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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 9. imS- 



MISCELLANIES. 



BV BISHOP UEBER. 



Lo.the lilies of Ihe field, 

 How iheir leaves inslruciion yield ! 

 Hark, to naliire's lesson given 

 Bvilie blessed birds of heaven 5 

 Every bush and lulled tree 

 Warbles sweet philosophy. 

 Mortal, fly from diiuht and sorrow — 

 God provit'eth for the morrow! 



Say, with richer crimson glows 

 The kingly nwntle than Ihc rose 1 

 Say. have kings more wholesome fart 

 Than we poor citizens of air ? - 

 Barns nor hoarded grain have we. 

 Yet we carol merrily. 

 Mortal, fly from doul>t and sorrow — 

 God providelh for the morrow I 



One there lives, whose guardian eye 

 Guides our humble de.stiny ; 

 One there lives, who, Lord of all, 

 Keeps our fathers, lest ihey fall ; 

 Pass we blithely, then, the time, 

 Fearless of the snare and lime. 

 Free from doubt and faithless sorrow — 

 God provideth for the morrow ! 



The Tartar's OHfrin of Earthquakes. — Bell, 

 who travel'e I ainon^' the Izerpinisch Taitars, says, 

 that earthquakes there are attributed to the awk- 

 ward attempts, which are made by the frog, who 

 supports the globe, to scratch himself!! 



sing tho moderation of truth, we may venture to 

 give it as our opinion, that a man often indolently 

 bends under the burden of indisposition, which a 

 spirited effort would, in the first instance, have 

 siiaken from his shoulders. If, tipon the approach 

 of the malady, lie had resolutely set his face a- 

 gainst it, he would probably have arrested it in 

 his threatened attack. The doctrine of irresisti- 

 bility, in all its extent, is neither a true nor a 

 wholesome doctrine; and the hypochondriac should 

 reflect, that in saying to gloom, henceforth be 

 thou my good ! he not only directs his destiny, 

 but implicates others in his fatal choice — 



Call il madness, call it folly, 

 Call it whatso'er you may, 



There 's such a charm in melancholy, 

 I would not, if I could, be gay. 

 Melancholy has something in it of poetical and 

 sentimental, which constitutes a great portion of 

 its charms : but stripped of its ornamental accom- 

 paniments, and laid bare to a dissecting view, it 

 will be found to consist, in a great measure, of 

 pride, selfishness, and indolence. I cannot con- 

 ceive a more delightful spectacle, than that of an 

 inilividiial whose constitutional cast is melancho- 

 lic, warring against his temperament, and deter- 

 mining to enter with hilarity into the scenes and 

 circumstances of social life. In this case we have 

 all the interests of melancholy, without its objec- 

 tional parts. — Dr. Vwins on indigestion. 



The advantages of temperance. — A blacksmith 

 in the city of Philadelphia, some forty years ago, 

 was complaining to his iron merchant that such 

 was the scarcity of money that he could not pay 

 his rent. The merchant then asked him how much 

 rum he used in his family in the course of a day. 

 Upon his answering the question, the merchant 

 made a calculation, and showed him that his rum 

 amounted to more in the year than his house-rent. 

 The calculation so astonished the mechanic that 

 he determined from that day to buy and drink no 

 more spirits of any kind. In the course of the 

 next ensuing year he paid his rent, and bought a 

 new suit of clothes out of the savings of his tem- 

 perance. He persisted in it through the course of 

 his life, and the consequence was competence and 

 respectability. 



