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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 26, 182(). 



m:xsceiiI.anx£s. 



NEW SONG. 

 When a poor little maid feels her senses n^trriy, 

 Cannot sleep on her pillow, nor rest all tlie day, 

 Sees a form still pursue licr do all she can. 

 And this form should be that of a handsome youn; :nin. 

 Sly neighbours will whisper then, Good laek-a-day '■ 

 The poor lilUe maid's in a very sad way. 



When of all her old friends Fhe begins to grow shy. 

 When she sjieaks very seldom, and speaks with a sigh. 

 When, though witty or wise, she appears like a dunce, 

 And folks wonder what's rome to the girl all at once, 

 bly neighbors will whisper then, good lack-a-day. 

 The poor little maid's in a very bad way. 



RECOIiLECTlONS. 



Sweet as the calm that o'er the sea 



At twilight's hour steals silently. 



Are {has-, loved minutes men may stval 



From this sad world of woe and care. 

 To sea ■ h their hearts, and blissl'ul (tel 



Some early recollections there: 

 Some little hymn, to wbici' the knr e 

 Oft bends in earliest inlancy ; 



8ome short prayer, which the menioiy 



Can call forth just as easily 



As when a child — or when, perhapr-, 



Maternal eyt-s would gaze and weep, 

 While, sinking in our sisters' laps. 



They Inll'il us with (his prayer to sleep. 

 Oh, tliouirht divine I e't-n life's rough sea 

 That hour would gild must lovely. 



Dr Parr. — A lady was once holding forth witli 

 jireat loquacity, an 1 not permitting the Doctor to 

 wedge in a word, till he fairly said to her, " Mad- 

 am, allow me to have my sliare in the conversa- 

 tion." " Why, you know, Dr Parr," she replied, 

 " it is the privilege of ladies to talk." " No, mad- 

 am," said he, " it is not their privilege, but their 

 Intiimity ! Ladies are privileged t^ talk, because 

 ihey cannot help it ; as ducks are privileged to 

 V. addle, becau.=e they can't walk straight." 



^'tbonne the Miser. — Nebonne, who was a mis- 

 er, had such »n aversion to the word give, that it 

 iiad nearly caused him a serious misfortune. His 

 horse stumbling threw him into a ditch, and his 

 "crvant wishina; to assist him, said, " Sir, give me 

 ;uvr hand!" This expression totally disconcerted 

 Nebonne. " Give what ?"' said he. The servant 

 folt his t.iistake. " iili^W I give you my hand ?" 

 "xtendiiig it as he spoke. '-Oh certainly !" said 

 ■lis muster, am; he was soon extricated ; but if the 

 raaii had not ahered the form of his expression, 

 the miser wouiJ have remained in the ditch. 



A shopkeeper in IJostoa, about the time of the 

 rovoliitiouHry war, remarkable for his whimsical 

 advertisements, gave notice to his friends and the 

 public, that he kept constantly for sale, crooked 

 stoi'king.'s for tiegroes, also leather breeches and 

 other sweetmeats. 



, Every species of confections sold is more or less 

 adulverated, and often with very pornicious ingre- 

 oients. The common carrawajs are adulterated 

 with the clipapcst American Hour that can be 

 bought, and this varies from 2.5 to 100 per cent, 

 according to the part of the country they are in- 



and the adulterated composition will fall to the? 

 bottom, of the vessel in which the experiment is 

 tried. — dasgoiv jl/ec's Mag. 



From the Amerii^an Sentinel. 



ON SHEEP— DISORDER OF SCAB, &.c. 

 No animal among us is more useful than the 

 Sheep, wliich furnishes us with food and clothing, 

 while it employs numerous people in manufactur- 

 ing the wool. The Merino Sheep are the most 

 profitable, unless it be the Sa.xony breed, vliich' 

 are far more costly. I ■ have owned the Merino 

 mixed blood 20 years, and have made great profit 

 by thein. They have never suffered by having 

 the scab. It is said, that imported sheep are more 

 likely to have it, owing to their having been kept 

 in large flocks in a climate not so -ood as ours. — 

 I My full blooded Meiinoes were mostly bred in 

 this country, and I think that the woo! has been 

 better than that on the imported ones. 



I have been acquainted with the scab more or 

 less about 40 years. In 1811, I took more than 

 ■?00 full blooded Merino sheep to keep for another 

 person, all of which had been imported, except a 

 few lambs. Some of the old sheep had the disor- 

 der, but none died with it ; nor was the scab to be 

 seen the 1st of next June, when they were shear- 

 ed. I used spirits of turpentine and hog's lard, 

 agreeably to the directions of Chancellor Livings- 

 ton, but having lent the book cannot give extracts 

 from it. I warrnedthc lard, and put an equal quan- 

 tity of spirits of turpentine with it — then with that 

 mixture anointed the diseased parts. 



The Farmer's Calendar recommends sulphur 

 and Bay salt, and purging salts given internally, 

 and also to anoint tlie diseased parts with mercu- 

 rial oiulxnent. 



The Domestic Encyclopedia recommends tobac- 

 co tea with a little oil of turpentine, or sulphur 

 and alum ; or if but partial, a little oil and grease 

 will be sufficient. These applications will do best 

 after shearing, particularly sulphur: for if wool 

 is filled with sulphur, the cloth will smell of it 

 when you wear it. It is best to shear scabby 

 sheep early — it will even do in winter, if you cover 

 the shorn ones with blankets. But the scab is 

 much easier cured in summer, by giving the sheep 

 plenty of grass or good feed where there are 

 shades for them to lie under in the heat of the day. 

