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i\EW ENGLAND FARMER. 



March 



Bon's Pcpirtmcnt. 



KINDNESS TO THE AGED. 



My young friends, let me claim your kindness 

 for the old. They are well entitled to your sym- 

 pathy. Through this bright world they move 

 mistily, .and though they rise as soon as the birds 

 begin to sing, they cannot hear the music. Their 

 limbs are stiff, their senses dull, and that body 

 which was once their beautiful abode and their 

 willing servant has become a cage and a heavy 

 clog. And they have outlived most of those dear 

 companions with whom they once took sweet coun- 

 sel. 



"One world deceased, Hnother born, 

 Like Noah they behold, 



O'er whose white hair and furrowed brows, 

 Too many suns have rolled." 



Make it up then as well as you can. Be eyes to 

 the blind and feet to the lame. On their way to 

 the sanctuary be their supporting staff, and though 

 it may need an extra effort to convey your words 

 into their blunted ear, make thateff)rt ; — for youth 

 is never so beautiful as when it acts as a guardian 

 angel or a ministering spirit to old age. And 

 should extreme infirmity or occasional fretfulness 

 try your patience, remember that to all intents you 

 were once the same, and may be the same again ; 

 in sec )nd childhood as yji first, the debtor of others 

 "patience and tenderness and magnanimity." — 

 Hamillon''s Royal Preacher. 



Encouragement for the Lowly. — Gideon Lee 

 said late in his life, "I remember when I was a 

 lad, living with my uncle, it was my business to 

 feed and water the cows ; and many a time, long 

 before light in the morning, I was started off in 

 the cold and snovr, without shoes, to my work, 

 and used to think it a luxury to warm my frozen 

 feet on the spot just before occupied by the ani- 

 mal I had aroused. It taught me to reflect, and 

 to consider possibilities ; and I remember asking 

 myself, Is it not possible for me to benefit my con- 

 dition ?'' Mr. Lee reflected to some purpose. 

 From a poor boy he became one of the wealthiest 

 men in New York, and Mayor of the city. 



^^'The following, from the Haverhill Gazelle, 

 may serve to exercise the arithmetical abilities of 

 some of our school boys. It can be done, as we 

 have seen it demonstrated : — 



A Puzzle. — The following sum or problem was 

 given to a boy by a gentleman who offered him 

 $50 if he would do it within six months, .at the 

 same time assuring him that it could be done, and 

 there was no "trick," or "catch," about it. 



Take the nine figures, digits, 123 4 56789 

 and also the 0, and add them together so that 

 they amount to just 100 — using them all once and 

 but once. Thus, for instance, take 7 and the 

 and they make 70, and then to the 70 add all the 

 rest of the figures, not used in making 70. We 

 have made 99, which is the nearest we have come 

 to it. If any one will let us know how it is done, 

 we will inform our readers. 



5^" Dicken's Household Words maintains that 

 in seventy years we have but about fifteen for labor 

 He deducts the remainder for sleep, eating, amuse- 

 ments, &c. [Editors and printers excepted.] 



O" A limited number of advertisements of an appropriate 

 character will be inserted in the rnonlhly Farmer at the fol- 

 owiiig 



RATES. 



For one square of 15 lines, one insertion $1,00 



For each subsequent insertion 50 



Q^" The above rates will be charged for all advertisements, 

 whether longer or shorter. 



Yaluable Potatoes for Sale. 



THE subscriber oflers the following valuable potaioes for 

 sale. A particular description of some of them will be 

 found in the last volume of Tnmsactions of the N. Y. Slate 

 Agricultural Society f(jr 1851. This society awarded him a 

 special premium at the State Fair at lliica, and also voted 

 him $100 at their meeting at Albany during the present 

 month, as encouragement in these experimenis. 



No. 1. Rough Purple Chili, imported in April, 1851, at a 

 great expense. For yield, hardiness, and table quality it has 

 no equal. Price $10,00 per bushel. This i)Otato yielded me 

 last year, ninety-two from one by measure; while to Mr. Uel- 

 afield, of Geneva, it yielded one hundred and twelve from one 

 by weight. 



No. 2. Seedlings originated iti 1849. They are hardy, pro- 

 ductive and good for table use. Price $7, CO per barrel, or 

 $3,00 per bushel. Many of these have been tested this year 

 under the eye of the State Society, and yielded from twenty 

 to sixty four from one, by weight. 



No. 3. Seedliiigs of 1852. These consist of many choice 

 kinds selected from 4i00 varieties, and consisting of eleven dif- 

 ferent fimilies. They were selected with especial re'trence 

 to hardiness, fine flesh, yield and mode of growth in the hill. 

 They afford a basis for the entire renewal of the potato crop 

 in our country. Price $10,00 per bushel. 



No. 4. Potato Seed from the seed-ball- These seeds con- 

 sists of two kinds,— that produced by No. 1, and the choice 

 sort ill No. 2, above, — and are the same that prtduced the 

 seedlings of 1853, — No. 3, above. As they have thus been 

 tested so they are warranted to produce a large proportion of 

 hardy, productive and shapely tubers. 



Price $1,00 per paper, the paper to contain more than 1000 

 seeds, to be sent to the purchaser by mail, post paid, and ac- 

 compaTiied with directioi s forcultiv. tion. 



E.ioh parcel of tubers ordered, will be put up with cases, 

 the different sorts kept separate, and the whole forwarded to 

 the directions of the purchaser by e.xpress, railroad, canal, or 

 as otherwise directed, as soon as the weather will admit, and 

 at the expense and risk of the purchaser. 



0° Purchasers are advistd to take No. 1 and 2, for immedi 

 ate field crops, and No. 3, as a source of new and valuable 

 sorts. 



0° Persons passing through Utica, are requested to call 

 and see specimens at the store of WM. BRISTOL & CO., i08 

 Genesee Street, or at the residence of the subscriber near the 

 Iiis-ne Asylum. 



Jgr All orders answered only for cash. 

 References:— 



The olticers of Ih? N. Y. State Agricultural Society. 



B. P. .lohnson, (Jor. Secr'y of do., Albany, N. Y. 

 Hon. I. Delafield, Geneva, N. Y. 



I. P. Fogg, Agricultural Ware House, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Win. Bristol & Co., Druggists, Utica, N. Y. 

 Charles Tracy, Esq., New York City. 



C. L. Whiting. Granville, Ohio. 



C. E. GOODRICH. 

 Utica, N. Y, March 1. 2m 



Oooseberries, Fastolf Raspber- 

 ries, &c. 



JOHN SAUL, Washington, D. C, offers the following for 

 sale: 



4000 Lancashire Gooseberries, comprising all the leading 

 varieties, such as Crown Bob, Roaring Lion, Red Warring- 

 ton, Cha.Tipagne, Leigh's Rifleman, Parkinson's Green Laurel, 

 Woodward's Whitesmith, &c. The plants are very vigorous 

 and thrifty, and true to name. 



4000 Fastolf Raspberries, strong canes, warranted the gen- 

 i^ne variety. 



300 Raby Castle, or Victoria Red Currant, — the largest and 

 best. 300 Wilmot's Large Red do.; 500 White Dutch do.; 

 300 Black Maples do. 



(Ej- The above at very reasonable prices. 



March, 1833. It 



Bound Volumes. 



BACK VOLUMES ol ihe NEW ENGLAND FARMER, ele- 

 gantly bound in Muslin, Gilt and Embossed, are now for 

 Bale at this office. 



