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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



APItlLla, 18 



MISCELLANEOUS 



TIME'S SOLILOQUY. 



Old ! call you me ? Ay ! when the Almighty 

 spoke creation into birth, I was there. Then was 

 I born. Mid the bloom and verdure of paradise, 

 [ gazed upon the young world, radiant with smiles. 

 I rose upon the pinions of the first morn, and caught 

 the first dew-drops that fell from heaven. Ere 

 the foot of man had touched the virgin earth, 1 

 gazed upon its splendor. The cataracts sent up 

 their anthems in solitude, and none was here to 

 listen to the now-born melody but I ! The fawns 

 bounded over the hills, and drank at ihe limpid 

 streams, witnessed by none but me. The morning 

 star rose in beauty upon these unpeopled shores, 

 and its twin-sister of Ihe eve flamed in the fore- 

 head of the sky, with no eye to admire their rays 

 but mine. Ay ! call me old ? Babylon and As- 

 syria, Palmyra and Thebes rose, flourished and fell, 

 and I beheld them in their glory and decline. 

 Scarce a melancholy ruin marks the place of their 

 existence ; but when their foundations were laid, 

 I was there ! Mid all their splendor, glory and 

 wickedness, I was in their busy streets, and crumb- 

 ling their magnificent palaces to the earth. My 

 books will show a long and fearful account against 

 them. I control the fate of empires, — I give them 

 their period of glory and splendor ; but at their 

 birth, I conceal in them the seeds of decay and 

 death. They must go down and be humbled in 

 the dust, — their proud heads bowed down before 

 the rising glories of young nations, to whose pros- 

 perity also, I shall be a witness, and behold their 

 decline. I poise my wings over the earth, and 

 watch the course and doings of its inhabitants. I 

 call up the violet upon the hills, and crumble the 

 grey ruins to the ground. I am the agent of a 

 higher power, to give life and take it.._away. I 

 spread silken tresses upon the brow of the young, 

 and plant grey hairs on the head of the aged. 

 Dimples and smiles at my bidding, lurk around the 

 lips of the innocent child, and I furrow the old 

 man's brow with wrinkles. Old ! call you me ? 

 Ay, but when will my days be uunr.bercd ? When 

 will time end, and eternity begin ? When his 

 purposes, who called me into being, are accom- 

 plished, then, and not till then — and no one can 

 proclaim the hour — I, too, shall be numbered with 

 the dead. — Selected. 



gentleman happened to be Augustine Washington, 

 Esq., who was thus accidentally thrown into the 

 company of a lady who afterwards became his 

 wife, who emigrated with him to America, and in 

 the year ]73d, at Virginia, became the envied 

 mother of George Washington the great. — Lacon. 



He that sets out on the journey of life with a 

 profound knowledge of books, but a shallow knowl- 

 edge of men, with much sense of others, but little 

 of his own, will find himself as completely at a 

 loss on occasions of common and of constant re- 

 currence, as a Frenchman without his snufl'-box or 

 a Dutchman without his pipe lb. 



EFFECTS AND CAUSES. 

 In the complicated and marvellous machinery of 

 circumstances, it is absolutely impossible to decide 

 what would have happened, as to some events, if 

 the slightest disturbance had taken place in the 

 march of those that preceded \,Uetn. Wo may ob- 

 serve a little dirty wheel of brass, spinning round 

 upon its greasy axle, and the result is, that in an 

 another apartment, many yards' distance from it, a 

 beautiful piece of silk issues from a loom, rivalling 

 in its hues the tints of the rainbow. There are 

 myriads of events in our lives, the distance be- 

 tween which was much greater than that between 

 this wheel and the riband, but where the connexion 

 has been much more clo.*e. If a private country- 

 gentleman in Cheshire, (Eng.) about the year 17.30, 

 had not been overturned in his carriiage, it is ex- 

 tremely probable that America instead of being a 

 free republic at this moment, would have continued 

 a dependant colony of England. This coiintry- 



Out of the millions vfho have professed to ad- 

 mire thf' precepts of .lesus, how few comparatively 

 have reduced them to practice! But there are 

 numbers numberless, who, throughout the whole of 

 their lives, have been practicing the principles of 

 Machiavelli, without having even heard of his 

 name; who cordially believe with him, that the 

 tongue was given to discover the thoughts of oth- 

 ers, and to conceal our own ; and who range them- 

 selves either under the standard of Alexander the 

 Sixth, who never did what he said, or of his son 

 Borgia, who never said what he did. — Jb. 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CUTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at Ihe New England Aqr 

