NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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will be no accumulation of diiRcultics, but every 

 thing may be done with case and despatch. 



CuuELTY TO Animals. — The following lines con- 

 tain excellent hints for our young readers. Let 

 every farmer's son read them, and when the season 

 of birds and insects comes round again, remember 

 to put the excellent views here given into practice. 



"Thanks to my star, I can say I have never 

 killed a bird. I would not crush the meanest insect 

 which crawls upon the ground. They have the 

 same right to live that I have ; thcj- received it 

 from tiio same Father, and I Avill not mar the 

 works of God by wanton cruelty. 



" I can remember an incident in my childhood 

 which has given a turn to my whole life and charac- 

 ter. I found a nest of birds in my father's field, 

 which held four young ones. They had no down 

 when I first discovered them. They opened their lit- 

 tle mouths as if they were hungry, and I gave them 

 some crumbs which were in my jjocket. Every 

 day I returned to feed them. As soon as school 

 was done, I would run home for some bread, and 

 sit by the nest to see them eat for an hour at a 

 time. The}' were now feathered and almost ready 

 to fiy. When I came one morning, I found them 

 all cut up into quarters. The grass around the 

 nest was red with bTood. Theu' limbs were raw 

 and bloody. The mother was on the tree, and the 

 father on the wall, mourning for their young. I 

 cried myself, for I was a child. I thought, too, 

 that the parents looked on me as the author of 

 their miseries, and this made me still more un- 

 happy. I wanted to sympathize with and comfort 

 them. When I left the field, they followed me with 

 theu' eyes, and with mournful reproaches. I was 

 too young and too sincere in ray grief to make any 

 apostrophes, but I can never forget my feelings. 

 The impression Avill never be worn away, nor can 

 I ever cease to iibhor every species of inhumanity 

 towards inferior animals." 



t^ealtl). 



The great error in regard to health is in neglecting 

 to preserve it, and, when it is gone, relying too much 

 on medicine, instead of good management, to restore 

 it. The old and true saying, that "an ounce oi pre- 

 vention is worth a j^ound of cure," is worthy of far 

 more consideration than it usually receives. Many 

 persons do not truly value health while they possess 

 it. The poet justly observes, 



" How blessings brighten as the}' take their flight ! " 



Exposure to the Am. — The importance of 

 (ittendiiig to the habitual exposure of children to the 

 air, is not duly estimated. At no period of life docs 

 any cause produce such permanent ill clfects, as in 

 the feeble and susceptible age of children. The bad 

 cifects of want of pure air and exercise are seen in 

 childi-en confined to manufactories, and in those 

 inhabiting a dense and badly-ventilated part of a 

 large city. Contrast these with children of the 

 country, and we shaU see a wonderful difference. 



To CURE Warts or Corxs. — Take the yolk of an 

 egg, thicken it with fine salt, Avhich apply as a poul- 



tice at night, leaving it off in the morning. Thus 

 continue for two or three nights, until the part 

 affected bears a Avhitish apearance ; then leave it oft' 

 entirely ; and the wart or corn, it is said, will come 

 out, root and branch. If a little of the leaves of rue 

 is bruised and added, it is said to be the better. 



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Covering Metals with Brass or Bronze. — For 

 brass, employ a solution, in water, compounded of 

 five hundred parts of carbonate of potash, twenty 

 parts chloride of copper, forty parts sulphate of zinc, 

 and two hundred and fifty parts of nitrate of ammo- 

 nia ; and after scouring the article to be coated, 

 properly, it is put in commotion at the ordinary 

 temperature Avith the negative pole of Biinsen bat- 

 tery, the positive decomposing pole a plate of brass. 



For bronze. Make use of the same jireparation, 

 and perform in the same manner, as for brass, with 

 the exception of substituting a salt of tin for the sul- 

 phate of zinc, and apply bronze to the positive pole, 

 instead of brass. 



By means of these solutions, wrought or cast iron, 

 steel, lead, zinc, tin, and the alloys of those metals, 

 either with each other or with bismuth and antimony, 

 may, with facility, be coated with brass or bronze, 

 and after having undergone the usual coloring 

 process they equal in beauty the finest bronzes. 



When very large surfaces are to be coated, the 

 number of jiairs of plates to the battery should be 

 increased. By this method, rough cast iron may ba 

 made to assume a very beautiful appearance, and will 

 remain unoxydized when not exposed to the weather. 

 For outside work, articles should be protected by a 

 coating of suitable varnish. — N. Y. Fanner. 



To CUT Glass or drill Glass. — Wet the imple- 

 ment in a solution of camphor in spirits of tiu'pen- 

 tine. 



A fine blue Wash for Walls. — To two gal- 

 lons of whitewash, add one pound of blue vitriol dis- 

 solved in hot water, and one pound of fiour, well 

 mixed. 



AGRICULTURE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



The New Hampshire Legislature convened on the 

 third week of November. Gov. Williams, in his 

 short address, thus speaks on the subject of agricul- 

 ture : — 



Our state is emphatically an agricultural state 

 — its interests and the occupations of her citizens 

 essentially of an agricultural character ; and as th« 

 Constitution recommends those interests to your 

 fostering care, you will undoubtedly consider the 

 propriety of endeavoring, by the organization of 

 agricultural boards or county associations, to awaken 

 an increased zeal and interest in agricultural im- 

 provements. 



Agriculture, whether considered in reference to 

 the number of persons to whom it gives subsistence, 

 the value of its annual exports, the amount of capital 

 which it employs, its necessity for the support of all 

 other pursuits, the moral worth which distinguishes 

 the people devoted to this primitive employment, or 

 its tendency to give stability and permanency to our 

 institutions, may well be regarded as the paramount 

 interest of the country, and the basis of all its wealth 

 and prosperity. — Furmer's Monthly Vinitor. 



