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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAIlCHaa, 184] 



MISCELLANEOUS 



A Receipt for Happiness. — It is simply, when 

 you rise in the morning, to form a resolution to 

 malie the day a happy one to a fellow creature. It 

 is easily done — a left-ofT garment, to the man who 

 needs it ; a kind word to the sorrowful ; an en- 

 couraging expression to the striving, — trifles in 

 themselves light as air, — will do it, at least, for 

 the twentyfour hours ; and if you are young, de- 

 pend upon it, it will tell when you are old ; and if 

 you are old, rest assured it will send you gently 

 and happily down the stream of human time to 

 eternity. Look at the result: You send one per- 

 son — only one — happily through the day ; that is, 

 three hundred and sixtyfive in the course of the 

 year — and supposing you live forty years only af- 

 ter you commence this course, you have made four- 

 teen thousand si.K hundred human beings happy, 

 at all events for a time. Now^ wortny reader, is 

 not this simple ? — and is it not worth accomplish- 

 ing'? We do not often indulge in a moral dose — 

 but this is so small a. pill, one that needs no red 

 currant jelly to disguise its flavor, and requires to 

 be taken but once in a day, that we feel warranted 

 in prescribing it. It is most excellent for diges- 

 tion, and a producer of pleasant slumber. — London 

 Atlas. 



A Disease without a Remedy. — A certain lady 

 went to a physician, in great trouble about her 

 daughter. 



" \\ hat ails her ?" asked the doctor. 



" Alas, doctor ! Icanndltell; but she has lost 

 her humor, her looks, her stomach ; her strength 

 consumes every day, so that we fear she cannot 

 live." 



" Why do you not marry her ?" 



"That we would >fain do, and have offered her 

 as good a match as she could ever expect, but she 

 will not hear of marrying." 



'' Is there no other, do you think, that she would 

 be content to marry ?" 



" Ah, doctor ! that is wliat troubles us ; for there 

 is a young gentleman we doubt not that she loves, 

 that her father and I can never consent to," 



"Why, look you, madam," replies the doctor 

 gravely, "then the case is this, your daughter 

 ^rould marry one man, and you would have her 

 marry another; — now in all my books I find no 

 remedy for such a disease as this." — Selected. 



Bankrupt Lata Explained. — " Sambo, what your 

 'pinion ob dat bankrupt law ••" 



" Tink him fuss rate, Pompey. I imply for de 

 application myself." 



" Just explain him principles." 



" Why, you see here now ; jest lend me dat haff 

 dollar you got for whitewashing." 



(Pompey hands him the money, and Sambo de- 

 liberately puts it into his pocket.) 



"Dere, den, (says Sambo,) now I owes de shoe- 

 maker tree shilhng, and you haflf a dollar, beside 

 de grocer's bill ; — now, dis haff" dollar is all de 

 property I got i — 1 diwides him according to de 

 debts." 



Pompey "I take dat haff" dollar back." 



Sambo — (with amazement.) — " Do you tink dis 

 child o-rccn ? I 'm a bankrupt ! you gels your shar 

 wid de odder creditors!" — JV. O. Pic. 



At a religion- meeting that was much crowded, 

 a lady persevered in standing on a bench, and thus 

 interrupting the view of others, though repeatedly 

 asked to sit down. A reverend old clergyman at 

 last rose and said, gravely, " I think if tlie lady 

 knew she had a large hole in each of her stockings, 

 she would not exhibit them in this way." This 

 had the desired eff'ect: she immediately sunk down 

 on he seat. A young minister standing by, blush- 

 ed up to the temples, and said, " Oh, brother, how 

 could you say what was not the fact ?" " Not the 

 fact?" replied the old gentleman; "if she had not 

 a large hole in each of her stockings, I should like 

 to know how she got them on ?" — Old paper. 



