1858. 



NEW ENGL/.ND FARMER. 



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acid into the top of the wart, ■Nvithout allowing 

 the acid to touch the healthy skin. Do this night 

 and morning ; a safe, painless and eflectual cure 

 is the result. — Hall's Journal of Health. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 THE HEIGHT OF MY AMBITION. 



Br R. T. H. 



A beautiful eottage embowered in vines — 



Just large enough for two ; 

 Where the tangled rays of the bright sun shine 



The leafy curtain through ; 

 Where the notes of warbling birds resound, 



At the blush of young morn so still ; 

 Where the little nest of eggs is found 



In the branch by the window sill ; 

 Where the squirrel frisks nimbly in joyful glee, 



At earliest peep of dawn ; 

 Where the sky is blue, where the air is free, 



And green is the verdant lawn. 

 I ask for no mansion with arching dome, 



Or the meed of high position ; 

 For the quiet joy of the cottage home 



Is the height of my ambition. 



Y«t I would not live in this home alone. 



For 'twould far sweeter be 

 To sit with a wife on the low door stone. 



And 'neath the spreading tree — 

 To read to her when the winter night 



Falls dark o'er the cottage bower — • 

 To wander with her when morn's red light 



Opes the eyelids of the flower : 

 To meet her with smiles, morn, noon and even, 



And part with a loving kiss — 

 To make our home an earthly heaven 



Of purest human bliss. 

 'Neath the sunlight's glance and the blessed rain. 



And from earth's own blest fruition, 

 To gather our fruit, and the golden grain, 



Is the height of my ambition, 



And a little room, in a quiet nook. 



O'er looking the rosy flowers ; 

 Where we both might sit, in a world of books. 



In the heat of noon-tide hours ; 

 And converse hold with the years that are gone, 



And with regions far away ; 

 With the author's mind. Whose radiance shone 



O'er the gloom of life's darkened way. 

 From this cottage home, with its vine-clad bower. 



And the roses o'er the door, 

 We could view the works of a Master's power — 



No king can e'er do more ! 

 For the choicest gifts of a father's hand. 



Have sped on their holy mission, 

 And to dwell 'neath their folds, in this flowery land, 



Is the height of my ambition. 



Where there hang, at even, the richest folds 



When the Lingering sunbeams rest ; 

 Where heaven's rich painting the eye beholds 



O'er clouds in the distant west ; 

 Where, to greet the God of day abov", 



Each flower-face turns to heaven. 

 And chooses the rays Which best they love 



From among the glorious seven ; 

 Where the warbler bathes in the rippling stream, 



And rings his sweet notes of praise ; 

 Where honors attend the daylight's gleam 



In the swell of myriad lays ; 

 There to live, and to work, for an heavenly life, 



In the mem'ry of life's transition, 

 In this beautiful cot, with my own sweet wife. 



Is the height of my ambition. 



COUNTY SOCIETIES. 



Through the attention of H. (). Hildreth, 

 Secretary, we have received the transactions of 

 the Norfolk County Agricultural Society for 1857. 

 It is beautifully printed, contains many valuable 

 articles, and one by Mr. J. M. Merrick, Chair- 

 man of the Visiting Committee, ought to be re- 

 printed in all the agricultural papers. It is sur- 

 prising to us that any county society fails to send 

 out such a committee. The address was by Rev. 

 Alvan Lamson, of Dedham, and is a credit to 

 his head and heart. The Norfolk Society has 

 many men of much ability and zeal in the noble 

 work of agricultural improvement. 



The Worcester West Society's Transac- 

 tions contain an Address by Prof. J. A. Nash, 

 excellent, of course, as all his productions are, 

 and the brief reports of committees, among which 

 we find the following : 



STATEMENT OF PETER B. DERRV. 



My dairy consists of 13 cows. I commenced making cheese 

 the Soth of March with the milk of one cow, and adilod that of the 

 others from time to time as the calves were disposed of. I have 

 sold from the 13 cows, 



262 cheeses to market 5099 lbs. $561,02 



7 I have consum'.-d and sold at home... 127 " 13,97 

 56 I have on hand, estimated to weigh 



22 pounds each 1232 lbs. 123,20 



63o8 lbs. 



I have made butter 52 lbs. $13,00 



Sold and used milk 490 qts. 14,70 



The 13 calves were sold 128,00 



Total $853,89 



It being an averaee product of $65,68 to each cow. 



Barre, Sept. 17, 1857. PETER B. DERRY. 



Plymoi'th County Society. — The report of 

 the committee on "Produce and Improvements" 

 is an interesting paper — all the rest is brief re- 

 ports of committees,, without any facts for consid- 

 eration, and the statements of contributors. 



Middlesex Society. — This report is well 

 printed, has a comprehensive account of its late 

 exhibition by Dr. Joseph Reynolds, the Secre- 

 tary, a short, practical, living and breathing Ad- 

 dress, by Rev. Charles Babbidge, of Pepper- 

 ell, the usual reports of committees, and a most 

 admirable report upon the Culture of the Grape, 

 by E. W. Bull, of Concord, the originator of 

 the Concord Grape. This society is in a very 

 prosperous condition, has many skilful and earn- 

 est farmers among its members, and has beeii 

 highly influential in promoting the agriculture of 

 the county. 



Worcester North Society. — The Exhibi- 

 tion was at Fitchburg. Address by Justus Tow- 

 er, Esq., of Berkshire County ; a plain, practical, 

 common-sense, excellent production, — one of the 

 most difficult addresses imaginable to write. We 

 wish our limits would admit the M-hole, but we 

 have room for a single paragraph only now, — but 

 that ought to arouse every farmer of the State 

 to renewed exertions in his calling. He said: — 



