264 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



FEBRUARY 37, 1S33. 



MISCELLANY. 



TO MY SON. 



From the new edition of Lord Byron's Works. 

 Those flaxen locks, those eyes of blue, 

 Bright as thy mother's in llieir hue ; 

 Those rosy lips, whose dimples play 

 And smile to steal the heart away, 

 Recal a scene of former joy. 

 And touch thy Father's heart, my Boy ! 



And thou can'st lisp a Father's name, 

 Ah, William, were thine own the same, 

 No self-reproach — but, let me cease — 

 My care for thee shall purchase peace ; 

 Thy mother's shade shall smile in joy. 

 And pardon all the past, my Boy ! 



Her lowly grave the turf has prest, 

 And thou hast ktiown a stranger's breast. 

 Derision sneers upon thy birth. 

 And yields thee scarce a name on earth ; 

 Yet shall not these one hope destroy, — 

 A Father's heart is thine, my Boy ! 



Why, let the world unfeeling frown. 

 Must I fond Nature's claim disown f 

 Ah, no— though moralists reprove, 

 I hail thee, dearest child of love. 

 Fair cherub, pledge of youth and joy, — 

 A Father guards thy birth, my Boy ! 



Oh, 'twill be sweet in thee to trace, 

 Ere age has wrinkled o'er my face. 

 Ere half my glass of life is run. 

 At once a brother and a son ; 

 And all my wane of years employ 

 In justice done to thee, my Boy ! 



Although so young thy heedless sire. 

 Youth will not damp parental fire : 

 And, wert thou still less dear to me. 

 While Helen's form revives in thee. 

 The breast, which beat to tbrmerjoy, 

 VV^iU ne'er desert its pledge, my Boy ! 



SONNET. 



God's works are very bgaulilul ! The sky. 

 Blue, vast, and cloudless in its broad e.xpanse. 

 Or fleeced with golden vapors ; the bright glance 

 Of waters, flashing 'neath the sun's warm eycj 

 Meadows, and viue-hung erags, and towering high, 

 The forest foliage, shadowed like a dream 

 In its rich moulding, with the sunset gleam — 

 The sheen of moon-beams, sleeping quietly 

 Upon the earth, and swift wings glancing by 

 In the gay sunshine ; — but too oft more fair 

 To man is sordid Mammon's yellow glare, 

 Albeit purchased with the torturing sigh 

 Of his poor victim brother ! Wretched slave ! 

 Eartlv's fairest spot for thee, too olt'-n, is the grave. 



From ti,e Wor/dmr-Men's Shield. 

 A MILLION OF PACTS. 

 BY SIR RICHARD PUII^LIPS. 



Among the clijver books we have receutly re 

 ceived from Lomloii, is one with the above title, 

 containing a vast variety of information in a small 

 space. It will possibly be re|)riuteil in America, 

 but as that is yet problematical, we oft'er a few 

 extracts front it, whicii will serve to e.xliibit its 

 character, while they convey some useful informa- 

 tion. 



The sea is to the land, in round millions of 

 isquare miles, as 160 to 40, or as 4 to 1. 



Fraimhoifer, in his optical experiments, made a 

 machine in whicli he could draw 32,900 hues in 

 an inch breadth. 



There are 7,700 veins in an inch of colored 

 mother-of-pearl. Iris ornaments of all colors are 



made by lities of steel from 200 to the 1,000th 

 part of an inch. 



Bodies are transparent, says Newton, wlicn the 

 pores are so small as to prevent reflection. 



The apprehension of the failure of a supply of 

 coals in England, is delusion. In Yorkshire, alone, 

 there are exhaustless beds, which are sold at 4s. 

 or 5s. per ton. 



The coal mines, which, in Staffordshire, have 

 been burning for 200 years, consist of pyrites, 

 subject to spontaneous combustion. Water will 

 not extinguish them, because when drawn oft', or 

 absorbed, the pyrites burn more than before. 



The odorous matter of flowers is inflammable, 

 and arises from an essential oil. AVhen growing 

 in the dark their odour is diminished, but re- 

 stored in the light ; and it is strongest in sunny 

 climates. 



