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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 30, 1829. 



MISCELLAIVIES. 



USEFUL POETRY. 



The following in extracted from a poem of consijera- 

 blo length, lately published in tho Esttx Ilc^isUr, and 

 dedicated to the Essex .Igricullural H'ocicttj It is dated 

 VVcnham, and is signed " .1 FarmeT." The Editor of 

 tho Register well observes, that though the lines " pos- 

 leaa nol tho gaudy and tinsel attractions of most of our 

 i:K>dcrn poetry, they combine, wo think, tli« properties 

 of good sense, good advice, useful information, and valu- 

 able instruction, which arc rare qualities in tho poetic 

 productions of tho day." 



" THE MULBERRY TREE." 



T were easy, hero to domonstrato 



How easy 't is to cultivate 



And sprc.-id this troe around the land. 



And shortly all its wealth command, 



Yet still wo sec the barren elm, 



Or blasted poplar hold tho realm. 



Or useless willows drain thcaoil. 



Or barren pino tho fields despoil. 



If ye aspire to fame and case, 

 Stock well your farm with mulberry trees : 

 Tho silk-worm will their w^orth unfold 

 And coin their foliage into gold. 

 Suppose that you have never known, 

 And are not curious to be shown 

 The simple culture of the worm ; 

 Your neighbors may the thing perform, 

 And then the leaves, which you produce, 

 bi skilful hands become of use. 

 The farmer who would make pretence 

 To taste, sho.'ld have a hedge row finco ; 

 No tree that's known, so quickly grows, 

 Or looks so uniform in rows. 

 It springs from cuttings, or from seeds. 

 And overcomes poor sails and weeds. 

 In four full years will make a fence, 

 With, of all things, the loast expense. 

 And when, instead of walls or rails. 

 The mulberry hedge around prevail?, 

 Tho lands produce a mine of wealth. 

 Employment, happiness, and health. 



The mulberry grows on any soil, 

 Requires no aid, and little toil. 

 And the best silk is alwavs found, 

 When fed v/ith leaves of!" sandy ground ; 

 While a rich h*oil will learcs produce, 

 Abounding in a watery juice. 

 And upon which, if worms arc ted,' 

 They make a coarse and weaker thread. 



The auih"- of the Koue, descrihing a winter in 

 Loniloii, say<, " Peo|)Ic of fashion lamented the 

 distress of their countryincn, and gave hundreds to 

 Bomo foreign fidlcr: wept for the uneni|jloyed 

 weavers, and ordered tlieir dresseH of Frencli silk : 

 sidisrribed for the relief of the Worrester glover*', 

 but i-lothed their taper fingers in I'ari.sinn manufac- 

 ture: wondered at tho stale of the Knglish drama, 

 and went every night to the Italian ()[iera and 

 French play, whilo tlie national theatres presented 

 nothing but a beggarly account of omjity boxes." 

 — [Alight not our wealthy people find a liint in 

 this .'] — Ma3$. Jour. 



There is a good deal-of saucy wit in Lord By- 

 ron's anecdote of the fair aslronomcr.s : — He says, 

 some literary ladies being asked how lliey could 

 bo sulTicicntly interested in astronomy to spend bo 

 much time in watching the heavens, replied, that 

 they had a great curiosity to see whether there waa 

 really a ma.n in the moon ! — Ibid. 



Hyperbole. — A Vermont Horse jockey boasting 

 tlic other day of the speed of his horse, grarely 

 asserted that he could trot seTcnteen miles an 

 hour. "Seventeen miles an hour!" says a by- 

 stander, "I guess that's a thumper." " My dear 

 fellow," rei)lied he of the Green .Alountain," sev- 

 enteen miles an hour is no great for the creature 

 now ; for when he was but two years old, the 

 ligMmng killed the old mare, and chased the colt ail 

 round the pasture, without getting within ten rods of 

 him. — Ibid. 



called a foolish prophecy, or an idle dream r By t 

 means — it is perfectly practicable. — Mactaggarl 

 Three Years in Canada. 



