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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FEB. ai, 184:1. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



GOING TO 



Yes, there are some men, and farmers too, that 

 are always going to — but never do it. In the cir- 

 cle of my acquaintance, I know of one farmer that 

 has not a sinfjle edged tool on his premises, except 

 axes and scythes, and yet he has beeng-oing- to get 

 a set of carpenter's tools for more than ten years. 

 Another, and a large fanner too, that does not own 

 a roller, but for five years past has borrowed one 

 of his neighbor four or five days in each year — 

 probably to satisfy himself as regards its utility as 

 a farming implement. Another has not, but is 

 always going to get a cart rope, and a set of pulley 

 blocks. Another \s going to get him a set of dry 

 measures, though he sella more than a hundred 

 bushels of fruit and grains annually. Another, and 

 Ibis man has always been going to burn dry wood 

 after this year, but he never has done it. And 

 singular as it may appear, one man that has been 

 going to build him a better hog-pen than the one 

 in which he now keeps his swine, and he has been 

 going to for fifteen years. And there are many 

 farmers that have been going to have better fences 

 better gates, better crops, and better stock, until I 

 think they are now either really going to do it, or 

 that they are sadly deficient of that energy and de 

 cision of character that should characterize every 

 American farmer. And finally, I know of one 

 man, who is almost deficient of every article and 

 farming implement above named ; and if I was go 

 insf *o tell you the reason, I should say, this man 

 has been going to stop drinking ardent spirits for a 

 long time. But judging from the looks of his farm 

 and from his own most wretched personal appear- 

 ance, I should say that this man, with rapid strides, 

 was fast going to [Farmers Gaz. 



From the same. 



THEY DON'T WORK IT RIGHT. 

 When I sec a farmer in health, who sleeps after 

 sunrise in the morning, I am fearful he don't work 

 it right. And if he does not get an early breakfast 

 then s/if don 't work it right. And immediately 

 after, if every tool is not ready for the workmen, 

 and the work cut out for the day, then he don 't 

 work it right. And if the old horse must be got 

 up before noon to haul the old wagon with the 

 good lady, five eggs and a pound of butter, to 

 market five days out of seven, then she don't work 

 it right. If all hands, including the farmer's sons, 

 are allowed to stop work at eleven, to drink rum 

 and tell long yarns for half an hour or more, he 

 don 't work it right I Or if the daughters are al- 

 lowed to spin street yarn through the day, tlien 

 surely s/ic don 't work it right ! And if the farmer 

 is not adding, year after year, to the value of his 

 farm, to the weight of his purse, and greatly to his 

 stock of general information, it must be because he 

 don 't work it right in neglecting to take and pay 

 for one or more agricultural papers. Lexos. 



Excellent hints to Mechanics. « Avoid giving 



long credits, even to your best customers. A man 

 who can pay easily will not thank you for the de- 

 lay, and a slack, doubtful paymaster is not too val- 

 uable as a customer to dun sharply and seasonably. 

 A fish n ay as well attempt to live without water, or 

 a man without air, as a mechanic without punctu- 



ality and promptness in collecting and paying his 

 debts. It is a mistaken and ruinous policy to at- 

 tempt to keep on and get business by delaying col- 

 lections. When you lose a slack paymaster from 

 books, you only lose the chance of losing your 

 money — and there is no man who pays more mo- 

 ney to lawyers than he who is least prompt in col- 

 lecting lor himself. 



If'e DID NOT SAY SO. — Upon taking up our last 

 number, the eye hit upon this paragraph : 



"He who borrows from a friend generally has to 

 pay a dollar's worth of acknowledgements and 

 friendly acts for every cent he lends you." 



This is not ours — neither its sentiment nor its 

 grammar is ours, — it is not ours either by birth or 

 adoption. How it came where it stands we know 

 not. There is in every printing office a fellow 

 whose name is prima facie evidence that he might 

 be guilty of the deed. We put it tipon him ; and 

 for his instruction we will tell him, that he who 

 borrows o( a friend, generally can pay all demands 

 against him, by simply returning, agreeable to prom- 

 ise, what he has borrowed, and saying 1 thank you. 

 And for the further instruction of said culprit, we 

 will add, that he who borrows of an enemy, does 

 much towards making that enemy his friend. — Ku. 



" WE DID NOT say so." — To the Editor: The 

 compositor, though nolnoio filling the situation in 

 the printing office of the " fellow " to whom you 

 allude, is perfectly willing to assume his mantle 

 and " take the responsibility " which you would 

 impose upon him, in regard to the obno.xious para- 

 graph. He owns himself " the culprit," so far as 

 this : he put the paragraph where it is — so far on- 

 ly is he culpable : the sentiment is none of his 

 conception, nor is the grammar of his manufacture. 

 Being in want of a few lines to fill out a column — 

 (no small pieces being furnished by the editor for 

 this purpose) — and withal in a great hurry at the 

 time, he found, in a neicspnper, the paragraph in 

 question, and without stopping to consider the cor- 

 rectness of its sentiment or the propriety of its 

 grammar, used it for the purpose mentioned. Ho 

 trusts this statement of the circumstances will in- 

 duce you to believe that "the culprit" was not in- 

 fluenced in the transaction by any of those motives 

 which you seem to think the clutracter he assumes 

 might warrant; and also, that he is not so much of 

 an ignoramus in grammar, as to be unable to de- 

 tect so flagrant a violation of its rules as the one 

 to which you allude. With the utmost deference 

 to your erudition, he would assure you, that though 

 editors may be presumed to know every thing, there 

 are many cases in which that much abused " fellow " 

 of the printing office you refer to, can correct their 

 grammar. — Sincerely thanking you for the excel- 

 lent advice contained in your reprimand, (and like- 

 wise for that copy of " Lacon," from which to ob- 

 tain small paragraphs in future,) permit me, respect- 

 ed sir, to subscribe myself 

 I'oiir humble co-worker 



In the dissemination of knowledge, 



The "D L." 



