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jS'E'V ENGLAND FARMER. 



[May 6, 



XaXSCSI.Z.AKXES. 



From the American Fanner. 



AN ECLOGUE.— ON THE PLOUGH. 

 Wake up, my muse ! wake up, my son! ! 

 Survey the globe from pole to pole — 

 To what employment shall I bow ? 

 Pursue the arts, or hold the plough.' 

 Upon a just and strict attention. 

 The plough appears a high invention. 

 The great Messiah, when he wrought. 

 Made yokes and ploughs, as we are taught, 

 Mogul, rcnown'd of India's land. 

 First takes the plough into his hand. 

 His millions then in honor toil 

 To pulverise the fertile soil. 

 The fam'd Elisha, youMl allow, 

 He drove the ox, or held the plough. 

 The stubborn earth he rent and tore, 

 With oxen ntimberM twenty-four, 

 Th' Immortal Job' more rich and grand 

 Than any in the Eastern land. 

 He lauach'd his plongh — the earth gave way. 

 His thousand oxen rend the clay. 

 Oral] pursuits by men invented, 

 The ploughman is the best contented 

 His calling's good his profits high, 

 And on his labors all rely — 

 Mechanics all by him are fed. 

 Of hi'm the merchants seek their bread : 

 His hands give meat to every thing, 

 Up from the beggar to the king. 

 The milk and honey corn and wheat 

 Are by his labors made complete. 

 Our clothes from him must all aiise, 

 To deck the fop or dress the wise — 

 We then by vote may justly stale. 

 The ploughman ranks among the great ; 

 More independent than them all. 

 That dwell upon this earthly ball. 

 All hail ye farmers, young, and old ! 

 Push on your ploughs with courage bold I 

 Your wealth arises from your clnd. 

 Your independ' nee from your God. 

 If then the plough supports the nation, 

 And men of every rank and station, 

 Let kings to farmers make a bow, 

 And every man procure a plough. 



Reminiscences. — Amongst Ihe multitude of re- 

 lics with which the churches in Italy are iniin- 

 d.itPcl, Militn is in |)ns-ip-;^ion of tlie boslv oClhe 

 famous Charles Borrotneo, kept in a ci)ffin of 

 rocl4 crystal, joined together by plates ofa^iit 

 silver. The body is dislinclly seen throutjh 

 the coffin, and is entire, except the nose, part 

 of which is wanting A monk, on beino; asked 

 the reason of this, ori-avely said, lliat God had 

 permitted it because the saint, in his life time, 

 had been loa fond ofszee'^i oiloursy am) as a |)nn:sli- 

 ment for his sensuality, had been deprived of 

 the half of his nose. 



There are three sorts nfinhabilnnls in Egypt. 

 the Copts, the established Crloiiin, and the 

 wnnderino: Bodnuins. The established Bedouins 

 occujiy dwellings, ami may be considered as villa- 

 ger-. The wandering ijedonms lead the same 

 ife as the ancient patriarchs, living under tents 

 upon the milk of their cattle, and shifting their 

 habitations for the convenience of pasture. — 

 They always encamp in places whtre they can 

 easily obtam w.iter ; and their frugal llle secures 

 them from the attacks of depredators. The 

 wants of this people are very few, their cattle 

 furnish them »vitb the most delicate dishes, while 

 Ihe wool of the sheep which they rear, serves 

 them for clothing. They consider those to be 

 madmen who build immense palaces. Accus- 

 tomed to lead a wandering life, and never feel- 

 ing at ease when they are btulionaiy, they can- 



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not conceit e how smy people can he happy 

 who live in buildings however splendid. With 

 children of nature, the golden'age seems to ex- 

 ist. 



