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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



KOYEMBKS 13, 1«33. 



MISCELLANY 



HORTICULTURAL. EXHIBITION. 



Lines hy Mrs. Balmanno, on the Horticultural Exhibition 

 at Geneva, in Sep/nnbir. 1633. 



Nature ! how beautiful ! ah, who may gaze 

 On these thy gorgeous treasures round him piled, 



Nor with deep fervor their Creator praise, 

 Perfect in all his works — pure' — undefiled. 



What perfumes breathe — what colors meet the eye, 



The Dahlia, gem-like, in its velvet fold ; 

 Melon and Peach, with Grapes of Tyrian dye, 



The ruby Ncetarino and Quince of gold. 



To grace imperial Autumn's golden reign, 

 The lovely Summer still her garland brings, 



Wreathes his bright spoils with many a Woodbine chain, 

 And 'mongsl his fruits, her faint sweet Hoses (lings. 



Sunn'd in her smiles the Lily lifts its head, 

 The Alcea blooms — the Oleander tow'rs — 



Myrtles and Jasmines their rich perfumes shed, 

 And in pale radiance shine the Orange flowers. 



Blended with Snowberries that gleam afar, 



Like pearls, design'd some beauty's hair to braid, 



The China-Aster's many-colored star, 

 In all its varied splendor stands displav'd. 



And like small jewels in a chaplet set, 



Blooms, too, the bright Geranium and Sweet Pea- 

 Violets and Pansies. — Daisies — Mignonette — 



And the dark Pink's superb embroidery. 



Nor these alone — but all that Autumn yields 



Of grand or excellent in fruit and flower, 

 The stately growth of gardens, orchards, fields, 



Tokens of Earth's full pleuteousness and power. 



In such a scene, O Nature ! who may stand, 



Nor feel his spirit swell adoring thee ! 

 Who rrown'st with blessings this, his native land, 



The proud, the beautiful, the brave, the free. 



Ohio ! — a little the biggest. — The present season 

 lias abounded in choice fruit, and the papers have 

 contained frequent notices of uncommonly fine 

 specimens of different kinds. We have, however, 

 neither seen nor heard of any thing equal to an 

 apple shown us last week, which was brought by 

 a gentleman from Ohio. It measured fifteen inches 

 in circumference, and weighed at that time up- 

 wards of twenty-four ounces ; and we are assured, 

 when first plucked, its weight exceeded twenty-five 

 ounces. It grew in the orchard of Heman Ely, 

 Esq. of Elyria, Ohio, and was truly a noble speci- 

 men of Ohio husbandry. — Con. Courant. 



LONGEVITY. 



The widow Mary Wiggin, of Stratham, was 

 born October 17, 1733. — She is still living, and 

 has entered on the second century of her life, re- 

 taining in a good measure, her mental powers and 

 bodily health. She is the oldest person ill that 

 town, and the first who has lived to the age of one 

 hundred years. She has several grand children 

 who are grand parents. Her maiden name was 

 Jewett. Her first husband was Walter Weeks, 

 Esq. of Greenland ; her second and last, Andrew 

 Wiggin, Esq. of Stratham. A gentleman of this 

 town, who visited her three years ago, informs us 

 that her memory was good, and her eye-sight so 

 perfect as to enable her to read without spectacles. 

 He has also seen her since her last birth day, and 

 found her not materially altered, excepting that 

 her sense of hearing is much impaired. 



Exeter News Letter. 



From the Temperance Recorder. 

 FARMING WITH RUM. 



