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Repairing done Bis nnelplee and de e : -LAW BLANKS,' - Britons. Str West. et "| bargain wasat once' consummated, andthe. _ | Ang, down an inclined plane eet, th torches, and. Poetry. NS LPL PPL ION The Cradle Song of. the Poor. Hush ! I cannot bear to see thee Stretch thy tiny hands in vain; I have got no bread to give thee, Nothing, child, to ease thy pain. When God. sent thee first to bless me, - . | 'Proud, and thankful too, was 1; Now, my darling, I, thy mother, - «Almost long'to see thee die. Sleep; my darling, thou art weary; God is good, but life is dreary. Ihave watched thy beauty fading, . And thy strength sink day by day ; 'Soon, I know, will Want and Fever Take thy little life away. Famine makes thy father reckless, Hope has left both him and me; . We could suffer all, my baby, -- Had we but a erust for thee. Sleep, my darling, thou art weary ; God is good, but life isdreary. Better thou shouldst perish early, Starve so soon, my darling one, Than live to want, to sin, to struggle . Vainly still, as I have done. Better that thy angel spirit With my joy my peace were flown, Ere thy heart grow cold and careless, Reckless, hopeless, like my own. Sleep my darling, thou art weary ; God is good, but life is dreary. I am wasted, dear, with hunger, 'And my brain is all opprest, Z I have scarcely strength to- press thee, . Wan and feeble, to my breast. Patience, baby, God will help us, Death will come to thee and me, He will take us to his Heaven, "Where no want or pain can be. Sleep. my darling, thou art weary ; 'God is good, but life is dreary. Such the plaint, that late and early, ~~ Did we listen, we might hear, Close beside us,--but the thunder Of a city dulls our ear. Every heart, like God's bright Angel, Can bid one such sorrow cease; . God has glory when His children '. Bring His poor ones joy and peace! Listen, nearer while she sings Sounds the fluttering of wings! -- Household Words. Literature. ALND monn f From Harper's Magazine. The Rattlesnake and its Congeners. Of all animated life, the serpent at. first sight, is the most. repulsive;.and yet, with the species, there is such a combination ot the beautiful, the terrible, and the mysterious, that the beholder, in spite of himself, is at- tracted by their appearance. The associa- tion of the animal: with the fall of our first parents, no doubt, to. the Christian mind, gives it a vague and undefined interest; but with all heathen nations, and from the remo- test times, the serpent: has occupied the most prominent place, not only as a deity, but-as the fittest. physical.representative of spiritual qualities. Upon the earliest monuments of Egypt, Syria, Greece, India, China, and even on those of. the conventionally newer nations of America--in fact, every where on the globe--it has ever been made. typical.of wisdom---power--duration---the good and evil principles, and of eternity. " It has entered into the mythology of every nation, conse- crated almost every temple, symbolized al- most every. deity, was. imagined jin the heavens, stamped upon the earth, and ruled in the realms of everlasting sorrow." Moses lifted up a brazen serpent in the wilderness, and those afflicted who looked upon it lived, and thus it was made to shadow forth the mightiest event wrought for the redemption of mankind ; yet why it has been thus uni- versally used, seems impossible of solution. The ancients attempted various explanations, but all founded. upon fabled qualities, for they evidently knew little of the natural history of the animal, and instead of describing the living, breathing thing, merely repeated and exagerated those strange attributes ascribed to their deified representations. The most striking hierograms in which the serpent occurs are those of Egypt, and usu- ally appear over the entrances of their great temples ; these are composed of a pair of ex- tended wings, a globe, and two serpents: the globe signified the simple essence, the wings the penetration of universal power, the ser- pents the life-giving principle. This expres- sive compound emblem has been found by Mr. Layard. among the supposed ruins of Nineveh; it also occurs.on Syrian and Per- sian temples. Aztec ruins in Mexico are still to be seen, composed of large stones, in which some particular layer is projected from the plain wall, and ingenuiously sculp- tured so as, to represent a huge snake en- circling the edifice. Stone works of vast ex- tent, in the forms of serpents, penetrated or surrounded the Druidical temples of the early Our own fertile valleys of the West are filled with tumular monuments, a mile in length, erected by the early inhabitants of this continent, representing pythons in every: form, and