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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 9, 1831. 



MISCELLANY. 



FRIENDLY MONITIONS FOR AMERICA. 



From Ihf AhI.e liaynal. 



People of America ! let ihe example of all the 

 nations which have piecetled you, and especially 

 that of the mother country instruct you ! Be 

 afraid of the influence of gold, which hrings with 

 luxury the corruption of manners, and contempt of 

 laws ! Be afraid of too unequal a distrihutiou 

 of riches, which sliows a small nuuiher of citizens 

 in wealth, and a great nuinber in misery — wlience 

 arises the indolence of the one, and servility of 

 the other. Guard against the spirit of conquest. 

 The tranquillity of empire decreases as it is ex- 

 tended. Have arms for your defence, but have 

 none for offence. Seek ease and health in labors, 

 prosperity in agriculture and manufactures; strength 

 in knovi'ledge anil virtue. Make the sciences and 

 arts prosper, which distinguish the civilized man 

 from the savage. Especially watch over the edu- 

 cation of your children. 



It is from public schools, be assured, that skilful 

 magistrates, disciplined and courageous soldiers, 

 good fathers, good husbanils, good brothers, good 

 friends, and honest men come forth. Wherever 

 we see the youth depraved, the nation is on the 

 decline. Let Liberty have an immovable found- 

 ation in the wisdom of your constitution : and let 

 it be the cement which unites your states, which 

 cannot be destroyed. Establish no legal jirefer- 

 ence in yom- different modes of worship. Supersti- 

 tion is everywhere innocent, where it is neither 

 protected nor persecuted. And may your duration 

 be, if possible, equal to that of the ivorld. 



How TO Shake off Trouble. — Set about doing 

 good to somebody — put on your hat, and go and 

 visit the sick, or the poor — inquire into their wants, 

 and minister to them — seek out the desolate and 

 the oppressed, and tell them of the consolations of 

 religion. I have often tried this method, and have 

 always found it the best medicine for a heavy 

 heart. — Howard. 



Jin Eelin JVew South Wales. — It may not be 

 generally known that there is a gigantic species of 

 eel peculiar to this island, found in most of our 

 rivers particularly where they form ponds or still 

 ■water. A gentleman who was lately bathing in 

 the South Esk, in one of those beautiful ponds 

 formed by that river, after swimming about some 

 time, sat down to rest himself, as he thought, on 

 round trunk of a tree, lying about a foot under 

 water. Presently the log seemed to glide from be- 

 neath him, and he saw it turn its head and eyes 

 towards him, and swim round him several times, 

 moving its body in a zigzag serpentine direction. 

 It was about a foot or fifteen inches in diameter, 

 and about twelve or fifteen feet long, of a dark 

 greenish coloi-. — Hobart Town paper. 



Moss Mattresses — made with fine moss are now 

 getting into general use in Rus.sia and Sweden. 

 They are filled to a de[)th of twelve inches, are 

 veiy elastic and wholesome, and the cost of renew- 

 ing them is of course trifling. 



Laconic Order of the Day. — Frederic II, wrote, 

 onedaytoGen. Salmon, connnander at Cleves — 

 My dear Salmon, if the Austrians come into my ter- 

 ritories, tell them they have mistaken their way ; if 

 they begin to argue, make them prisoners : and if 

 they make any resistance, cut them in pieces.' 



Artificial Pearls. — Lake Williams, in his history 

 of Inventions and Discoveries, says the Chinese ob- 

 tain false pearls from a kind of muscle, in the fol- 

 lowing manner: 'In the beginning of summer, at 

 the time when the muscles rise to the surface of 

 water and occasionally open their shells, they watch 

 the moment and place m each shell five or six small 

 beads strung upon a thread. At the end of the year, 

 'hen they fish tor these, they ilraw them up; and 

 pon opening them, they discover the bead encrust- 

 ed with a pearly substance and having a perfect re- 

 semblance to real pearls. It is said there is now in 

 the possession of the British Royal Society, large 

 chama. brought from China, which are a species of 

 muscle, in which there are several bits of iron wire 

 encrusted with pearl. Those bits of wire it appears 

 were originally rough, and it is judged probable the 

 animal emitted this substance as a means to procure 

 ease from the irritation it must unavoidably occa- 

 sion.' 



