the Legislature appropriated $50,090 for the purpose of erecting college buildings. In February of 1859, all the money at the disposal of the Trustees being expended, and only about one-third of the buildings, as originally contemplated, being completed, it was resolved to open the institution in its then unfinished state for students. The school was at once filled to its utmost capacity, it being possible to take only about 100 students. The following year, 1860, it was also filled, and the year 1861, owing to the disturbing causes at work in the country, its numbers have been reduced to 88. It has thus been in successful operation for three years with unfinished college buildings. Last Winter, however, the Pennsylvania Legislature, with the advice of the liberal-minded and publicspirited Chief Executive of that State, appropriated an additional $50,000 to complete the college buildings, and the circular before us informs us that they will now soon be entirely completed, thus making room for over 300 students. The college buildings are, with the basement, six stories high, and cover an area of 79,200 square feet, and when completed, will cost about $120,000. There is also belonging to the institution a farm of 400 acres good limestone land, with all the requisite out-buildings for full and complete farming operations, making the total cost value of the property of the school about $175,000. The course of instruction is mainly devoted to science and the ordinary English branches. It embraces four years of study, and is designed to be as thorough as that of any of the Agricultural Colleges of Europe. The graduates must have gone through the ordinary college mathematical course, and have studied the natural sciences as far as they are taught in any of the scientific schools of the country. All the work upon the farm is done by students, each being required to perform three hours manual labor daily. This work affords a source of revenue to the college, so that the expenses of tuition, board, &c., are met by the payment of the very low sum of $100 per session of ten months. The college year for 1862 will commence on Wednesday, the 19th of February, and close on Wednesday, the 18th of December following. Persons desirous of knowing more about this institution, with a view of sending students to it, or otherwise, would do well to address the President, Dr. Pugh, Farm School, Centre County, Pa.-Exchange. We do not quote the above for the purpose of endorsing all it says in relation to the Agricultural College enterprise in other States, but rather to acquaint our farmers with an institution which promises to have a career of large. usefulness. THE HOME. "News from the War." Two women sit at a farm house door, While softly around them fair twilight sheds Peace smiles in the cloudless heaven above; But not one ray of peace illumes Look on their faces-one like a rose Yet, though one is young and the other old, For they're tinted with tenderest lights and shades Now, fast as a radiant vision, fades The glow of the western skies; Yet the readers read on-unmindful of all Nothing to them the charms of that hour- For spirits bowed down with the weight of care Deeper the shadows of twilight fall; The younger glances have found it first- "Mortally wounded"-look again; Not the brave alone, but the fond and fair He, on the battle-field far away; The wife and mother who never more The grass will grow where the warrior fell, But the smiling summers, that come and go, The bleeding bosoms which felt to-day "Mortally wounded!"-oh, dread war! Save those who hear your terrible voice If we give proud names and echoing hymns, To the gallant spirits who suffer and fall Let us yield a tenderer tribute still- To the uncrowned martyrs who silently sink, [From the Little Pilgrim.] The Seven Children. In the gray light of dawn a good man and his wife arose from their bed, and thanked the Lord for the rest which he had given them. Soon the flush of morning strayed into the room where seven little children lay sleeping in their beds. The mother looked at them and said "There are seven of them! hard for us to feed them!" Rules for Home Education. The following are worthy of being printed in letters of gold, and being placed in a conspicuous position in every household: 1. From your children's earliest infancy, inculcate the necessity of instant obedience. 2. Unite firmness with gentleness. Let your actly what you say. children always understand that you mean ex 3. Never promise anything unless you are sure you can give them what you promise. 