For near 200 years, the Turks made use of no 

 other bullets for the cannon of the Dardanelles, 

 than the Corinthian chapiters and columns, which 

 they broke to pieces to answer that purpose. — 

 If we [nay judge by the number of marble mon- 

 uments that have escaped the ravages oflhese 

 barbarians, aucient Greece must have had more 

 superb structures than Rome itself It is believ- 

 ed that a greater number of statues lie in (he 

 channel of the Tyber, than there are at present 

 in the ancient capital of the world ; but all these 

 treasures are concealed from our sight, and we 

 cnnnot judge of what we do not see. ,'M>out 

 the end of the lust century, the Jews otTered 

 t.venty millions of livrcs to the Po(ie lor per- 

 mission to search the Tyber, and to turn its 

 course for six months. Thissimi was very tempt- 

 ing ; after various deliberations of the holy con- 

 clave, they <lecidod that as it was proposed to 

 draw oil Ihe water in the summer, the great 

 heats would occasion sucii exhalations IVom the 

 di'aini'd channel as would breed a pestilence ; 

 therefore the request uas denied. — JS'.Y. paper. 



Lorenzo de Medicis being asked who are the 

 greatest fools in the world, rejilied, " Those 

 surely who put themselves in a passion with 

 fools." 



DEFEHRES ARTICLES. 



Popt^s TliresJuni; Machine. — Maj. Russ, of Farming- 

 ton, writes that he has threrhed with this machine, in 

 six hours and Ibrty minutes, witli the assistance of two 

 horses 161 bushels oats — i:j 7 ii.iurs, 203 bushels; in 

 9 hours l'.'G bushels oats moK.d and not hound in bun- 

 dles. — .\lso J4 bushels wheat in 2h. and iO minutes, 

 and in that proportion daily, cleaner and better than 

 that threshed with fiails. 



Fort .Monroe faces the entrance of the Chesapeak 

 Bay, within about a mile of the Hip llaj'S ; every ves- 

 sel entering the Bay must pats within half (hat distance 

 of the guns of the t'ortress ; and as upwards of ;^00 guns 

 can be brought to bear wilhiu that range, upon an ob- 

 ject not larger than a human being, it would appear 



; impossible for any hostile vessel to force an entrance. 



i The precautions taken to render this Fortress impreg- 

 nable, are admirable. An externRi wall of about 25 

 feet thick surrounds Ihe entire area. The space be- 

 tween this outward wall, and the inner, is tilled with a 

 canal perhaps .'lO feet wide ; a«d the whole space of 



1 this canal, together with the outer wall, is comn;ao Jed 

 by the guns of the castle. 



United Stales Constitution. — An art was passed at 

 the late session of the Legislature of Maine, providing 

 for the distribution of copies of the Constitution of 

 that State and of the United States, to be U5ed in com- 

 mon schools. It makes provision forpiinting and dis- 

 tributing 1(J,000 copies ofthese Constitutions, bound in 

 tile spelling book form ; and requires, ^^ that the select- 

 men of towns, and nssessors of plantations, receiving 

 such books, shall entrust them to the instructers of the 

 schools in the several districts, in proportion to the 

 number of scholars ;" and makes it the duty of these 

 instructers to cause them to be read in their scliouls, 

 and when practicable to be committed to memory. 



Fiicilitii of intercourse beltvcen Jltbnnij and jXcir- 

 \orlc. — 'I'lie Commercial .\dvertiser of the '.?(Jth nit. 

 says — "We have this morning received the proceedings 

 of Ihe legislature ()f ?yf*/errf(rj/. Twice this week we 

 have been (-nabh d to puldish the proceedings in less 

 than ^24 hours alter Ihiy took place in Albany, a dis- 

 tance of 150 miles from New-York." 



The identical printing Press at which I'r. Franklin 

 worked, in I^ondon, is now in the possession of Messrs. 

 CoX ii Uaylis, in Great Queen street, in that city. 



MR WILLIAMS' CELEBRATED HORSE 



Childerj. 



Squint, Snake, 

 Marske, Blacklegs, 

 Eclipse, Spelitta, 

 King Fergus' Tulir.g's Poll}', 

 Hambletonian, Highflyer Mare, 



ROMA 



C Camillus, Faith, 

 ( Leon Forte, Eagle, 



Tambarine, t rumpeter. 

 Crane, Highflyer, 



I\liddlese3, Snap, [dolphirr 



Miss Cleveland, Piegulus by Go- 

 t3ridge. Bay Boiling's Son, 

 Childers' Mare. 



