112 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



OCT. y, 1x40. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



TILLAGE. 



" 'Tis folly in itu' cxtrcrne lo till 



Extensive fields anil till ilium ill ; 



The farEimr pleusiil, iii.iy biiast almnl 



Ills busliuls sown, liis atTcs ploughed, 



And pleased, indulgi! thi! chi'iTiri^' hope 



That time will bring a |ilenleous i rop ; 



Shrewd eoinnion sense sits laughing by, — 



For when maturing seasons smile, 



Thin siieaves shall digiippninl his lull. 



Advised, this empty pride expel ; 



Till LITTLE, and that litile well. 



Of taxing, (i^ncing, toil, no more 



Your ground requires when rieli ihan poor; 



And more one (ertile acre yields, 



Than the huge breadth of barren field-;. 



" Ne.'it be your farms ; 'tis long confessed 



The neatest farmer is the best. 



Each bog and marsh, indu.^trious drain, 



Nor let vile balks deform the plain j 



No bushes on your heaiiland grow, 



For briars a sloven's culture show. 



Neat be your barns, your houses neat, 



Your doors be clean, your court-yards sweet ; 



No moss the sheltering roof enshroud. 



Nor wooden panes the window cloud, 



No filthy kennels foully flow, 



Nor weeds with rankling poisim gr(»w ; 



But shadtiB expand and Iruit trees bloom, 



And flowering shrubs exhale perfume ; 



With pales 3'our garden ciicle round ; 



Defend, enrich, and clean the groiind ; 



Prize high the pleasing, useful rood, 



And fill with vegetables good." 



From the Albany Cultivator. 

 MAKING AUGER HOLES Will] A GI.MLET 



" My boy what are you doing there with that 

 gimlet ?" said I the other iiiorniiig to a flaxen hair- 

 ed urchin, who was laboring away with a!! his 

 might at a piece of board before him. " Trying to 

 make an augur hole !" was his reply, witliout rais- 

 ing his eyes or suspending his operations. 



" Precisely the business of at least two-thirds of 

 the world, in this blessed year of our Lord 1840, is 

 this making auger holes with a gimlet;" I said to 

 myself, as I walked musingly onward. 



Here is young A., who has ju.st escaped from the 

 clerk's desk behind the counter. He sports his 

 mustaches; wears his hair long ; has acquired the 

 power of being shaved ; carries a rattan ; drinks 

 champaign when lie can coinniaiid an X to pur- 

 chase a bottle, and treat a friend to a dinner; talks 

 large of the price current, fall of western stocks, 

 and profits of banking ; standi in his boots two 

 inches taller than Aslor or Appletnn; and speaks 

 of foreign excliangc.^ as would Roilichild or Hiddle. 

 He thinks he is a great man, v,'lien all others know 

 he is only making auger holes with a gimlet. 



Mr B. is a rabid politician. He has labored 

 hard at caucuses, at ward and town meetiiitre, has 

 has talked of the dear people till the words (low 

 parrot like from his lips, and has dune a full share 

 of the dirty work of party for years. Ofiice Iris 

 been the lure held out to lead him onwards, and 

 which has made him neglect his business, spend 

 his time in hunting up recruits, drilling the relrac- 

 tory, and qualifying himsell for bar-room argument 



and stump oratory. He can settle the afiairs of 

 the nation in a trice ; diplomacy has no intricacies 

 for hiin ; he has shaken hands with the president, 

 and is a great man. He will soon be used up, and 

 cast aside ; and will then see, as others now do, 

 that he is chasing a jack o'lantern, that he is mak- 

 ing auger holes with a gimlet. 



'J'here is Miss C, who is really a pretty girl, and 

 who might bei-ome a woman, a man of sense would 

 be proud of. Now, she apes the loii in all things ; 

 reads exciting novels, goes to the opera, admires 

 Celeste's dancing, has nearly ceased lo blush at 

 the must indecent nudity, lounges on sofas, glories 

 in her idleness, keeps her bed till noon, coquets 

 with male animals as femiiiiue as herself, imagines 

 she is a belle, forgets that her lather was a cooper, 

 lisps of high lile, and plebeian |)resumption, and 

 is in a fair way to nun herself. All tins comes of 

 her belief that an auger hole can be made by a 

 gimlet. 



Mr D., whom I have just passed, may be put 

 down as a distinguished professor of the gimlet. 

 He was a farmer. His father left him a fine farm 

 tree of incumbrance ; but speculation became rife, 

 fortunes were made in a twinkling, and D, fancied 

 " one thing could be done as well as another." 

 So he sold his farm, and bought wild lands in 

 the prairies, and corner lots in lithographed cities ; 

 and began to dream of wealth worthy of "golden 

 Ind." Work he could not ; it had suddenly be- 

 come degrading. Who could think of tilling or 

 being contented with a hundred acres of land, 

 whan thousands of acres in the broad west were 

 waiting for occupants or owners. D. was nut the 

 man to do it, and he operated to the extent oi his 

 means. At last the land bubble broke ; lithograph- 

 ed cities were discovered to be mere bogs ; and 

 prairie farms, though the basis of exhaustless 

 wealth, worthless unless rendered productive by 

 labor. But D.'s beautiful farm is gone, and as he 

 is now preparing on Compulsion to become a pio- 

 neer in the west, he feels that it is difficult to make 

 augur holes with a gimlet. 



Mr E. is the representative of quite a class. 

