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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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and can be put up in a basement, hall or parlor, 

 as may be desired. It requires no more than 

 ordinary skill in its management, and may safe- 

 ..y be intrusted to servants who can attend upon 

 an air furnace. 



It receives a supply of fuel in the morning 

 sufficient for twenty-four hours, and the steam 

 does not vary in amount night or day. 



The steam is condensed in the radiators in the 

 rooms, and runs back to the boiler through the 

 same pipe that conveys it from the boiler. If 

 there is no escape of steam or no leakage, the 

 same water j}ut into the boiler in the autumn will 

 he found there in the spring, undiminished in 

 quantiti/. There is a simple device for feeding 

 water, if it is wanted. 



The amount of fuel required is very small, not 

 more than half the amount used in hot air fur- 

 naces. 



EXPLANATION OF THE CUT. 



A, are the water cocks to show the height of the 



water in the boiler. 



B, the fire pot. The fire is built in the boiler, by 



taking off the cover at B, and putting in 

 the coal. 

 C C, are pipes for conveying steam to the radi- 

 ators. 



D, is a safety valve. 



E, a water vessel sliding upon a tube to open 



and close the air-draft valves at F. 

 G, shows the position of the ash pit. 

 H, an opening into the space around the boiler. 

 I, the handles to the grate. 



It is not so much our purpose now to speak of 

 the advantages of this arrangement in regard to 

 health as to the economy of the matter ; but the 

 great superiority of steam heat over that got by 

 stoves or hot air furnaces, is very generally un- 

 derstood and conceded. Health and safety ought 

 to be the first consideration, — but a saving of 

 dollars will be, by a majority. 



A six months' use of this steamer has con- 

 vinced us that we can save the whole cost of the 

 apparatus in a few years in the item of fuel 

 alone. Then there is a great saving of time, as 

 it does not require half the time to fend it to 

 warm the whole house, that it does to tend a 

 stove to warm a single room ! Another item of 

 saving is in sweeping. There is no dust from it, 

 either of ashes or coal, so that very little sweep- 

 ing of carpets or floors is required. 



It is ornamental, durable, economical, abso- 

 lutely safe, as it is impossible for it to explode, 

 and gives an elastic, wholesome air to breathe, 

 warmed up to 65° or 75°, without depriving it 

 of any of its vital powers, or adding anything 

 hurtful to it. When the thermometer stands at 

 70 in the room, the air has a cool and fresh feel- 



ing, like that blowing upon a person standing in 

 the shade in a hot summer day. 



Those who are building may introduce this 

 steamer at a very cheap rate, as but one chim- 

 ney will be found necessary in the house. 



For further particulars inquire of Messrs. Bra- 

 man, Perham & Co., 8 Charlestown Street, Bos- 

 ton. 



THE NEW MOWJSr HAT. 



BY CHARLES MACKAT. 



When swallows dart from cottage eaves. 

 And farmers dream of barley sheaves ; 

 When apples peep amid the leaves 



And woodbines scent the way — 

 We love to fly from daily care, 

 To breathe the country buxom air — 

 To join our hands and form a ring — 

 To laugh and sport — and dance and sing, 



Amid the new mown hay. 



A stranger comes with eyes of blue ; 

 Quoth he, '-I'm Love, the youth and true ; 

 I wish to pass an hour with you, 



This pleasant summer day." 

 "Come in ! coite in ! you saucy elf ! 

 And who's your friend '" " Tis friendship's self." 

 "Come each — come both, our sports to share ; 

 There's welcome kind, and room to spare, 



Amid the new-mown hay." 



The ring is formed ; but who are these.' 

 "Come, tell your errand, if you please ; 

 You look so sour and ill at ease, 



You dim the face of day." 

 "Ambition!" "Jealousy!" and "Strife!" 

 And "Scorn !" and "Weariness of Life !" 

 "If such your names, we hate your kin ; 

 The place is full, you can't come in 



Amid the new-mown hay." 



Another gu«st comes bounding by, 

 With brow unwrinkled, fair and high — 

 With sun -burnt face and roguish eye, 



And asks your leave to stay. 

 Quoth he, "I'm Fun, your right good friend!" 

 "Come in ! come in ; with you we'll end !" 

 And thus we frolic in a ring — 

 And thus we laugh, and dance, and sing, 



Amid the new-mown hay. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 INSTINCT OP ANIMALS, 

 Messrs. Editors: — For the specimen of your 

 valuable paper under the new firm, I thank you. 

 Most animals have some peculiarities indicative 

 of a change in the weather, beside the grass-eat- 

 ing dog. The goose, for instance, that usually 

 may be found sitting about the farmer's door, in 

 the summer time, in pleasant nights, however 

 pleasant the afternoon and evening may be, if it 

 is to be rainy or stormy before morning, will 

 most certainly take shelter. Yet they have not 

 the least idea of perpendicular distance, for they 

 will quite as lowly bow the head in passing un- 

 der the great doors of the barn as under the low- 

 est rail of a fence. Swine, especially those with 

 families of pigs, will indicate a change of weather, 

 and quite surely before a thunder storm, by the 

 great fear they manifest in their uneasiness. A 

 litter of pigs at sea, are as valuable as a barom- 