 lural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 andS2 Norlhl 

 kel Street, have for sale, Green's Palenl Straw, Hay 

 Stalk Cutler, operating on a mechanical principle not b 

 applied to any implement forlliis purpose. The mostp 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the couseq 

 peculiarities of Ihe machine are : 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum of power reqii 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown boy is suffii 

 to work it etficientiy. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts twol 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fasl as has been d^ 

 hy any oiher machine even when worked by horse or «' 

 power. 



3. Tlie knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whicli 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any i 

 straw caller. 



4. The machine is simple inits construction, made an 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable a 

 complicated machines m general use to get out of ord 



Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for 

 our body must bo the seed of it ; or we may liken 

 it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of 

 life can light up ; or we may compare it to the 

 trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the 

 dead ; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, 

 not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us. 

 —lb. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



Great improvemenls have hern made the past year in Ihe 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs; the mould b<'arri 

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

 turning- in ererij particle of grass or sluhble, andieav'ing the 

 ground in the best possible vianncr. The length of the 

 mould hoard hash* n -very much increased, so that the 

 Plough works with Ihe greatest ease, hoth wilh respect to 

 the holding and ihe leani. The Committee at the late trial 

 of Ploughs at Woroesler, say, 



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

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

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

 try Prouly & Wears, hal\[ your land is heavy, hard orrocLy, 



BEGIN WITH Mr. HowAKD'3 '■ 



At Ihe above me-.f.oned trial the Howard Plough ■(/id 

 more work, with Ihe same pawer of team, than any other 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more than twentyse.'en 

 and one half inches, to the 112 Ihs. draught, while Ihe 

 Iloirard Plough turned twcniyninc and one half inches, to 

 the same power of learn ! All acknowledge that Howard's 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most substantially 

 made. 



There has heen quile an improvement made on the shoe, 

 or land side of this Plough, which can he renewed without 

 having to furnish a new landside: this shqe likewise secures 

 the mould hoard and landside together, and strengthens Ihe 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from S6 to $15. A Plough, 

 sufficient for breaking up wilh four calllc, will cost alioul 

 SlO 50, and with culler Si, wilh wheel and culler, S2 CO 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and retail, at 

 ihe New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, 

 Nos. 51 & 62 North Market Street, hy 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



WILLIS'S LATEST IMPROVED VEGETAB 

 CUTTIiR. 



This machine surpasses all others for the purpose of 

 ling Rula.Baga. Mangel Wurlzcl, and other roots, 

 great ohjeclion to other machines, is their culling the 

 into slices, which makes it almost impossible forlhei 

 to get hold of them : this machine with a little alleri 

 cuts them into large or small pieces, of such shape 

 most convenient for ihe catile lo eat. Jt will cut with 

 from one 10 two bushels of roots per minute. For sa 

 J. BRECK & CO., Nos. 51 and 52 North Market el. 



TYK UP CHAINS. 



Just received hy 600 Chains for tyeing up Caltle. 



These chains, introduced by E. H. Derby, Esq. of Si 

 and Col. Jacues, for the purpose of securing cattle t 

 stall, lire found tc lie the safest and most convenient i 

 of fastening cows and oxen lo the stanchion. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., No. 62 f 

 Market st. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 200 " Draft Chains. For sale hy J. BRECK & 

 No. 52 North Market st. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A WEKKLY PAPER. 



Terms, $2 per year in advance, orf 2 50 if not 

 within tliirty days. 



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