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NE^V ENGLAND FARMER, 



DEC. le, 1836. 



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LOOK ALOFT. 



In the tempest of life, when the wave ami the gale 

 Are around and above, if lliy footing should fail — 

 If thine eje should grow dim and thy anuiion depart ; 

 "Look aloft" and be firm, and be fearless of heart. 



If the friend, who embraced in prosperity's glow, 

 With a smile for each joy and a tear for each woe. 

 Should betray thee when sorrow like clouds are arrayed, 

 " Look aloft" to the friendship which never shall fade. 



Should the visions which hope spreads in light to thine cy 

 Like the tints of the raiu-bow, but brighten to fly. 

 Then turn, and through tears of repentant regret, 

 " Look aloft" to the sun that is never to set. 



Should they who are dearest, the son of thy heart — 

 The wife of thy bosom — in sorrow depart, 

 " Look aloft" from the darkness and dust of the tomb. 

 To that soil where " affection is ever to bloom." 



And, oh ! when death comes in terrors to cast. 

 His fears on the future, his pall on the past ; 

 In that moment of darkness, with hope in thy heart. 

 And a smile in tliy eye, '* look aloft" and depart. 



Educatio.n. — The only true channel of physi- 

 cal comfort will be found in cultivated intellectual 

 and moral powers. Besides attaining the self- 

 denying, uiiright, hentvolently co-operating and 

 industrious habits, which live in the very atmos- 

 phere of an improved morality, an enlightened 

 intellect looks before and after, observes relations, 

 calculates consequences, and, according to the 

 nature of things, avoids evil, and secures good. 

 But this is not all ; it is the humblest office of an 

 elevated moral and intellectual character to im- 

 prove the jihysical condition (that is to say, the 

 personal condition) ; when it has established bod- 

 ily cemfort, and what is a new contemplation for 

 the thinking few, reasonable leisure from reason- 

 able toil, it is in itself a positive good, a source of 

 direct enjoyment, far above the richest material 

 possessions. This scarcely requires illustration 

 to the enlightened and the moral. They have 

 only, to reflect how small a proportion of their 

 enjoyment is physical or sensual, when compared 

 with that which consists in the refined delights of 

 knowledge, of taste, of feeling, and of sentiment, 

 reaped from books and social converse, from the 

 acts of benevolence, and from the acknowledg- 

 ments of religious thankfulness and adoration 



Simpson on Education. 



vaijUable new work on silk 



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

 office of the New England Farmer — being the art of growing 

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

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

 New American Orchardist; 112 pp. price 42 cents, neatly 

 bound in cloth. Booksellers and traders supplied on favorable 

 terms. GEO. C. BARRETT. 



The origin or the term ' Fool's-cap Paper.' 

 — It is well known that Charles I. of England, 

 granted numerous monopolies for the support of 

 his government Among others was the privi- 

 lege of manufacturing paper. The water mark 

 on the finest sort of paper was the royal arms of 

 England. The consumption of this article was 

 great, at this time, and large fortunes weVe made 

 by those who had purchased the exclusive right 

 to make and vend it. This, among other n)onop- 

 olies, was set aside by the parliament tliat brought 

 Charles to the scaft'old, and by way of showing 

 their contempt for the king they ordered the royal 

 arms to be taken frotn the paper, and a fool, with 

 his cap and bells, to be .substituted. This was 

 done in 1649. And 1 have seen old manuscripts, 

 written between that period and 1660, bearing a 

 distinct water mark — a fool wearing the dress 

 lie is described as appeariug in about the courts 

 of British tnonarclis. Cromwell, when secure in 

 his i)0wcr, changed the w;itfr ujark by substitu- 

 ting a dragon grasping in his lip.ud arrows of fire, 

 and afterward by putiiug his own coat of arms in 

 its place. When Charles II. came to the throne, 

 he restored the royal arms to paper, and enlarged 

 the size of the sheet. It is now more than a 

 hundred and seventyfive years since the fool's cap 

 and bells were taken from paper, hut still, paper 

 of the size which the rump parliament ordered for 

 their journals, bears the name of the water mark 

 then ordered as an indignity to Charles. — Sunday 

 Morning JVews. 



The Wife. — It is not unfrequent that a wife 

 mourns over the alienated affections of her hus- 

 band, when she has made no effort herself to 

 strengthen and increase his attachment. She 

 thinks because he once loved her he ought always 

 to love her, and she neglects those attentions 

 which first engaged his heart. Many a wife is 

 thus the cause of her own neglect and sorrow. 

 That woman deserves not a husband's love who 

 will not greet him, who does not greet him, with 

 smiles as he returns from the labors of the day ; 

 who will not try to chain liim to his home by the 

 sweet enchantment of a cheerful heart. There 

 is not one in a thousand so unfeeling as to with- 

 stand such an influence and break away from such 

 a home. 



FARM FOR SALE. 



Situated in Leominster, County of Worcester, on the maio 

 road midway between the towns of Leominster and Filchburg 

 and lately occupied by Mr Henry Jackson, deceased. Said 

 F.irm contains about 76 acres of land, and has on it a house 

 and barn in good repair, an orchard, good pastur.'ige and 

 wood lot. For further information apply to IVIr Benjamin 

 Peirce, near the premises — or 



UR. J. B.S.JACKSON, 



Dec. 9 5t No. 6, Bedford Place. 