The Hypochondriac. — The dyspeptic ought to run 

 away from, or determine to combat, the first men- 

 ace of discontented feeling. Low spirits may be 

 successfully resisted if the attempt be commenced 

 sufficiently early. " I will be good," says the child 

 who sees the rod ready to direct the will into the 

 way of goodness ; and "I will be cheerful," ought 

 the dull and dyspeptic to say, who observes above 

 him a cloud of hypochondric fancies ready to burst 

 upon his devoted head, if he chooses the path 

 which leads to afflictive feeling. Il is easier, I 

 shall be told, to preach than to practice — to pre- 

 scribe than pursue. But of this I am certain, that 

 before the liabit becomes confirmed, of yielding to 

 their influence, a determined, and I would say, 

 conscientious resolution of dispersing the coming 

 mists of vaporish depression, may prove, to a very 

 considerable extent, successful and effective. We 

 would not be paradoxical or extravagant enoucrh 

 to assert, that for a person to be in health, it is 

 sufficient that he wills it. But without transfres- 



Village Poultry. — We have often admired the 

 policy of our villagers, vtho keep fowls to scratch 

 up their gardens. Having a few precious feet of 

 ground, not a particle of which should be mis- 

 improved, they lay out their beds and plant their 

 seeds, and then let in the hens to mar their labors 

 and destroy the hopes of the season. A single old 

 hen, well practised in the use of beak and claws, 

 will do more injury in d garden in one hour, than 

 the eggs and chickens of a dozen can compensate 

 in a year. But if they merely injured the prop- 

 erty of their owners, (however questionable 

 the policy of keeping poultry in a village might 

 be) no other person would have just cause of com 

 plaint. But where gardens and tenements join 

 each other, these marauders tlink it no hardship 

 at all to scale the walls, and scratch up the seeds 

 of their neighbors. And hence, besides the di- 

 rect mischief they do to gardens, they set neiffh- 

 bors by the ears, and by their own clawing cause 

 a clapperclawing among the bipeds of the superior 

 order. 



Would it not therefore be wise to enact a vil- 

 lage law, that all the fowls should he banished to 

 a distance of one mile, on pain of being decapita- 

 ted and made into fricassee, if found within the 

 interdicted lines — or otherwise that they shall 

 iiavc one wing clipped, be securely muzzled, and 

 finally be provided with good and sufficient leath- 

 er stockings, at the expense of their owners 



Berkshire American. 



jYeiv Vegetnblts. 

 Just received at the New England Farmer Seed Establish- 

 ment, a small invoice of rare and choice vegetable seeds, from 

 Europe, comprising Large Green Artichoke of Laon. (consid- 

 ered the finest sort known, but very rare, even in Europe) — 

 Brighton Coss Lettuce— New Silver Giant Celery — Asparagus 

 of Allemagne, a ne\v and superior sort — Cremer Carrot from 

 Holland tine for the table. For sale in packages of 12 1-2 

 cents each. 



Cov for Sale 

 A superior Cow, three years old, having had two calves — of 

 English breed, and has given nine quarts of milk per day, with- 

 out any extra feeding, is ofTeied for sale, at ^75. She is sold 

 for no fault — it being inconvenient for the present owner to pas- 

 ture her. Inquire of James Holden, near the Punch Bowl, in 

 Brookliui . May 2 



JVutice. 

 .The owner of the Horse Columbus, recently owned by the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural Society by sending his acdress to the 

 publisher of the New England Farmer, will hear of something 

 to his advantage. N. !.. — Any persi.n knowing the address of 

 the owner will confer a favor by informing the ediloi as above 

 New York, April 28th 1828. 2t m. 2 



Landreth's JVurserits — jY^ar Philndrlphia. 



From the patronage already extended this Kstabhshment, by 

 the citizens of Boston and its vicinity the Proprietors are again 

 induced to advertise to them their INurseries, as offering pecu- 

 liar facilities for the acquirements of useful & ornamental vege- 

 table productions. The collection now cultivated by them, con- 

 sists of an immense variety of Fruit and Hardy Ornami^tal 

 Trees and Shrubs — Green bouse Plants — liulbous Roots, and 

 Garden Seeds. The assortment of Fruits is not surpassed in 

 \ real value b\ any in this country. Ii embraces most of the cel- 

 ebrated kinds of Europe, with all the esteemed \ anelies which 

 have originated on this continent. The utmost care has been ^ 

 observed in making the selection, and the whole is now offered 

 as containing none but those most worthy of cultivation. Per- 

 sons not acquainted with the different vai"ieties bv name, and 

 desirous to procure choice kinds, bv merely stninig the time 

 they wish them to ripen, may confidently refer the resl to the - 

 proprietors, without a fear of d sappoiiiiment. 



