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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Prom Tail's Magazine for December. 



CHANGE. 



Change ! Change ! The mournful story 



Of all that's gone ijefurc ! 

 The wrecks of perished glory 



Bestrewing every shore. 

 The shattered tower and palace, 



Thai frown o'er every glen, 

 In broken language tell us 



Of the fleeting power of men. 



Change ! Change ! The Scythe is sweeping 



O'er many a cottage hearth ; 

 The sickled hand is reaping 



O'er some scenes of household mirth. 

 The sheaf is bound where daughters 



Round their mother used to spin ; 

 And where little feet did palter 

 Full often out and in. 



Change ! Change ! for all things human ! 



Kingdoms, slates of amplest wing 

 Have their flight and fall in common 



With the meanest mortal thing,— 

 With beauty, love, and passion; 



With all of eanhly trust ; 

 With life's smallest wavelet, rushing, 



Curling, breaking into dust ! 



Where arose in marbled grandeur, 



The wall'd cities of the past. 

 The sullen winds now wander 



O'er a ruin huddled waste. 

 Rent is the palace splendid ; 



The owl, in silence, wings 

 O'er floors, where, eye attended. 



Paced the sandalled'^crt of kings. 



Still change! Go thou and view 



All desolately sunk; 

 The circle of the Druid, 



The cloister of the monk ; 

 The ahbey, holed and squalled, 



With its grass-maned staggering wall. 

 Ask by whom these were unhallowed — 



'Twai Change that did it all. 



But Mind, the ever-living, 



From Time's each succeeding birlh, 

 Will receive some more of heaven, 



Will retain some less of earth. 

 More of truth, and less oferror : 



Less of hale and more of love ; 

 Till the world below shall mirror 



All the purity above. 



THE INCH AUGER. 



A few years since a man from the region of 

 Kennebec, with an inleresting wife, two lovely 

 (lauglilers, and n promising son, moved "down 

 eaet," percliased ns piece of wild land, selected n 

 spot, erected a log cabin, njtli a stone cliinmcy 

 and o wooden niantle-trce, and was soon in a good 

 way to live, surrounded by every thing necessary 

 to make him comfortable and happy. He had 

 lived there several years, when the first movement 

 was made in the temperance cause. Like many 

 other good steady men, he refused to have any tiling 

 to do with their movements. He would have folks 

 know thata Kennebecer conld take care of himself 

 — lio would sign no pledge. Not long after he 

 was invited with others to the rising of a barn. 

 At regular, and rather short intervals the pail of 



toddy was passed around, and he sipped with the 

 rest till at length lie discerned that he had sipped 

 too much. He wus a little over the bay, and on 

 returning home he could not navigate quite so well 

 as he wanted to do. But though his potations had 

 made sad work with his physical system, his mind 

 was not so ali'ected but that he perfectly understood 

 liis situation, nor were his moral sensibilities bo 

 perverted but that he felt heartily ashamed of him- 

 self. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH 

 Great improvements have been made the post year in I 



His reflections were not of the most agreeable | form and workmanship o( these Ploughs ; the mould 1k» 



has licen so formed as to lau the Jiirrow complclcln on 



turning in every parlidc of grass or sluhble, and icaring IL^ 



ounti in Ihc best possible martncr. The lengtl ' ' 



character as he approached his dwelling; nor 

 were they essentially improved as he entered and 

 noticed the saddened countenances of his wife and 

 daughters, whose gushing tears soon told him how 

 bitterly painful tn the soul it was to have a hus- 

 band and and a father come home drunk. He sal 

 down and mused awhile in silence. At length he 

 roused himself from his stupor, and with a deter- 

 mined tone demanded — "Where's my inch au- 

 ger ?" So strange a question in these circurnstansea 

 only added to the sorrow of the afflicted family, and 

 I they thought it best to let it pass in silence. The 

 question was soon repeated in a still more deter- 

 mined tune — "wliere is my inch auger!'" "What 

 in the world do you want with your inch auger?" 

 inquired his wife mildly. "I want it," was there- 

 ply. The incli auger was produced. He look it, 

 and commenced boring with all the energy of 

 which he was capable in his wooden mantle-tree. 

 The work was soon completed, and the chips were 

 seen dropping from the further side into the fire. 

 "There, wife," said he, "I'll drink no more rum 

 till that hole grows up." 