4. If you tell a child to do anything, show Ah, it will be him how to do it, and see that it is done. She sighed; for 5. Always punish your children for wilfully disobeying you, but never punish in anger. she was thinking of the famine which was in 6. Never let them perceive that they can vex the land. But the father replied with a smile-you, or make you lose your self-command. "See how sweetly they all sleep-what rosy cheeks they have! and this morning's light makes them more beautiful than seven blooming roses. Surely, He who creates the glory of the morning and gives us sleep, must be faithful and unchanging." As the parents left the room, they saw standing in a room, by the door, fourteen little shoes, growing smaller and smaller, to the end of the row, two shoes for each child. When the mother saw how many there were, she wept. the father said But "Mother, why do you weep? All seven of them have round lovely little feet; why need we distress ourselves about a covering for them? Our children confide in us, and shall we not trust in Him, 'who is able to give unto us exceeding abundantly, above all that are able or think?' Behold now comes the glorious light of His sun. Let us cheerfully go to our labors." God blessed their work, and they had enough food for their children; for faith lightened their hearts, and love strengthened their hands for toil. CHARACTER IS POWER.-It is often said that knowledge is power, and this is true. Skill or faculty of any kind, carries with it superiority. So to a certain extent, wealth is power, and rank is power, and genius has a transcendent gift of mastery over men. But higher, purer, and better than all, more consistent in its influence and more lasting in its sway, is the power of character; that power which emanates from a pure and lofty mind.-Emerson. per, wait till they are calm, and then gently 7. If they give way to petulence and temreason with them on the impropriety of their conduct. 8. Remember that a little present punishment, when the occasion arises, is much more effectual than the threatening of a greater punishment should the fault be renewed. 9. Never give your children anything because they cry for it. 10. On no account allow them to do at one time what you would have at another time, under the same circumstances, forbidden. 11. Teach them that the only sure and easy way to appear good, is to be good. 12. Accustom them to make their little recitals the perfect truth. 13. Never allow tale-bearing. 14. Teach them that self-denial, not self-indulgence, is the appointed and sure method of securing happiness. Easy Mothers. We wish it were possible to persuade some otherwise excellent mothers how much trouble they would save themselves by exercising a little firmness towards their young children.Of course it takes more time to contest a point with a child than to yield it; and a busy but for thousands of future times, and to rid mother, not reflecting that this is not for once, herself of importunity, says wearily, "Yes, yes, you may do it," when all the time she knows it to be wrong, and most injurious to the child. Then there comes a time when she must say "No!" and the difficulty of enforcing it at so late a period of indulgence, none can tell but "easy" mothers of self-willed children. For your own sakes, then mothers if you have not the future good of your children at heart-for your own sakes, and to save yourselves great trouble, in the future learn to say "No," and take time to enforce it. Let every thing else go, if necessary, because this contest must be fought out successfully with every separate child; and once fought, it is done with forever. When we see mothers, day by day, worried, harrassed, worn out by ceaseless teasings and importunities, all for the want of a little firmness at the outset we know not whether to be more angry or sorry. At any rate we have no patience to stay by and witness such sad mismanagement.-Maternal Counsels. The Soul Made Visible. Every one knows that in every human face there is an impalpable, immaterial something, which we call expression, which seems to be, as it were, "the soul made visible." Where minds live in the region of pure thoughts and happy emotions, the felicities and sanctities of the inner temple shine out through the mortal tenement, and play over it like lambent flame. The incense makes the whole altar sweet; and we can understand what the poet means when he says that "Beauty born of murmuring sound On the other hand, no man can live a gormandizing, sordid, or licentious life, and still wear a countenance hallowed and sanctified with a halo of peace and joy. Around such great manufacturing towns as Birmingham, in England, or Pittsburg in this country, where bituminous coal is used, you will find the roses in the flower-bed, and the strawberries and grapes on the vines, blackened and defiled by a foul deposit from a thousand chimneys. Thus do obscene, profane, and irreverent men, scatter their grime and stench upon the innocence and beauty around them, but most deeply and foully upon themselves.