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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 21, 1827. 



JHisccUanics. 



My thouglus are in my native land, 



"My heart is in my iiEitive place ; 

 AVhere willows bend to breezes bland, 



And kiss the river's rippling face. 



Where sunny shrubs disperse their scent, 

 And raise their blossom high to heaven ; 



As if in calm acknowledgment 

 For brilliant hues and virtues given. 



My thoughts are with my youthful days. 

 When sin and grief were but a name .; 



When every field had golden ways, 

 And pleasure with the day-light came. 



I bent the rushes to my feet. 



And sought the water's silent flow, 

 I moved along the thin ice fleet, 



Nor thought upon the death below. 



I culled the voilet in the dell, 



Where wild-roses gave a chequered shade : 

 And listened to each village bell, 



So sweet by answering echo made. 



In God's own house, on God's own day. 



In neat attire I bent the knee ; 

 Pure sense of duty bade me pray — 



Joy made me join the melody. 



Thus memory from her treasured urn. 

 Slakes o'er the mind her spring like rain; 



Thus scenes turn up and palely burn. 

 Like night-lights in the ocean's train. 



Vnd still my soul shall these command. 

 While sorrow writes upon my face, 



My thoughts are on my native land. 

 My heart is on my native place. A'. ¥. Aineri 



an intercourse with them, which has hitherto been 

 prevented by the jealousy of the const tribes. 

 I [Salem Observer] 



[ Influence of Civilization on Hi-alth. — The first 

 i number of the Foreign Quarterly Review, pub- 

 ' lished in England contains a review of a discourse 

 'of M Berard on the influence of civilization on who would undertake to travel twelve mUes and 



steps, which on calculation are found to make 

 about twelve and a half miles. Here then we have 

 no small degree of industry in the feet, as well as 

 the fingers — especially when it is considered that 

 in spinning, a stop is to be made at every third 

 step, and that half the steps are to be taken back- 

 wards. Where, we ask, is the young man. 



health, in which the author proves, that civiliza 

 tion "not only lengthens the average duration of 

 liuman life, but adds to the strength of man." — 

 " Longevity amid Savage Nations is not only rare, 

 : but Savages in general are more feeble than civil- 

 I i;:ed Nations. Lc Pere Fanque, who lived much 

 [among them, says, he scarcely saw an old man; 

 i Raynal ;isserts the same of the Savages of Cana- 

 ! da; ( cok and La Peyrouse of those of the North 



a half in a day, one half the distance backwards, 

 and stop on the way 14,400 times .' 



The young women, of course, had to travel a 

 greater distance; ut they are doubtless some 



40 years younger tlinn IMrs. , and find it a 



mere pastime, 



" To trip it as they go, 



On the light fantastic toe. 



At all events, we cannot do less than recom- 



' west Coast of America ; Mungo Park of the Ne- mend them to the particular attention of those 

 ' groes; and Bruce of the Abysiiiians." He refers | who are in pursuit of wives, as better calculated 

 to some e.xperimcnts of Mr Peron, with the Dyan- ! to make a man happy, than if they had spun a 

 ! omcter, by wliich was ascertained the relative thousand miles of .s/reei J/a?'ij. [Berk. Am.] 



1 strength of twelve natives of Van Dicman's land, 



i seventeen of New Holland. fifty-si.\- of tlie Island The Duke of St. Jllbans.— Of all the jokes play. 

 I of Timor, seventeen Frenchmen, and fourteen ed off in the English papers upon the i/ourtg- Duke 

 ': Englishmen of Now South Wales. The weakest of St. Albans for his folly in marrying the old Mrs 



were natives of V"an Dieiiian's land. The mean 

 strengthof their arms was 50 6. Thatofthe Eng- 

 lish which were the strongest, was 71 4. — Ihid. 



Importance of Manufacturing Establishments. — 

 j The Nashua Gazette states, as an illustration of 



JIdivitt/ Bo always employed. Thou wilt the dependence of Agriculture upon the encour- 



iiever be better pleased, than when thou hast i agement of the manufactures, that the Great Falls 

 something to do; for business by its motion, brings j Company, at Somersworth, in New Hampshire, 

 heat and life to the spirits, but" idleness corrupts | commenced their manufacturing establishment in 

 them like standintr water. j 1833, and at the present time there are between 



^— 1,500, and 1,600 per.sons engaged in the business 



Exlravagance, — By extravagance, the jiigher ! of the Company, or wlio obtain their subsi.slenco 

 sort are reduced to poverty, and forced to borrow ; from the establishment. The persons consumed 

 af those whom they formerly despised, but who, j in the year which ended on the last month, one 

 through industry and frugality have maintained ^^jpusanrf nine hundred and thirhj-onc barrels of 

 their standing. A ploughman on his legs is high- !^our, and six thousand and ffty nine bushels of 

 'ix than a gentleman on his kneea. I corn, received from the states south ofthc Hudson. 



Coutts, we have seen uo keener one than this from 

 The Age. 



" His Grace, in a worldly point of view, is nn. 

 derstood to be what is commonly called a dost 

 shaver. If that be the case, (without at all allud- 

 ing to the pecuniary opportunities which may be 

 afl'orded him) we can only say her Grace's coun- 

 tenance will keep him in constant employment, if 

 he has nothing else to do." 



