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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



SEPT. 10, 1S40 



MISCELLANEOUS 



THE MOCKING BIRD. 

 Mr Rennie, in an article on American song 

 birds in the Magazine of Natural History, has a" 

 interesting account of the mocking bird, which lie 

 says eeeiiis to be the prirn'O of all songbirds, being 

 altogether unrivalled in the extent and variety of 

 his vocal powers ; and, besides the fulness and 

 melody of his original notes, he has the faculty of 

 imitating the notes of other birds, from the clear 

 mellow tones of the wood thrush to the savage 

 scream of the bald eagle. In measure and accents 

 he faithfully follows his originals, Hhile in force 

 and sweetness of e.xpression ho greatly improves 

 upon them. His own notes are bold and full, and 

 varied seemingly beyond all limits. They consist 

 of short e.xpressions of two, three, or at most five 

 or six, syllables, generally e.xpressed wiih great 

 emphasis and rapidity, and continued with un- 

 diminished ardor, for lialf an hour or an hour at a 

 time. While singing he expands his wings and 

 his tail, glistening with white, keeping time to his 

 own music, and the buoyant gaity of his action is 

 no less fascinating than his song. He often de- 

 ceives the sportsman, and even birds themselves 

 are sometimes imposed upon by this admirable 

 mimic. In confinement he loses little of the pow- 

 er or energy of his song. He whistles for the 

 dog ; Cffisar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to 

 meet his master. lie cries like a hurt chicken, 

 and the hen hurries about, with feathers on end, to 

 protect her injured brood. His imitations of the 

 brown thrush are often mterrupted by the crowing 

 of cocks ; and his exquisite warblings after the 

 blue bird, are mingled with the screaming of 

 swallows, or the carkling of hens. During moon- 

 light, both in the wild and tame state, he sings the 

 whole night long. The hunters, in their night ex- 

 cursions, know that the moon is rising the instant 

 they begin to hear his delightful solo. His natural 

 notes partake of a character similar to those of the 

 brown thrush, but they are more sweet, more ex- 

 pressive, more varied, and uttered with greater 

 rapidity. 



,/J Beautiful Sentiment. — The late eminent 

 judge, Sir ."Mien Park, once said at a public meet- 

 ing in London : 



'• Wo live ill the midst of blessings, till w-e are 

 utterly insensible of their greatntss, and of the 

 sources from whence they How. We speak of 

 our civilization, our arts, our freedom, our laws, 

 and forget entirely how large a share of all is due 

 to Christianity. Blot Christianity out of the pages 

 of man's liistory, and what would his laws have 

 been — what his civilization ? Christianity is mix- 

 ed up with our very being and our daily life ; 

 there is not a familiar objett around us, which 

 does not wear a different asport, because the light 

 of Christian hope is on it — not vi law which does 

 not owe its truth and gentleness to Christianity — 

 not a custom which cannot be traced, in all its 

 holy and healthful parts, to thi"^ Gospel." 



When Noah planted the first vine and retired, 

 satan approached and said — " I will nourish you, 

 charming plant! " He quickly fetched three ani- 

 mals — a sheep, a lion, and a hog, and killed them 

 one after another near the vine. The virtues of tlie 

 blood of these three animals penetrated it, and are 

 still manifest in its growth. When a man drinks 

 one goblet he is then agreeable, gentle, friendly. 

 I hat is the nature of the lamb, W hen lie drinks 

 two, he is like a lion, and says, " Who is like to 

 me ?" he then talks of stupendous things. When 

 he drinks more, his senses forsake him, and at 

 length he wallows in the mire. Need it be said 

 that he resembles the hog. 



Jl Good Reference. — " Do you know Mr ? " 



asked one friend of another, referring to an old 

 gentleman who was famous for his fondness for the 

 extract of hop. 



" Yes, sir, I know him very well." 



" What kind of a man is he ?" 



" Why, in the morning, when he gets up he is a 

 •beer barrel ; and in the evening, when he goes to 

 ■lied, he is a barrel of beer." 



VIRTUES OF COLD WATER. 



Our readers have seen it announced that a new 

 set of medical aspirants in Geruiany profess to 

 cure all diseases by the internal and external use 

 of cold water. A considerable laugh has been 

 raised at their expense, but for our part, we do 

 not think they are altogether oft' the track. Using 

 cold water — and that only — for a constant drink, 

 and bathing repeatedly, will cure more maladies 

 than most persons would imagine. Let the invalid 

 who drinks excessive quantities of warm liquids, or 

 liquids of a worse character, and who neglects to 

 purify his blood with frequent ablutions — let him 

 try the above experiment, and if he does not find 

 himself better in the course of six months, his 

 disease is probably of a nature which medicine it- 

 elf will not reach. We do not, however, go 

 altogether with the l\I. D.'s mentioned above ; we 

 do not believe cold water will do every thing, 

 though we seriously think it will do much. Diet, 

 air, and exercise, are the three great principles of 

 health. We have known persons to be cured by 

 these wlien pronounced incurable by the physi- 

 cians. But such is our opinion of cold water that 

 we think it deserves to be classed with the princi- 

 ples just spoken of. — Philad. Ledger. 



' The Marshall in Cincinnati, who has furnished 

 several paragraphs for the newspapers, in his 

 rounds of census taking, gives the following : In 

 the fifth ward of that city he states that he found 

 two instances of the instability of fortune. In 

 destitute circumstances dependents for the bread 

 of the day on the labors of the day, were two 

 women, one a grand daughter of a distinguished 

 Governor of Massachusetts, and the other a cou- 

 sin of a late Governor of New Jersey. 



