304 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAKCH 28, 1SS« 



S^aS^TgI£,l£,^Sf"2^8 



THE WINDS. 



BY MISS GOULD. 



We come, we come ! and yc feel our might, 

 As we are hastening on in ourbouniUess flight. 

 And over the mountain, and over the deep, 

 Ourhroad invisible pinions sweep, 

 Like the spirit of Liberty, wild and free ! 

 And ye look on our works, and own 'tis we; 

 Ye call us the Winds, liul can ye tell 

 Whither we go, or where we dwell ! 



Ye mark, as we vary our forms of power, 



And fall on the forest, or fan the flower. 



When the hare-bells move, and the rush is bent. 



When the tower 's o'erlhrown, and the oak is rent. 



As we waft the bark o'er the slumbering wave, 



Or hurry its crew tea watery grave : 



And ye say, it is we ! but can ye trace 



The wandering Winds to their secret place ! 



And whether our breath be loud and high, 



Or come in a soft and balmy sigh. 



Our threatenings fill the soul with fear. 



Or our gentle whisperings woo the ear 



With music ferial, still 'tis we ; 



And ye list, and ye look, and what do ye see ? 



Can ye hush one sound of our voice to peace, 



Or waken one note when our numbers cease ? 



Our dwelling is in the Almighty's hand : 

 We come and go at his command. 

 Though joy or sorrow is in our track, 

 His will i« our guide, and we look not back ! 

 And if inour wrath ye would turn away. 

 Or win us in gentlest airs to play. 

 Then lift up your hearts to Him who binds, 

 Or frees at his will the obedient winds. 



Extract from an account of a cottager's cullivalion, 

 in Shropshire, in England, dated May, 1805. 

 Witliin two iniles atid a half of Shrewsbury, a 

 coUager, whose name is Richaru Millwaud, has 

 a house, tuid adjoiniog to it, a garden and land ; 

 making about one acre undone sixteenth of an acre 

 including the garden. He is a collier; and the 

 nianageinent of the ground is in a great measure 

 left to Ills wife. The soil was a thin covering of 

 about three or four inches of strong loam, over a 

 clay impregnated with iron, and considered as tlie 

 worst soil. They pay three shillings sterling of 

 yearly rent for the house and land. It was leased 

 10 them 38 years ago for three lives, one of which 

 is dead. 



The wife has managed the ground in a particu- 

 lar manner, for thirteen years, with potatoes and 

 wlieat, chiefly by her own l.-dior ; and in a way 

 wliicb has yielded good crops, fully equal or rather 

 superior to the produce of the m^ighboring farms, 

 and vvitli little or no expense. 



The potato and wheat land (exclusive of the 

 garden) contains sixty-four digging poles of land, 

 (eight yards sipiare to the pole, seventy-five of 

 which make an acre, and is divide<l into two 

 parts. One of the divisions she plants alternately 

 with potatoes, and the other is sown with wheat. 

 On the wheat stubble, she plants potatoes in rows ; 

 and sows wheat on the potato' ground. She puts 

 dun" in the bottom of the rows where alio plants 

 the potatoes ; but uses no dung for the wheat. 

 And she has repeated lliis succession for nearly 

 the thirteen years ; but with better success and 

 more economy during the last six or seven years. 



She provides mamire, by keeping a pig, and by 

 collecting all the manure she can from her bouse, 

 and by mixing with it the scrapings of the roads, 

 &r. She iorms it into a heap and turns it, before 

 she puts it on her gro\ind for potatoes. 1 



The ground is dug for potatoes in the month of 

 March and April, to the dejith of about nine in- 

 ches. (This digging would cost six' pence per 

 pole, if hired.) After putting in the dung, the 

 potatoes are planted in rows, about twelve or four- 

 teen inches distant. The sets are placed about 

 four or five inches apart in the rows. 



When the potatoes come above ground, the 

 weeils, are destroyed by the hoe ; and the earth 

 laid up on both sides to the shoots. And this is 

 repeated from time to time, as the season re- 

 quires. Hand weeding is also used when neces- 

 sary. 



Ill the month of October, when tlie potatoes 

 are ripe, she takes ofl' all the stalks (or haulm) of 

 the potato ; which she secures, to produce manure 

 by means of her pig. She now goes over the 

 whole with a rake, and takes off all weeds; and 

 before taking up the potatoes, she sows her wheat 

 on as much of the ground as she can clear of po- 

 tatoes that day. They are taken up with a three 

 pronged fork ; in which her husband assist ; and 

 by the same operation, the wheat is covered deep. 

 She leaves it quite rough ; and the frost mellows 

 the earth ; and by the earth falling down, it adds 

 much strength and vigor to the wheat plants in 

 spring. Her crops of wheat have been of late 

 always good ; and even this year (which in this 

 country has not been favorable for the wheat crop) 

 she has thrashed out fifteen Winchester bushels 

 from thirty-four poles ; though part of her wheat 

 has suffered by the mildew. The straw of her 

 wheat she carefully preserves for litter to her pig, 

 and to increase her manure. When her potatoes 

 are gathered, she separates the best for use, then 

 a proper quantity for seed, and the small potatoes 

 are given to her pig. 



