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NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



Annual op Scientific Discovery, a Year Book 

 of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most im- 

 portant Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, 

 Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astron- 

 omv, Mcteorolog}', Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, 

 Geology, Geography, and Antiquities, -with other use- 

 ful matter; by David A. Wells, of the Lawrence Sci- 

 entific School, Cambridge, and George Bliss, Jr. — In 

 preparing this work, the authors have had excellent 

 advantages, by access to all the scientific -works of 

 this country, and of the principal countries in Europe, 

 and by the counsel and contributions of some of the 

 ablest scientific men in the country. They have 

 performed their task in an able and faithful manner, 

 and we recommend the work as one of great interest 

 and utility. Published by Messrs. Gould, Kendall, 

 & Lincoln, 59 Washington St. 400 pages, 12mo. 

 The mechanical part of the work is neatly executed. 



Hatward's Vermont Gazetteer. — This work is 

 not only useful and interesting to the people of Ver- 

 mont, but to every man of business, and to every 

 family, particularly in New England. The conve- 

 nient arrangement of a gazetteer renders the valuable 

 information it contains readily accessible, and a work 

 of this kind is as indispensable to a man of business 

 or of general information, as is a dictionary to a man 

 of letters. 



The Common School Writing Book, by O. G. 

 Badlam, New York, Collins & Brother; Boston, 

 Rej'nolds & Co., 27 CornhiU. — This is the first work 

 that we have examined that defines the breadth of 

 letters, and the spaces between them, by fine oblique 

 lines, leading the scholar to a uniformity of letters 

 and spaces, until he forms the habit, and then these 

 guides are omitted. It appears to us that this novel 

 system possesses peculiar advantages, and we would 

 commend it to the particular consideration of writing 

 masters and teachers generally. 



The American Phrenological Journal and Mis- 

 cellany, by O. S. and L. N. Fowler. New York, 

 Fowlers & Wells, publishers. — This work is monthly, 

 about the size and form of the N. E. Farmer, at 

 $1 00 a year. It makes a very neat volume. Be- 

 sides the peculiar science to which it is particularly 

 devoted, it is highly interesting to every intelligent 

 man, as a work of philosophy, education, &c., treat- 

 ing of the qualities of the mind, its powers, liabil- 

 ities to injury, and the importance of correct mental 

 training. 



The Water-Cuue Journal, and Herald of Re- 

 forms, in the same form, at the same price, and by 

 the same publishers, is among the most valuable 

 periodicals of the day. It commends a system that 

 is too much neglected. There is no remedy for dis- 

 ease so sovereign — there is no other thing, simple or 

 compounded, that comes so near being a panacea as 

 water. It may be used in a thousand ways, and by 

 its variety of temperature from solid ice to the boiling 

 state, it may be adapted to almost every disease, and 

 to patients of every degree of strength, from the 



most robust to the most feeble invalid. Thousands, 

 yea, millions of patients are paymg for medical aid 

 and remedies, and lingering long with disease, which 

 water, that every where abounds, properly applied, 

 would wash away. We are particular on this sub- 

 ject, as the people of this country arc afflicted with 

 hydrophobia — a di'ead of water. 



AGRICULTURAL SONG. 



BY JOHN palmer. 



Plough deep to find the gold, my boys ! 



Plough deep to find the gold ! 

 The earth hath treasure in her breast 



Unmeasured and untold. 



Clothe the mountain tops with trees, 



The sides with waving grain ! 

 Why bring over stormy seas 



What here we may obtain ? 



O, Britain need not bring her bread 



From countries new or old. 

 Would she but give the ploughshare speed. 



And DEPTH to find the gold ! 



Earth is grateful to her sons 



For all their care and toil ; 

 Nothing yields such large returns 



As drained and deepened soil. 



Science, lend thy kindly aid. 



Her riches to unfold ; 

 Moved by plough or moved by spade, 



Stir deep to find the gold ! 



Dig deep to find the gold, my boys ! 



Dig deep to find the gold ! 

 The earth has treasures in her breast 



Unmeasured and untold. 



Thomas Fuller, the historian, so well known for 

 his quaint sayings and bright points, was one day 

 riding with a gentleman named Sparrowhawk. The 

 name roused his fancj^ and he asked him what' was 

 the difference between " a Sparrowhawk and an. 

 owl." " Why, sir," replied his companion, '• the 

 owl is fuller in the head, fuller in the body, and 

 fuller all oner." 



AoE AND Perseverance. — It is a fault too much 

 practised by both sexes to indulge in listlcssness, and 

 a kind of hopeless languor, at the decline of life. 

 Our energies and talents were given us to persevere 

 to the end. 



TERMS. — The New England Farmer is published 

 every other Saturday, making a neat and handsome 

 volume, at the close of the year, of 416 pages, at $1 a 

 year, or five copies for 5^, payable in advance. It may 

 be elegantly bound in muslin, embossed and gilt, at 25 

 cents a volume, if left at this office. As it is stereo- 

 typed, back numbers can be furnished to new subscribers. 



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 LI 

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



stereotyped at the 

 boston stereotype foundry. 



