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which, on trial might prove nugatory, or injuri- 

 ous to the interest of those, for whose use his 

 intimations were designed. In stating improve- 

 ments, remedies, kc. which might be attended 

 with loss, danger or expense in case they did 

 not succeed, he has, generally, and indeed al- 

 ways except by inadvertence, given his authori- 

 ty for making such statements ; and after all has 

 rather suggested the supposed improvement for 

 consideration than prescribed it for adoption 

 without further inquiry. He wishes his readers 

 to think and judge for themselves, and would 

 attempt nothing more than to produce from 

 sources not obviou-s or accessible to every one, 

 materials for thought, facts, arguments and the- 

 ories for the judgment of his readers to operate 

 on. Whenever he has been or may be in an 

 error in his statements or recommendations he 

 will ever be open to conviction, and happy to 

 stand corrected by any of his reader?, corres- 

 pondents, or others, who will undertake so 

 friendly an office. He claims no merit of in- 

 vention or originality, but rests all his hopes of 

 approbation on the basis of zeal, industry and 

 good intentionij. 



We are induced (o hope that we have not 

 gone very widely astray in our mode of con- 

 ducting the New England Farmer from the cir- 

 cumstance that the few complaints which have 

 reached us have been of a different and oppo- 

 site character. Some have intimated their dis- 

 pleasure because our paper has not been exclu- 

 sively devoted to agriculture an/1 .^ll.or aaslol 



arts. Censorious persons of this description 

 are hostile to poetry, aneccfotes, iic. and would 

 have us publish nothing which is not directly 

 calculated to enhance the interest of the farmer, 

 by increasing or rendering more valuable the 



plain that many of our articles are too prolix 

 and our directions, descriptions, and rules of 

 proceeding are so minute as to become tedious. 

 To this charge we confidently plead not guilty. 

 Articles, which relate to science or to art, must, 

 frequently, if not generally deal in detail or 

 they will not suit the purpose for which they 

 were intended. Obscurity may comport with 

 the sublime, but articles on the subject of agri- 

 culture are not intended to exhibit samples of 

 that species of composition. Poor Richard says 

 " He that would increase in riches 

 Must not hoe corn in silken breeches ;" 

 and he that would furnish remarks relative to 

 the culture of corn and potatoes, must not at- 

 tempt to clothe his ideas in brilliant phrases. 

 Perspicuity, in such a case, is the one thing 

 needful ; and it is better to make use of repeti 

 tions ten times repeated, than to leave any thing 

 doubtlul, which may be elucidated, even at the 

 expense of what might seem tedious prolixity to 

 persons, who feel no interest in subjects, which 

 come " home to the business and bosoms" of 

 the cultivators of the soil 



The Editor has sanguine hopes that he may 

 be able to make the third volume of the New 

 England Farmer more interesting and useful 

 than either which has preceded it. As before 

 observed, his corespondents are increasing, and 

 other means of information are daily develop- 

 ing of which he will not neglect to avail him- 

 self for the benefit of his readers. He proposes 



in tbo course of the tliird volume to give a 

 series of numbers on the management and dis- 

 eases of Horses, Sheep, and Swine, principally 

 extracted and abridged from authors of approv- 

 ed credit, and standard authority. These, tak- 

 en in conjunction with the essays published in 

 products of his soil. Another description of ">° ^''^^ ^'°'"'"^' ""'^'^'' "'*^ ''^''"l °*' " Diseases 

 iault-flnders require of us a greater quantity of of Cattle" ivill compose an entire treatise on the 

 what is culled tight reading. They wish that a 



of the present volume," but can assure them 

 that those sounds are harsh and grating ; and?'; 

 that we greatly prefer the salutation " Please (6- 

 send to my address the JVezv England Fanner, com- 

 mencing with the third volume.'''' 



We have been requested, by a few of our sub- 

 scribers to discontinue sending them the paper 

 at (he end of the present volume, although they 

 have not paid their subscriptions. Those gen- 

 tlemen, are respectfully informed that it is a cus- 

 tom with printers not to discontinue their pa; 

 pers, till arrearages are paid. 



The Index to the sscond volume will soon be 

 completed and forwarded to those who have ta- 

 ken all the numbers. 



LAWD3 IN PEKSSTi.vANiA. I.T the advertising p,-4rt 

 of this day's paper wilt be perceived an article with 

 the signature of Robert H. Rose, which merits the par- 

 ticular notice of such of our young and enterprioing 

 cultivators as may be induced, either by choice or ne- 

 cessity, to leave the laud of their nativity. If deter- 

 mined on such a step, we think that their chance is 

 more promising in Pennsylvania, than farther to the 

 Soutli or West. The change of climate will not be so 

 great as to threaten a northern constitution. The dis- 

 tance from their New England friends not such as to 

 preclude occasional visits, and some degree of social 

 intercourse. The modes of husbandry and state of so- 

 ciety will be in a great degree similar to those to which 

 such emigrants have been accustomed, and they will 

 not be so far from navigable waters, good roads and 

 markets, as to render their surplus produce of little 

 value. 



