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ihis reluctance to adopt evident improvements 

 ii» new in the history of man, and has ever been 

 l:irly prominent in the annals of agriculture. — 

 1 1' no doubt but even our New England farmers 

 rought with poor tools, when better might be 

 .ud which would, at least, " in the long run," 

 re cheaper than those which they ought to supcr- 



t'e would, not, howerer, censure our cultivators for 

 bliudly and precipitately adopting every practice 

 ch is stated to be an improvement. But as res- 

 ts tools of every day employment, when many times 

 ire inspection, and almost always a short trial would 

 fc some to be more useful than others, to adhere to 

 se which are least commodious, and to refuse to 

 ce even an experiment with a new one, merely bc- 

 " father didnt do so," or "neighbor Blucskin 

 ! it won't do," is a kind of pertinacity which dc- 

 ■es to make its possessor a mark for all the arrows 

 ch the quiver of wit can furnish. 

 Ve believe, however, that many farmers of Great 

 taia arc more obstinately attached to silly, expeo- 

 aud unhandy customs, than any of our yankee 

 tivators. And if Brother Jonathan is sometimes a 

 e backward about embracing new and useful ira- 

 vements, John Bull is often a very paragon of awk- 

 d obstinacy. An English autlior (Lawrence, on 

 it Cattle,) mentions a report of " a gentleman who 

 ■ks eight large oxen on a plough, whatever the soil, 

 ■ng or weak, fresh or fallow ;" and says he lias wit- 

 sed " in an English district, where as good laboring 

 n are bred as we have in England, farmers often 

 :e ten oxen together to one plough, and stand to it 

 iy, as a matter of necessity ; which I should by no 

 lus controvert were the exertions of the brutes equal 

 tiffness and cucrjy to the prejudiced arguments of 

 ir masters." 



t is likewise observed by Sir John Sinclair, that 

 >e introduction of new implements into a district, is 

 n a matter of the greatest difficulty, owing to the 

 jrancc, the prejudicej, and the obstinacy of farm 

 'ants and laborers. Many faru^ers, therefore, very 

 urJly retain their old implements, though convinced 

 heir inferiority, rather than sour the temper of their 

 Drers, by attempting to introduce new ones. In 

 ay cases, however, they have succeeded by atten- 

 1, by perseverance, and by rewarding theii' servants 



have been induced to give the new macliiaes a 

 ■ trial." 



The yeomen of New England are too enlightened to 

 under the dominion of such unprofitable prejudices. 

 ey will assent to our assertion, when we say that a 

 n who works with a poor instrument, when a better 



1 conveniently be had, is himself 



But little better than " a tool, 

 1 Which knaves do work with, call'd a fool." 

 :|J>V'c are therefore happy to perceive that a Shop or 

 irehouse, for the sale of Agricultural Implements, is 

 ablished by Mr. J. R. Newell, No. 20, Merchant's 

 w, Boston, where Ploughs, Cultivators, Porks, Hoes, 

 . i:c. itc. of the latest and most improved construe- 

 as, are to be sold, at a cheap rate, and of an excel- 

 t quality. 



th.-tt ever belonged to his spicies — is fleet as the Bu- bloody war, the principal battles wore fought, has been 



ccphrdus of Alexander, strong as the largest and most 

 powerful English dray horse, and docile as a lap-diig, 

 still, if his feet are defective, he is good for nolhiiij;-. 

 An altiution, therefore, to the " Diseases of the Keet 

 connected with shoeing," (the principal object of thi? 

 treatise,) is of primary importance. Dr. lYiiiklin, 

 somewhere, tells us of a horse's being badly shod, 

 which caused the loss of the horse, and the loss of the 

 liorse occasioned the destruction of his rider ; and this 

 last greatest of all disasters was the consequence of the 

 rider's not possessing such a treatise as we are recom- 

 mending, and paying a proper attention to its direc- 

 tions. Should any person hereafter, who has a dollar 

 to spare for this work, refuse to purchase it, and thus 

 meet destruction in the way warned against by Dr. 

