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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From the New-Brunswick Advertiser. 

 A SO.NG, 

 Written by John J. Barker of this city, and sung at the 

 Spring- meeting of the Agricultnral Society of New- 

 Brunswick, on the 24th April, 1821. 



A Farmer's life's the life for mc, 

 I own i love it dearly ; 

 And ev'ry season, full of glee. 

 I take its labor cliecrly — 



To plough or sow, 



To reap or mow ; 

 Or in the barn to thresh, Sir, 



All's one to me, 



I plainly see 

 'Twill bring me health and cash, rii 



To customers the merchant shows 

 His best broad-cloths and satin ; 

 In hopes to sell a suit of clothes — 

 But lo ! they beg a pattern — 



Which pinn'd on sleeve. 



They take their leave — 

 " Perhaps they'll buy — since low 'tis" — 



And if they do. 



The sale he'll rue. 

 When paid, Sir, with a " notice." — 



|l The Priest has plagues, as nndesir'd. 

 When flatter'd with a call. Sir, 

 For tho' he preach like one inspir'd, 

 He cannot please 'em all, Sir. 



Some wanting grace, 



Laugh in his face, 

 While solemnly he's prosing ; 



Some sneeze or cough, 



Some shuffle off — 

 And some arc even dozing. 



The lawyer leads a harass'd life, 

 Much like a hunted Otter, 

 And, 'tween his own and others' striiV , 

 He's Etlways in hot yra.tcr. 



For foe or friend 



A cause defend, 

 However wrong, must he, Sir, 



fn reason spite 



Maintain 'tis right— 

 And dearly earn his fee, Sir. 



The Doctor's styl'd a gentleman. 

 But this 1 hold but humming ; 

 For like a tavern waiting man, 

 To ev'ry call he's " coming" — 



Now here, now there, 



Must he repair, 

 Or starve, Sir, by denying ; 



Like death himself, 



Unhappy elf, 

 He lives by other's dying. 



The soldier dcck'd in golden lace. 

 Looks wond'rous fine, I own. Sir. 

 Ent still I envy not his place — 

 Wlieu batter'd to the bone, Sir. 



To knock my head 



Against cold lead, 

 I never had a notion ; 



If that's the way 



To rank, I say — 

 Excuse m'; the proniotioa. 



The sailor lives but in a jail. 

 With all the risk besides. Sir, 

 Of pillage, founder, and of gale — 

 This cannot be deny'd, Sir. 



While 1 so snug 



Enjoy my mug. 

 Or kiss my wife and so forth — 



When rain and storm 



The nights deform. 

 His duty bids him go forth. 



A farmer's life, then let me live, 

 Obtaining, while I lead it, 

 Enough for self, and some to give 

 To such poor souls as need it. 



I'll drain and fence. 



Nor grudge expense 

 To give my land good dressing ; 



I'll plough and sow, 



Or drill in row. 

 And hope from Heav'n a blessing. 



AGRICULTURE. 



From the New Hampshire Sentinel. 



CHESHIRE .AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



At a meeting- of the Cheshire Agricultural So- 

 ciety at Col. Drew's in Walpole, on the first 

 day of January instant, the follovring premiums 

 upon Agricultural products were awarded by 

 the executive committee. 



To Bela Chase, of Cornish, for the best crop of 

 wheat on old ground, being 44 bushels on one 

 acre and 22 rods of land, $^,00 



By the statement of Mr. Chase, accompany- 

 ing his application, it appears that this piece of 

 land is a part of a loamy pine plain. That pre- 

 vious to 1820 it had been for some years alter- 

 nately in tillage and mowing. In 1820 and 21 

 was planted with corn, and in the latter year 

 highly manured, quantity not stated. In the 

 spring of 1821 the land was first ploughed deep, 

 the manure spread and covered by a shallow 

 ploughing, planted, and the corn carried off the 

 ground the first week in September. The pro- 

 duce as p<itimated by meaaurin^ in the ear, 

 and shelling one basket, was 102 bushels. The 

 land was again ploughed deep immediately af- 

 ter harvesting the corn and sowed, 5 pecks on 

 the piece, harrowed once and bushed — produce 

 as above. 



