340 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From the Hancock Gasette. 



Would Yankees still continue free, 



Let this their honest motto be. 



Our stock weMl raise ourselves, and keep, 



From bellowing bull to bleating sheep ; 



In manufactures we will try 



All foreign nations to outvie ! 



In mechenism try each notion. 



Except to find perpetual motion ; 



In agriculture do our best ; 



And leave to gracious Heaven the rest. 



if«tscfUa«s. 



From the Portland Gazette. 



USEFUL RULF.S FOR HOUSF^WIVF.S. 



1. When you arise in the morning never be 

 particular about pinning your clothes so very 

 nicely ; you can do that any time. 



2. Never comb your hair, or take ofT your 

 night cap till after breakfast. It is your business 

 to take time by the foretop and not let him take 

 you so ; therefore keep all night in that quarter 

 till 10 o'clock at least. 



3. When you begin the business of your toilet 

 you may do it before the window or in the front 

 entry ; but the most proper place is in the 

 kitchen. 



4. Never have any particular place for any 

 thing in }'our house ; and then you may rest 

 assured, that nothing will ever be out of place ; 

 and that is a great comfort in a family. 



5. Never sweep your floor, until you know 

 some person is coming in : he will then see 

 bow neat you are : and, besides, in such cases, 

 even your enemies cannot shake off the dust of 

 their feet., against you, though they may the dust 

 of their clothes with which you have covered 

 them by your sweeping. 



6. When you have done sweeping, leave your 

 broom on thejloor, it will then be handy : and, 

 being always in fight, and in the way, it will 

 be constantly reminding your husband, when he 

 is in the house, what a smart, nice, pains-taking 

 wife he has. 



7. Never follow the barbarous practice of 

 brushing down cobziiebs. A man's house is his 

 castle : and so is a spider^s : — It is a violation of 

 ',ighi ; and a shameless disrespect to the fin 

 arts. 



8. ICeep your parlour and bedroom windows 

 shut as close as possible in dog days : this will 

 keep the hot air out — and you will have excel- 

 lent j?.rc(i air inside. 



9. Keep your summer cheeses in your bed 

 chambers : — they enrich the qualities of the 

 atmosphere : and if a stranger should lodge in 

 one of your beds : if he could not sleep, he could 

 eat for his refreshment. 



10. Never teach your daughters to mend or 

 make any oi their own clothes, it is " taking the 

 bread from the mouth of labour" : — besides it 

 will make thera crooked and give them sore 

 fingers. 



11. But if they should insist on mending their 

 o»vn garments, they should do it while they 

 are on ; this will make them fit better : and 

 Girls can't leave their work: iflhey should at- 

 ;cmpt it their work would follo-iH) them. 



12. If your husband's coat is out at 07ie of the 

 elbows, don't mend it until it is out at the other ; 

 tiien Ihe patches will make it appear vni/orm ; 

 and shew that you are impartial. 



13. Never spoil a joke for a relation'' s sake; 

 nor suppress the truth lot any body''s sake. 

 Therefore, if you don't like your husband as 

 well as you ought — out with it, and convince 

 him you are not a respecter of persons. 



14. You should endeavour not to keep your 

 temper : — let it off as soon and as fast as you 

 can ; and you will then be as calm and quiet as 

 a bottle of cider after the cork has been drawn 

 half a day. 



15. If, on any particular occasion, you are at 

 a loss as to the course you ought to pursue, in 

 the management of yourself or your family af- 

 fairs, lake down the paper which contain these 

 Rules and read them over and over till you 

 have satisfied your mind — and then go on. 



Poor Richard. 



Condensation of Fariovs Gases into Liquids.- 

 In the Philosophical Transactions of London, 

 Part II. are detailed the very important results 

 of Mr. Faraday on the condensation of gases 

 info liquids. By submitting solid compounu's, 

 containing gaseous elements, to heat, in sealed 

 glass tubes, or by extricating by chemical re 

 action, from other substances similarly confined, 

 various gaseous products, so great a pressure 

 was produced, as to cause the liquefaction of the 

 gases produced in the several experiments.' — 

 The following is a list of gases condensed up 

 to the present time, namely : Chlorine, .Muriat 

 ic acid. Sulphurous acid. Sulphuretted hydrogen. 

 Carbonic acid, Euchlorine, JYitrous oxide. Cyano- 

 gen, and Ammonia. 



Jlpplication of Liquids, formed by the Conden- 

 sation of Gases, as Mechanical Agents. — Sir 

 Humphrey Davy has given a paper on this in- 

 teresting subject in the same Part of the Phil. 

