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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND fARMl-R. 



THE SCOLDIKG WIFE.—^I Stntimtnlal Sonnet. 

 Hoarse thunder howls, blue lightniiij; flashes, 

 Against llie stars vex'd ocean dashes, 

 Karth, sky and sea, fire, water, air. 

 Like tipsy Irish, at a Fair, 

 Are all eng;agM in one great clatter, 

 And every particle of matter 

 Seems warring wild with every other 

 To make one nniversal pother ! 

 The great glnl)e rent, the chasm displays 

 All Pluto's regions in a blaze, 

 Karlhquakes have split the pole to shivers, 

 And all the solar system quivers ! 

 But surely this vast (lemcntal strife 

 Is naught contrasted with a scolding wife. 



FOR THE NEW ENOI.AJTD FARMER. 



A special good reason for Sclf-Pii^iig. 

 Jack is a curious kind of elf, 

 ^Vho, though he likes to puff himself. 



Does it from principle, not pride ; 

 He knows his worth, like insect small 

 Can never be discern"d at all, 



Unless 'tis greatly magnified. 



roR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



IMPROMPTU, 

 On teeing a purse-prnvif bbickheud taking a solitary 



airing in Uis oun coach. 

 Things have come, uow-a-days, to a pitifid pass, 

 Since it takes two fine horses to draw one ^ ilf ass I 



Private happiness is the only sure and per- 

 manent basis of public prosperity. 



Every day feelings and iire-side enjoyments 

 decide the tenor of our lives, and he who values 

 them most plays the best stake for happiness. 



Madam Terein, a lady of erudition and dis- 

 cernment, gave to Marmontel, ivhcn he ivas a 

 young man, a piece of advice witli respect to 

 the managetnent of authorship, which ought to 

 be a perpetual lesson to all writers by profes- 

 sion. " Secure yourself." said she, " a liveli- 

 hood, independent of literary successes ; and 

 put into the lottery only the overplus of your 

 time ; for wo to him who depends solely on his 

 pen ! — nothing is more casual. The man who 

 makes shoos is sure of his wages ; but the man 

 who writes a book is never sure of anj' thing." 



It is not necessary in order to bo an agreea- 

 ble companion tliat you be cither eloquent or 

 witt}', or possessed of any rare or superior tal- 

 ents ; all that society demands of you is that 

 you be complaisant without meanness, polite 

 without flattery, steady without rudeness, and 

 cheerful without aftected gaiety. 



Court the company, of the learned, and the 

 conversation of the aged ; their discourse is ol- 

 ton more useful than any book you can read. 



It is a sure sign of want of ivit, when one is 

 always, attempting to shew it. 



The matrimonial blacksmith of GrefnaGreen, 

 having bound an old lady, and a youth of unra- 

 zored chin in the silken bands of matrimony, 

 observed to a friend, " 1 have just tied a with- 

 ered stick and a green twig together with a 

 cobweb." 



From the Connecticut Mirror. I 



The Hon. Tristram Burges, of Providence, 

 delivered an Address in August last, to the K. I. 

 Society lor the Kncouragemcnt of Domestic 

 Industry, and a copy has been sent by Messrs. 

 .Miller &, llutchens, to the Hartford County Ag- 

 ricultural Society. The following is part of it: 

 " I fear we shall fuul, we are, taken in a mass, 

 about such farmers as our forefathers were when 

 they migrated to this country. They, we know, 

 were such farmers as their lathers were when 

 they left England. Hut all the capital improve- 

 ments in agriculture, have been made, in that 

 country, since the settlement of this. 



If it were in the course of nature for the ven- 

 erable pilgrims of Plymouth, again to land on 

 the shores of that island, they would not know 

 the fields of their native country. Not many 

 years before they migrated, the London market 

 ivas su[>plied with vegetables from Flanders, 

 and the English climate and soil were deemed 

 incapable of producing thetn. At this time, 

 14,000 acres are appropriated to gardening in 

 the immediate neighborhood of that metropolis, 

 and the vegetables and iruit raised on those 

 lands are sold in that city for a sum little short 

 of four millions of dollars per annum. The rent 

 of land in the county of Norfolk, the least fer- 

 tile, but the best farmed district of England, has 

 increased w itiiin the memory of man, eight fold. 

 The rent roll of Mr. Coke, the great Norfolk 

 farmer, has, in that time, risen from five to 

 40,000/. per annum. This has been done, not 

 by grinding his tenants, but by enriching them ; 

 by granting them leases of his lands for twenty 

 years ; and by giving them, in his own farming, 

 a great example of the immense agricultural 

 improvements which may be made, even in the 

 sands of Norfolk, by industry, skill and capital. 



Scotch farming has come into existence, long 

 since Roger Williams paddled his canoe round 

 Fox Point. In those days, the Thistle was the 

 national emblem of Scotland. They fought un- 

 der it in war, and foraged upon it in peace. 

