The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-06-05
agricultural.

own foreman and pNCrseer No man ID indc
pendant who employs an Indispensable indi
yidual BE readylo part with your best help
and II necesAsry 10 take their place. In thil
way yuuwitl avoid cXactioUs and impeui
nencc Let 0rder he The mrmrr'a frat law
Disorder aud neglect are eSpoufiye, Away
cultivate with your eyes turned towards th,
nearest market Without cunyenenees "a
sell your products at tair prices, aud 10 gtl
manpres easily and cheap, farming will not
/ pay we'll, II il pays At all Be Kind, just aud
fair IN dealing with your help but ",keep up
I your hedges" Ia other words, don't let 9th,
ers Interfere with your authority, Take good
care Of your tools, The best arc the cheap
est Treat cattle gently, Many valuable
animal has been spoiled by rashncss Keep
o ledger of expenses and profits. let IL be
exact TO cent Don't neglect good advice,
but don't consult your servants, unless you
wish TO spoil them, Again, rise early in the
morning - Horticuiw,s,
~ A correspondent Of the New England
Farmer mentions the following novel fact as
evidence OF the progress Of civilizations an
other class Of bipeds has stepped into shoes 4,
how far in the future pantalettes and bonnets
lie hid let no scoher dare say "Pum in
boots" as every one knows, is all sham :
but, for a certainty, biddy in shoes is no long
or fable. llr says;-"A friend of ours,
boarding in the country, found his hostess
one morning bu,iy engaged in making ma.
mcrous small woolcn bags, Of singular shape
Upon inquiry he was informed that they were
shoes for hens, TO prcvcn, them from scratch
ing, The lac stated that il had been her
practice for years to shoe her hens, and 80
save her garden. These shoes Il believe
they are not yet patentcdl were of wooden,
made somewhat of the shape Of u fowls foot
having an opening left sufficiently large to
thrust in the foot with case, after which il is
closed with needle and scwcd tightly on,
cy,cuding about an inch up the leg. Our
friend observed that some OF the biddics, pos
ibly couccicd with their new houor', op-
pcarcl to tread a, though walking on egg,
particularly was thi, the case when, from the
width of the shoe, one would conceive that
. NH'h b'AN Ni'ENN Wv % lthAl' IiH'ii'h'
TRLE PLANNING N BRlTAIN-Ovcr nine
ty years ago the hroh was introduced irto
Scotland from the Tyrol, 10y the Duke Of
Athol and he lived long enough to see war
ship bunLfor the British navy out Of larchcs
raised by himself The lurch is now, from Il,
radid growth and great value. the most urof
table timber tree of Great Britain. For
more than forty years the botanical owners
have ransackcd creation 90 find new, rare and
valuable plants and trees The forest, Of Ii
bcrill-thc vllins 6r rtinG the titm1iaya
mountains, the woods OF Oregon aud CaIiTor-
mia, the South Sea Islands and the wilder
ucsscs OF Peru, Chill, Guiana and Brazil, have
all contributed TO the parks, the gardens aud
the groves Of Great Britain. The cedar Of
Lebanon, the most famous tree of the world
has been successfully and extensively cult
waited in the British isles for hundreds of years
The beautiful and majestic Dendar cedar of
llindostan has been in successful cultivation
in England for some twenty-five years The
Norway spruce, also, has long been a leading
ornament of British parks aud forests. Al
this time there are thousands Of specimens
Of that gigantic redwood of California, the
Haylingtonid gjgoutco, raised from 'E~'',ced
during the last three years, arr So,e a., Swing
in the British Isles But very G,;% of these
noted, hcautiiU Ind valuable ,tces can be
seen in the Atlantic States.