FARM TO L.ET IN MEDPORD 



About 3 miles from Boslonj containing 40 acres of excel- 

 lent Land, well adi pled to mowing, tillage and pasturage. 

 Said farm has been heretofore improved as a milk farm. 



Apply to Luther Angin, near Medford Bridge. 



N. B. Adjoining the above farm is about ilie same number 

 of acres of similar land, which may be had on application to 

 NATHAN ADAMS, Esq. 



Medford, Nov. 26, 1835. tf 



E.VTRACT. — I am acquainted with a great many 

 very good wives, notable, and so managing, that 

 they make a man every thing but happy — and I 

 know a great many others, who sing, and paint, 

 and play, and cut paper, and are so accomplished 

 that they have no time to be agreeable, and no 

 time to be useful. Pictures, and fiddles, and ev- 

 ery thing but agreeableness and goodness, can be 

 had for money ; but as there is no market where 

 pleasant manners, and engaging conversation, and 

 christian virtues are to be bought, methinks it is 

 <i pity the ladies do not oftener try to provide 

 them at home. — Hannah Moore. 



Rules for Composition. — Be certain first that 

 you mean something. Then be certain what it 

 is you do mean. Be certain that what you have 

 to say is worth saying : and then be certain that 

 you have said it. — JV. E. Gal. 



The greatest and most enviable privilege which 

 the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they 

 enjoy the least — the privilege of making them 

 happy. 



Tef.th. — i\Ian is the only animal subject to the 

 toothache. To what circumstances he owes this 

 unenviable distinction is not so clear. The vari- 

 ety of the food in a luxurious state of society, 

 and the use of hot drinks, as tea and coffee, no 

 doubt have their share in producing decay of the 

 teeth. Savages have generally good teeth, and 

 among some twelve or fourteen skulls dug up in 

 Gloucestershire, Eng., which must have been 

 buried several hundred years, not a single tooth 

 Wits decayed. — Phil. Her. 



Cotton seed is used for food in the southern 

 part of Europe : so it is stated on good authority. 



COMPLETE SET OP THE PARMER 



For Bale at this office, one complete set of the New England* 

 Farmer comprising twelve volumes, neatly a; d well bouno* 

 and perfect. Price $3 25 per volume, cash. Nov. 25. 



MORUS MULTICAULIS. 



For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, 51 and 52 Noi| 

 Market street, any number of Trees of the Morns Multicau 

 or Chinese Mulberry. These trees were propagated in tn 

 country. The superiority of the foliage of this tree as foi 

 for Ihe silk-worm over all othei, has repeatedly been testd 

 and is proved beyond a doubt. The price for Trees, from] 

 to 5 feet high, is jJ30 per hundred, JH,50 per dozen, <!(•. ' 

 single. Trees but 2 or 3, wilh good roots ^25 per hundred. 

 GEORGE C BARRETT, 



MORUS MKLTICAUIilS. 



JOSEPH DAVENPORT, of Colerain, Mass. offers fo 

 sale 16,000 trees of the Moras Mullicaulis, or Cliinese Mill. 

 berry, being a part of bis trees cultivated at Colerain and a 

 Suffield, Cl., IG miles north of Hartford, oLe mile from the 

 river. The trees are from 2 to 5 feet high. Price according 

 lo size, from 25 to 30 dollars per hundred. Were propagate* 

 from trees that endured the last severe winter unprotectet 

 Purchasers will be furnished with a knowledge of its cultur 

 and suitable soil, which, if attended to will ensure it wiilioU' 

 protection against the severity of our climaie. Trees will b 

 carefully packed and forwarded by land or water to any pai' 

 of the country. Orders received by mail will receive prninpr 

 tlention. Colerain, Oci. 5, 1835 



LUSTRE FLOWER POTS. 



or sale at be New England Fanner Office, beautiful Sup*.' 

 Superb Flower Fois. 



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AGENTS. 



New York — G C. Thorburn, 11 John-street. 

 Albany — \Vm. Thorburn, 347 Market-slrecl. 

 Philadelphia — I). S,- C. Landbkth, 85 Chesnul-streel. 

 Baltimore — Publisher of American Farmer. 

 Cinciunati — S. C. Parkhuhst, 23 Lower Markel-slreet. 

 Fliishiiiir,N F.^Wm. Prince (JJ-Sons, Prop. Lin. Bot.G* 

 West Bradford, Mass.— ^iAl.E &, Co. Bo-ksellers. 

 Middlehury, Vt. — Wight Chapman, .Merchant. 

 Taunton, Mass. — Sam'l O. Dunbar, Bookseller. 

 Hartford— Gooow IK J^- Co. Booksellers. 

 Neteburyport — Erkni'.zer Stedma.v, Bookseller. 

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

 IT'ooi^s^or/l-, Fi!.— J.A. Pratt. 



Bangor, Me. — Wm. Mann. Druggist. ' 



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