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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



IIovEy's Magazine of Horticulture, January 

 number, is well filled -\\ith valuable matter. 



Catalogue of Mount Airy Agricultural In- 

 stitute. — This School, designed for instruction in 

 scientific and practical agriculture, mathematics, 

 and the natural sciences, is very pleasantly situated 

 at Gcrmantown, near Philadelphia. The principal, 

 Mr. John Williinson, is an experienced teacher, hav- 

 ing had charge of a similar institution in the state of 

 New York. 



Report of the Ohio Fruit Convention. — We 

 are indebted to our friends, Bateham, of Columbus, 

 Elliot, of Cleveland, and Ernst, of Cincinnati, for 

 copies of this valuable document, which we shall 

 examine soon. 



CHEMISTRY OF ANIMAL HEAT. 



The perpetual combination of the oxygen of the 

 atmosphere with the carbon of the food, and with 

 the effete substance of the body, is a real combus- 

 tion, and is supposed to be the cause of animal heat, 

 because heat is constantly given out by the combi- 

 nation of carbon, and oxygen ; and without a con- 

 stant supply of food, the oxygen would soon 

 consume the whole animal, except the bones. — Mrs. 

 Somerville. 



MILKMAIDS TURNED PIANISTS. 



A correspondent of Bateham's excellent Ohio 

 Cultivator regrets that the rosy-cheeked variety of 

 the genus milkmaid is fast disappearing from our 

 native land. What a pity ! I never see a farmer's 

 wife milking, and hear the noise of a piano in the 

 house, but I feel an involuntary sensation of pity. 

 It puts me in mind of a young friend of mine, who 

 married a farmer's daughter with a piano. As all 

 the country girls in the vicinity said it was the piano 

 that married the man, I felt a desire to disabuse 

 them. At my first inquiry in the premises, my friend 

 frankly confessed that so far from being cajoled by 

 the piano, that luckles; instrument had come well 

 nigh driving him fiom the house. " But," said he, " she 

 had the tact to discover my aversion, and I believe 

 she has never played 'Bouncing Bet,' or 'Bound- 

 ing Billows,' since that day. I wanted to see her 

 milk," said he. "and with a sly, coquettish smile, she 

 said she would gratify'my curiosity. 'Twould have 

 done you good to see the nonchalance with which she 

 stepped about among those cows, not with the dainty 

 tread of one alike afraid of the cows and the ground 

 they walked on ; but with that graceful practised 

 step which avoids dirt as if by intuition. And then 

 the way she despatched her task ! With what a 

 slight of hand she made each cow yield her lacteal 

 treasure ! But the best of it all was the unconscious- 

 ness of the actress of the fact that she was more than 

 Fanny Kemble Butler in the part she was now 

 acting." 



All connoisseurs, not directly or indirectly in the 

 trade, will agree that a masterly performer on the 

 piano-forte is a person rarely seen ; while the 

 number who profane sweet music, and caricature its 

 variations, is legion ! Then what a mistake it is 

 for a farmer's daughter to spend her time and money 

 in attempting so hapless a task, as that of becoming 

 even an endurable pianist, when she can be so much 

 more respectably employed, both physically and 

 intellectually ! 

 — Gen.'see Farmer, S. W. 



F(yr the New England Farmer. 

 GALLS FROM THE HARNESS OR SADDLE. 



Mr. Editor : White lead, finely pulverized, is the 

 most effective application. Kubbcd on dry, or made 

 into a paste, with milk, and applied a few times, it 

 will also prevent white hairs growing on galled 

 places. 



In our fatiguing marches in Mexico, the above was 

 found to be an invaluable remedy by 



A VOLUNTEER. 



For the Neto Enr/latid Farmer. 

 THE HAPPY FARMER. 



BY MRS. E. C. LOOMIS. 



His home 's a cot, embowered in trees, 

 A garden filled with fruit and flowers. 



Where singing birds and humming bees 

 Make ga)^ the smiling summer hours, — 



A range of meadows green and fair. 



And fields which well repay his care. 



With joy he greets each rising sun. 

 And gladly hastens to his toil ; 



In fancy, sees the harvest won. 

 As covering with the mellow soil 



The tiny seed, which yet will bring 



A glorious autumn offering. 



The golden hours, how quick they fly ! 



The happy day, how soon 'tis fled ! 

 Then homeward doth the farmer hie, 



And finds a table neatly spread 

 With many a dainty, which the field 

 And garden-plot so richly yield. 



The evening hour is fraught with joy. 

 For loved ones cluster round him there ; 



He tastes a bliss without alloy 



AVhich e'en a king might wish to share ; 



Then seeks his couch, and finds repose 



Which only he who toileth knows. 

 Lebanon, Ct. 



THE OLIO. 



When adversity attends you, exert yourself, and 

 rise above so unpleasant a companion. 



He who hopes for glory from new discoveries, 

 must not be ignorant of old ones. 



Some writer says, " I once had a constant and 

 troublesome visitor, whom I tried to get rid of. First, 

 I essayed smoke, which he bore like a badger ; then 

 I tried fire, which he stood like a salamander. At 

 last I lent him five dollars, and I have not seen 

 him since." 



A lover, wishing to comjilimcnt his dulcinea, by 

 intimating that she was a celestial being descended 

 to earth, unhappily called her "a fallen angel'" ! 



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