1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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JFanntr's Almanack ! How should we know when 

 it rains, or when the plants need watering, or when 

 to g«t the sJeigh out, or to hang the shirts out to 

 dry, if that "jolly old brick" in the title-page, flap- 

 ping his wings and wasting all the water in his jug, 

 djjn't teJl us ? 



Tiien, to live like anybody, go to Hickling, Swan 

 & Brown's, Boston, and purchase it. 



CHIMES FOR THE TIMES. 



Br WILLIAlf LTLE. 



Be ntjt jea.lous over-much, 



But hope and time will make you better; 

 There is a faith care cannot touch, 



Which leaves the soul without a fetter. 

 O ! it is but a sorry creed 



To look for nothing but deceiving — 

 To meet a kindness in your need, 



With a smile of misbelieving ! 

 The tide of ill is not so strong ; 

 Man loves not always wrath and wrong. 



It cannot be that every heart 



Is steeled so much against its neighbor ; 

 Let each with reason play his part, 



And fruit will spring from out the labor ; 

 Progressing still life's journey through, 



Be just and kind towards your fellow, 

 Remembering whate'er you do. 



That duty spreads the smoothest pillow ' 



And ne'er the hand of friendship spurn. 

 But trust, and man will trust in turn. 



Some men there be who deem it good 



In trade to overreach a brotner ; 

 And some who would not, though they could, 



Upraise a hand to help another ; 

 They deem not, though convulsions wide 



May show the earth by danger shaken, 

 That still of hearts unjust through pride, 



A dark and true account is taken ; 

 Kingdoms may quake and thrones may fall, 

 But God is looking over all. 



! join not then the strifes of men, 



But hourly show by waxing kinder, 

 That ye have reached the moment when 



Reason no more is growing blinder ! 

 And though ye hope that time should yield 



A change for each benighted nation. 

 Seek not at first so wide a field 



To fling the seeds of reformation ; 

 But sow them first in hearts at home. 

 Then trust in God, and fruit will come. 



Mark-Lane Express. 



INSTRUCTION IN AGRICULTURE. 



It appears by a recent catalogue of Amherst Col 

 lege, that the winter term of that Institution will 

 commence on the 9th of January, and is to continue 

 fourteen weeks. Of the large and increasing num- 

 ber of students, several we are glad to see, are de- 

 voting themselves to the study of Agriculture, un- 

 der the direction of Prof. Nash; and there can be 

 no doubt that young men having an • eye to the 

 farm, as their field of future action, can acquire, by 

 a trifling expense of time and money, knowledge, 

 which will be of essential service to them through 

 life. Besides instruction in Practical Agriculture, 

 in connection with a liberal course of reading, and a 



free use of the geological and other cabinets, there 

 is to be, we understand, during the coming term, a 

 very full and complete course of chemical lectures 

 by Professor Clark. In chemistry, as taught by 

 experimental lectures, with apparatus ample for il- 

 lustrating and making plain its difficult points, we 

 have long thought, is the key to many of the far- 

 mer's most earnest inquiries ; and we should think 

 that this course of lectures alone would be worth 

 more to a young farmer, or one wishing to become 

 a farmer, than the expenses of the whole term. 



We shall wonder, if many of our young men, who 

 desire to be intelligent farmers, do not avail them- 

 selves of the privileges offered by Amherst College ; 

 for we do not believe that fourteen weeks and ten 

 dollars for tuition lectures, use of cabinets, and oth- 

 er means for acquiring knowledge, could be better 

 employed by the young farmer, or the young man 

 who is looking to the farm for the employment of 

 his future industry and skill. 



CHEAP OIL FOR KITCHEN LAMPS. 



We find the following in an old almanac, and 

 think, that, if it will operate as stated, it would be 

 of some consequence in our domestic economy. 

 To keep a good light, at the present high price of 

 oil, is quite an item of expense, and any suggestion 

 that will put us in the way of reducing that expense, 

 and of obtaining a good light at the same time, is 

 worthy of consideration. Oil that could be pur- 

 chased five years ago for $1,25 cents per gallon, now 

 sells at $2, and the dirty whale oil that was then 

 considered unfit for the most common use, is sell- 

 ing now at eighty or ninety cents, and even one 

 dollar a gallon. 



"Let all scraps of fat (including even whatever 

 bits are left on the dinner-plates) and all drippings, 

 be set in a cold place. When the crock is full, 

 transfer the fat to an iron pot, filling it half-way 

 up with fat, and pour in sufficient cold water to 

 reach the top. Set it over the fire, and boil and 

 skim it, till the impurities are removed. Next pour 

 the melted fat into a large broad pan of cold water, 

 and set it away to cool. It will harden into a cake. 

 Then take out the cake, and put it away in a cool 

 place. When wanted for use, cut off a sufficient 

 quantity, melt by the fire till it becomes Hquid, and 

 then fill the lamp with it, as with lard. It will give 

 a clear, bright light, quite equal to that of lard, and 

 better than whale oil, and it costs nothing but the 

 trouble of preparing the fat. We highly recom- 

 mend this piece of economy." 



Fine Apples. — We have before us one of Mor- 

 rison's incomparable Red Seedling apples, and one 

 of the Red Russet, which Mr. Cole said "seems to 

 be a cross between the Baldwin and Roxbury Rus- 

 set." It has patches of carmine similar to those on 

 the Hunt Russet, and we know of no other apple 

 which has them. Both these apples are as fine in 

 flavor as in appearance. Mr. Morrison is now test- 

 ing their keeping qualities. 