Prudence and Economy. — Prudence will direct ■ Schiller, the German poet, had a patent of no- 

 us to be cautious what debts we contract; but i bility conferred on him by the Emperor of Ger- 

 when they bctome duo, justice requires that they many, which he never used. Turning over a heap 



be punctually discharged, otherwise we keep pos- of papers one day, in the presence of a friend, he , ,. .. - , • , j- . i . ,r>^r-Do t. ,.„„.,.r. 

 •^ •' ... ., ,. 1^ ji_- 1 11.1 ApphcaUons, post paid, directed to JOSEPH F. WHITE 

 session while another has the right. | came to his patent, and shovying it carelessly to , ^j^, 213 water St. New York, or to JOSEPH R. NEWELL 

 ■ his friend with this observation, " I suppose you I Boston, will be attended to. 



Farnham's Improved Cider Mill. 



A mill on this plan of full size is 4 feel by 2 1-2. The cylin- 

 der is 16 inches diameter and 9 inches long, tlie periphery fix- 

 ed with points of iron or steel, placed in a spiral forrii, project- 

 ing 3-16ths of an inch, placed 2-3ds of one eighth of an inch 

 from each other, there being 17 rows around said block or cylin- 

 der, and 13 teeth in a row ; the teeth may be 4d brads. The 

 cylinder is put in motion by a whirl and band. 



This mill without the power cost from 10 to 12 dolls; and by 

 giviuo; it 500 revolutions per minute it will grind or grate vvitli 

 one horse power sixty bushels of apples per hour ; with two 

 horses double the quantity. The apples are grated very fine 

 without breaking the seeds. 



There was rising of two thousand barrels of cider made in 

 one of these mills last year, without expending one cent for re- 

 pairs. Agents will shortly be out in the state of Massacliusctts 

 ID sell out the rights of towns, counties, 



Prudence. — Begin your course in life with the did not know that I was a noble;" and then buried 

 least show and e.xpense possible. You may, at it again in the mass of miscellaneous papers in 

 pleasure, increase both, but cannot easily diminish , which it had long laid undisturbed. 



them. 1 — 



Unlucky Shot. — An industrious farmer in the 

 town of Conquest, N. Y. after having finished his 

 haying and harvest, had stacked his wheat and 

 part of his hay near his house. He soon after saw 

 a squirrel upon his wheat, took his gun and shot 

 him. But the wadding of his gun set his wheat 

 in a blaze, and that and the haystack was in a 

 short time consumed. There was nearly three 

 thousand bushels of wheat, and a ton and a half 

 of hay. 



Evils of Debt. — Do not consider debt only as an 

 inconvenience, you will find it a calamity. Pov- 

 erty takes away so many means of doing good, 

 and produces so much inability to resist evil, both 

 natural and moral, that it is by all means to be 

 avoided. 



Discovery in Africa — Mr Ashmun, Agent of 

 the American Colonization Society, in a recent 

 letter, communicates the interesting information, 

 thai in the interior of Africa, there is a people so 

 civilised as to have an improved agriculture, a 

 manufactory of all articles necessary for their 

 comfort, have regular and abundant markets and 

 fairs, and use the written Arabic language in their 

 trade, and possess " a degree of intelligence, and 

 partial relinemeiit, little compatible with the per- 

 sonal qualities," usually attached to the people of 

 Guinea. Arrangements have been made to open 



■'LONG YARNS." 



Mrs.—™, upwards of (50 years old, and two 

 young women in the same family, not twofurlonss 

 from our office, on the 10th inst. spun 28 skeins of 

 woolen yarn, each skein containing 15 knots. Of 



this respectable day's work, Mrs did 8 skeins, 



and the young women 10 skeins a piece. 



In performing her task, (as a man of arithmetic 

 assures us) the aged matron had to walk 4.3,200 



The following are some of the Certificates respecting the 

 Grater Cider Mill. 



Berkshire, May 20. 1827. 



I hereby ceitily that I have one of Joel Famham's Gratci 

 f 'ider Mills in operation, and when grinding w ith water power. 

 I have ground two bushels of apples in a minute, but when 

 grinding v\ith horse power, about half that quantily. 'The 

 quantity of apples is about 7 bushels for a barrel of cider. As 

 to the quality of the cider, I have not discovered an}" materia! 

 difierence from that made in the nut mill, but there is much less 

 sediment, I think not more than a quart, or at most 3 pints to a 

 barrel. A. LEONARD. 



Owego, Tioga Co. June 12, 1827. 



We the subscribers hereby cenif^' that we have made cidei 

 at Joel Famham's cider mill, at his dwelling place, in Tioga 

 town, and with his Grater Cider Mill, and it will do the work 

 complete as the above given bv Mr Leonard. 



G. L. TALCOTT. 

 J. M. QUIGG, 

 R. BROWN, 

 E. TALCOTT, Jr. 



This certifies that I have one of Joel Famham's patent cidei 

 mills, and it will grind from one anil a half to two bushels of ap- 

 ples in a minute ; it will grind a bushel and a half without any 

 urging, but if urged it will grind two bushels, and the cider is 

 perfectlv clear and pleasant when well worked, and I think it 

 will make more cider than anv of the old fashioned mills. 



Spericer, Mon 24., 1827. " I. WOODFORD. 



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