 Franklin, the verdict of the Coroner's Jury ought to be 

 ftlo de sc ; or in English, this man^s neck ii-cis broken in 

 cojueqxunce of his otrn carthss^ie^f. 



NEW SYSTEM OF SHOEING HORSES. 

 In our paper of Nov. 30, page 142, we took notice 

 a work entitled Goodwin's " .VeM System of Slioe- 

 »r Horses,'''' &c. and beg leave once more to turn 

 t attention of such of our readers as are, or ex- 

 ] :t to be, benefited by the labors of that valuable and 

 iL'.L- animal the Horse, to this little treatise, which 



Qtj'-^ jiln.i for doubling our Subscriiilion Lisl.^i^ 

 We have thought of a scheme, which, if put in exe- 

 cution, will be sure to benefit the public, as well as 

 prove serviceable to our establishment. This is, sim- 

 ply, for each of our subscribers to procure us at least 

 one other subscriber ; and we hereby authorize each 

 and every lady and gentleman, who takes the N. E. 

 Farmer, to become our agent for that purpose. Those 

 who do not like this project, will of course let it alone, 

 but we can assure them that our advice is dictated by 

 pure patriotism, with a slight tincture of regard to our 

 own interest. 



FARMER SUMMARY OF NEWS. 



be had at any of the principal bookstores in this 

 If a horse has naturally all the good qualities Waterloo, and other places, where, durin, 



in Congress but little business capable of detail in 

 our paper has yet been completed. The MA6s.icih- 

 SETIS Lecislatl'RE is likewise principally engagetl 

 in concerns of a local and private nature. In both 

 those bodies as much harmony and unanimity prevail 

 as is consistent with freedom of discussion, and that 

 amicable collision, which is necessary to elicit the 

 Light of truth. — 



FOR.F.1GN. — A late arrival at New York, has brought 

 London dates to December 5th, which are much more 

 interetthig than usual. The Congress of \'erona is 

 broken up, or rather split into several sections. That 

 part which is to regulate Spain, is to sit in Paris ; the 

 portion which is to control Italy, is to hold its meetings 

 at Vienna ; and tlie Emperor Alexander, wherever he 

 may be, is to take charge of the resf of Europe. 



France seems to be determined to restore the old or- 

 der of things in Spain, either by force or menaces. Some 

 accounts say that a body of the French army of Obser- 

 vation has already penetrated into Spain, others that 

 Spain is to have a little time to accede to the decisions 

 of the Congress, and to ward off the meditated blow 

 by submission. The Cortes, on the contrary, shew no 

 disposition to submit to French dictation, and appear to 

 be determined to manage their own affairs in their own 

 way. If war does not follow, one or the other party 

 must haul in their horns, and if it should take place, it 

 is inpossible to foresee how many nations will become 

 parties. Great Britain seems determined on neutrality. 

 Probably the government tends one way, and (he peo- 

 ple the other, and in this way John Bull seems suspend- 

 ed on the horns of a dilemma, and will, it is to be hoped, 

 be kept out of mischief. 



On the 20th of Oct. the Turkish and Greek fleets 

 met, and a combat took place which lasted six hours, 

 and was obstinately contested. A part of the Greek 

 fleet was kept out of action by adverse winds and cur- 

 rents, but they succeeded in repulsing their opponents. 

 The Greeks fought bravely, for they fought hi presence 

 of their wives and children who covered the hills and 

 shore. 



It is estimated that moro than a million bushels of 

 bones, human and inhuman, were imported last year 

 from the Continent of Europe, into the port of Hull in 

 England. The neighborhood of Ijeipsic, Austerlitz and 



the late 



swept alike of tlii^ boni s of the horse and his rider, 

 shijiped to the port of Hull, and forv.-arded to the York- 

 shire bone grinders, wliu have er< cted 5t(ani ( ngint.", 

 with powerlul niachjiii ry, for the jiurpo.'e of riducing 

 thiin to a grauulary stati . In Ihis situation tiny are 

 sent, chiefly to Doncasti r, one of the largest agrif ultu- 

 ral markets in that part of the country, and sold In far- 

 mers to manure their lands. The oily substance gradu- 

 ally evolving as the bone calcines, it is said, niukcs a 

 more powerful aud substantial manure than almost any 

 other substance. This is remarkably the case with 

 human bones. A dead soldier is thus made an article 

 of lommerce ; and it is possible that the Yorkshire far- 

 mers may thus be indebted to the bones of their chil- 

 dren for their daily bread. 



