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EPITAPH. 



On Thomas Kemp, hanged for Sheep-Slealing. 

 Ileie liis the body of Thomas Kemp. 

 Who lived by wool, but died by hemp; 

 There's nothing would suffice this glutton, 

 But, with the fleece, to steal the mutton ; 

 Had he but work'd, and livM uprighter, 

 He'd ne'er been hung for a sheep-biter. 



Thames Tunnel. — The large and ingenious iron 

 shield, which is destined at once to protect the 

 workmen, and the tunnel itself, from almost a 

 possibility of danger during the operation, is fi-xed 

 and ready to proceed horizontally. The workmen 

 have cut away the brick work, prepuratory to 

 their striking out horizontally under the Thames. 

 This, from the solidity of the work and the hard- 

 ness of the cement, is a laborious work, and ne- 

 cessarily of slow progress. It is hoped that in 

 eighteen months from getting through the wall, 

 the tunnel will be carried to and under the fur- 

 ther shore of the river ; and in the opinion of per- 

 sons most competent to form a correct judgment, 

 the first expectation of complete and ultimate 

 success is increased by all the circumstances 

 which have hitherto attended this iinportant un- 

 dertaking. 



African Travellers. — Major Laing, who is pen- 

 etrating to Timbuctoo from Tripoli, was on the 

 U7\h. Dec. at a place called Tiiat, whence he was 

 to proceed on the morrow, with a large kafila of 

 traders, for his destination. A mectiifg between 

 him and captain Clapperlon in the street of Tom- 

 buctoo, the one from the north and tiie other from 

 the south of Africa, would be a remarkable event. 

 Major Laing was in good health and spirits. 



The Political Primer, or Road to Public Honors, 

 is announced, as published in London. This work 

 contains hints to young candidates, and renders 'the 

 art of electioneering quite easy to the most unprac- 

 tised capacity — Rules for haranguing the populace 

 and for the writing of squibs, are also given in the 

 greatest variety, so as to be adapted to all emerg- 

 ences. 



The following whimsical circumstance and pecu- 

 liar coincidence, it is said, actually took place some 

 time since. A boat ascending the Ohio river was 

 hailed by another boat, when the following con- 

 versation ensued : " What boat is that ?" " The 

 Cherrys/one." Whence came you ?" — " From 

 ReAstone." " Where are you bound to ?" "Lime- 

 stone." Who is your Captain ?" " Thomas Stone." 

 « What are you loaded with r" — " Mi]hto7ics and 

 ^nnistones." "You area hard set, to he sure: 

 take care you don't go to the bottom. Farewell." 



A Good Toast. — The following toast was drunk 

 «t Arlington, the seat of Mr Custis, at the late 

 Jubilee. 



By the Secretary of War. — Lot the people judge 

 af their servants, in whatever grade, by their deeds, 

 rather than by what they say of themselves, or 

 others say for them,always remembering the quaint 

 adat^e, that '-an empty barrel sounds loudest." 



Extravagance is a great enemy to charity. So 

 much is required for ostentatious show, to keep up 

 the appearance of gentility, and to pamper the lux- 

 urious, that nothing can be spared to the misera- 

 ble. — Palladium. 



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<rations to those jicrsons who have sedulously, and 

 with n-uch efiect, directed their attention to the 

 cultivation of the Mulberry tree, and the breeding 

 of silk worms. There are now millions of them in 

 this district. Elderly people and children attend 

 to them, and a great quantity of silk is made. 



[Demo. Press.] 



NOVA SCOTIA. 



A primary object of these letters was to induce 

 the formation of Agricultural Societies, throughout 

 the province, as the most effective means of improv- 

 ing the state of its Agriculture, which, previously 

 to the r.ppearance of the Letters of Agricola, ap- 

 pears to have been at a very low ebb. 



"There the piinciplcs of vegetation were so 

 grossly misconceived, that few even of the farmers 

 imagined that plants, like animals, stood in need 

 of food ; and manures of all kinds were either dis- 

 regarded or shamefully wasted and thrown away. 

 The dirt, by many, was suffered to accumulate 



.MoaUowing fruii tnj.i'Ci. — i loui caiejcioiieds 

 hurry in eating, stones of fruit are often swallow 

 ed whole. Cherry stones are even sometimi 

 knowingly swallowed, from a mistaken notion < 

 their assisting the digestion of that fruit. Tj' 

 practice is highly dangerous, and sliould alwa> 

 be avoided, as alarming obstructions, and inflami 

 tiou of the bowels have been the consequence ■ 

 it. 



