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N E V/ E N G LAND FA R M E R . 



OCTOBER 89, 1834. 



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MISCELLANY. 



jFrom tlie Knickerbocker for October. 

 OCTOBER. 



BY WILLIS GAYLORl) CLAKK. 



Solemn, yel beautiful In view, 



Monlh of my hearl! lliou rlawiiesl liKrc, 

 With sad and faded leave? lo strew 



Tlie Summer's melaiirlioly liier. 

 The moaning of thy winds I hear, 



As the red sunset (hes af.u, 

 And bars of purple clouds appear, 



Obscuring every western star. 

 Tbou solemn monlh ! I hear thy voice— 



« lulls my soul of other days, 

 When hut to live was lo rejoice- 

 When earth was lovely to my gaze ! 

 Oh, visions bright— nh, blessed hours, 

 Where are our living raptures now 1— 

 J I ask ray spirit's wearied powers— 

 I ask my pale and fevered brow ! 



I look to Nature, and behold 



My life's dim emblems, rustling round, 

 In hues of crimson and of gold — 



The year's dead honors on Ihe ground : 

 And sighing with the wnnis, I feel, 



While their low pinions murmur by. 

 How much their sweeping tones reveal, 



Of life and human destiny. 



When Spring's delightsome monienls shone. 



They came in zepfiyrs Irom the West,.— 

 They bore the wood-lark's melting tone, 



They stirred the blue lake's glassy breast: 

 Through Summer, faintnig in the heat. 



They lingered in the forest shade ; 

 But changed and si Jfcthencd now, they beat 



In storm, o'er momSHJ glen and glade. 



How like those transpOTis of the breast ,, 



When life is fresh and joy is new- 

 Soft as the halcyon's downy nest, 

 , Arid transient all. as they are true ! 

 They siir the leaves in that bright wreath. 

 Which Hope about her forehead twines. 

 Till Grief's hot sighs around it breathe — 

 Then Pleasure's lip ils smiles resigns. 



Alas for Tiine, and Death, and Cave, — 



What gloom about our way they fling, 

 Like clouds in Autumn's. gusty air, 



The liurial-pageant of the Spring. 

 The dreams that each successive year 



Seemed bathed in hues of brighter pride, 

 At last like withered leaves appear. 



And sleep in darkness, side Vy siilc. 



the liest ill t-lie world. Our winters are cold, siiiil 

 long; but our fi>re.sls supiily hm abniKlanre oflucl, 

 and llie snow renders travelliufi deligiilful, and llic 

 transjiortalion of heavy arlielcs easy and rlieu|i. 

 Willi these udvanlafie.-, and hlrssed with the 

 means of scientitic and reli!;ions kiiowled^'e, noth- 

 ing need prevent ihe fanners of Vermont friim he- 

 ing as iiitelligeiit, res|iertalile, virtuous and happy, 

 as any hody of people on the glohe. One of tlie 

 excellent features of society in New-Eiigland, and 

 pre-eminently in Vermont, is tiie general distriliu- 

 tion of property, and especially of real estate. Al- 

 most every individual is lord of the soil on which 

 he. lives, and is able, by a course of persevering 

 industry, to provide well for himself and his de- 

 pendents. But ihei-e is a leniieney lo a different 

 slate of things. Biany of ilie most wealthy portion 

 of ihe cominmiity are engaging in manufacturing 

 business, which requires a large nnniber of hired 



branches of agricullure, lie may increase the year- 

 ly income of his farm more than ten limes the 

 cost of that inleresiing periodical. 



heware of the " western fever," and above all, 

 stU wit your farms lo your rich ndghbors for skeep 

 pastures. 



GrF.E.N nioUNTAINEKR. 



From the Vermont Statf Journal. 

 TO TIIE FARMERS OP VERMONT—Grcetiiis ; 



Ajl'st appreciation of the advantages wliicli 

 fall to our lot, is the dictate of wisdom. It is es- 

 pecially connecled with contentment and gratitude. 

 Every portion of the habitable eartli possesses ad- 

 vantages ami disadvantages, in some degree pecu- 

 liar to itself. The principal things which aft'ecl 

 the comfort of life, so far as natural advantages 

 are concerned, are climate, soil, water and facili- 

 ties of commerce. It is believed tluit, in regard 

 to all these, Vermont possesses advantages sulli- 

 cient to rentier it a highly desirable place of abode. 