 But the unpoetical farmers of Caledonia have 

 lost all delight in pursuing the thistle's heard. 

 with the heroes of Ossian ; or sleeping on the 

 blooming hether with the buccanicrs of Roder- 

 ick Dlui. They have ploughed down all those 

 tilings, vvjiich look so pretty, and smell so sweet 

 in song, and given up those haunts of Ihc muses 

 to plain English barley and wheat ; Dutch and 

 Swedish turnips; the clover of Flanders, and 

 the Shamrock of Ireland. In the progress of 

 tlieso improvements, these men have done, 

 what Sculchmen thiidi an essential service to 

 that country; but Avhat American firmers would 

 think a curse to this — they have, by increasing 

 a demand for labor, nearly doubled the price of 

 it ; but these industrious, intelligent Scotchmen, 

 with their national prudence, have contrived, 

 not only to pay this augmented price of labor, 

 but to replace all their capital, and add to it, at 

 least foiiileen per cent, per annum. A farmer 

 in the Lothians of Scotland, who cultivates 700 

 acres of land at a rent off/. 10s. sterling per 

 acre, will, at the end of the year, have in his 

 pocket, clear of all cx])enses, more than ;j^3.500. 

 He has so much to add to his capital, and to 

 enable him to extend his cultivation." 



Flora the Plymouth (England) Telegraph. 

 Wc last week noticed an invention by a gen- 

 tleman of Plymouth for conveying the electric 



fluid by means of a copper conductor lixed ii 

 the masts, through the bottom of ships. Insteai 

 of being ascribed to Mr. T. Harris, Jr. as thei 

 stated, it should have been ftlr. \V. S. Harris.— 

 The experiment took place on Monday last, oi 

 hoard the Caledonia, in the presence of th( 

 Navy Board, Sir A. Cochrane, Commissione 

 Shield, several Captains in the Navy, and ihi 

 principal officers of the Dock-yard, "in the fol 

 lowing manner : The Louisa cutter having liai 

 a temporary mast and topmast lilted with a cop 

 per conductor, according to Mr. Harris's plan 

 was moored astern of the Caledonia, and at thi 

 distance of eighty feet from the cutter a boa 

 was stationed with a small brass howitzer. Oi 

 the tiller-head of the Caledonia were place- 

 the electrical machine and an electrical jai 

 with the outer coating of which a line was con 

 nected, having a metallic wire woven in it 

 this line being carried out of the starboard wic 

 dow of the wardroom, terminated in an iiisulal 

 ed pointed wire in the immediate vicinity c 

 the touch-hole of the howitzer: a similar lin 

 was passed from the larboard window, whic 

 communicated with the mast-head of the cuttei 

 and at the termination of the bolt through th 

 keel a chain was attached, connected with an( 

 ther insulated pointed wire in the boat, place 

 in the vicinity of the touch-hole — the space be 

 tween the insulated points being the only intei 

 val in a circuit of about 300 feet, from the po 

 itive to the negative side of the jar. Som 

 gunpowder being jilaced in contact with th 

 conductor in the cutter, and the priming in tl, 

 interval of the insulated points, the jar w; 

 charged, and the line attached to the mast-her 

 of the cutter being brought into contact wit 

 the positive or inside of the jar, a discharge ■ 

 electric matter followed, which was passed I 

 the line to the mast-head, and by the conducti 

 through the powder to the chain in the wate 

 by which it was conveyed to the interrupt! 

 communication in the boat, where it passed 

 the lorm of a spark, and discharging the howi 

 zer, returned to the negative or outside of tl 

 jar by the line leading into the starboard wi 

 dow, thereby demonstrating that a quantity 

 electric matter had been ])assed by the condu 

 tor through the powder (without igniting it) 

 contact with the mast of the cutter, sufficient 

 discharge the howitzer. Mr. Harris then d 

 lached the communication between the keel 

 the cutter and the positive wire in the hot 

 leaving that wire to communicate with the w 

 ler only ; hut this interruption did not impec 

 or divert the charge, as the discharge of tl 

 howitzer was elfected with equal success as 

 the first instance, the water forming the on 

 conductor from the cutter to the boat. In ordi 

 to demonstrate that a trilling fracture or inte ! 

 ruption in the conductor would not be impo 

 tant, it was cut through with a saw ; but tl' 

 |>roduced no material injury to its coiiduct 

 power. 



These trials, carried on under the disad* 

 tages of unfavorable weather, could not l 

 of convincing all jiresent of its efficacy, ; 

 called forth the decided approbation of ' 

 Navy Board in particular, wliich was cvim 

 by Sir T. B. I\lartin requesting Mr. Harri.- 

 superintend the equipment of the Minden ; 

 and Java frigate, preparatory to its general i 

 troduction into tlie navy. 



The science of love is the philosophy of the heart. 





