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NEV/ ENGLAND FARMER. 



FOB. THE KEW ENGLAND FARMEH. 



9UMMUM BONUM OR MAN'S GREATEST GOOD. 



The GREATEST GOOD 13 cvery mortars aim, 



The means are various, but the end the same — 



Some seek seclusion, some in crowds to shine, 



Some pant for offige, others court the nine ; 



Some place their liiippintFS in plansive breath, 



And glory wrested from the jaws of death — 



Hush to the cannon's mouth to have it said 



That hero nobly died in honor's bed ! 



And some in quest of bliss thrid pleasure's maze, 



The body pamper till the mind decays ; 



They gratify each gross and grovelling sense 



In riot rude or stupid indolence, 



As if they meant ingloriously to vie 



With the brute habitants of stall and stye ;— 



And clog at last their animal machine 



With goat, dyspepsia, lethargy or spleen. 



Some place their greatest happiness in wealth. 



To Mammon sacrifice their ease and health ; — 



Conscience, humanity and peace of mind 



To hoard up heaps of glitterii^g dust resign'd. 



They gain to recompense their toils and cares 



Enough to spoil their dissipated heirs — 



All these, a wild, miscalculating train, 



Seek happiness, but misery obtain. 



What then is happiness ? aye, what indeed ! 

 No moral doctors have in that agreed, 

 Ahd metaphysics, with its turns and twists 

 Ne'er told in what true happiness consists — 

 Though true it is that Pope said long ago, 

 " Virtue alone is happiness below," 

 Some will believe his definition vain, 

 When virtue's boon is poverty and pain ; 

 And innocence itself, as one would guess, 

 Is not quite happy under sore distress. 

 Virtue, though all important is not all 

 Which makes what we true happiness should call ; 

 But pure felicity, to all intents. 

 Is virtue*,' freedom, peace, health, competence, 

 „ Frlndship and love — these must kind Heaven bestow. 

 To constitute man's greatest good below. 



time it may be necessary to continue the appli-l my pockets, and exliibitiug ttie contents of n 

 cation ; as in some cases, it has required three] portmanteau, to shew that I was ahsolutel\' df 

 or four months, though in the last only thirty • ■• • • •.. -. ^ 



days ; but in all without pain or inconvenience 

 of any kind, or any previous notice of the dis- 

 charge, till it actually took place. 



Chisholme, E>,g. VVM. CHISHOLME. 



From the New York Statesman. 

 CULTIVATION OF THE VINE. 

 A friend has handed us proposals for publish- 

 ing, by subscription, a work entitled the vine- 

 yard ; or, the art of cultivating the vine and of 

 making wine ; by rf'iHwm 7^ec, for several years 



titute of coin — he, with much apparent relu* 

 ance, agreed to take the note. He then we 

 out, leaving it in my hands, and "^horliy relurne 

 to my astonishment, bearing a pair of steelyan 

 He took the note, compared the figures there 

 with the 5 on the steelvards, laughed, shook r 

 hand with great satisl.iction, and cried che-l 

 nc.h ! — (good — 'tis right.) — Prov. Journal. 



Two gentlemen riding in the country one 

 them observed a handsome seat delightfu 

 situated, and inquired of his companion wh( 



Consuffor the United States at Bordeaux. This it was? who informed him it belonged to 



EASY AND EFFECTUAL CURE FOR WENS. 

 Having had a wen of the slcntomatous kind, of 

 large size and long standing upon the. side of 

 my face, immediately before and below my right 

 ear, I was informed, by different people, that if! 

 I would apply salt and water to it, ! should get] 

 rid of it. In August, 1799, 1 put a qiJantity of 

 salt and water into a sauce pan, and boiled it 

 for four minutes ; with which 1 bathed the sur- 

 face frequently, while it continued warm as also 

 ^after it became cold so often as ten or twelve 

 times daily ; always stirring up the salt deposi- 

 ted at the bottom of the basin, and incorporating 

 it again with the water before I applied it On 

 the Uth day from the first application, while 

 shaving, I observed a small discharge, which, 

 assisted by a gentle- pressure, the whole contents 

 were soon emptied without the smallest pain 

 and without blood. 



Being informed of some others who had been 

 benefitted in like manner from the same appli- 

 cation, and knowing myself of some late instan- 

 ce*, under my own immediate direction, 1 feel 

 it a duly thus to make it public; being convin- 

 ced it can prodtice no bad effect, and every per- 

 son having it in their power to make the trial. 

