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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



JAN. aO, 183G. 



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[Communicated.] 



There's notiiing new beneath the sun, 

 Said the wise king Solomon ; 

 But had he lived at later date, 

 And heard some anecdotes of late, 

 What would he think on hearing first 

 Of fattening Ilogs with saw-mill dust? 

 Would he not say, excepting one 

 There's nothing new beneath the sun ? 

 Yet on inquiring might have heard 

 'T was not so new as first appeared. 

 It had been tried in days of yore 

 J^ome sixty years ago, or more, 

 A certain wight was passing by 

 A saw-mill, saw the saw dust lie, 

 A splendid pile so bright and new 

 He asked what use they put it to. 

 For feeiling swine was the reply 

 By one who then was standing nigh, 

 mixed with grain 'tis precious food 

 There's nothing better, if so good. 

 Freely fed for three or four weeks 

 The fat will swell their chubby cheeks. 

 Their eyes will seem deep sunk between. 

 They 11 neither see nor can be seen. 

 They 'II grow too Jieavy for their feet 

 And squat upon their hams to eat. 

 He bought a load and off he jogs 

 To fix a supper for his hogs — 

 He watched their progress many days, 

 And tried their food as many ways. 

 He scalded some, but never saw 

 It differed aught from feeding raw. 

 Roasted or baked orboil'd or stew'd, 

 He could not find did any good. 

 One process yet he had not tried. 

 And caused a bushel to be fried. 

 He persevered but less and less 

 Of dust he mi.\ed with every mess. 

 When out at last the secret came. 

 And he immortalized his name, 

 Just in proportion to the grain 

 He mixt with dust, his swine would gain. 



HoRBin Spectacle. — There was, however, in 

 the midst of our festivities, a great drawback from 

 the pleasure we should otherwise have enjoyed. 

 I allude to the unfortunate Blackfeet who had 

 been captured by the Flatheads. Having been 

 informed that they were about putting oue of tlieir 

 prisouers to death, I went to their camp to witness 

 the spectacle. The man was tied to a tree ; after 

 which they heated an old barrel of a gun until it 

 became red hot, with which they burned him on 

 the legs, thighs, cheeks and belly. Thoy then 

 comtnenced cutting the flesh from about the nails, 

 which they pulled out, and next separated the 

 fingers from the liand, joint from joint. During 

 the performance of these cruelties, tlie wretched 

 captive never ivinced, and instead of sueing for 

 mercy, lie added fresh stimulants to their barba- 

 rous ingenuity, by the most irritating reproacheB, 

 part of which our interpreter translated as follows : 

 " My heart is strong. You do not hurt me. 

 You can't hurt me. You are fools. You do not 

 know how to torture. Try it again. I do not 

 feel any pain yet. We torture your relations a 

 great deal better, because we make them cry out 

 loud like little children. You are not brave — 



you have small hearts, and you are always afraid 

 to fight." 



Then addressing one in particular he said, " It 

 was by my arrow you lost your eye:" — upon 

 which the Flathead darted at him, and, with a 

 knife, in a moment scooped out one of his eyes ; 

 at the same time cutting the bridge of his nose 

 nearly in two. 



This did not stop him: with the remaining eye 

 he looked sternly at another, and said, " I killed 

 your broth r, a..d I scalped your old fool of a fa- 

 ther." 



The warrior to whom this was addressed, in- 

 stantly sprang at him, and separated the scaip 

 from his head. He was then about plunging a 

 knife in his heart, until he was told by the chief 

 to desist. The raw skull, bloody socket, and mu- 

 tilated nose, now presented an horrific a|i|iearan(-e, 

 but by no means changed his tone of defiance. 



" It was I," said he to the chief, "that made 

 your wife a prisoner last fall. We put out her 

 eyes ; we tore out her tongue ; we treated her 

 like a dog. Forty of your warriors" 



The chieftain became incensed the moment his 

 wife's name was mentioned ; he seized his gun, 

 and before the last sentence w.is ended, a ball 

 from it passed through the brave fellow's heart, 

 and terminated his frightful sufferings. — Cox's Ad- 

 venlurts. 



SiNGDLAa Anecdote of a Dog A gentleman 



now residing in London, whilst travelling outside 

 of one cf the north mails, was witness of the 

 fact I am about to relate. It was a dark night, 

 and as the mail was travelling at the usual rate a 

 dog barked incessantly before the leaders, and 

 continued to do so for some time, jumping up to 

 the heads of the horses. The coachman, fearful 

 of some accident, pulled up, and the guard got 

 down to drive the animal away. The dog rail 

 before the guard, and then returned to him, ma- 

 king use of such peculiar gestures, that he was 

 induced to take out one of the lamps and follow 

 the dog. After doing so for one hundred yards, 

 he found a farmer lying drunk across the road, 

 and his horse grazing by the side of it. But for 

 this extraordinary sagacity and affection of the 

 dog for his master, the coach woidd most proba- 

 bly have been driven over the body of the sleeping 

 man. 



