NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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The cultivator then if he be tVugai, industrious 



contented, enjojs all tiiat the bounty of pro- 



ence has to bestow upon his mere nnimal na- 



, but this is the smallest portion of his bles- 



js — his situation is peculiarly favorable for 



iotism — he may enjoy in its greatest perfec- 



1 true liberty — he is its earliest advocate and 



latest defender — he is not exposed to the li- 



tious corrupt ambition, which leads some to 



ray. — When the cultivators of the soil are 



the best friends to freedom, its temple and 



iltar ivill perish in the land. 



"^our situation is not only favorable for do- 



lic, social and public happiness, but for the 



ivation of morality, and the attainments of 



llectual riches. Upon this subject, you 



ht not only to feel your importance, but to 



liligent in the discharge of your duties. 



"ou can neglect nothing with so much dan- 



as the education of your children — with in- 



ition to their instruction, their minds will 



imble the field of the sluggard, they vvill be 



d with weeds. That inspiration of the Ai- 



hty, which gave man understanding, has 



le the mind capable of the highest attain- 



t. — It is like a rich soil, it will produce in 



iriant abundance, and if the good seed is not 



• i and carefully nurtured, it will be filled 



4i noxious weeds. Its native strength and 



^ibility, is the reason why it should be most 



illuously cultivated. No farmer expects to 



4ia golden harvest waving over the finest 



(I that is unclosed and neglected: there he 



:: I !nds his greatest labor; he guards it from 



Iiion, and is continually exterminating all 

 is evil. The mind is the intellectual soil, 



1 1 must be educated. Here you must plant 



1 1 jood and root out the evil. 

 ' 3od schools, of a much higher order than 



it generally found, ought to be patronized and 

 orted. The wise munificence of our state 

 orities, when connected with the intrinsic 

 )rtance of the subject, should persuade you 

 ake a general and vigorous effort to pro- 

 : common schools, and establish higher and 

 ■ liberal ones. The means of instruction 

 be furnished ; men of character and eru- 

 n must be employed, and the mind of the 

 I must be cultivated with faithful diligence 

 ikill. Rely upon it, in this age, information 

 is both exact and extensive, is necessary to 

 iuccessful prosecution of agriculture. It is 

 I to retain your sons at home, and to exact 

 them severe labor during their minority, 

 then dismiss them to a new wilderness to 

 their support, ignorant and unfurnished. — 

 Te are many portions of the year when 

 enjoy leisure to gain knowledge ; the long 

 er evenings may be devoted to the pursuit 

 •-ience. It you have accomplished teach- 

 nd good social libraries, which every town 

 t to possess — well selected books will em- 

 their time to the greatest advantage and 

 5 with much higher pleasures than the riot 

 dissipation which are too often substituted 

 hem. It is a false opinion that science is 

 important to professional pursuits ; it has 

 -act application to all you do, and domestic 

 lomy might be greatly promoted by its cul- 

 ion. Besides, the pursuit of knowledge, if 

 ere general among our rural friends, would 

 uce many useful associations, would pro- 

 3 good neigbboihood and refine and exalt 

 •.ty. 



For happiness and trui; philosophy 

 Are of the social, still, and smiliB<; kind. 

 This is the lifr, which those who fret in guilt 

 And guilty cities never knew, the life 

 I.cd by primeval ag-es iincorrupt. 

 When Angels dwelt, and God himself, with man. 

 Ifyou connect with the advance of true learn- 

 ing, The Knowledcf. of God and the hope and 

 practice of pure and undefiled Religion you will 

 complete the sum of your duties and enjoyments 

 in this sate «f trial and discipline. Your situa- 

 tion is peculiarly favorable lor the cultivation 

 of piety. You are not exposed to the tempta- 

 tions which often seduce and destroy others. You 

 above all men, are called to behold the xvisdoin 

 and faithfulness of God. Seed-time and harvest 

 continually recur, and the dew and the sun- 

 shine, the early and the latter rain are forever 

 given. In every plant you see an exhibition of 

 Almighty power. The wood — the field — the 

 loaded trees — the ripened harvest, all proclaim 

 the goodness of him who openeth his hand and 

 satisfies the wants of every living thing. Oh 

 shouldjyou not praise and serve him, is there not 

 a most solemn demand upon you to reform your 

 neglect of your Divine Benefactor — In so fertile 

 a region, blessed with plenty, health and security 

 ought not the temple dedicated to his service to 

 be more frequently seen ; ought not the silence 

 of the Sabbath morn in which man and beast 

 rest from their labors to be more frequently in- 

 terrupted by the sound of the " church going 

 ie//," inviting the peaceful inhabitants to the 

 House of Prayer — the service of the sanctuary, 

 and the praises of the Lord. 



