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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From the Columbiaa Centinel. 



IIi'SBAyDM^.\'S HOLIDA Y. 



A^ain, on the vi'm^ of old time, has come round, 



The husband nmn^s holiday — cloudless and bright ; 

 Our spirits still buoyant, and bosoms still sound, 



With smiles let us welcome its pathway of li^lit ; 

 Then liail I to our jubilee, glory and pride, 

 When we by by the Plough — cast the tickle a.'ide, 

 i<or envy the fame 

 Of the warrior"" name, 

 Eucircled witli garl'inds, in victoi-y dyed. 



Cod of Seasons I to thee shall our praises ascend, 

 To thee, the first fruit of our harvest shall flow, 

 Hallowed strains witli llie smiles of festivity blend, 



And gratitude waim in our bosoms shall glow: 

 In this clime of tlie West, shall thy altars be rtared, 

 Thy name and thy glory be loved and revered, 

 And oft we will raise 

 The loud anthem of praise, 

 for a country and home by lliy blessings endeared. 



Let others exult in their prowess or might. 



Or iu sky piercing Temples which slavery gilds ; 

 The brightness of Despots is sitikiiig in night. 



And crumbling the monument Tyranny builds; 

 Vor a season, Ambition may dwell iu its bower, 

 Aud crime every vestige of grt-atness devour. 

 Hut soon from on high, 

 With an Eagle-trained eye, 

 lletribution and justice shall vengefully lower. 



Italia and Greece ! with a climate as mild 



^fi your vile pampered sons are degcnVate and base, 

 On you awful wisdom and science first smiled, a 



And learning was fostered within your ( mbrace ; 

 r.ut now, wretched vassals in luxury's train, 

 Vou bow at her footstool and worship her reign ; 

 Oil 1 when shall a ray 

 Of your earlier day 

 Enkindle the spirit of freedom again. 



Thrice happy Xew England ! the home of our choice — 



No foul blots of guilt thy escutcheon have staiiied, 

 Thy sons in the blessings of plenty rejoice. 



And glory in freedom their valor maintained: — 

 Hail ! hail to the era that happiness brings. 

 In our forests no longer the Ijattle shout rings, 

 And over our land, 

 Unsullied and bland. 

 The Angel of Peace spreads her halcyon wings. E. 



An astonishing surgical operation was lately perform- 

 ed with success in the hospital of St. Louis, at Paris. 

 A Peasant of the neighborhood of La Fere was per- 

 suaded that about five years ago he had swallowed 

 with his food some reptile which in an inexplicable 

 manner, still lived, as lie affirmed, in his stomach. The 

 Physicians employed various prescriptions without ef- 

 fect. Tortured by excruciating pains, the unhappy 

 man resolved to go to Paris to be opened ; which op- 

 era.tion was in fact performed by making an incision 

 just below the region of the heart, when it was ascer- 

 tained that his conjecture was well foundi d. As soe-n 

 as the animal perceived more air than it was accustom- 

 *^d to, it shewed itself at the end of the incision, but 

 immediately drew back ; when one of the assistants 

 put his tiiiger into the wounfl and drew out a snake two 

 aud a half feet in length, and eighteen inches in circum- 

 ference. It lived sixty hours. The patient felt great 

 relief, and is in a situation which gives no reason to ap- 

 prehend any bad consequences. — London paper. 



A small farmer in the vicinity of Manchester, not 

 long since, killed a cow, and sent part of the beef and a 

 quantity of suet to his son, a weaver iu Blackley, who 

 hung it up so near the window, that some one in the 

 night broke a pane and carried off the suet. In the 

 morning the weaver missing his suet, went to the ale 

 house, were he jiosted up the following advertisemeot, 

 ■which still remains an evidence of the right John Hull 

 generosity and spirit : — " Whereas last night a quantity 

 of beef suet was lakinfrom the house of Thomas Wol- 

 stonecroft, this is to give notice that if the person who 

 took it away will apjiear and prove that he was forced to 

 do so by distress, the said Tho:na3 Wolstonecroft, will 

 give him a dozen of flour to make the suet into dump- 

 lings. Hut il h.: cannot prove that he was in distress 

 when he stole it, tli-^waid Thomas Wolstonecroft will 

 fij^ht him, and give him five shilling "if he beats him."' 



THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



PUBLISHED BY THOMAS W. SHEPARD, ROGERS' BUILDING, CONGRESS STREET, BOSTO.N, 



Several numbers of a Newspaper, with the above title, have been pubhshcd 

 in Boston, and have met the approbation of intelligent Agriculturists, and nii 

 enlightened public. The following remarks relative to tliis publication, air 

 the result of the unbiassed and disinterested deliberations of highly respectable 

 and very competent judges, whose names, and the observations to which tht It- 

 signatures are attached, must render farther recommendations superfluous. 