The best Castor Oil now used is made in th 

 country. Several years since, this medicine w 

 a very nauseous one: it not unfrerjuenlly caus« 

 the throats of patients to smart by reason of i 

 rancidity. It is now sold destitute of every u 

 |)leasant smell, and as transparent as water. O 

 ansociatious stiil cause many persons to shudder 

 its name : yet we hear of tome who regard t' 

 flavor of it as similar to that of walnuts, and o 

 in particular declares that he could relish it ' 

 bread. No disputing tastes like these. 



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Fruit Trees, 1,-c. for Sate. 



The subscribe,- wishing to give up the cultivation 

 Fruit Trees, olfers a handsome lot of .Ippt* Treis 

 best sorts. Also Cherry Trees, Peach Trees, and a fi 

 Plum Trcet, of several new varieties. Horse Chesnu 

 Catalpa.s, Butternuts, While .Mulberries, and super 

 plants of Honeysuckles! Althcas, &c. &c. Tho wb' 

 would bo sold at 3.3 1-3 per cent, discount from his usi 

 low prices, or by the hundred, at a discount of 2.") per ce 

 A memnrindum of sorts may be seen at Mr. Hi ssi 1 1 

 New England Farmer Office. JOHN PRI.NCH 



Jamaica I'lain, Oct. rf, li?2y. 



I can also spare a few young Pear Trees (raised fr 

 seed) ; and one and two years old from buds of the J 

 nev} sorts, at 75 cents each. 



Two whiskcrid dandies, with hair enough under 

 their chins to make a grenadier's cap, went to tho 

 British In.^titution. On reading tho inscription 

 over the door, " No dogs admitted," the foremost 

 turucd to bis friend, and wittily observed " You 

 niust go back, Fred, you see they don't admit 

 you." "Oh, don't be frightened, gentlemen," 

 naid ll-e doorkeeper, "you may both come in ; " 

 adding, u-s be quieily pocketed their casli, "the re- 

 gulation does not extend to puppies." '■ 



Mexico. — Tho Mexican Congress, in 1824, esti- 

 mated the population of the Republic at 6,204,000. 

 Mr Ward carries it so high as 8,000,000. The 

 Mexican Indians consist of a considerable number 

 of distinct tribes, speaking languages entirely dif- 

 ferent, not less than 20 of which have been traced. 

 The Indian population Is situated chiefly in the 

 great jilains towards th6'i?outh. They are igno- 

 rant and apathetic, but not deficient in intelligence. 

 — On(! of them being asked for whom he would 

 vote at an approaching election for Congress, an- 

 swered — " For the Holy Ghost." — A*. Gaz. 



Tomato Mustard and Kttchup. 

 For sale at the Agricultur.-il Warehouse, No. .'2 No 

 Marke", street. Tomato Mustard, an excellent article 

 beef steaks, roast meats, &c. made in the best man 

 by a person regularly educated at the business in Eur< 

 — price 50 cents per bottle — also. Tomato Ketchup, p 

 pared by the same person, in different sized bottle 

 prices 50, or 33 cents per bottle. Oct. If 



George Colman being once asked if he knew 

 ThP.odore Hook, answered, "Oh yes. Hook and 

 liyc arc old associates." 



" Jlmusemenl in JVorth ..Imtrica." — Under thi 

 beading, the Liverpool Times, of July 28, relates, 

 [liul — 1" In Salem, Massachusetts, after the heavy 

 and deo(i snow Dill, a man was discovered sticking 

 slicks into a huge ' winter bank of snow.' On be- 

 ing asked why he amused himselflhus ? 'Amuse!' 

 •aid ho, ' fine annisomeut ! I have lost iny shop — 

 it used to stand somewhere near this spot.' " 



A gentleman in Quebec, (Mr Barnes) has lately 

 bequeathed £1500 in equal portion.s, to the Cath- 

 olic, iMiglish, and Scotch churches of that city. It 

 is not stated which sect he belonged to himself. 

