Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-06-10
Farming for Bows.

| Boys. Mr.. Mitchell has high reputation
as writer of books and magazine articles
for the perusal of men and women, ranking
among the most popular of the literary men
of the times. He has of late years employed
/ his graceful pen upon agricultural topics,
and has won fame among intelligent farm
ers one familiar with husbandry, and un-
derstanding the commercial value,-as a pro
ducer of crops for a market, As well the
beauties of the country. In these articles =
which have been printed, with some addi-
tions and notifications, in a neat volume by
Tickn0r & Fields the writer shows what
boys have done and what others may do in
the cultivation of farms and gardens-how tC
begin, how to proceed, and what to aim at
The author says in his preface:
This little volume has been prepared tC
counteract, to some extent, the preya len
disposition for encouraging youth to ex-
change the country for the city,-to convince
those already living in the former that their
future respectability and happiness will be
best promoted by remaining where they arc,
as well as to impress upon the minds Of city
parents that they Will be doing for their sons
an acceptable service by cutivating in them
love for country life in place Of that for a
city one. | have set before them the strik-
ing instances of the general superiority of
agricultural employmcnts, Of their compara-
tive freedom from temptation to vice, of the
sure rewards they bring to intelligcntly di-
rcctcd industry, and show that ii i great
mistake to suppose that all that exchange
the farm for the city become either good, or
great, or even rich The fact is made mani
fest, in the personal history Of a multitude
Of distinguished men, that the farm, and not
the city, has been the birthplace of the lead
ing minds of all countries.
To stimulate the faculty or disposition for
acquiring money, have endeayored to show
how boy upon a farm may make begin
ming Heretofore, the children of too many
farmers have been kept as mere drudgeS, now
at school and now at work, with no pains
taken to encourage their individual enter
prise by showing them how to make some
thing for themselves. The hope of profit
nerves the enterprise, and sharpens the wit
of men. Why should our boys be wholly
excluded from all share in what, when grown
to manhood, so becomes the great impulse to
all future effort.
The mass of farmers boys understand
that they must carve out their own fortunes.
If their parents would afford them some lit
tie opportunity TO begin earlv,-an equal
one with the sharp newsboy of the city
thew too would become so shrewd. SO self
reliant, so expert at acquisition. even on the
larm' that' eduGated - MODERATION; lney
=, ba o,,orco,,o ~ tt,e sa5ctiars If ai+,.I Iifr
If it be mere money which makes the latter
attractive, certainty Of being able to ac-
qulre 1t at home would seem TO be potent
-ho s1a+ On --bcb tho f,r,oer boT have
been born
The volume is written in Mr. Mitchells
DELIGHTFUL stvle. and takes captive those who
read it for mere entertainment as well as
those who read for profit. 1t will make a
charming and valuable addition to the child
rens' library.
ANOTHER Book FOR BoYs.-Lee & Shep
ard. of Boston, have issued their volume of
the Young America Abroad = stories
This volume is called - bikes and bitches,
)r Young America in Holland" and is a
story of travel and adventure in that land of
Dikes and bitches 1t is written like the
preceding volumes of the series-bv Oliver
Optic. who has captured the hearts Of the
children bv his books, Is well a. by his
magazine, and who is recognized and
standard authority with all the boys in the
land. The . Academy Ship" and SO much
IF the story as is necessarily connected with
that pleasant invention Of the author, is, of
course, fictitious ,but the history, geography,
md facts, respecting the country, are as We
-acious as these of anv history Childrcn's
10 dimensions much larger than their Grand
far +bars or e,o, fathers evor drea,ood of and
what j. better the children of this generation
-ead these books. and remember the valuable
facts as we'll rs the entertaining stories We
,l,vavs GLADLY welcome such book as this
IF a yery pretty volume lust issued bv Tick
nor and Fields It i write, b,- Helen (
p,
Doiidii'' a7 sN0 7"y' - U'io pioi"o0 iol 'Ho
pleasure and amusement OF her boy Tom
lhe writer says she makes no claim that
her book has the completeness q scIentihc
-reatlse, as she has only intended to give the
result OF summer rambling through the
woods and meadows OF New England As
ar as it goes, however, she claims for it COM
plete accuracy The volume describes with
some particularly nearly hi'y pu''eriiies
ihd NOUNS ana gives iiiuS'rd'io iolS' wei
irawn ana engraved Oh many OF these va
ieal of interesting information, IN most