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NEW ENCI.ANI) 1 AIlMEll. 



June 18, 1830. 



M I S CL L L A xM E 8 



TAXATION. 



We commend the following extract from Mr Pierpont'» 



sermon before the Ancient and Honorable, to the com- 

 mon sense of the people. 



' The coniiiiori\%ualth has more than 50,000 men 

 on her militin rolls. Grant that iIichc arc ciilluil 

 out for review, drill, elections and paraile, no more 

 than three dajs in u year; ami we have 1.50,000 

 days devoted lu niilit.iry dnty hy those who do that 

 duty. Allow them only one cpeclutor lor one 

 soldier — and it tniist be a very stupid att'uir, if 

 there are not as many to see the show as there 

 are to make it, — and there are l.')0,000 day.s more. 

 Allow, moreover, otdy two thinls a.s iiiuch time 

 for each itnlividual to prepare for the field — for 

 fatigue or frolic — and to recover from it3 duties, 

 or its debauch, as there is spent tipon the field — 

 and wo have 200,000 days more. Now allow- 

 ing the truth of a sensible ancestor's remark, that 

 " time is money," and allowing one day to he worth 

 only one dollar, the militia of Massachusetts costs 

 the state of Massachusetts half a million of dol- 

 lars a. year. 1 make no account here for the mo- 

 ney spent upon arms, ammunition, uniforms — the 

 ammunition that is burned up, the muskets and 

 swords, and costly coats of many colors that are 

 laid up — treasures that arc kept for the moth and 

 rust to corrupt, three hunilred and si.xty days, that 

 they may gli-ten and look gay for five ; I m;ike no 

 account of the moneys or the morals thrown 

 away in the low revelry of tents and taverns, 

 though of these things there is a fearful account 

 made by " the Judge of all the earth :" — I estimate 

 «»en the time of the mililiauien at less than one 

 third of the value, which in the form of/tties for 

 non-attcndatice the law itselfgives it, and the rom- 

 tnonwcalth of Massachusetts pays half a million 

 of dollars a year for the protection it seeks from 

 its militia system.' 



i ered with mh-IIovv eurtli, ami the cipper hud just 

 even with the surface, and the whole process is 

 accomplished. I never water my grafts, and I 

 bavo hail them grow 15 feet, the main vine, the 

 first year, besides bearing ten to thirty bunches of 

 grapes. Some care is necessary, in rubbing off 

 the superfluous shoots, hut the operation is easy, 

 and as sure as the inserting of n graft into an ap- 

 ple or phmi tree. If the root stalk is of a vigo- 

 rous growth, and the graft well chosen, having the 

 wood of the two last years' growth upon it, and 

 from a bearing vine, the graft will always bear 

 fruit tlie first year, and of the quality of the graft. 



Dufour had another mode, common in France, 

 Germany ami .Switzerland, by splitting the root 

 stalk, and inserting the graft, in the shape of a ; 

 thin wedge, either end wise or vertically ; but 

 this is less certain of success, judging by my own 

 experience. 



He sometimes put in two or three grafts into 

 one large root stalk, as these may be inserted any 

 where in the wood of the vine, as well as in the 

 pith, or centre. A sharp tool, such a? a centre- 

 bit tool, is to be preferred to a giinhlet, because it 

 cuts the wood more smoothly. Let it be Dufour's 

 mode of engrafting, and no secret, and no matter 

 how many derive a benefit from it. You may pub- 

 lish this, if you think proper. 



HORATIO GATES SPAFFORD. 



From the Daily Troy Sentinel. 



THE MYSTERIES OF ART. 