-Horace Mann. -George the First, on a visit to Hanover, stopped at a village in Holland, and while the horses were getting ready, he asked for two or three eggs, which were brought him, and charged two hundred florins. "How is this?" said his majesty, "eggs must be very scarce in this place.' "Pardon me," said the host; "eggs are plenty enough; but kings are scarce.' The king smiled, and ordered the money to be paid him." always commence; people that do accomplish People that never accomplish any thing something always begin. People that cannot bed. People that are seeming Christians always sleep always retire; people that can sleep go to attend divine service; people that are Christians that the head is too often schooled at the exat heart go to church; and so forth, showing pense of the heart, and that wordy people are not an acting people. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. MR. EDITOR:-Seeing an invitation in the last number of the FARMER for housekeepers to write for your excellent paper, I thought I would scribble a few lines; not so much because I have anything of interest to communicate, as for an example to others who may have, and from whom I should be happy to wondered why the FARMER did not contain hear through your columns. I have often more matter in the housekeeper's line, but presume it is because housekeepers are so burdened with their household duties that few, even though they possess the talent for writing well, feel any inclination to do so. It appears to me the men have a great advantage over us poor women in the numerous machines that are patented every year for their benefit. They can scarcely cut a pail of vegetables or sow a row of garden seeds without some machine to facilitate the process, and there is something new in that line adver tised in almost every newspaper. Now that is all very well, as far as it goes, but why not pay a little more attention to the necessities of the housekeeper. I know there has been a great deal done for them already; still it appears to me there might be very much more done if their wants were more fully understood. A large majority of the farmers in this vicinity, and I presume throughout the State, own from forty acres of land to a hundred or two. Some of these owe a few hundred dollars and are working hard to get out of debt; while others are saving all they possibly can for the purpose of building themselves comfortable dwellings, convenient barns or sheds and fences, or for planting orchards. And farmer's wives, as a general rule, are no shirks, but bear their share of the burden without complaint. Indeed, I think if they would complain a little more it would be better for them. So I am going to commence. Who will follow suit? Sewing and knitting machines are so dear they are beyond the reach of those who stand in the greatest need of them. Marvelous washing-machines and churns I have often read about, but have never yet seen one that saved much labor. I do not know who is to blame for this state of things, but am inclined to think the women themselves are mostly so. The fact is, a woman with a family of small children to take care of, two or three men to work for, washing, ironing, making, mending, cooking, dusting and scouring for the whole of them, without any assistance, has no strength of mind, nor any heart for anything more; and the ladies-they could not for a moment think of putting their delicate fingers into the dish pan, much less turn their delicate minds towards making a machine for washing dishes. Oh, horrible! better spend the whole of their precious lives in working worsted, cats and dogs, beautifully! So it goes on in the old way, for there are but few men who understand enough about the mysteries of housekeeping to assist us much, if they were ever so much inclined. I recollect of reading somewhere, I think in a letter in the FARMER, not many months ago, that women, as a general rule, were opposed to the use of machines, and would stick to the old beaten path, doing their work as their mother's had done theirs before. Now I think this is much like the good housewife we have all heard about, who would not have a carpet on her floor; they were such nasty things! and I presume the women who would not welcome any means of doing their work quicker, easier, and at the same time as well, as by the old method, to be just about as scarce as this kind of housekeepers. Give us a few good machines, so cheap our husbands can afford to buy them for us, and see if we won't use The way Eggs will Keep. EDITOR WIS. FARMER :-On reading the note of Mrs. R. Gibson, in the last FARMER, on the subject of how to keep eggs, I was not at all surprised at the result of her experiment.