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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 8, 1829. 



MISCELLANIES. 



From ihe Evening Post. 



SPRING. 



The lovely Spring— llie joyous Spring 



Comes o'er our clime again, 

 A welcome lo ils blossojning, 



Its fleet but smiling reign. 



This morn a carol from the I'ale, 



Light hearted, soft, and free, 

 Came freighleJ on the gentle gale. 



Whispering of Spring to me. 



The blessing of the showery skies 



Has fallen on the grove, 

 And peeping from their low disguise, 



1 see the flowers I love. 



The yellow, mottled, crimson, blue. 



Their thousand tints display. 

 And all of balm and brilliant hue, 



Meet in the fair array. 



The south, the south, the balmy south, 



How breathes it o'er the heart. 

 Each flowret ope's ils silken mouth. 



And feels new fibres start. 



It gives a life to dormant powers, 



'i'heir fetters off it flings, 

 And bears away the laughing hours 



More gladly on ils wings. 



Now brightly glows the freshen'd sky, 



The clouds are gaily blent, 

 Fringing their fleecy tapestry, 



With golden garnishment. 



The rills flow purer, and they fling 



A gush of music out. 

 Whose cadence is, 't is Spring, 'l is Spring, — 



'T is Spring, my pulses shout . 



3f7»e J^tsl of an Ostrich, found in South Africa 

 by Mr Broadbent, a Missionary. — The eggs were 

 forty-two in number, including the two which liud 

 been taken away before, and were arranged with 

 great apparent exactness. Sixteen were close to- 

 gether in the middle of the nest, and on these the 

 ostrich was sitting when we arrived : they were 

 as many as she could cover. The remaining 

 twenty-six were placed very uniformly in a circle 

 about 3 or 4 feet from those in the middle. The 

 8ggs which were in the circle we found to be 

 quite fresh, at which I expressed my stirprise. — 

 The Hottentots inforineil me tliat these had been 

 provided by the ostrich against the hatching of 

 those in the middle, v^hen she would break them 

 one after another, and give them to her young 

 ones for food ; and that by the time they were dis- 

 posed of in this manner, the young ostriches would 

 be aWe to go abroad with their mother, and pro- 

 Tide for themselves such things as the desert af- 

 forded. I have seen large flocks of these crea- 

 tures in South Africa. The fact which I have 

 just stated, relative to the |)reservation of a quan- 

 tity of eggs for the subsistence of the yotmg ones 

 immediately after they are hatched, affords as 

 striking an illustration of a superititending Provi- 

 dence, perhaps, as the whole circle of natural his- 

 tory affords. 



M'Neil, who went to England to examine the rail 

 roads there, which are of a very satisfactory char- 

 acter, and will tend to give more and more confi- 

 dence in the complete triumph of the great enter- 

 prise that we have now in progress between Bal- 

 timore and the west. — U. S. Gazelle. 



Why dots a razor cut bdttr after having betn dip- 

 ped in hot water? — The brief article below on this 

 subject has been condensed from a recent London 

 publication ; and may not be unacceptable to those 

 who delight in a " close shave." ' 



This cutting question has been frequently agi- 

 tated ill newspapers and other periodicals ; aud 

 in answer to it, the following remarks have been 

 dictated " by a thinking man, with a small portion 

 of chemical knowledge." 



Hair, horns, hoofs, and nails, are principally 

 composed of hardened gelatine : now, gelatine 

 possesses the property of becoming softer, or 

 more easily divisible into parts, either by being 

 soaked in hot water, or by caloric applied in 

 any other way, but not in so great a degree in 

 the latter case, as in the former ; it follows, there- 

 fore, that to proiluce a maximum of effect, the hair, 

 horn, &c. should be as wet, and the cutting in- 

 strument as hot as possible, short of burning the 

 animal stibstance. 



If one desires an experiment to convince him 

 that this is a property of gelatine, let him dip two 

 fingers into warm water, and two others into cold ; 

 upon cutting the nail upon one of each, with a 

 cold knife, he ^ill find that on the warm finger 

 cut easier than that on the cold, and both of them 

 easier than that on a dry one. If, now, the knife 

 be warmed in any way, the effect will be more 

 visible on all three. This is precisely what is 

 done ill shaving; lather is first applied, whicli can 

 never continue hotter than 98 deg. because that 

 is the temperature of the human body, and it is 

 rapidly brought down to that by evaporation from 

 its surface ; the hair is not sufficiently softened by 

 this heat for some jiersons' feelings, therefore they 

 increase ihe heat of the razor to 150 deg. ; if they 

 go much farther their sensatiops tell them to stop. 

 It is by no means essential that the razor should 

 be dipped into hot water; heated mercury would 

 do as well ; but we use water because its tempe- 

 rature is more equable, and because it is more 

 common and convenient than tlie other. 



The old barber's fear of dipping his razor into 

 hot water, surely showed, that though a shaver, 

 he was no cutter, and his apiirehension of altering 

 the temjier of his tool, could not have been ex- 

 cited, bad he known that, in tempering it, it hud 

 already been exposeil to a temperature of 480 deg. 

 or thereabouts — 168 deg. higher than he was 

 frightened at. — Traveller. 



For Sale, 



A valuable Real F.state in Milton, 9 miles from Boston, 

 on the road leading from Boston to rauiitoii, Bridgcwater, 

 and New Bedford, containing upwards of 21)1) acres of the 

 variety of lands and fruits suitable for a gooil farm, well 

 watered, with good substantial bnildings. Said farm is 

 calculated to suit a f^entleinaii of taste, or an enterprising 

 yoimg man for a milk establishnieni,, being an excellent 

 gra?s faiiii. The purchaser may have, including the build' 

 ings, from 100 acres to the whole. 