To Samuel Grant, of Walpole, the second pre- 

 mium on wheat, ^2,00 

 Mr. Grant's field contained 2 acres 3-4 and 

 14 1-2 rods. The produce 94 bushels. The 

 wheat, a specimen of which was exhibited to 

 the committee, of a superior quality ; weighing 

 64 lbs. per bushel. The field in 1821 was tilled 

 — a part of it sowed with peas and the remainder 

 planted with corn. The peas were harvested 

 about the first of August — a large crop of weeds 

 then ploughed in and the ploughing repeated 

 three times before the 20th Sept. From the 

 part of the field planted, the corn was removed 

 on the 15th Sept. and stooked up on grass land 

 where it ripened well. The land was ploughed 

 between that time and Sept. 20th, three times, 

 at the last of which ploughings it received a 

 dressing of chip manure, Sept. 20th, the whole 

 piece harrowed and sowed with four and a half 

 bushels. The seed was prepared by washing 

 and mixing with e:)ch bushel two quarts of 

 slacked lime. May follovving it was dressed 

 with two bushels of plaister aud one of slacked 

 lime. Mr. Grant ex["-esses the belief that the 

 frequent ploughing and turning in of the 'veeds 

 contributed very much to the increase of his 

 crop. 



To Samuel Jennison of Walpole, for the bi 



crop of potatoes, a premium of g4. 



The quantity of land, one acre, produce 4 



bushels of the long red or Spanish potatoe. 



The land had laid in green sword mowing, 



12 or 15 years. Ploughed again and harrow 



in the Spring of 1822 — manured with 30 loi 



of coarse manure spread. Again ploughed s 



harrowed — furrowed 3 1-2 feet distant one w 



— manured in the furrows with 1 1 loads of r 



ten manure — hills 1 foot and an half distant; 



hoed twice and harvested last of October. Se 



whole, about one large potatoe to each hill. 



SAMUEL FINDLEY, Chairman. 



Thomas M. Edwards, Secretary. 



Januauy. — Carefully watch cow?, near t 

 time of their calving ; see that they are not 

 lowed to leap fences or ditches, or go on t 

 ice ; house such as have just calved ; incres 

 their feed ; put ewes to rowen that are so 

 to lamb, house your calves and colts, finish k 

 ling and curing pork, lay up your tools earef 

 ly that were used in fall work, finish yo 

 threshing, get home your wood, dress flax 

 your daughters to spin, and settle your accoun 



.'Isri. ^filmannc 



BROWN'S PATENT \ KKTICAL FAMIl 

 SPINNER. 



FOPv SALE, at the Agricultural Warehouse, 

 Chambers No. 20, Merchant's Row, (oppo! 

 the F.ast end of the Old Market) — a number of 



Bro7iin''s Patent Family Wool SpinncTs, 

 which are found on trial to be one of the most use 

 domestic implements that have ever been invented 

 that purpose, being of so simple and easy construct 

 that a girl of the age of 15 can well do the work of 

 persons in spinning, and so compact in its form as i 

 to require so much space as a common family spinn 

 wheel. The advantage of this machine over and ab( 

 the common mode of family spinning, is at once tea' 

 in a few minutes operation with the machine ; it 

 once discovers its immense saving of labor, its accurs 

 in spinning a good thread, and the quantity it v 

 spin. It requires no further examination to judge 

 its utility than to see it operate. It is afforded at 

 low a price as to bring it in common use to every pn 

 tical farmer, and is well calculated for the employjnf 

 of the inmates of our common town's poor houses.. 

 Any number of M'irhines can be furnished at the she 

 est notice, and warranted. Jan. 11. 



THOMAS W. SHEPARD, 



RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the puK) 

 that he executes all kinds of 



BOOK AND FINE JOB PRINTING, 



in the most Tashionable manner, and on reasonabi 

 terms, at the Office o^ the New England FarmJEj 

 ROGERS' BUILDING CONGRESS-ST. 



