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NEW .ENGLAND FARMER. 



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(t5=The following Stanzas, altered from Dr Watts, pre- 

 ceded an excellent Address delivered by Wm. M. 

 Barton, Esq. at a meeting of the Agricultural Soci- 

 ety of the Valley, held in Winchester, Virginia, the 

 I6th day of November 1824. The Address has been 

 received, and will be published as soon as we can 

 make room for it in oar columns. 



Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey, 

 Or men as fierce and wild as they ; 

 There do the oppress'd and poor repair. 

 And build them towns and cities there. 



They sow their fields ; and trees they plant. 

 Whose yearly fruit supplies their want ; 

 Their race grows up from fruitful stocks — 

 Their wealth increases with their flocks. 



Our thankful hearts, with joyful sense, 

 Admire the works of Providence : 

 Oh ! may an impious tong." no more 

 Insult the God whom we adore. 



How few with gratitude record 

 These gracious dealings of the Lord I 

 But wise observers still shall find, 

 The Lord is holy, just and kind. 



From the Trenlon Emporium. 



LOOK OUT AHEAD. 



The seaman on i. dangerous sea, 

 Loo/i's out ahead — and wise is he — 



But there is no less necessity for looliins: out 

 ahead on the l.nnd than on the sea. We are all 

 embarked on a voyage — all have lo pass llirongli 

 a variety of dangers — have misfortunes of vari- 

 ous kinds lo avoid — and this requires, 8:tnerally, 

 only the constant exercise of the gifts of prudence 

 and fore.'iight which we naturally possess. I say 

 we must keep these faculties in exercise, for a 

 great deal more than half the ills we suffer are 

 the offspring of our imprudence and indolence, 

 not of uncontrollable misfortunes. 



By looking out ahead, I simply mean, acting 

 with a prudent reference to coming time — mak- 

 ing all necessary provision for the future — and 

 leaving as Utile as possible to the mere chance 

 of what is called luck! For there are those wlio 

 do none of these things. Who learn nol the 

 lesson of the ani, to lay up, while the sun 

 shines, stores for a wintry day — and glean not 

 from the busy bee the wisdom to provide a plen- 

 tiful home against the days when the season for 

 making this provision shall be past. The world 

 is full of misery, but not more full of misery thun 

 of folly. 



It well becomes the youth who is setting out 

 in life, surrounded by a circle of gay companions, 

 and often tempicd to the place of revelry and 

 dissipation — to look out ahead — to remember 

 what is said most truly of the poorer of habit- 

 to reflect on the consequences of an irregular 

 life — to look to the precipice to which it leads 

 — to call before his mind those ghostly monitors 

 which have passed in poverty, in contempt, in 

 sorrow, to a hopeless end, the victims ot intem- 

 perance or crime— to pause — to ponder— lo re- 

 eolve alight. 



Nor leas does it become him who has jusl set 

 his foot upon the active stage of business, hav- 

 ing arrived at manhood, (o look out ahead ! He 



has a character for industry, and punctuatitv, 

 and honesty, to estaldish, which n-o of vital im- 

 portance In his future welfare, lie has also to 

 establish those rules for the management of his 

 business by which, probably, he will fall or rise, 

 for a careless method of transacting these mat- 

 ters, once allowed, and, ten to one, things gtow 

 worse and worse— the evil is increased instead 

 of being remedied. 



The girls and boys, too, who get into the old 

 fashioned notion that Ihey must get inarricd, as 

 their fathers and mothers did, ought by all 

 means io—look out ahead.— The times especi- 

 ally call for it now,,though in ail limes it is ne- 

 cessary. Out young gentlemen are sometimes I 

 dissipated— our young ladies sometimes eslrav-j 

 aganl,and too much given to pride and indolence; 

 these should all be bachelois and old maids ; 

 they would only he a torment lo their partners 

 if liiey sot them. Care should be taken lo ayJid 

 these. ^Then there should be a unison of feel- 

 ing, a conformity of taste, a suitableness of lem- 

 pe^r, and an aftection founded on merit; olher- 

 xnse there can be no happiness in marriage— 

 For, as sailh Peter Pindar — 



O, Matrimony ! thou art like to Jeremiah's figs ! 

 Tlje good ivere very goad, the bad too sour to give the 

 pigs! 

