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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



APRIL 1, 1S3S. 



TO ■WOKKINGMEN. 



If we liave no otlior estato tl]an our fucullics 

 and our time, we must be willing to sell time 

 enough to support our families, and to be laying 

 by sonietbing against a wet day ; for he who does 

 not provide for his household has denied the faith 

 of all honest workingmen, and is not only as bad 

 as, but as St Paul says, a good deal worse than 

 an infidel. What time is left after this provision, 

 you have a right to devote either to increase your 

 earnings, to present enjoyment, or to iuiprove your 

 education. And now I anticipate a ditiioulty 

 which is arising in the minds of many of my 

 friends. How can we improve our education, 

 you say, when we have no time left, after provi- 

 ding for our families? You are mistaken, my 

 friends. Benjamin Franklin found time enough. 

 Be frugal of your time, and you have enough for 

 all uses. After deducting the time necessary for 

 sleep, for meals and recreation, you may have 

 sixteen hours to dispose of. You may labor at 

 your traile the whole of this time, but will your 

 constitution hold at this rate many years ? Can 

 you do as much in every hour of the sixteen, as 

 you could in every hour of twelve hours a day .' 

 And above all, could you not, in one year, labor- 

 ing twelve hours, and devoting four hours a day 

 to studying the principles and rules of your trade, 

 inquiring into the most improved modes of prac- 

 tice, and iuforuiing yourself of other matters con- 

 nected with your pursuits, so improve your judg- 

 ment and skill that twelve hours of your labor 

 will be worth more, and so yield you more than 

 sixteen hours now? These questions deserve 

 your serious consideration, for you are to deci<le 

 them for yourself, and the character of your fu- 

 ture life will very much depend on the decision. 

 If I may iiot venture to advise how nuich time 

 you should spare for these purposes, I will at 

 least suggest the wisdom of appropriating enough 

 to make perceptible progress in your iniprove- 

 ment, whether it be a half hour, an hour, two 

 hours, or four. If your circumstances are such 

 that you think you can spare but an hour a day, 

 so much the more important is it that you make 

 a proper choice of your hooks, and other means 

 of improvement. Half an hour's reading of the 

 best of books will do you more good than twelve 

 hour's reading of books taken at random. 



Get some intelligent friend to assist you in the 

 selection ; adhere steadily to your plan whatever 

 it be ; and even if you allot but half an hour on 

 working days to study, yet if this is well manag- 

 I'fi, you will be astonished at the end of the year 

 when you look back and measure your intellectu 

 al and moral advancement. 



It is the (ircrogative of man to be continually 

 rising higher and higher in the scale of being ; 

 , and you have a right to share in the perfectibility 

 which is till! distinguishing characteristic of your 

 species. Set ajiart to yourself, therefore, so much 

 of your time that you may every day grow wiser 

 ;uid better. Let the reservation though small, be 

 sacred, and you will not only accomplish the ob- 

 jects directly aimed tit, to a greater extent than 

 you would have supposed possible, but you will 

 be none the poorer for it at the eiul of the year, 

 and after a few years you will find yourself mani- 

 fold richer. As time is money, you have a right 

 to turn every moment to account. No one can 

 asic you to give it away ; it is improvident folly to 



throw it away. If it is all you have now, make 

 the most of it, and in a very few years you will 

 not want for capital in any other shape you may 

 prefer. — RantouPs Mdress to Workingmen. 



HONOR AND WAR. 



