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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FOR THE BEW F.SIil.AKD PA&IIKR. 



INVOCATION TO SPRING. 



[ Writlen during a Xorth-easl storm in Mat/.] 

 l)aughter of Zephyr aud the Solar Ray, 

 Thy fairy footsteps please to print this way. 

 !t is a long; whilf since our clime you visitcJ, 

 Though never laily has been more solicited. 

 AVhy stand aloof, and veil thy beauties thus, 

 As if thou wcrt too exquisite for us. 

 Vet deijn to dwell with Afric's tawny train, 

 While the swart Kthiop woos thee not in vaini 

 \\ by dangling thus about the torrid zone, 

 \\ hile Flora, Ceres, and I'omona moan 

 Thy long; piotractcd absence? Miss, I fear 

 Thou hast forgotten to adorn the year, 

 As thou wert wont with wreaths of fragrant flowers, 

 For thou didst give us nought but IcaScss bowers 

 And sorry evergreens the first of Mav) 

 Wherewith to celebrate thy holiday I 

 Why should we shiver thus, week after week, 

 Fxposed to Bortal blasts so very bleak. 

 That while we shudder under their control, 

 We think them missionaries from the pole, 

 ."t^ent here by some Satanical device, 

 In order to conrerl us — into ice? 



Is it for any sore neglect of ours. 

 Thai. we're half frn^ai in the month ofjloutrs? 

 ll so, accept this Ode upou condition 

 It makes atonement for our sad omission ; 

 Htceive this trifle for the donor's sake, 

 'i'he best peace offering he knows how to make. 



My almanac has prophesied thy coming. 

 But sure the rogue who made the thing was humming, 

 Lcagu'd with some selfish seedsman I'll be bound. 

 Who wish'd our seeds all rotted in the ground. 

 That so our horticulturists might hop 

 To get a fresh assortment from his shop. 



The earth, the sea, the atmosphere and sky 

 All seem to give our calendars the lie. 

 Which call this Spring, when every body knows 

 Winter still rides on every breeze that blows. 

 Now half resolv'd, the other half aghast, 

 Still shrinking from th' intolerable blast, 

 Still shuddering at the gelid north-cast storm, 

 Spring half discloses her seraphic form ; 

 But like some moody half-pleas'd nymph appears, 

 Whose smiles just lighten through a cloud of tears. 



sand one hundred and eleven ; and suffered other 

 punisliments, such as whipping, imprisonment, 

 &c. two hundred eightv-seven thousand, five 

 hundred and twenty-two ; making a grand total 

 of eight hundred, thirty-six thousand, sis hun- 

 dreil and tit'ty-one. The greatest number of 

 victims under any administration, was that of 

 Ter(|uemada, the first Inquisitor General ; who 

 presided from 1452 to 1 199, a long and bloody 

 reign of forty-seven years, during which, eight 

 thousand eight hundred victims were burnt, six 

 thousand tour hundred died or escaped by flight, 

 and nine thousand ninety-four suffered various 

 other punishments ; being in the whole, one 

 hundred five thousand two hundred ninety-four, 

 or two thousand two hundred forty per annum. 



JV. Y. Statesman. 



Where true wisdom is, there surely is re- 

 pose of mind, patience, dignity, and delicacy. 

 Wisdom, without these, is dark light, heavy 

 ease, sonorous silence. 



A great talker never wants enemies; the 

 man of sense speaks little and hears much. 



The father of the British Lord Abington, who 

 was remarkable for the stateliness of his man- 

 ners, one day riding through a village in the 

 vicinity of Oxford, met a lad dragging a calf 

 along the road, who, when his Lordship came 

 up to him, made a stop, and stared him full in 

 the face. His Lordship asked the boy if he 

 knew him. He replied, " Ees." " What is my 

 name ?" said his Lordship. " Why, Lord Ab- 

 ington," replied the lad. " Then, why don't 

 you take off jour hat?" " So I will, Sur," said 

 the boy, " if ye'll hold the calf" 



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AGRICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT 



NO. 20, MERCHANTS' ROW, 

 0:5=^/ the East End of the Old Market.^l^ 



FOR sale as above, a variety of the most approrei 

 single and double mould board Ploughs, 



C. Howard's improved cast iron mould board, vril 

 wrought Shear and Coulter, 



Cast iron do. do. do, 



J. Seaver & Co's. do. do. 



Bigclow's wrought do. do. 



^^■alTen's much approved common Ploughs, 



Sinclair's side hill do. do. do. 



Howard's much improved Cultivator, an implement 

 highly esteemed for its use and utility in drill cul- 

 tivation, 



Beatson's Scarifier, 



Bennet's Broad Cast, 



Seed Sowing Machines, calculated for large and email !"' 

 seed, ^ilis 



Eastman's improved Straw Cutter, 



Safford's new invented Straw Cutter, much improved^ ^i 



Common hand Straw Cutters, " ' 



An English Vegetable Cutter, 



Stevens' patent steel spring Hay and Manure Forks, 



Steel spring Potatoe Hoes, 



English cast steel broad tloes. 



