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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



FEB. 3, T83e. 



^siis^i^%i,^':&'s: 



AN ACRE OF CORN. 



I am a poor Plouglim:in who never have wander'd 



Away from the sight and the pleasures of liome ; 

 1 have always been priident»and never have squander'd 



And so I have never been driven to rftam. 

 For thirty long summers my shoulders have bended 



In tilling the farm wliere my farther was born ; 

 1 live under his roof, and this season have tended 



With the pliMigh thai he left me, an acre of coin. 



Though others may go to the Southward and peddle 



And bring home of guineas and dollars good store, 

 I ne'er have desired with their crankunis to meddle. 



But to hoe in my garden that lies by my door. 

 When the sun is first rising 1 always am hoeing 



The mould when 'tis wet with the dews of the morn; 

 And when he is higher you will find me a mowing, 



Or driving the plough in my acre of corn. 



There are some who are crossing by sea to the island 



They call Santa Cruiz, with their horses and hay ; 

 For my part, I'd rather be safe here on dry land^ 



And hoe in my garden, or work by the day ; 

 I am out to the field with the sun, and am mowing 



'Till caird up at noon by?the sound of the horn, 

 Or else I am twirling my hoe and am throwing 



The mould round the roots in my acre of corn. 



This corn is the sort that is tufted and bowing. 



And when we have thresh'd it, 'tis made into brooms ; 

 'Tis the best of all besoms, so far as I'm knowing, 



To sweep out the dirt and the dust from our rooms : 

 They always have raised it since I can remember. 



And my father once told me, before I was born 

 He made brooms for his trade, and I guess by Decem- 

 ber 



I shall make up a load from my acre of corn. 



American Scenery. — There is no such scene- 

 ry on earth, I verily believe, as ours. There is 

 but one Niagara in its broad circumference. And 

 then its glorious rivers, — from the cataracts of 

 high northern latitudes to the calm and beautiful 

 Alabama, the majestic Missouri, the [ilacid, soft 

 Ohio. • And then, too, its lakes ; the vast inland 

 seas, where fleets can ride; its forests, alive with 

 songsters of almost every note and every feather, 

 of trees of every cast and hue, and, if seen in the 

 frosts of Autumn, beyond the power of pencil to 

 paint — mocking the skill of man — rivaling .the 

 ricli sunset on the bosom of the western clouds, 

 and making a very paradise of earth ! And then 

 its boiuidless prairies, its savannahs, the vast ha- 

 vens, on which heat the waves of the ocean witli 

 their sullen roar, and its still solitudes, where man 

 feels as if he really were alone with the Indian, 

 — the wild, unapproached, and almost unap- 

 proachable Indian, in his savage dignity, painted, 

 and decked for War, fiery red, with his armor on, 

 'snorting for battle,' as it were ; and then again 

 its noisy cities, where men crowd and rush, as if 

 the 4pot of earth on which they were, was their 

 only spot ; cities now vicing in business with the 

 olden cities of Europe, but yet in the gristle — 

 in their swaddling clothes, as it were — by and by 

 to become the London of the Western world. — 

 James Brooks. 



Why are the disciples of Gall and Spurzheim 

 necessarily in favor o( liberal education') Because 

 they arc free-knowlcdge-ists. 



A NOBLE --iiip. — The followirig description of 

 the fine ship of the line Pennsylvania, we copy 

 from the Phila(ielphia Gazette, premising that it 

 is now time to launch that ship, to fit her for sea, 

 and lay down another keel for a vessel of similar 

 dimensions in her place. 



" The line of battle ship Pennsylvania, now 

 on the stocks at our Navy Yard, under the shelter 

 of a building that cost 84-5,000, is one of the most 

 stupendous fabrics that was ever destined to float 

 on the ocean. Her length on deek is 325 feet, 

 which is 27 n)ore than half way from Fifth to 

 Sixth street, in Chesnut, and her breadth is 58 

 feet, which is eight wider than Chesnut street, op- 

 posite the theatre, including the footways. She 

 is large enough to carry two thousand men, which 

 is a larger nuud>erthau the whole American army 

 that fought and gained the battle of Chiiipewa, 

 and greater than the population of a considerable 

 coimtry town. She is of the burthen of 3000 

 tons, and could, if loaded with flour, carry 30,- 

 000 barrels; enough to supply 15,000 people with 

 bread for one year. She is to carry 140 guns, 32 

 pounders, so that every time she discharges a 

 broadside, she will dispose of precisely a ton of 

 bullets to hel|i to make iron ])ebb!es for the bottom 

 of the ocean, unless she happens to hit the ene- 

 tuy. She will draw twentyeight feet of water, 

 and thus find it ditficnlt to nilvigate in shoals and 

 rivers. One of her anchors, which is to be seen 

 in the yard, whi»-h is said to be the largest in the 

 world, weighs 11,669 pounds, which is something 

 more than five tons, and will require some merry 

 piping at the ca])stan to get it a-peak. Her water 

 tanks are of iron, mostly in the shape of large 

 chests, capable of holding 1 to 200 gallons, but 

 having a proportion of them of other shapes, 

 adapted to fit around the sides of the ship so as 

 to leave no space, a.s happens with casks. The 

 number is probably 150, as far as we could judge 

 frotn looking at them, as we did a day or two 

 since, imder the guidance of some poliie and at- 

 tentive ofiicers stationed at the yard." 



