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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 23, 1829. 



MISCELLANIES. 



We find the following lines in the Waldo (Me) Demo- 

 crat, but know nothing of their origin. — Sost. Mdv. 



THE TIMES. 



The times — the times — I say the times, 



Are getting worse than ever; 

 The good old ways our fathers trod 



Shall grace their children never ; 

 The homely hearth of honest mirth. 



The traces of their plough, 

 The places of their worshiping. 



Are all forgotten now. 



Farewell, the Farmer's honest looks. 



And independent mein. 

 The tassel of his waving corn. 



The blossom of the bean. 

 The turnip top and pumpkin vine. 



The produce of his toil. 

 Have given place to flower pots 



And plants of foreign soil. 



Farewell, the pleasant husking night. 



Its merry afterscenes. 

 When Indian pudding smoked beside 



The giant pot of beans; 

 When lasses joined the social band. 



Nor once atfected fear. 

 But gave a pretty cheek to kiss 



For every crimson ear.* 



Affected modesty was not 



The test of virtue then. 

 And few took pains to swoon away 



At the sight of ugly men ; 

 For well they knew the purity 



Which woman's life should^wn. 

 Depends not on appearances, 



But on the heart alone. 



Farewell to all the buoyancy 



The openness of youth. 

 The confidence of kindly hearts. 



The consciousness of truth. 

 The natural tone of sympathy. 



The language af the heart. 

 Now curbed by fashion's tyranny. 



Or turned aside by art. 



Farewell, the jovial quilting match. 



The song and merry play, 

 The whirling of tlie pewter plate, 



The many pawns to pay. 

 The mimic marriage brought about 



By leaping o'er the broom. 

 The good old play of blind man's bulT, 



The laugh that shook the room. 



Farewell, the days of industry. 



The time has glided by. 

 When pretty hands were prettiest 



At making pumpkin pie ; 

 Vi hen waiting maids were needed not. 



And mo.-ning brought along 

 The music of the spinning wheel, 



And milkmaid's careless e«ng. 



' At a husking, " a kiss all round" is the reward for 

 every red ear of corn — of course there isalwayaa scram- 

 ble for 'these passports to favor. The good natured girl 

 generally contrives to throw such as she may find into 

 the way of the rustic beau who is nearest to her. 



Ah! artless days of innocence, 



Your dwellings are no more. 

 And we are turning from the path 



Our fathers trod of yore — 

 The homely hearth of honest mirth — 



The traces of the plough — 

 The places of their worshiping. 



Are all forgotten now. 



Time is so precious an article that Providence 

 gives it to us in the smallest possible portions, 

 never yielding us two moments at once, but al- 

 ways taking away one when the other is bestow- 

 ed. 



Integrity. — Wit and understanding are trifles 

 wthout integrity ; it is that which gives value to 

 eveiy character. The ignorant peasant without 

 faults, is greater than the philosopher with many : 

 for what is genius, what is courage, without a 

 heart ? 



Merit. — Tnie merit is like a river, the deeper it 

 is the less noise it makes. 



Value of hereditary property. — It should be con- 

 sidered with respect to wealth, that the value of it 

 is never truly known, but by him who has acquired 

 it ; so that when a ]irovident but unwise parent 

 submits to toil and hardship in order to leave an 

 estate to his son, he only provides him something 

 to waste and dissipate, but not to enjoy. Tlie 

 prodigal youth is even generally much less ha})py 

 in spending the estate than the father in acquiring 

 it ; though the object of the father's toil has been 

 to make the son happy in being exempted from 

 toil. Besides, there are as great fortunes, and, 

 perhaps, a greater number of moderate fortimes, in 

 the hands of those who have acquired them as in 

 those who have received them by inheritance ; so 

 that the chance of having a son die rich is perhaps 

 at great when he has a good education, and has 

 only been put in tiie way of providing for him.^elf, 

 as when he begins with that independ<wice, which 

 it should be the object of every one to j)osses3. 



Prosperity displays vice, and adversity is the 

 touchstone of virtue. 



Literature and Economy. — If a young man lias 

 a taste for literature, and virtuous and intelligent 

 society, liis economy will be a thing of course ; 

 because liis pleasures will not be expensive, and 

 not dependent on the caprice of fashionable and 

 extravagant associates. 



A woman nei-er appears .■so truly amiable as in 

 retirement ; her virtues shine with double lustre. 



Do not idly imagine that, by nmning to public 

 places, you will have a better chance of marrying. 

 If a woniim is ever so beautiful, being seen too 

 often makes her cheap in the eyes of men. She 

 who is but rarely seen, men covet most to see, and 

 her chance of being happily married is much 

 greater. 



A Wrestling Match — A man lately imdertook to 

 wrer^tle with a half pint of Brandy. First, he took 

 Brandy down, with great easn ; but the day was 

 won by Brandy, who took his antagonist down, 

 and held him for the space of three hours ! when 

 ho suffere d him to rise — Berk shire American. 



