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NEW ENGLAND FARxMBR. 



Jan. 5. 1H'>7. 



saiscia.i.ANiiis. 



JVtw- Yearns MdrCss to the Patrons of the 

 NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



ONCE more, my friends, a New-Year's day 

 Demands your Carrier's annual lay, 

 Bids liim again appear before ye 

 In what Pope styles "a flood of gloryj" 

 Alias, a cataract of rhyme, 

 Most inexpressibly sublime ; — 

 Scale heaven by one gymnastic hop I — 

 Stop, stop, my Pegasus, stop, stop '. 

 Our poet's nag will make a wreck 

 Of bag and baggage, noil and neck — 

 Though heartless critics sdowl and scoff, 

 We must, as he gels on, get off. 

 And trudge along in gingled prose, 

 Like one, who following his uose, 

 A plain and turnpike path to trace 

 Moves at a go-to-njeeting pace. 



Good, gentle patrons; one and all, 

 I take the liberty to call 

 That I may let you.kuow, as how. 

 This is my nicest new year's bow ; 

 Not cut out in a dancing school. 

 Nor madt up, by a cockney-rule ; 

 But hope 'twill pass for a correct 

 Mute manifesto of respect. 

 I've ta'cn the freedom to appear, 

 To wish you a propitious year. 

 Just hint at services I've render'd 

 And those I hope may still be tender'd 

 Then , with your worship's licence till 

 Take leave in diplomatic style. 



I think there is not one in ten 

 Thousand that does more good to men— • 

 vVorks for their welfare with more fervent 

 Zeal than your most obedient servant. 

 For this, to wit, for that, whereas 

 I know of nobody that has 

 Giv'n to the world more useful matters 

 Than our New England Farmer scatters. 

 Where'er its pages you examine 

 Tou find us still at war with famine, 

 Or giving battle to disease, 

 Without a cent lor Doctor's fees. 

 In short we place our whole delight 

 In doing good with all our might. — 

 Tell how the head should guide the hand 

 To make an Eden of your land ; — 

 Have shed such light on rural labours 

 Your farm's a model for your neighbours. 

 Look ! only look ! says every one, 

 What Mister — such an one has done ! 

 His farm, the essence of fertility, 

 Is manag'i with such great abilily, 

 His crops, with less of toil and trouble, 

 Beat mine, in fact, by nearly double, 

 And he lays heaps of cash aside, who 

 Don't labour half so hard as 1 dn. 

 I, with great difficulty clear 

 My way along from year to year. 

 And scarcely 'scape the Sheriff's clutches ; 

 He turns to gold whate'er he touches ! 

 Indeed, good Sir, and well he might. 

 No man works hard, who works it right. 

 The enlighten'd head, pray understand, 

 Makes light the labour of the hand, 



The farmer's toils (in Hudihrastics,) 

 Are agricultural gymnastics — 

 Mere rural sports, coi;ibiniiig health 

 Peace, innocence, weal, wisdom, wealth. 



The precept! I am weekly giring 

 Tend to make life one long thanksgiving. 

 It follows therefore, truth to fell, 

 None but my self's my parallel I 

 Comparing nie to Alexander, 

 Or Bonaparte, 's magnific slander. 

 For they laid waste the works of God, 

 And on the necks of mankind trod, — 

 Were, bloody, barbarous and base 

 Deslroyers of the human race. 

 But I, although a puny shaver; 

 Might well be styl'd my country's Sattr ; 

 A man who saves men's livee by giving 

 Good rules to save their means of living. 



Thus it appears I am a sage 

 And useful sort of personage. 

 And something due to me I trust is. 

 For balancing the scales of justice, 

 To wit, a nine pence, or a quarter. 

 For which our mouth begins to water ; 

 Or, if no other change be handy, 

 A pistareen will be the dandy ; 

 To enable me, in these hard times 

 To gingle cash, as well as rhymes. 

 Good wishes then, with thanks appended 

 Shall Btill by gratitude be blended. 

 May you enjoy through life's career 

 All that can make you happy here. 

 And, when at length you cease to live 

 All that Eternity can give, 



Boston, Jan. 1, 1827. 



(lunUfi cation for Freedom — When a periion la 

 up liis treeilom in Alnwick, he is obliged by 

 cliarter of that place to jump into an adjacent 1 

 and sink up to his chin. This custom was impol 

 by King Jolin, who, travelling that way, 

 horse sinking fast in the hole, took this method 

 punish the people of the town for not keeping 

 road in better order. — Lincoln Mercury. 