She has sixteen poles for her garden ; upon 

 which she plants peas, beans, and apart with cab- 

 bages ; but has early potatoes and turnips the 

 same year on the same ground. She sells her 

 early potatoes, and peas and cabbages, and boils 

 the turnips for her pig. 



The only other expense of feeding her pig, is 

 two or three bushels of peas ; and when fit to 

 kill, it weighs about three hundred pounds. She 

 buys it at the age of four or five months, about 

 |he month of February ; and it is killed about 

 the month of January in the following year. 



When she first began this method of alternate 

 crops, and for several years after, she depended 

 on the neighboring farmers for ploughing the land 

 and harrowing, both for the potatoes and wheat ; 

 but as the farmers naturally delayed to work for 

 her, till their own work was chiefly over, her land 

 was not ploughed in proper season.- She has 

 been for the last six years independent of the far- 

 mer. 



She is careful to sow no more land at a time, 

 than she can clear of jiotatoes that day. 



This mode of culture proves, that potatoes and 

 wheat can be produced alternately upon the same 

 land, fur a long course of years, provided that a 

 small (piantity of manure be every year used for 

 the potatoes, and it shews that a cottager may pro- 

 cure food from a small portion of land, by his 

 own labor, without any expense. 



Both wheat and potatoes have been reckoned 

 exhausting crops ; but'this mode of culture shows, 

 that great crops of both may be long alternately 

 Iiroduced ; which may probably be imputed to 

 the culture by the spade and hoe, to the nianiirinj 

 every second year lor jiotatoes, to the careful de 

 stroying of weeds, to the jilantiug and sowing ii 

 the proper season, and to the preventing the earti 

 from being too loose, (by the mode of sowing thi 

 wheat before the potatoes are taken up.) 



An experienced farmer is of opinion, that thi 

 same culture and succession of crops, will answe 

 on almost any land, if properly drained and skil 

 fully managed ; for that although strong land doe 

 not answer well for potatoes, nor very light Ian 

 for wheat ; yet that cultivation and manure, (an 

 particularly the manure of lime) will soon rende 

 strong land, when drained, more loose ; and wi 

 make light land more firm, especially if cultivate 

 with the spade and hoe. 



The best or Women. — She who makes he 

 husband and her children happy ; who reclain 

 the one from vice, and trains up the other 

 virtue, is a much greater character tlian ladies d' 

 scribed in romances, whose sole occupation is : 

 murder mankind vvitlr shafts from the quiver 

 their eyes. 



The last Boston Pln. — Lady caught in 

 shower Monday night — stiahger politely often 

 the shelter of bis umbrella — accepted — gothoin<« 

 and found him black in the face— wrong color W 

 a rain-beau. 



FRUIT TREES, ORIVAMENTAI. TREES, MORI 

 MUL.TICADL.IS, &.C. 



For sale by the subscriber. The varieties, p 

 licularly of the Penrs and the Plums were ne 

 before so fine, the nssoitinenl so complete, 

 so of Apples, Peaches, Cherries, Grape vines 

 superior assortment of finest kinds, and of 

 other hardy fruits. 



20,000 Morus Multicaulis or Chinese Mulberi^ trees i 

 still be furnished ai the customary prices, if applied for eai 

 this being all that now remain unsold. 



Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Roses and Herbace 

 plants, of the most beautiful hardy kinds. Splendid Pieoi 

 and Double Dahlias. „„ „ , , ^ ,j j 



4,000 Cockspur Thorns, 10,000 Buckthorns for Hedges. 

 800 Lancashire Gooseberries, of various colors and 



kinds. J 1 J 



Harrison's Double Yellow Roses, new and hardy, C( 



fine, it never fails to bloom profusely. 



Trees packed in the most perfect manner for all dist 



places and shipped or sent from Boston to wherever ordei 

 Transportaliwi to the City without charge. 

 Address by mail posl paid. 



Catalogues will be sent gratis •°^»Jlj^->J»^JPP^^ NRICK 

 JVursery, Nonanlum Hill, Newton, Jan, 24, 1838. 



Hale's Horse Power and Threshing Machl 



For sale at the New Englan.l Agricultural Warehouse 



Seed Store: the above machines were liigbly recommendei 



the corainitiees at the late fair, and by others who have i 



them for the last two or three years. „„^„„ , ^, 



JOSEPH BRECK & CC 



■WAKTED 



To take charge of a small Farm, a single man of » 

 industry and good habits. To a suitable man the place 

 1)6 an excellent one. Apjily immediately al the N. E. Far 

 Oflice. "««'' ' 



"' THE NEW EI«G1.AND PARMER 



Is published everj Wednesday Evening, at $3 per am 

 payable al the end of the year— but those wlio pay within 

 ty days from the time of subscribing, are entitled to a de 

 tion of 50 cents. 



Fritited by rutlle, JffeHHell if Chitboltn, 



n BCHOOL STUEl/r BOSTON. 



ORDERS FOR PRINTINS RECIIYKD BT THE PUBLISH) 



