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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



THE lARMER.— BY t. c. fesse.vdex. 



Let monifiil blockhc-a<Vs roll in wtaltli, 



Let proud fools strut ia state, 

 My hands, my homestead and my health 



Place me above the great. 



I never fawn, nor fib, nor feijn, 



To please old Mammon's fry ; 

 But independence £till maintain 



On all beneath the sky. 

 Thus Cincinnatus, at his plough, 



With more true glory shone. 

 Than Ca;sar with his laureU'd brow, 



His palace and his throne. 



Tumult, perplexity and care 



Are bold ambition's lot ; 

 But those intruders never dare 



Disturb my peaceful cot. 

 Blest with bare competence, I find 



\Vhat monarch's never can. 

 Health, and tranquillity of mind, 



Heaven's choicest gifts to man. 

 The toil with which I till the ground 



For exercise is meet — 

 I's mere amusement, which is crown'd 



With slumber sound and sweet. 

 But those who toil in pleasure's rounds, 



Sweet slumber soon destroy ; 

 Soon find, on dissipation's grounds, 



A grave for every joy. 



ON THE VOWELS. 

 We are little airy creatures, 

 All of diflVrent voice and features ; 

 One of us in glass is set. 

 One of us you'll find in jet, 

 One you may perceive in tin, 

 And the fourth a box within ; 

 If the fifth you should pursue 

 it can never fly from you ; 

 The sixth you always may espy 

 Lurking in a lover's eye. 



Lord Mansfield was nnt a dandy.— One day 

 when Lord Mansfield was sitting for his picture, 

 Sir Joshua Keynolds, who painted the portrait, 

 asked him if he thought it a hkeness? His 

 Lordship replied, that it was not in h.s power 

 to iud-'e of its degree of resemblance, as he had 

 not seen his own iace in a looking glaes during 

 the last thirty years of his life ; for his servant 

 always dressed him, and put on his wig, which 

 therefore rendered it unnecessary for him to 

 look at himself in a mirror. 



Judge Crackenridgo, in reprimanding a crim 

 inal, amongst other hard names, called him a 

 scoundrel. The prisoner replied—" Sir, 1 am 



not so great a scoundrel as your honor 



takes me to he." " Put your words closer to- 

 gether," said the Judge. 



,\n auctioneer at a late sale of antiquities, put 

 up a helmet, with the following candid obser- 

 vation ! " This, ladies and gemmen, is a helmet 

 of Romulus, the Koman Founder; but whether 

 he was a brass or iron founder I cannot tell." 



Authors arc like asparagus ; there is nothing 

 good about them but the head. 



April is much like a pretty woman, being full 

 of sweets, and having both teais and smiles at 

 command 



From the West Chester Republican. 

 WEEVILS.— Eemarfci on their habits, and means 

 of destroying them. 

 As much injury is done in barns to the dif- 

 ferent kinds of grain, by these insects, I wish 

 the society to devote some attention to the most 

 efficacious method of destroying thera. or pre- 

 venting their ravages. 1 have endeavored, 

 for several years, to become acquainted with 

 their habits, and am willing to state the result 

 of my conclusions, hoping it may occasion, 

 from some abler pen, more important informa- 

 tion. I believe they continue residents for life, 

 of the buildings in whxh chance may place 

 them, and that they do not migrate from one 

 barn to another, unless carried thither. That 

 during the winter they lie in a dormant state 

 near the ground. 1 have found numbers of 

 them at that season on the lower sides of boards 

 which were lying under the mangers in stables. 

 Instinct, no doubt, teaches them at the com- 

 mencement of cold weather, to seek a retreat 

 where they may lie secure, and where they 

 will be somewhat sheltered from intense cold. 

