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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SELECTED FOR. THE SKvr F.NCI.AND FAR.MtK. 



RURAL FELICITY. 



O happy lie ! happiest of mortal men '. 

 Who far rcuiovt d from slavery as from prklr, 

 rears no man's power, nor cringing; wait? to catch 

 The g-racious nothing of a great man's nod : 

 Where the lac'd beggar bustles for a bribe, 

 I'he purchase of liis honor; where deceit, 

 And fraud, and circumvention, drest in smiks. 

 Hold shameful commerce ; and beneath the mask 

 Of friendship and sincerity betray. 

 Him nor tho stately mansion's jildcd pride^ 

 llich with whate'cr the imitative art?. 

 Painting or sculpture yield to charm the eye j 

 A'or shining heaps of massy plate enwrought 

 With curious, costly workmruishlp allure. 

 Tempted nor with the pride nor pomp of power, 

 Nor pageants of ambition, nor the mines 

 Of grasping avarice, nor the poison'd sweets 

 Of pampur'd lu.xury, he plants his foot 

 With firmness on his old paternal fields, 

 And stands unshakeuj There sweet prospects rise 

 Of meadows smiling in their flowery pride, 

 Green hills and dales, and cottages embower'd, 

 The sccoea ol' innocence and calm delight. 

 Wlu re the wild melody of warbling birds, 

 And cool refreshing groves, and murmuring spring's, 

 lav-ite to sacred thought, and lift the mind 

 From low pursuits to meditate on God ! 



Tu.-n then at length, O turn ye sons of wealth, 

 And ye who seek through life's bewildering maze, 

 To tread the paths of happiness, O turn ! 

 And trace her footsteps in the rural walk ; 

 In those fair scenes of wonder and delight, 

 Where, to the human eye. Omnipotence 

 I'nfolds the map of nature, and displays 

 'Ihe matchless beauty of created things. 

 Turn to the arts, the useful pleasmg arts 

 Of cultivation ; and those fields improve 

 Your erring fathers have too long despis'd. 

 Turn to that science, which in ancient time 

 The mind of sages and of kings employ'd, 

 Solicitous to learn the ways of God, 

 And read his works in agriculture's school. 



The following is a translation, by Pr. Darwin, of 

 certain beautiful lines in Virgil's Georgics, on Ingraft- 

 ing. They may form an excellent accompaniment to 

 Mr. Preston's remarks on the same subject, which we 

 have published on the first page of this day's paper. 



Where cruder juices swell the leafy vein, 

 t^tint the young germ, the tender blossom stain ; 

 On each lopp'd shoot a foster scion bind. 

 Pith press'd to pith, and rind applied to rind, 

 .So shall the trunk with loftier crest ascend, 

 And wide in air robuster arms extend. 

 Nurse the new buds, admire the leaves unknown. 

 And blushinj bend with IVnitasre not its own. 



From the Old Colony Hemoiial. 



TO PLYMOTHEUS. Or/ofcer 31, 1822. 



Sin — With many oth(>rs I hnvc rcid your 

 cotninunications upon tiio cock-clialTer >vitli a 

 great (leal of intcre^st. You arc certainly very 

 I'ortunatc in ynur topic. .Scarcely any one could 

 be sclecleil ol' more moment, or that ought to 

 bo more j)0|uilar. The commendation which 

 you have drawn from the Roxluny " Farmer'' 

 is no mean praise ; and while his busy and po- 

 <ent pen is waking up the agricultural capaci- 

 ties of the peoplcr— 1 had almost said of his 



country — their labors must not be ,-hamelully 

 lolt only to fatten this loathsome reptile, and 

 heighten the evils of famine. In a cause like 

 this, alarmed by the appalling view lately pre- 

 senteel to us by many ot our fields, it becomes 

 every man to be a philosopher, which is only 

 to observe correctly, and re[iorl faithfully. 



To oat, or be eaten, is the order of things, 

 as the world goes at present — and instead of 

 going into a penurious calculation about the 

 time inevitably devoted to selt-detence in this 

 state of perpetual annoyance — would it not be 

 wiser to reflect, that we are all lor (htri>i;s; the 

 :;Y(i' in this respect ; that he is a good soldier, 

 who cries and tights on, and receives a badge 

 of honor, and is commended in orders at the close 

 of the campaign. 



Under these circumstances, 'tis impossible 

 that motives to perseverance can be wanting, 

 and i)atriotism, industry, taste and ifttelligence 

 will work wonders any where. 



In your last communication in the Memorial, 

 I apprehend you were in an error, iu stating 

 that the cock-chafler was then "•just under the 

 sod." But many of them had already descend- 

 ed, probably to avoid the winter. On the 19th 

 inst. with several respectable farmers, and upon 

 a spot where was grass^ (for this grub does not 

 eat every vegetable,) I made an excavation 18 

 inches deep, and shaving down the sides with a 

 spade, I found full grown grubs in apparent 

 good health, in all grades of descent throughout 

 the whole distance. "• Who forms the phalanx 

 and who leaels the way,"' may long be unknown; 

 but, that they know when to set out and how 

 far to go w ill hardly be called in question. 



