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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



wov. 10, i8«ir. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



From the N.Y. Herald. 



TO THE HON. JOHN aUINCY ADAMS. 

 On reading his beautiful poem on the " Wants of Man 



SY C080L1.A IIVACINTHZ BENNET. 



Your wants, clear sir, will seem but small, 



Wlicn they're comiiared with mine; 

 My single tran( outweighs them all — 



I tfan< a soul like thine. 

 For a'l the wants that you may find, 



And yet ten thousand more, 

 Can never satisfy a mind 



So filled with wisdom's store. 



I want a finut that in a span, 



Can grasp the orbs on high ; 

 The only essence of the man, 



That is not doom'd to die. 

 I want a place in yonder sky, 



Where you and I may meet, 

 To sing the praise of God on high, 



And worship at his feet. 



" You do not " want the voice of praise i'* 



It follows yo» behind — 

 You will be thought, in future dayt, 



The friend of huniaD kind. 

 And after ages, a*lhcy rife, 



Kxulting will proclaim, 

 la choral union tofthe skies. 



Their blessings aa your name. 

 September \ath, 1841. 



HINTS TO PARENTS AND THE SCHOOL 

 MASTER. 



'I'lie following excellent hints are from a work 

 entitled "The Fk:onomy of Health," by Jamoe 

 Johnson, of London, one of the most eminent phy- 

 sicians of the age. He is epeakinfj of what he de- 

 nominates "the second septenniad" of liunian life, 

 embracing the period of youth between the ages of 

 7 and 14 years : — 



"Schools. It is in this septenniad, which may 

 be styled par eiceltence, the scholastic, that the 

 seeds of much bodily ill and moral evil are sown. 

 In this, and often in the latter part of the first sep- 

 tenniad, the powers of the mind are forced, and 

 those of the body are crippled The progress of 

 civilization, literature, science and refinement has 

 rendered tins state of ihinps unavoidable. It may 

 be mitigated, but it cannot be prevented. Knowl- 

 edge is power. Bodily strength is now of little 

 use in the struggle for power, riches and fame : 

 mental nciiuiremeiits and endowments are now all 

 in all. 



Those who are likely to mix much with their 

 fellow-creatures during their sojourn in this world, 

 had better begin torjo so in a public school. Knives 

 are sharpened by being rubbed against each other: 

 80 are intellects. The flint and the pIpcI will not 

 emit sparks unless they come into collision : nei- 

 ther will brains. The coldest marble and the ba- 

 sest metal will glow with heat by friction; and the 

 solid oak will burst into flame by the same opera- 

 tion. The emulation of the school room will call 

 energies into action that would otherwise lie for- 

 ever dormant in the human mind. 



Whether the scholastic institutions be large or 

 small, public or private, one radical evil is sure to 

 pervade the system of education pursued therein ; 

 namely, (atid I cannot repeat it too often,) the dis- 



proportion between exercise of the mind and exer- 

 cise of the body — not merely as respects the sum 

 total of each species of exercise, but the mode of 

 its distribution. The grasp at learning is preter 

 natur::l, overreaching and exhausting. The les 

 sons imposed on youth are too long ; and so, of 

 course, are the periods of study. The consequence 

 is, that the lesson is not got well, because it is 

 learned amid languor and fatigue of the intellect. 

 The grand principle of education is, or ought to 

 be, the rapid and the perfect acquisition of small 

 portions of learning at a time, the punctual premi- 

 um being the interval of play. In this way, the 

 idea of knowledge would be constantly associated 

 with that of pleasure; and each impression on the 

 juvenile mind being vivid and distinct, would con- 

 sequently be lasting. 



But if the periods of stuidy in the first years of 

 the second septenniad, were reduced in length, as 

 well as in the whole daily amount, I am far from 

 thinking that the sum total of elementary learning 

 acquired during the sciioiaslic septenniad would 

 thereby be diminished. What is lost in letters 

 will be gained in health; and this profitable ex- 

 change may enable the youth to sustain those in- 

 creased exertions of the intellect which devolve on 

 ulterior stages of scholastic and collegiate disci- 

 pline. It is to he remembered, also, that a majori- 

 ty of pupils are designed for oilier than the learned 

 professions, and to them a modintm of health is of- 

 ten of more value than a magnum of literature. 



No public school should bo without a play- 

 ground; and no play-ground without a gymnasium 

 of some kind, for the lighter modes of athletic ex- 

 •Toise. Tl..: :v.-;i;^-;ng c,'-,"?r-!tus at the iiiilitary 

 asylum in Chelsea, (Eng.) seems well calculated 

 for effecting that combination of active and passive 

 exercise, so peculiarly adapted to the human frame 

 in the present stale of civilization and refinement. 

 We have more mind and less muscle than the Lace- 

 diEinonians : and therefore art must accomplish 

 wh:it slron-th fails to do. !t is in a more advanc- 

 ed period of life that passive exercise is to be pre- 

 ferred to active : in the second septenniad, the lat- 

 ter should have the preponderance. In all gym- 

 nastic exercises, however, great regard should be 

 paid to the constitutions of individuals. There are 

 some youths, with whom disposition to oflcctions 

 of the heart and great blood vessels prevails; and 

 to these, all strong exercise is injurious. Those, 

 also, who are predisposed to pulmonary complaints, 

 must be cautious of athletic exercises." 