 Had they remained in the mow, on threshing 

 the grain, they being in a dormant state, would 

 probably be destroyed. About the middle ol 

 the 5th month. May, they begin to travel, 

 crawling up the walls, and in every direction in 

 search of food. If any grain be in the barn, 

 they find it ; and I have seen as many as eight 

 or ten on one grain of Indian corn, the eye ol 

 which they at first consume. AVhen wheat, rye, 

 or barley, is brought into the barn, they pene- 

 trate the mow, and I apprehend, deposit then- 

 eggs in the grain, which serves for food for the 

 young insects, till they arrive at nearly the size 

 of the parents ; probably the sweating and 

 the warmth of the mow, much assist in the de- 

 positing of the egg, and in bringing the insect 

 to perfection. 



As a proof that the egg is deposited in the 

 grain, it will be found, that if wheat be threshed 

 some short time after harvest, in barns where 

 weevils abound, when it will be very little eat- 

 en by them, and put into bags, and perhaps few 

 of the insects then to be seen, that in a few 

 weeks it will be very much eaten, and numbers 

 of weevils in the bags. Having thus briefly 

 stated my opinion of their habits, I will suggest 

 a few propositions for destroying them. The 

 most efficacious mode, 1 apprehend, would be 

 to stack the grain out lor one or two years, and 

 keep all kinds of it from lying in the barn, du- 

 ring the summer season ; by this means they 

 would be deprived of food and of a suitable 

 place to deposit their young. 



Many of them may be destroyed by having no 

 grain in the barn from the time they leave their 

 winter retreat, till harvest; except about a 

 double handful of Indian corn in a place, and in 

 several different places. Numbers of them will 

 go to these heaps for food, then about once in 

 two days riddle them in some clean place with 

 a wheat riddle, the insects will fall through, 

 which may he gathered up and thrown into the 

 lire. Another method is to leave a little straw 

 in the stables at this season, and before harvest 

 gather it all up carefully, and draw it out into a 

 field, many weevils will thus be taken out and 

 perish. It is said, though I have never expe- 

 rienced it, that they have a great antipathy to 

 hemp, that a few layers of it, spread among the 

 grain, at the lime of putting it ia the barn, wiU 



prevent their ravages. No doubt, member 

 the society, and others are possessed of fact 

 this subject which would be highly interes, 

 to those who are troubled with these im 

 about their barns. It is hoped they will bt 

 duced, through the medium of the societ 

 otherwise, to make them public, as it m 

 be the means of saving many bushels of g 

 annually for the benefit of the community. 

 ISAAC SHARPLES 



rrom the Connecticut Courant. 

 CANADA THISTLE. 

 A few days since I called on a member o' 

 Litchfield County Agricultural Society, 

 showed me a piece of ground from whicl 

 had easily and efi'ectually eradicated the Ca 

 I'liisth. As '.his subject is becoming very i 

 esting to this portion of the country, I tru 

 account of the process by which this object 

 clfected will not be unacceptable to your 

 cultural readers. 



The secret consists in cutting ofl the 

 near the ground at the change of the moon, 

 the new moon, as near the change as possib 

 June or July. This, my informant says, 

 srenerally destroy all the plants the first yea 

 should any shoots sprout the next year, le 

 same course be pursued, and in two or 

 years there will not a root remain. 



This process of course is better adapt 

 cases where the evil has but just comme 

 'J'his is the third year from the commeno 

 ot the operation on the small piece I was si 

 «iiy from two to four rods square ; and a 

 time not a Canada Thistle is to be found • 

 although three years since they constitut( 

 principal growth. That the circumstanc 

 tending this case were correctly detailec 

 confirmed to me by a neighbor of my ii 

 ant, who was present, and who had witi 

 the whole process. He informed me tl 

 derived his information from a farmer in 1 

 ess county, by whom, and in whose vi 

 this course has been extensively pursue, 

 with uniform success. The discovery wi 

 made, as I am informed, through the 

 channel, by an observing farmer in Troy, 

 Some years since, being much infested 

 these troublesome weeds, he cut down a 

 tity of them in the vicinity of his hous< 

 was surprised to find the next year that 

 he had thus served did not shoot up 

 Upon recurring to dates, he found the 

 been cut exactly at the change of the m 

 June. This induced a second exper 

 which produced the same result ; but 

 quent and more extensive experiments 

 determined the best time for cutting thes 

 ious weeds to be as 1 have before stated. 



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