Meeting recently with a farmer residing in a 

 neighboring town, I soon discovered from his con- 

 versation that he was a zealous advocate for the 

 temperance reform, and he gave me man)' striking 

 fecta in regard to the good it hail already effected 

 among his acquaintance. To himself he said it 

 hail been every thing. He hail in times past been 

 a temperate drinker, and supposed it utterly im- 

 possible to accomplish the labor of his field with- 

 out ardent spirit. For some years a barrel of 

 whiskey was regularly purchased, and sufficed; 

 but in process of time it was empty before the 

 haying and harvesting were completed, and the 

 two gallon jug went again and again to the mer- 

 chant for a new supply. Unsuspicious of the 

 cause, he found himself going behindhand yearly; 

 every thing went wrong — his farm was mortgaged 

 to the merchant — his blacksmith and other me- 

 chanics were unpaid — duns and demands came 

 upon him frequent as April showers, but not half 

 as pleasant; and with a rising family and increas- 

 ing embarrassments, his prospects were most 

 gloomy — poverty and wretchedness were before 

 him. Daily his life became more and more un- 

 pleasant, and every effort he made to escape from 

 his difficulties, only plunged him the deeper in 

 trouble and perplexity. Still he saw not the cause. 

 The leak which was sinking his ship so fast was 

 undiscovered, and he saw no hope — no way of de- 

 liverance. How many thousands have like this 

 man been involved, and from the same cause ; and 

 from affluence have sunk to abject poverty* — sold 

 their farms — gathered together their little all, and 

 emigrated to the west! 



FARMING WITHOUT RUM. 



While our friend was in this perplexed situa- 

 tion, with nothing but ruin before his eyes, some 

 person either by design or casually, sent him a 

 Temperance Recorder. He threw it aside as be- 

 ing only suitable for the attention of drunkards, not 

 suspecting that in that little messenger of mercy 

 he should find a solution of all his difficulties and 

 a sure way of escape. And so it is; man, way- 

 ward man, from ignorance and caprice, not uufre- 

 quently dashes from him the hand of kindness, 

 and voluntarily shuts his ears and his heart to in- 

 struction. Our farmer, casting his eye upon the 

 heading of one article in the Recorder, was induced 

 from curiosity to read it through. Before he had 

 finished, conviction of the inutility and evil of tem- 

 perate drinking seized his mind, and without de- 

 lay he determined to adopt the principle of total 

 abstinence. All his domestic and farming arrange- 

 ments underwent a change, and very soon the im- 

 portant discovery was made, that the barrel of 

 whiskey had been the cause of his trouble. Of 

 course it was discarded, and under the new order 

 of things he soon discovered that laborers drink- 

 ing only cold water, were of far greater profit than 

 those who were stimulated by rum ; the look of 

 trouble and of fearful foreboding gave place to that 

 of hope and cheerfulness ; in two years his farm 

 was disincumbered of the mortgage; every debt 

 was paid ; and he remarked, that which pleased 

 him most was, that he could now do something in 

 aid of the benevolent operations of the age. By 

 this change, no one beside himself is a greater 

 gainer than the merchant. True he sells him no 

 whiskey, but then he sells him a much greater 

 quantity of other articles than he before purchased ; 



and he sells them for cash too, fur now our farmer 

 wants no trust, though all are willing and desirous 

 to see his name upon their books. L. 



FRESH FALL GOODS. 



ELIAB STONE BREWER, No. Ill Washington siren. 

 has received ail extensive assortment of fresh *J?all and Winter 

 goods, which he offers, wholesale and retail , for cash only, con- 

 siderably lower than can bo bought in the city. A \e wbil b 



are leases English, French and American cloths, consisting of 

 superior, extra superior, middling and low priced, black, i Luc. 

 mixed, and every variety ofcolors. 60 pieces Cassimeres, <-t 

 all colors — 2 cases pelisse cloths, an excellent article for chaise 

 lining (very low) — 1 case very nice Habit cloth, Brown. Bine. 