My friends, let us remember that the pursuits 

 that now interest and occupy us will soon termi 

 nate. We are hastening to a state of immoria 

 existence. Are we prepared for it ? When the an 

 gels are sent to gather the great harvest for God, 

 shall we be among the tares or the wheat? Let 

 us be wise and impro>'e this precious season, and 

 live for heaven. — If we do not, we shall at last be 

 left to lament in language wich you perfectly 

 understand — " T/ie harvest is past .' thcsummeris 

 ended ! and we are not saved.'''' 



NEW WHEAT. 

 Extract of a letter from Jonas Seely., Esq. a mem- 

 ber of the Legislature., to an agricidtural gentle- 

 man in Albany county. 



Albany, Feb. 6, 1824. 

 " Sir, — In answer to your request on the sub- 

 ject of a new kind of wheat, lately cultivated in 

 Seneca county, I really consider it a great ac- 

 quisition to our country. It resembles in colour 

 the bearded thorn wheat, the berry rather small- 

 er than the white or red chafied wheat, and 

 weighs from 62 to 64 lbs. a bushel. I have made 

 experiments, and have given it a fair (rial on 

 different soils, from clay loam to a black rich 

 soil. It possesses two very important proper- 

 ties which our common wheat does not. It re- 

 sists frost much better, and is absolutely invul- 

 nerable to the attack of the Hessian fly ; this 

 was abundantly proved the last season. On this 

 account it is alone invaluable, as I had fields of 

 wheat nearly destroyed by the fly, while this 

 new wheat side by side was untouched. 



The common wheat when not injured by fly 

 or frost will produce some more per acre. The 

 new wheat grows thick on the ground, the col- 

 our of the straw is lighter and softer and does 

 not grow as tall as common wheat, the beads j 



are shorter, but fill well, the chafl" is light. The 

 flour is equal to the common red berried wheat. 

 I sold 70 busbeh of it to Col. Mynder=c, at the 

 Seneca Falls, last December, his miller pro- 

 nounced it the finest lot of wheat he had pur- 

 chased since harvest, it was sowed the ITth 

 Sept. 1G22. It was first introduced into Seneca 

 county 5 or 6 years ago, and ia called beaver 

 dam wheat, under an idea it was firs^t brought 

 iVoin a beaver dam near Ulica, whereas. Col. 

 Mynderse informed me that it was imiiorted from 

 Spain by Elkanah Watson, Esq. of Albany, and 

 was one of the various samples of wheat he dis- 

 tributed over the country 6 or 7 years ago." 

 Albany Daily Adv. 



Upland nice. — We noticed some months ago 

 the introduction into France of the rice of Co- 

 chin China. It appears from a letter of Mr. 

 Jefferson, recently published, that he procured 

 a cask of this rice more than thirty years ago, 

 and that it succeeded well in Virginia, Georgia, 

 and Kentucky. We trust that some of our en- 

 terprizing citizens will introduce this invaluable 

 article of food into Massachusetts. Lt. White, 

 of the U. S. navy, who visited Cochin China in 

 1819, says there are six kinds of rice cultivated 

 in that country, two sorts of which are upland 

 or mountain rice, from which a most beautiful, 

 fine, snowy, white flour is made, and used in 

 cakes and various kinds of confectionary. These 

 latter species produce but one crop in a year ; 

 some of the others produce two crops in a year 

 [Hampshire Gazette. 



Something Valuable. — " We hare seen »vilhin 

 these two or three days, a machine invented by 

 Mr. Joseph Harmer, the great value of which 

 consists in the facility by which all difierent ar- 

 ticles of food requiring culinary preparations, 

 may be rapidly, almost instantaneously prepar- 

 ed in the course of a minute or two. The me- 

 chanism is simple, yet philosophical; a few 

 drops of spirits or of alcohol — scarcely a cent of 

 expense, is sufficient to put the whole in opera- 

 tion, and beefsteaks, mutton chops, veal cutlets, 

 Gggf, ham and venison may be got up adapted 

 to the most epicurean appetites."' — Richmond 

 Phenix. 



Water Proof Cloth. — A chemist of Gla.sgow 

 has discovered a simple and efficacious method 

 of rendering woolen, silk, or cotton cloth com- 

 pletely water proof. The method adopted is to 

 dissolve caoutchouc in coal tar oil, produced in 

 abundance at the gas works ; by a brush to put 

 five or six coatings of this mixture on the side 

 of the cloth or silk on which another piece is 

 laid, and the whole passed between two rollers. 

 The adhesion is most complete, so much so, that 

 it is easier to tear the cloth than to separate it 

 from the caoutchouc. 



Caution. — It is stated, in a Providence paper 

 that brown cotton sheetings and shirtings of fine 

 thread, but poor stock are frequently imported, 

 which are bleached in this country, and stamped 

 with the names of American bleachers, to pass 

 them as American fabrics. The difference be- 

 tween the true and spurious cloth is, that the 

 former are always stamped with the names of 

 llie maker, as well as bleacher. The latter with 

 that of the bleacher only. 



