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NEW ENGLAND FA RITE FJ. 



[March 



^11BCE1.I.A.1HIJ1S. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aphorisms. — Talents and virlne. jfood hen(^s 

 and good hearts, will be genernll\' found to go I 

 together; for an enlarged intellect will he a- 1 

 ware, that, according to the vulgnr adage ofj 

 honesty being the best policy, amiability i? the' 

 surest happiness, since we cannot impart Hilh-i 

 out receiving pleasure. ! 



Many writers have considered crime ?'icli a 

 gross error in calculation as to amount to mad-j 

 ness; certain it is, that lie w^o is the most vir-j 

 tuous, is the best consulter of his own interest:] 

 while he is at the same time affording the finest j 

 evidence of his superior understanding. Nor is I 

 there an;^thing selti*h in this feeling ; •' For true: 

 self love and social are the same,"' and no man! 

 can be accused of egotism, who becomes a bless- j 

 tng to himself by bestowing blessings upon j 

 others. 



Dosvn to the minutest divisions of human oc- 

 cupation, it will be found that the men, whose 

 pursuits bring them in contact with inanimate 

 nature, enjoy their avocations much nioro liian 

 jhose who are conversant with humnnily, and 

 all the modilicalions of (he social and moral sys- 

 tem. Champort observes that the writers on 

 physics, natural liistory, physiology, .nnd chem- 

 istry, have been generally men of a mild, even. 

 and happy temperament ; ivhile on the contrary, 

 the writers on politics, legislation, and even 

 morals, commonly exhibited a melancholy and 

 fretful spirit. Nothing niorc simple ; the form 

 er studied nature, the others sociely One class 

 contemplates the works of the great Being, the 

 other fixes its observation upon the works of 

 :3ian : the results must be different. 



Agriculture, the primitive and natural bu^i- 

 aess of man, is the most healthful, both for body 

 and mind ; it places us as it were, in daily cnn- 

 '.nct with the Deity by our ut;ceasing experi- 

 ence of his superintending love, connects earth 

 with heaven, and brings religitin home to oni 

 business and bosoms. Cincinnatus felt this when 

 he made su(di haste lo beat the Volsoians that 

 ihe might huny back to the plough. 



Gardening which esalls man into a species of 

 creator, is a recreation tVauglit with all soothing 

 iind sweet delight ; and it is pleasing to reflect 

 that some of the most eminent persons of anti- 

 quity are associated with its cultivation, -■^ppi- 

 OS gave his name to a particular apple, Lucul- 

 Jus to a cherry, and .Manlius to a pear. When 

 Dioclesian was pressed to resume the supreme 

 authority, which he had abdicated, he exclaimed 

 — " .'Vh ! if Maximinian could see the cabbiiges 

 which 1 have cultivated in my garden at Salona, 

 he would speak to me no more of empire." 



and the few must give way to the many." Good ! 

 it delights me to hear you say so ; but in this 

 pailicniar instance allow me to think ynu are 

 mistaken. 1 differ tVom a belfry with hesitation. 

 Triple bob-majors, are things before which it 

 becomes a philosophic inqiiirer to be modest. 

 Cut have we not memorandums enough to this 



The National Intelligencer has been recen'." 

 ly enlarged to a most unbounded and gigantic 

 size, and is large enough for a floor carpet, if 

 its tnerils, more ample than the sheet, did not 

 enlille it to a high place in the library of lh» 

 politician. Curiosity induced us to compare the 

 amoiuit of printing on its enormous pages with 



good end? Have we not coughs, cohls, fevers, I the samt^ aggregate when spread over the mod- 



plethoras, deaths of all sorts occurring round us, 

 old faces, church-yards, accidents nitinite, books, 

 muskets, wars, apothecaries, kings? Is not the 

 whole nation swallowed up in grief when a 

 Minister dies? Does not even a royal old lady 



em editions of popular works. Taking the vol- 

 ume of Irving's Tales of a Traveller, with 

 its board margin, its fair blank pages, its huge 

 type, and leaded linea, as the standard of our 

 estimate, we arrived at the following result.: 



die now and then ? Yon remind the sicii I The amount of composition contained in each 

 and the dying too forcibly ; but you are muchi nc.vspaper, is equal to ?a'o hundred and tvcentij- 

 misiaken if you thing the healthy regard your ) o.'it; ul the octavo pages in that book. The price 

 importunity of advice in any other light than of the newspaper is less than four cents; the 

 that of a considerable nuisance. — It would be ' cost of the same amount of printing in the work 

 useful to know how many deaths are hastened i we have mentioned, is one dollar and eiakly-four 

 by a bell; at least, how many recoveries are ! ccHfs ; a compulation showing the reasonable 

 retarded. — There are sensitive persons, not; charge at which the periodical publications o: 

 otherwise in ill health, who find it difficult to' our country are lurnished. — jXatioiwl JEgis. 



to hear the sounds without tears. What must: r^ ni^r^^:: -- - — ■„ ' "" ' «~^-^^^— — 



they fee! on a sick bed ! — jVcij AInnthly Mag. 



AVhcn the l^etition from Yorkshire, in the 

 year 17o2, that Petition wliich so essentially 

 contributed to the termination of the American 

 war, was presented to the English House of 

 Commons by Sir George .Saville ; the patriotic 

 senator, by way of impressing upon the House 

 the iiHignitude of the dcrcumenl, laid the skins 



AMF.S BI.OOUGOOD &: CO. hare for 



sale at their nursery, at Flushing, on 

 Long IslauJ, near New Yorlc, 



KflUIT and FORFST TREES, 

 FLOWERING StIRUBS and PLANTS, 

 of llie most approved sorts. 

