will do less for them selves and mankind at large,,than one possess ing higher mental gifts and a more advanced civilization, with its elevated standard of social and physical comfort. But the best industrial results in the production of all agricultural sta ples, where the summers have a tropical heat, are attained by making the white man master, and tho black man a servant for life. This arrangement is in no respect artificial in its elements, but the result of laws that spring directly from an Allwise Providence. Success ful planting in Africa, as in America, requires an intelligent white man to direct the labor to be performed, and both able-bodied and obedient operatives to execute the work of tillage, and of gathering the crop. At present, and for many years to come, these conditions cannot be fulfill ed in the native land of the African. Let us study them in our own country. There is in tho Southern States a largo sur plus of intelligent white men capable of directing three or four times more field operatives than they now possess. Indeed, our white popula tion is nearly eight millions ; and yet their pro duction of cotton, sugar, rice, corn, and tobacco, is limited in a good degree to the slave force available for agricultural purposes. This fact should never be lost sight of in considering the productive industry of the planting States. Com pared with the number of whites and with their eight hundred and fifty-one thousand square miles of slave territory, the number of available field hands is exceedingly small. Hence, our agricultural operations are carried on to a great disadvantage, from tho lack of good roads and bridges, of mechanics, manufacturers, merchants churches, schools, and many other useful appli ances in the creation of wealth, and the attain ment of happiness. Because, with a very small industrial force, as compared with the North, working under nu merous discouragements, and severe legal re strictions on our natural right to introduce trop ical operatives for tho cultivation of tropical sta ples, we have not improved our land more than the North, our system of labor is thoughtlessly condemned by men who have never studied it! Let the planters of the South at least master the economical problems involved in this kind of productive industry. Never was there a sub. ject more misrepresented, misunderstood, and sophistically treated, in the whole history of the human family. Why is it that, while the people of the North in theory condemn negro slavery as do the people of Great Britain, France and Germany; in practice, they give it the most sub stantial and enduring support? We want the reader to answer this question to his own satis faction Is their theory wrong? or is their prac tice wrong ? for both cannot be right. Why is the slave labor that produces so much cotton, corn, rice, sugar, and tobacco, every where patronized by anti-slavery persons and communities? The only answer that can be given to this question is, that they purchase and consume all the products of negro slavery from a deep and abiding conviction that it is best and right for them to do so. Their every-day acts aro the dictates of their sound judgment and common sense. The truth is patent, that negro slavery rests far less on the will and interests of slaveholders, than on the sound common sense of all Christian nations, who obey the voice of Nature, and of nature’s God, in spite of false theories, and give to slave labor in agriculture their undivided support—their unanimous ap proval. The general want of cotton for wearing ap parel, bedding and a thousand domestic uses, is no fictitious demand that will pass off in a sow days or years; but a want that will attach to tho nakedness of every child that shall be born in all coming time. Negro slavery, not by the wit, nor by the wickedness of man, but by tho inscrutable will of God, supplies this univer sal want. All the patient, cultivated industry of nearly three hundred millions in Europe, alj their capital and talent combined, have signally failed to drive proscribed negro slaves out of successful competition in furnishing the great markets of the world with tropical staples. It is not Cotton, but Negro Slavery that is king. Its dominion, over the production of coffee, rice and sugar, is as firm and lasting in all the attributes of industrial sovereignty, as in the cultivation of cotton. Hence wo conclude, that all anti slavery speculations are wrong; that the univer sal practice of patronizing slave labor is right, is wise, and will endure as long as the world stands. Abolition theories must be corrected. «»> - Wheat and Oats. —The recent cold weather, following rains, lia3 materially damaged the young wheat plants in this and the adjoining States. Frozen water has lifted the tender rootlets out of the ground in many places, so that a few hour’s sun and drying wind have quite destroyed them. Alston - , Fairfield Distrut, 8. C., I Dec. 9, 1559. )' Dr. Daxiel Lee : Dear Sir: I write to you for some information. I wish to know your opinion in regard to the different manures now advertised for sale; or, in other words, of all the preparations, which would you prefer to buy as the most soleable? I see you think very few of them are to be relied on. We have Mapes’, Rhodes’, Hoyt’s Superphosphates; which would you prefer ? We have Peruvian, Elite, Columbian Guano and others, for sale, with ad vocates for each kind. Os the above named manures, which would yon, as a farmer, purchase ? Will you please answer through the Field and Fireside ? J. M. G. It is hardly fitting that we undertake to sit in judgment on the relative merits and demerits of the numerous commercial manures now of fered for sale. Nothing short of large expe rience with them, or a most searching analysis, would justify the expression of a general opin ion on the subject. We shall, however, from time to time, attempt to inculcate such views and principles as will enable every reader of our paper to judge wisely for himself what fer tilizers to purchase, and how much of each. — There is something of a risk in buying substan ces, the precise composition of which is not known. In this money-getting age where it is easy to