displaying a perfect sympathy of intention with similar creations in the Eastern world. = Of the connection of the serpent with the | temptation of Eve, we have heard a strange story related by an American traveler in Egypt, who was noted among his companions for his willingness to intrude upon out-of-the- way and admitted-to-be dangerous places. An Arab guide, perceiving' this peculiarity," offered, for a consideration, to. conduct him into the interior of: one of the large pyramids, and show him a.room, upon. the walls of which. | was a picture no Frank had ever seen. The parties entered the structure, and after slid- bey came upon a lar RON eAG hated A Unit chenada | munication with an 'adjoining apartment.. This apartment reached, the Arab lit his. & | repels. . f some hundred. of yesterday, representing a serpent with hu- man arms and legs, handing an apple to an the conventional trees peculiar to such early art. If this story be true--and we have no possibly more ancient than even the Mosaic account. A large portion of the rings, necklaces, formed of single or combined serpents, beau- tifully varigated by different colors in gold, precious stones, and enamels; and the com- monest form of household Gods of the Mexi- cans and Peruvians was the same, and prob- ably it was a favourite example of their finer jewelry. 'This emblem is also dug out of our '| western mounds, sculptured in fine basalt, and betraying a vast amount of labor and excel- lent art. As the light of Christian civiliza- tion dawned upon mankind, the mythological character of this form of life seems to have become more disregarded, until now it is only alluded to in such a connection as is indica- tive of the deplorable ignorance of early times--yet there is a taint left in our na- tures for the old superstition; for we still maintain, with the ancients,a predilection for ornaments of the serpent form; and we daily meet in the rich saloons of Europe, and of our own country, fingers as delicate as rings, and arms more beautiful than Cleo- patra's that are encircled by the golded asp. Our object is not, however, to deal with the vague and often sublime fancies of the '|ancients regarding the serpent, but to treat of its history in the spirit of the age--when speculation gives way to truth, and the fables of times past are forgotten in the interesting facts brought forth by the naturalist and other close observer of the Creator's works. A general division of serpents may be made in the distinction which lies between those which kill by muscular pressure and those which destroy their prey by poison. The latter class are comparatively few in number, and may be considered exceptions to the general rule ; for all boas, pythons, and most snakes, depend for. their subsistence upon the power they possess of crushing their prey in en- veloping folds. The assertion that most ser- pents in temperate climates are harmless, can not readily be assented to; for the English- man, who has not a really dangerous speci- men on his native island, shrinks from their presence with all the fear that he betrays 'when he meets with the really death-dealing cobras of the jungles of India; and it is re- markable, that Europeans residing in that country, soon become indifferent to the vicini- ty of the most destructive wild beasts of prey, but can never conquer their dread of snakes. The same thing may be said of the enlighten- |ed mind every where, for it recoils from the presence of serpent life. © This terror is one of the most defined in- stincts of human nature, for it exists. without having been founded upon any direful expe- rience, and can not be overcome by reason ; yet most serpents are beautiful, and in their adornment, combine with unequaled grace all the brilliant colors of the most 'precious mo- saics. "We knew an excellent artist who had a taste for natural history, and being favor- ably situated for gratifying a long indulged wish, he determined to place upon 'canvas the gorgeous beauties of the rattlesnake. It so happened that while he was busied with the last touches upon a portrait of a lovely girl--was adding the rich carnations to the lips, the azure to her eyes, and the sunny auburn to a profusion of glowing locks, he received the announcement that a just killed rattlesnake was at his disposal. - A few mo- ments only elapsed before his. sitters were changed. In place of all that was beautiful --in place of intelligence--in place of woman in her loveliest estate, there was reared: the form, according to our instinctive ideas, of the most repulsive of created things.. By a happy conception the serpent was, arranged in a most 'natural attitude of. defence; its mouth was open, its fangs displayed, and the enthusiastic