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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAY 33, 183S. 



ffia£^«I12Lm^5£r^e 



For the N. E. Farmer. 



THE FIELD OP WHEAT. 



I HAVE a little garden spot ; 



'T is daily my delight ; 

 I spend a pleasant hour in 'I, 



At morning, noon, and night. 

 1 cultivate the bean, the pea. 



The carrot and the beet ; 

 But yet, I wish I 'd land enough 



To raise ajield of wheat, 



I rove around the neighborhood, . 



And view each fertile spot, 

 The verdant close, the lilooming hill, 



The fragrant clover lot ; 

 But yet there 's no one half so fair, 



No perfume half so sweet, 

 As that enjoyed, when passing by 



My neighbor's^c/(/ of wheat. 



I ken the man of Maltckees, 



And him of Dancing-hill ; 

 They both know how to farm it right, 



And both can wield a quill. 

 In theoi";', and in jjractice too 



None better do we meet ; 

 Vet one, he is for raising corn. 



The other is for wheat. 



'T is veiy strange with men of sense 



Such diiference should be ; 

 A y, with such worthy gentlemen : — 



(Here 's haic, and here is gee .') 

 No one need think in argument 



The other e'er to beat ; 

 So, plant your Indian corn, my friend. 



And you, my friend, your wheat. 



The Legislature's premium, 



I think it comes in time, 

 And will produce a greater yield, 



Than gypsum, marl, or lime. 

 May our wise fathers realize 



The benefit complete, 

 And all old Massachusetts wave 



With bounteous^rfrfs of wheat. 



O, these are times for husbandmen ; — 



I '11 have a little farm ; 

 And I will labor too, myself, 



('T will never do me harm ;) 

 And then my friends, who visit me, 



Full heartily I '11 greet, 

 And show them liow with my own hands, 



I 've raised ajicld of wheat. 



So, hail, ye brother farmers all ! 



Ve tillers of the ground. 

 Whose labor tends to cheer the mind, 



And make the body sound ; 

 Think it not strange, if even / 



Should venture to compete, 

 And try my luck to gain a prize j 



The Premium for wheat. 



AGRICOLA. 



MATTY MILLER'S SIGN. 



The following is a copy of a sign hung out a 

 a village in Wiltshire, Eiighinil : 



"Matty Millek." Haiber, peniwig maker, 

 siirjoi), Pari.sh clerk, school master, hiacksmitli. 



Shaves for a pence, cuts air lor two pence, and 

 oyled and poiulere<l into the hnrgin. Yung \i\i\ys 

 and genlleniin also taut thare grammar langwage 



in. the neetest maner, and grate cair taken of thare 

 morels and spelin. Allso, salrn singin, and hoss 

 shewin liy the role maker. Likewise makes and 

 mends all sorts of hutes and Sliuse, teashes the 

 hobby and juse-liarp, cuts korns, bledes and blis- 

 ters on the. lowest termes. Cowtillioiis and other 

 dances taut at iionie and abroade. .iMlso, deels 

 holesale and retale peiTnnjary in awl its branchi-s, 

 sells awl sorts of stasliiinary ware, together with 

 blackin bawls, red herrins, jinger bred, scrubbiu 

 brushes, treeole, mouse-traps and otiier sweet- 

 meets. Likewyes Godfries cordiel, potaters, sas- 

 singers, and other garden stuf. 



N. B. I leeches joggraphy and them out- 

 landish kind of things. A bawl on Wensdayes 

 and Frydaye.s all performed by me. 



Matty Miller. 



FARMER'S ANECDOTE. 



A farmer not more than 100 miles from Cape 

 Elizabeth employed a shrewd neighbor to rut a 

 piece of grass for him, conditionally that he should 

 have one half of the hay. When his hay was 

 dry, his neighbor proceeded to haul it in, accom- 

 l)anied by the owner to see the division. When 

 he thought that he had pitched one half on the 

 cart, he asked old hunks if he had not got one 

 half on. ' No, no,' was the reply, and he then 

 put on Diorn, and again asked the same question, 

 and rereived for reply, ' Not quite half yet.' 

 ' Well,' says the other, ' I will pitch on till you 

 think I have got one half on ;' so he proceeded till 

 about two thirds of the hay was on the cart, when 

 he was told that he had got on about one half 

 He then coolly observed that he would drive home 

 with that load for himself, and then return and 

 haul in the remainder for his neighbor. So the 

 owner in managing to give his neighbor only one 

 third, had to take that for his' own share. 



THE FIRST WAGON. 

 A writer in the London Mirror says, ' 1 recol- 

 lect the first liroad wheeled wagon that was used 

 in Oxfordshire, and a wonderful crowd of spec- 

 tators it attracted. I believe at that time there 

 was not a post cliaise in England except two 

 wheeled ones. Lamjis to carriages are also a 

 modern improvement. A shepherd who was 

 keeping sheep in the vicinity of Oxfordshire 

 came running over to say, that a frightful mon- 

 ster with saucer eyes, and making a great blotving 

 noise was coming towards the village. This 

 monster turned out to be a post chaise with two 

 lamps.' 



