NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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ITALIAN OR BLACK SPANISH FOWLS. 



This breed is verj' common in Italy, Spain, and 

 other countries along the Mediterranean. They are 

 very distinctly marked, and uniform in form and 

 color. 



The size is large, the form compact and symmetri- 

 cal ; the coloi', a jet, shining black. They have 

 very large single combs, and long wattles, which 

 expose them to injury in very cold climates, unless 

 well protected by a warm house. 



The eggs of this breed are large and of excellent 

 quality. The flesh is also excellent. They are good 

 layers, and they commence laying young. They are 

 considered as one of the most profitable races, and 

 all who saw them at the late show will testify to 

 their fine appearance, as they may justly bo classed 

 among the most ornamental breeds. 



Our engraving is drawn from life, by Brown, rep- 

 resenting specimens of the fine lot exhibited at the 

 late fair by Mr. Daniel Buxton, Danvers, some of 

 which he sold at ten dollars per pair. 



FRUGALITY. 



This mei'cantile wisdom of " a penny saved is two 

 pence got," may be accommodated to all conditions 

 by observing, that not only they who pursue any 

 lucrative employment will save time when they for- 

 bear expense, and that time may be employed to the 

 increase of profit, but tViat they, who are above such 

 minute considerations, will find, by every victory 

 over appetite or passion, new strength added to the 

 mind, will gain the power of refusing those solicita- 

 tions by which the young and vivacious are hourly 



assaulted, and in time, set themselves above the 

 reach of extravagance and folly. 



It appears evident that frugality is necessary even 

 to complete the pleasure of expense ; for it may be 

 generally remarked of those who squander what they 

 know their fortune not sufficient to allow, that in 

 their most jovial expense, there always breaks out 

 some proof of discontent and impatience ; thev cither 

 scatter with a kind of wild desperation and aff'ected 

 lavishness, as criminals brave the gallows when they 

 cannot escape it, or pay their money with a peevish 

 anxiety, and endeavor at once to' spend idly and 

 save meanly ; having neither firmness to deny" their 

 passions, nor courage to gratify them, they niurmur 

 at their own enjoyments, and poison the bowl of 

 pleasure by reflections on the cost. — Johnson. 



PEA STRAW. 



Not long since, I saw a communication from some 

 brother farmer out west, stating that pea straw was 

 entirely worthless. I think his saying thus was in 

 consequence of his never having tested the value of 

 it. Last year I raised a fine crop of the green pea, 

 and v.as careful to preserve them from storms. I got 

 them into the barn in a good condition, and wintered 

 my sheep on the straw, without grain or roots, and 

 never had my sheep look better than they do this 

 spring. I think there is no straw better worth saving 

 than pea straw, if properly taken care of and pre- 

 served from the weather. Let some other person 

 try them and tell us the result. — Genesee Farmer. 



Dr. Franklin, endeavoring to kill a turkey by an 

 electric shock, received the whole battery himself, 

 when he good-naturedly observed, that, instead of 

 killing a turkey, lie had nearly put an end to the 

 existence of a goose. 