" The idea of Honor is associated with war- 

 But to whom does the honor belong? If to 

 auy, certainly not to the mass of the people, but 

 to those who are particularly engaged in it. The 

 mass of the people, who stay at home and liire 

 others to fight, who sleep in their warm beds and 

 hire others to sleep on the cold and damp earth, 

 who sit at their well spread board and hire others 

 to take the chance of starving, who nurse the 

 slightest hurt in their own bodies and hire others 

 to expose themselves to mortal wounds and to lin- 

 ger in comfortless hospitals, certainly this mass 

 reap little honor from war. The honor belongs to 

 those who immediately engage in it. Let me ask 

 then what is the chief business of war ? It is to de- 

 stroy human life, to mangle the limbs, to gash and 

 hew the body, to plunge the swords into the heart 

 of a fellow creature, to strew the earth with bleed- 

 ing frames, and to trample them under foot with 

 horses' hoofs. It is to batter down and burn cities, 

 to turn fruitful fields into deserts, to level the cot- 

 tage of the peasant, and the magnificent abode of 

 opulence, to scourge nations with famine, to mul- 

 tiply widows and orphans. Are these honorable 

 deeds ? Were you called to name exploits worthy 

 of demons, would you not naturally select such 

 as these ? Grant that a necessity for this may ex- 

 ist — it is a dreadful necessity, such as a good man 

 nuist recoil from with instinctive horror; and 

 though it may exempt them from guilt, it cannot 

 turn them into glory. We have thought that it 

 was honorable to heal, to save, to mitigate pain, to 

 snatch the sick and sinking from the jaws of 

 death. We have placed among the benefactors 

 of the human race, the discoverer of arts which 

 alleviate human sufferings, which prolong, com- 

 fort, adorn and cheer human life, and if these arts 

 be honorable, where is the glory of multiplying 

 and aggravating tortures and death ?' — Dr Chan- 



Onf. Thing at a Time.— Step among your 

 neighbors, reader, and see whether those of them 

 who have got along smoothly, and accumulated 

 property, and gained a good name, have not been 

 men who bent themselves to one single branch of 

 business ; who brought all their powers to bear 

 upon one point, and built upon one foundation. 

 It must be so. Go out in spring, when the sun is 

 yet far distant, and you can scarcely feel the 

 "influence of his beams, scattered as they are over 

 the wide iiice of creation ; but collect these beams 

 to a focus, and they kindle up a flame in an 

 instant. So the man that squanders his talents 

 and his strength on many things, will tail to make 

 an impression with ehher; but let him draw them 

 to a point — let him strike at a single object, and 

 it y.ields before him. 



WINSHIPS' NURSERIES-BRIGHTON. 



The liUssrs Winship of the linghlon Nu.series would 

 nowKive iiolice lliai tlie addiiiou lo tlieir collec'lioii ol /• /•«;( 

 ami Urnamtnlal Trees, Shrubs, etc., enaliJPS thcin lo oHer lo 

 ll.e ijuhlic an unusual variely of the diflcreut kinds ol large 

 size and undoubU'd excellence. , 



GEO. C. BAUUET'r al llie Farmer onice is their asenl 

 and all orders Ihroueh him will receive prompl and 'ailMu' 



march lo. 

 auci-.tion. 



TO THE PUBLIC. 



I)r Isaac Thompson's cclel>raied EVC WATF.K— This 

 valuaMe medicine has hcen known lo die public lor about 30 

 years, as a mosl cerlain cure lor weak and inflamed t.ycs of 

 almosl every description, alter mosl <ilher remedies had been 

 used unsucccsslully ; indeed the l'ro|)rielor has never known 

 il fail lo effect a cure, when applied slriclly according lo the 

 directions wrapped around each phial. l',ul il is unlorlunalc 

 lor die public ihal ihis valuable medicine has ollen been coun- 

 terfeited, and ihe connlerljeilers encourKKed by ils being pur- 

 chased by unprincipled dealers in medicine. Thai die public 

 may be guarded againsl imposilion, ihe proprietor and inventor 

 now signs his name al lull length, " Isaac Thompson," in his 

 own hand writing, on a red label, pasted on the outside wrap- 

 per of every bottle. This test every one must e.xamine before 

 he bu\ s. 



The above mentioned Eye Water may be had of most of 

 the respectable Druggists throughout the United Stales and of 

 the subscriber (proprielor) in Kevv London, Conneelicut. 