Pure Religion. — Oh! if religion were known 

 as she is in truth, and could men see her, divested 

 of sectarian deformities, and moving in that nia- 

 jestic simplicity and loveliness which her Divine 

 Author willed that she should wear, there are 

 multitudes, we doubt not, who, instead of shrinking 

 from her presence, would ever welcome her ap- 

 proach, and love to worship among her devoutest 

 votaries ! 



Youthful Feeling. — "As I approve of a 

 youth," says Cowlej', " who has something of the 

 old man in him, so I am not less pleased with an 

 old man who has something of the yoiuh. He 

 who follows this rule, mayiie old in body; hut can 

 never be old in mind." 



The Camel. — The "ship of the desert," is the 

 oriental figure for the camel, or dromedary ; and 

 they deserve the metaphor well — the former for 

 his endurance, the latter for his swiftness. 



MiLiTART Elocutio.n. — .\t the battle of the 

 pyramids, in July, 1798, Bonaparte said — '' Sol- 

 diers ! from the summit of yonder pyramids, forty 

 ages behold you." 



Scandal — Everybody condemns scandal ; yet 

 nothing circulates more readily — even cold itself 

 is less current. 



IV ANTED. 



A young man who has some knowledge ofTrees and Plant 

 and understanils somewhai o( the Nmsery business, and abov 

 all one » lio is active and energetic, and desirous lo give ever 

 attention failhrully lo ihe business of his employer, ]i ay find 

 permanent situation and fair compcnsaiion by applying lo th 

 subscribers. The situali. n he will fill is one of considerahl 

 responsibility and no one need apply wh" cannot satisfy thei 

 on the above points. VVM. PRINCE & SONS, 



Lin. Bot. Garden, Flushing, near N. York. 



Jan. 27 1836. 2l. 



!?iee€ls"^ lor 1836. 



FOR sale a the Seed Store connecutl with the TJ. E Fat 

 mer Office 



200» bushels finest Early Pea.s ; 

 200 " Large iVlarrowl'al do ; 

 iO " Uwarf Blue Imperial do.; 

 SO " other varieties ; 

 100 ■' Best Garden Beans; 



" Dwarf and Pole, Karly and t.atc, do ; 

 500 lbs. superior Long Blood Heel Seed; 

 100 " Early I urnip " " " 



300 " Cahhage Seed, U different kinds; 

 2.50 " Fine Long Orange Carrot ; 

 50 " Early Horn, do ; 

 200 " Common Cucumber; 

 150 " Long Green, do.; 

 100 " Earlv and Head Lettuces;, 

 60 " Pure" White Portugal Onion ; 

 500 " Silver Skin 

 1000 " Large Deep Red, " 



200 " Large Dutch Parsnip; 

 150 " Early Scarlet Short Top Radish ; 

 100 " Long Salmon ; 

 50 " Turnip Radishes ; 

 50 " Spinach ; 

 100 " Early Scollop Squash ; 

 100 " " Long " 

 100 " Long Winter, do ; 

 25 " Salsafy; 



100 " ICarly White Dutch Turnip ; 

 500 " English 

 200 " Uuta Baga, 

 200 " Mangel VVurlzel/or Cattle. 

 .Also— Ca liflower; Broccoli ; Celery ; Cress; Egg Plan 

 Leek; Endive; Musk and Water Melons; Martynea ; Pe| 

 per • Parsley and Tom.ito Seeds by the lb. or oz. Hei 

 Seeds, nfaW kinds, 



50,000 Papers in 200 to 300 splendid kinds of Aimtic 

 Biemiiai and Peremdal Fi.oWF.R Seeds. 

 Grass Seeus, Wlioleiole Sf Retail. 



The above comprises in part the stock of seeds raised e 

 ptessly for the establishment, and the quality and goodness w 

 be warranted superior to any ever offered heretofore. Deale 

 and others will please file in their orders immediately, ai 

 they shall be faithfully executed for the spring. 



Boxes of Garden Seeds for the country trade, neatly papen 

 up, with directions on each paper; for sale at a large discon 

 from Market prices. 



Fruit & Ohn4Mental Trees, &c. will be supplied 

 the spring, and orders arc solicited. 



GEO. C. BARKETT, Agricultural \\ arehmse. 



SEEDS. 



H. L HOFFMAN. Druggist, St. Louis, has for sale a larj 

 and very superior collection of Garden and Flower Sect" 

 put up at the New England Agricultural Warehouse. Dec.; 



THE KEW EfVGLAlVD FARMER 



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AGENTS. 



New York—C, C. Thokeurn, UJohn-slreet. 

 Albnmi—WM. Thorburn, 347 .Market-street. 

 PhUadelplna—V). S,- C. LA^DBETH, 85 Chesnut-street. 

 Baltimore — Publisher of American Farmer. 

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

 Flushing, N K— Wm. Prince »S- Sons, Prop. Lin. Bol,G« 

 Middlehunj, Vt. — Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 West Bradford, Mass.— yiM.E &, Co. Booksellers. 

 Taimtort, .Wass. — Sam'l O. Dunbab, Bookseller, 

 Hartford— Gon\>\\tti S^- Co. Booksellers. 

 Newhuryport — Erenezer Stedman, Bookseller. 

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

 Woodstock, Vt. — J. A. Pratt. 

 Ba-nsor,Me.—\\m. Mann, Drugsist. 



Halifax. N. S.—P. J. Hoeeanu, Esq. Editor of Rccordei. 

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