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EW ENGLANi? F A K M E 11, 



iHCC 6, ig.t'T. 



The folluwing is desciiplive tif ' Tlie Seasons,' wiih 

 ».heir apprnpiiato application to Iiurnan life : 

 How swiftly pass our yeurs ! 



How soon their night comes on ! 

 A train of hopes and fears, — 



And liunian life is gone ' 

 See, the fair sunimiT now is past ; 



The foliage late that clad the trees, 

 Stript by the equinoctial blast, 



Falls like the dew-drops on the breeze. 



Cold winter hastens on ! 



Fair nature feels his grasp ; 

 Weeps o'er her beauties gone, 



And sighs thy glory past! 

 So, life, thy summer soon will end. 



Thine autuvm loo, will quick decay. 

 And winter come, when thou siialt bend _ 



Within the tomb to mould away ! 



But summer will return, 



In all her beauties .dressed ; 

 Nature shall rejoice Bgain 



And be by man caressed. 

 But O, life's summer, pasised away, 



Can never, never hope return"; 

 Cold winter comes, with cheerfess ray, 



To beam upon its dreary urn. 



Then may /daily seek 



A mansion in the skies. 

 Where summers never cease 



And glory never dies ! 

 There an eternal spring shall bloom 



With joys as vast as angels' powers ; 

 And thrice tKn thousand harps in tune 



Shall praise the love that made it ours. 



Olive Branch. 



WORTHY OF IMITATION. 



No. — is ti countcrimiie by A!rs J. Q,. Adams. 

 The ladies, iipnn viewing lliis article, seemed to 

 have some tliou{;hts of amiiilion. — Boston paper. 



The News, published at Portsmoalh, New 

 Hampshire, says: — 



We have selected the almve as a te.xt, not to 

 preach a homily from to our redders, hut as one 

 introductory to some few remarks 'V')ou the piano 

 taste so much in vofjiie at the present lime. It 

 strikes us, that the whole sco|)e uf female educa- 

 tion at the present day, is to inake young ladies 

 into nwve parlor ornaments ; and most parents, in 

 sending their daughters to school, seem to be ac- 

 tuated by the same motives as llicy are in Keiiding 

 a sofa to the upholsterer, or a mirror to the gilder, 

 — merely to ree,eive ii little varnish, or an addition 

 of gilding, that they may make a show. Utility 

 or usefidness is not of tho question. Pre|)aration 

 for domestic duties is never thought of. 'i'o quote 

 Byron or Bulwer is in exquisite taste ; but to 

 name a recipe from Childs or Leslie is the height 

 of vulgarity. To make scrap ipnoks, have an al- 

 bum, criticise a |>riut, declaitn upon a mooidight 

 scene, asd fingei a piano, is to be accomplished ; 

 but to have recipe books, to make sensible re- 

 marks upon common-place things, manufacture or 

 mend a garment, c(;ok a diiuier, or lian<lle a 

 broom-stick, is to ho vulgar. Not so with our 

 mothers and grandmothers. Not so with the lady 



of our venerable ex-president. With ti.em ac- 

 complishments and oriiainent, romance and moon- 

 gaziiig, were minor objects, and made secondary 

 lo domestic duty. Preparation for domestic life 

 was the great accoinpiishment aimed at. The 

 substance first, then the shallow — material first, 

 then the gilding. But with us it is all shadovv 

 and gilding, show and ornament. The sub- 

 stance and material may be picked up as they 

 can. 



Mrs Adams has done her countrywomen a 

 great service by exhibiting her handiwork at do- 

 mestic manufacture. It proves what employments 

 are in vogue in high places, and that a lady may 

 be fasliiontible and accomplished, yet engage in 

 active domestic; duties — in domestic manufacture 

 — without becoming vulgar by so doing. We 

 hope her example will lie followed — that there 

 w.ll he less fingering the piano, and more finger- 

 ing the needle — less attention to romancf, ami more 

 alten'ion to reality. We would not be understood 

 that we wish to discard what are termed accom- 

 plishments ; by no means. Let them be attained 

 — but not at the expense of almost every qualifi- 

 cation for active life. They should he secondary 

 objects, ad<led by way of ornament, but necessarily 

 composing no pait of the structure. We hope 

 better things are to come ; hut we are slaves to 

 fashion, and fashion makes it a necessary accoiri- 

 plisliitieiit for our young ladies, however deficient 

 lliey may be in musical taste or ear, to know 

 something of nuisic ; to have such acquaintance 

 with some instrument as to make a noise upon it, 

 and produce a crazy combination of sounds, 

 wherewith time and <i(7ic have no fellowship. 

 Consequently in almost every village, street and 

 house, you bear a coittinual clattvring, thumping, 

 ami claniinering, upon flagelets, guitars, harps and 

 pianos. And where is the advantage.' Is our 

 taste for music improved as a people ? Most as- 

 suredly not; for, apait from a I'ew orchestras we 

 could name, we, comparatively speaking, Jiave no 

 musjo ; and one half of our harp and piano per- 

 formers execute in sucii a manner that a well- 

 trained ear would most likely prefer the music 

 done by a respectable sounding hell upon a bell- 

 wether, or by a smart hail-storm upon a pile of 

 shingles. W<! are fund of music — but of all jmr- 

 lor music — give us the sjiinning-whecl. 



