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NEW ENGLAND PARMER. 



[August 19, 



niiscEi.i.A2ni;s. 



Frotn Ihi IVestern Sun. 



CONNECTICUT. 



What laud is that so nicely bound 

 By Massachusetts and the Sound, 

 Rhode-Island and New- York around ; 

 Where Yankees thick as hops are found ; 

 And hasty-puddings do abound? 



Connecticut. 



What land is that, -when George the Kin", 



Did o'er the sea his fetters flin", 



And think to link us in their ring-, 



Which gave the cry, " there's no such thing,'' 



Whose sons did Yankee Doodle sing ? 



Connecticut. 

 What land is Ihat, where folks arc said 

 To be so scrupulously bred. 

 To be so steady habited ; 

 ^Vhcre hearty girls and boys are fed, 

 With pumpkin pies and gingerbread ? 



Connecticut. 

 What land is that, where old time walks 

 In steady space o'er maple blocks ; 

 Forsakes his glass for wooden clocks ; 

 Where heads too high will meet with knocks ; 

 And land were more if fewer rocks ? 



Cnnneclicut. 

 What land is that, where onions grow ; 

 W'here maiden's necks are white as snow. 

 And cheeks like roses red you know ; 

 Where jonny-cakes are bak'd from dough. 

 That land where milk and honey flow? 



Connecticut. 

 What land is that, whence pedlars come 

 A thousand miles or more from home. 

 With tin, wilh bass-wood trencheis ;' some 

 . Wilh patent nutmegs and new rum ; 

 To gather up the coppers !— hum 1 



Connecticut. 

 What land is that, where parsons live 

 Where men htar Gospel and belinve ;' 

 W'here humble sinners seek reprieve ;' 

 Where women stay at home and wea've 

 Nor gad without their husband's leave ? ' 



Connecticut. 

 What land is that, where I can trace 

 My ninetei iilh cousin ly his face ; ' 

 Where once 1 fish'd for little dace', 

 And never l.arned the deuce from ace ; 

 V\ here grand mother this night say? grace ? 



Connecticut. 

 What land is that, when we behold, 

 And all its history unfold, 

 And all about the la.,d i< told, 

 We like mo.H things hot some we scold » 

 Ah ! gentle ri ader, that is old 



Connecticut. 



DROUGHT. 

 As a country becmo^rleare.) of i(. timber, it 

 becomes more liable to drou-ht- an.lihe«e will 

 be more or less severe accord,,,- to climate. 

 That ,vh,ch ;s nal„r:,lly cool an.t moist, such .« 

 that o Great Hril.i,. aud l,elaml, «ill seldom ifi 

 ever, be allecle.l Uy too much d..y nealht-r ; while i 

 that in which the summers are hotter, anj n( I 

 course the atmosphere dri.r. will often suffer | 

 much o„ this sccouul. In most ,,„rls of Sp,„nJ 

 the he dsare pirche.l „p hv the mnldle of sum^' 

 mer; but helore this the crops are all harvest- 

 ed. In tlus co,.nlrv, dro,iohts are never so se- 

 vere, nor so imiversal; jpipartial ones «re of- 

 en experienced, much earhor. a.,d Iout before 

 the crops have c,.n>,. „ matority. This .s an 

 «M ; atui ail ,|,e (.rmer can ,lo, ,s to make the 

 best {possible provision against it. 



Generally speakinor, nothing is belter calcula- 

 ted to ward off the effects of droughts, than good 

 cultivation, by ploughing sufficiently deep, and 

 effectually, and manuring well. Ground that is 

 well mellowed, to a proper depth, will stand a 

 drought much better, than that which is plough- 

 ed shallow and left in clods-, and that which is 

 well manured will retain more moisture than 

 that which is poor. Again groum! which is thus 

 well prepared, nti,! manured, shoots forth its 

 crop so rapidly, that the ground is soon covered 

 and shaded from the sun ; and. for this reason, 

 retains its moisture longer. The same may be 

 observed of mowing-lands. 



Gypsum is also an antidote to drnughls; and 

 fortunately, it suits the soils best which are most 

 affected in this way. 



Another way to avoid the effects of droughts 

 is, to cultivate swamp-la.ds more extensively, 

 in raising such product, oi,s a« aie mo<t liable to 

 receive injury in this way. Such l.mds.when well 

 dr.imed, and duly mixed with proper earths, or 

 other manure', may undoubtedly be rpiidered 

 escellent for almost everv s,unmer crop which 

 IS liable to be injured by too much dry weather 

 Wet lands als,i, which have been hollow-drain- 

 ed, will stand a drought much better than in 

 their original wet stale. 



^M^r"f r''"^'^ <eraeri7i/ of a Bear.— The St. John 

 (W^ L.) Courier of July 23d, says~On the night 

 ol Monday 4th inst. Mr. Ludlow, being in Mira- 

 m:chi his wile (who was left ainne) went to a 

 neig,,bour's to slay all night. A Bear broke 

 open a window in his house, entered it, destroy- 

 ed about half a barrel of pork, did some other 

 damage, and went out the same way he came in. 