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large proportion of our columns might sparklel 

 with wit, sling with satire, or make one's eyes 

 like unto fou:ilainf, and hair to " quills on the 

 fretful porcupine" with the woeful and the ter- 

 rible. They can perceive nothing at all in a 

 ])age or a paragraph which contains nothing 

 but what is useful, and may be turned to some 

 practical purpose in the economy of human ex-l 

 istence. Now, as it is impossible for us to go' 

 astray in different directions at the same time 

 and to turn to the right and left by simultaneous 

 movements, and yet we are censured for such 

 supposed incompatible deviations from the line of 

 our duty as a journalist, we are induced, from 

 that circumstauce to hope that we have pursu- 

 ed, pretty nearly the right path, and presented 

 to our readers the useful and the amusing in 

 about due pro|)ortion,s. 



Some gentlemen, who appear to be, and 

 doubtle3.s are well wisheis to our paper, corn- 



management, improvement and diseases of the 

 most useful and important kinds of animals. 



The Editor and Proprietor of the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, respectfully solicit the continued 

 patronage of the friends to agricultural improve- 

 ments ; and would repeat a proposal formerly 

 made, that every subscriber should condescend 

 to consider himself an agent for the publisher, 

 for the purpose of procuring other subscribers. 

 Our subscription list, though respectable, as 

 relates to number, and the characters of those, 

 whose names compose it, is not yet so large as 

 to give a requisite share of that kind of encou- 

 \ragement, which is (he only permanent stimulus 

 long continued exertions. We enjoy the 

 ' Pleasures of Hope," but these, if too long 

 eferred, may " make the heart sick," and the 

 and feeble ; and we think tliat it is now nearly 

 time for (he delighis of anticipation to give place 

 t« those of fruition. We apprehend that some 

 of our friends may salute us with the unwel- 

 cirae mandate, " Stop the paper from the end 



Keport of the sale of Salon Sheep by Mesar 

 lidge. Poor & Head, at Roxbury, the loth inst. 



Nos. 1, ram, $41, A. A. More; 2, ewe, 41, A. A. 

 More ; 3, ram, 49 1-2, 1. P. Dana ; 4, ewe, 49 1-2, I 

 P. Uana; 5, ram, 49, A. A. More; 6, ewe, 'T 1-2 

 Watson & Hurlbut ; 7, ram, 92, Thomas Thaxler ; 8. 

 ewe, 49, Thomas Thaxter, and lamb at 24 1-2 ; 9, ram, 

 57 1-2, J. Barrett ; 10, ewe, 41, A. A. More ; 11, ram. 

 4!1, Town ; 12, ewe, 56, Watson & Hurlburt ; 13, ram. 

 77, 1. P. Dana; 14, ram, 74, Watson & Hurlbut; 15, 

 ram, 73, Bushrod Buck ; 16, ram, 7?, Lernard Stone ; 

 17, ram, 75, !. P.Dana; 18, ram, 47, Withered; 19, 

 ewe, 55, 1. P. Dana ; 20, ram, 42, Chesbrook ; 21, ewe, 

 52, Breed ; 22, ram, 103, Clash ; S3, ew.«, 56, I. P. 

 Dana ; 24, ram, tiS, Watson & Hurlbut ; 25, ewe, 61, 

 Henry Rice ; 26, ram, 78, F. More; 27, ewe, 66, J. 

 Barrett ; 2r., ram, 72, Breed ; 29, ewe, 52, "Watson k 

 Hurlbut ; 30, ram, 80, Gen. Sumner ; 31, twe, 56, J. 

 Barrett ; S2, ram, 54, George M. Barrett ; 33, ram, 34, 

 B. Bussey ; 34, ram, 40, Cross ; 35, ram, 26, J. Field; 

 36, ram, 35, Cross ; 37, ram, £0, Grn. Sumne 

 ewe, 50, 1. P. Dana ; 39, ram, 54, J. Barrett ; 40, ewe, 

 50, 1. P. Dana ; 41, ram, 57 1-2, Bemis ; 42, 57 1-2 i. 

 P. Dana; 43, ram, 82, Watson & Hurlbut ; 44, ewe, 

 46, Watson & Hurlbut; 45, ram, 60, Wells; 46, 

 ewe, 65, Watson & Hurlbut ; 47, ram, 67 1-2, J. P. 

 Dana ; 48, ewe, 57 1-2. J. P. Dana ; 44, ram, 61, L. 

 Stone ; 60, ewe, 57 1-2, Samuel Lathrop, and lamb, 

 28 3-4 ; 51, ram, 66, Abbot ; 52, ewe, 75, Watson & 

 Hurlbut ; 53, ram, 138, Watson & Hurlbut ; 64, ewe, 

 77, W. & H. and a lamb at 38 1-2; 55, ram, 77, W. 

 & H. ; 5u, ewe, 77 1-2, I. P. Dana, and a lamb at 38 

 50; 57, ram, 101, Chesbrook; 68, ewe, 120, A. f 

 More ; 59. ram, 77, W. & H. ; 60, ewe, 79, L. Stone 

 61, ram, 101, J. .Mason ; 62, ram, 87 1-2, S. Whitman ; 

 63, ram, 67, S. Lathrop; 64, ram, 141, .foseph Strong 

 65, ram, 69, W.,&; H. ; 66, ram, 66, H. Rice ; 67, ram, 

 117 1-2, A. A. More ; 68, ram, 139, T. Thaxter; 69,- 

 ram, 107 1-2. J. P. D.ina ; 70, ram, 65, Gen. Sumner; 

 71, ram, 75, J. P. Dana ; 72, a lamb, 40, J. P. Dana. 



The average price was $69 36. 



Boston Daily Advertiser. 



