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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 18, 1829 



MISCELLANIES. 



Mr Hale — As it is now so much more fashiona- 

 ble for ladies to make poetry than puddings, I have 

 feared that unless the tollowing were something be- 

 side plain prose, it would receive no notice from 

 your readers, although it possesses so much excel- 

 lence of its own. — Boston Daibj Mvertistr. 



EVE'S PUDDING. 

 Uyou want a good pudding, mind whal you are laught — 

 Take of ugga six in number when l>ouglil fur a groai ; 

 The fruit with wliicli Eve licr husband did coicn, 

 Well pared and well choppeil, at least lialf u dozen ; 

 Six ounces of bread, let -Moll eai the cruH, 

 And crumble the rest as fine as the dusl ; 

 Six ounces of currants Irom llie stem vou must sort. 

 Lest jou break out your teeth, and spoil all the sport; 

 Six ounces o( sugar won't make it too stweel, 

 Some salt, and some nutmeg will make it complete; 

 Three hours let it boil without any flutter, 

 But AtiAM won't like it without v/ine and butter. 



seen. The SBin]dc \h lel'i at our otlice fur the 

 gratification of those who wish to see it. — Charles- 

 ton Courier. 



Good Mvice. — Be not always speaking of your- 

 self. 



iioasc not. 



Do not cqiiivoeate. 



Attend to the ladies. 



Dread the character of an ill-bred man. 



Be reniurkahlo fur cleanliness of person. 



AvoitI old sayings and vulgarisms. 



Acquire a knowledge of the world. 



Praise delicately. 



Study tilt! foibles of mankind. 



Judge of others by yourself. 



Coiniiiaiid your temper and countenance. 



Beware of proffered friendship. 



Avoid noisy laughter. 



Strive to write well and grammatically. 



Neglect not an old acquuiiitnncc. 



Lose no time in transacting business. 



Be not frivolous. 



Study ilignified as well as pleasing manners. 



Adapt your conversation to the company. 



Praise not another at the expense of tho pre- 

 sent company. 



Look people in the face when speaking. 



Interrupt no man's story. 



Reflect on no order of people. 



Suppose not yourself the object of ridicule. 



Avoiil debt. 



The reserve or shyness of men of sense, gene- 

 rally confines them to small acquaintance, and 

 tbey find numbers their avowed enemies, the si- 

 milarity of whose taste, had fortune brought them 

 once acquainted, would have rendered them their 

 fondest friends. 



Massachusetts has less than one twentieth part 

 of tho population of the United States, and yet 

 of the college students, one in seven are her sons 

 — three times her fair |iropurlion ! This is much 

 to her credit. She stands at the hcail of tho con- 

 federacy in regard to liberal education. Indeed 

 no other state, except Connecticut, comes near 

 her standard. 



BRIEF COKKESPtJNDENCE. 



The following corre.spondonce, which has been 

 handed to us for publication, is said to have occur- 

 red on Monday la.st. A dandy, wishing to inquire 

 if a tailor would give him credit, for a coal, wrote 

 thus: — 



City Hotel, Oct. 19, 1829. 

 Sir — Coat on tick ? Please answer. 



Yours, J. D. 

 THE REPLY. 



Monday, Oct. 19, 1829. 



Sir — It won't answer. Yours, C. W. 



[A*. Y. paper. 



Grtai Crops of Com. — The Editor of the 1» 

 ware Advertiser oHered, in the spring, a prciii 

 of twenty dollars to any one of the subscriber 

 that paper, who should produce the greatest q 

 tity of merchanlublo Indian corn, from one 

 of ground. The premium has been awarde 

 Jos. E. Muse, Esq. of Cambridge, Md., uhoTa 

 the present season, from oiie acre of pru 

 boinelliiiig better than one hundred butlie 

 shelled corn. 



Eilward Lloyd, a verj' extensive farmer of 

 hot county. Mil. has raised this year eightj 

 thousand bushels of corn ; all of the best qua 

 a much larger crop than has ever been raise 

 the same farm. 



Near Edinburgb, a farmer who was troubled ; 

 with rats, recently caught upwards of 400, by 

 placing a large cop]ier kettle in a corn loft, filling 

 it about half full of water, and strewing a thin 

 sprinkling of chaff over it. By a few boards ex- I 

 tending from the wall to the kettle, the rats could 

 jump among what they took to be a fine lot of] 

 grain, and died the death. I 



Application to business, attended with approba- 

 tion and success, flatters and animates the mind ; 

 which in idleness and inaction stagnates and pu- 

 trifies. I would wish that every rational man 

 would every night when he goes to bed, ask him- 

 self this question, H'hat have 1 done today ? Have 

 I done anything that can be of use to myself or 

 others ? Have I employed my time, or have I 

 squandered it ? Have I lived out the day, or have 

 I dozed it away in sloth and laziness .' A think- 

 ing being must be pleased or confouiidcil, accord- 

 ing as be can answer himself these questions. — 

 Chesterfield. 



On Ibe farm of Joseph Harlan, Esq. of El 

 county, Md. is an apple tree which has prodi 

 three crops this season ! A few days since 

 tree was budding, and had the weather coti 

 mild, would have been in blossom for the 

 time ! 