painter began his work. . Soon by the aid of chalk the spiral and-expressive form was produced upon the canvas; next was seized the pallet, the colors all beaming in flesh tints, the pencils still glowing with the imitating hues of Hebe; but. all in their purity found a place upon the serpent's form. The delicate pink, the softened carmine, the the Tyrian blue, the deep auburn, were not only necessary, but just as they appeared in their clearness and purity, so did they most approach the original, and aid in starting forth a picture of horrid fascination. With the hand of genius the labor of an hour made the'task complete--the effect was magically produced--a vivid glowing lesson had been taught, that the'thing we love and worship in nature, or shrink from with terror, are but combinations of the same charming effects of form and color; and that in our own minds, and out and out in the outward things, is the beauty of hideousness that attracts or Serpents, says a distinguished naturalist, have been improperly regarded as animals degraded from a 'higher type; but their whole organization, and especially their bony struc- ture, demonstrate that their parts are as ex- quisitely adjusted to their habits and sphere of:life, as is the. organization, of any animal conventionally superior to them. Nothing can be more-wonderful than to see the work -of feet.and fins. performed by a modification of the vertebral column. As serpents move chiefly on the puiface of the earth, their dan- re fashioned, therefore, no a ne gaze of the traveler a painting, fresh as if the work Egyptian woman; both fieures relieved by reason to doubt its authenticity--we have a pictorial representation of the Fall of Man, and bracelets found in ancient tombs are Pharaoh's daughter's glistering with snaky' t from pressure and blows from ain pressure in a| wonderful wisdom displayed in its creation, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and sud- denly loosing the close coils of its couching spiral, it'¢an spring into the air and seize the bird upon the'wing ; for all 'these 'crea- 'tures have been known to fall its prey. The serpent, without arms or talons, can~ out- wrestle the athleté, and ctush the tiger in the embrace of its ponderous overlapping folds; and instead of being obliged 'to lick up its food as it glides along, it uplifts its crushed prey to its mouth, grasped in the death-coil as In a hand. a STS There are properly no sea snakes, although we hear much of sea serpents, Most snakes swim well in water, but they must have their head out to breathe, else they will drown about as soon as the ower orders of most land animals. Tels are not snakes, and most people are conscious of the fact; yet few can tell the distinguishing traits of dif- ference between them and the reptile ashore: the eel has a flat tail, erect as an oar, the 'snake has a round one. Yet the sea, it would seem, is not altogether free from ser- pentine life that will vie for poison with the ratilesnake itself. In Haydon's extraordinary autobiography, there is a singular incident related, illustrative of our position. Her Ma- jesty's brig Algerine was at anchor in Madras Roads, when one of the marines hooked and brought on board what was evidently taken for an eel. A young officer of the brig, Haydon's step-son, took the animal in his hand, which irritated it, and it seized hold of the young man's fore-finger, and held the skin doubled up between its teeth until fore- ed to let go its hold. This occurred at half past seven in the morning. The bitten man held the oceurrence lightly, and went down to breakfast, but soon after felt some uneasi- ness in his throat, which quickly began' to swell, and the patient, although attended by two physicians, died in just three hours after receiving the wound. Soon after death the neck was discolored, the body spotted, and it was found necessary to hasten the burial. The snake (so called,) was six feet six inches in length, general color yellow, ornamented with forty-three black rings equidistant, its circumference eighteen inches in the largest part, its tail projecting vertically, flat or compressed, which shows that it was a native of the sea. It, had three rows of teeth, but no fangs could be discovered." We are accustomed to say that the ser- pent swallows its food ; this is true in a gen- eral sense, but not.so, if we understand the act.as applied to animals of a higher organi- zation. . A boa attempting to bury a buffalo in its capacious'maw, ora little garter snake disposed to do the same favor for a' juvenile frog, does not let the precious but. very dif- ferent sized: morsels:-tremble® for a moment on their palates, and then disappear ; on the may be many times larger in diameter