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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



August 29, 182&. 



MISCELLANIES. 



best how to use it, that think ifonly fit to be cast 

 away ; and tlieir not knowing how to set a true 

 MnES WRITTEiN in A VOUNG LADY'S^LBUM. value upon thi., is tlie true cause of the wrong es- 



' timatc they make of all other things, 



EY THOMAS C. i^ESSENDKN. 



Miss Ann, you nre, it seems lo mC: 



An essence all ethereal J 

 The brlgiilesi heing that can he. 



Entirely immaterial. 



A pencil tipp'd with solar rays 



Your charms conkl scarcely hlazon: 

 Contrasted with yonr beauty's blaze 



Bright Sol's a pewter basin. 



Transcendent lilile spri^ of light. , 



If rhymes arc always true. 

 An angol is an ugly sprite, 



Compared to Sylph like you. 



You frowning tell me, " this indeed 



" Is flattery past all bearing. 

 '■■■ I ne'er belorc did hear nor read 



" Of any quite so glaring." 



Yes this is (lattery, sure enough, 



And its exaggeration 

 May leach you how to hold such stufi' 



In utter detestation. 



Should beau.^ your ladyslii]) accost 



With something like this flummery, 

 Tell them their labour will be lost, 



Fo»- this transcends their mummery. 



The man whose favour's worth a thought, 



To flattery can't descend ; 

 The servile sycophant is not 



Y'our lover nor your friend. 



True generosity does not consist in obeying eve- 

 ry impulse of humanity, in following blind passion 

 for our guide, and impairing our circumstances by 

 present benefactions, so as to render us incapable 

 of future ones. — GoldsmUh. 



Instinct in fhc ass. — An ass was shipped at Gib- 

 raltar, on board the frigate Ister, for Malta. The 

 vessel having struck on a sand-bank oft' the Point 

 j do Gat, at some distance from the shore — the ass | per spear. 

 I was thrown overboard, to give it a cliancc (a poor 

 i one, for the sea was running very high) of swim- 

 j niing to land. A few days afterwards, when the 

 ■ gates of Gibraltar were opened in the morning, 

 the ass presented himself for admittance, and pro- 

 \ ceeded to the stable which he liatl formerly occu- 

 pied, to tlie no small surprise of his landlord, who 

 imagined that by some mistake he had never been 

 i put on hoard the Ister. On the return of the ves- 

 ■sel to repair, the mystery was explained. The ass 

 i had not only swam safely to the shore, but without 

 I a guide, had found his way from Point de Gat to 

 j Gibrahar, a distance of more than two hundred 

 i miles, through a mountainous and intricate coun- 

 try, intersected by streams, which he had never 

 traversed before ; and, what is most wonderful, in 

 so short a time that he could not have made one 

 false turn. 



A farmer in Pluladelphia cut his third crop o'' 

 IJ tons of hay in that city, on the' 15th inst. and 

 he anticipates one crop more. His farm is in tin- 

 immediate vicinity of the spot where the Decla- 

 ration of Independence was signed, generally call 

 ed the State House Yard. If the hay were va! 

 ucd at the rent the ground would bring for build- 

 ing lots, it is said that it would be about 50 cents 



A large cucmnber. — Mr. H. Drake, of Hackett's 

 town, plucked a cucumber h-om a vine in his gar- 

 den, measuring fifteen inches in length, fourteen 

 and a half in circuiufereuce, and weighed five 

 pounds. — J^eiv Jersey paper. 



THE WAT THEV DO THINGS A^ THE SOUTH. 



The Boston Courier says it is no uncommon 

 thing to see in the streets of Washington, three 

 or four yokes of half starved cattle, preceded by 

 two miserable horses, drawing a small load ot 

 wood or hay. A letter from Natches, Mississippi, 

 to the editor of the American Farmer, contains 

 the following : 



I was transported in eleven days to this jjlace, 

 where I find all the tropical plants in full bh>om 

 in the gardens. The early fruits have disai)])ear- 

 ed, and plants are now in season. Vegetables of 

 all descriptions are abundant: but what surprises 

 Husbandmen, ■manufacturers, and tradesmen. — He me is, with the finest soil and extensive pasture, 

 who expects to find the husbandman flourishing, t^o little care is taken of it that butter now sells 

 while the manufucttirers arc out of employ ; or for 25 and 31 cents a ])ound : and the greatest 

 the tradesman, on the other liand, in prosperity, ' portion of supply is brought from the state of 

 while the former is in distre.ss, "let him," as Fuller New York, aixl 31 cents per pound paid for it.— 

 says, "try whether one side of his fticc can smile, I was told that forty covis would produce twenty 

 while the other is perished ." : foiu- pounds of biUter a week ! There must be 



— — gross mismanagement some where. 1 observe 



German musicians.— The itinerant nausician.s in ,],g planters daily hauling corn out of their plan- 

 Germany, who go about the country in small bands ,.,jio„g to feed their hands and stock ; this comes 

 like wandering troubadours, arc a class so clever i c.g,,, „p ^^g ,.iver a considerable distance. Tliey, 

 and eminent in their way, as to deserve notice, j believe, pay attention to nothing but cotton, aiid 

 For a few florins these poor fellows will amuse j p^^pj^j^gp every thing else, instead of raising it. — 

 you with such an exhibition of tone and skill, as jj strikes me as poor economy, when it is ohserv- 

 " " ' ■'■•'•■ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^.^j^^ ^^.^jj ^g employed to haul a load 



of corn, wbicli four ought easily to carry ; and 

 when too they travel at a snail's gait, to suit the 

 particidar cotivenience of the driver, and indulge 

 him in his lazy disposition. 



