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PUBLISHED BV GEO. C. BARRETT, NO. 52, NORTH MARKET STREET, (.it the Agkicultur.^l Wahkhouse.)— T. G. FESSENDEN, EDITOR. 



VOL,. SI. 



BOSTOiV, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1833. 



NO. 46. 



From the Goiesce Farmer. 

 HINTS TO FARMERS— KO, VIII. 



Offices are created for the ]Hil)lic, uot for the 

 incunibeiils. They nevertheless constitute fruit- 

 ful rcwarils to merit; and, wheu spontaneously 

 • conferred, are aliionij; the highest honors that a free 

 people can bestow. To deserve theui is worthy ot' 

 your andiition ; but to depend upon thetn, as a 

 nieans'of livelihood, would be unreasonable ami 

 unwise, if not dangerous. A tliirst for otBce is,al- 

 most as bad as a thirst for rum. The more eitlier 

 are indulged the more craving they become. — 

 Every repetition of the pOtion but begets new de- 

 sires, until finally, the passion, in one case, termi- 

 nates in delirium iremens, and, in the otlier, in dt- 

 lirium candidaturh. I have known many a worthy 

 Itnan ruined in his usefulness and in his fortune, 

 by this latter disease, and idtimately terminate his 

 career under the complicated horrors of both mal- 

 adies. 



In selecting your public agents, adopt the same 

 caution that prudence would suggest in' your pri- 

 vate afiairs ; choose those who are acquainted 

 with the buisness in which yoii mean to emplov 

 thera, — who know your wishes and your interests, 

 — who have an established reputation for integrity, 

 and who have shown an ability to manage a pub- 

 lic trust, by having conducted creditaWy and suc- 

 cessfully their private atfairs. Such nieu possess 

 civil virtues, and merit civil rewards. But distrust 

 the man wIjo reiterates his importunities for yiur 

 vote or yom- influence, as wanting either good hab- 

 its or good principles. The first should render 

 him independent of public aid, and the last should 

 make him ashamed to ask for it. 



Are we then to reject, as the bane of our hap- 

 piness, the honors and emoluments of oflice ? No ; 

 accept them, when proffered, as a mandate of du- 

 ty not as a source of wealth ; as a compliment to 

 your merit, and as the requital of an obligation 

 which you owe to society. Accepted in this spir- 

 it the duties will not seem onerous, nor the eitiol- 

 uments worthy your exclusive regard. And v-hen 

 you have enjoyed the honors, and fulfilled the du- 

 ties abandon neither your politcs nor your religion 

 because your fellow citizens happen to discover in 

 your neighbor qualities and merits equal or supe- 

 rior to your own. Tlie spirit of a free goveriinx'Ut. 

 forbids monopoly. Whether they im[(Ose a fl ity, 

 or confer honor or profit, ofiices should be shcrcd 

 by those wlio are capable and worthy ; and 1 do 

 not know of a more salutary provision whith 

 would be engrafted on our constitution, than that 

 which has been thrice forcibly recommended by our 

 illustrious President, to limit the tenure of ofiice to 

 some definite period of time. 



I will close this number with the history of a 

 schoolmate: — Job Allerton cominenced life under 

 the most flattering auspices. His farm was a pat- 

 tern of neatness — fields well cultivated, cattle in 

 fine order, and fences and buildings in good re- 

 pair. Job owed no man, and had accumulated 

 a fine sum at interest. His children were growing 

 up^under their parent's example in habits ofinilus- 

 try, and promised to become respectable in socie- 

 ty. Every thing throve under his care, and he 

 was pointed to by all as the best farmer in tlie town 

 of S. His good qualities, and the infiuence which 



these procured hinfeat length brought him into po- 

 litical notice, and he became a successful candidate 

 very much against his will, for the Assembly. 

 He returned from Albany in the spring with some 

 new notions, but the habits of the farmer still pre- 

 dominated. To a second nomination Job had less 

 objection, nay, he secretly intrigued for it, for 

 he tliought, as he remarked, he was ihtn qualified 

 to do some good. The second triumi)h, and the 

 consequence it gave him at the dinners and parties 

 in the renowned capital turned his head, and he 

 came home quite an altered man. It was no long- 

 (ir " Come boys," with him. Politics engrossed 

 his whole attention. He became a standing can- 

 ilidate for every office that presented ; and was in 

 succession — sherifi", senator, and member of con- 

 gress. 



In the mean time the farm began to show tlic 

 absence of the master ; the fences were prostrate, 

 tlie cattle neglected, and the buildings verging to 

 ruin. The boys too, as boys ever will, aped the 

 father, began to strut the gentleman, and to look 

 up for office and dignities. As industry departed 

 |>rodiga!ity entered, and soon wasted the frugal 

 earnings of former years. At length the illusion 

 vanished. Allerton found himself deeply in debt, 

 without means and wilhoid office, with an indolent, 

 extravagant family to support. OtKces had ruined 

 him. In his distress he mustered resolution to do 

 what hundreds have failed to do, and who have 

 done worse. With the wreck of a former com- 

 petence, he p» lied up stakes, and leaving behind 

 him his official habits and official pride, fled to the 

 wilds of Indiana, where I am happy to say, he 

 has resumed again the habiliments of the farmer, 

 and is profiting by the lessons of experience. 