It was stateil at the anniversary of the Missis- 

 sippi Colonization Society, held ntNateheson the 

 14lh of March, that Capt. I.«aac Ross of that 

 State had bequeathed to the American Coloniza- 

 tion Society his entire estate estimated at 400,000 

 dollars. His will emanci|)ates all his slaves, 

 ambujiting to 170, and provides for their removal 

 and settlement in the society's colony. 



Magp!1f7ce.\t STnAWBERHY. — On the 25th of 

 July was plucked in the garden of Mr Wilson, 

 Ruswarp, near Whitby, a very large strawberry, 

 of Wilmot's superb variety, measuring seven 

 inches in c.ircmnlerence, and weighing one ounce 

 and a half — Farm. Mag. 



PLOIGHS. 



Just received, a good supply of Howard's ^Improved Cast 

 Iron Ploughs, ihe most approved Plough now in use. Also, 

 other Cast Iron and Wooden Ploughs. Likewise, Willis's 

 Improved Cultivators. For sale, wholesale and retail, at the 

 New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, No. 

 51 & 52 North Market Street, 



April 4, 1838. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



OIL. MEAI. 



PRICE REDUCED. 



The price of the above is now reduced to Twentyfive dol- 

 lars at the mill, in Medford, and Tweniy eight dollars per ton 

 delivered in Boston. Apply at 



No. lOj Granite Stores, Commercial AVharf. 



BOXB MA^URE. 



The subscriber desires to inform his friends and the public 

 that lie has been in in the Bone business more than ten years, 

 and lias spent much time and money to ascertain how bones 

 may be convened to the best use, and is fully satisfied that 

 (hey form the most powerful stimulant that can be applied to 

 the earlii as a manure. He ofl'ers for sale ground bone at a 

 low price, and is ready lo receive order." to any amount, 

 which will be promptly attended lo. 



Orders may be left at my manufactory near Tieniont road, 

 n Roxbury, or at the New England Agricultural Warehouse 

 and Seed Store, No. 51 and 52 North Market Street. 



Jan. 31. NAHUM WARD 



NURSERY FOR SALE. 



A rare chance is now ofl'ejed for the purchase of a young 

 nursery and farm, at Covinglou, Kentucky, which fronts lialf a 

 mile on the Licking River, witliin a mile of its junction with 

 the Ohio, directly opposite to Cincinnati. The nursery and 

 farm comprise 101 acres of the very richest Kentucky soil; 

 about 50 acres are laid down to mowing, between 30 and 40 

 to tillage, including ihe nursery, and from 12 lo 15 acres are 

 filled with timber for fencing and fuel. On the premises, an 

 orchard of 100 thrifty young apple trees, mostly v.imer fruit, 

 was set out last year ; also another orchard of 200 Pear 

 trees, comprising 72 different sorts, including all the winter 

 varieties of table pears, of whicli the demand for the New Or- 

 leans market is almost urdimited. 



On the place is a good brick house, built in 1816, with a 

 first rate well of water, 45 feet deep, a large new green-house 

 just finished, two large barns built in 1835, and all the usual 

 out-houses ; also, a farm house with two rooms (hat will let 

 for ijfSO per annum, suitable for a gardener or small farmer. 



'I'he nursery was laid out in 1835, anil bids fail- lo do a very 

 lucrative business, as there is nothing of ihe kind west of the 

 mountains that can coinpele with it, for the variety and 

 choice character of the fruits cullivateif, which were all se- 

 lected from tlie nurseries of Buel & Wilson and Wm. Ken- 

 rick and others, and comprise all the new sons introduced by 

 tlie Massachusetts Horticultural Society from Europe, and all 

 the clioice sorts cultivated near Boston ; among these are SO 

 varieties of Pears, 50 of Apples, 50 of Peaches, 2(1 of Plums, 

 30 of clierries, with a great variely of Grapes, Pjvergreens, 

 Ornamental Shrubs, &c. There are at least 100,000 seedlings 

 of Apples, Pears, &c., of oue and two years growth, for inoc- 

 ulation now growing on the place^ 



The above offers a rare chance for one or two enterprising 

 young men, to do a great business, in a perfectly liealihy loca- 

 tion, where there is little or no competition, and a demand for 

 trees that has thus f:rr exceeded the greatest expccialions of 

 its founders, and Iheir ability to execute orders. It will be 

 sold at a great bargain, on account of the death of the active 

 partner of the concern, and the non-residence of the other. 



For terms, apply (post paid) lo S. C PARKHURST, 

 Cincinnati, Oliio. 



May 9, 1838. 4w 



THE IVEAV ENGLAND FARMER 



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 payable at the end of the year — Dul those who pay within six- 

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

 tion of 50 cents. 



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