Sow Well and Reap Well.

The following is from the American Quarterly Journal of Ag riculture and Science, edited by Dr. E. Emmons and A. Osborn, Esq.

Mr. Goodrich, the author of the work entitled Sow Well and Reap Well, is known wherever the young are permitted and encouraged to read; he has scattered precious seed over the hills of New England, and upon the prairies of the west and south of our great country; and even on the shores of Europe it has fallen, and in his own day he has gathered the mature and rip. ened fruit. The special object of the author of this work is to enforce the doctrine, that none need expect to reap a better fruit than he has sown. The doctrine is based upon a natural law, and is illustrated and enforced by the common results and expe⚫ rience of every day.

It is by such books as this circulating throughout our country, that we hope to see the true ends and aims of life distinctly com. prehended, and as positively acted upon. And at such times as these upon which we have fallen, do we need checks to certain evils which are growing up in the literary and political worlds.

This work is intended to illustrate "Fireside Education," and every page is replete with original thought and valuable counsel. This is the third edition, and is published by E. H. Pease, Book. seller, State street. We cordially recommend it to all, as a book to be read with profit.-Albany Citizen.

I have read with great pleasure, Fireside Education, and believe it is not only much needed, but well calculated to advance the noblest work of man, the tuition of the heart.-Hon. D. P. King, of the Mass. Senate.

The exceeding great popularity of Mr. Goodrich's writings will secure to this work a favorable reception, and indeed it deserves such a reception.-Annals of Education.

This work may be read with a vast deal more profit and pleasure than can be obtained from most books on education. The principles of morality and intellectual culture are treated in a style at once simple and familiar.—New England Papers.

A noble work-the author speaks to men, to Americans, and Christians, in a dignified and powerful manner, and it deserves the earnest consideration of all.-N. Y. Evangelist.

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Chaste and energetic in style, and every page imparting a sound and rational philosophy.-Troy paper.

Mr. Goodrich is a great benefactor of the human race. He has long beon devoted to the benevolent object of establishing a proper system of education.-New York Paper.

It is written in a style of elegant simplicity, and the subjects discussed are rendered as brilliant as noonday.

Fireside Education is one of the best books ever published on this subject.

Simple, concise, and like every thing from the pen of Peter Parley, exceedingly instructive.-Philadelphia Papers.

Perhaps no volume ever issued from the American press of greater practical utility than Fireside Education.-Baltimore Papers.

It mainly teaches, in a most beautiful style, and with pertinent and interesting illustrations, those truths concerning the forma. tion of character by domestic influences which have been well established by the common sense and experience of mankind.— New-York Observer.

CATECHISM OF

AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY

AND GEOLOGY:

By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, M. A., F. R. SS. L. & E. with an Introduction by JOHN PITKIN NORTON, of Farmington, Connecticut.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

From HON. SAMUEL YOUNG, Secretary of State, and Superintendent of Common Schools of the State of New York:

I have carefully examined the Catechism of Professor Johnston, on Agriculture. It is the only scientific work on that subject I have ever seen, which by its shortness and simplicity is adapted to the capacity of children; and which, on being illus trated by cheap and simple experiments, as he recommends, cannot fail to make a lasting impression on the juvenile mind.

It gives the analysis of different plants, of animals and of soils, exhibiting the organic and inorganic substances of which they are composed, and teaching the important truths that vegetables derive a part of their nourishment from the air, and the remainder from the earth; that different vegetables require dif ferent kinds of food, and in variable quantities; that the soil may be destitute of nutrition for one kind of plant, and not for another; and the means are explained of supplying to an exhausted or meagre soil its deficiencies. It also gives the rationale of the dairy and the fattening of animals.

This little work is the basis of both agricultural art and science. A knowledge of its principles is within the comprehension of every child of twelve years old; and if its truths were impressed on the minds of the young, a foundation would be laid for a vast improvement in that most important occupation which feeds and clothes the human race. Instead of conjecture, and hazard, and doubt and experiment, as heretofore, a knowledge of the composition of soils, the food of plants, and the processes

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of nature in the culture and growth of crops, would elevate agriculture to a conspicuous rank among the exact sciences.

I hope that parents will be willing to introduce this brief Catechism into the Common Schools of this State.

Albany, 24th January, 1845.

S. YOUNG.

YALE COLLEGE Laboratory,

New Haven, Conn., 20th January, 1845.}

I have read with great pleasure and profit the condensed little Agricultural Catechism of Prof. James F. W. Johnston of Scotland. Like every production of his pen, it is characterized by a sound, practical good sense, which adds double value to his scientific labors, rendering them available to the very class for whom they are more especially designed-practical farmers.

I learned with pleasure from Prof. Johnston, that Mr. John P. Norton was about to edit, with an introduction, his Agricul tural Catechism. This American edition should be in every village school in the land, as being within the comprehension of all intelligent children; and it cannot indeed be too highly recommended to the attention of all classes of teachers, as the best synopsis yet made of the valuable facts and principles which have been established in the important science of agriculture. B. SILLIMAN, Jr.

I consider J. F. W. Johnston's Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, to be extremely well adapted to the use of schools, and that it ought to be introduced as a text-book into all our rural districts where farming is the principal employment of the population. The time has come when agriculture is to be taught as a science as well as cultivated as an art, and a little book like this sheds more light on the nature of soils, the elementary principles of plants, and the food necessary for their growth and maturity, in a small compass, than any other publi. cation I have ever seen. The youthful mind can easily be made to comprehend the principles it teaches, and we are wanting to our own and the great interests of our country, if at this time we do not do all in our power to create a taste and diffuse a know. ledge of so important a pursuit.

J. P. BEEKMAN,
Late President of N. Y. S. A. Society.

Kinderhook, Jan. 22, 1845.

Having examined Professor Johnston's Catechism on Agricul. tural Chemistry and Geology. I most cordially unite in the recommendation of the work. Its introduction into our Common Schools, will form a new era in the education of our children. The time has arrived in which every proper effort should be

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made to give such an education to the rising generation as will prepare them rightly to appreciate, as well as successfully to follow, the pursuits of Agriculture, for which most of them are designed. It will give me great pleasure to do all in my power to disseminate this little work, which I doubt not will produce the most happy effects throughout our country.

Rome, January 23d, 1845.

BENJ. P. JOHNSON, President N. Y. State Ag. Society.

From the Am. Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and Science. The reputation of this work is so well established, that it is hardly necessary at this late day to recommend it. It is certainly as useful to a large class of farmers as to the pupils in schools. It is plain, simple, and contains all the elements of agricultural chemistry; and as much of chemistry as this work contains, must be in his possession, if he would read the ordinary agricultural journals of the day.

Young men may take it into the field in their pockets, for instruction, while their teams are resting in the furrow.