The following toast was lately given at a cele- 

 bration in Milwaukie, Wisconsin Territory : 



"The Banks of Wisconsin — (the Mother Earth) 

 — The more they iire broken, the better dividends 

 they pay." 



POUDRETTF. 



This valuable manure may be liad on application to the 

 subscviber, at llie office of the " New York Poudrette Com- 

 pany," No. 120 Nassau street, New York. It is in-odorous, 

 and may be Iransponed in barrels, on board of any vessel 

 or steamijoat, without offence — and it will be found an ex- 

 ceedingly valuable article as nfeTiilizcr on any soil, and for 

 any crops; Iiut more especially lor gardens and fiowers, as 

 there are uo foul seeds in it. Poudrette has been used for 

 three seasons with entire success on Long Island, by many 

 practical farmers, as may be ascertained from letters and 

 statements made by them, and published at this office in a 

 pamphlet containing also the "act of incorporation," granted 

 to the Company by the Legislature of the Slate of New 

 York ; and other facts in relation to the subject. Price 35 

 cents per bushel. Barrels cost 25 cents each, and hold 4 

 bushels. Persons wishing to make an experiment on a 

 small scate cL\n obtain one barrel by enclosmg a two dollar 

 current bank bill — or three barrels by enclosing ^rc dollars, 

 free of posliige. On receipt of the money the article will be 

 put up anil forwarded as directed. 



*:(* Price of shares, one hundred dollars— which entitles 

 the hokler to one hundred bushels of poudrette annually, 

 during the term of ihe charter; fifty bushels in time for spring- 

 use, and fifty bushels in time for fall use. Shares taken 

 soon, will be entitled to the spring uividend— and, if desired 

 for experiment, a few bushels may be had this fall. 



All orders, or applications in relation to the business, 

 must be made to the subserilter, 120 Nassau street, New 

 York. D. K, MINOR. 



Jj" I wish it distinctly understood that the " New York 

 Poudrette Company" is in no way connected with the 

 " Lodi Manufacturing Company," of which Anthony Dey 

 and Pcler Barthclemy ate, or were, ihe managers. 



Dec. 9, :S40. 3m. D. K. M. 



POl'DRETTE. 



The subscribers reside in the state of New Jersey, many 

 of us in the vicinity of the works erected by Anthony Dey, 

 of the city of New York, on the Hackensack river, in New 

 .Tersey, for the manufactory of Urate and Poudrette, called 

 " The Lodi Manufacturing- Company.^' We have used the 

 poudrette on the Spring Crops this year, 1840. We find it 

 a valuable m,anure, superior to any other kind that we haoe 

 ccer used, and considering the facility of its transportation 

 to the f eld, the small quantity required in the application to 

 the crops, the quickness of its operation on res;clable mattci, 

 and the ease with whichit can be applied, — alftend to recom- 

 mend its use to the farmer and gardener as the cheapest and 

 best manure, and we recommend it accordingly. 



Those of us who have applied it to corn and potatoes think 

 that it ripens those vegetables quicker than anv other ma- 

 nure bv several weeks. 



Dated New Jersey, October, 1S40. 



Jacob D. Van Muikle. P. P. Welsh. 



John J: Ncwk-irk. G. C. Van Riper. 



John Tise. George Tise. 



Daniel Van Riper. William Wood. 



George Dcmoit. John Duryee. 



Henry Drayton. George Newkirk. 



Josiah Hornblower. Garret Newkirk. 



Corns. Van Winkle. Daniel Vreeland. 



Shares in the above company are StOO each, and may be 

 had by applying to Anthony Dey No. 73 Cedar St. New 

 York. — The owner will receive 20 per cent, per annum, 

 payable in money, or 50 bushels ofPoudrette. The price to 

 those who buy Poudrette is 40 cents a bushel. It costs the 

 Stockholders 12 cents a bushel. One cents worth, that is, 

 20 Gills, will manure 20 hills of corn, and the like quantity 

 l5 hills of Potatoes. 



Newspapers friendly to agric'jlture will confer a favor on 

 the Farmers and Gardeners bv publishing the above. 



Dec. 22. 



NEW PIiOWER SEEDS. 



The subscribers have received from London a choice col- 

 lection of Flower Seeiis, which, with those raised by them- 

 selves, constitute all worthy ol cultivation. Price from 6 1-4 

 to 25 cents per paper. Assortment of those marked 6 1-4 

 cents, 20 papers for one dollar, and others in the same pro- 

 portion. JOS. BRECK & CO. 



Feb. 10. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A WEKKLY PAPER. 



The Editorial department of this paper having come 

 into the bands of the subscriber, he is now authorized 

 by the publishers to inform the public that the price of 

 the paper is reduced. In future the terms will bo $2 

 per year in advance, or $2 50 if not paid within thirty 

 days. 



ALLEN PUTNAM. 



N. B. — Postmasters are required by law to frank all 

 subscriptions and remittances for newspapers, without 

 expense to subscribers. 



Mr Geo. Tappan is our agent at New Bedford, Mass. 