The Ornamental department is rich in native and exotic 

 Plants — it contains a splendid collection of Green hAuse Plants,^ 

 most of which are calculated for adorning m the w inter seasons, 

 parlours, sitting rooms, &r. with an assortment o\' Hardy Flow- 

 ering .Shrubs, and acquisitions are continually making. 



In the portion of ground allotted to Garden Seed.s are gTt)^vii 

 almost every variety of Esculent Vegetables for seeding. The 

 method pursued by the Proprietors in this branch, certainly 

 must obtain for them a preference withs all who will consider ihe 

 subject in the slightest degree. The peparaiion of those kinds 

 liable to mix in seeding— in short, the whole process of cultiva- 

 tion, in gathering, &c. all being under iheir own personal sup- 

 erintendence undoubtedlv conspires in an eminent degree, to 

 obviate the errors and fmpositLons, unaAoidable in a depend- 

 ence on foreign importations, or on careless or inexperienced 

 growers at home. Orders received bv Parker &- Codman, No. 

 31 Congress St. Boston, of whom priced catalogues t^f the whole 

 may be had gratis. Persons ordering, mav be assured of hav- 

 ing every article well and safely packed and forwarded. 



Feb. IS. If D. & C. LANDRETH. 



Harroioing in spring grain. — We would recom- 

 mend the farmer to pass the harrow°over his fields 

 of small grain. It will have a fine effect in giving 

 it an early start, and enabling it to out-grow most 

 of its enemies. The reasoning is plain and obvi- 

 ous — it acts like a fresh ploughing of maize, just 

 before a good rain — the surface of the ground is 

 softened about the stalk — gives it room to expand, 

 and numerous bags and insects are routed, cover- 

 ed over, and destroyed. 



JVew JIgricultural fVorks 

 Just published, and for sale at the office of the New England 

 Farmer, "a Treatise on the Cultivation of Ornamental Flow- 

 ers ; comprising Remarks on the requisite Soil, .Sowing, Trans- 

 planting, and genera! Management ; » ith Directions for the ge- 

 neral ireatmenl of Bulbous Flower Roots, Green-house Plants, 

 &c. By Roland Green." Price 37 cts. 



Likewise, just received fixim New York, *• Economy of the 

 Kitchen-garden, the Orchard, and Vinery ; with plain praclica! 

 Directions for management. By William Wilson, Nursery- 

 man." Price 75 cts. 



Also, "Observations on the Efficacy of White Mustard Seed, 

 fSimpis alba) \akea whole. From 'the 10th London edition, 

 revised and improved." Price 6 cts. 



Also, " Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweet- 

 meats. By a Lacly of Philadelphia." Price 50 cts. 



For Sale. 

 A superior Draught Horse, particularly calculated for a farm 

 horse. Apply at this office, or of Wm. Burrows, near Jamaica 

 Plain, Ro.\bury. April 25 



Gunpowder, ^-c. 

 Du Font's Gun Powder, at 23 to 50 cts. per pound — Shot — Balls 

 — Flints and Percussion Caps. 



Also, Alum — Refine<l Salt Petre — Blue Vitriol, &c. constant- 

 Iv for sale at the T>iipont. Powder Store, No. 65 Broad street — 

 By E. COPELANI), Jr. 



tCT The Du Pont sold as above, is warranted first quality — 

 and is marked 'E. Copeland, jr. Boston," on the head of the 

 cask tf March H 



PuMished eivni Friday , at S3 per annum, payable at the (lid 

 of the year— but those who pay witliin sixty days from the lime 

 of subscribing, are entitled to a deduction offifiy cents. 