sell one man a rich phosphate or guano, and another man a worthless article, all should be cautious in trusting certificates. Better deal with perfectly honest parties, if you can find such. - - Bell Town, East Tenn., Nov. 20, 1859. Dr. Lee —Dear Sir: Please inform me, by let ter or through the Field and Fireside, the reme dy, if any, to prevent the ravages of Hessian fly in wheat. It is thought that early sown wheat is more likely to be injured by the fly than wheat later sown ; but late wheat is more like ly to be injured by rust. Any information on the matter will be thank fully received. Yours, respectfully, B. F. Barksdale. Early sown wheat is more likely to be attack ed by the Hessian fly in the fall at the North than late sown: but in this part of the South, wheat is generally put into the ground too late for this insect to deposit its eggs on the leaves of the plant before spring. There is no prevent ive of this misfortune, no more than there is of rust in hot damp weather. [For the Southern Field and Fireside.] CULTIVATION OF COTTON. Me. Editor :—As Cotton is King, and many of the readers of the Field and Fireside are more or less engagod in the cultivation of cotton, I propose to make a few suggestions upon that branch of agriculture, which may interest inex perienced cotton planters. The land should be broken flue and deep in the preparation; subsoil, if a fine clay subsoil; throw up high beds for the purpose of drying the land in early spring, which not only neutral izes the acid, but creates a warmth in the soil, so necessary to start the young plant. If plant ing upon high dry land, the beds should be plowed down at the time of planting, and, in the cultivation, the land should be kept as level be tween rows as possible, in order to keep up a free circulation of moisture during a dry season, to prevent the plant from shading its forms. If planted upon low flat lands, inclined to bo wet, it should lie planted upon beds as high as pos sible, and in the cultivation the middle or water furrow should bo kept open to drain off the sur plus water, so that the beds may have warmth and dryness, so essential to the cotton plant. In a high latitude for cotton it should be plant ed on beds as high as potato ridges and kept so in the cultivation by keeping the water furrow well open, which not only frees it from all ob noxious acids, but increases the warmth of the land at least one degree, causing it to take an earlier start in spring. The land should be plowed as shallow as possible in the cultivation, after the plant commences fruiting, with light harrows or sweeps, with the wings set flat to the ground, seiving the dirt over the wings in stead of throwing it like a shovel plow or solid sweep, as deep culture at this stage of the plant severs the small roots or feeders, causing it to shed its first fruit, which ought to be se cured. In all light, loose and sandy soils, cot ton should be cultivated with very light har rows or sweeps, set very flat, stirring the land as shallow as possible, but frequently, as such lands are already too porous to produce a heavy crop of fruit. The land should be stirred as soon as possible after every heavy shower, to prevent its forming a crust, opening the surface soil in order for a free admittance of all the gases to feed the plants and enrich the soil. These are general rules, but it will be neces sary for the planter to vary these rules and use some discretion; as, for instance, in case of a long wet spell upon very stiff clay soil, running the soil together, it would bo necessary to give it a moderately deep plowing, although it would break many of the small roots of the cotton plant. To make cotton mature well beforo frost, it should be left very thick in the drill, especial ly in a short climate for cotton or bottom lands, as many plants together have a tendency to re duce the sap in the weed, causing an earlier ma turity. By deepening and enriching the soil and surface culture, I have produced a stalk of cot ton this year with 523 bolls, only four feet high. It is true that it was a very highly improved va riety; yet the ordinary mode of culture would not have produced so much fruit. Every planter should read and study agricul tural papers; it makes them think and act and makes farming interesting. * I regret to see so many farmers opposed to book farming. It is agricultural science that en ables the cotton planter to raise cotton success fully where it was once thought it would not mature, and to make the stiffest clay soil soft and friable. Yours, truly, David Dickson. Oxford, Ga., Dec. 12th, 1859. [For the Southern F'ield and Fireside.] RABUN AS IT IS. Blue Ridge, Georgia, December, 1859. Mu. Editor:— Rabun county is undoubtedly the best climate in the world. It restores tho iuvalids like magic—they scarcely realize their restoration. The beautiful mountain scenery is not to be surpassed anywhere. The grand Am acolah Falls, near Capt. Dillard’s, are most beau tiful. They aro six miles from Clayton, and twelve from Tallulah Falls. Their falls aro not as high as Tallulah; but the scenery all about Amacolah is grand and charming. No county can excel Rabun for stock farms. The cove lands are exceedingly rich and productive, and even on the mountains, w'ith lazy, bad cultiva j tion, the crops are good, and wheat, rye, and oats yield abundantly. Herd-grass and clover can not be excelled anywhere. The meadows are fine, notwithstanding it has had the laziest pop ulation in Georgia; but the first settlers are mov ing rapidly to Texas and Arkansas. There are three kinds of large native grapes, exclusive of the summer grapes that grow wild in Rabun. There is a large black grape, very large bunches, and sweet, and there is the Scuppemong in great perfection. The other kind is a largo, round grape, pale red—all of these grapes are as large as the Isabella, with a thin skin, and very sweet. The peaches and apples have hit | three years in succession in my orchards, and a great profusion of both, when they had no fruit |in Habersham, (the adjoining county.) They ! raise an immense number of sheep, with no ex : pense but occasionally salting them, and on Wil liam Carr’s plantation, near