 He was probably only a Christian. 



Roots of the Pie Plant or Tart Rhubarb. 



A supply of tho roots of the Rheum palmatum, 

 T.irt Rhubarb, or Pie Plant, an excellent article 

 early summer use, (see N. E. Farmer, vol. vi. page i 

 andFessendon's New American Gardener, article R 

 BAiin, lor its cvdture and uses.) The roots axe laj 

 and in fine order for transplanting this fall 



For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, Ni 

 North Market street — price So cts. per root. Oct. 1' 



The Canal from NewHavi 

 miles of Northampton. 



i.H to run within I I 



The Route to China. — Steamboats may go up 

 from Quebec to Lake Superior ere three years 

 from this time ; from thence, with little troiilili 

 they will pass through the notch of the Rocky 

 mountains, and bo locked down the Columbia to 

 the Pacific Ocean. Tho route, however, will bo 

 better to bo kept ofT the American frontier, which 

 is Columbia, and to go down Cook's River, or the 

 large Salmon river, at Nootka Sound. The town 

 of Nootka is likely yet to be as largo as London, 

 and ought to be laiil out on an extensive plan, as 

 the trade between it and the Oriental world may 

 become wonderfully great in a short time. Tlun. 

 when the steam packet line is established lictwccii 

 Quebec and London, as it soon will be, wo may 

 come and go between China and Britain in about 

 two months. The names of tho singes will be, 

 Loiiilon, Cove ofCork, tho Azores, Newfoundland, 

 (tii.lii-c, Monli-cal, Kingston, Port Hidhoiisie, I'orl 

 Muilland, Erie, Huron, Superior, Rocky .Moiinluins, 

 Athabasko, Nootka, and Canton. Can this be 



Fine Table Grapes. 



For ealo at the Charlcstown Vinevord, on the so 

 side of Hunker's Hill, a quantity of the finest Eurup 

 table Grapes, raised in the open air, and now ripe, 

 ripening, on the vines. There arc about a dozen di) 

 ent sorts, among which tlie principal arc the While ^ 

 cadinc or Sweet Water, Burgundy, Black Haml 

 ,Rod Cbasselas, &c. For sale in anv quantities. 1 

 hundred weight or otherwise. D. HAGGEKSTt'." 



Charlcstown Vineyard, Oct. S, li^aO. 



Sea Kale Roots. 



For sale al tlic New England Farmer Seed Store, No 

 Nordi Markel-sl., 



A fine cnllcciion of .Sea Kale roots, done up in pack.iR i 

 12 cnsii, from i to St years old — prime from ;T7 l-ii lo "; 

 per dozen rooi«. according to llipir size. — Direnlnn^ tor 

 cuilurp of iliis cxcfllenl ve»ci.il'le cpn be fnHiirl in Fcsjrm 

 New American G«rd»iier, — the roots nrc in line onlrr. t 

 Iran^planlcd this auluinn. and properly managed, would pr 

 biy be fil tor use next spring. 



.Witicc. 

 Subscribers 10 llic Now England Furmrr arc inrnri- 

 ihev can have their volumes neatly niid taitliliilly liai: 

 Mill lettered, nl 75 els per volume, by leaving 'thciu 

 office. 



Pulilisticd every Friilny. nt 53 per annum, pa\«l>lc • 

 cnil of die yr.nr— I'-ul those' wlii> pny within sixty 'Ihn > froe 

 time iif Mil,'sc-i iImmk. arc entitled to ii deiluclion of lihy cent 



[Ij" No|i,ij,fr willlin sent to n distance without pny inci 

 iug infld<* in advance. 



Piniicl t,,r J. n. Re.<SKr.I.. by I. K. BuTT^— l.v » 

 nil dcs( ripli,'!!" oi I'rinling can be execn'.cd to meet the « 

 III cu«loinir<. (>idiT-l"r printinp rc<-ei»iHl by J. ft. I!i »> 

 at the Ajricoltural Wurchuusc No. ft-NouU MnrkciS 