Mr Dandridge, an English naturalist who lived 

 about a century ago, was a renowned butterfly- 

 hunter, and pursued his sport with such eagerness, 

 as to give rise to some amusing incidents. On one 

 occasion, a countryman at work in the fields, having 

 for some time contemplated him, with his arms ex- 

 tended, hotly pursuing over hedges and ditches 

 nothing, that he could see, at length took pity on the 

 poor lunatic (as the man supposed him to be,) over- 

 took him in his mad career, and pinned him down 

 viet armis, that he might not run himself to death ; 

 the consequence of which was a bitter exclamation, 

 that only served to confirm the countrymen in his 

 opinion, — ' The purple Etnperor 's gone ! The pur- 

 ple Emperor 's gone !' 



You Forget Yourself. — A disappointed author, in- 

 dulging in a vein of abuse against a successful rival, 

 exclaimed,' He is, without exception, the most super- 

 ficial, self-sufficient, ignorant, shallow creature, that 

 ever made any pretensions to literature.' ' Gently, 

 my dear Sir,' interrupted a gentleman present, 'you 

 quite forget yourself.^ 



When the famous Prince Lee Boo, from the Pe- 

 lew Islands, saw a miniature for the first time, he ex- 

 pressed the idea it gave him m a very striking man- 

 ner : Being asked if he knew the meaning of it, he 

 replied 'Yes, Lee Boo understand very well — that 

 Mr Keate (pointing to the original of the picture) 

 die ; this Mr Keate (touching the miniature) always 

 live. 



An Indian chief of the Creek nation, being once 

 appointed to negotiate a treaty of peace with the 

 people of South Carolina, was desired by the gov- 

 ernor and council to speak his mind freely, and not 

 be afraid, for he was among friends : — ' I will speak 

 freely ; I will not be afraid,' said he ; ' for why should 

 I be afraid among my friends, who never am afraid 

 among my enemies ?' 



A shopkeeper the other day in urging a lady to 

 buy a gown of him, said, buy enough for the sleeves, 

 madam, and I'll throw in enough for the skirt. 



For Sale, 

 The well known FARM in Dover, occupied for the \as\ 

 fourteen years by the subscriber, containing about '20C 

 acres, well located in a square, bounded on the south b^ 

 Cochecho river, and on the cast by Fresh creek, on which 

 is a tide mill, with an apparatus lor pounding and grindinj 

 plaster. The Buildings consist of a large two story Brict 

 House, of 4(i feet by 38, with a wing of 20 by 16, all wel 

 liuished, ailjoined to winch is a shed .S4 feet by 14, con- 

 necting the cider house 27 by 37, two stories, with ooi 

 plastered ruoin, where all the spinning and weaving ii 

 done (or the family ; two Barns, one of which is 100 fee 

 by 42, with two wings of about 40 feet each, one employ- 

 ed as a stable, the other lor a sheepfold, with a good yart 

 well walled in ; the other is a Store Barn of 45 feet square, 

 of Hi feet post, and will contain 60 tons of hay ; a pig 

 gery of 50 feet by 30, with a cellar of 18 feet square nii 

 der it, with boilers set to make soap, brew, and cook foi 

 swine. The fields are divided by permanent stone walls 

 and consist of one of 40 acres in front of the house, ont 

 of 17 on the East, one of 10 acres on the North, (princt 

 pally orchard,) one of 15 Northeast, and one of 30 acre 

 West of the house, with three pastures of 20 to 25 acrei 

 each. 