GRKEN'S PATENT STRA'W CUTTKB. 



JOSEPH BRECK &^ CO. al iheNew England Agrieul •* 

 loral Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 and.'iZ ISorlh Mar 

 k«t Street, have lor sale. Green's Patent Straw, Hay an<' 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not befon 

 applieJ loony implement for this purpose. The most prom 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the canset|ueD' 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1. So great a reduction of the quanimn of power requisil* 

 to use 11. that the strength of a half grown boy is sutncieol' 

 to work It efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two bush-, 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been claimeill 1 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or steajn ^ 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which they 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any other 

 straw cutler. , 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and pi& 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable as tbn » 

 complicated machines in general use to get out of order. 



APPL.B PARBKS. 



Just received at the New Ensland Agricultural Ware- 



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house, No 51 and ,';2 North Market Street, a good supply od i 

 Slanlnfs Superior Apple Parern, a very useful article. VVith|E 

 one of these machines a bushel of apples may be pared i 

 a very short time in the best possible manner, iind with 

 saving of ihe airple, as the outsides may be taken ofl'ai^anya 

 required thickness. The above is also (or sale at N P. H 

 WILLIS', No 45 North .Market Street, SCl'DDER, COR-'- 

 DIS &. CO., and HOSMER & TAPPAN, Milk Street. 

 Sept. I 6w JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



LiAOrOJUKTERS. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural War**! 

 house. No. 61 and 62, North Market St., a few sets of La&-1 

 loineiers, for testing the quality ol ii.ilk. "' 



June 23 JOSEPH BRECK & CO. ' 



Orde 



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RIIVCR'S NL'RSBRIES AND OARUBNS. 



The New Catalogues arc now ready for diaJ* 

 Iribution ffralis lo all who apply, post paid, per"' 

 il. They comprise an immense assnrimeotf 

 ol t-'ruus and Ornamental Trees, .Shrubbery,' 

 nd Plants, Bulbous Flower Roots, and Oahliaa,' 

 House Plants, Garden Seeds, Sic, all of which aic 

 much reduced prices. 



rs, per mail, to WM. R. PRINCE, Flushing, will rt- 

 rompt attention. 4teow Sept. 8 



The Rfin Dekb. The speed of therein deer 

 is very considerable, and his power in supporting 

 the fatigue of a long journey, very great. His 

 pace, ascertained by an rxpcriment over a short 

 distance, is nineteen miles an hour. Remarkable 

 anecdotes arc told of the Bwiftne.<8 with which rem 

 deer jouniies have been performed. In one in 

 stance, in Jtiy,), an officer who carried Ihe news of 

 an invasion from the frontiers of Norway to Stock- 

 holm, went with n single rein deer and sledge, a 

 dislnnco ot SM) miles in 48 hours — averaging 17 

 \-'i miles per hour. The faithful animal dropped 

 down dead ut the end of his journey. 



He that will not permit his wealth to do any 

 good to others while he is alive, prevents it from 

 doing any good to himself when he is dead ; and by 

 an egotism which is suicidal, cuts himself ofl" from 

 the truest pleasure here, and the highest happiness 

 hereafter — Lacon. 



UltllKDSrO.VBS, ON FRICTION R01.LERS. 



Gnuilstones of dilTerenl sizes hung on friction rollers aad 

 nuived with a fool Ireader, is lound to be a great iinprove- 

 nieiil OH ihe present mode of hanging grindsloncs. The 

 ease with which they move upon the rollers, renders tbem 

 V( ry easy to turn with the loot, by which the labor of one 

 mail is saved, and the person in the acl of grinding, caa 

 govern the slune more lo his mind by having the complete 

 control ol his work. Stones hung in Ihis manner are be- 

 fninui:' daily inure in use, and wherever used, give univer- 

 sal satisfaction. The rollers can be attached to stones bun 

 in the common way. 



for sale i.y JOSEPH BRECK & CO., No». 61 ?.^ li 

 Noiih Market Boston. Jul\ t 



FBNCR CHAINS. 



lived from Kngland, 10,000 feel Chains, su 

 pnr|iascs. For «ale by J. BRK.i 

 Apri 



CO., No. 62 North Market at. 



NEW ENGLAND FA R M E R . 



A WF.KKLT I'APER. 



The Kditorinl department iil'thiN papor having; coma 

 into iho hands oftliB siibsrribir, lie is now antb'inzed 

 by till- publishers to inform the public that tlin price of 

 the pnper is reduced. In future the terms will hi; $t 

 pir veai ill advance, or |(2 &U if not paid within thirty 

 diiys. ALLEN PUINAM. 



N. H.^Postmnslnrs are required by law to frank all 

 sibscripUona niid reniiltnnccs for newspnjmrs, without 

 expense to aubscribers. 



TOTTLB AND DKItlfETT, PMNTERS. 



