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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



ji'NK ar, 1838. 



MSS<SIS3£>I£.i)!.ii"S?e 



For the N. E. Fanner. 



JUNE. 



Hail, lovely June ! fair monili of hope, 



To Ijlltiiesome hearts endearing ; 

 Thy waving fields, illy swelling crops. 

 To husbandmen how cheering ! 



We love to roam amidst thy scenes. 



Where pleasure welcomes labor ; 

 Wliere health shakes hands with industry. 



And neighbor greets with neighbor. 



Now we might hie to Dancing Hill, 



To see the corn-hills looniing ; 

 Or trip away to Mattakees, 



Where fields of wheat are blooming. 



The busy and the bright are there. 



The practice ami the theory ; 

 And ne'er a bit, as working men, 



Does any one seem weary. 



Nae doubt that we should fine gude cheer 



Frae either canty dwelling, 

 And arguments, baith pro and con, 

 Sae keen, — ay, there's nae telling ! 



But now from yonder pastures green 



We hear tlie cattle lowing, 

 While groups of rustic laborers 



Are in the cornfields hoeing. 



Gay, rosy girls trail through the mead 



In search of bloom and berry. 

 And city dandies, as they pass. 



Would fain with them be merry. 



But stay, ye witless wights, take heed 

 With wliom your fun you're poking ; 



For country lasses well do know 

 How to account your joking. \ 



In yonder cottage, housewife Jane 



Rules, empress of the dairy ; 

 She's nice, she's fair, she's spruce, she's neat : 



She's lovely, chaste, and chary. 



Here round the cliff the vine entwines ; 



There blooms the fragrant myrtle ; 

 Here grows the barley, there the flax. 



And yon the mangel wurtzel. 



Now, from the deep, dark forest-glen, 

 Wc hear the partridge drumming I 



And hark, too, the old, crazy mill, 

 Keeps up its constant humming ! 



Here let mc stay, and rest awhile, 



Beneath these shady boweie, 

 And tune my pipe, like Tityrus, 



Midst odoriferous flowers. 



My lambs are sporting on the green ; 



My heifers there are feeding ; 

 For crook I'll take a willow limb ; 



Of dog 1 have no needing. 



I'll sing of June, sweet lovely June, 



And send forth such bucolics, 

 1 liat all, who hear me, I'll awake 



To gambols and to froli9S ! 



AGRICOLA. 



INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 



Tlit'SR are to the farmer and tiie garileni r of 

 great value. They were designed by the Creator 

 to check the too great increase of inserts, and no 

 fanner ought to suffer them to lie wantonly de- 

 stroyed on his premises. The niiiiiher of insects 

 destroyed by the rohiii, swallow, s|iarro\v, mock- 

 bird, and (<ther smMll birds, is tistoni.-^hing. One 

 little family will destroy several liuiidrcd in a sin- 

 gle day. Some little time since a pair of small 

 birds built a nest on a lilac, which grow close to 

 one of my windows. Jn the time of incubation 

 there was a long and severe storm, and strong 

 wind. The eggs were in danger of being blown 

 ovtrlioard by the writhing of the bush. Conscious 

 of this, the female kept on the bush to jirevent 

 any accident which might follow on her leaving 

 it, to collect food. Her mate, like a good provi- 

 der, was busily engaged during the day in col- 

 lecting food, (insects,) which he carried to his 

 companion, and which she received of him with 

 apparent affection. This circumstance excited 

 particular attention, and of course this little so- 

 ciety was closely observed. In a short time the 

 eggs hatched, but the roughness of the weather, 

 or the tenderness of the brood, prevented the fe- 

 male from leaving her young. During this time, 

 the male, with surprising industry, brought stnall 

 Insects, in tlie larva state, to the nest but was not 

 allowed to feed the nestlings. The female re- 

 ceived the food and diviiled it among her little 

 charge. When the young gained sufficient 

 strength, the male was permitted to feed them, 

 and from this time both parents were muttially 

 and incessantly cimployed in collecting small in- 

 sects from every quarter, and on moderate calcu- 

 lation to the number of about 700 in a day. 