— Lye from ashes will penetrate the shell of an egg, and readily decomposes its constituent parts. The shell being porous, submits promptly to the searching power of this fixed alkali, and, as an inevitable consequence, the egg is spoiled. -- From an experience of over forty years, I can safely recommend the following method :— 1st. Be sure and select sound eggs. 2d. Take of dry salt, and place a layer of it in the bottom of the vessel; then put the eggs in, points down; then another layer of salt and eggs, as before, and so on till your vessel is filled, and I will warrant the eggs to keep from October till warm weather, if put into a cool, but dry place. Truly yours, Mrs. R. W. LANSING. BLOOMING GROVE, Dane Co., March, 1862. RYE COFFEE. To prepare rye for coffee, pour on scalding water and let steep half a day on the stove; spread out and dry; parch to a light brown; settle with an egg. A very palatable drink. So says a lady friend of the "Farmer." BROWN BREAD.-One quart rye meal, two quarts Indian meal, two tablespoonsful of molasses; mix thoroughly with sweet milk; let it stand one hour, then bake in a slow oven. RECEIPT FOR AN EXCELLENT JONNY-CAKE.Two cups of Indian meal; one of wheat flour; one helf cup butter; one half cup sugar; two and a half cups good butter milk; from one to two teaspoons salaratus; one teaspoon salt; three eggs. Mix the meal flour. salt and saleratus well; beat the eggs and sugar thoroughly; add them to milk and butter, then stir in the meal and flour-bake in a quick oven. LOWVILLE, Wis. MRS. M. A. CHEAP RECIPE FOR GOOD BLACK INK.-Take 2 oz. extract logwood, oz. bi-chromate of potash, and oz. prussiate of potash; add to one gallon of boiling rain water. Shake up and let stand awhile before using. Cost about ten cents. YOUTH'S CORNER. Geology. Perhaps some of the young readers of the Corner will not quite understand the meaning of the word "Geology." I will try to explain it. Geology, like Geography, is a description of the earth. Geography describes the surface or outside of the earth, giving a description of the appearance and position of mountains, plains, rivers, and of different countries, just as you would describe a picture. But Geology describes the inside or solid portion, just as you describe the contents of a box full of minerals, such as iron, stones, &c. A peep behind the curtain. "Now Uncle," said the children, "please to show us the curious things which you said were behind this CALVES' FEET BLANC MANGE.-Boil four feet curtain." So I drew aside the curtain which in five quarts of water, without any salt. When hung before some shelves containing Geological the liquor is reduced to one quart, strain it, and mix with one quart of milk, and add sev- (Ge-o-log-i-cal) specimens, when they exclaimeral sticks of cinnamon or vanilla bean. Boiled: "O! O! what a lot of curious things," the whole ten minutes and sweeten it to the taste with white sugar; strain it, and fill your and fairly overwhelmed me with questions, in molds with it. their eagerness to know all about them. But I told them that "one thing at a time, is both reason and rhyme." Here is a piece of petrified moss or stone moss, that is, moss turned to stone. The moss grew in the edge of the water of a spring. The water had lime in it, and the lime was deposited among the moss, particle by particle, till the moss became hard like a stone; the moss keeping its natural shape. MOTHS IN CARPETS.-Camphor, two ounces, well cut, to a quart of whisky-a hot flat iron to pass over a piece of muslin with this solution and thin enough to allow the steam produced by the hot iron to penetrate through the carpet. Carpets that are taken up entirely spring and fall, are more free from the work of this insect; but this remedy is practical in all cases-perhaps more particularly where a velvet tapestry carpet is put down by a patent machine, and is so heavy as cannot be easily taken up. This hot flat-iron should be applied wherever there is evidence of the worm eating. GREASE SPOTS. The following is from the "Agriculturist": Many of these eyesores may be removed for a sixpence invested in French Chalk. Susanne, of Brooklyn, gives as an example, that her four-year-old carried a nice edition of Cowper into the kitchen and dabbed it into the butter plate. She scraped some of the French Chalk over the spots of grease, and in an hour afterward brushed off the powder, and put on a fresh dose, leaving it three or four hours, when Cowper was himself again. "The same application operates equally well upon greased clothing, though, sometimes, two or three applications may be needed. The French Chalk (clay) can be obtained at any drug store." There is another piece of stone moss that is colored red by iron that was in the water with the lime. There are five pieces each one of a different kind of moss, and from five different places. Sometimes these deposits of lime, form a rock, a great many feet thick. This kind of rock is sometimes called Trav-er-tein, that is, lime stone deposited from the water of springs. But it is generally called Cal-ca-re-ous Tu-fa. Calcareous means anything formed of lime or containing lime, and Tufa is a soft porous stone, that is, soft stone full of holes. Calcareous Tufa, then, is a soft porous limestone deposited from the water of springs which has a solution of lime in it. UNCLE WILLIAM. |