A chestnut-tree grew at Tamworth, which was 

 52 feet round ; it was planted in the year 800 ; 

 and ill the reign of Stephen, in 1135, was tnade 

 a boundary, and called the great chestnut-tree. 

 In 1759, it bore nuts which produced young trees. 

 Botanists record 56,000 species of various 

 plants ; and 38,000 are to be found in the cata- 

 logues. 



The lieight of mountains in the moon is consid- 

 erable ; ten are five miles, or nearly ; and eight 

 are from 3 to 4 miles. Three of the hollows are 

 from 3 to 4 miles ; ten arc from 2 to 3 miles, and 

 as many are nearly 2 miles. 



Teeth are phosphate of lime and cartilage, but 

 the eiiaincl is without cartilage. 



The imiscles of the human jaw exert a force 

 of 534 pounds, and those of mastifts, wolves, &o. 

 fur more. The force is produced by the swell- 

 ing of the muscles in the middle, and dilating 

 again. 



Tho nnmVier of ribs vary, being twelve or thir- 

 teen on a side. 



From the Fanner's (UhioJ Chronicle. 



GRUMBLEmS. 

 In regard to the complaints not tinfrequently 

 made on account of the large ])roporlion of agri- 

 cultural matter contained in our paper, we have to 

 luiswer all such geiierallti and pariimkirlij /'excepting 

 always our pretty friend Amanda,) that the paper is 

 conducted in conformity with the prospectus ; if 

 however, the readers generally of the Chronicle, 

 prefer sotncthing of less value, we can accommo- 

 date them to their heart's content. 



And as to the fair, smooth termagant, who 

 lashed us so unmercifully last week, she must ex- 

 cuse us, if we ask her leave to delay an answer 

 to her pretty, pouting lecttire, till we feel less sore 

 than now from tlie eftl'Cts of castigation already s(' 

 inanfuUt) admiuistered. We will, however, humbly 

 implore her jiardon for having oft'eiided her sciis-i- 

 tive oil-factorits, by bringing within their reach, 

 (though innocently) the repulsive effluvia of the 

 coio-yard. It is by the bye, believed that the 

 '■'■cow-yard," was not found in the Chronicle till 

 introduced by Amanda ; nevertheless, we nio.st 

 readily confess the fact, whether true or not, 

 through pure gallantri). 



oitioiiNiAL, ANL:cuorE:. 



Some five and tliirty yi^arsago, when this coun- 

 try was almost entirely new, and our inhabitants 

 were few and far between, an enterprising black- 

 smith came into the town of Blootiifield, and 

 being unable, for want of time and utensils, t 

 ereet a shop, put up his anvil, and set fire and 



bellows going out of doors. Not long alierwards 

 one of his distant neighbors, hearing that there 

 was a blacksmith in town, started ofl^ to go and 

 employ him, but not fimling the way, inquired of 

 a man whom he met on the rotid, "how liir it was 

 to Mr. B's blacksmith shop?" — "You are in the 

 shop now," replied the wag, " but it is three miles 

 and a half to his anvil." 



PARTNKR WANTEB. 



A Gentleman, now well establislied in tlie Nursery business, 

 in Ohio, having a good assortment of Fruit Trees, &e. grow- 

 ing, is desirous of taking as an active partner, a gardener li*om 

 the vicinity of Boston, who is thoroughly acquainted with the 

 business, and can give unquestionable testimonials as to his ca- 

 pacity, iiiiegrily aiul devotion to business. The location is one 

 of tlie best in the Slate, having a water cnmmunieation north 

 to the Lakes, south to the navigable waters of the Mississippi 

 Valley, and east and west by uie great National Road. For 

 further particulars, apply personally, to Mr. Barrett, Publisher 

 of the New England Fanner, Boston. feb i!0 



WANTED, 



A STEADY single Man, peilecily capable of managing 

 the wiiole work of a small larm of iU acies,with a goofl Garden. 

 No one will be engaged who cannot jiroducc the best recoiu- 

 meiidaiioiis as to sobriety, honesty, and having experience in 

 the most improved system of .\griiuliure. A member of the 

 Tenijierance Society, and a pious cliararter, will be preferred. 

