The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-06-15

iruits and other insects; the stock, exchange for
lhe food which the fruits and pastursge afford them,
| van worm, hug, manure, and In some sort c@vatc
The trees aud parture. Play and parade ground
puoIc road planted with the sugar or birdseye ma
pie or other trees; cocoonery work shop kiln for
| drying fruits and wood house.
figgery, sheePtold, pigeon house, benhouse, bee
house, RABBIT warren, hotDed, and greenhouse.
Each pupil TO take portion Of the scions or plants
Of choice fruits, flowers, and vegetables, thus giving
to every cUtivator and to each family in the Union
the most choice fruits, flowers, and vegetables known
in this country, Europe, or elsewhere.
| by adopting this course we shall have professor
of agriculture the useful and mechanic arts in each
primary school, the establishment Of which, in some
OF the colleges Of Europe has been considered high
ly beneficial.
The size of the houses be extended or lessened
cording to the number Of pupils and population OF
the neghborhood, giving to the teacher delightful
home with some OF the best lands OF the school dis
lrict for an experimental and model farm, with good
salaries, TO induce the talented educated and vr-
luous 10 engage as teaches for life.
III in forest district, and the houses be built OF
logs, IT is suggested that they be built in the Russian
mode that is, the logs are hewed the upper and
lower sides, and fitted obquely, soping downwards,
and fitted close, 50 10 turn the rain and snow and
keep the logs aud interior of the house dry
,ceekly newspaper for the male achsrs and male
youth, also one for the female teachers and female
youth, SO to create female literature that will
render the literary and scientific production OF the
and children the female reader, and ultimately to
every family
1t is suggested that the orchard-witl as many
ewes, lambs, pigs, and poultry be supported
from its surplus fruits and pasture, the garden and
the dairy, with two permanent grass lots to it 10
DC pastuicd by the mich cows to change their
pasture from TO the other every four five days,
by which plan the cows will always have fresh, rich,
and sweet heritage, and afford the family rich sweet
milk, cream, butter and cheese, and save the labor
a
sometimes injured by other stock and in being driven
to and fro--be the wfe's por ion, from the advan-
ages Of which she will be enabled to fill the meat
house feather the beds furnish the groceries clohe her
household and add to the family and primary school
district library. This arrangement, too Will enable
the farmers wife, to whom the unfortunate often
look for aid whose privilege it to dispense it the
more fully, to give If, and in some measure to pre-
vent its necessity by giving employment to those who
need it, viz. in pruning the trees thinning securing,
drying and marketing the fruits, eggs, butter cheese,
&c; thus producing and securing comfort at home
and difusing it in her neghborhood, adjoining and
identifying the country, and promoting the comfort
and health of the farmers home, by having those
useful and pleasing objects about viz the orchard,
ornamental trees, ewes, lambs, pigs, poultry, perma-
nent pastures, and cows which not only attrac-
tive and pleasing TO the children and family but to
visers and travellers
The above plan may be considered by some too
expensive; but is not the object sufficient to induce
fathers, mothers, and the youth of the country to
dispense with of the luxuries and tinse of the
day to accomplish it, &c Inquiries cannot be too
tensivey nor too minutely carried on. What occurs
to one may be neglected by another, however able
and intelligent 1t is the combined information, coli
ected by general and minute inquiries, that alone
produce facts great questions fit to be relied on.
France has her Minister Of Public Instruction and
Professors of Agriculture with three LIST.
On Civilizations ID. Agricultural construction and
mechanics Sd. Agricultural chemistry.
Yale College owes its birth to ten worthy far
mers, who, in 1870 assembled at Banford aud eac,
one, laying few volumes table, said, Il give
there books for the founding of college in this
lony'" So primary school district library may be
easily formed.
1t is said by European aesmen "that for
publican people our systems of education far be-
low the wants of the people"
The above measure is respectfully submitted to the
consideration of the People and Governments of this
and the other nations.
JOSEPH L. SMITH.
Editors of newspapers in this and other countries
will confer favor by giving the above Insertion