Mud Creek, it is a sight worth seeing, the innumerable droves of mules, old and young; horses of all sizes—the majority with bells on—feasting on the luxuriant mountain grass and wild pea-vines, and their beautiful, slick, shining hair shows that they have lived bountifully. The owners of these animals salt them occasionally, and there is no telling what their stock would be if they had a Peters. What a land of beauty and plenty! As to the mineral, it abounds in rich gold and copper ore on the surface of the soil, but has not been worked, because it was Rabun. The mineral water is good, but has not been analyzed. The common free stone water is so cold and pure that the mineral water is not appreciated or attended to. The chestnut mast and acorns on the mountains supply the hogs with food until spring. , Naomi. STOCK FEEDING. Os the various methods employed by the farmer for the purpose of realizing a profit on his agricultural produce, that which refers to the fattening of stock is especially deserving of his attention. The season having arrived when the free use of roots is employed for this purpose, it will bo found that a limited supply of turnips, with oilcake at the rate of two pounds per day, will bring the animals forward quicker than up on turnips alone. It is important to bo able to determine how this process may be carried on according to those principles best adapted to the constitution of the animal and advantageous to himself. This process will bo considerably hast ened or retarded, in proportion to the different substances used for the purpose. In supplying feeding cattle with food, it is necessary that the amount supplied shall contain a sufficient quan tity of nutritive matter. The nutritive value of turnips may in a general way be estimated ac cording to the amount of nitrogen which they contain. From analyses we may gather that the very best kinds do not uniformly contain a very high per centage of nitrogen, and we cannot, therefore, determine the nutritive qualities of these roots by the amount of nitrogen which they contain; but we can compare them with other substances suitable for fattening cattle, and may thereby judge of their nutritive value.— When compared with rapecake, oilcake and cot ton-seedcake, the per centage of water in white globe turnips may be on an average stated thus: 91.41, and of flesh-forming matters 1.35. In rapecake the per centage of moisture is 10.68, flesh-forming matter "9 "'3; in oilcake the amount of water is 12,44, and in cotton-seedcake 11.19; while we find that the flesh-forming mat ter of oilcake is 27.28, and that of cotton-seed cake 25.16. A glance at these figures will show us the superior nutritive qualities possessed by the various cakes over the turnip in those parts of its composition to which we have referred.— But inferior as it is in its nutritive qualities, we cannot dispense with it as a food for feeding pur poses, since we have known fat stock of the best quality produced from the use of Swede turnips and oat-straw. The stock to which wo here al lude were fattened not on turnips alone, as they had attained to that state of condition which might be called very good on grass previous to their being put upon the turnips. In the feed ing districts of Scotland, where the turnip is found to possess a greater amount of nutritious qualities than in more southern districts, the process of fattening has been known to be car ried to a wonderful extent by the use of turnips and oat-straw only; but the process of feeding according to this method must necessarily be prolonged. To accomplish it in the shortest pos sible time is a consideration with the feeder. In order, therefore, that the oilcake may produce the largest effect, it is necessary that the stom ach bo filled with food, to enable tho digestive organs to perform their functions. The full ef fect of the cake will be but imperfectly brought out if the food be not of sufficient bulk. “It is most necessary, therefore,” says one of our pro fessors of chemistry, while writing on this sub ject, “to study the bulk of the food, and to con sider how to mix different substances in such a manner as to adjust the proportions of nutritive matter to their bulk.” Nutrition and bulk are, therefore, properties inseparably connected with tho process of fattening stock. Turnips beidfe the most bulky of all kinds of food, and oilcake the most nutritious, the process of feeding will be hastened in tho shortest space of time by their use. This mixture of food is found also adapt ed not only to support or increase tho weight of their bodies, but also to furnish the necessary amount of carbon required for supporting respi ration. The quantity of food consumed in main taining the animal heat, and the constant waste of the tissues, differs greatly according to cir cumstances Thus a horse, according to Bous singault, throws off daily 15 lbs. of carbon, in the form of carbonic acid gas; and in the case of the cow four-ninths of tho carbon contained in the daily food is consumed during the process of re spiration. —[ London Field. ■ - ♦»» Make Farm Labor Fashionable.— -At the base of the prosperity of any people lies this great principle— make farm labor fashionable at home. Educate, instruct, encourage ; and offer all the incentives you can offer, to give interest and dignity to labor at home. Enlist the heart and tho intellect of tho family in the support of a domestic system that will make labor attract ive at the homestead. By means of tho power ful influences of early home education, endea vor 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 house hold 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 ques tions relating to Home. . The training and improvement of the pnj cal, intellectual social and moral powers and sen timents of the youth of our country, require something more than the school-house, aca e ' my, college and university. The young mi should receive judicious training in the ne , the garden, in the barn, in the workshop, m parlor, in tho kitchen—in a word, around the hearthstone at home. Whatever intellectual attainments your so may have acquired, he is unfit to go so society if he has not had thrown around