A swimming school is about to be opened 

 the convenience of such of the inhabitants of! 

 don as wish to be taught how to swim, 

 times," said Sir Wm. Curtis, " are peculiarly gl 

 ed to the establishment, as most persons find itj 

 ficult to keep their heads above water." 



If there be many things between heaven 

 earth, of which our philosophy never dreame( 

 has, on the other hand, dreamed of many thi( 

 which are not to be found any where. 



CANTHARIDES. 



. The cantharides (Spanish flies used for bliste 

 are very abundant in Sicily, and that country fui 

 ishes a great part of Europe. The Sicilians belij 

 that they come from Asia or Egypt, for they arri 

 regularly every year in swarms, in the last days 

 May and the first of June. The peasants kit 

 by the odor which tliey shed, that they are l 

 far off, and after they have seen them aligiit U{ 

 an olive tree,(this kind of tree particularly attr* 

 them) they come early in the morning and sprt 

 a great sheet under the tree ; the tree is shal 

 and the flies fall upon the sheet. They ore tl 

 put into earthen vessels and killed by sprinkl 

 them with vinegar from time to time. Th.y 

 afterwards dried, and packed in tight boxi 

 casks. [Hamp. Gai 



Wood, who wrote some account of New Eng- 

 land, in 1033, says Dorchester was then the larg- 

 est settlement or town in the Bay. He also re- 

 marked that there was much cleared land about 

 Moufit Wollaston, The greatest Sachem in Mas- 

 sachusetts lived in that vicinity, and near Ncpon- 

 set river. His name was Chichatanbut. His son 

 and grand-son were friendly to the English. 



In 1629, Plymouth contained .300 inhabitants. — 

 But soon after Boston was settled, 1030, it became 

 the capital of the country, and its good people took 

 the lead and began to dictate ; for which some 

 think they have been remarkable to the present 

 time. 



•A Seasonable Hint. — Mr Sergeant Popham, 

 when Speaker of the House of Commons, which 

 had sat long and done nothing, coming one day 

 to Queen Elizabeth, she said to him " Now, Mr 

 Speaker, what has passed in the House ?" He an- 

 swered, " May it please your M&]eaty , eleven %oeeks! 



When the learned John Selden was a member 

 of the famous assembly of divines at Westminster, 

 who were appointed to new model religion, he used 

 to delight in puzzling them with curious quibbles. 

 In one of these debates these venerable sages were 

 gravely employed in determining the distance be- 

 tween Jerusalem and Jericho ; and one of them, 

 to prove that it could be but a short distance, ob- 

 served that_^s/( was carried from one place to the 

 other. On which Mr Selden said, " Perhaps it was 

 salt fish." This remark threw the determination 

 again into uncertainty. 



Ornamental and Fruit Trees, Shrubs, Plants, 

 D. & C. LANDRF.TH. 

 J^urseri/, Seedsmen, and Florists, 



PHILADEI.PniA, 



HAVE constantly on hand for sale, a veiy i 

 collection of Fruit Trees, Hardy Ornamental 'I'ncs 

 -hrubs. Green House Plants, Bulbous Roots, fiai 

 ■-•eeds, &c, iic not e.xreeded by any similar (stab 

 menl in the United States. 



In their selection of FRUITS for cultivation, e 

 care and attention has been paid, and from :. n ii:!. 

 ry with the subject of many years, they believe it i 

 judieiouslv. 



The ORNAMENTAL PLANTS, both tender 

 hardy, which they are now cultivating, are some of I 

 most esteemed and admired of both native and es>| 

 origin. 



'Ihc GARDEN SEEDS, of which a large and g 

 ral assortment is cultivated, are exclusively of t 

 own rearing, for which purpose a number of acrei 

 tached to the establishment are appropriated, and I 

 the moment they are planted, throuph all the var 

 stages of their growth and ripening are under their 

 mediate care and superintendence, consequently I 

 are enabled to assure purchasers not only of their: 

 but quality. 



Persons ordering any of the articles on their e 

 logue, mtiy be assured of having them well and sa 

 packed, and of every attention being paid to them, 

 that tbey will give satisfaction. 



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 No. 9 Congress-square, near the Exchange Ct 

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 whole may be had gratis. tf. Dec. 1- 



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 pay within sixty days from the time of subscribing, 

 entitled to a deduction of Fifty Cents. 



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 ae entitled to a sixth volume gratis. 



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