NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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cause perplexity and confusion, which ot!i- 

 e misrht lie avoided. 



t ivotild be advi-;;il)le for the farmer to adni 

 ticular rules and regulations respecting I'ii- 

 tt ss, the mnnajjement of family concerns, 

 li' of living, ci:c. as such rules and rcsjul ii'( n-. 

 liey he salutary and tjood, and strictly adher- 



00, will tend to promote order, despatch in 

 « mess, and a savinsf m various ways^. He 



lid so make his c.ilculations that li^s income 

 I exceed his expenditures, that he may au- 

 lly have a surplus to add to his capital stock. 

 ;ii erecting huiUlings and fences Ihure 

 lid he a particular retjard to convenience, 

 ihility and taste. The dwcllino; house 

 lid be situated oq rising grouud, there lieing 

 1 it a regular descent each way, and a free 

 ulalion of air, as this will greatly conduce 

 ealth and cointort. In front of the house 

 e should be sul]icient room for a convenient 



1, which should be made perfectly level and 

 oth, and enclosed with a suitable fence, 

 k of the dwelling should he the garden, and 

 eco of ground enclosed for fruit trees of 

 ous kinds. Wood and chips, and other in- 

 ibrance? necessarily attached to the house,) 

 lid not be permitted to remain in a scattering] 

 slovenly manner. If dirt or litter of any ' 



i should necessarily or accidentally be left 

 r the house, it should be immediately clean- 

 ip and taken awav. 

 1 the house every thing should be kept neat 



clean, and every apartment frequently 

 pt and thoroughly cleansed, not even neg- 

 ing the back room garret. The cellar 

 jid not be forgotten or neglected — this too, 

 111 1.1 he kept as clean and as well regulated 

 uy other part of the dwelling, 

 'he barn should be situated not far distant 

 1 the house, and on a level spot of ground 

 ossible, the yard being dishing or lowest in 

 middle in order to receive the drainings ot 



manure, which, il permitted to run off, 

 ht be entirely lost. Every thing about the 

 1, either within or without, should be well 

 jlated, bearing the impress of neatness and 

 The hay and grain, the corn stalks and 

 ks, should each be stowed away in their pro- 

 place, and in regular order ; the mow and 

 fold also being handsomely raked down. 

 )uring the season of feeding cattle, much 

 i and attention is necessary. They should 

 ;onstantly attended by the same hand, as the 

 ler can be dealt out to better advantage by 



than by difl'erent (lersons, and the cattle 

 ! undoubtedly do much belter. The apart- 

 its in which the cattle are confined during 



night, together with the cribs, should be 

 t clean and in good order. Scatterings of 

 w and hay should not be permitted to lie 

 ut in the way, and as often as the cattle are 

 the litter should be cleaned up, and every 

 g [irojierly regulated. Cattle should not be 

 wed to ramble over the fields or in thehigh- 

 ■ during the season they are fed from the 

 :i, as much would thereby be Ics', not only 

 he urticle of manure, but also in their keeping, 

 they undoubtedly require more fodder than 

 y would were they kept closely confined in 

 yard. Water should always be brought into 



yard by an aqueduct if jiossible, as this 

 thod of watering cattle in the winter is un- 

 islionably preferable to any other. 

 ID erecting fences, care and attention is ne- 



cessary in order to have them durable and last- 

 i>vr. Stone wall is, uiidoiibledly, th;; best kind 

 ol' I'enre that can be built, where rocks are plen- 

 !y and of .a suitable size, and is, on the whole, 

 probably the cheapest. If a trench be diiu: in 

 c.^nimoii soils twelve or fifteen inches in depth, 

 ind ihroe or four feet in width, and (lllod even 

 iriili ihe lop of the ground with small stones 

 \ui\ a wall built thereon, it will last an age. Eve- 

 rv farm ousrhl to be well fenced, and the farmer 

 shoiilil see to it, that his fences are consiantiv 

 kept in good order; for if they are bad and oul 

 of n^pair, his crops are liable to be destroyed, 

 ind his cattle will most certainly become disor- 

 derly and troublesome. 



Every farmer at the present day has weighty 

 and powerful motives placed before him to in- 

 duce him to be industrious and enterprizing, and 

 to make every exertion in his power to excel 

 in the art of husbandry. 



It should be the ambition of the husband- 

 man to make great and valuable improvements 

 on his farm, for thereby he will enhance the 

 value of his property, and merit the applause 

 of those around him. 