" ^ ISAACIHOMl'SON. 



New London, Ct. Dee. 1834. 



REGISTER FOR 1835. 



.Tamks Loring, 132 Washington Street, has just published 

 the Massachusetls Uegisler for 1835, containing the names of 

 the new Legislature, new city officers, justices, lawyers, min- 

 isters and doctors lliroughoul the Stale; -wilh the cashiers of 

 ihe Banks in Maine, Vermiinl and New Hampshire, and die 

 names of the Banks in L'onneclicul and Rhode Island. Also, 

 a complete lis! of ihe post maslers, militia officers, colleges, 

 eduealion, missionary, bible, Iract, sabbath school, medical . 

 literary, marine, temperance and elinrilable societies ; banks 

 and in"suiance companies ; naiional, army and navy deparl- 

 menis; names of consul,, (Ij-c. and much olher useful informa- 



'"aIso— just published, STORIES OF GEN. WARREN, in 

 relation to ihe Fi/th of March Massacre, and the Battle of 

 Bunker Hill. To which is adiled, Gen. Warren's (iflh of 

 March Oraiion.— By a Lady of Bosion. feb. 25. 



IMPROVED SHORT HORNED STOCK. 



To be sold, a number of line animals, from li.e breed of 

 Denton, Admiral, Wye Cornel, &e. Apply to A. Grkes- 

 woon,onihe Welles farm, near Doctor Codman's Meeting- 

 House, in Dorchester. '*''^- -^• 



KENRICK NURSERIES IN NEWTON. 



W.M. KsRicK proprietor of the Newton Nurseries has 

 esiablished the agency of his nurseries al the Ne ^ England 

 Farmer office, Ho'slon.'and all orders for Trees, Plants, Shrubs, 

 etc., left wilh G. C. BARRETT will be immediately allend- 

 ed lo. Calalogues gratis on applicalion lo Mr Barren. 



march 18 



SEEDS FOR HOT BEDS. 



Just received al tlie Seed Store connected wilh the New 

 England Farmer Office, Nos. 51 52, North Market sir eel, 

 oslSn, the grealesl variety of early V(>gelable and Flower 

 Seeds to be found in New England, many of which are now 

 wanted for Hoi Bed Sowing. We have received Iroin Europe 

 ,l,e finest assorlment of Cabbage, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Sweet 

 I'orluguese Maijoram, and early deep Scarlei Short lop Rad- 

 ish Se'eds A-c. iS-r- Among the European Cabbage Seeds are 

 Ihe irue ekrly York,ea ly London Batiersea Savoy, and other 

 Cabbages-early cried Silesia, Tenni-ball and Royal Cape 

 Head ''Lelluces, Migmonette, Long ,T».il<fV Cucumber^, 

 for forcing, (while and green) early White Dutch Turnips, 

 lomaios. Lima Beans, early Peas, Beans, ,^-c. compris-ing 

 every kind of seed wanted .n New England,-warranled of 

 die very first quality. 



THE NEW ENGIiAND PARMER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at g3 per anmirn, 

 payable at the end of the year — but those who pay wilhm 

 sixty days from the lime of subscribing, are eniuled lo a de- 

 duciion of filty cenls. . 



03= No paper will be sent to a distance willionl paymem . 

 being made in advance. 



AGENTS. 



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 B„lilmure—\ L lliicHCocK. Publisher of American Farmer. J 

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 Flii^hivo- N 1-.— Wji. Prince cS- Sons, Prop. Lm.Bol. Gar 

 Middlehunj, IV.— Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 Hartford— Go(^\<vnti SfC^'.V.ooVif:\Wr^. 

 AWci»n//;(.rt-ERKNF./.ER Stkdman, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. //.-John W. Foster. Bookseller. 

 AvL'usIa, j)/c.— Wii.i.ARD Snell, Druggist. 

 Woodstock, 17— J. A. Pratt. 

 /J.moor TI/c.— Wm. Mann, Druggist. 



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