NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 



would eat her body up, under such cu-cumstanees, 

 in less than a year and a half, while the other 

 would give a clear profit of nearly $17 p^er year, 

 allowing the same expense of keeping, occ. iiut 

 makint' $5 allowance for extra expense of interest 

 keeping and tending, and there would still re- 

 main a clear profit of about $12 per year, or the 

 interest of $200, and a difference in the profits ot 

 the two of about $25 per year A good cow, 

 with good keeping, ought to afford 300 lbs. or 

 more of butter yearly 



ABOUT HO RSES. 



The old horse that does not earn more than a 

 half dollar per week, the year round, will cost tor 

 keeping and shoeing not less, certainly, than $oU 

 in a year. Suppose him to be worth S20, and 

 see how the gain or loss will be. Interest on ^20 

 for one year will be $1,20 ; taxes we will ca 1 10 

 c^nts; cost of keeping and shoeing $50 ; making 

 a total of $51,30. Service of the horse at 50 

 cents per week, $26. This subtracted from $51 30 

 leaves a bill against the old horse of $25,30. Ihis 

 is $5 30 more than the horse was worth at the 

 beo-inning of the year. The old horse has eaten 

 his°body up, and is ready to go about doing it 

 again. Pretty soon he will swallow down a calf 

 oravearlincr, or perhaps a small cow, besides 

 eating himself up. Whether farmers will continue 

 to keep such kinds of creatures is a matter tor 

 them to inquire into. 



As to dogs and dandies, they are generally 

 about as much profit to a farm as the itch is to a 

 family of children. They keep the farmer scratch- 

 ing all of the time, to make a poor hving. ihey 

 are not fit to throw to the hogs, and they eat 

 themselves all up for a breakfast every day they 

 live All the use we can think profitably ot mak- 

 ing of them is to put them into the poultry yard 

 to help the Shanghai roosters to crow. 

 Mason, N. H. 



illeil)anic3' Department, ^Tlvts, ^c. 



five hours and three-quarters ! This is the quick- 

 est time ever made over the road. Twenty-five pas- 

 sengers enjoyed this whirling through the air. 



Bow's Department. 



A FLOGGING MASTER OF THE LAST 

 CENTURY. 



HoosicK Tunnelling Machine.— A writer in the 

 Traveller furnishes a long report of the doings of 

 this machine, the substance 'of which is, that 

 though difficulties incident to the magnitude and 

 novelty of the machinery have been encountered, 

 its ultimate success is considered certain by those 

 best acquainted with it. He says : 



"It may be proper to state that among those 

 who have witnessed these operations, are some of 

 the best engineers and most scientific gentlemen 

 in the United States. They have, without an in- 

 dividual exception, expressed a flivorable opinion 

 of the principle on which its superior excellence is 

 founded, and believe it will not disappomt the ex- 

 pectations of its numerous friends and well-wish- 

 ers The directors of the Troy and Greenfield 

 Railroad Company are satisfied that its success is 

 sure, as their expectations are more than real- 

 ized." 



^=- Fast Travelling.-The express train which 

 left Boston at 4 P.M. Sunday, with _ the English 

 mails for the South, reached the depot m New lork 

 S quarter before 10 o'clock, making the passage in 



In the volumes of J^Iiscellanies by De Quincy, 

 iust publisliedin this country, the "opium eater 

 thus describes Bowyer, a teacher, who rebgiously 

 adhered to the doctrines contained in the oldjro- 

 verb, of "Spare the rod and spoil the child : -- 



"The third person raised to divine honors by 

 Coleridge was Bowyer, the master of Christ a 

 Hospital, London— a man whose name rises into 

 the nostrils of all who knew him with the gracious 

 odor of a tallow-chandler's melting house upon 

 melting day, and whose memory is embalmed m 

 the hearty detestation of all his pupils. Coleridge 

 describes this man as a profound critic. Our idea 

 of him is different. We are of opinion that Bow- 

 yer was the greatest villain of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury. We may l)e wrong ; but we cannot be tar 

 wron^. Talkofknouting indeed! which we did 

 at th? beginning of this paper in the mere play- 

 fulness of our hearts— and which the great master 

 of the knout, Christopher, who visited men s tres- 

 passes like the Eumenides, never resorted to but 

 in love for some great idea which had been out- 

 raged : why, this man knouted his way through 

 life, from bloody youth to truculent old age. Grim 

 idol' whose altars reeked with children's blood, 

 and whose dreadful eyes never smiled except as 

 the stern goddess of the Thugs smiles, when the 

 I sound of human lamentations inhabits her tears. 

 So much had the monster fed upon the great idea 

 ' of 'fioc'o-ing' and transmuted it into the very nutri- 

 ment of his heart, that he seems to have conceived 

 the gigantic project of flogging all mankind ; nay 

 worseffor Mr. Gilman, on Coleridge's authority, 

 tells us (p. 24) the following anecdote : 



'Sirrah Til flog you,' were words so famihar to 

 him, that on one occasion some female friend ot 

 one of the boys (vrho had come on an errand ot in- 

 tercession), still lingering at the door, after having 

 been abruptly told to go, Bowyer exclaimed- 

 'Bring that woman here, and I'll flog her. 



Novel School Regulations.— A Canadian paper 

 gives the following as the literal copy of the rules 

 tnd rcmlations adopted by the school trustees ot 

 schoollection No. 14, in the township of Nissouri„ 

 Oxford. It is worthy;)f preservation as a curiosity 

 of literature : — , ,, , ^i, 



"Thou Shalt not lie thou shalt not swear thou 

 Shalt not speak a smoty or blagard talk thou shalt 

 not steal thy neighbor's dinner his mk or handle his 

 books or anything that is his. ,.04. 



"No whispering no laughing no leaving beats 

 with liberty nor medole with books Slates pens nor 

 ink without liberty no quarreling no lying no Swear- 

 ino- Stealing nor telHng tales out of schools no dis- 

 puting no bad language no fitting no pushing each 

 other in the mud nor in the ditch on the road 



home . , , 



"Any children coming without proper books 

 their parents to be no te fiyed by a letter if not 

 punctually attended to shall be liable to be dismissed 

 from school." 