 Mr Hollkv — The successfid enf^njling of the 

 grape vine, which has so long hafflerl the skill of 

 nursery men, in this country, and of the vignc- 

 rons in Europe, so as to make the operation as 

 sure and as easy, as in the well known operation 

 of engrafting on trees, was, so far as I know, first 

 made known to the American public, by my late 

 Worthy friend, J. J. Dufour, of the Vevay Swiss 

 Vineyard, Indiana, in his very excellent prac- 

 tical treatise, 'The American Vine Dresser's 

 Guide,' 12mo, pp. 317, Cincinnati, 1826, the re- 

 ■ult of twentyfive year's experience in the grape 

 culture in the United States; at page 225, he fully 

 describes this mode. The author of this work 

 died at Vevay, in Febuary, 1827, some years pre- 

 vious to which he had instructi-d me in his mode 

 of engrafting, and which I have found, by expe- 

 rience, to be perfectly successful. As the author 

 made no secret of it, so I have not, but hare told 

 everybody that applied, taking care to inform 

 them who informed me. Dufour is dead ; every 

 body, about here, now practises upon his plan ; 

 but no one, so far as I can discover, remembers 

 the man, and many are claiming it as a sort of 

 mystery of their own. His plan is, to saw off the 

 root of the stalk, into whiih yiin would msort 

 the graft, under ground ; bore a small hole in- 

 to the cnil of the root stalk, and inint the graft, 

 with one or two huils, then keeping the root cov- 



MEANS OF REFORMATION. 



To make vicious and abandoned peojile happy, 

 it has generally been sup|)0sed necessary Jirst to 

 tnake them virtuous. But why not reverse this 

 order.' Why not make them first happy and then 

 virtuous. If happiness and virtue be inseparable, 

 the end will be as certainly obtained by one meth- 

 od as by the other; and it is undoubtedly much 

 easier to contribute to the happiuess and comfort 

 of persons in a state of poverty and misery, than 

 by admonitions and punishments to refi)rm their 

 morals. Crimos are often the effects of misery, 

 and by removing the cause the efTect will cease. — 



Rum/ord. 



ALMS HOUSE IN MUNICH. 



In the infancy of this establishment, when those 

 poor creatures were first brought together, I used 

 very frequently to visit them, — to speak kindly to 

 them — and to encourage them, — and I seldom pas- 

 sed through the halls where they were at work, 

 without being a witness to the most moving 

 scenes. 



Objects, formerly the most miserable and 

 wretched, whom 1 had seen for years as beggars 

 in the streets ; — young women, — perhaps the im- 

 happy victims of seduction, who, having lost their 

 reputation, and being turned adri.''t in the worhl, 

 without a friend and without a home, were reduced 

 to the necessity of begging, to sustain a miserable j 

 existence, now recognized me as their benefactor ; ! 

 and, with tears dro|)ping fast from their cheeks, I 

 continued their work in expressive silence. 



If they were asked what the matter was with 

 them? their answer was, (' tiichts') ' nothing,' ac- ; 

 eompanied by a look of affectionate regard and 

 gratitude, so exquisitely touching, as freipienlly to 

 draw tea H fr m the most insensible of the by- 

 standers Ibid. 



cast iron^ and fitted to a portable furnace, or close 

 fireplace, constructed to save fuel ; with two or 

 three approved receipts for making nourishing and 

 savory soups and broths at a small expense. — lb. 



