TENTH THOUSAND.

THE

FARMER'S EVERY-DAY BOOK;

OR,

SKETCHES OF SOCIAL LIFE IN THE COUNTRY:

WITH THE

POPULAR ELEMENTS

OF

PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL AGRICULTURE,

AND

TWELVE HUNDRED LACONICS AND APOTHEGMS RELATING TO
ETHICS, RELIGION, AND GENERAL LITERATURE;

ALSO,

FIVE HUNDRED RECEIPTS

ON

HYGEIAN, DOMESTIC, AND RURAL ECONOMY.

"Would you be strong? Go follow up the plough;
Would you be thoughtful? Study fields and flowers;
Would you be wise? Take on yourself a vow
To go to school in Nature's sunny bowers.
Fly from the city; nothing there can charm-
Seek wisdom, strength, and virtue on a farm."

BY THE REV. JOHN L. BLAKE, D.D.

AUTHOR OF A FAMILY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENERAL LITERATURE
AND A GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

AUBURN:

DERBY AND MILLER.

BUFFALO:

DERBY, ORTON AND MULLIGAN.

1853.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by

JOHN L. BLAKE, D.D.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.

J. P. JONES, & CO, STEREOTYPERS,

183, William Street, N. Y.