Steam Carriages. — Wonders are recorded 

 miracles anticipated tfom travelling steam en 

 In a trial of spceil on a rail road, between 

 l)ool and Blanchestcr, a steam carriage li 

 loado^l, travelled at the rate of 28 miles per 

 tor 32 miles, and still greater celerity is tair 

 on with confidence. A writer for a I. 

 Morning paper observes that " On railw.i\ 

 down on the high road from London to Li\cr 

 the mails dia«n by a light locomotive en 

 might travel the distauce of 204 miles with f 

 ty in 12 hours, carn'iug double their present 

 plement of passengers : and this at a cost of 

 not exceeding 10s. or scarcely one half penn 

 mile, while 2.^ per mile »auld amply covert 

 terest of c'lpitul fur engine-;, wate 



nply cover th ^ 

 .T Stations, S ' 



licit Suf^iir. — .\ friend has presented us with a 

 sample of Lcjnf Sugar, manulhctiircd in Franco, 

 from the Beet root. In tliivoi-, it cannot bo dis- 

 tinguished from Sugar made from ctHaVj ; but be- 

 ing much lighter, jirobably it may not go so far in 

 tho uses to which it may be applied. It is a beau- 

 tiful sample, perfectly crystnllt/cd, and purely 

 white. In (ipf)cnrnni-c, it is much superior to any 

 iloublu iifiiied bUgar from cane we have ever 



TVie Influence of a Cup of Tea. — A cup of tea, 

 though a small article and a cheap one, is capable 

 of performing wonders. When the " liissing urn 

 throws up a steamy column," fragrant with hyson, I 

 powerful with imperial, strong with gunpowder, \ 

 or black with bohca, it may be considered as a 

 warning of the consequences to be e.\pected from i 

 the wonder working beverage within. But when 

 the cups have received it, when the sugar and j 

 cream have softened ; in line, when rosy lips be- j 

 gin to imiiibo the delicious draught, then look for ^ 

 consetiuences. Father of IIo Whangi ! how does 

 a cup of tea unloose, invigorate, nay, almost create, 

 the faculty of speech ! Behold a spiritless, silent 

 company, sitting in a semicircle, staring at one an- 

 other, having thrice exhausted that almost inex- 

 haustible topic, the weather, and despairing in 

 what manner to introduce it a fourth time — in this 

 sad, in this most uncomfortable dilemma, the sight 

 of tho tea tray is better than a |)lank to a drown- 

 ing man, or tho voice of pardon to a condemned 

 criminal. Glance your eyes over tho company, 

 and see how other eyes begin to sparkle ; tho 

 solemn gloom disperses like mists briVirc the 

 I morning sun. But no sooner have jiretty noses 

 ( began to inhale tho fragrance, no sooner liiivo 

 pretty lips began to sip tho delicious, tongue-in- 

 spiring beverage, thon silenco is thrust asidt^ the 

 'weather banished from "good societv," and 

 I tongues (as Virgil says about tho elm trees that 

 bear apj)les,) begin to be astonished at fruits not 

 their own. 



Wanted, •' 



An Apprentice, in a Book Printing Office. An 

 ligciit boy from the country would be prcforrod. ^ 



Inijuiro at fhe New England Farmer Olfice. ?' , 

 Norll: Market Street. tf Oct^ 



JVew England Farmer^s Jilmanack for 1^3 



Just published by Carter & IIksbee, cfr: 

 School and Washington-streets, and by J. B. U' 

 No. •"•,', North Market-street, the .\eie England / n 

 .ilmnnatlifor IKill. By Tnosi.is G. KESSt.ini ■■. 

 of the New England Farmer. 



This Almanack, it is tlioiight, will be found Ir. h 

 pidernbly improved upon that of the preceiiiiiir 

 Tho Astronomical calculations have been prcpin 

 revised with grc-it care by a gentleman of this cit;. 

 tides parljcularly noted — a complete Calendar 

 Courts tof each state in New Eii^'lnntl, iiirhi.; 

 Probate Courts cff JIassacluisctts — the :Suirs dec I 

 — a table of Roads and tlistances from Boston, A 

 ecventeen pasjes of miscellaneous articles, prin* 

 upon .Agricnlturo and Gardening. 



Qj'Counlry traders and others supplied upon tin 

 hbcral terms, by tho thousaJid, grocc, or dozen. 



Sept. IS. 



Gardening Business. 

 Genilemcn in want of a couipeieni pcrwn to prune 

 Vines. Kruil Trees, &c. arrnnsiehoi Inds. walks, or gni 

 ses. pot plants, nrran;jn tlicni it) green houses, or. in ( 

 business c<»nnecie<I widl garitus, can Ik* aeconini. ' 

 rnlliiii; ™ Mr Sknior. at his tlreen Houses, in Roxt ur 

 will niiend to the obove business himself, or furniitio ccn 



ruhlishriJ CTcrv Friday, ol 5;l per annum, p.ivnl-le 

 end of ihe year— but those »hop»_\ wiihiu siiij .i.iy.- fr 

 ■■Tie of sni'serihing. are cntitltHl lo n deduclion of fifty rr 



(Tr* No paper »ill be sent to adijliince without |ia\m 



inp m.xde in nd\' 



Primed lor J. H. Ilfssri i., hr 1. R. ItiTTs— by 

 •II drsrriplioul of Printing can be exrclilvd to meet ihr 

 of customers. Orders for pnnling received byj.lt Kf 

 ■I the Agricultuml WareboHse No. SS North Mark*i 



