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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



NOV. 85, 1833. 



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IFrotn the Knickerbocker for September.] 

 STANZAS, 



ADDIII8SED TO A FRIEND ON THE DAI OF HEK 

 MARRIAGE, 



No voice but lliat of gladness 



Should meet thine ear to-day. 

 Yet only in deep sadness, 



Can I love's tribute pay ; 

 Unbidden tears are spiingiog, — 



Their- source thy heart can tell ; 

 Of joy I should be singing, 



I can but sigh, — 'Farewell !' 



When from life's fairy garland 



Has fallen a precious gem, 

 Can I smile to see it glisten 



In another's diadem 1 ' 



Could I hear thy deep vow spoken. 



Without a thought of pain. 

 When I felt the best link broken 



In Friendship's golden chain 1 



Yet mine is selfish sorrow. 



Which love should hush to rest. 

 And my heart should solace borrow. 



From the thought that thou art blest. 

 Where hope once claimed dominion, 



Joy holds his revel bright, 

 And thy spirit's drooping pinion 



Waxes strong in Love's pure light. 



I know that thou art happy ; 



Oh may Atfection's glass. 

 With its diamond sparkles measure 



1 mie s changes as they pass. 

 Could friendship's genlle magic 



Rule thy horoscope of doom. 

 Not a moment e'er should meet thee 



In sadness or in gloom. 



Farewell, farewell, Beloved One ! 



Though destined far to roam, 

 When thoughts come crowding on thee 



Of thy distant native home,— 

 The home from whence has vanished 



One dear familiar face, 

 And tlie hearth whence joy was banished. 



When thou left a vacant place : 



When Memory's mournful music 



Awakes thy pleasant tears. 

 Oh ! let one chord still vibrate 



To the friend of early years. 

 I love thee in my sorrow, 



I love thee more in joy ; 

 Time could not change our friendship,— 



Shall absence e'er destroy 1 



anecdote was related to me of a farmer in Ver 

 mont to whom his neighbors were accustomed to 

 resort for the p.trpose of proctring their seed 

 wheat; as he was able to supply ,hem with that 

 wh.ch was very superior in its appearance., wo- 

 ducttveness, and early maturity, which he was 

 accustotned to call barrel wheat, and which read 

 ily cotnmanded three dollas per bushel, when 

 other wheat was sold for one dollar, and ooe do" 

 lar and a cp.arter. The secret was at last di.scov- 

 ered. He used, before threshing his wheat tn 

 select the best sheaves, and striking them over 



the head of an open barrel, three or four times 

 before laying them down to be threshed, obtiiiued 

 in this way a superior seed. As in this way the 

 largest and earliest ripe kernels would be shaken 

 out, and fall into the barrel, he obtained what 

 might be considered a selected seed, which he 

 denominated his 'barrel wheat ' ; and which the 

 farmers, until they learnt how to do it for them- 

 selves, found their advantage in purchasing. — 

 Henry Colman. 



Cancer. — A jeweller, who had a bad cancer- 

 ous pimple on his cheek, having occasion to dis- 

 solve some gold in nitro-muriatic acid, rubbed it 

 several times, unconsciously, with his impregna- 

 ted fingers, and was surprised to find it sfieedily 

 change its appearance, and shortly disappear. JM. 

 Recamier, suspecting the cause, made several uni- 

 formly successful experiments of the same nature ; 

 and thus an accident discovered a new caustic for 

 cancerous affections. The propoition he adopts, 

 are one ounce of the acid to six grains of chlo- 

 ruret of pure gold; — Metropolitan. 



FARM FOR SAI.E. 



For sale a Farm in Bedford, County of Middlesex, 17 miles 

 from lioslon and 10 from Lowell, containing 104 acres inclu- 

 ding about 15 acres covered with a valuable growth of wood 

 which has been preserved with great care for the last 20 years, 

 the garden contains about 3 acres under the highest cultiva- 

 tion and is furnished with a great variety of flowers and 

 shrubs which have been collected ai much labor and expense; 

 at ached to the garden is a Green House tilled with ihiily 

 bearing Grape Vines, and choice and valuable plants which 

 will be sold or not as the purchaser may clioose. The Farm 

 is under good cultivation and together with Ihe Garden ij 

 storked wilh the choicest Fruits, such as Apples, Pears, 

 Peaches, Quinces, Plums, Strawberries of various kinds, 

 Raspberries, Goosel)erries &c &c., which ihe present owner 

 has spared no expense in obtaining. The Farm is bounded 

 on the west by Concord Uiver, which is well supplied wilh 

 fish, and th ■ country around abounds wilh game, n aking it a 

 desirable retreat to the gentleman who is fond of fishing or 

 sh' oting. 



Possession will be given on the 1st April next— for terms, 

 which will be hberal, apply to the subscriber in Boslon or at 

 the Farm. JAIMLS VILA. 



Oct. 1, 1335. 2m 



Crdstacea — A Mr Eighl, an Americai-, has 

 discovered, on the coast of Patagonia, a sjiccies of 

 Crustacea, bearing a .otriking resemblance to the 

 family of trilobites, supposed by naturalists to be 

 now extinct. The eyes are exactly the same, 

 being semilunar, placed on the summit of the 

 h'.ad, and perfectly corresponding lo the two em- 

 inences of the same form, at the same place as the 

 trilobites. 