 Mrs. l-oster being afraid to stav'in the house 

 next night, put the remainder of the barrel of 

 J)ork in the cellar, an,l again went from home. 

 Un 1 luisday nigl.t he entered by another win- 

 dow, broke the window to pieces; entered the 

 room, and broke a small chest in pieces; he al- 

 so attempted to open a large chest, which he 

 knocked about and turned upside down in the 

 tmddle ol the Hoor alter taking larije pieces out 

 ol. It with his teeth; be also strewed a iurge 

 basket of wearino- apparel over the room leaV 

 :ng nothing untouched except the bed and cur- 

 "•I'us (which stood In the r .m.) — He then pro- 

 ceeded to pay a visit to Mr. Wurphy, who lived 

 about 30 rods below— broke into iiis milk house, 

 (which stood about 3 rods from the dwellin? 

 house) by ripping up the shingles, eat several 

 pieces ol sa,, beef, when finding them rather 

 eaii he macb' use of a jar of butter that stood 

 handy 10 ,„lton ihem ; drank 3 pans of milk to 

 quench his ti.ir«t, and then look his depart-ire, 

 idler rolling himself u, thegra.ssa lew feet from 

 llie d,velli„;j hoiis... Mr Murphy prepared to 

 welcome his new guest ||,e next evening, bv sel- 

 ling a gun in the milk house, p.-lnling to the 

 iTi-ach he had made the ni>!rht before. He re- 

 lumed about sun set and rrceivH.) (he full con- 

 tents nt n musket in hia b-ind, the j.isl reward of 

 his temerity. He was a remarkably large bear, 

 aud very fat. 



A woman of indifferent obar.ncter, being late- 

 ly examined by a certain 15arri«ter with lus usu- 

 al boldness, she ob-^erved, " Impudence which 

 has been the tnakii,^ of you, has caused my 

 rutn. 



CHILDREN'S FOOD. 



A lady of Yorkshire observes in a letter dat- 

 ed May 2d, that in consequence of her losing her 

 tirst three children, one during teething" and 

 two of inflammation in the bowels, she <^ave her 

 fourth child a little lime water in every article 

 of food, adding a dessert, and sometimes only a 

 lea spoonful of lime water to every article, 

 whether liquid or thick. It succeeded in keep- 

 ing up healthy digestion, and a regular stale of 

 the bowels; the child instead of being feverish, 

 flatulent, and fretful, as her preceding children 

 had been, continued cool and cheerlul, free from 

 any symptom of indigestion, and c;it its teeth 

 without any constitutional disturbance. She has 

 continued this practice with two more chililren, 

 wilh the same good effects. We have known 

 this simple addition to the food of children, prove 

 very efficacious in incipient cases of rickets ami 

 of irritable bowels, attended with looseness, &c. • 

 but if the child be dis()0sed to rostivem-ss on 

 account of its a=Mingent quality, a little mnsrne- 

 sia should be occasionally added to it.— Gc/ccMe 

 of Hcahh. 



MARCH OF INTELLECT WITH POWER. 



It is no fairy tale, that Hour inanvficturcd on 

 Luke Erie, has been protitaldy sold in Newbern, 

 Aorr/i Carolinii, for p.b') per barrel. This flour 

 was transported from the lake to Albanv. through 

 the Grand Canal, thence down the North Kiv'er 

 to New York ; and thence, by sea, to Newbern. 

 The cost of transportation from the lakes to 

 Newbern, was less than p 50 per barrel, while 

 Ihat between Raleigh and Newbern, (not more 

 than 120 miles,) is generally two dollars. 



SWEDEN. 

 The cultivation of flax has so increased in .Swe- 

 den, that in many principal markets of the in- 

 terior, not a pound of R.issian flax can now be 

 sold. It is added, that most kinds of Russian flax 

 arc inferior iu strengib and fineness to the flax 

 of Uelsingeland, and slill more to that of Anger- 

 nianbind. where hnen is manut'aclured in o-reat 

 quantities, which is equal if not superior, to that 

 oi' Holland. 



A deserter being conducted to his comrades who 

 I had volunlered for Spain, >aid that he c.ime by 

 \jiirced marches to assist in the glorious struggle. 



|^1UK .-Ai.l , a viiy nne j\ ilch Cow, not five years 

 «_ old, that lias ?ivtn the present season on grass 

 bed alone, ejg/i/iej! quarts of milk a day. ^he is a 

 fine looking anir.ial, in pert, ct health, and U not offer- 

 ed for sale lor any fault. Inquire at this office. 



jM IMMSO.N.- ,t to. ( ily luruilure wanhonse, 

 LJ. Union Strcft. near the Union Stone, krrp con- 

 stantly on hand for sale, a general assortment ol furni- 

 ture, »hairs, looking glasses, fiathers o, all kinds, fire 

 sets, brush. s. bellows, kc. &c. 



F> KCKIVIvD by the I opaz. ai.d foi sab at the W- 

 h, rieultur.^1 ^,slabli^bn.ent, lOii 5-tate .'^treet, one 

 o' the London Company's I'ortal le Corn Mills, well 

 calculated f^rir the use of the practical farmers, for the 

 present dry season. July og. 



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