This fact is of importance, you will perceive, 

 only in relation to the time tor the ploughing, 

 which you have well recommended, anel in:iy 

 remove the doubts of the " Fanner" about the 

 descent of this animal. 



From my first attention to this subject in .Tidy, 

 to the 26th inst. I havelicen constantly puzzled 

 with (inding tn-o sizes, of what I consider the 

 sauie worm iii company. One size, which has 

 uniformly appeared about the same, was not 

 more than one eighth part of that of the full 

 UTOwn. This small sized grub was always at 

 the root of the grass, as hite as the 2t)th inst. 

 though you supposed them to have gone down. I 



1 conclude them both to be one species, be- 1 

 cause they have minutely the same external 

 character. Through a pretty good glass they 

 gave the same color, an equal number of horns 

 — lentacula — incisions — ■spiracles and legs. Four 

 of the latter on each side (instead of i/;/-cc,) as 

 you have been the first to state. Indeed, so 

 minute is the similitude, that two of the spira- 

 cles on two of the shoulders on each side, and 

 at the same place are omitted.* But you say. 

 there ^vere " as many spots (spiracles) as inci- 

 sions." I wish you would review this point. 

 Correctness and not criticism is my object. 



It seems to be admitted that the cock-chaffer 

 ha?i its prrind, of four or live years — it so, all 



* In our last No. p. 11!?, plate I, is an engraving, 

 copied from a figure of the cock-chafl"er, given in An- 

 d( rson's Recreations, vol. iii, p. '1'20. The resemblance 

 is very accurate-, excepting that in Doct. Anderson's 

 figure, llirce spiracles or spots are omitted at the end 

 of three of the shoulders, viz. the Cth, 11th and l.jlh, 

 connling from the head of the insect, and including 

 those iu which the legs are inserted. — Ed. N, K. F. 



the grubs must be of one age, and nearly one 

 size, and from a view of their nature, must pass 

 their several metamorphoses exactly and forev- 

 er in one and the same space and period. From 

 this period, they could no more vary than the 

 elepliant from her two years gestation ; and the 

 progenitor, soon after depositing her eggs, is 

 sup[>03ed to perish ; though more agreeable tc 

 my theology, she only dies. Whence then these 

 small grubs, too numerous to be anomalies 

 .\re we then to believe an annual succession ol 

 cock-chafter progenitors, and where it ends un- 

 known ; or resort to the doctrine of equivocal 

 gencnilion, a doctrine, which ;is yet, has more 

 arguments than disciples. 



I apprehend the public rightfully expect 

 more from you upon this subject, and I intend 

 to give you some account of several of each 

 size of these grubs, which 1 ha\e/idly committed 

 for trial in May. COLONUS. 



CURRANT WINK. 



The samples of wine exhibited at Exeter 

 were of ivhite and red, by Mr. Samuel B. Stev- 

 ens of Exeter; and of red, by Joseph Tilton 

 Esq. of Exeter. The wine from the white cur- 

 rant, for body and flavor, was preferred ; and 

 the cotHmittee awarded to Mr. Stevens the pre- 

 mium. This wine had no distilled spirit mixed 

 with it, and was maile by the tollowing receipts: 



'• To each gallon of clear juice was added two 

 gallons of water, and to each gallon of the mix- 

 ture was added three and a half pounds of white 

 Havana sugar, and put immeiliately into a clean 

 wine barret ; after it had done fermenting it wa» 

 bunged tight." 



The red wine of Mr. Stevens was made by the 

 following receipt: 



To each gallon of clear juice was added two 

 gallons of water, and to each gallon of the mix- 

 ture was added three and a half pounds of good 

 brown sugar, and jiUt into gooel barrels; after it 

 had done fermenting, it was stojiped tight. In 

 February after it was made, one gallon of the 

 best 1th proof Cogniacbranely was aelded to each 

 barrel, and stirred up thoroughly." 



Both these samples were of the vintage of 

 1821. Sir. Stevens has the last and present 

 year, made from bis garden live barrels of this 

 uinc. And those who need such inducement 

 to commence the manufacture of it, should be 

 informed that it is an article quick in the mar- 

 ket for cash, at two dollars per gallon. 



Haverhill Gazette. 



An Agricultural Society has been organized 

 in the County of Bristol. Samuel Crocker, Esq. 

 President. An Address was delivered on the 

 Oth inst. by Rev. Otis Thompson. 



VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS. 

 A Beet raised by Mr. E. N. Chaddock of Han- 

 over, Mass. weighing 21 pounds, and measuring' 

 ;U inches in circumference, was lately present- 

 ed by him to the New England Museum. A 

 beet which beat this was raised in the garden 

 of Leonard Pratt, Esq. of Pembroke, which 

 measures 32 Inches in circumference, and weigh- 

 ed, when it was pulled, 22 pounds, and is men- 

 tioned as being in the Bookstore of Hill and 

 Moore, Concord, N. H. — also in the same Book- 

 store, a radish 21 inches in circumference, rais- 

 ed in the county of Hillsborough. 