There has lately occurred a terrible hurricane, a-.- 

 companied with an inundation, in Genoa. Bridge.-, 

 trees, and houses, were swept away by torrents descend- 

 ing from the mountains. The Lazaretto, a fine and 

 massy building, containing a large quantity of merchan- 

 dize, was borne away by the violence of the waters.— 

 The environs of the city presented an immense lake of 

 muddy water, with here and there tops of trees and the 

 second stories of houses, rising above the element. 



The townof Port-au-Priuce, St. Domingo, was nearly 

 destroyed by fire, which broke out on the night of the 

 16th ult. and was not got under until the lOtli. 



A Frenchman named Jacques, who is termed the 

 French Giant, is exhibiting himself in England. — He 

 is seven feet four inches in height, (and is yet a youth,) 

 is well formed, aud of amazing muscular powers, 



DOMESTIC. — The whole number of passengers ar- 

 riving from foreign ports, in the ports of the U. States, 

 from the 1st of Oct. 1C21, to the 30th Sept. 1822, is 

 reported by the Secretary of State to have been 8482 ; 

 r)241 males, and 113G females — the sex of the remain- 

 der not being reported to the Department of State. 



Edward P. P< rley, who kept a store in Market St. 

 was arraigned before the Police Court last Saturday, 

 rharged with having purloined goods from the store of 

 Messrs. Draper ^ .^tone. He was ordered to recognize 

 in the sum of $-1000, with sureties, for his appearance 

 at the Municipal Court. 



Gin. Chandler has been re-elected to the Senate of 

 the United States, for the State of Maine, for six years 

 from the 4th of March next. 



Counterfeit $5 and $2 bills of the Concord, N. H. 

 bank, are in circulation. The paper is of a lighter 

 and more spongy kind, than the genuine. None but 

 the above description, are knov.n to be counterfeited. 



At Richmond, Va. on the first of Jan. nearly all the 

 printing materials in the oflice of a paper called thp 

 Hornet, were destroyed by a mob of 15 or £0 persons 

 with blackened faces. 



The Legislature of N. Carolina has abolished impris- 

 onment for debts contracted after the 1st of May next. 



The U. S. Navy list shews that one hundred offi- 

 cers, or one eighth of the whole number, have resigned 

 or died during the past year. 



Flour 110 dollars per barrel .' — The Baltimore A- 

 merican of Friday says, "Late accounts from the Pa- 

 cific, received in this city last evening, via Panama an^ 

 Chagres, announce that flour had risen to one hiindrtd 

 and ten dollars per barrel at Guayaquil." 



Faehionublc Amusement. — Among the holiday sports 

 of the season, a writer in the Freeman's Journal de- 

 scribes a Bull-bail, witnessed by him at Rose Hill, near 

 Philadelphia, on Tuesday last, in colors calculated to 

 excite the attention of the magistrates of a country 

 less distinguished for humanity than the " city of broth- 

 erly love." — -V. Y. Statesman. 



Several families have recently sailed from N. York 

 for St. Augustine, E. Florida, to settle upon the Alach- 

 ua tract, so called, which is represented to be the rich- 

 est tract in Florida, producing sugar cane and rice in 

 abinidance. These lands are valued from one to two 

 dollars per acre. 



Purcell, the free man of color, who gave information 

 of the late intended insurrection in the state of South 

 Carolina, has been handsomely rewarded by the Ifgis- 

 lature of that state. They have allowed him $1(10 a. 

 year for life, and exempt liiia acd his family from taxa.- 

 tiou. 