than the apparent size of the jaws:and throat that are to receive them. But no difficulty is in the way ; the jaws of the serpent not only seperate, if necessary, from eace other--be- ing held together only by cartilaginous liga- ment-- but they-also have the power of pro- truding or retracting them, one independent- ly of the other. By this arrangement, one side of the jaws is extended forward, and the two rows of teeth of the upper, and the single row of the lower fixed into the prey; then the opposite side of the jaws is pushéd on in the same manner, and so on alternately, until the mass disappears. ; T took a good deal of trouble (says a re- cent traveler in Ceylon) to inquire the size of the boa-python of that country; but though I heard of several that, within the memory or tradition of men had been killed, measuring thirty feet, I never heard that size exceeded ; but this by no means proves that their growth is limited to that length, or that they may. not exist in large numbers. Game of all kinds is so plentiful in Ceylon that the boa need never be forced into .the neighborhood of men to procure food. In India I know, from eye-witnesses, of their be- ing killed forty-five feet long, and six feet in circumference ; and the one killed in the Sun- derbund some years ago, was credibly re- ported to be sixty feet; moreover, in proof. that this need not be an exaggeration, we may remember, that the snake that stopped the army of Atilius Regulus in the river Bagro- da, was one hundred and twenty feet in length, and that its skeleton was. preserved in Rome, until within some three or four centuries. Boas, however, of most promising propor- tions, occasionally visit the scenes of civili- zation: A perfectly authenticated "story is 'told of an-officer residing in British Guiana, who amused himself in fishing and hunting in a neighboring river. One sultry day tired with unsuccessful sport, he threw his lines, and drew his canoe to the river's edge, for the purpose of refreshing himself in the water. 'Having done so, he strtched himself half dressed, on the benches of his canoe, with his gun at his head loaded with shot, and in this position he fell asleep. Presently he was roused from his slumber by a curious sensa- tion, as if some animal were licking his foot. Ina state of half stupor, natural to waking from a sound sleep, he cast. his eyes down- ward, and, to his horror, perceived the neck and head of a monstrous serpent, covering his foot with saliva, preparatory to commenc- ing the process of swallowing him whole. The officer had faced death in many forms-- on the ocean in the battle-field, but never | For a moment, and but a moment, the officer was fascinated, and then withdrawing his -side him. oe |... "The reptil ? be Te ut Es aA a ° ch of the.object it contrary, after the meal is prepared, the bulk | had he conceived of it insuch terrible guise. | foot, he instinctively seized his gun lying be-| wl rch' of the-c had Jost. The ' 2 the muzzle. of his gun within a | yard or two of the serpent, fired, lodging the contents in its head. The terrible boa, with a hiss, raised its heretofore unseen body in the air, and seemed determined to throw it- self upon the officer and embrace him in its powerful coils. A fortunate stroke of the paddle sent the canoe into the stream and to a place of safety. Having procnred assis- tance, the officer returned to the place of at- tack ; and having killed the reptile found it upward of forty feet in length and of 'pro- portionate thickness. Another officer in the British service, sta- tioned with his regiment in the neighborhood of Kalladgee, in India--a region in' which monkeys abound in numberless quantities-- 'professes to have been a witness to the fol- lowing extraordinary scene: : He was one day, accompanied by a na- tive asa companion, climbing one of the slanting ascents of a neighboring cliff, when he became aware that an unusual commotion existed among the monkeys, which had be- come so'familiar with the officers appearance, that they seldom honored him with a snarl or any other expression of dislike. Creeping | round the projection of a rock, bebind which the monkeys seemed to have congregated, the officer became a witness of a strange tragedy-in simean life. In the volumnious folds of an enormous boa was being slowly enwrapped a beautiful brown monkey, whose last cries and straggles denoted that all suc- cor was.too late. The surrounding monkeys, in wild alarm, were running hither and thith- er, moping, moaning, and chattering, but not one advanced near the spot where their poor companion was momentarily disappearing in the dread folds of its destroyer.. 