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NEW ENGLAND FARIMEll. 



July 4, 1832. 



Miscellany. 



FOB THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



•MIDSUMMER. 



Midsummer's all pervading heat, 



Does sturdy farmers suit and seivice ; 



But makes lank dandies wilt like weeds, 

 And white fac'd belles " amazing nervous 



We hale and hardy cultivators, 



Of well wrought iron fibres boasting. 



Already being rather brown, 



Dont mind a little extra toasting. 



To us midsummer's hottest rays 



Present no sort of molestation. 

 Though such a blaze might dissipate 



The devotee of dissipation. 



Iniir'd to open air and toil. 



We spurn efienjinate indulgence, 

 Now revel in the polar blast. 



Now bask in tropical effulgence. 



But pleasure's pamper'd parasite. 

 Like Sybarite of yore is troubled ; 



If lounging on his bed of flowers. 

 He finds a single rose loaf doubled. 



GOOD INK. 

 Every person who has had occasion to examine 

 the early records of New England, in the public 

 offices, must have been often struck not only with 

 their elegant penmanship, but with their beautiful 

 ink, as clear and as black as if written yesterday. 

 A large proportion of the records of only thirty or ] 

 forty years date, is in such bad hand writing and 

 such faint miserable ink, as to be scarcely legible, 

 and two hundred years hence much of these later 

 records will be entirely useless. I have often 

 thought it would be a great acipiisition, if we could 

 ascertain exactly the mode in which our ancestors 

 made their best ink. There is nolhing like the 

 experience of two hundred years in such a case. 



In Evelyn's Sylva is a receipt for making ink, 

 as follows: " Take 4 ozs. galls ; '2 ozs. copperas; 

 1 oz. gum arable. Beat the galls gross, and put 

 them in a quart of claret or French wine" to soak 

 eight or nine days, settinsf it in a hot sun in sum- 

 mer and by the fire in winter, stirring it often. 

 Then add the copperas and gum, and in a day or 

 .two it will be fit for use." 



Some years ago I made a little ink according to 

 this direction, and foimd it superior to any I had 

 purchased. It run freely, and some of the writing 

 now before nie is of a beautiful black. — 



heard something move about the head ropes of his 

 horses. On looking round, lie saw what Ke sup- 

 posed to be a large dog, which ran between his 

 legs and nearly upset him. The sentinel, howev- 

 er, had heard of the ability with which many of 

 the natives could imitate different animals, and 

 was not satisfied with this explanation of the noise 

 that had first excited his attention. He still sus- 

 pected that some roguery was on foot, and the bet- 

 ter to detect it, he placed himself behind what ap- 

 peared to be the stump of a tree, at a short dis- 

 tance from the spot on which he had been previ- 

 ously standing. On this supposed stump he hung 

 his helmet ; and bent on the most attentive scru- 

 tiny, he placed his head between the two limbs of 

 the stump, so as (unperceived) to command a di 

 rect view of the quarter from whence the noise 

 originally proceeded. This, however, was too 

 much for the ihief, (for such in reality was the 

 supposed tree stump,) who, unable to restrain his 

 laughter, and finding his situation somewhat criti- 

 cal, suddenly executed a sommerset upon the as- 

 tonished soldier, and inade clear-off with his hel- 

 met. 



money and his gold-headed cane.' " The printer 

 soon after came back again, atid told his master 

 there were several words too many. " Why then," 

 said the publisher, " you may leave out the gold- 

 headed cane." 



Presence of Mind. — Presence of mind is that 

 rare and desirable disposition which displays itself 

 in a temper intrepid and serene. It qualifies per- 

 sons to take advantage of every occurrence of the 

 moment, to profit instantly by the mistakes and 

 faults of others, and to be fertile in all resources 

 that peculiar situations may oblige them to fly to. 

 A man may be a man of genius or of business, but 

 he cannot be a hero without jiresence of mind. 



Preservnlion of Iron from Rust. — A mastic or 

 covering for this purpose, proposed by the Societe 

 d'Encouragement, at Paris, is as follows : Eighty 

 parts of pounded brick, passed through a silk sieve, 

 are mixed with twenty parts of litharge ; the 

 whole is then rubbed up by the muller with lin 

 seed oil, so as to form a thick paint, which may 

 be diluted with spirits of tm-pentine ; well clean- 

 ing the iron lefji-e it is applied. From an expe- 

 rience of two years, upon locks exposed to the 

 air and covered daily with salt water, after being 

 coated twice with this mastic, the good effects of 

 the preparation have been thoroughly proved. 



Female Society. — Without female society, it has 

 justly been said, that the beginning of men's lives 

 would be helpless, the middle without pleasure, 

 and the end without comfort. The celebrated D'- 

 Alember makes a reflection that does honor to the 

 female sex and to his own feelings: "We are in 

 a peculiar maimer," .says he, " in want of the so- 

 ciety of a gentle and amiable woman, when our 

 passions have i^uhsided, to participate in our cares, 

 calm and alleviate our suflerings, and enable us to 

 support our infirmity. Happy is the man possess- 

 ed of such a friend! and more still if he can pre- 

 serve her and escape the misfortune of her survi- 

 val." — Ladies' Pocket Magazine. 