Mice. — A farmer, of Beame, who kept his corn 

 on an unboarded floor, fc und it constantly de- 

 voured by mice. To remedy this, he plunged a 

 number of earthen pots into the earth, all round 

 the heap of corn ; he filled them half full of wa- 

 ter, and, being varnished withinside, when the 

 mice came to drink they slipped in and were 

 drowned. In the space of two months he thus 

 destroyed 14,500. 



Moths — Many collections have been injured 

 by the oil which exudes from the bodies of moths, 

 &c. after death, and which not only destroys the 

 specimen itself, but all those in its neighborhood. 

 A M. Dobner has found, that by dijiping the 

 bodies of these moths into naphtha, all mischief 

 is obviated. 



FOR SALE AT THOMAS MASON'S GARLEN, 

 EDEW STREET, CHARL.ESTOWN. 



Raspberries, &c.. While Antwerp, Red Antwerp, Red 

 Barnet —Also a few doz. Mason's new seedling Grape, Rasp, 

 berries of a superior quality for size and flavor. 



Also— Red and While Dutch Currants, a very large fruil 

 by Ihe doz. or hundred,— also Grape Vines of all kinds. 



Also— Trained Peach Trees, do. Nectarines and Apricots, 

 trained for walls and fences, from one lo ihree year old. 



Also— English Gooseberry Bushes.— All orders left wilh 

 GEO. C. BARRETT, willbe duly allended lo. 



VALUABLE NEW IVoRK OK SILK 



American Silk Grower's Guide, is this day published at the 

 office of the New England Farmer— being The an of growing 

 the Mulberry and manufacture of Silk on the system of suc- 

 cessive crops each season — by V^'m. Kenrick, author of the 

 INew American Orchardist; 112 pp. price 42 cents, neally 

 bound in clolh. Booksellers and traders supplied on favorable 

 'frms. GEO. C. BARRETT. 



LUSTRE FLOWER POTS. 



For sale at he New England Farmer Office, beautiful Super 

 Superb Flower Pols. 



The CHAMELEON. — Dr Duvernoy, Professor of 

 Zoology at Strasburg, is said to have made some 

 interesting observations on the mode of nourish- 

 ment peculiar to the chameleon, of which there is 

 a living specimen at that place. It never drinks, 

 but feeds on flies and spiders, and is very fond of 

 butterflies. Its tongue will seize its prey more 

 than a foot distance ! but the mechanism which 

 enables it so suddenly to dart forth and draw 

 back this organ, yet remains to be discovered. 



Electrical eel — that rare fish, the electri- 

 cal eel, was caught some time ago near Grave- 

 Imes. The pilot of the vessel received a severe 

 shock on taking it from the net, and all the crew 

 on touching it experienced a like sensation, which 

 however weakened at every touch, and diminish- 

 ed gradually till the animal expired. 



J\'etv JEuglana rarmer^s ^hnanac 

 For 1836. 



Jusl published by JOHN ALLEN, & CO. Corner of 

 Washington and School sircels, up slairs, and by GEO. C. 

 B.ARRETT at the Seed Store No 51 and 52, Norih Market 

 Streei, FESSENDEN'S NEW ENGLAND FARMER'S 

 ALMANAC lor 1836. For sale also by Booksellers, Shop- 

 keepers, &.C., generally. 



This Almanac w 11 be found one of the most interesting and 

 amusing of the series, of which it composes No VIII. It 

 consists of ihe usual asironomical calculaiions, humorous 

 poetical sketches of ihe monlbs ; observa ions and directions 

 elative to Ihe employmcnl of the Farmer, which will be found 

 appropriate lo each month in Ihe circle of the seasons, '•Agri- 

 culture ajid Rural Economy," including cms and descriptions 

 of many of the most u^'l'ul implements employed iu till, ge. 

 Valualile Recipes ; Husbandry Honorable, a piihv piece of 

 paramount poetry. The Splendors of the Selling Sun, a 

 poetical eff'usion ; Aphorisms ; Eulogy on Ihe Art of Ameul- 

 turt; Calendar of I'ourls, Roads, DrMaiires, Ac. Ac. 



It was an observation of Shaftsbury, an infidel 

 that " Ridicule is the test of truth " ! ' 



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 Albany — Wm. Thorburn, 347 Market-street. 

 Philadelphia— 1>. Sf C. Landbeth, 85 Chesnul-street 

 Bu^MMrf- Publisher of American Farmer. 

 Cincinnati— S. C. Parkhorst, 23 Lower Market-street 

 Flushing, N r.— Wm. Prikce <V Sons, Prop. Lin. Bol.Gar. 

 West Bradford.— HKl.t- & Co. Booksellers 

 Mtddlehury. ^.—Wight Chapmam, Merchant. 

 i/ur//orrf— Goodwin JJ- Co. Booksellers. 

 Ncwburyport—ER¥.tiv.7.r.n Stedman, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. H.—JoHN W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 IVoodstocl,-, Vl. — J.A.Pratt. 

 Banger, Mc—Wm. Mann. Druggist. 

 Hali/a.r, N. .S.— P. J. Holland, Esq. Editor of Kecordet 

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