Who is there that among his acquantance does 

 not recognize a Job Allerton?' B. 



Frcvn the Kennebec Fanner. 

 OK TRAINING OXEN. 



Mr. Holmes : — I have observed that very little, 

 if any attention is paid, by our fanners, to learn 

 their steers to back ; but as they become able to 

 draw a very considerable load forward, they arc 

 often unmercifully beaten on the head and face, 

 because they will not back a cart or sled, with as 

 large a load on as they can draw forward, for- 

 getting that much pains have been taken to learn 

 them to draw well forward, and none to learn 

 them to ])nsh backward. To remedy the occa- 

 sion of this thumping, and the delay which is al- 

 ways disagreeable, as soon as I have learned my 

 steers to be handy, as it is called, and to draw 

 forward, I place them on a cart, where the land 

 is descending in a small degree. In this situa- 

 tion they will soon learn with ease to back it; 

 then I place them on level land and exercise 

 them there ; then I learn them to back the cart 

 up land a little rising. The cart having no load 

 in it thus far. When 1 have learned them to stand 

 up to the tongue as they ought, and back an emp- 

 ty cart I next either put a small weight in the cart 

 or take them where the land rises faster, which 

 answers the same purpose. Thus in a few days 

 they can be learned to back well, and know how to 

 do it, which by a little use afterwards they will nev- 

 er forget. This may appear of little consequence 



to some, but wl en it is remembered how freiiuent- 

 ly we want to back a load when we are at work 

 with our cattle, and how commodious it is often ' 

 to have our cattle back well, why should we not 

 learn them, for the time when we want them thus 

 to lay out their strength. Besides it saves the 

 blows, and vexation often encountered, which is 

 considerable, when one is in haste. It is a merci- 

 fiil course towards our brutes. I never consider 

 a pair of oxen well broke until they will back with 

 ease any I'easonable load, and I would give a 

 very considerai)le sum more for a yoke of oxen 

 thus tutored, than for a yoke not thus trained. 



A Tf.amster. 

 TREATMENT OP THE HORN DISTEMPER. 

 The Horn Distemper is a disorder by which the 

 farmer's cattle are often affected. Its cure is very 

 simple and speedy. On examining the born it 

 will be found cold, the eyes dull, and the animal 

 in apparent pain. On examining the end of the 

 tail, the hair will be found curled, and the tail soft 

 and spongy from one to three inches. As far as it 

 is spongy it should be cut ofi', and the head rubbed 

 with a rag wet with spirits of turpentine. This 

 should be applied sparingly, between the horns, 

 and about the forehead near them, before and be- 

 hind. I have seldom found any other treatment 

 necessary. The boring of the horn and the injec- 

 tion of salt, vinegar or other medicine, I deem 

 useless if not injurious. Such is my experience 

 on this snbject. — A'. 1'. Farmer. 



The following are extracts from a pamphlet en- 

 titled, "The Cause of Farmers, and the Universi- 

 ty in Tennessee." By Philip Lindslev, D. D. 



DtMOc RATIO and republican as we are, our 

 citizetis are strangely partial to great names. 

 Esquire, Honourable, Excellency, Major, Colonel, 

 General, Doctor, are as much coveted and as ea- 

 gerly sought after in this country, as are titles of 

 nobility in Europe. And foreign titled gentry, 

 when tliey condescend to visit us, are regarded 

 and trea.ed as a superior race. The wealthiest 

 and prouiiest man in the United States wonkl feel 

 himself and family wondrously honoured and re- 

 nowned, could he be so fortunate as to marry his 

 daughter t> an English earl or even baronet ! This 

 spirit, so u'terly at variance witb our constitution 

 and avowea political doctrines, is sufficiently con- . 

 temptible to be left, without serious comment, to 

 the rilicule vhich it merits, were it not for some 

 of its deleteritus practical effects on society. And 

 among these is the evil in question. Our people, 

 at first, oppose jll distinctions whatever as odious 

 and aristocratica' ; and then, presently, seek with 

 avidily such as rtmain accessible. At first, they 

 denounce colleges, and then choose to have a col- 

 lege in every distric*. or county, or for every sect 

 and party — and to boast of a college education, and 

 to sport with high sounding literary titles ; as if 

 these imparted sense, or wisdom, or knowledge. 

 How long this puerile vanity will continue in vogue, 

 it is not easy to foresee. 



Our farmers ought, beyond all question, to be 

 liberally educated ; that is, they ought to have the 

 best education that is attainable. I do not say that 



