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NEW ENGLAND FAUMEK, 



May 29, 1830. 



MISCELLANIES. 



EXCRCI3K. 



Throughout all nature, want of motion indicates 

 weakness, corru|ition, inaninmlioii, and death. 

 Trenck, in his damp prison, leaped nliout like a 

 lion, in his fetters of seventy poiimls' weiglit, in 

 order to preserve his health ; and an illiiynioiis 

 physician ohscrvos, ' I know not wliich is most 

 necessary to the support of the humun frame,yooJ, 

 or niotton.' Were the exercise of the body attend- 

 ed to in a corresi)on(linK degree witli that of tho 

 mind, men of great learning would ho more 

 healthy and vigorous — of more general talents — 

 of ampler practical knowledge — more happy in 

 their domestic lives — more enterprising, and more 

 attached to their duties as men. In fine, it may 

 with much propriety he said, that the highest re- 

 finement of the mind, without improvement of the 

 body, can never present anything more than half 

 a human being. — Journal of Health. 



HARD TIMES. 



It is a fact that nine tenths of the young men of 

 the present day, by some means have come to the 

 conclusion, that it is degrading to till the soil, or 

 to perform any sort of manual labor for a liveli- 

 hood; they seem to entertain the idea that they are 

 all born to literature, that they possess intuitively 

 the skill of the Lawyer, the Physician, the Clergy- 

 man, the Merchant, or the Author; that they have 

 nothing to do but to hie themselves to New York, 

 Boston, or some other city, as soon as they arc fair- 

 ly fledged, and can be trusted out of the reach of 

 their mother's apron-strings, and that their auperla- 

 txvt talents will at once bring them into notice. 

 With these views, many a young nian who might 

 have made a most excellent farmer or mechanic, 

 leaves his homo, is gone two or three years, ex- 

 pends perhaps, half his kind father's fortune, which 

 he has labored hard to amass, and returns a poor, 

 lazy, idle blockhead, com|)laining of ' hard times.' 

 This is the case often, very often. If all those 

 young men who have been bom ami bred to that 

 most honorable of all emi)loyments, tillers of the 

 soil, would attend to that business, instead of gad- 

 ding off, and attempting to become contemptible 

 coxcombs, we should seldom hear of ' hard times.' 

 — Aeitf Hampshire Spectator. 



FARMING. 

 The following hints from Flint's We«lern Re- 

 ▼icw, contain a portion of that practical good sense 

 which must conunend itself to the judgment of 

 every enlightened mind, that seeks the highest 

 welfare of the country. 



If one half tho zeal, energy, and expense, that 

 blot 80 many gazettes with coarse and low abuse, 

 setting the eoinmimity by tho ears for the solo 

 gain and the paltry purposes of a few demagogues 

 nnd ollicc seekers, were bestowed on the nd- 

 vancement of agricidture ; if the people were 

 half as ambitious to improve and beautify their 

 fielils, as they are to settle the nation ; ami half 

 ns angry with tliislli^s, thorns, and poor fences, as 

 they are with their political opponents, who proh- 

 nbly wish as well to the country as tlieniselve!", we 

 should have more productive fields, lesscomplaintN 

 of poverty, mnri) ability to be charitable ami nni- 

 nifiicnt, and abundantly more good feeling. From 

 I'ittshurg to New Orleans, the scui ploughs as his 

 father dlU before him, nnd the great mas* of far- 



nurs arc as stationary in I heir theory as they are 

 in practice. Xine in ten of ihom believe, at this 

 moment, that book farming is the mere useless, 

 visionary dreaming of men that know nothing 

 about practical agriculture. 



We would tell ilie'u that England is the garden 

 of Kurope, simply because almost every acre of 

 the groimd is cultivnted scientifically, and on 

 principles «hi(di have been brought to the test of 

 the most rif^id ciptriment. We would tell them 

 that New Fnglnnd, of whose soil and climate they 

 are accustomed to think, as consigneil by I'rovi. 

 dence to sterility and inclemency, is the garden of 

 the Uniieil Slates, only because the industrious 

 ami caleulaiing people do not throw away their 

 effmts in the exertion of mere brule strength — 

 but bring mind, and plan, and system, and expe- 

 rience, to bear upon (heir naturally liaril end 

 thankless soil. On every siile the passing travel- 

 ler sees verdure, and grass, ami orchards, in the 

 sunill and freipient cneloaurcs of imperishable 

 rocks; and remarks fertility won from the opposi- 

 tion of the elements and nature. After an absence 

 of ten years, on our return to that country, we 

 were struck with this proud and noble triumph, 

 conspicuous over the whole region. 



