NO. 9. 



THE farmers' cabinet. 



143 



IVeatncss. 



Let order o'er your time preside, 

 And method all your business guide ; 

 One tiling at once be still begun, 

 Contriv'd, resolv'd, pursu'd and done ; 

 Ne'er till to-morrow's light delay 

 What might as well be done to-day ; 

 Neat be your barns ; your houses neat; 

 Your doors be clean ; your court-yards sweet; 

 Neat be your farms ; 'tis long confess'd, 

 The neatest farmers are the best. 



The Farmer. 



Let monicd blockheads roll in wealth, 

 Let proud fools strut in state — 



My hands, my homestead and my health. 

 Place me above the great. 



I never fawn, nor fib, nor fain. 

 To please old Mammon's fry ; 



But independence still maintain 

 Of all beneath the sky. 



Thus Cincinnatus at his plough, 



With more true glory shone, 

 Than Caesar with his laurelled brow, 



His palace and his throne. 



Tumult, perplexity and care. 



Are bold ambition's lot; 

 But these intruders never dare 



Disturb my peaceful cot. 



Blest with fair competence, I find — 



What monarchs never can — 

 Health and tranquility of mind, 



Heaven's choicest gift to man. 



T. G. Fessenden. 



Apple Pepper. 



A few summers since, we were presented, 

 through the kindness of Dr. Munroe, of the 

 United States Army, with a few seeds of this 

 delightful and useful vegetable. We planted 

 them in our garden, and have been thus ena- 

 bled to increase our stock of seed. 



This pepper was introduced not many years 

 since, from the East Indies, by the Superin- 

 tendent of the Marine Hospital at Norfolk. 

 Among the natives of the East, it is highly 

 valued for its many excellent qualities. Dr. 

 Monroe informs us, that as a preventive of 

 cholic, and spasmodiccomplaints, it is highly 

 useful, and as such, has been used with great 

 success in the large hospital above alluded 

 to. 



The great peculiarity of this pepper over 

 all others, is its flavor. It so much resembles 

 the apple in this respect, that any one might 

 easily mistake it for that fruit while eating 

 it. To the taste it possesses not the least 



acridness or burning; its seed and veins may 

 be eaten without any unpleasantness. 



In its green state the pepper makes a most 

 delicious pickle, and when dried and powder- 

 ed and rubbed upon meat, it is an infalliable 

 preventive against the attack of all kinds of 

 bugs and insects. In this respect it is prefer- 

 able to the common pepper, inasmuch as it 

 leaves upon the meat no acrid taste. The 

 rind is very thick, and the pods about the 

 size of the common bell pepper. — Southern 

 Jigriculturist. 



Beautiful tree. — A beautiful tree has 

 been discovered in the Bay of Bambatoe, on 

 the western coast of Madagascar, by M. 

 Boyer. It makes a magnificent appearance, 

 and is supposed to come originally from the 

 eastern coast of Africa. Some seeds from it, 

 sown at the Mauritius, have perfectly suc- 

 ceeded. It belongs to the order Legurninosce, 

 and M. Boyer thinks it is a new genus, which 

 he calls Colvillea racemosa, the first name 

 being given in honor of the Governor. 



American Silk. — Mrs. Kimball, of Hop- 

 kinton, appeared at the Fair of the Merri- 

 mac County Agricultural Society, in Con- 

 cord, on Wednesday last, clad in rich and 

 durable Silk of her own manufacture. She 

 procured the mulberry trees, raised theworms, 

 reeled, twisted, coloured, and wove the silk 

 with her own hands. — Dunstable (iV. H.) 

 Telegraph. 



Wool. — The growing of Wool is a sub- 

 ject which engages the attention of many of 

 the farmers and speculators in the eastern 

 states; and it proves to be a business which 

 affords them a very fair profit, and will we 

 doubt not continue so to do, so long as wool 

 remains as important a staple in the manu- 

 factures of our own country as it does at 

 present. The rearing of sheep is too much 

 neglected in this vicinity. Many of our farm- 

 ers have supplied the butchers and dovers 

 until their flocks have become much re- 

 duced in numbers and depreciated in value. 

 jThis ought not so to be, for in the lan- 

 guage which John Hancock put into the 

 mouth of an ancient sheep, "Farmers gain 

 'more by our lives than by our deaths;" 

 1 which saying holds good at the present 

 day. But if a farmer wishes to dispose 

 of a part of his flock, it is a great error to 

 I cull the best for this purpose, as is the prac- 

 ;tice of many, who wish to get the high- 

 jest price. On the contrary, the aged and 

 j inferior as to wool, should alone be spared 

 jif you wish to keep your flock in a flourish- 

 'ing condition. 



