Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1874 — Fanning for Boys. [ARTICLE]

Fanning for Boys.

It is all very well for young boys to go to school to get an education, and to Sunday school and other good places to have a good moral and intellectual foundation laid. No one can well dispense with these agencies in laying the foundation in a Child of a good, substantial, useftil character. It is not necessary to say anything about this in these days. The idea is very well appreciated. But it does not seem so well understood that habits of industry, early established, are among the very best elements in finishing up a young boy. At any rate it is quite common to see the intellectual and the moral very well cared for, while the industrial is generally utterly neglected. ~ We do not know on a farm that any better thing could be inaugurated to help the boys along in this respect* than the keeping of rabbits. It was the first, or nearly the first, lesson in farmingof a practical character which the writer received, and it

was given him at eight years old. It was an absolute necessity that they should be fed three times a day, and this daily work to be done, and which could not be avoided, was a capital drilling in that round of duties which ends in'making a ! good soldier for the great battle of life." 1 We have known seme who have en- i courageti the children to go into these ; rabbit enterprises. Ms who Sad not nerve 1 { enough to urge them so a perseverance in ftheir daily dusks, and the 'result was that, ■ as the season progressed, the rabbit? were suffered to nm at large, so that her could. geTlheir own food and take c.ere of them-1 i selves. This, however, should never be ■ permitted. It is no worse to keep a child > : up to a task in industry than in any other i I good work; and after once getting him in j the run there is no difficulty after. A good, roomy box should be provided for them, and they should be tinned in various places, or the rabbits will invariably gnaw their way out. The bars in front should be of wire, and rather close together in order to keep out rats. A little yard is a very good thing, if the bottomxan.be so-ffoored as to prevent them from burrowing to get out. It should always be made a Saturday’s job to clean out the boxes. For boys it is not only an excellent industrial exercise, but rabbit-keeping, when well done, is a source of income by no means to be despised. From our early experience we can tell the boys positively that there is money in it. There were about six litters a year from the old one, and, after deaths and accidents deducted, there were about two dozen grew up, on which the money was made. Generally some one was found to buy the young at six weeks old; but, if not, the provision stores took them all at six months. And all this for only the daily toil of gathering clover or cabbage leaves in the summer, or turnips or other similar material in winter. Besides the rabbit business, there are many little things which the young can thus be set to do, both in. the garden and the farm. It matters not what, so that it is something they must do every day, and something which will bring them in some money reward for the work they do.— Forney's Weekly Press. New Bedford, which ranks No. 1 on fish stories, reports that Mr. Seth Thomas caught a codfish measuring five feet in length and two feet iu circumference, and weighing fifty pounds. In the stomach of the fish were found eleven herring, four flatfish and two crabs. This is a clear case of inflation, either in the fish or the story. Don’t Tamper with a Cold. —Perhaps in the whole category of diseases to which humanity is susceptible, the cough is most neglected in its early stage. 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