 Claret, .yc. — 7 cases Satinells, Striped, and plain of various 

 colors — 5 cases 6-4 Eng. Merino, a very superior article, and 

 all the most desirable colors, imported expressly tor the sub- 

 scriber — 4- cases 3-4 Eng. do. ol various colors and qualities — 



4 cases Circassians, very supi rior qualities and various colors 

 — 1 case superior Goats Hair Camblet — 4 bales 4-1 5- 1 and 6-4 

 Booking, green and mixed — 12 bales splendid Tarrifi'viile 

 Hearth rugs — 5 bales Eng. low priced do. do. — 54 bales Do- 

 melts, while, yellow, red. 6oc. — 10 bales Flannels, Eng. Welsh, 

 and American — 10 bales Cotton Carpeting, slriped and blocked 

 — 6 bales Russia Diaper — 1 bale Canton Flannel, lower than 

 the cost of importation — 3 bales American Cotton Flannels, 

 bleached and unbleached — 1 bale White Counterpanes, all 

 sizes — 10 bales superior London Row Blankets from 10-4 to 

 14-4 — 7 bales real Indigo Checks from 3-4 to 5-4- — 3 bales 



A rican Gingham — 2 cases Eng. Gingham — 29 bales cotton 



Batting — 25 beies Pillisse Wadding, 12 bales black Wadding — 



5 cases Embossed Furniture Dimety — 2 cases Embossed 

 Cambrick, for stage lining — 20 cases Prints, all patterns and 

 prices, Eng. French, and American — 30 cases Bleached Col- 

 tons — JO bales unbleached cotton — 10 bales Ticking 3-4,7-8 

 and 4-4, some very superior quality — 2 cases Sinchaws — 2 

 cases S^rsnets — 2 cases Satin Levantines, superior quality — 

 3 cases Levantines, low priced — 7 cases Crape Dresses, all 

 colors — 5 eases Linens, Lawns, and Shirtings 4-4 to 10-4 with 

 a very extensive assortment of Cambrics and Cambric Muslins, 

 Bobbineiteand Grecian lace, 4-4 and (i-4 Swiss nonsook, Book 

 Jaconi'tt plain and figured muslins — Hosiery and every varie- 

 ty of seasonable Dry Goods. 



Country merchants will do well to call and examine for 

 hcmselves. septlS. 



IMPROVED DURHAM SHORT HORNED 



CATTLE. 



FOR sale, one three year old bull of a brown color, 2 year- 

 ling bulls both red, 3 bull calves 1 red, 1 red and white, and 1 

 wholly white, also 3 two year old heifers, 2 roan and 1 brown 

 and while, 3 yearling heifers, 1 roan, 1 red and while, and one 

 flecked. The dams of the above have given more than 20 

 cjurrts of milk a day on grass only. 



Also, 2 bull calves, one bright-red, and one red and while. 



They are all descended from the famous imported Bulls, 

 Bolivar and Ccelebs, and from cows of imported stocks. 



For milkers, working oxen or Beef, this stock is considered 

 2d to none in New England. Inquire of Mr. Geo. C. Barrett, 

 Office of the N. E. Farmer. optf 



BUCKTHORNS. 



10,000 Buckthorns of thrifty growth, from two to three feet 

 high, for sale' — apply at this office. aug 14 



THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at $3 per annnm, 

 payable at the end of Ihe year — but those who pay within 

 sixty days from the lime of subscribing, are entitled to a detloe- 

 tion of fifty cents. 



O 3 No paper will be sent to a distance without payment 

 being made in advance. 



AGENTS. 



New York — G. Thorburn & Sons, 67 Liberty-street. 

 Albany — Wm. Thorburn, 347 Market-street. 

 Philadelphia — D. & C. Landreth, 85 Chesnyt-street. 

 Baltimore' — I. I. Hitchcock, Publisher of Anferican Farmer. 

 ( 'inchinali — S. C. Parkhurst, 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing, N. Y. — Wm. Prince & Sons, Prop. Lin. Bot. Gai. 

 Rtiddlebury, Vt. — Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 Hartford — Goodwin & Co. Booksellers. 

 Newburmori — Ebenezer Stedman. Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. H. — J. W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Portland, Ale. — Colman, Holden & Co. Booksellers. 

 Bangor, Me. — Wm. Mann, Druggist. 



Halifax, N. 8. — P.J. Holland, Esq. Editor of Remitter. 

 Montreal, L. C. — Geo. Bent. 

 St. Louis — Geo. Hoi.ton. 



Printed for Geo. C. Barrett by Ford & Damreij. 

 who execute every description of Book and Fancy Print, 

 ing in good style, and with promptness. Orders for prin*. 

 ing may be left with Geo. C. Barrett, at the Ajrii««l 

 tural Warehouse, No. 52, North Market Street. 



