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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A MOTHER'S LOVE. 



BY IIIR3. HEMANS. 

 There is none, 



In all this cold and hollow world, no fount 



Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within 



A mother's heart. It is but pride, wherewith 



To his fair son the father's eye doth turn. 



Watching his growth. Aye on the boy he looks 



The bright glad creature springing in his path. 



But as the heir of his great name, the young 



And stately tree, whose rising strength ere long 



Shall bear the trophies well. And this is love ! 



—This is man's love 1— What marvel ?— You ne'er 



made 

 Your breast the pillow of his infancy, 

 While to the fullness of your heart's glad heavings 

 His fair cheek rose and fell : and his bright hair 

 Waved softly to your breath ! — You ne'er kept watch 

 Beside him, till the last pale star had set. 

 And morn, all dazzling, as in triumph broke 

 On your dim weary eye ; not yours the face. 

 Which, early faded through fond care for him. 

 Hung o'er his sleep, and, duly as Heaven's light, 

 Was there to greet his wakening ! You ne'er smooth'd 

 His couch, ne'er sung him lo his rosy rest, 

 Caught his last whisper when his voice from yours 

 Had learn'd soft utterance ; husli'd his wayward cries 

 With patient, vigilant, never-wearied love ; 

 No ! these are woman'' s tasks — In these her youth 

 And bloom of cheek, and buoyancy of heart, 

 Steal from her — all unmark'd I 



SWiscellaHy. 



GLEANINGS FROM LONDON PAPERS. 

 Animal Instinct. — Early on Friday morning, a 

 gentleman residing with his family, at No. 1, 

 Gothic-Place, in the Montpelier-ivalk, Chelten- 

 ham, was roused by the continued barking of a 

 small spaniel, that had posted itself at his 

 chamber door, and could not be silenced until 

 he opened the door, and was then first alarmed 

 by a smell as if of something burning. On 

 making down stairs it was found that the furni- 

 ture in the setting rooms was nearly all con- 

 sumed. A female servant, who slept at the top 

 of the house, fearing the flames might prevent 

 her descending by the stairs, opened the win- 

 dow, and getting upon the top of the veranda, 

 she leaped down lo the ground, a considerable 

 distance. Havingjthus escaped, on hearing that 

 her lady's reticule, containing a large sum of 

 money, a watch, fee. was not secured, she in- 

 trepidly run up stairs, and saved the property. 

 The fire by this time ascending she was oblig- 

 ed again to descend by the window, which she 

 affected in safely. 



Hatching Chickens, <^-c. by Steam. — The new 

 process of hatching by steam has been carri- 

 ed into effect ; and the inventor advertises 

 to hatch and rear domestic poultry and game 

 birds on certain terms, by the dozen or score, 

 perhaps, or to receive one half of the produce! 

 We understand that a lady of quality, dowa- 

 ger to a distinguished statesman, lately deceas- 

 ed, has sent 



fion of the parent bird. As ostrich feathers are 

 a costly article of commerce, and of fashiona- 

 ble consumption, this process, if successful, will 

 greatly diminish their value. The difficulty of 

 preserving the exact temperature, and of rear- 

 ing the young ones, when brought to life, will, 

 however, present obstacles not easily surmount- 

 able. The eggs are new ones, having been 

 produced by a male and female ostrich, the 

 property of the lady who has supplied them for 

 the experiment. ' 



Wild People. — There is a description of wild 

 people in the interior of the Palembery domin- 

 ions, in Hindostan, who refuse all intercourse 

 with civilized society, and are called Orang 

 Kuba. They are considered a very harmless 

 inoffensive people, and with them a trade is 

 contrived to be carried on in the following 

 manner. Clothes, tobacco, and other articles 

 of which they have need, are placed at certain 

 spots near where they are known to live ; and 

 the owner of the goods, as a signal to them, 

 beats a ging when he retires from the place. — 

 These people then come and take away the 

 goods, leaving a very full equivalent in honey, 

 wax, and other articles they collect in their 

 wild retreats. « 



We learn that a gentleman is now cempleting 

 a Patent for making Gas from new ingredients, 

 which he has discovered, and which can be 

 procured cheaper than oil, and produce a much 

 more brilliant and transparent light than coal 

 or oil gas, without any noxious or dangerous ef- 

 fects in its manufacture cr use. He recom- 

 mends coal gas to be burnt in the streets, and 

 the new gas in doors, for its effects are as plea- 

 sant as wax lights to the sight and smell, and of 

 course not at all injurious to furniture or goods 



Jigricultural Implements. 