'The officer, whose curiosity was highly excited, sat down, and determined to watch the serpent prepare its food. for deglutition. The bones of the poor victim were broken like pipe stems by the. pressure to. which they were subjected ; and gradually the reptile began to. untwist its fold, affording a magnificent view of its glittering scales, which shone like variagated metallic substances. he officer. shuddered as he beheld the serpent's head--its promi- nent eyes luminous with fiery light. Per- fectly heedless of the noise made by the mon- keys, jt unwound its coils till the victim, now an unrecognizable mass, lay before it lubri- cated and fit to be received into the destroy- er's stomach. When the reptile had fairly commenced its repast, and before the flacid body began to fill and swell, the officer, with the assistance of his companion, the native, determined upon capturing the soon to be sated giant. Accompainied by the. stout lascar, bearing a strong cudgel and sharp knife, the officer felt there would be little difficulty, in securing the prize when once fill- . ed to repletion. " But upon nearing the scene | of strife a new subject of admiration present-: ed itself. The constrictor lay thoroughly ' gorged, beneath a projecting mass of the cliff, and resembled more a log of wood than a thing of life. On the summit of this project- ing rock a troop of monkeys had assembled, and three or four of the largest and strongest were occupied in displacing an immense frag- ment of the massive stone, already loosened by. time and the elements from the parent ledge. By enormous exertions--made in a» silence that was rare-with the volatile crea- tures--they at last succeeded in pushing the rock, until it trembled just over the boa's head ; when uttering a fierce yell, in which every separate voice mingled in exultation, by a vigorous movement they shoved it over the precipice. The heavy mass had been judiciously poised, for it struck the serpent on the head, mashing it to a jelly, and as the reptile threw its fearful tail about in its last struggles, the officer and native instinctively joined in the cries of exultation of the mon- | keys, as they rejoiced over their well-accom- plished vengeance. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Gliscellanecons, A Singed Cat. The New York and Erie Railroad Office, in this city, was on Thursday the scene of an incident which is worthy of being record- ed with the events of the day--not only because it was a good joke, but because it bears on its face _a moral. An old man enters the office--in age ap- parently verging on three score; his clothes are of coarse texture, ventilated in some places, and rather dingy withal; his head, with its long, gray locks, is covered with a hard-worn beaver; his face, the lower part of which is ornamented with a grizzly-gray beard, has an humble appearance, and his dull eyes have an imploring expression; he has a folded paper in his hand, and, advan- cing to the desk of the first clerk, he extends it . eS Clerk--Go away, sir; I haven't anything for you. a = Old. Man--(Brightening up with a look of surprise)--But, sir-- : Clerk--No buts about it, sir; I tell you Thave nothing for you. Go out. ' The old man with a mingled look of sur- prise and indignation, passes on to the desk of another Clerk, and offers the paper. _ Clerk--Don't interrupt. me, sir; get. out of the office; I give nothing to beggars. The truth begins to reveal itself to the as -tressed, was plastered back with butter, and "encased in a thin skin, which I'am happy to | ted into four governments or presidencies; /we, with double the population, have 110,- 2a cesis tee Sissi SEs higher than a kin d sé Seed SUAS GF SeMIete ise l he and even that is under th Clerk No. 1 takes a seat on the cross-bar of his desk, out of sight--Clerk No. 2 turns red, purple and white by turns; the old man receives his money and makes a noisy exit, mumbling something about counter-jumpers and broadeloth--__New York Tribune. European Beauty at a Discount in : Africa, -- We had to wait. a considerable time in the outer court.and doorway before his ma- jesty was pleased to admit us. A crowd of soldiers collected round us, and. amused themselves with facetious remarks on our ap- pearance, such as" Cat's eyes," " Monkey's hair," " What nice~ red: morocco their skin would make for a sword-sheath!" &c. These expressions were afterwards made known to me; forin those days I was in a state of ignorance as regarded the language; and having a tolerably good opinion of my ap- pearance, I judged that: their remarks must be highly complimentary. I» remember some years after this asking a person with whom I had become intimate, and who had never seen any white man but myself, what impression my first appearance had made on him. He answered me very. simply that I resembled a rather good-looking Abyssinian who had lost his skin. But I must own that our appearance at the time of our first: visit to Howzayn was calculated to excite much amusement. We-had only recently adopt- ed the Abyssinian costume, and as.yet were not altogether well.practised in the mode of putting on. the. cloth, Besides which, our straight hair, not yet long enough to be the faces of those of our party who were say never was my fate, were as red asa fresh capsicum.