As the above described properly contains a large portion 

 of valuable wood land, the purchaser may be accomniodated 

 with more or less of that part. The place will be sold at 

 a fair price, with or without a very valuable stock and 

 farming utensils. 



Also, for sale, or to be let, opposite the above named 

 preiiii^^es, a laige, convenient Dwelling Houe, with a 

 good Bake House and out buildings, very pleasantly situ- 

 ated for a country seat or a good stand for a store or 

 country baking, with as much land as may be wanted for 

 the acconmiodation ol the same. For turther informadon, 

 inquire of the Editor, of Parker H. Pierce No. 95 State 

 street, of Nathaniel Blake at Indian Queen Tavern, Brom- 

 field street, of .A. M. Withington, Koxbury, or Nathan- 

 iel TucKKR on the premises. 



April 10 tf 



Household Furniture Cheap. 



Phceni.x Furniture Warehouse, near the Square, Main Street, 



Charlestown. 



FOSDICK & CARTER, inform their friends and the pub- 

 lic, that they have on hand, and for sale, an extensive assorl- 

 meiit ol Furniture, viz. Bureaus, Secretaries, Beds, Bedsteads, 

 Tallies, Chairs, Solas, Couches, Carpelni^, vV'ash Stands. Brass 

 Fire Sets, Waiters, Knives, Forks, Bellows, and Brushes. — 

 Also, a constant supply of Live Geese and Common Feathers, 

 by tlie bale or oiherwise. Also, they manufaciure and keep 

 consiaiitly for sale, ageneral assorimeni ol Looking Glasses, by 

 wholesale or retail, with almost every article for house keeping, 

 all which they will sell extremely low lor cash. Purchasers are 

 in\ iled to call and examine. 



I*. S. Portrait and Picture Framing, executed in the best 

 manner, and at short notice, as above. tit 



Charlestown. April 3, 1829. 



Rail Road. — We learn that letters have been 

 received from Jonathan Knight, Esq. and Captain 



The Editor of the New York Evening Post ap- 

 plies to Dr Holyoke, the following lines from 

 Cowper's translations from Vincent Bourne : 



Ancient man, how wide and vast 



To a race f ke us appears, 

 Rounded to an orb at last. 



All thy uiultiiude of years ! 



A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. 

 Beware liinw you choose her. 



Tall Meadow Oat Grass Seed. 

 This dav received at the New F.ngland Farmer Seed Store, 

 o2 North Alarket street, 20 bushels ol Tall Meadow Oat Grass 

 Seed, at Si,50 per busheL 



Wanted to Hire, 



To the 1st Nov. a middle aged woman from the country, to 

 do the work of a family about eleven miles from Boston, where 

 other help is kept. Plain cooking, washing, and the care of a 

 small dairy, will be required, and to a steady, industrious per- 

 son, good wages will be given — no other need appl}' to Mr J.B. 

 Russell, at the <New England Fanner oHice, INorlh Market 



street^ ^^^^ 



Assorted Seeds for Families. 



For sale at the New England Fanner Seed Store small boxes 

 of assorted Seeds lor Kitchen Gardens. Each box contains a 

 package of the following Seeds: 



Long Dutch Parsnip 



Large Cabbage Lettuce 



Long Green 'i'nrkey Cucumber 



Piiie-applc Melon 



Long, or Round Watermelon 



Naslui'tinin 



Large White Onion 



Large Red Onion 



Curled Parsley 



Flat Squash Pepper 



Early Scarlet Short-lop Radisli 



While Turnip Uadish 



Salsaly 



Early'Bush Squash 



Early While ttulcli Turnip 



White Flat Turnip 



Yellow Stone Turnip 



Winter Creokneck .Squash, 



POT HERB SEEDS. 



Thyme— Sage — Marjorum. 



The Kemiebec Journal, states that fortunately 

 for the world, the proper use of N. E. rum has 

 been discovered at last, and that is, to kill lice 

 upon calves I 



Early Washinglon Peas 

 Dwarf Blue Imperial Peas 

 Late I\Iarrowfal Peas 

 Early flioliawk Dwarf string 



B.ians 

 China Dwarf siring and shell 



Beans 

 Lima, or Saba Pole Beans 

 Long Blood Beet 

 Early Turnip-rooted Beel 

 Early York Cabbage 

 Large laie Dromhe.id Cabbage 

 Cape .Savoy Cabbage 

 Red Duich t'abbage {/or pick- 



liiij;) 

 Early Horn Carrot 

 Long Orange Carrol 

 White Solid Celery 

 Curled Cress 

 Early Cucumber 

 Early Silesia Lettuco 



The above list, it will be seen, comprises all the common ve- 

 getables, besides several new varielirs of recent introduction, 

 and uncommon excellence. Every kind is wnrr.Tnled of the 

 very first quality, as lo fieshness and purily. Each box contains 

 directions for the niauagenient of the difierent sorts. Price J3 



per box. 



VE«gaMW»M»«w^n^B^n mLiji ii i iM wrtw t^^amam^naKsma^am^^ 



Published every Friday, at Jit3 per annum, payable at the 

 end of ihe year— but those who pay williin sixty days from the 

 lime of subscribing, are eiUilled lo a deduction of fifty cenls. 



Printed for J, B, RussEi-L. by L R Butts— by whom 

 all descriptions of Priming can be execuied lo ineci ihe wishes 

 o( customers. Orders for printing received by J. B. Russell, 

 at the Agricultural Warehouse No. .i'2 North Market Street. 



(Ij* No prqier will be sent to a distance wilhoul payment be^ 

 ing made m advance. 