The Weather. — It is r>jmarkable that ifi three 

 years in the last six, the cold weather ''came in 

 like a lion" on the 24th day of November, and 

 moved on like a white bear through a long and 

 drejiry winter. In 1831, Novendier 24th, there 

 was a cold and violent snow-storm, succeeded by 

 severe winter weather, and, over much of the 

 st;tte, sh.'ighing, which continued withotit much 

 variation until January. In 1835, November 24th, 

 a similar storm dccurre<l, followed liy severe 

 weather and good sleighing till the April after, 

 nearly five months. In 1837, November 24lh, we 

 have a sitnilar visit from old Boreas, which thus 

 far equals either of its predecessors. — Lynn Rec- 

 ord. 



A new Joint Stock Company has been in- 

 corporated in Illinois for the purpose of man- 

 ufacturing beet sugar, oil from the poppy, and 

 the culture of silk. The capital of the com- 

 pniiy is two hundred thousand dollars, with the 

 privilege of holding real estate to a cerain ex- 

 tent. 



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MORI'S ML LTICAULIlj. ' 



The subscriber can furnish large and small quantities of the 

 gpii.iine Chinese mulberry, or Monis Miiliicaulis trees of the 

 most .'hrilty growth and matured wood. The tiees are from 

 two lo six feet in lieigM, and will be sold at the lowest prices, 

 in proportion !o their size. 'I'hey will he packed so as to in- 

 sure safe transportation to any part of the United States, 

 Orilers for not less loan one hundred will be deli-veied in New- 

 York, or Philadelphia, or shipped from thence or from Hart- 

 ford. October and Noveinher are the best monllis lor trans- 

 porting to the South and West. 



SILX WORM'S EGCiS, of three varieties. White or 

 Two Crop, ."Sulphur, and Orange colored. Silk Reels, Brook's 

 Silk Spinning' Machines, White mulberry seed, &r. &c. 



WM. G. COMSTOCK. 



Hartford September, 1837. 



gTKAVV CUTTEH. 



Just received a good supply of Greene's Patent Straw 

 ("ciller, one of the most pei.'ecl machines for cutting foddei 

 wliTch has ever been introduced for the |)iirpose, for sale a! 

 the Auriculiural Warehouse No u! and ^2 Norih IMarkei 

 Street. JOSiiPH URECKAND CO. 



Aug. 16, 1837. 



PEAR TREES. 



For sale at the Pomological Garden, Dearborn street, Nortln 

 t^alem, a great variety of Standard and Dwarf Pear Trees, 

 Orders directed to the subscriber will receive immediate at 

 tention. ROBERT IMANNING. 



Oct. 25, 1837. 



mORt S J»11IL,TICAU1.IS. 



The subscribers hive for sale a few thousand superior JMa 

 rus Multicaulis of extra size, which will be disposed of ON 

 reasonable terms. Also 50 000 culliiigs of the same. 



Sept. 27, 18j7. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



WINNOWING MILIi. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural WarehousOi 

 and teed Store, Nos. 51 & 52 North Market Street, Boston/. 

 Holmes's Winnowing Machine. This article was highly re- 

 commended by the committee at the late Fair. 



Likewise Sptinger's Patent Winnowing Machine, a ver 

 neat and convenient mill, 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



CLOVER SEED. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural Warehousn 

 and Seed Store, 10 tons prime Northern Clover. 

 Nov. 1. 



Hale's Horse Power and Thrcsbiiigf Macliiue 



For sale at the New England Agricultural Warehouse ani 

 Seed Store: the above machines Avere highly recommended b'' 

 the committees at the late fair, and by others who have us^i 

 them for tlie last two or three years. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Gl'NNY CliOTH AND GUNNY BAGS, 



Suitable for Hop Bagging, for sale by JAMES PRATT 

 July 5. No. 7, Commercial Whf. 



THE HEW ENGLAND FARItlER 



Is pui>lished every Wednesday Evening, at ^3 per anniiD 

 payable at the end of the 3'ear — but those wliu [lay withi' 

 sixty ■ ays from the I'me ol sul)scribing, are en'illed to a d| 

 duction otoO cents. I 



dyNo paper >\ ill be sent to a distance, without pnynici 

 elug made in advainice. 



AGENTS. 



flfeir York — G C. Thokburn , 1 1 Jolm-slreet. 

 Flushing, N. Y. — Wm . Princk itj. Sons, Prop. Lin Bol G» 

 Albixiiy—WM .THoKBURS,3.t7 .Markel-sticet. 

 Pkiladeluhia — D. ^- C. Landrkth,85 Chesnnt-slrcet. 

 /lidtimure — Publisher olAmcrlcan Fanner. 

 Cincinnati — S.C. Pahkhurst.23 Lower Market-Street. 

 MiddUbury. Vt. — Wight Chapma.i Alercliani 

 Taunton. Mass. — Saw'l O. Dunbar, Bookseller; 



ItarffnrJ — Gooou IS t^ Co. Pooksellers. 

 ,\rirl/iti uport — I'lliKNl.'./.KK Stkiiman, Bookseller. 

 l'orlsmo)tth,N. H. — John W. Foster .Bookseller, 



Woodstock, Vl. — J. A. Pratt. 



Brattlehoro' — Jos Stf.kn, Bookseller. 



ltaji"-or,Me. — Wm. iMann, l)iuggist,nnd Wbi. P.. Harloi 



ll,difii.r,N. S.— F.. Brown, Esq, 



Louisville — Samukl Coopeh, Bullil Street, 



St. Louis — H.L. HoFFMAS.and Wilms & Stetxhs. 



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