--from Parkyn's " Life in Abyssinia." ot -- Extent of British Possessions in Our territory is equal to all the continents of Europe, Russia excepted. Peshwur is as far north of Ponjore as Stockholm is of Naples ; Chirtagong, as far east of Kur- rachec, as Athens is of Paris. Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Holland,, Belgium, Denmark. and. Sweden, unitedly do. not equal either our territory or our population. The grand: trigonometrical survey, which las lately been printed for parliament, gives the total--area in square miles, 1,368,11; population, 131,145,903. And a connect: ed copy with which we have been favored, adds seven. millions and a half to this popu- lation, most of which is our own. territories, but,part. in the, native states, making the total, 168,774,065. ~ But the fact. is,~ that even from our territories many of the re- turns are no better than guesses and from the native states, few are to be relied upon. It has, however, generally proved that ac- curate returns gives a higher population than previous estimates; and after consider- able attention to the subject. for years, we should not be surprised» to find the official statement gradually coming'up from its pre- sent advanced figure, to nearly two hundred millions: This splendid empire is distribu- Bengal, Madrid, Bombay and Agra. 'Ihe first is the seat of the governor general,and the supreme council, the next two have each a governor and council ; and Agra is ad- ministered by a lieutenant governor, with- outa council. The army is--queen's troops, 25,480; company's European troops, 19,- 928; company's native troops, 240,111; to- tal, 289,529; native contingents, command- ed by. British officers and available under treaties 32,090, total at the disposal .of. the governor general, 333,529. This is a great army, yet lis proportion to the extent of the empire presents. a forcible comment on the' names of the British rule. Compare it with the proportion which the armies of the con- tinent bear to the population of the respec- tive countries and you might imagine that they were "holding conquered nations, and 'were governing our hereditary soil. ~ Forty- nine thousand out of the whole are English- men! a less number than is generally found necessarily to garrision the one city of Paris! Even the native Rajahs, with a population of 55,000,000, have 400,000 soldiers; while 000 less though they are guaranteed against eternal war, and we have to take all risks. Then' our 240,000 native troops are a strength or a weakness, just as our autho- rity is popular or the reverse. Were their attachment lost, how formidable would they. be, taught in our mode of war, and five times as numerous as the English soldiers! Were they and the troops of the Rajahs uni- ted against us, it would be 50,000 against 640,000! You may travel through India without coming on a military station. You may pass through kingdoms, with three mil- lion or more inhabitants, containing only one post of European troops; you may find great cities without a soldier; the remains of a vast fortification, near which not a uniform 'is visible. Facts such as these, when con- trasted with the countries of even civilised Europe, foreibly prove that the power of the English has foundations in the homes of the. people, as well as in the cantonments of the: 'soldiers. In the native regiments, the o:fi- half English; but no native officer can rise ro- are = youngest Eu Bi. 3, BERNE GORE 2Ge Seen 5 - ee ee oo 2 > a ¥ RS FES Se | vigor in. fowls. 'sent to market upwards' of one" cers are as to numbers, about half native, , OF Majority, 'ing the tender | xosling from bie ee Se aiwam xt pea erie a olliba keh worse than that | ch e | enjoyed by Hindus in the armies of the Mus- | ha d salman. : E je a So les," 2% NUMBER 4. _ aT aaord og 6% Fe lee Gee neighbor asked the man who owned it why he puta nigger into hispew?. .. "Why, sir, he's a Haytien." " Can't help that--he's black"? _.... " Why, sir, he's a correspondent of mine." " Can't help that---he's black"... _. -" He's worth a million of dollars." " Introduce me." : at TE OE oA Pan ral &r _ ave From the Female Emigrant's Guid cary 'ar Poultry: oe & _ In these days, whem all the world is run ning after