A gentleman from Boston, on a visit to his friend 

 in the country, speaking of the timen, observed that 

 his wife had lately expended $50 for a habit. His 

 fi-icnd replied, " here in the country, we don't allow 

 our wives to get into such habits^ 



A man with his wife and child, says the New- 

 bur}-port Herald, in Nc\vbury, Mass. on Saturday 

 last, came very near suffocation, from a ])an of 

 burning coals, in their sleeping room. A peculiar 

 noise brought some one to their room, where they 

 were found in an insensible state — but resuscitated 

 by exposure to the fresh atmosphere. 



Assorted Seeds for Families. 

 For sale at tlie New England Farmer Seed Store small bcxes 

 of assorted Seeds lor Kiicheii Gardens. Eacli bo.K contains a 

 package of the following .Seeds : 



Early Washington Peas 

 Dwarf nine huperial Peas 

 Laie Marrowfat Peas 

 Early Mohawk Dwarf strinj 



lioans 

 China Dwarf siring and shell 



Beans 

 Lima, or Saba Pole Beans 

 Long Blood Beet 

 .Early 'Purnlp-rooted Beet 

 Early York Cabbage 

 Lar'^e late Drumhead Cabbage 

 Ca[M? Savoy Cabbage 

 Red Dutch Cabbage (for pick 



Early Horn Carrot 

 Long Orange Carrol 

 White Solid Celery 

 Curled Cress 

 Early Cucumber 

 Earlv Silesia Lettuce 



Long Dutch Parsnip 



Large Cabbage Lettuce , 



Long Green 1 nrkey Cucumber 



Pine-apple Melon 



Long, or Round Watermelon 



Nasturtiiin 



Large White Onion 



Large Red Onion 



Curled Parsley 



Flat Squash Pepper 



Early Scarlet Short-top Radish 



White Turnip Radish 



Salsify 



Early Bf.sh Squash 



Earlv While Dutch Turnip 



Whiie Flat Turnip 



Yellow Stone Turnip 



Winter Crook-neck Squash. ' 



POT HEKB SEEDS. 



Thyme — Sage — Marjorum. 

 Tlio above list, it will be seen, comprises all the conurion ^-e- 

 getabU's, besides several new varieties of recent introduction, 

 and uncommon excellence. Every kind is warranted of the 

 very lirst quality, as to freshness auti purity. Each box contains 

 direciions lor the management of the difierent sorts. Price ^o 

 per box. 



To the Public. 



1'he subscriber would inform the public, that certain persons 

 did, some time since, obtain a certain Patent Right, claiming 

 for their improvement, a Reaction principle, or action tw» ways, 

 vaijily supposing they were about to alter one ofthe fundanien- 

 t.^c lawi of mechanism, by gaining in time without a loss of 

 power, or gaiuiiig in power without a loss of time. This foolish 

 idea they attempted to demonstrate by constructing a Press for 

 Hay, Arc. with tv\o fixed horizontal boxes, one on each end of a 

 horizontal frame. In these boxes the hay or cotton was to be 

 put, or stowed vertically, and the reaction power applied to 

 both boics at the same lime, horizontally j thus they expected 

 to press two bales with one and i!ie same power, in liie same 

 lime that it took to press one ; but they failed in tiieir purpose, 

 both on account of reaction, and mode of stowing and pressing' 

 — for it was found impossible to confine fibrous materials with 

 bands, thai are slowed and pressed at right angles with the 

 stowing. 



ll is well known in Maine that Mr Moses B. Bliss, of Piilslon, 

 Kennebec county, has recently made au imporlant and useful 

 impiovement in the construction of a Press for Hay and other 

 hbioas materials, and secured to himself the extensile properly 

 nf said improvement, by taking out Letters Patent for the same 

 under the .Seal of the United "States, which property he claims, 

 principally, from having made his box to revolve on irunious 

 which project from near Ihe centre of its largest sides, so that it 

 may lie turned to an upright position for the convenience oflill. 

 ing and slowing, and ihen to a horizontal one for pressin".— 

 The other part of his specification has nothing very particular 

 in it, except in moving the machine by means o( gear-wi,j k and 

 a small cog-wheel affixed to the axle of a large pair of locomo- 

 tion wheels. 'I'his Press Mr Bliss has had in successful use for 

 many inonths, and it has been fully tested by those well qualifi- 

 ed 10 judge of its merits, and met ihcir <lecided approbation.— 

 He has effecled in this machine what has long been a desuiera- 

 tuni, viz. to have a moveable press ; ami to have it moveable il 

 is necessary ihal it should be horizonlal, and lo have il horizon- 

 tal, ihere musl be a revolving box. 



Why I would draw the nltuntion ofthe public lo ihe sppcificft- 

 tion above, is, because the said persons have abandoned their 

 press on the reaction plan, and imitated Mr Biiss in every par- 

 licuhnr except the revolving box, and are now altempliiig lo 

 palm off this imitation press under their credentials for a reac- 

 tion power. 



The public are advised lo compaie the specifications with the 

 model now exhibiting. C,\LVIIV WING. 



Gardiner, Dec. 3L 1S£3. Jan 16 3i 



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 liuie of subscribing, are entitled lo a deiluction of fihV cents. 



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