NFAV ENGLAND FARMER.— Published by Thomas W. Shepard. I 



The opinion of the subscribers having been requested in favor of this publication, with the avowed and 

 very proper wish, on the part of the publisher, that it might tend to the increased circulation of his Journal, 

 (the first, avowedly devoted to the interests of agriculture in New England,) we cheutidly afiord our t. 

 mony, as far as it may be of any value to him. 'though the American public, when compared with th:L! 

 other nations, may be considered a thinking and reading one, yet from various causes, which it cannol 

 necessary to state, much the greater part of its reading is confined to, and its inibrmation ot^taineti Ihrri 

 daily, weekly and other periodical journals. In a country, in which the Elective powf r as to almost all . : . 

 ces, is enjoyed and exercised by the great mass of the people, it is natural, that politics, including the national j 

 state, county and town interests and concerns, should occupy much the largest share of our public journals— j 

 next to these, commerce and nlanufactures must of necessity hold a high rank. These require so much niori j 

 constant and more accurate information — so much in those branches depends on political, commercial anil ag ' 

 ricultural events abroad — so much ou the state of foreign markets, on losses and disasters at sta, that it is no 

 surprising that niueteen twentieths of all our newspapers are occupied either with politics or commercial n< ws 

 So much is this the case, that it was doubted for a long time whether an Agricultural Newspaper could b 

 supported — but the success of the American I'armer, printed at Baltimore, by John S. Skiiuier, Esq. and th 

 Plough Boy, at Albany, by Solomon Sonthwick, F.sq. has pioved that there is a sulFicient degree of zeal an. 

 intelligence and desire of knowledge among the cultivator! of the soil to sustain a few purely agricultural pa 

 pers. If one is to be added to the two, which now exist, among the several thousand Newspajiers now print 

 ed in the United States, it would seem that New England is its natural and most proj er situation, and liosto 

 as conveniently placed for its publication and correspondence as any place in >ew England. V\ e hope w 

 have as many thinking aud reading farmers in the Six New fhigland States, not only as any other poriion ( 

 this country, but as any equal portion of the cultivated world can afl'c.rd or furnish. 



It seems to be absurd, that farmers should subscribe for papers devoted exclusively to questions in whic 

 they have only a remote interest, and should dccUne. giving their aid to one entirely devoted to their instru. 

 tiou, amMsement, and to the record of their improvements, doubts, queries, discoveries and speculations. Tl 

 paper now commenced has every thing to recommend it .as far as we have had an oppoitunity to judge. M 

 Shepard is well known as an editor of a valuaHle paper at Northampton. That he has all the profession 

 skill, and the requisite liberality in the execution of his work, is manifest by the numbers already publishe 

 They are neatly executed on good paper and with a fine tyjie, with great care and accuracy, far above, 

 these respects, (we may say. without otfence, we hope.) any other like publication. His pn sent assislai 

 Thomas G. FESSEKnEN, Esq. is a man of reading and talents, aud has paid great, and for our country. ; 

 most unexampled attention to agricultural subjects. His mind is philosophical, and bis attention is und, 

 tracted by other pursuits. His life has been principally devoted to such subjects. The numbers as yet j;;U| 

 are respectable, as much so as could be expected, beiore the public at large had taken an interest in ti 

 work. We hope that it will succeed, but^ that must wholly depend on the aid which the intelligent Divim 

 Lawyers, Physicians, and practical Farmers in the country will afiord it. That aid must consist not only 

 taking it and paying their subscriptions — that to be sure, is its veces.tart/ food, without which it must starve- 

 but in favoring it by communicating their thoughts, experiments, objeclions to existing practices, or to n( 

 projected improve'uents. It should be remembered, that this is a mere Newspaper, and therefore, that am: 

 who would not wril*- a bonk in his own name, or an article for the Massachusetts Agricultural Repositor 

 need have no scruple ui writing for this. 

 ^ A.'VRON DEXTER, Presidcnl of,.V[assachuselts Jigrkullural Society. 



S. AV. POMEROV, \sl Vice President. 



THOMAS L. WINTHROP, -Id I'ice President. 



JOHN LOWELL, Correspond in'i Secretar;/. , 



RICHARD Sl'LLIVAN, Ricordins; Secretary. 



BENJAMIN GUILD, Assistant Recording Secretary. 



JOHN PRINCE, Treasurer 



J. WELLES, 



P. C. BROOKS, 



E. HERSEY DERBY, 



easurer. 



S. a. PERKINS, ) 



JOSIAH (JUINCY, \ 



i, GORHA.M PARSONS, ^ 



Trustees. 



TheJS'cw Engbnil Farmer is puliFislieil weekly, on Srtturday.s. Each No. contains 8 quar 

 pages, printed ou a sheet of good (jtiality, nith an entire new type. The price is iiS2,50 p 

 annum, in (nlvaitcc, or $3,00 at the close of the year. r - a 



Eacii volnm(> will comprise 52 nimihers, and the present volume commenced the first halurdij 

 in August. A titlo-page, and a correct and copious index will he given at the end of each yef 



Persons who will |)rocure seven suhscrihers aud become resjionsihle for the payment, will 

 entitled to a copy gratis, and in the same proportion for a larger nutnber. 



Congress-slrect, Boston, Oct. 1822. 



(yJj-Editnrs nf papers with 'jnhom wc exchange, by giving the abnyc an. insertion, will con/er\ 

 favor ic-Ziic/t a-e shall be happy to reciprocate -ji'hcti an opportunity ojfcrs. 