There was his pledge — and having it before his 

 eyes as he arose in the morning, and every time he 

 entered his dwelling through the day, it doubtless 

 had a much stronger influence upon him than if 

 it had been locked up in the desk of the Sec- 

 retary of the Temperance Society; and to this 

 beloved family the inch auger hole in the man- 

 tle-tree was undoubtedly the most valuable orna- 

 ment that could possibly have been devised — 

 Christian Jf'ritchmun. 



mould hoard has Ik n very much increased, so ihat I 

 Plough works wilh the greatest ease, bolh with respecl 

 the holding and the team. The Committee at the late ll 

 of Ploughs at Woreesler, say, 



" Should our opinion he aslced as to which of the PloOl 

 we should prefer for use on a farm, we might perhaps sajH 

 the inquirer, if your land is mostly light and easy to wjj 

 try I'routy & Mears, but if jour land is heavy, hard or Toi 



DKGIN WITH Mr. HoWABD's.'' J 



At the aliove mer.t;oned trial the Howard Pl^u^h 4 



ore icorli. xeith the same pswer of team, than otm, oti 

 plough cxhihilcd. No v>tlier tnriied more than tw.i i\ -i-i 

 andone half inches, to the 112 Ihs. draught, ■vlnol 

 Hr/irard Plough turned ticertlynine and one half i-'^fs 

 the same power of team i All acknowledge that Ii\'-ftr 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most sul ^i :itn 

 made. 



There has heen quiie an improvement made on il' >.ti 

 or land side ol this Plough, which can he renew, li v iilii 

 having to furnish a new landside; this shoe likewis' >' c« 

 the mould hoard and landside togetlier, and strcnglhcnsl 

 Plough very much. ,, 



The price of the Ploughs is from SG to 815. A Ploil 

 suffit u-nl for breaking up wilh four catllc, will cost 

 Sio 50, and with cutler Si, with wheel and cutter, 

 «xira. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and reti 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed 

 Nos. 51 &. 52 North Market Sireel, hy 

 ___^ JOSK PH BREC K & Ci 



FENCE CHAIKS. 



Just received from England, 10,000 feet Chains, slid 

 for Fences or othei jjuiposcs. For sale hy J. CRECi 

 CO., No. 62 North Market St. April J 



AGRICVL.TIIRAL, lAIPIiKltlKNTS, &c. 



The Proprietors of the New England Agricultural Ware- 

 house and Seed Store No. 61 and 52 North Market street, 

 would inform their cnslnmers and the pulilic generally that 

 tlu'y have on h;ind ttic most extensive assorlmcnt of Agri- 

 cultuial and Horticultural Tools to be found in the Uniicd 

 Slates. Part of which arc Ihc following : 



1000 Howard's Patent Casl 



LAOTOMBTERS. 



Iron Ploughs 

 300 Common do. do. 

 200 Cullivniorr. 

 100 Tireene's Straw Oiitlcrs. 

 50 Willis' do. (lu. 

 100 Common do. do. 

 100 Willis' Patent Corn 



Shellers. 

 50 Common do do, 

 2"0 Willis' Seed Sowerf. 

 50 " Vegct'llilc Cullei 

 50 Common do, do, 



200 Hand Corn Mills. 

 2uo Grain Cr»dles. 

 100 Ox Yokes. 

 1500 Doz. Scylhe Rlones. 

 2000 '■ Ausliu's Rifles. 

 March 17. 



lOO'doz. Cast Sled Shovels. 

 150 " Common do. 

 100 " Spades. 



Grass Scythes. 



alcnt Snniths. 



Common do. 



Hay Itakes. 



Garden do. 



Manure Forks. 



Hay do. 

 600 Pair Trare Chains. 

 100 " Tniok do. 

 I no Drnll do, 

 600 Tie np do. 

 6U doz. Hnller do. 

 I UOO yards Fence do. 

 26 Grind Stones 00 rollen. 



600 

 300 

 200 

 600 

 200 

 200 

 300 



Just received at the New England Agricullur; 

 house. No. 61 and 62, North Market si., a few .s. k 

 toinelers, for lesiing the qualiiv of niilk. 



June 23 ' JOSKPH BRECK 



Of) 



NEW Tl'RMP SEED, 



Just received anil for sa'e at ihe New Enghii \ 

 lural Warehouse and Seed Store, Nos. 61 and Wi ,N .nlil 

 kct street, 



600 U.S. TURNIP SEED, of ihe growih oi 1 ; i 



July 14 JOS. BRECK ■, Ct 



N E W ENGLAND FAR M l", K 



A WEKKLV PAPER. 



The Editorial department oftbis paper h:,. 

 into ihc hands oflho subscriber, be is now :, 

 hy iho publishers to inform llio public llinl In. 

 Ihe pnpci is reduced. In future ilio In 



TYK I'P CHAINS. 



Just received by Packet Coromandn, 600 Chains for tj-c- I P'"'' y"' "• advance, or $2 .'iO if not p.iid u 

 ingupCnitle. ' day». AI.I.EN I'l' I \ AK 



These chains, introduced by E. H. Debdv, Esq, of Salem, N. B. — Pnatmastors arc required by law I.. Imnk 

 and Col. .lAcauEH, for ihe purpose of securing cattle to ilif Uubscriptions and remittances for ne'wspapcrs, wii» 

 siall.arc lound If Iw the safest and most convenient niodii expense to subscribcrd. "" 



of fastening cows ami oxen to the stanchion. | ^ 



For sale by J. BRECK & CO., No. 62 North Market I 



TCTTLE AND DENMETT, PRIKTERB. 



