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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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resulls. It ought ever to bp rcnicmbf^rod lli:it nnniber, it is inqnirfil on \v!ia! ground Ibry ro- 

 an effect is only 'hf> result ofan iii.lecedent ffiMie,' ceiveH their licences? 



and that certain causes nill jirodiicc certain cf-\ Do selectmen gnflicieiilly confi<ler their les- 

 fecis. Han evil exist and ihe cause con be clear- , ponsibilitv to the public ivhen they make their 

 ly asceriained, it xery naturally folbms that by return to the court oC session", '• that to their 

 removing the cavsc the cff'^ct would cease; and | best knowledge and belief' every person whose 

 Ihnt poverty is an evil, and generally the ofl- name they return has n^aintained good rule and 



spring of causes that can be readily traced, is 

 thonght to be a position so plain as to require 

 no proof. !t is a maxim with i)hysicians, tliat 

 preventives are better than restoratives, and 

 surely if a pre\entive can be use<l to advantage, 



order in their respective houses ami slmjip, and 

 has conformed to the rules and rrgulaliuns re- 

 sprcting licensed persons ?" 



From the Pliilai'lnhia Democratic Press. 



POTATOES. 

 It is somelimn since we have called the at- 

 tention of our country friends to the cultivation 

 ol'lhis most valuable of all v egplables.— Last 

 year ue had great alnindajico of potatoes. The 

 consequence was, t!ia: they foil in price ; — then 

 wenere stunned with com[diiin!s ve.".ally, and 

 by letter, on account ol' the reduction in price. 



Do selectmen " lake due care that lylhing- j Tiiese complaints slopped our pen and we are 

 men are annually chosen and sworn in jheir res- 1 sorry for it. After diligent enquiry we arc sat- 

 and with success, to ward oil a disease with'peclive towns? and do tythingnicn laithfuily ' isliod that last year, as well as every year, fyr 

 whicli we may be (hrealened,no good reason can ' perform their duly ? i the last five and twcniy years, Potatoes paid the 



1)6 assigned why »ve shouli) not endeavour to j What would be the effect on the morals of! Hirnier, icf^cr than ;iny oihcr cron he raised. 



ward off other evils, with which we may be as- 1 the public, were congress at Iheir present session j Those who kept their potatoes until the spring, 

 sailed. To be [)oor is certainly a great misfor-|to lay an additional duly on foreign ii'stillcd , oblained high |iriccs and upon tlie wiiole they 



(liril, and also a i\u\y upon distilleries of domes 



H. 



tic sjiirit ? 



tune; and when we become so by casualty, or 

 in other words by the iiand of God, we have a 

 solace in the midst of our affliction, which in 

 Foine degree smooths the asperil} of our condi- 

 tion, and enables us to liear our misfortunes witli 

 fortitude and a becoming resignation. Uui w here 

 is the consolation of those who are conscious 

 that their poverty and wretchedness are the | Paint made -with Potatoes.— TAic one pound 

 direct consequences of their own vice and folly? j of potatoes skinned «m1 well baked: bruise 

 such unquestionably there are who not only find i them in three or four pounds of boiling water, 

 themselves poor and destitute of the necessaries and then pass them through a hair sieve ; to 

 nd comforts of life, but may frequently be seen | this add two pounds of good chalk in line pow- 



SSZ.SCTXONS 



From files of English papers received at the office of Iho 

 New Eueland I'aimer. 



broken down by intemperance and a I)rcy to the 

 most loathsome diseases with which man is af- 

 flicted ; and to heighten their misery, they are 

 frequently seen surrounded by an aircclionate 

 wife and a helpless luogeny, reduced from com- 

 foi table, and often from aflluent ciicumslances 

 to a state of beggaiy and want, all ivhich may 

 lie fiir'y ascribed to I'rcquent and unwarrantable 

 indultcencie.t. 



ler, previously mixed up with (bur pounds of 

 water, and stir the whole together. This mix 

 ture will form a sort of glue, ca[iable of receiv- 

 ing any kind of colour, even that of powdered 

 charcoal, brick or soot, which may be used for 

 painting gales, palings, or other arlirles expos- 

 ed to the air Londmi Farmer's Journal. 



Wash Leather under IVaist-coats. — In several 



jion tiie wiioie they 

 [laid very well. 



This ^ear, our polatoe crop is not an average 

 croji, and the potatoes, generally speaking, are 

 not of a good quality. They now fetch seventy 

 i'lvc cents a bu.-bel in our market, and are but 

 an indifferent potaloe. Ifourfumers had planted 

 a i'ew thousand more bushels of potatoes, wc 

 should have had abundance of them, and they 

 would have rcceivcil mure money than they 

 will now get foi- the productions w hich have been 

 raised in the place of potatoes. Again, if more 

 attention liad been paid to the selection of good 

 seed and the cultivation of the crop, we should 

 not now have our potatoes not only scarce, but 

 indifferent in quality. Potatoes are neglected 

 more thanany other vegetable. Sufficient care 

 is not taken to select good seed, to prepare the 

 ground, and tend them after (hey are planted; 

 and, when the Farmer has done these, not one 

 in twenty of our housewives pay proper atten- 

 tion to the cooking of them, (jnder all these 



dered at ifrat our potatoes are neither good nor 

 plenty. 



