NEW ENGLAND I AliMEK. 



July 27, 1827. 



Oats. — When rooks begin to build, and the 

 male blossoms (catkins) of tlie hazel expand and 

 shed their farina. 



Barley. — At the earliest discovery of the cuckoo, 

 and the white-swoln buds of the blackthorn. 



Cabbage and Tumip-reoted Cabbage. — At the 

 appearance of the hyacinth (blue-bell) and when 

 'he ring-dove (wood pigeon) begins to coo. 



Potatoes. — When the wilding or crab apple is in 

 bloom ; and perhaps the true period of taking them 

 up is at the dropping of its fruit. 



Turnips. — When the elder flowers, and cherries 

 ripen. 



Ulieat At the fall of the aspen leaf, or when 



the grey or Royston crows return ; hat these be- 

 ing only local visitants, most of the inhabitants in 

 several counties not being acquainted with them, 

 their return is in correspondence with the latest 

 fall of the acorn and the variegated appearance of 

 the woods. 



This theory of sowing has been suggested by two 

 distinguished naturalists, viz. Dr. Stillingfleet, in 

 his " Calendar of Flora," and Dr. Goldsmith, in 

 his " History of Animated Nature." 



From the American Farmer. 



At the close of a collation in the Hall of Iho 

 State-house, at Boston, on the 4th iust. a number 

 of toasts were drunk by the Governor and other 

 distinguished men of the slate ; and, amongst oth- 

 ers, tho following — 



By the Sheriff of Suffolk. Our Territory— Co- 

 existing with our agriculture and civilization : 



Far be from us the undelightful pride 



Of nerveless empire, cultureless and wiJe. 



Young men, forbear o'er distant wilds lo roam 



In search of comfort, better found neariiome. 



Rouse to fertility, by skilful toil. 



Each dormant acre of your nalire soil ; 



And, more than riches, covet the applause 



Of faithful subjects to benignant laws. 



?o shall your sires, withdrawing from life's race, 



.Toy to behold you well supply tfieir place ; 



So shall your country, happier for your birth, 



With strength unshaken, hold ler rank on earth. 



For centuries stand ; and brighening honor gain, 



More from her children than htrvast domain. 



On the above, a friend who sent it to us remarks, 

 fhat, — =' this toast by tho sheriff of Suffolk, 

 '.'harles Pinckney Sumner Esq. deserves a place in 

 the American Farmer, and ought to bo conspicu- 

 ously suspended in every mansicn and leg cabin 

 in the United States and territories attached to 

 them" — and we heartily unite in the sentiment. 



Instead, however of bringing up their sons to 

 ■pursue this judicious course, on which the salva- 

 tion of the state depends, it has been the universal 

 practice of parents to encourage them to Jlock to 

 the towns — there to get into the stores, and law- 

 yers' and doctors' shops ; or to send them to West 

 Point, or in the nnvy : in short, any thing rather 

 than teach them to take the plough by the handles. 

 and submit with a good grace to the will of their 

 Creator — that man shall live by the su-iat of his 

 hrou: 



When regarded with just discrimination, can 

 there be any station in life more truly honourable 

 than that of him who practices the utmost econo- 

 my and cleanliness in clothing and diet ; and who 

 is not deterred by laziness or false pride, from 

 wielding the axe or guiding the plough, — his mind 

 having been first enlightened by a good srlid ed- 

 •jcation, and in that manner qualified to understand 



the moral duties that belong to his social condition, 

 and to appreciate the political blessings of his 

 country ? 



In that portion of the United States which is 

 most highly cultivated, where few hold large land- 



growth of regions and modes of culture, mortal in 

 their effects upon the health of adult white set- 

 tlers. 



To arrest at least, in a great degree, the course 

 of deterioration under which the middle and south- 



ed possessions, but where all are independent ; j ern states are sinking in respect to population and 

 where every comfort abounds, and gaming and social comforts, a few things appear to be neces- 

 drunkenness are alike unknown — every man takes : sary, and these are happily within the reach of 

 his share of labour. Judges and governors, and [the rising generation ofyonng men. The first is, 

 members of Congress are not ashamed to be seen ', to shake off, as inglorious and disreputable, the 

 in their working frock and trowsers ; and better i habits of idle consumers, drones in the hive ; and 

 would it be for us, were the example ef the Roman j fall to work as industrious /))'crfi(Cc;-5 — active bees : 



general revered more in the field, and less in our 

 cups. 



Be assured, young men, to this honorable desti 

 ny you must come at last, willing or not willing. 