Cochin.China' and Shanghai Bantams, Dorkings,. Dutch, Spanish, .and Poland fowls, the omission of a chapter on the poultry-yard would, I fear, be regard as a grave neglect in a work that. is chiefl devoted to instruction on points. of. rur economy. Of the management. of the rarer breeds of poultry, I. have had no experience. myself at. present, but I have been assured by tho A have been most successful in. their. rearing of Shanghai and.Cochin Chica fowls, that they have had no trouble more with them than with the common barn-door fowls, The want of having good fowls, an1 plenty of eggs, seems simply to consist in attention ta their being well supplied with good food, clean water, ashes, lime," rubbish and. ch: coal; a clean, airy pen, in summer, and.a warm, sheltered roost in winter. A supply of animal: food seems greatly to promote Where fewer. dogs are kept, the -- fowls come in for. much valuable . food, which tells: well upon' the richness and increase of their flesh and e Those persons who.succeed best with, poul- try, are careful to cater well: for them, and will boil up all sorts of refuse vegetables, es- pecially potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and other roots to mix with their grain Boiled In corn, or crushed corn. steeped, mak very satisfying food.for fowls.» _. ae ' An this country, fowls in general, are left. very much to take care of themselves. They have the run of the barn-yard, and are even allowed by some of the. improyident, small growers, who are seldom the most, economi cal managers, to have the. fiw gts al itself, That such a plan, is a very. wasteful oka Y one it hardly needs any one to. declare. Not only is there a vast and. unnecessary expen diture of valuable grain, but a considerable deal that is. injured and .. made _unsales le, By alittle care of the dross, and refuse cor the fowls would be equally well fe os that, woful waste. which, the want, of a + of a-pro- per system..of management. produces,,», I have. known this plan pursued. even among farmers who were .careful.in other matters but whose wives were so short-sighted, as.to persuade them into the: belief that, because they were able to sell a. few, dozen of eg atten. pence. or. a. shilling ete early part of the season, that, this. was clear gain--quite forgetful of the loss and injuny,-tothe orp. - .teiw adj ai ead ae? _ Fowls fed with scalded bran, or the coarst part of the flour, generally known eee sharps or canaille, mixed, with potatoes. or other vegetables, any scraps of | ae and re fuse grain, and curdled milk scal eae a harden . the gurd, with access to.as gravelly. substances, will .ensure ple: eggs without giving them access to the Ot plana? : gone bowodesd etas nds. Pocides the eggs consumed in the family, since the laying season, my children have red dozen eggs, which have been sold at pri¢es varying from one shliling to 'seven' peice half-penny per dozen. The fowls have Te- ceived little grain, and' not' much" attention --in number they were' about thirty-five. They were shut out from the barn, and had no access to the seeds in the fields. ° With more attention we' might -have 'had "a' still that fowls are well worthy of the'attention of the Canadian housewife. = During the grain-growing season, 'and if there be any wheat fields near the farm-yard, -- it will be advisable to confine the fowls with- in an enclosure--a green yard, with'a high picket fence round is the best sort of fowl- 'twine, tied from post to post, will effectually prevent any fowl from attempting to fly over the fence. A shelter at one end' of this enclosure for roost and laying place; plenty of dust and ashes in a heap for them 'to roll in,-with~atrough for-water;-will be all-sufficient;;atree makes a good summer roost, and a few bushes for shelter from the great heat ofthe .sun.is also advisablesfor the comfort of: this: fowl-yard. The con- finement need not.last long at either season, and it is well worth the trouble. of having such a convenience made to prevent. loss and vexation of spirit. When once*made it lasts for years, and would soon 'repay' the farmer for the outlay of afew days-labor, | and a few nails for fastening up the pickets. The young chickens are seldom cooped for more than a few days, if abroad, or in the enclosed yard, For the rearing of geese and duck profit, they should. have access to a creek or pond of water, mill-dam or. lake.. {On the rice-beds: geese : fattens finely, and do well; but asthe goslings are hatched in the spring, "a season. which is usually very changeable, more care is required for keep larger return, but this is sufficient to prove yard. A coarse thread, of common Dutch - the wea be fine and warm: they will thrive 38M ; ie ey uoks ith Be emet sd