242 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



JAN. ir, 1838. 



ODE, 



flan'rat the Anniversary Celebration of the Chauncy Hall 

 ° School, Dec. 30, IS37. 



Tone—' God Save America.' 



Hushed is the Clarion's note — 

 No rustling banners float 



Above the scene ;— 

 The rolling drum is still — 

 No flashing weapons fill 

 Each plain and shadowy hill 



With dazzling sheen. 



Not such our oficring — 

 A simple wreath we fling 



At Learning's feet. 

 To bless her sacred name, 

 And praise with loud acclaim 

 God, who bestows her fame, — 



Foi' this we meet. 



With grateful joy we come — 

 Let not one voice be dumb — 



To greet this day. 

 One year has vanished by — 

 One gem is set on high. 

 Bright to eternity 



With Learnmg's ray ! 



Thus may it ever be. 

 Where Truth and Liberty 



United reign ; 

 Upon each youthful head. 

 May knowledge radiance shed, 

 And may her flame lie fed 



At Freedom's fane ! 



O God ! to thee we turn. 

 Our patriot bosoms burn 



in Freedom's cause. 

 But prompted may we be 

 In bright reality. 

 By heartfelt love for thee 



And Learning's laws. 



Pour forth your voice in song — 

 Our notes the breeze along 



In triumph swell. 

 Let learning be our guide, 

 With Freedom at her side — 

 Both are our Country's pride — 



Oh ! guard them well ! 



THINGS IN CANADA. 



A correspondent of the Springfield Gazette, de- 

 scribes some peculiarities o^ the Canadians as fol- 

 lows : — 



St Charles, denominated by some of our news- 

 papers the Bunker Hill of Lower Canada, is a 

 small village, situated on the right bank of the 

 Richelieu, thirty miles below St Johns. The 

 stage road which passes through it, from St Johns, 

 at the bead of the river, to Sorel at its mouth, is 

 80 little travelled as to be considerably overgrown 

 with grass. The Queen's mail stage runs between 

 these two important towns once a week; and is a 

 clumsy covered wagon, drawn by two horses. The 

 traveller in this region, usually mounts n horse 

 cart, fastened by the thills to a tough little Cana- 

 dian poney ; and the driver, so seated that his 

 feet dangle among the horses heels, whips him up 

 with the end of the reins, and cries out marche 

 done! Every few miles and sometimes more fre- 

 quently, he may observe a large cross erected in 

 the field, near the road, commonly surmounted by 

 n wooden rooster. A number of these crosses 

 bear the date of 1832 ; and were erected to keep 

 off the cholera. 



Many of the people also protect themselves 

 from all diseases by a sort of amulet, called the 

 JVbitiieHe medal. At the house of an uncommon- 



ly intelligent habitant, I found a book, which their 

 priest had sold them, containing an account of its 

 miraculous origin ; together with the certificate of 

 a great number of priests, both in France and 

 Canada, stating some of the numerous miraculous 

 cures it had effected by being worn ujion the 

 breast. In several of the cases, the physician had 

 given the jialient over; others were cases of cho- 

 lera in its worst stages. I could not fail to envy 

 those who enjoy the protection and instruction of 

 Catholic priests. 



The houses, are usually built of hewn logs. 

 They have a comfortable, though rude appearance ; 

 and are apparently well stocked with tenants. It 

 is said to be no uncommon thing for his son and 

 grandson to rear up their successive broods to- 

 gether in Ihe grandfather's cabin. The better class 

 of dwellings are of unhewn stone. 



The women, in short gowns and broad brim- 

 med straw hats, may be t.een in the fields gather- 

 ing hay, pulling flax or reaping with the men. 

 They are hired to do haying and harvesting for 

 about three shillings per week, while a man's 

 wages are usually forty coppers a day. 



Sometimes the women are also seen by the road 

 side baking; the ovens being built at some dis- 

 tance from the house. Again they may be seen 

 standing knee ileep in the river, washing clothes 

 by the side of a platform, — first plunging them 

 in the river and then pounding them on the plat- 

 form with a flat billet of wood. The people have 

 no trouble of digging wells, as all their water for 

 drinking and cooking is drawn from the river at 

 this platform. As the stream is somewhat slug- 

 gish, the water near the shores is not very clear. 

 The farmers have a convenient way of getting rid 

 of their manure, by carrying if upon the ice in 

 the winter. In the s|>ring it disappears, and pro- 

 bably goes to enrich tlie water. 



Grapes. Much trouble has been taken to in- 

 troduce foreign grapes and to render them 

 familiar to our climate, whilst the native plant, 

 of which our forests present a vast variety, is 

 comparatively overlooked and neglected. Inas- 

 much as the circumstance of their growing wild 

 shww« clearly their fitness for our country, would 

 it not he well to pay particular attention to their 

 transplantation and cultivation .' How much fruits 

 are itnproved by jjroper culture is shown by eveiy 

 day's experience, and there can be no doubt that 

 some of our native vines, if properly tended, 

 would furnish fruit infinitely surpassing the pro- 

 duct of other soils, which only dwindle when 

 transferred to climes for which their peculiar or- 

 ganization unfits them- To show the effects of 

 culture in enlarging vegetable growth and impro- 

 ving their flavor and delicacy, we neeil only refer 

 to the cases of many of ths vegetables, now in 

 daily use and highly esteemed, which in their un- 

 improved condition were scarcely fit to be eafen. 

 — Baltimore Jlmerican. 



