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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



•tune is, is34. 



MISCELLANY. 



From Mellen's Poems. 

 THE HOST OP SIGHT. 



Look at the host of night — 



These silent stars ! 

 What have they known of blight, 



Or heard of wars ! 

 Were they not marshall'd there, 



These fires sublime, 

 Gemming the midnight air 



Ere earth knew time! 

 Shine they for aught but earth, 



These silent stars ! 

 And when they sprung to birth 



Who broke the bars, » 

 And let their radiance out, 



To kindle space ' 

 When rang God's morning shout 



O'er the glad race ! 

 Are they imbedded there, 



These silent stars! 

 Or do they circle air 



On brilliant cars ! 

 Range they in frightful mirth 



Without a law — 

 Or stand they above earth, 



In changeless awe '. 

 Are they all desolate, 



These silent stars — 

 Hung in their spheres by fate 



Which nothing mars ! 

 Or are they guards of God — 



Shining in prayer ! 

 On the same path they've trod 



Since light was there! 



STARS. 



Makt stars which were marked by the ancients 

 in their catalogues are no longer seen, but others 

 are visible which were unknown to them. While 

 a very few have receded, others have gradually 

 increased in brilliancy. Some astronomers are of 

 the opinion that the whole of our solar system is 

 moving onward toward the constellation Hercules. 

 If this be true, then it is very certain that the class 

 of magnificent Worlds, to which this globe belongs 

 are revolving in an orderly manner, round some 

 great central point of attraction, of which the hu- 

 man eye has never had a view. In the course of the 

 last one hundred and fifty years some of the fixed 

 stars appear to have moved. The star Arcturus 

 has moved three minutes and three seconds in sev- 

 enty-eight years. No fact has been more satisfac- 

 torily demonstrated, than that the law of gravity 

 operates positively, from the sun to the planet 

 llerschel, eighteen hundred millions of miles, and it 

 is therefore probable, that the heavenly bodies 

 which are discoverable with telescopes of the 

 greatest power, are in subjection to some vast, in- 

 conceivably vast, central globe, self balanced some- 

 where in celestial space ; and that may be the re- 

 splendent throne ol God. 



RESULT OF ACCIDENT. 



Many of the most important discoveries in the 

 field of science have been the result of accident. 

 Two little boys of a spectacle maker in Holland, 

 while their father was at dinner, chanced to look 

 at a distant steeple, through two eye glasses placed 

 before one another. They found the steeple brought 

 much nearer than their shop windows. They told 

 their father on his return ; and the circumstance 

 led to a course of experiments, which ended in the 



telescope. Some shipwrecked sailors once collect- 

 ed some sea weeds on the sand, and made a fire 

 to warm their shivering fingers, and cook their 

 scanty meal. When the fire went out they found 

 that the alkali id' the sea weed had combined with 

 the sand, and formed glass ; the basis of our dis- 

 coveries in astronomy, and absolutely necessary to 

 our enjoyment. In the days when every astrolo- 

 ger, and every chemist was seeking after the phi- 

 losopher's stone, some monks carelessly making 

 up their materials, by accident invented gun pow- 

 der, which has done much to diminish the barbari- 

 ties of war. Sir Isaac Newton's most important 

 discoveries — concerning light and gravitation — 

 were the result of accident. His theory and ex- 

 periments on light were suggested by the soap 

 bubbles of a child ; and on gravitation by the fall 

 of an apple, as he sat in the orchard. And it was 

 by hastily scratching on a stone, a memorandum 

 of some articles brought him from the washer- 

 woman's, that the idea of lithography first present- 

 ed itself to the mind of Shenfelder. — Am. Mas. 



WORTHY EXAMPLE OP ECONOMY. 



Matthew Carey, speaking of his marriage, 

 says, " My wife was about ten years younger than 

 me. She was industrious, prudent and economi- 

 cal, and well calculated to save whatever I made. 

 She had a large fund of good sense. We early 

 formed a determination to indulge in no unneces- 

 sary expense, and to mount the ladder so slowly 

 as to run no risk of having to descend. Happy, 

 thrice happy would it be for thousands and tens of 

 thousands, if they adopted and persevered in this 

 saving course. What masses of misery woidd it 

 not prevent ! Some idea may be formed of the 

 fidelity with which we observed this rule, when I 

 state, that at a time when I did business to the 

 amount of forty or fifty thousand dollars per an- 

 num, I hesitated four or five years about changing 

 my gig for a one horse four-wheel carriage — and 

 nearly as long about purchasing a carriage and 

 pair. And during the whole period of our mar- 

 riage, I never, as far as I recollect, entered a tavern 

 except on a jury or arbitration, or to see a cus- 

 tomer, or at a public dinner, or on my travels — 

 never in a single instance for the purpose of drink- 

 ing.'" 



