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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



The Albany CoLTrvATon. — This paper, -whicli 

 has long held a very prominent position among the 

 most valuable publications of our country, has, ac- 

 companying the January number, a very beautiful 

 pictorial number, made up of numerous engravings 

 that hp.vo appeared in that work, arranged in good 

 taste, and very handsomely executed. 



The Rural Neav Yorker. -^This is a large sheet, 

 in quarto form, published and conducted by D. D. T. 

 Moore, Rochester, N. Y., late publisher and associate 

 editor of the Genesee Farmer. It is devoted to agi-i- 

 culture, horticulture, and miscellaneous intelligence. 

 As this work is ably conducted, handsorael}' illus- 

 trated, and neatly executed, it is well worthy of an 

 extensive patronage ; and from brother Moore's en- 

 terprise, we have no doubt it will receive it. Weekly, 

 at $2 per year. 



Transactions of the Worcester Agricultural 

 Society. — We are indebted to Col. J. W. Lincoln 

 for this pamphlet, containing forty-eight pages, em- 

 bracing various reports and essays, from which we 

 shall make some extracts. 



Pathfinder Railway Guide for January. Price 

 five cents. 



URINE OF ANIMALS. 



I have thought that, as a general thing, our farmers 

 do not consider sufficiently the value of this excellent 

 agent of fertility. In how few instances, indeed, do 

 wc find any effort made to economize it, or render its 

 gi-eat wealth available for the sustenance and support 

 of vegetable life. According to an English agi-icul- 

 tural author of great intelligence, the quantity of 

 liquid manure produced by a single cow in one year, is 

 equal to fertilizing one and one fourth acres of soil, 

 producing effects as permanent as do the solid excre- 

 ments voided by the same animal in a like interval 

 of time. A cord of good loam thoroughly saturated 

 with this energetic and fecundating li(juid, he esti- 

 mates as equal, for all practical purposes, to a cord of 

 the best, well -rotted manure. If the hquid and solid 

 evacuations, including the straw or other materials 

 used as litter, are kept separate, and soaking up the 

 former by absorbent loam, previously well dried, it 

 has been foimd that they will manure land, in pro- 

 portion by bulk, of seven liquid to six solid, while 

 their actual value is as two to one. One hundred 

 pounds of cow's urine, says our authority, produce 

 thirty-five pounds of the most powerful salts which 

 have ever been a]iplied in agriculture. No one, there- 

 fore, can doubt for one moment, that by neglecting 

 to economize this powerful and valuable agent of 

 agrestic enrichment, we deprive ourselves of an agent 

 at once the most energetic in its action, and the most 

 decidedly salutary in its permanent effects. If the 

 liquid evacuations of our stock equal one half the 

 value of the solid excrement, and if there be any de- 

 pendence to be relied on the recent experiments of 

 chemical men, this is a very moderate appraisal. Is it 

 not richly worth saving ? 



A NEW CORRESPONDENT. 



Philadelphia County, Nov. 12, 1849. 

 — Germcuitown Telegraph. 



One kind act does more towards softening man's 

 Btubborn nature than all the sour looks and harsh 

 language ever used. 



THE OLD ARM-CHAIR. 



BY ELIZA COOK. 



I love it, I love it ; and who shall dare 



To chide me for loving that old arm-chau"? 



I've treasured it long as a sainted prize, 



I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with 



sighs ; 

 'Tis bound by a thousand bands to my heart ; 

 Not a tie will break, not a link will start. 

 Would ye learn the spell ? A mother sat there, 

 And a sacred thing is that old arm-chair. 



In childhood's hour I hngcred near 



The hallowed seat with listening ear ; 



And gentle words that mother would give, 



To lit me to die, and teach me to live. 



She told me shame would never betide, 



With truth for my creed, and God for my guide ; 



She taught me to lisp my earliest j^rayer, 



As I knelt beside that old arm-chair. 



I sat and watched her many a day, 



When her eye grew dim, and her locks were gray ; 



And I almost worshipped her Avhcn she smiled, 



And turned from her Eible to bless her child. 



Years rolled on, but the last one sped — 



My idol was shattered, mj- earth-star fled ; 



I learnt how much the heart can bear. 



When I saw her die in that old arm-chair. 



'Tis past ! 'tis past ! but I gaze on it now 

 With quivering breath and throbbing brow ; 

 'Twas there she nursed me, 'twas there she died ; 

 And memory flows with lava tide. 

 Say it is folly, and deem me weak. 

 While the scalding drops start down my check ; 

 But I love it, I love it, and cannot tear 

 My soul from a mother's old arm-chair. 



THE OLIO. 



Industry. — As the sweetest rose grows upon the 

 sharpest prickle, so the hardest labor brings forth the 

 sweetest profits. 



True religion will show its influence in every part 

 of our conduct ; it is like the sap of a living tree, 

 which penetrates the most distant boughs. 



The soul of man, when contemplating God, is 

 like a cloud at close of day, receiving glorious tints 

 of beauty as it floats in the smile of the sun. 



"Tell your father," said John Randolph to a young 

 friend, "that I recommend abstinence from novel 

 reading and whiskey punch. Depend upon it, sir, 

 they are both equally injurious to the brain." 



'Fixe more a man works, the less time he will have 

 to grumble about hard times. 



TERMS. — The New England Farmer is published 

 every other Saturday, making a neat and handsome 

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 year, or five copies for $i, payable in advance. It may 

 be neatly bound at 18^ cents, or elegantly boimd in 

 muslin, embossed and gilt, at 2.5 cents a volunie. As it 

 is stereotyped, back numbers can be furnished to new 

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I|^ The Postage „^ 



On this paper is only 1 cent, or 26 cents a year, within 

 the state, or within 100 miles out of the state ; and 1^ 

 cents, or 39 cents a year, beyond those distances. 



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