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NEU ENGLAND FARMER. 



DEC. an, 1S4I. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



TEMPERANCE HYMN. 



TnHE : — " Zion,"— from tiie Boston Academy's Col- 

 leelion of Cliurtli Musir. 



Fhom ilipriiounliiin top and valh'y, 

 t-Vf ! llic banner struaming high ! 

 While the sons of freednm rally, 

 To the ividuvv's lonely cry. 

 Sisters weeping, 

 Bill us lo tiic rescue fly. 



Now the trump of Temperance sounding, 



Rouse ! ye freemen, why delay .' 

 Let your voices all resounding, 



Welcome on the happy day 

 When that tyrant 

 Must resign his crm^l sw.iy. 



Nor again shall hci molest us, 



(Though ho has oppross'd us sore) 



Nor his (loi.sonous breath infest us — 

 Soonwell drive him from our shore," 

 All uniling — 



Shout— the monster's reign is o'er. 



Could we hear the mother pleading, 

 Heaven relief would quickly send; 



Can we sec our country bleeding, 

 Still refuse our aid to lend ? 

 No ! dread monster, 



Here thy triumph soon shall end. 



Must »>'e sec ihc drunkard reeling, 



(Void ol reas'n) tu the grave. 

 Whiro's the hcrl so dead lo feeling— 



Who would not the wanderer saver 

 Uod of merry, 

 'Tis thy blessing now wecraTo. 



Dearest Saviour, oli, relieve us, 



Unto tliee wc humbly bow, — 

 Let that fiend no more decrive us. 



Grant thy loving favor now ; 



While against him 



Here we pledge a sacred vow. 



PREVENTIO.M BETTER THAN CURE. 

 Upon this proverb as a text, the Newburyport 

 Herald sermonizes thus: 



If all the wisdom e.Tprcsaed in old and homely 

 uttered proverbs, were reduced to practice,' the 

 world would speedily chanfje its face for the better. 



They arc, many of them, the concentrated judg. 

 ment of ages, ilio essence of human thought 

 and experience. Even as acres of flowers are 

 pressed and distilled, to extract a few drops of the 

 otto of roses — even so our homely proverbs are 

 the brief and invaluable results of much argument 

 and much observation — of the long lives and variid 

 fortunes of the race. How pitliy and significant 

 they are ! They are almost enough in themselves 

 to teach men how to live, guides and finger posts 

 ■11 along the road, Uiroiigh tiiiin. Just think of a 

 few of tliein. "Rolling stones gotlier no moss." 

 How many rovers, without home, money, or reputa- 

 tion, liavc proved that to their cost and shame. 

 "Long lived trees make roots firsL" Without a 

 good foundation, the costliest superstructure will 

 not last. " Idleness is the inolher of mischief." 

 Every body who has dealt wiili loafers or children 

 knows that. "Haste makes waste." " Make huy 

 while the stin shines" — and many others to be 

 found ill Poor Richard's Almanac and elsewhere — 

 how full of meaning the whole tribe ! But 

 among them all there is none whose counsel it 

 were better to follow, than this — "an ounce of 

 prevention is worth a pound of cure." Lotus take 

 it for a tuxl to a short disuourKc, part of which wc 

 will give now, and the rest, when the mood takes 



Uf. 



If soci.ely did half as much to prevent evils as 



it does to remedy them, society would exhibit a 

 vast deal more of common sense, enjoy a vast deal 

 more of peace and comfort, than it does now. Ma- 

 ny arc the modern schemes for the reformation of 

 the world ; but none of them will do much, unless 

 they remove the enxises of ignorance and vice. 

 Some schemes have this for tlieir object. But still 

 very little, comparatively speaking, is done to an- 

 ticipate and guard against trouble. It is a poor 

 time to build forts, when the enemies batteries are 

 already pouring out their hot shot. It is miserable 

 policy to shut the barn door, after the horse is 

 stolen — and you cannot pump the ship dry until 

 you have stopped the leak. Voters will not study 

 the cimstilution on election day, and lessons on 

 the rights of property are not very efficacious, if 

 the teaching of them be left to tread mills. Yet 

 not much more wisely does the community act. 

 Crops of crime grow as regularly as crops of corn ; 

 and there is an annual harvest of sin, ju.^t as there 

 is an annual harvest of wheat. Somebody has re- 

 marked, tliat among every generation of babies, al- 

 though you cannot pick him out, there is the poet, 

 orator, hero, painter, of the coming age : in short, 

 some one to fill every place death makes vacant. 

 This is true, and what is worse, it is also true that 

 a regular supply of vagabonds, thieves, incendia- 

 ries — whole armies of miserable wretches, arc born 

 and reared up, to people jaile and adorn the gal- 

 lows. Alas that it should be so ! but so it is. So 

 much so, that many appear to think it a settled 

 fact, that there must be just en much wickedness 

 propagated from age to age, and kept alive and ac- 

 tive in the world. But this idea is a libel upon 

 Providenco. Vice and pauperism are not necessa- 

 ry. If society did not sow them, society would 

 not reap them. Neglect a field, and weeds will 

 grow : feed a horse on shavings and lie will die. 