An Irishman from the bogs, having to put a let- 

 ter on board a vessel, arrived too late, for the barge 

 h.ad put off for the vessel with a full sail ; the 

 Irishman ran along the shore and kept u\> with the 

 boat. -As it was going to weather the point, they 

 lowered sail ; the fellow being nearly exhaust- 

 ed, gave up the chase, crying, " avrah, honey ! 

 ij you^re ^oiixg to strip to it, the devil himself cmi't 

 cnlrh you .'" 



Mr Marsh, a chemist, connected with the Royal 

 Arsenal, Englanil, has discovered that iron, which 

 has remained a considerable time under water, 

 when reduced to small grains, or an i:npalpable 

 powder, will become red hot and ignite any object 

 with which it may be brought m contact. 



CR*TE AND POVDRETTE. 



An eslatilistinieiu for tlie maiiufaclure of tlie Manures 

 called Urate and Pondrette ha^ heeii erectt.'d, at a consiifcra- 

 tiie expense, in the Stale ot New Jersey, near the ciiy of 

 New York : ami an act of iiieornmaiion litis ijeen graiueil hy 

 ttie legislalure of the Slate of New Jersey, by the n. nif o' 

 " The LoHi Manufacturing? Company." for purposes t \ ;i2ri- 

 cullure, wfierein it is provider!, liiat r>nn sliares, a i-urluiti of 

 the stock reserved for snliscriplion tty farin^^i> and ■•■rdeiicrs, 

 within a limited time, shall be entitled to receive D'l Miisbcls 

 of Proudrette yearly for five years, viz. in l^m, Ihllj 1S4-^, 

 1343, and 18-U, upon each share of SIOO, which is at tfic laie 

 of 2(1 per cent, per annum, for those jears, mid after ilial 

 period to receive an equal dividend with the oilier stiick- 

 lioldcrs. 



The Manufactory has gone into operation according to 

 law; a sufficient number of shares having f)eeii suhscrihed 

 for that put pose, and capital paid ni ; and the first divideud 

 has heen regularly paid to the subscrihers — the ue.xl divi- 

 dend is payaMe in Seplemher. Hut the Company nerds a 

 larger moneyed capital than it now has, to carry it on to hel- 

 ler advantage. Inquiries having been made wliether all the 

 slock had heen taken, and the difficulty at the present time 

 of ohtaining funds, to a sufficieni amnuul, from a tew indi 

 viduals, has induced a renewal of this notice to farmers and 

 gardeners, and every other person who may have spare funds, 

 (as every person is now permitted to suhsi'rihe,) lliat there is 

 vet a considerahle portion of the reserved stock, which, hy 

 law, is lo receive 2U percent, per annum, payable in Prou. 

 dreltc, one half in May, and the other half in September, in 

 Ihe years IS40, IS4I, 1842, 1843, and 1844, iiotyel subscribed 

 for, and the books are now open lo receive subscriptions for 

 the same, by any person, whether gardener, farmer or other- 

 wise, at the office of (he Lodi Manufacturing Company, No. 

 73 Cedar Street, in the city of New York. Terms lor the 

 reserved slock, SfOO per share in cash; and for I he other 

 portion of the slock an inslalineni of S25 per share on sub- 

 scriliing, and the residue (being S75 per share) to be called 

 in by instalments of S.'j per share, after thirty days notice 



These manures have been fairly tested and very generally 

 approved of as being the cheapest and best manures, and 

 more economically applied than any other known substance 

 used for manure. 



As the article can be furnished from the city of New York, 

 only to a limited extent, (not more than sufficient to manure 

 35,000 acres annually,) it must follow, that in a few years it 

 will necessarily be confined to the use of the stockholders 

 alone. 



It is important to agriculture, and the enterprise deserves 

 the liberal support of every enlightened fanner. By order, 

 WILLIA.M M WILSON, .S'fcrc/ari/. 



At an election for Directors of the Lodi Manufacturing 

 Company, held at .lersey City on the Cth day of July, tS40, 

 the following pprsons were elected Directors of the Compa- 

 ny, lo hold their offices until the first Monday in October 

 ne.\t, namely, Anthony Dey and Jacob C. Dey, of New 

 York ; J D. Miller, Andrew S. Garr and Rodman M. Price, 

 of New Jersey. 



Agust 12. 



TIE UP CHAINS. 



Just received at the New Eusland Agricultural Ware- 

 house, a good supply of those celebrated Chaiu.^ for tying 

 npcatile. Tlipse chains, introduced l.»y E. H. Derfiy, Esq. 

 of Salem, and Col. Jacques, of Charlestown, for the pur 

 pose of securing cattle to the stall, are found to lie the safest 

 and most convenient mode of fastening cows and oxen to iht- 

 stanchion. They consist of a chain which passes round the 

 animal's neck, and by a ring attached to the stall, plays free- 

 ly up and down, and leaves the animal ai liberty to lie down 

 or rise at pleasure, and keeps him perfectly secure. 



July 15. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



BERKSHIRE PIGS PR0.1I HAWS'S STOCK. 



The subscriber has on hand a few littres, from some of 

 the largest and finest sows in the country, sired by Losing's 

 and other imported boars. Also, the smaller class of Berk- 

 shire pigs, which are very f'eautiful animals, and delicious 

 porkers Either of the above stocks will lie disposed of 

 extremely low by applying to Z. STANDISH. 



N. B. The pigs will be neatly caged and shipped at New 

 York, without extra charge, if required. Unquestionable 

 reference will be given for thorough breeding. 



Albany, August 19. 41 



THE NEW KNGI.A.VD PAUIWF.K 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per anniiMi 

 payable at the end of the year — but those who pay wilhiH 

 sixtydays from the lime of subscriliing are entitled lo a le 

 diictionof 50 cents. 



TOTTLE, DENNETT AND CHISHOLM, PRINTERS, 



n .scHooi, i!Tiik:i:T ■ ..en^ry^ 