 Pastured sheep incline to cat in the morning and 

 evening; they will even feed at midnight in hot 

 weather ; for I have seen my sheep scattered over 

 a field feeding at dead of night. 



I think it is best to discontinue public flocks 

 while the scab is among the sheep, as it is known 

 to be contagious ; for when one becomes infected, 

 it will generally go through the comj ny that it is 

 kept with. I believe it is more contagious than 

 the itch. Let each man carefully separate all scab- 

 by sheep from his flock, and keep tliem by them- 

 selves until they are cured. I hope that no man 

 of lionor or honesty will put scabby sheep into a 

 public flock ; for it would bo something like giv- 

 ing the itch, or sm«ll pox. A prudent man will 

 not do it, because it is against his interest ; for 

 tended to. Common peppermint lozenges are a- .s^cabby sheep will do poorly in the flock, where 

 dulterated with flour, plaster of Paris, Derbyshire tliey get their living in the highway — they ca'n- 

 spar, starch, arrow root, &c. &,c. instead of being' | not well endure the burning sun, exposed as they 

 made as they ought to be of pure sugar and gum. are to its heat in travelling the roads and picking 

 T!te best way to test confections is to put a por- 1 their scanty meals, 



tion of them into warm water, and allow it to stand i Sheep may be fattened on com. a.s easy as hogs, 

 till cold ; the confection will tlien be dissolved,! at any season of the year, provided that they have 



plenty of good hay or grass for their cuds and 

 distention, and there is no need of grinding it for 

 them. 



Snufl! is good to destroy ticks. Where there are 

 lambs in the flock which are not shorn, the ticks 

 will all leave the old sheep in a few weeks after 

 shearing, and get on to the lambs. To kill the 

 ticks, I have sometimes wet the lambs with weak 

 tobacco water. 2.5 cents worth of the stalks of the 

 leaves of tobacco wiii kill the ticks on 30 lamb.^. — 

 Boil the tobacco in a large kettle, then put some 

 of the liquor in a tub, adding water to it, and af- 

 ter wetting a lamb, let a boy hold him standing 

 on his feet in the tub, then squeeze out all the 

 liquor you can to save it. A man and a boy can 

 wash the above number, after the liquor is pre- 

 pared, in two hours. If the liquor is too strong, 

 it may injure the larn.bs, and also the wool, but if 

 weak it will not harm either. It may be well to 

 repeat it after a few weeks, for other ticks may 

 hatch. 



If your sheep have ticks in autumn or winter, 

 open the wool on the back, sides, neck, and should- 

 ers, and scatter in a little snuff which will soon 

 destroy them. 



The Encyclopedia recommends corrosive subli- 

 mate. Bay salt and cream of tartar, tar and butter, 

 &!■. : but I think it is better to use tobacco to kill 

 vermin, than to use it ajiy other way. 



Jl F.1RMER. 



Imported Bull Mmiral. 



THIS noble Animal, of (he best improved Short Horn 

 Bit-cd of England, purchased and presented to the Ag- 

 ricultural Society cd' Massachusetts, by Sir Isaac Co'-^ 

 fin, at the cost to him of nearly fciTOO, has been per- 

 niitted hy the liberality cf the T rnstees of that Society, 

 to be brought into the CoinUi/ of H'urctflrr. for the pur- 

 pose {>f being improved in his use to cow,-*, the present 

 season. He will be kept on a Farm, near th.- centre 

 of the town of Worcester, in the care of Mr. .lames 

 Campbell, anil by the (,<rmission of the Trnstet s, hi> 

 services will be charged at the rtductd price of Three 

 Dollars, to each Cow, payable in ad^ante, unless oth- 

 erwise agreed. 



Those Farmers who are desirous of improvinof their 

 breed of Cattle, i :>rtii ularly loi- the Daiiy and the Stall 

 by a cross with an animal ol Ihc best stock in Fnglnnd 

 or any other country, are advistd to avail *hem?elv(s 

 of the present oppi-rtunily, as the Bull will le removed 

 from the County, early in the fall. 



Worcester, April '•27, 1826. 



MiMi Cow. 



FOR S M.F, a new Milch Cow, eight years old. — 

 She has given trom 18 to 20 quarts of milk a day. and 

 has a calf by her side. Inquire of JOIJ.N MEA liS. 



Dorchester, May 13. 



Bremen Geese. 

 2 GF.F:?E.-3 GOSLING.S,— and a GANDER of the 

 Bremen breed for sale, -^pply at this oflice. May 12. 



PATENT HOES .—.I. .t A. Fale's Patent Hoes con- 

 stantly for Kile by French ic Weld, 31 & 32 South 

 Market St., and French & Davenport 713 \\'ashing(nn 

 Street, who are appointed sole agents tor vending the 

 same. eptf. Boston, Apiil 28, 1826. 



SIR IS.r3..tC. This fine young seed horse of the 

 Cleaveland Bay Breed, will stand at his stable, oppo- 

 site the Bull's Head Tavern in Brighton. The charga 

 for each mare will be ten dollars the season. In ad- 

 vance. A more particular account of Sir Isaac will be 

 foun'd in the New England Farmer of the 3Ist of March. 



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