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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



MARCH 33, ISrsr. 



3S"<B-Ig^52i^8 



(From the Albany Evening Journal.) 

 We hope the Author of Ifie fDllovving' lines has cast 

 away tiie Bowl, but for which lie would iiave bei;n re- 

 speotod for his houcsly and admired for his genius. If 

 suffering, destitution and degradation, with all the kin- 

 dred n-iseties of drunkenness, can iniJuce a man lo 

 ** ca^t away the bowl," this individual has brougfit him- 

 self within the rule. Willi talents and integrity whioli 

 fit him for the highest walks in society, he has for years 

 been a ragged, dirty, loathsome drunkard, hanging about 

 luni cellars, staggering in the streets, or rolling in the 

 gutters! He is sober now, and we draw this picture, 

 disgusting as it is, that he may see himself— t/ie tiling 

 he was. If this is deemed a iiarsh remedy, we reply 

 that all the milder ones have been exhausted. He lias 

 worn out the sympathies and lost the respect of his 

 friends. In mere compassion, he was rescued from com- 

 mitment as a vagrant, and placed where he has had an 

 opportunity to form ledeeming resolutions. We sincere- 

 ly hope that there is as much truth as poetry in this de- 

 termination lo become a sober man : — 



I'VE THROWN THE BOWL ASIDE ! 

 IVe thrown the hawl aside. 



For me no more shall flow 

 Its ruddy stream or sparkling tide, 



How bright soe'er it glow ; 

 I've seen extended wide. 



Its devastating sway, 

 Seen Reason yield its power to guide-^ 



I've cast the bowl away ! 



O ne'er tempt me again 



To drain the cup of sin : 

 For ruin dire, disease and pain, 



Taint all that foams within ; 

 Neglected duties rise 



In fearful, sad array, 

 Up 10 its brim. I will be wise— ^ 



I've cast the bowl away ! 



I've seen the piide of all — 



The wise, the good, the great — 

 Like summer leaves, all timeless fall, 



And veil their high estate ; 

 I've seen fair woman give 



Her every charm away — 

 Embrace the demon vile, and live ! 



I've cast the bowl away I 



My days of revelry 



O gladly I give up : 

 They're but the marks of misery. 



Which still lurks in the cup ; 

 While indolence and want 



And poverty display 

 Themselves in every drunkard's haunt — ' 



I've cast the bowl away ! 



A drunkard's gloomy grave 



Shall ne'er be made for me ; 

 O rather let the rushing wave 



Engulph me in the sea ! 

 And may it be my lot 



To die 'neath Reason's ray ! 

 Remembered by my friends or not, 



I've cast the bowl away ! 



My path henceforth is plain, 



In honesty to live — 

 To shun Intemperance and its train, 



By Industry lo thrive ; 

 No duty to forget, 



\ lid live to bless the day 

 When I was led without regret. 



To o.ist the bowl away I 



FARMERS CA.\ DOUBLE TIIE VALUE OF THE STATE. 



What say you to the ahuve assertion, brother 

 farmers? Have you faitli euotigh in your own 

 powers to try it ? We liuve not the least doubt, 

 but that if you really set yourselves about it, you 

 can ilo it, ami very easily too. You can make two 

 spires of grass grow where but one grew before, 

 and that too, without much trouble. You run 

 double your crops of corn, and that too, with a 

 proportional increase of profit. You can increase 

 your crops of wheat, rye and oats, and you can 

 sow twice as much as before, and find a ready mar- 

 ket for all you can raise. 



You can grow twice as much wool as is grown 

 at present in the State, and sell it for cash down. 

 You can plant the mulberry and grow silk, and 

 from this single article alone, dnuble the amount of 

 cash now paid for the whole of the produce. All 

 these things you can do, with a very little e.xtra ex- 

 ertion, and thereby double the value of the State, 

 in a very short term of years. We have said no- 

 thing of raising twice as many bushels of roots, 

 and thereby being enabled to keep twice as many 

 hogs, and causing them to make twice as much ma- 

 nure as now; but this too may be done. 

 , We know of but one thing to prevent these 

 things being done; and that is a belief ainiing too 

 many of our farmers, that ihey have arrived to per- 

 fection, both in knowledge and practice. Now so 

 far from this being the case, we boldly assert, that 

 there is no man in tlie State of Maine that yet 

 knows, (rom practical e.xperience, the powers ofan 

 acre of land, that is — what it is actually ra|)able of 

 being made to produce. We mean no disparage- 

 ment to the intelligence and industry, or even skill, 

 of our farmers in general, but we do say that they 

 can both be wonderfully improved, and we have in- 

 variably found it to be the fact, ihat our best farm- 

 ers are willing to acknowleilge this, and are striving 

 to improve themselves and their farms, and all 

 about them, but there are so many sclf-saUsfied ones, 

 holding hack and trigging the wheels of those who 

 would do better, tha%it is at least an uphill work 

 for them. What is the source of wealth either pub- 

 lic or private.' Judge Buel says it is land and la- 

 bor, and he adds the following- seniinicnr, which 

 ought to be treasured up in the minds of every 

 farmer in the world. "The more fertility we can 

 impart to the one, and the more intelligence we 

 can infuse into the other, the greater will be the re^ 

 turns they make, ami the greater our means of hap- 

 piness; for it is wealth rigiitly employed that ena- 

 bles us to multiply not only onr own, "but the com- 

 forts and happiness of those around us." 