 In fine— It becomes all men_ to— Zoo^ ou' 

 ahead! The man whose polar star is flmA/fion, 

 should so temporize his thirst for glory, as that 

 disappoint take him not unawares, and bring not 

 sorrow with it. The politician should bcivare 

 that to present passion he sacrifice not his own 

 and his counlrv's interests. The professional 

 man should look lorwanl to the day of his retire- 

 ment, and see that h". carries a good conscience 

 there. The mechanic shnuul look to it, that he 

 pave thepalhuav of his future pilgrimasje, not 

 only with a competence, but with an honoura- 

 ble character and a good report, The Farmer 

 should beware of the spirit of speculation ; vow 

 hostility for ever against mortgages, and while 

 markets are dull — content himself with doing 

 moderately well. These are the only safeguards 

 of the future. Oliver Oakwood. 



E.TCfuisiteness in rnling and elocution. — Account 

 of a dinner ffiven to the Duke of Norfolk, &c. 

 the Lords, Knigb.'s. and Gentry of the County, 

 by the. Mayor of Norwich, (Eng.) A. D. 15G1 : 



English, I heartily thank you, Maister Mayor, 

 and so do we all ; answer, boys, answer ! your 

 beer is pleasant and potent, and will soon catch 

 us by the caput and stop our manners. And so 

 huzza for the Queen's Majesty's Grace, and all 

 her bonny brow"d dames of Honour ! Huzza ! 



for ?daster Mayor and our good Dame Mayor- 

 ess ! His Noble Grace, there he is, God save 

 him. and all his jolly company ! To all our 

 friends round the County, who have a penny in 

 their purse, and an English heart in their bod- 

 ies, to keep out Spanish Dons and Papists, with- 

 their fagots lo burn our whiskers ! Shove it 

 about, cock up your caps, handle your jugs, 

 and Huzza ! for Maister Mayor and his brethren 

 their Wurshijis ! 



Jlgricuhitre. — The task of working improve- 

 ment on the earth, is much more delightful to 

 an undebauched mind, than all the vain glory 

 which can be acquired by ravaging it by the 

 most uninterrujited career of conquests. 



[ IVashington. 



The importance of Punctuality. — Method is 

 the very hinge of business; and there is no 

 melliod without punctuality. Punctuality is im- 

 portant, because it subserves the peace and 

 good temper of a family: Ihe want of it not 

 only infringes on necessary duty, but sometimes 

 excludes this duly. The calmness of mmd 

 which it produces, is another advantage of 

 punctuality; a disorderly man is always in a 

 hun V ; he has no time to speak to you, be- 

 cause he is going elsewhere ; and when he gets 

 there, he is too late for his business ; or he 

 must hurrv away to another before he can fin- 

 ish i(. Punctuality gives weight to character. 

 " Such a man has made an appointment. Then 

 1 know he will keep it." And this generates 

 punctuality in you; for, like other virtues, it 

 propagates itself. Servants and children must 

 be punctTial where their leader is so. Appoint- 

 ments, imb'ed, become debts. I owe you punc- 

 tuality, if I have an appointment with you; — 

 and have no right to throw away your time, if 

 I do my own. 



18 loaves bread 



3 loaves brown do. 

 1 bbl. beer 2 

 1 bbl. small beer 

 1 qr. of wood 

 Nntm»gs, macCj 

 cinnamon, itc. 



4 lbs. barberries 

 Fruit and almonds 

 16 oranges 

 2 galls, wliitc wine 2 

 1 quart of sack 

 1 quart malmsey 

 1 quart of custard 

 1 qt. of muscadine 



The Invc of Gold. — An old gentleman by the 

 , name ol Gould having married a very young 

 I wife, wrote a poetical epistle to a friend to in- 

 ' form of it, and concluded it thus : — 



" So you see, my dear sir, thorg-h I'm eighty years old, 

 A girl of eighteen is in love with — old Gould.'''' 



To which his friend replied — 



" A girl of eighteen may love Gold, it is true ; 

 Hut believe me, dear sir, it is Gold without C/."' 



The Inquest. — A hint to clever men employed 

 on such occasions — 



" Poor Peter Pike is drowned, and ncighbouVs say 

 The jury mean lo sU on him to-day ; 

 Know'ft thou for what .'" says Tom. — Quoth Ned, " N» 



doubt 

 'Tis merely done lo srpteetc the valfr out.'''' 



£1 18 1 



.\rter ample justice had been done lo the above 

 bill of fare, one John Martyn made the follow- 

 ing speech : 



" Maister Mayor of Norwich, and it please 

 your Worship, you hnve feasted us like a King. 

 God bless the Q,ueen"s grace. W^e have fed 

 plentifully, anc' now whilom I can speak plain 



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