 At the same time, 1 beg leave to caution, that no 

 eiic should be disheartened at the length of 



work will be comprised in one volume, of 300 

 or 350 octavo pages, and contain the history of 

 the vine from the earliest ages— the natural 

 history, and the varieties most generally culti- 

 vated — the climate, soil and exposure of the 

 best vineyards in Europe — the choice of plants, 

 manner of planting, and of cultivating the vine 

 — diseases of the vine, accidents, and the man- 

 ner of preventing both, and of renewing the 

 plants— and the whole process of preserving 

 the fruit, and making wine and vinegar. The 

 whole will form a complete system for conduct- 

 ing a vineyard. 



Within the last year, we have had an oppor- 

 tunity of tasting the most delicious wines, made 

 in different parts of the United States; and in 

 the- course of the present season, we have seen 

 in two gardens, one at Brooklyn, and the other 

 at West-Point, the strongest proofs that in our 

 climate the grape may be cultivated in the 

 greatest profusion, and of an excellent quality, 

 and with very little labor and expense. There 

 is a single stock growing at Brooklyn, which at 

 this moment bears g500 worth of grapes, while 

 it has cost the proprietor scarcely as many cents 

 for the cultivation, and at the same time furnish- 

 ed a most delightful arbor during the heat of 

 summer. The vine is from North-Carolina, and 

 so far from degenerating, it appears to be im- 

 proved by being transplanted to a more north- 

 ern latitude. 



From the Boston Palladium. 

 Messrs. Editors — 1 saw in the Palladium, some 

 time since, an account of the Perennial Cabbage, 

 taken from an English paper. Cabbages nriay 

 be produced from our common Cabbage, in this 

 way. Cut off the stalk near tlie ground, late in 

 the Fall — sprouts will shoot up early in the 

 Spring — if they start from above the surface, 

 they are seed sprouts — take them away until 

 others appear from below the surface — leave 

 one, and it will produce an early head. These 

 plants are more likely to withstand the brown 

 worm, than the slender plant i'rom the seed. 

 and are much earlier. W. N. 



R , Sept. 1823. 



; i i 1 II ■ UJ 1 ,1 m 

 Indian sffgacity. — Travelling a few years since 

 through that portion of our country held and oc- 

 cupied by the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, 1 was 

 constrained to halt a few days, to recruit myself 

 and horse at an half breed's hut. When about 

 to depart I sought tny host, but he was out hunt- 

 ing. I therefore called upon an old Indian (an 

 inmate of the hut,) for my bill. Five dollars 

 was the demand. 1 presented a bank note for 

 the amount. He refused itj but on my turning 



cardmaker. Upoti my life said the gentlera: 

 one would imagine all that man's cards turn 

 up trumps 



Com. Decator in concluding a late treaty 

 peace with the Dey of Algiers, was urged 

 the Dey to pay him some kind of tribute, e^ 

 if nothing more than a quantity of powder an) 

 ally. The Commodore observed, that he 

 not doubt his government would have any obj 

 tion to pay him in powder, but he would h; 

 to take balls with it. 



Guess work. — When I see a young man pos5 

 no more honor than to be dunned, 1 guess 

 will never make a man of respectability. Wl 

 I see a man quit work because he has three 

 four hired men to oversee, I guess he will h 

 Ic go to jail to pay them. When I see a i 

 suiter a simple wife to run in debt at the stc 

 for whatsoever she fancies, I guess he will s 

 wish he had never been married. 



When 1 pass a house and see the jard cove 

 with stumps, old hoops, and broken earthe 

 guess the man is a horse-jockey, and the woi 

 a spinner of street yarn. When 1 pass a hi 

 and see the windows broken, a bundle of: 

 in one, and a hat in another, I guess the mist 

 is a slut and the master loves hum. AVhen I 

 a country merchant hire two clerks to ienc 

 store while he sets by the stove, drinking w 

 I guess he will soon have to take the benef 

 the Insolvent Act, or take a tour to Vermon 



A traveller having put up at a country 

 ern, where a number of neighboring faro 

 iiad collected, and hearing them tell a nun 

 of ' tough stories' about their cattle, sheep, 

 he begged leave to offer a short story, 

 neighbor of his having a sickly sheep, tul 

 him out to pasture with perfect indifference 

 brought him in at the fall, fed him atlepti' 

 for a while — " and how much tallow do 

 think the sheep had ?" " Ten pounds," 

 one ; " fourteen," says another ; " twen 

 'a3S a third — till they had all become impat 

 to know the weight of tallow in the exlrat 

 nary sheep — when one asked, " how much 

 low did he have ?" " I don't know," replied 

 stranger, " but / guess tiut miic/i." 



TERMS OF THE FARMER. I 



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