 Its soil is not indeed llic most fertile, but sufli- 

 cienlly so to reward the laborer with an abundant 

 supply of the supports of life. Its facilities o( 

 commerce are less than those of almost any other 

 State in the Union ; yet every article which can 

 be spared finds a cheap conveyance to market, 

 while its clitriatc is highly salubrious, and its water 



laborers. Olliers are increasing their real estate 

 by buying the small farms of their neighbors. By 

 these [iroccsses, ihe number of land owners is di- 

 liiinishing, and the nunilier of depentiaiit telianls 

 and hired laborers is increasing. It is easy to see 

 that, in this way, will be produced a wealthy aris- 

 tocracy, and a poor, dependant [icasantry. The 

 teiidency-tof 'this is increased by the " spirit of emi- 

 gration." Let the farmers of Vermont beware. 

 Who that possesses a benevolent spirit is willing 

 ihat the chai'ining state of society which has ex- 

 isted here for fifty years, where every man is a 

 free, indepemlent landlord, thinks himself, while 

 pursuing a virtuous course, as good as his neigh- 

 bor, ami asks none but his Maker leave to live and 

 thrive, should be exchanged for a commnniiy 

 compuscd of purse-proud lundlords and ^^'ile 



Sons of the Green Blountains ! Ml^mt.^ll^otlr 

 independence. We can s|)are a portion of our 

 young men, every year, to setlle the wilds of the 

 West, and aid in establi^jiiig, in those fertile re- 

 gions, the instilutions antn^iils of New England ; 

 hut we cannot, without deadl^' injury to ourselves, 

 spare our enterprising and indusirious farmers, lo 

 sell their snug farms to their wealthier neigbbors for 

 sheep pastures, and go off lo Michigan or Illinois. 

 The good of society and of jiosteriiy requires that 

 we kee|) the land divided as at present into small 

 farms. It were better that the largest should be 

 divided between three or four sons, than that the 

 smallest should be jnirchascd up by rich specula- 

 tors, to be culfivatcil by tenants or hired laborers. 

 Ily the inlliix of foreigners, and the overflowing 

 tide of eniigralion, the good lands tif the West will 

 in a few years be settled, or in the hands of specu- 

 lators, to be sold at a price above the reach of in- 

 dusirious young men wdio are without capital. II 

 ihe lands of New England get into ihe hands of 

 the vvealthy few, when the West shall cease iq in- 

 vilo emigration, what will then be the condition 

 ami jirospects of the swarms that will be annually 

 furnished by the New England hive ? I say, then, 

 lo my brethren of the Green Mountains, Hold on 

 to your farms ! Instead of selling them because 

 they are small, or less fertile than others, endeavor 

 to aci]uire greater skill in the management of 

 them ; and render them, as you may do, doubly 

 productive, by a higher state of cultivation. Few 

 of you, probably are fully aware how small a jior- 

 tion of land, skilfully cultivated, will su()port a 

 I'aiiiily. Sludy the New England Farmer. Every 

 farmer in New I^ngland can afford to lake that 

 paper. By the aid of its light on the various 



FASHIONABLE SHELL COMBS, 



Sign of the Ooldui Comb, 242 \iusliington strut, Boston,. 



Thk fashion of Combs having uiideigonc considerable niod- 



ificat during ihe last eighlei n nic.nllis, and ihe eonitis now 



worn beiii" much smaller Uian those lonnerly, induces the sub- 

 scriber to suggest to Ihe ladies that lliey can have their con.bs 

 reduced 10 conlorni lo the preseiil style, t'omlis lliiil aie now 

 lost 10 the owner, in consequence ol their ni'CllNKSS can oe 

 altered into one or more combs with wroughi or plain lops al 

 the option of the owner, al a inoderale 1 haige. 



They have on hand and are coifrianily mannfaciunng the 

 most lashionable combs. Ladies in want uf combs, wdl pieaie 

 call belore purchasing. , . . , ai 



Jewelry and fancy Goods al reduced prices lor rash. Also, 

 Warranted SiKcr Spectacles to suii any age lor ili.OU. 

 JOHN JONES, 

 CLEIIMONI' L. HINE. 



oct 1 



LIJJKJEAN GARDEN ARD KUKSEKIKS. 



Flmhin^. war Ne-w York.—WM. I'KINCE ..V SONS have 

 just pulilusTied iheir Atio t'atulu^ue liiUi greatly rriluced p-ices. 