The Farm has been gradually improving for the las 

 ton years, and the Iwo last has cut each year one hutt 

 drcdtons of bay, and 20 to 25 tons of thatch. It is cm 

 and a half miles fron, the village of Dover, which afford' 

 a good njarket. There has been planted some hundred 

 of Fruit Trees, principally Apple, many of which an 

 grafted — with Pears, Cherry, Plum, Peach and Quina 

 trees, and many in bearing, with a small nursery. 



The terms of sale may be known by applying to Majo 

 Andrew Pierce, of Dover, Mr Samuel Lord, o 

 Portsmouth, or the subscriber on the premises. ' 



June 11. WILLIAM FLAGG. 



Interesting Dispute. — Mr Grattan, in his history 

 of Holliiiid and the Netherlands says, that few 

 fictions have, excited such violent commotions iji 

 the world, as that which was excited in Holland 

 on the ridiculous question of — ' ivhether the hook 

 caught the fish, or the fish caught the hook. 



A fool may ask more questions in an hour, than 

 a wise man can .inswerin seven years. 



Every fool can find faults that a great many 

 wise men can't ineud. 



He who receives a good turn should never for- 

 get it ; he who does one should never remember 

 it. — Charron. 



Acic IVork on Farriery. 



Just received and for sale at the Seed Store ronnectei 

 with the New England Farmer Office, No. 52 Nortl 

 Market Street, 



The Veterinary Surgeon ; or. Farriery taught on a nev 

 and easy plan ; being a treadse on all the diseases am 

 accidents to which the Horse is liable; the causes am 

 symptoms of each, and the most improved remedies em 

 ployed for the cure in every case ; with instructions to thi 

 Shoeing-Smith, Farrier, and Groom, how to acquir 

 knowledge in the art of Farriery, and the prevention o 

 Diseases. Preceded by a popular description of the ani 

 inal functions hi health, and showing the principles 0! 

 which these are to be restored when disordered. By Jqji: 

 Hinds, Veterinary Surgeon. With considerable ndiiitioD 

 and impiovements, particularly adapted to this countrj 

 by Thomas M. Smith, Veterinary Surgeon, and Membe 

 of the London Veterinary Medical .Society. 



Durham Short Horns. 



For sale, several of the pure breed, descendants oftb 

 celebrated animals presented by Ad.miral Sir Isaai 

 CoKFiN, to the Massachusetts Society for the Piomotioi 

 of Agriculture. The peiligiee of these animals can bi 

 given as far back as Hubback, who was calved in 1777 

 and is reputed the foundation of this much adnured stock 

 Also, several Heifers bred from the same, of varioui 

 grades, from half up to seven eighths blooded animals 

 For particulars, inquire of E. Hersey Derby, Salem. • 



Salem, October, 1830. 



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 all descriptions of Printing can be executed to meet ths 

 wishes of customers. Order.e for printing received by J. B- 

 Russell, at the Agricultural Warehouse, iVo. 52 North 

 Market Street. 



AGENTS. 



.Yiw York— Thof.uvrk & SoNS,67Liberly-strcet 

 Phlliulelphia- 1). & C Landketh.86 Cheslnui-slreet. 

 Ii,tlhiwit—G. H.SMiTH,Edilor of ihe American Farmer, 

 Cliiciniiuli—S. C. Paukhukst,23 Lower Markel-slrecl. 

 .4'/m!(;/—IHu. Jesse Huel, Albany Nursery. 

 Ftiishhi". N. V. W»i, PriucecSi. -Sons. 1'1-op.Lia. Bet. GardW 

 //,n//;»-7/— Goodwin &, Co. Booksellers. 

 Newhunjport, Ebenkzkr Stedman, Bookseller. 

 PortsmoiUh. N. H. J. W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Portland. Me.— Sam V EL Coleman, Bookseller. 

 jhicusta. Me. Wm. Mann. 



Hiilu'ar,^. S.— P. J. Holland, Esq. Recorder Office. 

 Montreal, L. C— A. Bowman, Bookseller. 