NATIONAL MEMENTOS. 



In the English House of Lords, the Lord Chan- 

 cellor is seated on a woolsack, that the importance 

 of the woollen manufacture, the great staple of 

 that country may be indelibly impressed on the 

 public mind. 



When the first Congress met after the adoption 

 of the Federal Constitution, it was in contempla- 

 tion, but afterwards abandoned, to have the seats 

 of each delegation wrought with some device, de- 

 scriptive of the staples of their several States, viz. 



ru- w-Ilampshire to be represented by a pine-tree. 



Massachusetts, by a barrel of fish. 



Fviiode-Islund, a hamper of cheese. 



Connecticut, an ox. 



New- York, a hogshead of flaxseed. 



New-Jersey, a bundle of flax. 



Pennsylvania, a bag of wheat. 



Delaware, a bag of wool. 



Maryland, pig and bar iron. 



Virginia, a hogshead of tobacco. 



North Carolina, a barrel of tar. 



South Carolina, a bag of cotton. 



Georgia, a barrel of rice. — Boston Atlas. 



CURE FOR THIRST. 



Of boiling soft water take three quarters, and of 

 fresh tamarinds one quarter — put them together in 

 an earthen jar for three or four hours — strain ofF 

 the liquor — bottle it, and in about four weeks it will 

 be fit for use — and a wine glass full of it in hot 

 weather is one of the most agreeable, healthful 

 nectsrs, and most powerful extinguishers of thirst 

 ever discovered. 



Although the tongue has no bones, it breaks 

 bones. 



CULTIVATOR. 



Jut received at the Agricultural Warehouse, a few of Sea- 

 ver'smproved expanding CuLTtVATORS, for weeding among 

 Corn, Potatoes, ccc. &c. je 4 



VALUABLE NEW WORK ON AGRICULTURE. 



This day Published, by Geo. C. Barrett, at the Office of 

 the N. E. Farmer, — The 

 COMPLETE FARMER and RURAL ECONOMIST, 

 By Thos. G. Fessenden, Esq. 

 Containing a compendious epitome of the most important 

 branches of Agriculture and Rural Economy, and the following 

 subjects arranged in order : 

 Soils, Wheat, Beans, Mange! Wurlzel, 



Grasses, Rye, Swine, Kuta Baga, 



(iiiiiii, Oats, Lime &. Gypsum, Potatoes, 



Neat Cattle, Barley, Fences, Haymaking, 



Barns, Millet, Hedges, Ploughing, 



Dairy, Hops, Sheep, Poultry, 



Hemp, Peas, Horses, Wood: 



Flax, 

 and to which is added — Descriptions of the most approved Im- 

 plements and Machines, with Engravings. 



The work is piinted on the best of paper, and is intended for 

 a Farmer's Directory, which every farmer should be possessed 

 of, and relying upon an extensive sale will be afforded at the 

 low price ol $1. 



[From the New England Magazine of June 1st, 1S34.] 

 All men love a farm and a garden, and Mr. Fessenden is 

 belter qualified than any other man in New-England to com- 

 pose a good work on these practical subjects — albeit he was in 

 his youth addicted to the less profitable pursuits of wit and 

 poetry. This work should be on the shelf of every farmer's 

 library : there is much in it -to guide him and nothing to lead 

 him astray. All is practical, nothing is speculative. It em- 

 braces the entire transactions of a farm. The materials for the 

 work must have been collected through many years. Excel- 

 lence is comparative — and any traveller in England may there 

 best notice the defects of American husbandry. Still, however, 

 it is with caution that in our soil and climate we should adopt 

 the English modes of cultivation. 



The soils are first treated of, then grasses, grain, catlle, ani- 

 mals, daiiy, manures, harvesting, poultry, implements, &c. <fec. 

 Those who would have a choice of implements may choose 

 among many at the New-England Agricultural Warehouse. 

 Here is every facility for saving labor and increasing crops ; 

 and the implements that are not useful — if any such there be — 

 are studies of ingenuity. All are made in the best manner, and 

 they are in some sort an illustration of Mr. Fessenden's book, 

 many being neatly delineated in it. 



THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



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