 Apply at ihis office. leb 1 J 



GRASS SEEDS. 



Herds Grass— Red llover, ( Northern and Southei-n) Red 

 Top— Fowl Meadow— Orchard Grass— Tall Meadow OalGrass 

 -Lucerne— While Dutch Honeysuckle Clover, for sale by 

 Gku. C. Harbett, No. 31 & 52 Nortli Market Street, Boston. 



lib V.i If 



SCIOAS FOR INGRAFTING, &c. *,c. 

 Linnccan Botanic Garden and Nursei-ics. 



W'M. PRINCE At SO.NS, proprietors of this establishment, 

 ha\ iiig ainiexed thereto, very extensive Specimen Orchards, 

 coiiiainiug all the varieties of Fruits eiiuinrraieil in tlie.r cata- 

 logues, will, to accommodate distant coiT.'spon.leiiis, Itiriiish 

 Scions, suitable for ingrafting ol any varieiies, iliai may be re- 

 qiiiied on the terms staled at page M ol their Fruit Catalogue, 

 — \iz. 50 els per doz. for Scions of any one kind, where the 

 (iriee ol a tree does not exceed lliat sum, and where it does, 

 the same price for a dozen Scions as for a tree — In no case, is 

 a less charge made than Ibi a Dozen— Scions of Grape Vines, 

 a.d of various trees and shrubs can be supplied. The great 

 advantage ol the above is their small bulk, and cheapness of 

 Irausportatiou. 



They have also imported by the last arrivals several thou- 

 sand dollars worth ol Vegetable Seeds, of the choicest varieiies, 

 and will lurnish supplies to venders at low rales, aud of a 

 quality not to be surpassed. 



They have !200 lbs. of the Yellow Locust, or Robenia pseu- 

 ilai acia seeds, ol the line Long Island variety, so lamed for 

 ship timlicr. aud expect by firsl ainval 100 lbs. Finest White 

 lialian Mulbtirry seed, lor Silkwomis. 



Priced Catalogues of every deparlincnt will be furnished on 

 application direct, by mail or otlier>tisc, aud the prices liave 

 hern nmch reduced. 



N. U. No articles are guaranteed by Ihcm, unless the In- 

 voice has their printed headinj; and simialure. 



THE NEW ENGLAND PARMER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at )y,6 per aniiuin, 

 payable at the end of the year — but those who pay within 

 Sixty days from the time oi subscribing, are entitled to a deduc- 

 tion of lii'ty cents. 



117 No paper will be sent to a distance without paymen» 

 being made in advance. 



* AGENTS. 



.Vfu' Yort—G. TnoRBUKN .V So.vs, 07 Liberty-street. 

 Albany— Wm. Thorhcrn, .J47 Market-street. 

 !'hitndelphia — D. & C. Lanorkth, 85 Chesiiul-Slreel. 

 /tallimort — 1. L HiTCHtocK, Publisher of American Farmer. 

 Cincinnati — S. C. Parkhurst, 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing, N. Y. — Wm. Pri.ncf. &. Sons, Prop. Lio.Bot.Gar. 

 Middlebunj, Vt. — Wight Ch.vp»ian, Merchant. 

 Hartford — Goodwin & Co. P.ooksellers. 

 Springfield. Ms.— v.. Edwards, Merchant. 

 .Virterypo ■(— Ebenkxf.r Stf.dman, Bookseller. 

 I'orlsmoulh, N. tl.—J. W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Portland, Me.— Col man, Hoi.den & Co. Uookscllers. 

 .(«ir«sfa,il/e.—WM. Mans, Druggist. 

 Hulifaic, N. S.—P. J. Holland, Esq. Editor of Recorder. 

 Montreal, I,. C. Geo. Bent. 



Printed for Geo. C. Bakkett by Juiis Komi, who^ 

 e.\ccutos every description of Book and Vnnrij I'rmtmg 

 in troiid style, and with promptness. Orders for prinUng 

 nay be left with Geo. C. Barrett, at the Agricultural 

 Warehouse, No. 52, North Market Street. 