 It is the irresistible tendency of our institutions to 



each gathering more honey, bo it ever so little 

 more, than he eats. Let every one firmly resolve 

 to lop off every superfluous expense in diet, drink, 

 clothing, equipage, servants, and furniture, and 

 make it a point of honour to set an example, in hi: 



crumble np all Iar?e estates into small ones, and ' oicn pecson, of regular industry. Your idle com- 

 to brinff the whole population to that condition in ' panions, who murder time in whiskey stores, and 

 which fortunes must all be very moderate, and village card and billiard tables, may sneer for a 

 nearly equal, and in which each member of sooie- ' time at your early rising, your liomespun coat, 

 ty will have to perform his portion of the manual your frugal meal, your rough hand, your sun-burnt 

 labour necessary for the support of all. The polit- , choek, your contempt of the bottle, and your ab- 

 ical creed in which we have been reared inculcates horrencc of the dice; but you will soon realize 

 equality, and inspires all with the will to divide the unspeakable delight ofgolting, and of keeping 

 equally; and where the few casual holders of out of debt ; you will see, that by the skilful cid- 

 larsre landed estates that yet remain in the country ; ture of your native soil, with your own hands, it 

 die intestate, the law steps in to enforce that di- makes you ample returns ; tliat all essential corn- 

 vision. \ large estate may be even yet, it is true, ' forts arc accumulating about you ; that, in every 

 sometimes, but rarely, accumulated by a series of reasonable sense of the word, you have enoucli 

 commercial good luck, or by speculation's acutely ] and to spare ; and that there is no long-er any oc- 

 conducted ; but of those who push their fortunes {casion to fly in cowardly fear of honest labour, 

 by trade, a great majority arc taken by misfor- 1 either to the more enervating or less manly pur- 

 tune, or overwhelmed by their own extravagance ; ' suits of the town, or to half savage, half civilized 

 and after years of anxious adventures, find thern- j frontiers. So far from regarding as discreditable- 

 selves at last reduced to tho greatest distress — j your change of habit from that of loungers, too 

 deserted by their sunshine friends, and without proid to lead and too lazy to drive; noh' consumece 

 energy or means to undertake new enterprises. — \frugcs ; the man of sense who sees you rise with 

 111 comparison with this, the lot of so many who the lark, and call out, cvmc boys .' — vvill look upon 

 embark upon the uncertain sea of commerce, or the metamorphosis, as more beautiful and worthy 

 seek a precarious livelihood in the barbarous arena of admiration, than tiiat which ensues the chrysa- 

 of modern politics — how enviable is the situation lis state of the insect, that enters as a loathsome 



of the laboring agriculturist. 



" His habit pure, with plain and temperate neals, 



Robust with labour, and by custom steel'd 



To every casualty of raried life." 



In regard to the medical profession, thcie are I 

 already almost as many students as there are vari- [ 

 ous drugs to be compounded ; and doctors so nu- j 

 merous, that were every man in the nation oi his \ 

 back, ho might be " helped to his grave' as 



worm, and emerges on wings of independence 

 that bear it to the skies, reflecting as it rises, hues 

 more various and splendid than all the colours of 

 the rainbow. 



From Flint's Western Quarterly Revietu. 



NEW- YORK CANALS. 



When the New-York Canal was undertaken, 

 speedily as in the days of Sangrado hi"nself— as "";'■'' ^^"^ "°'- wanting persons to scoff at the idea 

 lancets are equally sharp and calomel is quitt as "f its beinff a practical project. Nothing would 

 potent as hot water. Lawyers are swarming Ike ^^oivince these gainsayers, but the palpable de- 

 locusts o'er the land, and " dream of fees" mere '"""^tration of seeinsr and feelinsr. Boats of all 

 than they ever get ; measurers of tape and cali-o '"""''•ens. we believe, as hi?h as an hundred tons, 

 are as thick as bees in a pot of honey. The mii. '""^'s up the country to lake Champlain, and bring 

 shipuien are all over every ship, and for applica "i''"">'?es from the Nereids of the blue wave to 

 tions fnr the military academy, the only avenue to ''^'^ Naiads of the pellucid fountains, that dash a- 



the army, there are ten thousand !! mid-t the dark forests of the Green Mountains 



But, say our young friends, can we not escape ^'^''*^ move over the rapid Mohawk, as he foams 

 the odious drudgery of manual labour, by migrat- i'''""^ in his d'^ep and slaty channel below the 

 ing'with a few slaves to some new countrv, whose I '^'"^ """^ sleeping waters of an artificial river in 



virgin soil, teeming with fertility, asks only to have 

 the seed sprinkled on its bosom, to make returns 

 beyond measure ? No ; wo say again — 



"Rouse to fertility, by skillful toil. 

 Each dormant acre of your«a(tre soil." 



The products of those states in which von are 



the air. Along the whole course of this canal, 

 Urjre and respectable towns, with their bustle, 

 and their massive buildings, and their citv show, 

 and numerous villages, that, twenty years ago 

 wjnld have been called towns, sprinrr up, like the 

 prophet's gourd, and seem to have been trans- 



„,],,„„,,.„ , .,, , • ,, ported there by t(ie power of enchantment. A 



allowed to carry slaves, will scarce v Pav a e.v- 1; i ■ i . i <■ » i r r .u 



„„„„„„ „f I.- .• 1 . ^ / (".y «-^ sincr.e and isolated fact, and one far from the or- 



ponses ot cultivation and transportation to market- j„ i r j . .- .t- ■ 



„„.„„. . , ! ,.'■■" "''"^"'^'- dinary samples of demonstration, is suflicient to 



except, perhaps, sugar and rice, which are theLi .u •• r .i • i a , , ■ 



' ' ^' *= v-<., yyiiiv,!! urt "le show the operation of this canal. As wc looker 