For some lime our wharves have presented 

 large quantities of Nova Scotia Potatoes, for 



Of tiie first cla's of paupers described, it is I instances the best effects liave occurred from discouraging circumstances it is not to be won- 



thouglil their numbers are compaiatively ieiv : wearing Wash-leather over flannel, as a pre- 



( f the latter, il is belie icd that in most of our [servalive against the consequences of those ex- 



toivns the number is already very considerable, I posures to which all are more or less liable. 



and if the same cni/s£s shall continue to operate j A waist-coat of this material, will, in many 



in future, that has been permitted to prevail for | cases supersede the necessity of, and prove a sale, this was endurable — but when we see two 



the last ten years, no one can foretell with pre- more effectual barrier against cold than a great ' thousand three hundred and thirty five hamjiers of 



coat ; and often e\en afler the establishment of potatoes advertised as arrived in one vessel, 

 a rheumatism which refuses to give way to the from England, we cannot but complain to our 

 most powerful medicine, clothing the parts with farmers that they are inattentive to their own, 

 leather will almost immediately effect an easy and to their country's interest. They should 

 cure.— /ii'ii. I more carefully and more extensively cultivate 



— \ i'olatocs. 



Cats. — The following cxlraoidmary anecdote' \Ve do not pretend to understand a great deal 

 of the sensibilily of cats to approaching danger, about farming, but we defy liuman ingenuity to 



cision w hat ihe number may be ten years hence. 

 So far as my inquiries have extended, the vice 

 of intemperance has increased in a greater ralio 

 within liie last ten years, than if did at any for- 

 mer (leriod w'ilhin the last half century; if that 

 should generally be I'ound to be the fact, it will 

 ajipear that there is a maniresl jiropriely in call- 

 ing the attention of the [vublic to an o\ 11 of Such 



growing magnitude ; therel'ore the w rilei'^ol' this I from earthquakes is well authenticated. In the; satisfy men of plain, common understandings, 



article resjjecll'ully makes the following inqui 

 lies, (lie (rue answer to wiiich may serve to de- 

 velopo some of the causes of jiatipf rism, and if 

 the cause liecomes clearly understood, il will be 

 the less difiicult to npply n timely and proper 

 remedy. 



How many towns are there in the common- 

 wealth that have no more inuholdrrs and retail- 

 ers of spirituous liquors than the [)ublic good re- 

 quires ? 



Do innholders and retailers strictly and scru- 

 pulously regard the conditions of their respec- 

 tive recognizances ? 



Arc innholders and retailers that are Icnown 

 to violate their recognizances, promptly pros- 

 ecuted for every known offence ? 



Can selectmen sincerely and concicniiously 

 certify that the public good requires as ynuni/ li- 

 censed houses and shops as may at this moment 

 be found in almost every town of this state ; and 

 if the public ^ood does not require the present cats. — Ibid. 



year 1783, two cats, belonging to a merchant ofj that it is right or proper in our farmers, to drive 

 Messina, in Sicily, announced lo him the ap-|usto the necessity of importing potatoes trom 

 proach of an eartliquake. Before the first shock j England. That ive can grow them infinitely 



was felt, these two animals seemed anxiously 

 attempting to work their way through the door 

 of the room in which they were. The master 

 observing their fruitless efforts, opened the door 

 for them. At a second and third door which 

 they likewise found shut, they repeated their 

 efforts, and on being set completely at liberty, 

 they ran straight through the street and out of 



the gate of the town. The merchant whose 

 curiosity was excited by this strange conduct of 

 the cats, followed them into the fields, where 

 he again saw them scratching and burrowing 

 in the earth. Soon alter there was a violent 



clieaper than they can is perfectly clear. The 

 Tythes and Taxes, annually paid by the Eng- 

 lish Farmer is equal to what our farmers pay for 

 the purchase of their land, in Fee simple. In 

 Pennsylvania we pay no tythes or taxes, and we 

 can work our farrasas cheap as English farmers 

 can work Iheirs. Yet for all this the English 

 re able to pack up their potatoes in hampers, 



ship and transport them three thousand miles, 

 pay a duly of 16 per cent to our Government, 

 and (hen sell them as fast as they are landed on 

 our wharves. 



We place the facts before our farmers and 

 sliock of an earthquake, and many of the houses j our-agriciiltural societies, and we beseech them 

 in the city feiidtwn, of which number the mer-lto take such order on them, as their own inter- 

 chant's was one, so (hat he was indebted for I est and that of the country requires. 

 his life to the singular forebodings of the i We cannot prevail upon ourselves to close 