Death has not unfrequently happened from th 

 cause without suspicion being attaclicd to tlie tn 

 source of the calamity, nor could relief be givt 

 had it been ascertained. If those who thus wa: 

 tonly trifle with their health knew the structure 

 the alimentary canal, they would easily compr 

 hend the force of the caution, and avoid the pra 

 tice which is the ground of it. 



in twelve hundred millions. 



A Relic. — In the procession of Newburyport 

 the •Ith inst. a banner was carried by Col. Timet 

 Poor, of Amesbury, a revolutionary veteran, wlii 

 was planted on Bunker's Hill in 1775. Its : 

 pearance was truly antique. 



A London paper says, nothing more fully pro- 

 that fortune is blind, than her giving £50,000 

 prices to two members of Parliament, who vol 

 against lotteries. 



liOMAA''. Au elegant, full blooded horse, a bri 

 Bay, with black legs, mane and tail, of high spirit' 



ood temper, will stand at the farm of Mr Stephen \ 

 Hams in Northborough (Ms.) at $20 the season, to 

 paid before the mares are taken away. — See New E 

 lend Farmer, April 14. 



Calculation of Longevity. — A celebrated Mati 



ematician has calculated that taking the age of I' 

 Jefferson to have been 33 years when he sign 

 ... the Declaration, and Mr Adams to have been 



about the barns, until it became a question of ex- | yg^fg^ Hm chance of their both living fifty yet 

 pediency, whether it was less expensive to shift | io,jggr, and dying at their expiration, is only o 

 the ;-ite of a building, or to remove such an intol- ■ 

 erable nuisance ; and several instances are on rec- 

 ord, where the former alternative was preferred." 

 This surest source of fruitfulness was of s6 little 

 value, that the more sagacious farmers frequently 

 obtained the consent of their foolish and ignorant 

 neighbors, not merely to carry off without paying 

 any equivalent, but stipulated to receive some re- 

 compence for their trouble. 



" Before they were published to the Canadians, 

 their agriculture vifas, if the accounts of their 

 former state are correct, about parallel to its state 

 in the time of Abraham and Lot, in tlie patriarchal 

 age ; but since their publication, a new era in agri- 

 culture has been begun in Canada and Nova Sco- 

 tia. Improvement has proceeded with such gigan- 

 tic strides, that already the point from which the 

 Canadians started, is out of sight, and the whole 

 was effected in little more than three years ; and, 

 although the autlior says, " we have not yet reach- 

 ed independence in bread corn, we are rmming to 

 the goal with remarkable celerity." — Young's Let- 

 ters on Agriculture. 



White Wine has been made of the native Grape, 

 growing in Bartram's Garden, near Philadelphia, 

 which is of a superior quality. Col. Robert Carr, 

 the present proprietor of the gardens, besides the 

 grapes consumed at home, and those to be made 

 into wine, expects to have at least 3000 of excel- 

 lent grapes in the market for sale. 



We are told that all the Ilourty .Coaches estab- 

 lished to run between Boston and the adjacent 

 flourishing towns, enjoy a fine bssiness, and tlie 

 proprietors regret they did not establish them 

 sooner. Betw-een Boston and Charlestown four 

 are moving to and fro, every hour. — Palladium. 



Paper Clocks. — Among the recent inventions 

 which have sprung out of the ingenuity of the 

 French, is a curious one of making clocks of pa- 

 per. These horologes ou pendides en carton are 

 asserted to be an improvement on metallic machi- 

 nery. They never require oil, are wonderfully 

 liu-ht, very simple in their movements, and possess 

 (the maker says) many other advantages. A friend 

 of ours, who has seen them, informs us that they 

 are capital things, go well for thirty hours with- 

 out winding up, and cost only fifty francs. 



REFRIGERATORS, manufactured under the 

 rection of the subscriber, and for sale at his couni 

 house in Sea Street, Wheeler's Point. 



The principal use of these articles is for the presi 

 ation of Meat, Butter, Milk, &c. and for cooling Wi 

 and other liquors. Their excellence consists in 

 great power of the non-conductor, together with 

 mode of diffusing colditess in them. A small quan 

 of ice is sutBcient to produce a uniform and powe 

 effect. 



A large* assortment constantly on hand, which 

 offered at reasonable prices. ALLEN PRATT 



Boston, .luly 21, 1«2G. 



JUST published, by Wells & Lilly, the Ediubu 

 Review for February 1826. 



CONTENTS. 



1. Thoughts on Banking. 



2. Wanderings in South America, the North V 

 of the United States, and the Antilles. 



3. Thoughts on the advancement of .Academical 

 acation in England. 



4. Considerations on the Timber Trade. 



5. Irish Novels. 



fi. The Hindu Chinese Nations. 



7. Granby. A Novel. 



8. Colonial Slavery. 



9. Scotch Entails. 

 10. Stale of Ireland. 



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