 Trans, above referred. After expressing some 

 donbis as to the economical results to be ex- 

 pected from employing the vapors of water or 

 alcohol, under high pressures by high tempe- 

 ratures, as mechanical agents, trom the great 

 loss of radiant heat at high temperatures, and 

 from the extrication of latent heat by compres- 

 sion, and its absorption from expansion ; no such 

 doubts, he considers, can arise respecting the 

 use of the vapors of liquid.*, which require, for 

 their existence, a pressure, equal to 30 or 40 

 atmospheres, and wh.ch exert an immense clas- 

 tic force at common temperatures, or from 

 slight elevations of them. Such liquids are lh« 

 liquefied gases. 



It is not easy, in a short notice, like Ihe pre- 

 sent, to make Ihe whole ground of Sir Hum- 

 phrey Davy's reasoning intelligible to Ihe gen- 

 erality of readers, involving, as it does, Ihe 

 more abstruse doctrines on the subject of calo- 

 ric; but a general idea of his exceedingly 

 novel views on the manner of applying the 

 condensed gases as mechanical agents, may be 

 olilained from the following extract from his 

 paper. — Port Folio. 



" In applying Ihe condensed gases as me- 

 chanical agents, there will be some difficulty ; 

 the materials of the apparatus must be at least 

 as strong and as perfectly joined as those used 

 by Mr. Perkins in his high pressure steam-en- 

 gine : but the small dilferences of temperature 

 required to produce an clastic force, equal to 

 the pressure of many atmospheres, will render 

 the risk of explosion extremely small ; and if 

 future experiments should realise the views 

 here developed, the mere difference of tempe- 



rature between sunshine and shade, and air anc 

 water, or effects of evaporation from a mni& 

 surface, will be sufficient to produce results 

 which have hitherto been obtained only by ;,, 

 great expenditure of fuel. 



Singular Chastisement. — A spruce lillle gentle 

 man, who, during the summer season, is eni' 

 ployed as a waiter of one of the Inns in Harow. 

 gate, called to regale himself at the Elephaoi 

 and Castle Knaresborough, on the evening pi 

 the fair, and while in his cups, became exceed' 

 ingly noisy and quarrelsome with the rest oi 

 the company, drinking off their glasses sai^ 

 ceremonie, and, if a remonstrance was made, s 

 challenge to fight was the immediate conse« 

 quence. At length an honest athletic farmeH 

 to whom he had "shown fight," whipped th; 

 dapper hero under his arm, and cramming bin 

 into a sack, tossed him into his cart, which stooc 

 at the door, and drove down the street to thi 

 distance of a mile from the town, where he was 

 uabagged, to the great amusement of a va» 

 number of spectators, and to the evident ia^ 

 provement of the manners of the offender. ^ 



Literary Discovery. — A Latin MS. undoubted^ 

 by Milton, long supposed to be irrecoverablj 

 lost, has just been discovered at the State Papei 

 Office. The subject is religious, and the argH< 

 ments are all drawn from the Scripturea. 

 There are many Hebrew quotations, and the 

 work is one of considerable bulk, as it contaiiu 

 735 pages, many of them closely written, and 

 believed to be in Ihe hand writing of the poet'f 

 nephew. Philips, with many interlineations in: 

 different hand. It was found in an envelope ad 

 dressed to Cyriac Skinner, Merchant. — The s^ 

 tuation which Milton held, of Latin Secretarj 

 to Cromwell, will account for such a discover' 

 being made in the State Paper Office. — Londm 

 paper. ' 



Progress of Liberty. — A writer in the Londot 

 Monthly Magazine has given a sketch oftbt 

 progress of free institutions, from which w( 

 learn, that in 1775, the number of free men. 

 living under free governments, was 15, 800,000. 

 He computes Ihe number, at this time, to be 

 87, 200,000. 



LEAD PIPE FOR AQUEDUCTS, Sec. 



THE subscribers being ajipoiuted Agents for vending 

 LORl.N'G'S IMPR0VJ:U LEAD PIPE, have con- 

 stantly on hand, at their Ktore, No. 20, Merchants' Row, 

 a supply of different sizes and thickness. The raannW 

 in which their Pipe is manufactured renders it superior 

 to the English or any other manufacture, and comes at 

 a less price. Orders for any quantity4()r size will be 

 executed at the shortest notice. 



LINCOLN FEARING & CO. 

 March 27. 



MANGEL VVURTZEL SEED. 



FOR sale at this office a few pounds of .Mn-ngtl 

 Wurl:el Setd, raised by John Prince, Esq., Ro«- 

 bury. April i.'4. 



WANTED Nos. 14, 43, and 45, of the 1st Vol. of 

 _. the N. E. Farmer. For which a generous price 

 will be given by the publisher of this paper. 



TERMS OF THE FARMER. 



0:^ Published every Saturday, at Thhf.e Doi.r.AlU 

 per annum, payable at the end of the year — but those 

 who pay within sirly days horn the time of subsci ibillf 

 will be entitled to a deduction of Fifty Cekts. ^ 



0:5= No paper will be discontinued (unless at the 

 discretion of the publisht*-,) until arrearages, cue paid. 



