NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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KINDLEBERGER'S BUCK-EYE CIDER MILL. 



We have never seen this mill in operation, but 

 are informed by those who understand it, that it is 

 a very effective cider mill ; that it is compact, light 

 and portable, and easily operated, while its peculiar 

 and careful construction makes it one of great 

 power and durability. If these mills will work 

 well, they certainly will be of great service to the 

 farmer, by enabling him to make his cider in his 

 own fields, and thus save the cost of transporting 

 the apples and barrels to a distance from home. — 

 We hope they will be fairly tested, and the result 

 communicated to us for publication. 



For the New England Parmer. 



A MAff OF OLD TIMES. 



Mr. Editor : — As the worthy gentleman who 

 presided at your Agricultural Festival, recently 

 holden at Concord, on the 63d anniversary of the 

 Middlesex Association of Farmers, was frank enough 

 to say that he had prepared a speech for the occa- 

 sion, which he would forbear to read, it occurred to 

 me to inquire, what I would have said, if I had been 

 constrained to address the assembly, which, as good 

 luck would have it, was not the case. I would 

 have spoken, after this nanner. Mr. President : 

 unaccustomed to speak in public, I did not expect 



to be brought out upon this occasion, where there 

 are present so many of experience, far more worthy 

 to be heard. But, Sir, I do not feel at liberty to 

 withhold my mite, when agriculture is the theme 

 for consideration. Shall we. Sir, refuse to toe the 

 mark of duty, in the presence of our venerable 

 friend here, who, more than seventy years ago, 

 shouldered his musket at the alarm of the enemy's 

 bugle at his own door ? He alone remains to tell 

 the story. Venerable man ! more than twenty years 

 ago, when I first visited Concord, he was pointed 

 out as the "Old man active," and now we find him, 

 full of spirit and vigor, in his reply to the compli- 

 ment to the ladies. Who will wonder that our free- 

 dom was secured, when such men defended it ? 

 Who will wonder that the plains of Lexingtoti, and 

 Concord, and Littleton, are universally reverenced, 

 when tenanted by such patriotic sires ? I know not 

 how it may be with others, but I would go farther 

 to see the "Old man active," now at my side, than 

 all the boys in buckram on all the hills of the land. 

 There is something cheering in the sight of such 

 men, who hoed their corn or tanned their leather 

 in the vats on one day, and shouldered their musk- 

 et in defence of their honors the next, and who 

 were content to sit down quietly, on their own free 

 soil, without any ambition to be great, or so con- 

 sidered. This folly of vain ambition is the ruin of 

 the land. Be just and fear not, and God will pro- 

 vide the rest. Reviewer. 