Common and steel do. do. 



A great variety of Garden and other Agricultural 



Implements. 



(tj" Tree Brushes, for destroying Caterpillars, an 



article highly recommended for that purpose, by the 



Hon. Timothy Pickering, whose communication on this 



subiect appeared in the New England Farmer, April 



26,' page 30«. May 3, 



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Spanish Iiuiuisitinn. — A etatement has recentlj' 

 appeared, of the number of victims to this ter- 

 rible engine of superstition, cruelty and death, 

 the bare recital of tvhich chills the blood, and 

 iills tlia mind with horrid images of suffering 

 humanity, under the most excruciating tortures, 

 which awful depravity, disguised in the robes 

 of religion, could invent. The table is extract- 

 ed from a critical History of the dreadful tribu- 

 nal, by .1. A. Lorcntc, one of its late Secreta- 

 ries, and may therefore be considered as indis- 

 putably authentic. It exhibits a detailed list of 

 the respective numbers who have suffered va- 

 rious kinds of punishment and persecution in 

 the Peninsula alone, independent of those who 

 have been its victims iii other parts of the 

 world, for a period of tliree hundred and fifly- 

 six years, viz. from 1452 to IfiOC, when the In- 

 i]uisilion has existed, under the administration 

 flf forty-four ln(|uisitors General. W'ithin that 

 term, it appears tiiat in Spain have been burnt, 

 thirly-one thousand seven hundred and eighteen : 

 died in prison, or escaped by flight and were 

 burnt in efligy, one hundred seventy-four thoii- 



BELLFOUNDER, 



The Wonderful JVorfolk Trotter^ imported July 



1822, frojn England, 



WILL STAND THIS SEASON, 1823, 



At Twenty Dollars, and One Dollar the Groom. The 



money to be paid to the Groom at Covering. 

 rW^ HIS celebrated Horse is a bright bay, with black 

 M- legs, standing 15 hands high ; his superior blood, 

 symmetry and action excel those of every other trotting 

 Stallion. He is allowed by the best judges in Norfolk 

 to be the fastest and best bred Horse ever sent out of 

 that County. He has proved himself a sure foal getter, 

 and his Stock for size and substance are not to be sur- 

 passed ; they are selling at the highest prices of any 

 Horses in Norfolk. 



BELLFOUNDER tvas got by that well known, fast 

 and high formed Trotter, Or.n Belt.fobnder, o'ut of 

 Velocity, which trotted on tb« Norwich road, in 1006, 

 Siilcen milts in one hour, and though she broke fifteen 

 times into a gallop, a7id as often turned rounds won her 

 match. In 1808 she trotted Twenty-eight miles in one 

 hour and forty-seven minutes, aud has also done many 

 other great performances against timej 



BELLFOUNDER, at five years old, trotted Tiro 

 miles in six minutes, and in the following year was 

 matched for 200 guineas to trot JV/ne miles in thirty 

 minutes, and he v\'ou easily by thirty-two seconds. His 

 owner shortly after challenged to perform with him St !■- 

 enteen miles and a half in one h<nir, hut it was not ac- 

 cepted. He has since never been saddled or matched. 



Oi.i) Bki.i.foundf.u was a true dcsrendant from the 

 original blood of the Fireavai/s, which breed of Horses 

 stands unrivalled, either in this or any other Nation. 



lil'.ELFOUNDER is strongly recommended to the 

 public by the subscriber, as combining more useful 

 properties than auy other Horse in America, and will 

 stand, during the season, at his Stable in C'harlestown, 

 where all inquiries, post paid, ■tvill be attended to. 

 SAMUEL JAQUES, Jr. 



Charlestown, Jlass. April 25, 1823* 



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AGRICULILRAL ic HORTICULTURAL SEEDS. 



JOSEPH BRIDGE, No. 25, Court Street, has jusl 

 received, per London Packet, a variety of 

 GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS, 

 which added to his former extensive assortment, makes 

 the most complete variety, probably in the U. States. 

 Among them— 300 lbs. Carrots, 200 lbs. Beets, 50 lbs. 

 Mangel ^\urtzel, 200 lbs. Ruta Baga, 30 bush. Peas, 

 lOORaddish. of sorts; Lettuce, Cabbage, Cauliflower, 

 Kale, Brocoli, Sweet Marjoram, Thyme, Sunnner and 

 Winter Savory, Sage, Hysop, Fennell, Dill, Salsifie, 

 Scorzenera, Endive, Red and White Clover, Red Top, 

 Foul Meadow— with an extensive collection of Flower 

 Seeds, Bird Seeds, &c. 



0O-GARI)EN TOOLS, vij: Pruning and Budding 

 Knives, Pruning Saws, Transplanting Trowels, Garden 

 I Reels and Lines, Edging Irons, 4:c. Flower Pots con- 

 stantly on hand. May 3. 



TERMS OF THE FARMER. 



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