INDOLE^CE THE PARENT OF VlCE. It is « faCt, 



which cannot be controverted, that the want of 

 mental and manual employment, often proves an 

 incentive to vice, which infalhbly will produce 

 misery ; and, so surely as the earth will bring forth 

 noxious weeds, when left uncultivated, so surely 

 will one vice beget another; which, if not eradi- 

 cated, will multiply to an alarming extent, until 

 its victims become a pest to civil society, and a 

 disgrace to mankind. — Bridgeman. 



FOR SALiB OR TO LET 



A Farm, situated in Medford, now occupied by Mr Noa 

 Johnson, containing about 220 acres of Land in a high stal 

 of cultivation; the buildings are commodious and in good n 

 pair. If desired the farm will be sold in lots. It has liie a( 

 vantage of the Boston and Lowell Rail Road and Jlicldlese 

 Canal running through it, and is bounded on one side by My 

 tic River, which afford great facilities for transporting nianur 

 &c. One of the stopping places on the rail road is within 

 few feet of the house. Apply to Gileebt Tufts or 



JOSEl'lI F. TUFTS. 



Charlestown, Nov. 29, 1837 



CATALOGUE 



of Forest Seeds and Trees, furnished by William Man 

 Bangor, Me. 



White Pine, Black spruce, Hemlock spruce, silver Fi 

 White Oak, Red Oak, White Birch, Yellow Birch, Whi 

 Beecll, Red Beech, While Maple, Red Flowering Mapl 

 sugar Maple, Arbor Vitae, Ameiican Larch, Hornbeal 

 White Ash, Black Ash, Mountain Ash, Elm, Basswoo 

 Common Elder. 



Customary prices are charged for boxes, cartmg, &c. 



Orders may be addressed to \VM MANN, Bangor, Main 

 or to Joseph Breck & Co. New England Agricultui 

 Warehouse and Seed Store, 51 and 52 North Market Strei 



Nov. 15, 1837. 



FRUIT TREES, ORNAHIENTAL. TREES, AIURI 

 MlIl,TICAUL.IS, ETC. 



For sale by the subscriber. The trees of the Plums a 

 pears were never before so fine, the assortment so complex 



Apples, Peaches, Cherries, Grape vines, a superior asso 

 ment of finest kinils, and of all other hardy fruits. 



25,000 Morus Multicaulis, or true Chinese Mulberry trt 

 at the customary wholesale or retail prices. Ihe trees i 

 thrifty, the form perfect, and the roots fine. 



Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Roses and Herbacec 

 plants, of the most beautitulhardy kinds. Splendid Pteoa 

 and Double Dahlias. 



Trees packed in the most perfect manner for all disti 

 places and shipped or sent from Boston to wherever orden 



Address by mail post paid. 



Catalogues seut gratis to all who apply. 



■ WILLIAM KENRIGK 



Nursery, Nonantum Hill, Newton, Nov. 22. tJ. 



PRUNING FUUIT AND FOREST TREES, 

 Grape Vines, and dressing Green hotise Plants, Shrubs, i 



E. Sateks begs leave to inform the citizens of Boston I 

 its vicinity, that he will devote a part of his time to 

 alxjve business this present season, and solicits the cmpi 

 ment of those persons who may be pleased to engage him 

 the same. All orders left at the Agricultural Warehouse, I 

 S2 North Market Street, Boston, will be punctually altem 

 to. 



Dec. 27, 1837. i 



CLOVER SEED. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural Warcin 

 and Seed Store, 1» lon!4)rime Northkrm Clotek. 

 Not. 1. 



* 

 THE NEW ENGLAND FARAIER 



Is publi.shed every Wednesday Evening, al gS per i 

 payable at the end of the year — butthose who pay 



xty ■ ays from the lime ol subscribing, are en'illed to] 

 dorliou of 50 cents. _ 



tJj'No paper Aill lie sent to a distance, without pi| 

 being made in advance. 



AGENTS. 

 New York — G C.Thorbukn, 11 John-street. 

 Flushing-, N. Y. — Wm. Prince i^. Sons, Prop. Lin Bo 

 ^//,(„„^-1Wm .THORBURN,3n .Markel-slicei. 

 Philadelvhia — D. Sf C. Landreth,83 Che.sncil-s 

 Butiimore — Publisher otAmcrican Farinct. 

 Cincinnati—Si .C Pabkhurst,23 Lower IMarkelsIr*^ 

 Miitdlebury, Vt. — Wight Chapma.n. Merchant 

 Taunton, /V/ass.— Sam'l O. Dunbab, Bookseller. 

 Hartjord — Goodwin Hf Co. Booksellers. 

 Newlmnjiort — Ebenezer Stehman, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. A/.— John W. Fostek, Bookseller. 

 Woodstock, Vt.—i.X. Pratt. 

 Braltleboro'— Jos Steen, Bookseller. 

 Ban^or,Me.—Wn.t\AVfi, Uruggisi.and Wm. B. Hi^ 

 luS/ax.N. S.— E. Brown, Efiq. 

 Z,0uisci7/e— Samuel Cooper, Bullit Street. 

 «. Louii— H.L. HoFisJiN. and Willis & Sti 



It. HaM 

 r«»»4l 



FriHitd by Vnttte, BrMtelt K Chitholm, I 



n SCHOOL STREET BOSTO."^. 



ORDSill FOR FBINTme RKCKITXD BT THB rOBllW 