FOR sale at the Agricultural Establishmi 

 No. 20, Merchants' Row, a great variety of 

 and useful FARMING and GARDEN TOOLS, an 

 which are the following, viz. : 



Nixon's Patent Cast Iron Plough ; Tice's do. ; 

 ver and Fay's do. ; Wood's and Freebone's do. ; i 

 ard's Cast and Wrought Iron do. ; do. Wrought 

 do. Double Mould Board and Expanding do. ; Sine) 

 Side Hill Plough ; Beatson's Improved Scarifiers 

 Cultivators ; Harrison's and James' Patent Corn S 

 lers; Jaquith's Threshing Machine; Willis' Pj 

 Straw and Hay Cutter, the most improved and best 

 structed machine for the purpose ever invented. C 

 the above Machines is now in use and may be SS' 

 Nile?' Livery Stable, Hawley Place. — Also, Safl 

 Patent Straw Cutters ; Hand Straw Cutters ; Ber- 

 Broad Cast Machine for Grass and ether Seed ; 

 and Turnip Drills ; Steven's Patent Steel Spring, 

 and Manure Forks ; Brade & Co's. Cast Steel F 

 Wright's Steel Plated do. ; Common and Narrow 

 Merrill's Steel Crook Neck do. ; Iron and Steel 

 toe do. ; Turnip and small Garden do. of all t 

 Garden and Pruning Shears; Transplanting Tr 

 and Forks ; English and American Shovels and Sp 

 Bisbee's polished Cast Steel Back Strapped She 

 new and very superior article ; Cam's Cast Steel Sc 

 Brush and other Scythes ; Common and Iron 

 Garden Rakes, together with many other va'. 

 Tools.— Also, a New ImprovedTree Brush for dest 

 Caterpillars. 



(fCT" A liberal discount made to dealers in the 

 articles. -^pr 



Cheap Wine. — The following is said to be a 

 chemical analysis of a bottle of a cheap com- 

 modity, sold under the denomination of Port 

 Wine, viz. : 



Spirits of wine 3 ounces; 



Cider, fourteen ounces; 



Sugar, one ounce and a half; 



Alum, two scruples ; 



Tartaric acid, one scruple ; 



Strong decoction of logwood, 4 ounces. 



Aitacl:s on Agricnltvral Machinery. — We are 

 sorry to find by a letter from Halesworth, in 

 .Suffolk, that the laborers have been doing mis- 

 chief to some of their employers, who choose 

 to use threshing machines, and other improved 

 implements. In one instance they cut a drain- 

 ing plough to pieces ; and, but for the timely 

 arrival of the parish officers, they would have 

 destroyed a threshing machine. 



On Friday Se'nnight, Mr. Hancock, of Tre- 

 gondale, lost two fine rams in the following 

 manner: — The rams were coupled together by 

 a chain round their necks, and turned out to 

 gf-aze in a field with a colt a little more than 

 twelve months old. In the morning as Mr. 

 Hancock went round lo view his flock, he found 

 the rams suspended by the chain across the 



I, . u , , .1 °"'° ,*°'^ "'^ """ ""■■"^^ '° ''^ l«ck of the colt, quite dead. The colt it is 

 hatched by the newly invented steam process 

 It is a well known fact in natural history that 

 this bird docs not set on its eggs, but that thev 



are deposited in the sand, where the warmth of 

 the sun produces the same effect as the incuba- 



supposed had laid down, and the rams in graz- 

 ing passed the chain across him, when rising 

 suddenly he must have taken them up with 

 him. The colt was little injured, except ex- 

 haustion by fatigue. 



GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS. 



JOSEPH BRIDGE, No. 25, Court-street, hf 

 received per London Packet, and for sale, ! 

 tensive variety of Agricultural and Horticultural 

 which added to his former collection makes the 

 est assortment m New England — among them 

 bushels early and l.^te Peas, of various sorts; 1 

 Turnip, 100 lbs. RUTA BAGA, 200 lbs. Carre 

 lbs. Beet, 100 lbs. MANGEL WURTZEL, . 

 Cabbages of sorts. Cauliflowers, 100 lbs. Radish c 

 Lettuce of sorts, Endive, Kail, Celery, SAL! 

 SCORZENERA, Onion, Leek, Sweet Mai 

 Thyme, Sage, summer and winter Savory, Lai 

 sweet Bazil, Chervil, Fennell, Burnet, Grass 

 viz 1 — Herds, red and white Clover, Foul Meado' 

 Top— with a large collection of ORNAME 

 SEEDS. 



Garden Tools, viz : — Pruning and Budding] 

 Pruning Saws, Pruning .Shears, Garden Reels and 

 transplanting Trowels, Rakes, Dutch or Fushidj| 

 Edging Irons. 



Gooseberry and Currant Bushes, Honeysuckle 

 den Roses, &c. 1200 Flower Pots with stands. 



GREEN HOUSE PLANTS, a large varietj 

 stantly for sale, such as Roses, Myrtles, Gere 

 Agapanthus, Orange Trees in fruit and blossoiB- 

 Multiflora or Garland Rose, Mountain Daisies, I 

 tines, &c. 50,000 THORNS or QUICKS fc. 

 fence 



ENGLISH CHEESE, and fine ENGLISI^I'! 

 PEAS. Marai ii 



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MANGEL WURTZEL SEED. "^ 



FOR sale at this office a few pounds of^ 

 IVurtsel Seed, raised by John Kenrick, Esq.. 

 ton. Feh« 



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