The real benefactors of mankind, as St Pierre 

 80 beautifully said, are those, who cause two blades 

 of wheat to mature where one did before. The 

 fields ought to be the morning and evening theme 

 of Americans, who love their country. To fertil- 

 ize and improve his farm, ought to be the prime 

 temporal object of every owner of the substantial 

 soil. All national aggrandizement, power, and 

 wealth, may be traced to agriculture, ns its ulti- 

 mate source. Commerce anil manufactures arc 

 only subordinate results of this main spring. We 

 consider agriculture as every way subsidiary ■ not 

 only to abunilance, industry, comfort, and henlih, 

 but to good morals, and ultimately even to religion. 

 We shall always say and sing, ' Speed the plough.' 

 We shall always regard the American farmer 

 stripped to his i!mployment,and tilling his grounds, 

 as belonging to the first order of noblemen among 

 us. We shall always wish him bountiful harvests, 

 good beer, and moderate use of ciiler, and if he 

 will rear it himself, of the grape, hut none of the 

 pernicious gladness of whiskey ; and wo shall in- 

 voke upon his labors the blessing of God, and 

 say to him ' peace be within thy walls.' 



MARCH OF INTELLECT. 

 A beggar with an instrument as offensive to the 

 ear as were the bagpipes to inmmrtnl Shakspeure, 

 commenced his grinding exactly beneath the win- 

 dow of a house in Loudon, where a dinner party 

 had just sat down to dinner. Disgusted with the 

 horrible discord they sent a few halfpence to the 

 vagrant with a hint that ' he might go on.' The 

 answer was excpiisite — ' I never goes on under six- 

 pence !' — For this brilliant witticism the beggar 

 had a shilling. 



One of our party, (says Cowper in his fiiur 

 years in Southern .Africa, when relating a conver- 

 sation with a young CaflVe,) wns nttempring to 

 explain to him that the moon shining above us 

 wns a world like that on which we stood ; nnd 

 he listened attentively, and I'nhidy observed when 

 the speaker had censed — ' I will not sny that wliat 

 you have told me is not so, but has any one been 

 up to see ii .'' 



'That are' Mattress. — A New York upholsterer 

 stuffs his mattresses with sir. They are very 



pretty, very soft, and very elastic. A young m.ii 

 who was deftrmined to be very comfortable, pur- 

 chased the article, and slept three nights very 

 sweetly upon it. The fourth ni-ht he thouglillehs- 

 ly thru^Jt a ]>in into the 4jed, and with a genile 

 humming in the ear, .soft us the nuirmur of a wind 

 l.arp, fell soumlly asleep. In the morning he 

 awoke s'.ifTand sore to the hone, and fouinl hirn.^el 

 separated from the bed cord by only two thick 

 ne.sfes of oil canvas and the sheet. We havi 

 not learned whether ho blew up his mutlrc^s oi 

 burned it. — -.Veur Haven Adv. 



Hard Cider. — ' Why, dear ine, Mr Longswal 

 low,' said a good lady. ' how can you dr^nk dow i 

 ■A whole quart of that there hard cider at a sin;;l 

 draught r' As soon as the man could breath 

 again, be replied, 'I beg pardon, madam, but upoi 

 my soul it was so hard / coxddnU bite it off.' 



The celebrated Bishop Berkley used to call tli> 

 few who li:.:! drank spirituous liquors with com 

 parative impunity for several years — the devil's de 

 coys. 



The sp.'.ng being the season of the year a 

 wliich the prejudices ami mistakes of a great nuni 

 her of persons induce tlicni to resort to bleedin<! 

 or to some active medicine wiih the view of ir 

 creasing their health and guarding against disensi 

 it may he pro|)er now, to warn all such against th 

 prejudicial tendency of this practice. It is indec 

 I far more apt to invite an attack of disease tha 

 to guard against it. .\\\ the purposes for whic 

 it is resorted to, can, however, be very certain 

 answereil by gentle daily exercise, great caulio 

 ii\ adapting the dress to the rapid changes in th 

 weather, nnd the strictest temperance. — Jour, i 

 Health. 



DAVID GRIFFITH, Seedsman, 



MlDni.E-STREET, PoBTLXND, 



Would inform the public, t'<at he it now reaily to : 

 lend to the business of packing up Forest Trees, in cral 

 or mailed of any size they may direct, and on the shorti 

 notice, for .my part of the United Stales ; the best alte 

 lion paid to the packing and having the rooH well coven 



ALSO, Forest seeds of almost any description, to ih 

 may ripen through the season. 



•.' Catalogues containiitg the variety of seeds and In 

 can be obtained of the subscriber, or J. B. Rcssell, 

 the New Kngland Farmer Seed Store, 52 North Marlti 

 street, Boston. <t April 28 



Cabbage, Cauliflower and Broeeoli Plants. 



For sale at the Seed Sierc connected with the New KogU 

 Faimer Otlicc.Si .Nurih Maikci street, 



ViKonxis I'biits of the Early York and Early Savny C 

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 Large Purple Cape Brocroli Plants, ai £6 crnu per doi 

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Fales' Hoes. 



French & Emmons. No. 31, South Market-Sl. ha 

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