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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



JllrY 4, 1S38. 



Mas<sss.jL^5af^fi 



THE OAK TREE. 



BY MAnY HOW ITT. 



Sing for the Oak Tree, 



The monarch of ihe wood, 

 Sing ftir the Oak Tree, 



That groweth green and good ; 

 That groweth broad and branching, 



Within the foresi shade ; 

 That groweth now, and yet shall grow, 



When we are lowly laid ! 



The Oak Tree was ar, acorn once. 



And fell upon the earth ; 

 And sun and showers nourished it, 



And gave the Oak Tree birth. 

 The little sprouting Oak Tree ! 



Two leaves it bad at first. 

 Till sun and showers had nourished it. 



Then out the branches burst. 



The little sapling Oak Tree! 



lis root was like a thread. 

 Till the kindly earth had nourished it; 



Then out it freely spread ; 

 On this side and on that side 



It grappled with the ground, 

 And in the ancient, rifted rock, 



Its firmest footing found. 



The winds came, and the rain fell ; 



The gusty tempests blew ; 

 All, all wire friends to the Oak Tree, 



And stronger yet it grew. 

 The boy that saw the acorn fall 



He feeble grew and gray; 

 But the Oak was still a thriving tree, 



And strengthened every day ! 



Pour centuries grows the Otrk Tree, 



Nor does its verdure fail; 

 Its heart is like the iron wood, 



Its bark like plaited mail; 

 Now cut us down the Oak Tree, 



'I'he monarch of the wood ; 

 And of its timbers stout and strong 



We '11 build a vessel good. 



The Oak Tree of the forest. 



Both east and west shall fly ; 

 And the blessings of a thousand lands 



Upon our ship shall lie ! 

 For she shall not be a man-of-war, 



Nor a pirate shall she he ; 

 But a noble, Christian merchant-ship. 



To sail upon the sea. 



ADVICE OF A FARMEll TO HIS BOYS. 



Cotiie. boys, lei tis see if we cant't farm a little 

 better this season than we did last. I think we can 

 if we make an eflforl; and if every succeeding' 

 year we outstrip the [.receding one, 1 think in a 

 few years you will be able to set up for yourselves. 

 We have already sown our grass seed this spring, 

 thicker than heretofore, which, there is reason to 

 believe, will amply repay us tor the additional seed, 

 as we have heretofore always had more or less bald 

 places in our grass fields, or had them filled up 

 with weeds. We have some seed oats which 

 weigh ten or twelve pounds a bushel more than 

 the common kind we have usually sown ; this 

 cannot fail to bo an advantage of at least 25 per 

 cent, over the light stuff we iiave had in former 

 years, and if it is found to become lighter by be- 

 ing re-sowed ; wc must change our seed again at 

 a future time. .\s for Indian corn, the •' Dutton," 

 of which we have plenty for seed, I lliink will 

 answer our purpose the best of any kind I have 

 seen, if we put it in handsomely and give the 

 strictest attention to the dressing of it with the 

 cultivator; let us give it a couple of e.Ntra dress- 

 ings during the summei, and keep the ground as 

 mallow as an ash-heap ; this is the only way I 



know of to make a good crop of Indian corn. It 

 suffers more from neglect than any other crop we 

 cultivate ; but stop, let us collect our ashes together 

 and jiut a handful of it, with as much Plaster of 

 Paris, on each hill, as soon as the corn is fully up ; 

 this pays well for expense and trouble. But I am 

 getting wrong end foremost with my plan ; be 

 sure when you go to the city next week, to buy a 

 pound of sall-pcire to make a steep for the corn 

 before it is planted ; this is said to be an excellent 

 pliin, as the corn comes up much more vigorously 

 after being soaked in saltpetre, and is sooner out 

 of the way of the birds and gridjs, which is a 

 matter of great importance. Well, we had forty 

 bushels to the acre last year; now can we go fif- 

 ty or sixty this, if the season is favorable, and we 

 pay strict attention to it ; let us try for it any 

 how ; and one thing I am certain of, that our suc- 

 cess will be in proportion to our exertions, other 

 things being equal. Wo must increase our pota- 

 to crop, anil raise an acre of sugar beet, and the 

 same quantity of ruta-baga for winter food for our 

 cattle and sheep ; the attention to these root croi)s 

 is light work, and I think neeil not interfere wiih 

 our other business ; besides, I intend to buy neigh- 

 bor Jones' old still, as he has quit making whis- 

 key with it, since his two fine promising boys 

 have gone to destruction by the use of that vile 

 article. 1 think he will sell it cheap, as it sickens 

 his heart to think of a still, since the prostration 

 of all his prospects for the advancement of his 

 once fine boys. We can fix this up so as to 

 steam oin' roots and grain for the hogs and cattle, 

 and I have a great notion to try it to cut corn 

 stalks and hay, for it is said they go much further 

 and feed better by being cut and steamed. 'I be 

 millers' toll may niso bo saved by steaming th;; 

 grain we feed, instead of having it ground. If 

 all the stills in the country were used for prepar- 

 ing food for animals, instead of making poison 

 for men, it would save at least ten millions of dol- 

 lars annually, and clear out most of our poor- 

 houses anil jails, and prevent many a parent from 

 going to the grave with a broken heart. Lit us 

 turn to to-morrow morning right early, and 

 drive on our work vigorously duiing the season, 

 and with the blessings of Providence on our 

 united exertions we shall find ourselves blessed 

 in basket and in store even beyond our deserts. 



