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NEW Ei\ GLAND FARMEK. 



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grass is cut ill the proper seaeou for making tii^ : dren. No sleigh-rides, no driinken-l)oi.its, no k f'"',y. 

 best hay and tlic most of it. It is not mown so : ing of liorses, no dancing all night to gratif- 



taste for frolickintf and fashionable amu 



early as to be what some people call wishy-washy, | vils 



nor allowed to stand so late as to lose all its sweet ments. Nevertheless, Willy Snug is no nigga 

 and nourishing juice, and drop off its seed and | There is not a more bountiful table than his in I 

 blades in handling, leaving nothing for the poor parish ; and we are informed by those who ha ijj'"'"'' 

 horses and catllo bnt the bare, sear, good-for- , slept at bis house, that softer beds than his nei 

 nothing stalk. And when the grass is cut, the , invited to sweet slunibc-rs and happy dreams. 



and so well fenced, that in a tolerable season it 

 cannot help rendering a good account of itself at 

 the time of harvest. Willy Snug knows as well 

 as any other man the value of manure Of course. 



boys are amongst it with their ralics &. pitciifoiks, j Cut, speaking of these things, rominda us iY 

 and keep it ii:oving as long as the sun shines, and i no little credit is duo to Willy's wife. And i 

 until it is proper y cured and fitted for tlie mow, dcrd our description of a good farmer would 



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THE GOOD FARMER. 



Willy Snug, or Snug Willy, as he is somolimos 

 v-.alled, is a good farmer. I do not mean by this 

 that he cultivates a vast deal of land ; but what he 

 undertakes to cultivate, he manages in the best 

 manner, and reaps more profit from his sin .11 farm, 

 than others do from their large ones. It is not 

 those who plant and sow the most, who gather in 

 the most abundant harvest. 



Willy Snug has no unprofitable land on his farm. 

 Every rod is required to produce ils duo propor- 

 tion of the yearly crops. Nor is this unroiisonable, I where it may be seen the ne.xt spring as bright |-incomplete without naming " his better half" 

 for the ground is so well manured, so well tilled, and sweet as when first stowed aivay. Willy i the same account ; for one can no more be a go 



Snug is equally careful in the preservation of bis l farmer with a good-for-nothing v^'ife, than lai 

 : grain, and usually gets si.t-pence more for every the ocean dry with a si 



i bushel he sells than his neighbors, by reason of known among all her neighbors for making ti jje 

 his judicious management. As for hay, he avers very best of butter and choose; and as for ciiM (jstii'' 

 he suffers none to be lost, nor indeed any thing that he can rarely aflbrd to sell it, for with ever^ ing a dish of meat, making a batch of bread, ai 

 out of which manure may bo made. Vou do not load of hay, he is obliged to part with a load or I preparing a fine cup of coflce, her superior toQ, 

 year after year in more of manure, and thus far is impoveri-jliing his , not easily be found. Her 

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.see large heaps of dung lyin 



his barn yard, for want of carrying out. He is 

 not afraid of soiling his fingers with the dung-carl, 

 well knowing that no man can keep his liands 

 cleaner of debts, lawsuits, shorilfs, and the jail. 

 He has a sort of hollow scooped out, ueav his barn, 

 which he calls ''the cafc7(-aH,"and into which, 

 straw, weeds, ashes, the refuse of the wood-pile, 

 the cellar, and the kitchen, and whatever else may 

 be converted into manure, arc constantly thrown. 

 The consequence is, that ho carries oat of this 

 place yearly several loads of e.'ccellent manure, 

 and brings back in return a number of bushels of 

 as good, sound corn as ever a granary was filled 

 withal. Willy Snug is a mortal enemy to bad til-' 

 lago. His soil is always ploughed in the vary best 

 manner, well«harro\ved, and made mellow for the 

 ?eed. Notwithstanding the well krtown saying, 

 that " more corn grows in croohcd rows than in 

 straight ones," his rows are planted as straight as 

 an arrow, so that in ploughing between them he 

 is not obliged to tack every rod or two, like a ves- 

 sel sailing with a head wind. And as he is par 

 ticular in the preparation of the soil, and planting 

 the seed, so he docs not stand with his hands in 

 his pockets after planting. His hoes of which he 

 !ias the best kind, are bright and, as it v.'eie, pol- 

 ished with labour. Not a weed is allowed to 

 .'laim a right to his fields by long possession. In 

 (act, he ejects them (as the lawyers say) by a sum- 

 mary process. In the time of a cirouglit, he does 

 not keep tuning his eyes to the clouds wiih 'i lack- 

 ulaisal countenance, and exclaiming, '• there will 

 'le no corn this year!" while his fields are baking 

 'o death for want of ploughinn- and hoeing. He is 

 ■onstantly on his feet, stirring the ground, and 

 keeping its bosom open to the dews and whatever 

 moisture may bo gained from the atmosphere, or 

 from the earth beneath. And while the corn of 



"use, her furniture, hi (, to 



Berkshire Ai^erican. 