Young Cleveland. 



THIS truly beautiful and valuable Horse is of the 

 Cleveland bay bieed ol horses, of fine even temper, five 

 years old the 20lli of May, fifteen and a half hands high, 

 and of a beautiliil dark bay color, with black mane, tail 

 and legs. He walks and trots remarkably easy and fast; 

 and is equalled by very lew for imiseular strength, ele- 

 gant movement, and perfect synimetiy of form. 



He his proved himself a sure and first rate foal getter. 

 The rolls sired by him possess a great share of bone and 

 muscle. 



The pedigree of Young Cleveland : — He was sired by 

 the celeliratei bay horse, Sii Isaac, the son of the noted 

 hoise, Molineux. Sir Isaac was presented to the Agri- 

 cultur I Society of this Slate, by Sir Isaac Cofhn, and 

 was selected under his order as superior of his breed, and 

 the breed' recommended by him as the most higiily es- 

 teeiried for gentlemen's cirriages, anil all dri.ft, larming, 

 and saddle purposes, of any horses in New England. — 

 Hisilam was a first rate and high spirited native mare. 

 He will stand the ensuing season, at the stable of the sub- 

 scrilter, in Franklin 



Terms : — Three dollars the single leap ; five for ths 

 season ; and eight to insure the mare with foal ; the 

 money to be paid when the mares are taken away, on 

 notes given payable the 1st October next. Those per- 

 sons who put mares to the Yorng Cleveland and have 

 them warranted, and pa'-t with them before foahng time, 

 or neglect (o bring their marcs regularly to the horse 

 through the season, will be con-idercd lioMen for insu- 

 rance money. ELI M. RICHARDSON. 



Franklin, May 30, 1832. 4t» 



THE BIIATTEE ROBBER. 



"When the young Bhattee is about three or four 

 years of age, his education or training is commen- 

 ced by his being compelled to walk and run a given 

 distance dally, and as he advances in years the 

 exercise is increased. He must acquire the art of 

 bleating like a sheep, barking like a dog, crowing 

 like a cork, braying like an ass, and in like man- 

 ner of imitating all kinds of animals. He must 

 be able to throw himself on any occasion which 

 may require, into every kind of attitude ; to crawl 



Love your H'ife. — The man who tenderly loves 

 his wife, will have the greater pleasure in lessen- 

 Gen. Far. | ing her care and heightening her enjoyment. The 

 professions that he held out to engage her affec- 

 tions, were all that language could ex|iress ; his 

 conduct that of the warmest attachment. Can a 

 woman, when she feels an increased cause for that 

 attachment, bear the sad reverse? A Scotch bal- 

 lad very prettily expresses the pleasure an aflec- 

 tionate wife feels at the approach of her husband : 

 *' His vei-y foot has nuisic in 't, 

 When he comes up the stairs." 



Treatise on Domestic Animals. 



THIS day published, by Lilly & Wait, and Carter & 

 Hendec, and for sale by J. B. Russell, No. SfliJ North 

 Market Street, " A trcati-e on breeding, rearing, and 

 fattening all kinds of poultry, cows, swine, and other do- 

 mestic animals By B. IHoubray, Esq. Repiinted from 

 the sixth Lom'on edition. With such abiidgments and 

 additions as it was conceived would render it best adapt- 

 ed to the soil, climate, and common course of culture in 

 the United States. By Thomas G. Fessenden, Esq., ed- 

 itor of the New England Farmer." Price 75 cents. 



June 13. 



Published everv Wednesday Evening, at g3 per annum, 

 |.av able at the end of the \ear — but tlinKt who pav within 

 S!jty da\8 from the time of suhfciibing, rre entillid to a 

 deduction of fifty cents. 



Hj' No paper wil be sent to a distance vithout payment 



ben 



adv 



A Receipt to Fill a .Yetcspaper. — His printer 

 came running to the publisher of a newspaper, and 

 along or lie as flat as possible oti the groimd ; to I said, " Sir, we have a space in the pa|)er which we 

 run like a dog ; to stand on his head with his legs dont know liow to fill." " Nolhing is easier," said 

 extended widely, so as to appear ic the dusk like the publisher ; " insert that, ' last week an elderly 

 the stump of a tree, &c. | gentleman, walking through St James' park, was 



A sentinel of the 4th Bengal cavalry, on duty, knocked down by two ruffians, and robbed of his Soit^reu'.'L. C. 



Printed for J B. Ki ssell, by 1. R. BuT-.---by whom 

 all descriptions of Printing c;m be executed to mi et the 

 wi-Iks of customers. Orders for Printing rece "td by J. B. 

 I'lissn.i., at the Agricultural Warehouse, Nt 62. North 

 iikrket Street. 



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 Kallinwre —G B Smith, Editor of the American Farmer. 

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 ' " " Henry Hillock. 