HO YEN OK SWOLN CATTLE. 



The iriornate •dgrano ^'oscuno, communicates a 

 remedy against the ilangcrous etlecls to which 

 cattle are liable trom too tree liieding un clover, 

 and some other vegetables f sinular qualities. — 

 It consists in a solution ot ammonia, to be given 

 in a quantity of water sutlicieiit lo enable the ani- 

 mal to swallow it with ease. One glass is gene- 

 rally found etteclual. Should it be louiid other- 

 wise, a second is to be given at the e.\piratioii of 

 halt an hour. Ample testuiiony is adduced to 

 siiow the value ol the presciiptiou. 



iL/= It has beep asserted itiat a solution of pot- 

 asii, pearl-ash or a strong ley made by leaching- 

 aslies will answer the purpose of the above pres 

 cripdon. — EurroB iM. E. Farmer. 





FiriH Xi^&ii Ari A MAiNIjKE. 

 All the parts of tisU shell lisn and all other — 

 are excehent mauures. They may be used, eith 

 er salteU or fresh ; salted fish are generally con- 

 siUered the best. The ottals of tish, and fish th;i! 

 are spoilt for eating, may he converteil to this uso . 

 but they are most useful when used as an ing-redi- 

 eiit in compost. They are so sti'oiig a manure, 

 tiiat it has been said one single alewite will ans- 

 wer as a shovel-luli of the best dung, in produc- 

 ing inuiaii corn. But tiiey cause land to exert it 

 sell so much, that it will be apt to grow poor, un 

 less care he taken to prevent it. 



Onions for Sale. 

 Six hundred bushels of prime Unions, (White Portngai.iand 

 Straw t "oioured) raised by a gentleman in Ihis vicinity . arc of- 

 fered (or sale, to traders and others, by the bushel or barrel, on 

 very advaniageous terms. Enquire at the iNew England Far- 

 mer Seed Store. Aug 2a 



would set up an English artist of the first water. 

 They are a set of poor, Init merry companions — 

 with as little discord in their social intercour.se as 

 disturbs the harmony of their instrutuents. Hap- 

 py, in spite of thread-bare coats, and sun-burnt 



faces but witii a gentility of mind, much super- 



im- to people of their class. 



It is no wonder that when we are prodigal of 

 nolliino- else, when we are over-thrifty of many 

 things whicli we may well spare, we are very 

 prodigal of our time, which is the only precious 

 jewel of which we cannot be too thrifty, because 

 we look upon it as nothing v/ortli, and that makes 

 us not care how we spend h. The laboring man 

 ■ilid the artificer knows what every hour of his 

 time is worth, what it v.ii! yield him, and parts 

 not with it, but for the fail vahie : they are on- 

 ly noblmieii and gpndniicu.. who should know 



The Potato Onion, lately introduced into this 

 country, will be a most valuable acquisition to 

 ^Ljardeners, as it is known to produce in equal a- 

 bundance to the potato, from which it derives its 

 name ; never fails, as the severe frost has no ef- 

 fect on it. — Dublin Correspondent. 



Miss Betsey Smith, a young lady who is em- 

 ployed in a cotton mill at Hooksett, N. H. wove, 

 on the 8th inst. one hundred and seventy-eight 

 yards of good shirting in thirteen hours on five 

 looms ; the yarn No 16, the cloth 7-Sths yard 

 wide. 



DISriUCT OF MAS.SACHUSETTS, ;o u-it : 



Disii-icl Clerk's Office. 

 Be it remembered. That on die eighleenih <lay of July, A. D, 

 18-8. in the (iflj -third j-ear of the Independence of (he Uniletl 

 States of America, J. K. Russell, ot the said district, has depos- 

 ited in this office the tide of a tiook. the right whereof he claims 

 as proprietor, in the words (nllowijig, lo wit : 



*'The New American Garrteuer", cont^ning practical Direc- 

 tions on he Culture of Fruits and Vugetaliles ; including Ladn- 

 scape and Ornamental Gardening, (Jrape Vines, Silk, Straw-, 

 berries. &,c. &c. By Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor ol (he New j 

 Engl.ind Farmer. : 



"God .'\lmighiv first planted a Garden ; and indeed it is the 

 purest of human [Measures: it is the greatest refi-eslimpiit lo the 

 spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but 

 gross handy-works. — Bacon's Essays," 



In eonformity lo die act ol ("ongress of the United States, en-j 

 titled, "An Art for the encouragemenl of learnings by securiljg^ 

 the copies of maps, charts, ami book, to die aulhors and propric-* 

 tors oi such copies during the times dtereiu mentioned j" and 

 also to an act, entitled, "An Act supplementary lo an act, enli- 

 lled, .\n .\ct for the encouragemeni of learning, by seruring Ihe 

 copiesr.f maps, charts, and books, to the authors and prcprielf.rs 

 o( such copies during die times therein menlioucd ; and extend- 

 ing the benefits thereof to Ihe arts t designing, engraving, and 

 etching historical and other pri . JKO. W. DA\ !.«. 



Ckrk of ■'■ ._ trict cf Maisarhuselts. 



Published every Fridai ■' \,i per iMinum, payable at ihe 

 ,cnd of the year— but lhos» jay within sixty days from ilic 



time of .snbcriliing. arr jPjSto a deduction of fif(y eem- 