Woman As the dove will clasp its winas to 



its side, and cover and conceal the arrow that is 

 preying on its vitals, so it is the nature of woman 

 to hide from the world the pangs of wounded aff'ec- 

 tion. The desire of her heart has failed. 'J'he 

 great charm of existence is at an end. She neg- 

 lects all the cheerful exercises that gladden the 

 spirits, quicken the pulses, and send the tide of 

 life in healthful currents through the veins. Her 

 rest is broken ; the sweet refreshment of sleep is 

 poisoned by melancholy dreams ; ' dry sorrow 

 drinks her blood,' until her enfeebled frame sinks 

 under the last external assailment. Look for her 

 after a while, and you find friendship weeping over 

 her untimely grave, and wondering that one, who 

 but lately glowed with all the radiance of health 

 and beauty, should now^e brought down to dark- 

 ness and the worm. You will be told of some 

 wintry cliill, some slight indisposition, that laid her 

 low; — but no one knows the mental malady that 

 previously sapped her strength, and made her so 

 easy a prey to the spoile.', death. — Selected. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH, 



Great improvemenls have liecn made the past year in the 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs; the mould beard 

 has been so formed as to lay the furrow completely oner, 

 turning in every particle of g-rass or si ulSle, and leaving the 

 ground in the best possible manner. The length of the 

 mould lioard has b( n very much increased, so that the 

 Plough works with the greatest ease, both with respect to 

 the holding and the learn. The Cominitlee at the late trial 

 of Ploughs at Worcester, say, 



" Should our opinion he asked as to which of the Plouijhs 

 we should prefer for use on a farm, we might perhaps say lo 

 the inquirer, if your land is mostly light anil easy to work, 

 try Prouty & Mears, hut if your land is heavy, hard orrocky, 



BEGIN WITH Mr. HoWABD'a.'' 



At the atiove mer.t;oned irial the Howard Plough did 

 more work, with the same pswer of team, than any other 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more than twentyso/en 

 and one half inches, to the 112 His. draught, while ihe 

 Howard Plough turned twrnli/uinc and one'lialf indies, to 

 the same power of team J All acknowledge that Howard's 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most substantially 

 made. 



There has heen quite an improvement made on the shoe, 

 orlandsideof tliis Plough, which can be renewed without 

 having to furnish a new landsiile; this shoe likewise secnies 

 ilie mould fioard and landside together, and strcnglhens the 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from $6 to «I5. A PIoudK, 

 .-.jflicient for hreaking up with four cattle, will cost aliriut 

 S.O 60, and with cutter St, with wheel and cutter, S2 60 

 !xtra. 



The al>ove Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and retail, at 

 .he New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Stmc,, 

 Nos. 51 &. 62 North Market Street, hy 



JOSKPH 13RECK & CO. 



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GRBEN'S PATENT STRAW CLTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK &• CO. at Ihe New England Agricii 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 61 and 52 Norlh Mai 

 ket Street, have lor sale. Green's Patent Straw, Hay an 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not behii 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most pron 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the otiusequei 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1. So great a reduction ofthe quantum of power requisil 

 to use it, that ihc strength of a half grown boy is sulficiei 

 to work it efficiently. 



2. With even this moderatepower, it easilycutstwobusi 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been claime 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or steal 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which thj 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any otlii 

 straw cutler. 



4. The machine is simple inits construction, made and pi 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable as ill 

 complicated machines in general use lu get oirt of order. 



WIliLlS'S LATEST IMPROVEP VEGETABLE 

 CUTTKR. 



This machine surpasses all others for the purpose of eul 

 ting Ruta Baga. Mangel Wurlzel, and other roots. Th 

 great objection lo other machines, is their cutting ihe root 

 into slices, which makes it almost impossible foi- the caltl 

 to get hold of them 1 this machine with a little alteratior 

 cuts them into large or small pieces, of such shape as i 

 most convenient for the catile to eat. It will cut with eas 

 from one to two fiushels of rnot« per minute. For sale b 

 J. BlvECK &, CO., Nos. 61 ami 52 Norlh Market st. 



TYfi rp CHAINS. 



Just received by 500 Chains for lyeing up Cattle. 



These chains, introduced hy E. H. Debev, Esq. of Saleii 



id Col. Jacues, for the purpose of securing callle loth 

 stall, are found tp be the safest and most convenient mod 

 of fastening cows and oxen lo the stanchion. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., No. 52 Nort 

 Market st. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 200 " Draft Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CO, 

 No- 62 North Market st. 



KEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A WEKKLT PAI'ER. 



Terms, $2 per year zn advance, ni^ii 50 if not pnh 

 within thirty days. 



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 subscriptions and remittances for newspapers, witliou 

 expense to subscribers. 



TUTTLE AND DEMNETT. PKIKTER3. 