One cause of the increase of tnaiiy insects so 

 destructive to vegetation, is the decrease of these 

 little friends to the agriculturist. Should a few 

 of them innocently trespass on the farmer, to the 

 amount of a few cents, let him remember that he 

 is greatly indebted to them for services rendered, 

 and not to wage a war of extermination. 



They are not tnerely useful in destroying in- 

 sects — for ihey call the farmer and the gardener 

 to his business, cause the groves to ri^sound with 

 music, luhl usher in the morning with melodious 

 praise. — Farmers Cabinet. 



A I'.\SSIONATE LAWYER. 



The only fault which Impey h;id, was scolding, 

 which seemed habitual in his kindness, and not 

 being so tuifashionible at that lime, as it is as 

 present, it was scarcely looked upon as a moral 

 failing. A client calling upon him one day, af- 

 ter the usual salutations, proceeded thus: 



"Mr Jiwpcy, I want you immediately to issue 



a writ against , who owes me £40. 



He called upon me about an hour since, and told 

 me that as he was going out of town to-morrow, 

 or the next day, he could only now pay n.e £20 

 of his debt. I want you, therefore to arrest him 

 at once for the other ^20." 



Impey's countenance began to work, but re- 

 prc\ssiiig his indignation, he (juietly asked him if 

 the man was poor. 



" Poor ! oh, to be sure, ] would not arrest him 

 if he were not." 



Impey, who was a very humane man, could 

 no longer control his unger at the heartless injus- 



tice of his client ; but working himself up with a 

 string of epithets ran on thus : 



" You rascal! why, what do you take me for? 

 You .scoundrel! What! arrest a poor man the 

 very day he has paid you £20, and that half of 

 the debt! Out of my house, sirrah ! and never 

 let me see that face again ! Go out, sir, I say !" 



The vehemence with which he jum|)ed upon 

 his legs, overthre'w one of the office stools, and 

 the apparent rage he was in, the clatter of the 

 furniture, and the haste with which Impey at- 

 tempted to replace it, so frightened the unhappy 

 client, that, scratching up his hat, he made but 

 one ste|) to the door and was ought of sight in an 

 instant. 



Steamboat Runnf:rs. — ^The tnanner in which 

 this ingenions portion of the comiimnity learn to 

 profit by the whims and caprices of all sorts of 

 people, is sometimes excessively amusino- and 

 often evinces a high degree of acuteiiess and 

 ready wit. 



"Are you going West, madam.'" said a Buffalo 

 runner to an old lady who had just landed from a 

 line boat on the canal. 



•' La, yes, how came you to think so." 



"Oh," said the runner, "I know when people 

 are going west, ihey have a sort of western look 

 about them, 1 am not to be deceived. 



Having excited the attention of the old person- 

 age, he proceeded to urge her to take the steam- 

 boat Ohio, then, as he said, just going out, and 

 which would carry her just where she wanted to 



"No," said the old lady, "I am afraid, they 

 sometimes burst their boilers, and blow up and 

 kill every body." 



" Very true," said the runner, " but then you 

 know, that when a steamboat blows tip, there 

 must be hot water on bt ard ; now the Ohio never 

 has any hot water, she only warms her water 

 very little, and ujakes a very small fire at a 

 time." 



'I'his arrangement seemed to suit the ohl lady 

 and she concluded to travel by the Ohio, perfectly 

 satisfied that her life was safe where they were 

 so careful about warming their water. 



Talking of barking, two gentlemen the other 

 day at a public table, got into a vehement dispute 

 upon a subject on which it was quite evident that 

 iioth were profoundly ignorant. A big bull-dog, 

 which had been quietly sleeping on the heartli, 

 became roused by their violence, and began bark- 

 ing furiously. An old gentleman who had been 

 quietly sipping his wine while the dis[>ulant8 

 were talking, gave the dog a kick and exclaimed, 

 "Hold your tongue, you brute. You know no 

 iiiiue about it than they do." The laugh of the 

 whole table was turned itnmediately upon the 

 noisy brawlers. 



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