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Ei'ilGRA'riON. ''"^° 



.'\ letter was received on Tuesday from Lot "f 

 Iliiinilton, stating that Government intended 

 advance as much public funds as would take oi 

 to Upper Canada, CtMIO emigrants from Scotlai 

 6CC0 from Ireland, and 4000 from England. Th 



to be e.iclueivoly weavers, the number of pel tu.^i 

 sons in Scotland who petitioned to be taken t 

 Canada, is stated at 18000. — Clasgow pa 



his neighbor Look-on is drooping its head rolling to the rain.' And when these maHers are dis 

 ,ts blades with thirst, that of Willy Snuo- is green 

 and flourishing and finally yields a reasonable if 

 not abundant harvest 



Willy Snug is well aware of the effect of mois- 

 ture in producing plentiful crops. Of course, 

 wherever the water can be turned by raising a 

 small dam and digging a channel, it is done, and 

 the refreshing element spread in gentle and al- 

 most invisible rills over the surface of his mea- 

 dows ; which are always to be seen smiling an^ 

 verdant. nnA nnnimll,. t..^r^o,.;„™ *i._ _.__ m 



I children, every thing is in order. And yet, w liatlif 

 In regard to buildings and fences, Willy .Snug jaro credibly informed, she never scolds, not eve jllemii 

 is emphatically what his name implio.''. Every on a washing day ! In short, J.Iargaret Snug is ti iJoiis 

 thing is snug about them. His buildings are nev- i same within doors that Willy Snug is wilho( 

 cr to be seen, like those of his neighbor Lookon, and " tliey twain," in all the duties, cliarilics, an 

 glazed with old hats, and painted by the hands of i comforts. of life, arc emphatically " one flesh." 

 time and the weather. On the contrary, every 

 window has ils due proportion of glass, and every 

 inch of wood-work its appropriate covering of oil 

 and paint. The stone walls are well built and in 

 good condition ; not a pannel, or any part of one, 

 is wanting in his rail fences; and the posts in- 

 stead of standing every way like a company of 

 raililia, are set in so straight a lino that you might 

 take sight over the tops of a hundred of Iheni as 

 well as on the barrel of a rifle. There are no 

 briars, no bushes, no thistles, no tall unsightly - 

 weeds growing beside the fences ; but all is 

 smooth, neat, and productive as the rest of the en- 

 closure. 



John Wesley used to say that farmers were the 

 most discontented race of beings in the world ; 

 that they were never satisfied either with God or 

 man. If this account be true, Willy Snug is cer- 

 tainly an exception. He takes the seasons as 

 they come, discharges his own duty, and leaves 

 the rest to Heaven. He is not always complain- 

 ing of the weather, as being too hot or too cold, 

 too wet or too dry, and taking occasion from this 

 dissatisfaction to neglect his business. He has 

 no horribly dull days, no time in which he cannot 

 work. He is not seen of a rainy afternoon loiter- 

 ing at tlie tavern, or going away two or three 

 miles with a fish pole en his shoulder. He always 

 finds something to do at home. An axe is to bo 

 ground, a rake to be mended, seeds to be prepar- 

 ed for planting, and a thousand other thinifs to be 

 ttended to, which can be done without exposure 



cliarged, there is another, which Willy Snug is 

 careful not to neglect, viz. reading the newspa- 

 per. In fact, he affirms it to be an infallible rem- 

 edy for the " blues," and worth all the whiskey, 

 rum and brandy in neighbor signpost's bar. 



The same ijidustry, the same good manage- 

 ment, and the same cheerful humour attend upon 

 Willy Snug throughout the year. He does not 

 throw away in winter the hard earned and prec- 

 ious products of liis summer's labor. His time is 



nfrnu 7 ='"""«">' ■■«P=iy'"? tl'e sm.all expense 1 spent in feeding and taking care of his stock, lav- 

 ot culuvation in double and triple crops of excel-; ,ng in a year's supply of wood, and, during the 

 'IvLi , ^""'" '" "''' '"^'^"'-^ "f "=^t"f « tli'-own J long winter evenrngs,' in improving his own-mind 

 -way in haying time by bad management. Thef! bv reading, and improving the minds of his cliil- 



Milk Diet. — An English writer, in a treatise 

 milk, states in his recommendation of milk as 

 article of diet, that the town of Kendall in En^ 

 land, where more milk is used in proportion to tl^i 

 number of inhabitants, than in any other town ii 

 England, furnishes more instances of longevii 

 and fewer deaths among cliildrcn than any otbi 

 town. 



To die Cotton a Buff Cntor.—Lct the twirl (^ 

 yarn be boiled in pure water, to cleanse it ; the 

 wring it, run it through a dilute solution of iro 

 in the vegetable acid, which painters call iron i 

 quor ; wring and run it through lime water, 

 raise it: wring it again, and run it through a sd 

 lulion of starch and water ; then wring it ono 

 more, and dry, wind, warp, and >veave it for us| 



To take out Grease Sjiutsfrom a Carpet, or ant 



other ivootlm Clnth Dissolve a piece of pearlash 



of the size of a pea, in half a leu cup of warm wa 

 ter, or a piece twice the si.:e, in a full tea cup.- 

 Pour some of the solution on a grease spot, anJ 

 continue to rub it with a clean brush or woolleri 

 cloth, until it is nearly dry. and your carpet o^ 

 garment will be clean as ever. 



The " Banksian Modal" of the London Horti-' 

 cultural society has been awarded to a gentleman; 

 of Albany, for a barrel of American apples em- 

 bracing twenty varieties, forwarded to the Socie- 

 ty l«st winter. 



St.. Giles's Church, in London, has now an illu-- 

 minated dial : the clock, by its own revolution, 

 lights itself as soon as the sun sets, and extin- 

 guishes the same when the sun rises. 