 He had his attention awakened to the subject of 

 religion, and obtained new views of its importance 

 anu his own obligations. Believing what cannot 

 be disputed, that love to God and good will to mju, 

 is the only true source of happiness, and feeling, as 

 every benevolent mind must, a desire for the wel- 

 fare ot his race, he fancied himself called to de- 

 clare these truths to the world ; and lorsaking his 

 lapstone, his anvil, or his plough, became without 

 delay an expounder of thj scriptures, a self-delega- 

 ted instructor of mankind. He forgot that the age 

 of miracles had ceased; and that the ability to 

 teach must now be acquired by the slow but neces- 

 sary process of human learning. He begins to 

 have misgiving that he has mistaken his call; and 

 will probably discover, when loo late to rectify the 

 error, that he has spent the best half of his life in 

 trying to make auger holes with a gimlet. 



Observer. 



Ii'ltUIT AND ORNAniEIIiTAL. TREBS, Jtc. 



Fruit Trees of all the different species — of the 

 most celebrated kinds. These include Pears, 

 Plums, Apples, Quinces, «.Vc. — the trees of the 

 Peach and Cherry, especially, are of the finest 

 size, and in numbers abounding at this lime, and 

 oi varieties unsurpassed. The C'nialugue of Kruit and 

 Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, llos.-sand Herbaceous Flow- 

 ering Plants, will be sent lo all who apply : in ihal Cata- 

 logue many o! the very best kinds of fruits, so far as proved, 

 are particularly designated by a star. 



Also, Grape Vines, Raspberries, Strawberries, Goose 

 berries, uiul Mulberries for s(7A-— Scutch Lurch, Lindens, 

 Sycamores, Silver Firs, Willows, Klm.s — Honeysuckles, 

 Djhlias, splendid Pafonies, &c. &e Trees when so ordered, 

 will be securely packed for transporiation to distant places, 

 and all orders promptly executed by 



WILLIAM KENltlCK. 

 Nonantum Hill, Newton, near Uoslon. Sept. 9, Id40. 

 eplDl 



BONE manure: 



The subscriber informs his frirmls ynd the publi ■, that 

 after ten years experience, he is fully convinced that s,round 

 ttoiies form the most powerful slimulaiil that can he applied 

 10 the earth as a manure. 



Orders for Bone Manure or Oyster Shell Lime, left at the 

 Bone Mill, near Tremont road, in Koxbury, at the New 

 England Agricultural Warehouse and Seeit Store, No i'i 

 North iMarket Streel, or through the I'ost Office will meet 

 with prompt attention. 



March4, I84U. NAHUM WARD. 



HORTICULTURAI. TOOl. CIIBSTS 



Containing a complete set of Garden tools of superior finish 

 and style, recently received fiom Liverpool and fur sate at the 

 New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store. 



May 6. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



PATENT SPRl.XG BAL.ANCE. 



A few of those very convenient spring balances, for fami- 

 ly use. a very simple contrivance for weighing small articles. 

 JOSEPH BRECK & CO. No. 51 and 52 North Market 

 Street, Boston. 



July 15. 



FENCE CHAINS. 



Just received from England, at the New Engl.ind Agricul- 

 tural Warehouse, 6 casks chains, suitable for making the 

 chain fence, &c. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Julv 15. 



BERKSHIRE HOGS. 



The subscribers offer for. sale a few pair of full blooded 

 Berkshire Hogs; also, pigs 7-3 blood, crossed with Mackay. 

 Inquire at the New England Fanner office, or at their farm 

 at Brighton. JOSEPH BRECK 41 CO. 



July 9. 



GARDi!;NERS' KNIVES. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. have this season imported and 

 now offer for sale a few very superior Garden Knives, for 

 priiiiiug, &c. manufactured expressly for Gardeners, and 

 warranted superior to any article of the kind before import- 

 ed. 



.Mso — a large assortment of Budding Knives, Grape 

 Scissors, file. &c. 



April 22. 



TRACE CHAINS. 



Just received, direct from the English mannfaeturesr, 8 

 casks of Trace Chains, from 6 to 1 1 feel lony, suitable for 

 ploughing or draft chains. JOSEPH BllECK &. CO. 



Hli ACINTHS. 



The subscribers have received a large assortment of Dou- 

 ble and Single Hyacinihsof every color and shade. .\lso. 

 Tulips of mixed sorts, Crown Imperials, and Lilies: ihey 

 have also at iheir garden all the fine varieties of Pteoiues, 

 which will be furnisheil at o le ilay's notice. Lilies and 

 Paeonies, and Crown Imperials, should be planted iii August 

 or the first of September. We sliall receive a great variety 

 of Bullions Roots, from Ilullaud, in a few weeks, when no- 

 tice will be given. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



August 2ti. 



TIE UP CHAINS. 



Just received at the New England Agriculuiral Ware 

 house, a good supply of those celebrated Chains for tying 

 upcatlle. These chains, introduced by E. H. fterhy, Esq. 

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

 pose of securing callle to the stall, are found to be the safest 

 and most convenient mole of fastening cows and oxen to the 

 stanchion. They consist of a chain which passes round the 

 animal's neck, and by a ring attached lo the stall, (days free- 

 ly up and down, and leaves the animal at liberty \a lie down 

 or rise at pleasure, and keeps him perfectly secure. 



July 15. JOSEPH BilKUK & CO. 



THE NEW i:Nai.A:vD PAfi.llKK 



Is published every VVcdncsda\ Evening, at S,3 per annu'ii 

 payable at the end of t!ie year — but iho.sc who pay withitk 

 sixtydays from the limcot' subscribing arc eaiitUd to a te 

 duclionof 58 cents. 



DENNETT AND CHISHOLM, PKlNrrRS, 



17 «cni'iti »crRi hT - .. ei-^'i*-'- 