Almost every farm of any considerable extent, 

 has more or less rough or broken land, which 

 remaining in its natural and unsubdued state, is 

 of very little value. Much of this land were it 

 subdued and cultivated, would turn out to be 

 the most valuable part of the farm that contains 

 it, and it only wants the hand of the skilful ag- 

 riculturist a])plied to it, to render it productive 

 and profitable. A gentleman within my know- 

 ledge, who by the way is an enterprizing, practi- 

 cal farmer, a few years since bought a piece ol 

 land, the greater part of which was considered 

 to be almost ivorthless. On one part of it was 

 a large boggy piece of ground, which had been 

 cleared many years, but produced nothing but 

 brush and rubbish, and was thought to be alto- 

 gelher unimprovable. He has completely sub- 

 dued, and converted it into an excellent piece ot 

 mowing land. On the same lot was a small 

 brushy pond of water, this has been drained and 

 is become a beautiful and fertile spot. The 

 same gentleman has near his dwelling a piece 

 of ground, which but a few years ago was lite- 

 rally a ([uag, but by draining and skilful man- 

 agement, he has caused it to become a valuable 

 piece of ground, producing two crops in a sea- 

 son, w. 



FOR THK NEW ENOl.AND TARIHER. 



Some time since a gentleman of Boston sent a copy 

 of the pamphlet " On the Dulies and Dangers ofSepul- 

 lurc," &€. to an eminent physician in Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia, from whose reply the following is an extract. 

 ''■ Halifax, 20tli Oct. 1823. 

 " I delayed answering your last favour of the 

 lOfh September, till 1 should have had an oppor- 

 tunity to peruse the pamphlet you so kindly sent 

 me; for which 1 feel much indebted, and tender 

 ■my most cordial thanks. — 1 have now given it an 

 attentive reading, and also shown it to some of 

 my medical friends, and feel much pleasure in 

 being authorized to assure you and the author 

 that it has their j3e;/ec( approbation as well as 

 mine. — It is somewhat remarkable that the ve- 

 ry evening before the book arrived, the subject 

 of it had been under discussion at my house. 

 The conversation originated from one of" the 

 company's observing ' thatil was an abominable 

 thing to have the most public burying ground op- 



posite to Government house, (a fact) and that it 

 was his opinion it ought to be abandoned, and ai 

 soon as possible appropriated to some public use.' 

 Another of the party expressed a degree of hor- 

 ror at the idea of converting it to any other pur- 

 |mse than that for which it wa= originally in- 

 tended, i answered that so fjir from entertaining 

 the delicate scruples of my friends, I was so 

 thoroughly convinced of the danger as well as 

 absurdity of having grave-yards within the pre- 

 cincts of any town, that, notwilhslanding I had 

 numerous relations buried in Ihe ground under 

 consideralion, I would without hesitation give 

 my vote for removing every monument erected 

 over them, completely covering them over, 

 pl.inting ornamental trees on the borders of Ihe 

 spot, and establishing il as an open square for a 

 public walk, but not to be encroached en for any 

 other purpose. — The opinion of the majority 

 was in my favor." 



From the Boston Medical Intelligencer. 



HABIT. 



Dr. Plott, in his history of Straffordshire, 

 tells us of an idiot that lived within the sound 

 of a clock, who was always amusing himself 

 when it struck. The clock being spoiled, the 

 idiot continiieil to strike and count the time 

 without it, in the same manner he did bcWore. 



A lady of this city has contracted the habit of 

 counting the panes of glass in a house, the mo- 

 ment she casts her eye upon the window. - She 

 has repeatedly assured her friends it is impossi- 

 ble to cure herself of the habit, and that the 

 sense of weariness and pam from associating the 

 number of panes wilh the idea of a house or 

 window, is a hundred times worse than the labor 

 of supwriiiteodina: the concerns of her family. 



A boy in Vermont, accustomed to working a- 

 lone, was so prone to whistling, that as soon as 

 he was by himself, he unconsciously commenc- 

 ed. AVhen asleep, the muscles of the mouth, 

 chest, and lungs wereso complelely concatenat- 

 ed in this association, that he whistled with as- 

 tonishingshrillness. A pale countenance, loss 

 of appetite, and almost total prosiration of 

 strength, convinced his mother it would end in 

 death, if not speedily overcome ; which was ac- 

 complished by placing him in the society of an- 

 other boy, who had orders to give him a blow 

 as often as he began to whistle. 



An attorney insensibly contracted a habit of 

 numbering his steps, when walking, and when 

 in his ollice, of thinking how many paces dis- 

 tant were certain places in the neighborhood. 

 He found it nearly impossible to meditate on any 

 other subject. He fancies a cure was effected 

 by walking over the stream, on a pole, where 

 he was in imminent danger of being drowned. 



A trunk maker, in the country, could never 

 refrain from biting his nails, at a moment of 

 leisure. In 1816, every appearance of a nail 

 on the left fingers and right thumb was oblite- 

 rated. 



A child, in New Hampshire, who was usually 

 seated in the meeting house, on the Sabiiath, 

 opposite an old gentleman who labored under 

 chorea sancti viti, contracted the habit of imi- 

 tating his distorted features, to such a degree, 

 that "its face was continually in a grimace. — 

 The child was cured by working at needle 

 work, before a mirror. 



A pious woman in theeaslcrn section of Near 