 Applicalion lliercfor, and all oiders, must be sent Ulrtct lo 

 them pa- mad. 1'lie Emit 'I'rees aie of the liirgesl size lor 

 iransplaniiiig. andsuiiabeloi Orehards to come promptly in- 

 to bearing. Ol ihe superior new Eleniish I'ears, and other 

 new variui es, the tiees are 3 to 4 years lunu the gralt, and i.i 

 the nios:U;^ig>'ious stale, as are aUo liie G. rnuin vaneiies ol 

 Apples^errics, Vliims and I'eaches, which are so well cal- 

 culatedWd northern climate ; Ornamenial 'I'lees and t lower- • 

 in» Sh ub.s can be lurnished ol the largest size, worth treble 

 the pri^Klf small ones, as several yeais are thus i^ained ill ■ 

 embcll'^Piiils. In lacl those who wish very superior Trees 

 can belKired of leceiviiig such as cannot lail loj;i>elliem 

 satislaclion ; die immense »lock on hgud, aliurdmg llie means 

 of makiii" superior sijKtioiis. The colleciioiis.il hardy !• low- 

 ering- I'laiii- Green IWuse Plants, and liulbous Flower Koots. 

 hare been enriched with all the new vatieiies, which are oller- 

 ed al very low prices, 'i'hc assoilinenls ol Roses and Doubf 

 Dahlias "comprise all die splendid new vatieiies, and ea. 1 

 colleeiion occupies an acre of ground.— A -leiU diseouin 

 is made on both these classes of Ihiwers, ami feiilendid 

 Dahlias are supplied al g3, S'^i "'"^ S^ l>er dozen each 

 reoi a distinct named variciy ; Lliinese iVlulbe^ or JWorus 

 ,Muhicaulis, ai SH V^< ^"^''"' ^-^ I"''' ^^'' I*''''""., <^"- 

 tawl.a Winiie, or Itnck, and Ah^xandcr Grapes, al yo per 

 dozen 'or S20 per 100; Superi<ir Lancashire Gooseberries, as- 

 .sorud at >;3 per dozen, or i;i;0 per lUO; Fine Ked Kaspber- 

 ries. S6 per 100. Where so desired, selections will be ma., 

 ol the most harily kinds ol Fruit and Ornamenial Trees ai. 

 I'hints hulled lo a northern elimale, and the situation ol oi : 

 Nui scries, which are in a lolly aii.l open exposuie, renders iK. 

 trees pailicularl. hardy. 'I'll.- assoitineiil ol Garden, Fiel. I, 

 ami Flower Seeds is uin ivall. d in eMent, and hn nis a coniiilele 

 eoncenlraiion ol the choicest varieties known in Europe, an.l 

 tills country, an.l having been rai^e.l under our own inspection, 

 or .'Town cvpressly for us by our corrcsiiondeiils, we e-xpressly 

 guarantee their excellence and accuracy, and we ask no pay- 

 ment where Ihey do nol prove exactly as repiesenled. '1 he i 

 Calahmue eoiiiniiis many new and very superior varieties ol 

 ve-etable and Flower S. eds. and among ihe Fhid Seeds are 

 Superior ITovence Lnz. me. W hiu- Dutch flov.'r, Paccj s 

 ini'.iinlal live Grass, New liahan do Early Angus and Hopc- 

 lown Oats, "English Potato Oats weighhig W h.s. per bushel. 

 Orchard (Jrass, Tall Oats Grass, Trifoliuin incainalnni, or 

 I'.arlv Crimson Clover, Luruet, &c. Also, lOU bushels Tay- 

 h.,r's"Foi-ly fold, or Crimson Nonsuch Polalo, which is now 

 takin.' precedence of all others in England, an.l oO bushels 1 o- 

 lalo6ilions. Venders ol Seeds will be supplleil at very low 

 ral.-s and a credit to suit their convenience. W here a large 

 number of Trees. &c. aie wanted, a discount will be made and 

 -I credit allowed if desired, and to Nurseries the terms will in 

 every respect be ma.le favorable. Every invoice emanaiiiig 

 from us has our printed heading and signature, and none oihei s 

 are guarantee. I. 



oct lo 



THE NEW EXGL.VKO FARMER 



Is publlsheil every Wednesday Ev.iiing, al ^'3 per annum, 

 navable at the end ol the year— but those who pnyvviilan 

 si.\l\ days from the lime ol subscribing,are entitled lo a deduc- 

 lionof fifty cents. . 



llTNopap.-r will be senile a distance without paymciU i 

 being made in advance. 



Printed for Gko. C. BAurKTr by Foiin iV DAivii:r i.l,. 

 whoexecute every description of Uoul. oiitl Finny I'rml' 



in „ in ffood style, and with promptness. Orders to- - 



inTrnia'y be left with Gf.o. C. liAUKKTT, at the A 

 lural Warehouse, Ko. 52, Xorth-MarUot SUeet. 



Orders for pi-int- 

 gricul- 