THIS celebrated horse was purchased of the Earl 

 of Warwick, in March last, by Mr Charles Williams, o-f 

 Boston, Rt present residing in London. He is a bcdU- 

 tiiul bay with t)lack legs, and not a while hair, stands 

 1.^ hands 2 or 3 inches, and is the best bred and most 

 powerful blood horse ever sent to this country. He 

 has great bone, fine action, and excellent temper, and 

 has proved himself one of the fleetest and most power- 

 ful horses in England. For walking, trotting, and rac- 

 ing, he is unrivalled. He won at Marpeth, beating 

 Young VVindall, Cottage Girl, Fannus, Young Gleri- 

 dall and four others ; and, two days after, again beat 

 Young Glendall, Shepherd, and a Bucephalus filly. — 

 At Carlisle, he beat Jack Tar and Munito ; and at Mid- 

 dleham, he won a sweepstake against Antonio. Rosa- 

 ry, Lighlning,Liitle Thomas, and Carfacaratadaddera. 

 At New Castle, he won the King's plate, 4 miles, beat- 

 ing Awful, Borougbman, and Lightnii:g; and at York, 

 won a match against Pacha. Again at Middlehani he 

 won a sweepstaki , healing Shylock and Trim. At 

 Beverly he won the gold cup, beating the Fyldemar 

 lilly, PhcEiiix, and F.thelinda. 



liOAlAi'. was bred by Mr Riddell. He was got by 



i'.\niillu5 (the best blood in England.) the son of 



Hambletonian, who, in 1779, won 100,000/. at Wcw- 



marhet, in Ihe great match agamst Diamond. Kin^ 



Fergus, the sire of Hambletonian, was the son of 



Eclipse, for whom hisx)wner, O'Kelly, refused 16,000/. 



Through his dam, Leon Forte, he (Roman)is descend» d 



from Tambarine — Crane by Highflyer, who niverpaid 



I forfeit, and was never beaten, and from Reguluf, the 



I Godolphin, and Cliilders. His pedigree h.is been trac- 



j ed in the stud-book of the t'lerk of the Newmarket 



i course through eight g'^nerations of the highest bred 



horses and mares in England, without a single cross of 



inferiour blood. Extract from the stud book : — 



" RO.MAN, late property of the Earl ol Warwick, 

 by Camillus, darn, Leon Forte. Leon Forte was bred 

 by .Mr Watt, in IftOB, got by Eagle ; her dam, Tamba- 

 rine, by Trumpeter, — Crane by Highflyer, — Middlesex 

 by Snap, Miss Cleveland by Regulus, — lf!l5, bay colt, 

 Roman, by Camillus, Mr. RIDDELL." 



Performances in l;jl9 — 5 prices. At -1 years old — 

 ftOgs. at Middleham, King's plate of lOOgs. at Newcas- 

 lle-on Tyne, lOllgs. at York, 100/. at Donraster, and 

 ()ijl. 13.«. at Richmond, — beating Antonio, Rosary, 

 Lightning, Carfacaratadaddera, and Little Thomas, 

 2 miles — Awful, Boroughman, and Lightning, 4 miles 

 — Pacha by Seliin, 2 miles." 



'■'■Perforninncesin 1820 — i prizes. At 4 years old, 45gT. 

 at Middleham, gold cup at Beverly, 70gs. at Chelten- 

 ham, and gold cup at Hereford, — beating Pawlowitz, 

 b. {. by Thunderbolt, Cottage Girl, Cambyses, and 

 Wildboy, 3 miles— Phoenix, Fthelinda, ch. i. by Fylde- 

 mar, 2 miles — Thyrsis and Charming Molly, Smiles — 

 Shylock and Trim, 1 1-2 miles." 



ROM.AN will cover the present season at the sub- 

 scriber's farm in Northborough, county of Worcester. 



Terms — !f20 fir the season, the money to be paid 

 previous to taking away the mares. 



STEPHEN WILLIAMS. 



J\'ortIiliornu<;it. .^Iiiss. ^Ipr?! 2, 11)2'). 



TERMS OF THE FARMER. 

 ^republished every Friday, at TniiF.E Doi.ijtRS 

 per annum, payable at the end of the year — but those 

 who pay within sixty days {com the time of subscribirg 

 will be entitled to a deiluction of Fifty Ckb'IS. 