Abram. 



firm. Here he remained till his |)artner's death, 

 which occurreil some time afterwanls, and the 

 entire business then devolved upon him. A suc- 

 cession of years, during which his previous good 

 qualities characterised bim in an eminent degree, 

 btought with them wealth, opulence, and power, 

 and from that time up to the present he has con- 

 tinued his career, in a manner alike worthy of him- 

 self and the city of which he is the distinguished 

 representative. 



DiSTliNCTION BETWEEN PoVERTY A.ND PaDPER- 



ISM. — " It is of the utmo.st importance accurately 

 to distinguish between jioverty and pauperism ; 

 for by confounding them, poverty is dishonored, 

 and pauperism is countenanced. Supply poverty 

 with the means and it vanishes, but pauperism is 

 the more confirmed. Poverty is a sound etiipty 

 vessel, hut pauperism is not only empty hut crack- 

 ed. Poverty is a natural appetite merely wanting 

 food ; pauperism a ravenous disease which no 

 food can satisfy. Poverty strives to cure itself, 

 pauperism to contaminate others. Poverty often 

 stimulates to exertion, pauperism always paralyses. 

 Poverty is sincere, pauperism is an arch-hypocrite. 

 Poverty has nattnally a proud .^spirit, pauperism a 

 base one, now cringing, now insolent. Poverty 

 is silent and retiring, pauperism is clamorous and 

 importunate ; the ona is grateful, the other the re- 

 verse. There is much that is lovely in poverty, 

 but pauperism is altogether hateful. It is delight- 

 ful to relieve the one; irksome to be taxed for the 

 other. Poverty has the blessing of heaven, as 

 well as those that relieve it ; pauperism on the 

 contrary, has nothing in common but is the re- 

 verse of the chrisiian viitues. The injunctions 

 of the gospel are in favor of poverty, liut wholly 

 in opposition to the spirit of pai]| erism, and the 

 merit of those individuals who thoughllessly suc- 

 cor it, may be estimated accordingly." — fValkcr, 

 in Farmar''s Magazine. 



The R[:wari) of Industry. — The now Right 

 Hon. Sir John Cowan, Bart., and present Lord 

 Mayor of the city of London, came to town in 

 the humble capacity of an errand boy, and was 

 employed in a wax-cliandler's shop, which stood 

 nearly opposite the present site of the Jlan.";ion 

 house. The drudgery which the duties of this 

 office imposed, were performed by him, day after 

 day without a murmur, atid each task .set liim by 

 his employer «as executeil in such a miinncr as 

 quickly to gain him the esteem and friendship of 

 idl who knew him. A few years rolled by, and 

 he was promoted to the situation of shopman, 

 when his unsurpassed industry, tuiil the strictest 

 ititegrity, again procured him the confidence and 

 attachment cd' his master. About this time it was 

 his good fortune to win the afliections of his 

 master's daughter (the present Lady Mayoress,) 

 and their marriage taking place soon after, with 

 the consent of her parent, he was further ele- 

 vated to the distinguished post of partner in the 



How commop it is to see people who set their 

 faces as a flint again.st the use of alcoholic liquors, 

 and refuse to give employment to those who drink 

 them, and withdraw their patronage from those 

 persons who deal in them ; and in theirzeal, pour- 

 tray the evils of drunkenness in the most glowing 

 colors, and hale its victims to the bar of civil jus- 

 tice that they may be punished for their mebria- 

 lions, and when they see a poor laborer di inking 

 a gla.ss of spirit and water, admonish him of his 

 dtuiger of becoming a drunkard ; and of the 

 dreadful consequences of that vice, while in their 

 own breath and from the very mouths that utter 

 these admonitions, they send forth that poisonous 

 .ind (iltby odor of tobacce, which betrays the habit 

 of stinnilatiou even more disgusting, and equally 

 destructive to health, and life, and moral purity. 

 Nay they do not hesitate to indulge in every spe- 

 cies of stimulation and sensuality ctmsidertHi res- 

 pt'table in a corrupt world, and thus, as a general 

 fact, are in the true sense of the word fur more 

 intemperate than the laborer who drinks hi.<! ."spirit 

 and water and receives his pharisaical rebuke. — 

 Graham Journal. 



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