 Tfie proprietors of this Nursery attend personalli/ tc 

 the inoculation and engrafting of aH tfiiir Fruit Trees, 



I ~ .1 1 [ I 1.1- ,1 1 ! and purthasers may rely with confidence, that Ihs 



down in tie olitiv, an( InkinsT the engrossed , -r ,i i n 



. -" II ° I I I rces they order will prove genuine, 



sheet in his hand, he_ walked up to the chair, ihe ..^uhscriber, agent of the ahove nursery, will re- 

 dragging the fid'Isofthe Petition after hlin, ! ceive orders for any quantity of trees, plants and shrubs 

 \vben addressing himself to the Speaker, he said, and transmit the same, and the bills ni.iy be paid to 

 •■ Here, sir, is the beginning of the Petition from : I'''" "".">«" delivery of the trees in this city, the freight 



my constituents ; where the end of it is I cannot 

 exactly inform you — probably it may be yet in 

 Yorkshire." 



Puns do not deserve the reproaches heaped 

 upon them; they enliven sociely; and we have 

 heard of hundreds of them in 



Sic. to be paid by the purchaser. 



Catalogues will be delivered gratis, and any inform- 

 ation respecting the condition of the trees, &c. impart- 

 ed on application to hi.Ti. Z. COOK, jr. 



Boston, Feb. 10, 1026. eplOt 44 State street. 



Ct5=CRUI)E ROCK SALT.- 



The Subscriber has 

 large lumps for cat- 



company where ; for sale at No. 69 flroad Street, 

 no pocket was ever picked. In a party chiefly ! 5"'''ons Crude Rock Salt,— in 



of medical gentlemen, discussing Ihe power of. ''^A,"'!'^"'"/.'^f*'P', ,, ,. , ,„ . ,, 

 , , ° II 1 ,. : Ihis article deserves the attention of Fanners, both 

 animals to communicate hydrophobia, it was as- : f„r its economy and utility ; being less than half the 

 serted that the infection had even been commu- expense of the common salt, and less liable to waste, 

 mealed by a duck. Jlany inferences were made ' Feb. 24. 3ia. F. WILBV. 

 Irom tliis fact, till an exlra-prolessional visitor 



observed, that the strongest lesson he could 

 ;lraw from it was to " beware of (Quacks.''' 



he To- 



Soon after Mr Winnington deserted 

 ries, and had made a strong speecli on the other 

 side, Sir John Cotton was abusing him to Sir 

 Kobert Walpole, and said, — " that young dog I cribed in the N. E. Farmer, vol. iv. ppge 235.) 



(f^JUST received, and for sale at the Agricultural 

 Warehouse, 103 State-street — a few improved VEGE- 

 TABLE MILLS. 



Likewise a few of Safford's improved STRAW CUT- 

 TERS, with a great variety of Willis', Eastman's, and 

 others. 



A few of Mr Pomeroy's SPRING STAPLES, (dcs- 



Tolling of Bells. — There are dying as well as 

 dead people in the world, and sick people who j 

 will die if they are not encouraged. What must 

 be the effect of this mortal note unceasingly 

 reiterated in their ears ? Who would set a whin- 

 ing fellow at a sick man's door, to repeat to him 

 fd! day long, "Your neighbour's dead--your 

 neighbour's dead?" But you say, "(t is to re- 

 mind the hearty, and not the sick, that vre sound, 



promised he would always stand by us." Sir 

 liobcrt replied, " 1 advise my young men never 

 to use alii;ays.''' '"Yet," said Cotton, stammer- 

 ing, "you yourself are very apt to make use of 

 atl-ztjays.''' — Walpole's Secret Memoirs. 



If is s.iid that alter ihe loss of the battle of 

 Lalfolt, an English captive telling a French offi- 

 cer that they had been very near taking the 

 Duke prisoner, the Frenchman replied, " We 

 look care ol' that ; he docs us more service at 

 llif head of your army." — Ibid. 



About 2000 setts of Willii' Patent BLLND SPRLXGS 

 of various sizes, calculated to suit every description of 

 Blinds, with hinges to fit. Feb. 10. 



j):5=FI{t:SH SEEDS.— For sale at this Ofiice, Man- 

 gel Wurtzel and Sugar Beet seeds, raised this season, 

 by John Prince, Esq. Roxhury. Also a few bushels of 

 genuine Orchard Grass seed, likewise raised by Mr. 

 I'rince. Jan. 27. 



Farmers will do well to supply themselves soon. 



tyCj" Published every Friday, at Three I^om.ars, 

 per annum, payable at the end of the year — but those 

 who pay within sixty days t\ om the time of subsci il'ing 



Burke, being asked lor a motto to a publica .,, , ..,, .. . , ,. , r- ,. 



, . I °, , ■ . i- 1- • I will be entitled to a di auction of FiFTV CF.^•Ts. 



lion, in which the subject of discussion was the 



Isle of Man, jocosely replied. 



" The proper study of mankind is man." 



Attention to decorum is one ol the greatest 

 bulwarks to female virlve. 



Gentlemen who procure ^w responsible subscribers, ' 

 are entitled to a s^xth volume gratia. 



New subacribers can be furnished wiih the preced- 

 ing numbers of the current volume. 