 Exactly so with the lords of creation : the laws of 

 their nature, and of their being must be obeyed, 

 or they will, to a greater or less exient, be a 

 plague to themselves and to tlieir fellows. This is 

 simple truth. Every body admits it, but few act 

 upon it. It is as certain that ignorant e and idle- 

 ness will |)rodiice crimo, as it is that fire will 

 caii.se gunpowder to explode, 

 prevent evils, we shall surely have enough of them 

 to cure ; yet to do the former would not cost any 

 more than it now costs to do the latter. Are peo- 

 ple aware how much they are regularly taxed to 

 .support crime ? 'I hose massive court houses, pen- 

 itentiaries, prisons, and alms-houses — these armies 

 of watchmen, constables, and sheriffs, take a great 

 deal of money out of our pockets. The appropri- 

 ation the current year, by the county of Sufl'olli, 

 for prisons, courti?, and house of correction, is only 

 folly thousand dollars ! and this is not the whole 

 of the bill. But it cannot be helped. Why not? 

 Oh ! because people are very near-si'»hted — have 

 a strange fancy of saving at the spiggot and losing 

 at the bung-hole, and believe in one sense that 

 "siinicicnt unto Ihc day is the evil thereof." If 

 thry would only look a liltic way into the future, 

 and act upon the principle, that In villages and 

 towns the end should be vinn and not money — that 

 the only truly prosperous places are those where 

 human souls grow and prosper — that, as Dr Chaii- 

 ning says, "Of all the fine arts in a city, the 

 grandest is the art of forming noble specimens of 

 huiiianily," if people, we say, would only act on 

 this doftriuo, the millenium mighl not come, but 

 something like the dawn of better days might be 

 anticipated. 



A Black Jokt No man loved a good joke 1 ^ 



ter, or was more addicted to the indulg'ence of 

 mirth-loving propensities, than the late li, 

 Payne, of Plymouth county, Mass. Among 

 inferior officers of the Court over which the Ju 

 presided, was one Qiiasho, a negro, who was 

 ployed to make fires, sweep the Court House, 

 One day, when coming out of the Court House 

 encountered Quasho. 



'■ Well, Quash, what news ?" 

 " Ila'nt hecrd any ; you heerd any, mi 

 Payne ?" 



" Yes, Quash — the devil is dead." 



" Ha'nt heerd he dead before," said Quash, 

 kntw he been in pnin [I'ayne] long time .S'c/t 



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GR::EN'S PATS;NT SrUA'WCUTTKR. 



JOSRPH ERECK & CO. at the New England Aei 

 liiral Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 and.'.i North 

 kei Strecl, have lor sale, Green's Palent Straw, Hd) 

 Stalk Culler, operating on a mechanicci principle nol I 

 B|iplied to any implement lor this pur|>ose. The mo^l ( 

 ineiit effecis of this application, and some of the tiin5e< 

 pccuharilics of the machine are : 



I . So great a redoclion of the quantum ol power reqi 

 to use it, that the sircuglh of a half grown boy is fulfil 

 to work it efficiently. 



a. With even this moderate power, it easilycutstwoll 

 els a minute, which is full twice as lasl us has been cIm 

 by any oiher machine even • hen worked by hon 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whicbl 

 cut, require sharpening less oflen than those ol any 

 straw cutler. 



4, Tlie machine is simple in its conslruclion, made ai 

 together very stronjsly. It is iherelbre not so liable 

 coinplicalcd machines in general use lu get out ofoi 



APPLiE^ P.\RKI<8. 



Just received at the New Eneland Agricultural \* 

 house. No SI and S2 Norlh Maiket Street, a good sup|| 

 Stanley's Superior Apple J'arers, a very useful ariici 

 So if we do nol """-■ "' ''"^*^ machines a bushel of apples may he pan 

 a very short time in the best |x>ssiblc manner, and willL. 

 saving nf ihc apple, as the uulsides may l>e taken off' 

 required ibickness. The ahove is also lor sale al N 

 WILLIS', No. 45 Norlh Market Street, SCUDL>KR, 

 DlSAi CO., and HOSMER& TAPIMN, iMilk Si 

 Sept. 1 ow JOSEPH BRECK & 



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<,)UINDSTU.\BS, ON FRICTION ROt-LEI 



Grindstones of different sizes hung oa friction rullci 

 moved with a loot Ireader, is found lo be a gre 

 ment on the present mode of hanging grinUsi 

 ease with which they move upon the rollers, rei 

 very easy to turn with the loot, by which the hi 

 ■nan is saved, and the person in the act of gi i 

 govern the sionc inure lo his miud hy having i\> 

 control of his work. Stones hnng in this m.ii 

 coining daily more in use, and wherever used, i; 

 sal satislucliun. Tfie rollers can he attached lo : 

 in I he coniniun way- 



Korsale i,y JO^EI'Il URECK Sl CO., Nos 

 North Market lio-.ioii. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMK 



A WF.KRLT PAHFR. 



The Editorial dcparlnienl oflbis paper Imvn 

 into the hands of the subscriber, lie is now au 

 by the publishers to inlorm the public that the 

 the pnpei is reduced. In future ihn terms wii 

 pur year in "(fronOj or l('2 .'iJ if nol paid wji hi 

 days. ALLEN I'l I .NAI 



N. U. — I'ostinaslors are permitted by law 

 •iibacrlptions and remittances fur Dewspu| 

 ex[rt'nsu to Biibs(!ribers. 





rUTTLB AHD DENIfETT, PRIHTF.H9. 