Seeds for 183G. 



FOR sale a the deed Store coiinccled with the N. E I 

 mer Office 



20(1 builiels finest Early Peas ; 

 200 " Large Marrowfat do; 

 •lO " i)warf blue luiperittl do. ; 

 50 " other varieties i 

 100 •• Heil Garden Heans; 



" Dwartand Pole, Karly and Late, doi 

 500 lbs. su|ierior Long lilood Heel Seed; 

 100 " Early I nrnip " " " 



300 " Cahliage Seed, U ilifrerenl kinds; 

 250 " Fine Lung Orange Carrot ; 



50 " Early Horn, (io ; 

 200 " Cominon Cucumber ; 

 150 " Long Green, do.; 

 100 " Earlv and Head Lettuces; 

 50 " Pure' While I'ortugal Onion ; 

 600 " Silver Skin 

 1000 " Large Deep Red, 

 200 " Large Dutch Parsnip; 

 150 " Early Scarlet Short Top Radish ; 

 U>0 " Long Salmon ; 

 50 " Turnip Radishes ; 

 ' 50 " Spinach ; 

 100 '■ Early Scollop Squash ; 

 loo ■' " Long " 

 100 " Long Winter, do ; 

 25 " Salsaly ; 



100 " lOarly White Dutch Turnip; 

 5li0 " English 

 200 " Ruia Baga, 

 200 " Mangel Uurlzel/or Caltle. 

 Also— Ca.liflower; Broccoli ; Celcrv ; Cress; Egg I 

 Leek; Endive; Musk and Water Melons; Manynca; 

 per ; Parsley and Toinnlo Seeds by the lb. or oz. 

 Seeds, n(M kinds, 



50,000 Papers in 200 Io 300 splendid kinds of ii 

 Biemiial&nA Peremiiat Flowf.k Seeds. 

 Grass Seeus, Wholesale Sf Hetail. 

 The above comprises in pan Ihe slock ol seeds raiii 

 pressly lor the esmblishmeni, and die quality and goodne 

 be warranted .superior to any ever ofl'ered heretol'ote. D 

 and others will please file in their orders immedialelj 

 they shall be faithlully executed for llie spring. 



Koxes of Garden Seeds for the country trade, neatly ff 

 up, with directions on each paper, for sale at a large di: 

 from Market prices. 



Frdit & Oknamental 'Trees, &c. will be supp 

 the spring, and orders are solicited. 



GEO. C. JBARRET'l', Agricultural Wareht 



Inhabitant Tree. — Along the base of these 

 mottntains is a large tree, containing seventeen 

 conical huts. They are used as dormitories, be- 

 ing beyond the reach of the lions, which since 

 the incursion of the Mantatees, when so many 

 thousands of persons we.re massacred, have be- 

 come very numerous in the neighborhood and 

 destructive to human life. The branches of these 

 trees are supported by forked sticks or poles, and 

 there are three tiers or platforms on which the 

 huts are constructed. The lowest is nine feet 

 from the ground, and holds ten huts ; the second 

 about eight feet high, and the upper story, if it 

 may be so called, contains four. The ascent to 

 these is made by notches cut in the supporting 

 holes, and the huts are built with twigs, thatched 

 with straw, and will contain two persons conve- 

 niently SUdman's Wanderings in South Africa. 



■WANTED. 



A good capable Man with a Wile, is wanted to go 

 nois and take charge of a farm— also four or five good i 

 assistants; liberal cnmpensalioo will be paid, wuli all 

 sary expenses for the .ourney, for terms please a) 

 Grigg's & Weld, Boston. Letters post paid will 

 immediale allenlion. eufiw J: 



SEEDS. 



H. L HOFFMAN. Dniogist. St. Louis, has for sal« 

 and very suferior colleclicm of Garden and Flower 

 put np at Ihe New England Agricultural Warehouse. 



SEEDS IN FLORIDA. 



ELIAB STONE KREWER, Apalachicola, has I 

 boxes of assorted Garden Seeds, of a superior qualil) 

 at the N. E. Seed Store. Boston. Di' 



Julius Cajsar, the hero of fifty pitched battles, 

 was the son of a bondwoman, and rose from the 

 ranks. 



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