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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



CIETY for 1855. Annual members of the Society, 

 who desire to receive the Journal, should remem 

 ber to renew their subscriptions. 



Marshall P. Wilder, President. 



Wm. S. Kino, Secretary. 



Boston, Aug., 1855. 



Fay's Portable Hand-Power Hay, Cotton 

 and Cider Press. 



This machine, the simjjlicity of Avhich cannot be 

 surpassed, has long been desired by the agricultu 

 rist. It is admirably 

 adapted for pressing hay 

 cotton, hemp, wool, rags, 

 pumice, linseed oil, &c., 

 &c. Notwithstanding its 

 small proportions and 

 extraorcUnary lightness, 

 it is strong and effectual, 

 sufficiently so to press to 

 any compactness requir- 

 ed. It is so simple in its 

 construction and use, 

 that any person of ordi 

 nary capacity will readily miderstand the mode of 

 using it ; M'ith common care, one macliine will last 

 a Hfe-time ; for convenience and strength, the frame- 

 work is all secured together with joint bolts, only 

 twelve of which are required to be removed, in ta- 

 king apart for shipment, viz : four j^ost bolts which 

 secure the top work to the bottom, and four bolts 

 upon each side, which secure the end work to the 

 side joints ; the doors being previously unshipped, 

 you have the two end pieces, two side pieces, and 

 bottom work, wliich are easily carried by hand. — 

 Two persons will put the whole together in a few 

 minutes. 



The press being worked by hand power, can be 

 used advantageously in stormy weather, within 

 closed doors, whereas in operating mth horse pow- 

 er, doors require to be more or less open. 



For sale by the patentee's agents, Nourse & Co., 

 No. 9 Commercial Street, Boston. 



LADY'S DEPARTMENT. 



she gets either haggard and lanky, or round and 

 tat ; her figm-e tumbles all of a heap ; her ankles 

 give out, lier feet spread and flatten ; her elastic 

 step becomes a waddle ; and her person altogether 

 acquires the style of a cow. Brilliant eyes, on the 

 other hand, complexion to match, features retaining 

 the chiselled outline, a slim and smart figure, neatly 

 turned ankl(\s, finely-arched insteps, are the reward 

 of walliing or riding out at a good pace, and for a 

 reasonable distance, every practicable day. And by 

 these means is preserved for many a year a contour, 

 the cut of which resembles that of the doe or the 

 gazelle. At no period of the year is any healthy 

 young woman, of whatever station, obliged to ex- 

 change out-ot-door recreation for in-door amnse- 

 ment, except when it hails, or rains, or snows, or 

 thunders or lightnings, or blows a hurricane. Are 

 there not furs ? never mind the expense : the war 

 with Russia has not made them dearer than the 

 attendance of a simpering doctor. Are there not 

 muffs, and boas, and all sort of water-proof armor ? 

 Young ladies, take the advice of your elders, and, 

 as the old woman says, " Get out ! " — in all toler- 

 able weather. As to necessary in-door amusement, 

 mind, it may also be made conducive to beauty by 

 being rendered in some degree intellectual. Intel- 

 ligence adds considerably to the lustre of the eyes, 

 which, without it, have only the glitter of glass beads, 

 wliilst the best-shaped and most splendidly-colored 

 face wliich they can be stuck in, resembles that of a 

 waxen dummy in a hair-dresser's shop. In order, 

 therefore, to attract admiration, ladies of fashion 

 would do well to cultivate intelligence, to some ex- 

 tent, by way of in-door amusement. Beauty may 

 be called a fading flower ; but it is a flower that 

 will fade very much the sooner for being taken in- 

 doors for the winter lilie a geranium. — Mater Cure 

 Journal. 



Convenient and Wholesome Food. — A very 

 cheap, convenient, and palatable dish may be pre- 

 pared wth the common pilot bread, which is a hard, 

 dry cracker, made of flour and water. These can 

 be ])urchased by the barrel at a price but a httle 

 higher than flour, pound for pound, as they are 

 generally made by machinery, and the cost of mak- 

 ing and baking is but trifling when it is done on a 

 large scale. We see the price of pilot bread is 

 quoted in this market at less than half a cent per 

 pound above good flour, and as they are nearly as 

 dry as flour, they are aljout as nutritious. I'hey 

 will keep longer than flour without deteriorating or 

 becoming stale. 'Ihey can be used in a variety of 

 ways, such as putting them into stews of meat, or 



miT OV TinaJi VYVHrJi^V ™^'^^ ^^^ potatoes; they improve "hash" materi- 



UU i-Ui-UUUK JiA±.iitibii. ^iiy^ j^n^i j^j.g ^ goo^i substitute for " crust "_ m pot- 



Every woman, every fashionable woman even, has pie, having the advantage of always being light and 

 a heart at least considered as the organ of circula-j wholesome. For an ordinary, every-day dish, put 

 tion ; and blood-vessels, on the healthy play of them into an oven after the bread is removed, or 

 which depends the bloom of her face, and which ! into a stove oven, and let them dry thoroughly ; 

 will not play healthily without out-of-door exercise, j then break them up and pour boiling water over 

 She has also muscles and ligaments, which have to them, and add a little salt, and butter, cream or 

 brace her uj), hold her together, and keep her clean- milk. We knov; of no more easily prepared, more 

 limbed, Init will do nothing of the sort for long, wholesome, and more palatable dish than this, for 

 unless they are maintained in proper tension by the the breakfast, supper, or even for the dinner-table, 

 same means. Let her loll about all day in a close j American Agriculturist. 

 " muggy " house, instead of exerting herself for a 



due time in the fresh air, and she quickly begins to 

 droop and look unwholesome. Soon her com- 

 plexion fades or grows discolored, her features are 



Afflictions are the same to the soul as the plow 

 to the fallow ground, the jjruning-knife to the vine, 

 pufted or shrunlien, her form either wastes or swells, K"^ ^he furnace to the gold. 