Clotui.ng. — The only kind of dress that can afford 

 the protection required by the changes of tempera- 

 ture to which high northern climates are liable, is 

 woollen. Nor will it be of much avail that woollen be 

 worn, unless so much of it be worn, and it be so worn, 

 as effectually to keep out the cold. Those who 

 would receive the advantage which the wearing of 

 woollen is capable of affording, must wear it next the 

 skin ; for it is in this situation only that its health- 

 preserving power can be felt. The great advan- 

 tages of woollen cloth are briefly these : — the readi- 

 ness with which it allows the escape of the matter of 

 perspiration through its texture ; its power of pre- 

 serving the sensation of warmth to the skin under all 

 circumstances ; tli^ difficulty there is in making it 

 thoroughly wet ; the slowness with which it conducts 

 heat; the softness, lightness and pliancy of its tex- 

 ture. Cotton cloth, though it differs but little from 

 linen, approaches nearer to the nature of woollen, 

 and, on that account, must be esteemed as the next 

 best substance of which clothing may be made. Silk 

 is the next in point of excellence, but it is very infe- 

 rior to cotton in every respect. Linen possesses the 

 contrary of most of the properties enumerated as ex- 

 cellencies in woollen. It retains the matter of per- 

 spiration in its te.\ture, and speedily becomes imbued 

 with it ; it gives an unpleasant sensation of cold to 

 the skin ; it is very readily saturated with moisture, 

 and it conducts heat too rapidly. It is, indeed, the 

 worst of all tlie substances in use, be;-^:; the least 

 qualified to answer the purposes of clothing. 



1 'Cneyp. Americana. 



The Ferrol Grape. 



The Subscriber has received from St Ubes, a few of 

 the vines of the Grape, known then- a, the Ferrol. 



The Fruit is nearly black when ripe, of an oval shape, 

 delicious in flavor, and the berries about the size of the 

 Urge oval Malaga. It is very highly appreciated by 

 those who have tasted it, and is said to be a great and 

 constant bearer. 



\ few of the vines are for sale by Z. COOK, Jr. 

 4t. 



Lost. 

 On the 27th of March last, a packaee of Books, consist- 

 ing of Loudon's Encyclopedia of Plants, and Loudon's 

 Gardeners' Magazine, w.-i3 left at the New Bedford W'ag- 

 on Office, in Boston, directed to Benjamin Rodman, 

 Esq. New Bedford, which has never been received. 

 Whoever will give any information respecting it to Mr 

 Rodman, at New Bedford, or to Mr Russell, at the 

 New England Fanner Office, Boston, shall be suitably re- 

 warded^ tf May 88. 



DONATION TO A POOR FAMILY. 



No present that could be made to a poor family 

 could ho of iiioro essential service than a thin 

 light stew pan with its cover, made of wrought or 



Choice Perry. 



A few dozen bottles of Choice Perry, made in New 

 Hampshire, for sale at J. B. Russell's Seed Store, 62 

 North Marke t street, at $2,00 per dozen. June i. 

 Ifilmot's Superb Straicberry. 



For sale at the Seed Store connected with the New 

 En?;land Farmer, 52 North Market-street, 



Several roots of Wilmot's Superb Strawberry, in pou, 

 one thrifty plant to a pot — price 124 ^^'' — ^1*0 a few pots 

 with-t plants to each, in fine order, most of them being 

 in flower, and many with the fruit srt, 37^. M.iy 7. 



Fut>llslied every Friday, nt S-' I"''' niinum. pii\nMc «| lie 

 end of the year — l>ul those who pay within siiiv days from ibe 

 time of subsrribing, arc enlilled lo a deduction ol fih\ ccdIs. 



O'Nopapcr willbcsenlto adistance wiihoui payment b«- 

 ing made in advance. 



Primed for J. H. Rcssei.l. by 1. R. Butts — hy whom 

 alldescription.>ior Priniuig can br rxeculedlo mecl ilu* Misliet 

 of cusloniers. ^)^der^fllr priming received I'V J. !1. Kij^ni, 

 at the AfricBllura I Warehouse No. ."iZ Norlb Market Siretl. 



AGIKTS. 



Xnr Ynrk—G Tiiur.aiRN fc So».f.7 Lihrrly.slreel. 



Philadtlphia— \>. tc C 1.a»i>kitii. f>5 Chc'inul-sireei. 



Baltimore — G. H. .Smith. Office of the American Fiwmer. 



Allanti — Hnii. Jksse Bi'KL. 



Flushing, N. Y. W«. I'KiNcr iSoHS, Prop. Lio. Hot. Gardes 



7/,ir(/i>ri/— Goonwm Ji S(i>is. 



Ihlifax. N. S.— P. J. llui.i.A.vK. Esq. Recorder Office. 



Montreal. L. C — A. Bowhas, Bookseller. 