At this point we will leave the subject for your 

 consideration, proposing to take it up more fully 

 another time. — Maine Farmtr. 



THREF. DEATHS BY CHARCOAL. 



A inelancholy occurrence took place on board 

 the steam boat Massachusetts, lying at the wharf in 

 this city, on Friday night, the particulars of which 

 are as follows: 



Two engineers and one fireman retired to their 

 berths, having previously placed a furnace of igni- 

 ted charcoal and anthracite coal in their rooms, — 

 and were this morning found dead in their beds. 



The names of the men were as follows: 



1st Engineer, Mr John Orswell, of Fall River, a 

 man of fine talents and high character, who has left 

 a family to mourn his loss. 



ynd Engineer, Mr. Russel Cole, a single man of 

 Seekonk, Massachusetts. 



And Mr. Wilbur, fireman, who had been recently 

 employed, and whose residence is unknown. 



The Engineers had been cautioned against the 

 use of charcoal, but were incredulous as to its fatal 

 effects. — JV. Y. Journal of Commerce. 



Newspapers. — Every thing under heavens in- 

 creases in price except nfips;:)«/)er«. Beef, and pork, 

 flour, and butter, sugar, tea, and cofTee, salt, fish, 

 and onions, dry goods, and wet groceries, fuel and 

 rent, buck-wheat, and wash-women, are all advan- 

 ced in price. But newspapers, that most indis- 

 pensable and no-getting-along-without-it-article — 

 the simi and substance of man's e.xistence, remains 

 'n\ statu quo. And jet there is no one thing, not 

 even steamboats, that keep up with the.n in the 

 march of improvement, 'fhey are constantly im- 

 proving in size, appearance and talent — but as to 

 price, the only improvement tlieie is upon the 

 cheaper system, and goes to benefit the reader. We 

 have seen a man charge two and a half dollars for 

 an article, the construction of which probably oc- 

 cupied some bungler half a day, and at the same 

 moment grumbling at a printer's charge of two dol- 

 lars for a year's paper, which, when bound up, 

 would make a volume of news, of incident, and mo- 

 ral, interesting, and instructive miscellany, that no 

 bookseller would dispose of for less than twenty 

 tunes the amount. — jVorth River Time). 



AVANTED. 



A yiiiiii^ man of steady habits whose character is good, — 

 one who uiulcrslaiids Gardening or raising vegelabies for 

 -llarkcl. \V uld Id a .small Karin on shares. Anv commu- 

 nicaii. in -n Ihe subject, iiddresscd to JAMES L'AIiiNED, 

 Post paid, will he iillcnded to. 



Whiiioiiioii Village, Tauiiion, Mass. March 15. 



PLUM TRKES, GUAPK VINES, &c. 



SOO I'him trees of ihe most approved kinds and extra size. 

 200 Qiiiiice irecs of good size many of iheni liave borne Irnit' 

 l.'iOO Is.iliclla grape Irnin 5 lo 1.^ feel high. 10(10 Calawba.' 

 island's & Pond's seedling exlra size in hearing stale, chasse- 

 lasSwcel U'alcr, Bl.irk llamlnirgli, &c, lO.HOG roots Giant 

 Aspar-.jgus, 5000 V\ ihnol's early Rhubarb or Pie Plain, lately 

 iniro.li.cpd. and a good assortment ol Goosberries and Roses 

 of dilf.'renl kinds. 



All orders lell a this ofTice, or at Messrs Sawyer &, Pond's 

 e.') Broad street, and with the subscriber Pambridge Port' 

 wi I moot with immediate allcniion. SAMUEL POND ' 



March 15. 



MANUAL ON SUGAK BEET. 



Just received a i realise on Beet SH^ar, conta'ning, I. A 

 doscriplioii (if the Ciiluire and ('reservation of ihe Plaiil. 2. 



An Kxplanaliiin of the Process of Extracting \U ,Siigar. 



From .he French, by Edward ■ hurch. For sale at Nos. 31 

 and 52 North Market street, Hoston, bv 



Feb. 2i. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



SEVERAL, LIKELY BUVS 



From 8 lo !2 y. nrs od, want lo live wilh good farmers till 

 14 or 16, lo be clothed, fed and schooled. Apply al ihe 

 Agency lor the Prevention of Pauperism, rear of Savings' 

 Bank. Treniniit Street, Boston. 2m Feb. 3. 



IHE NEIV ENGLAND PARMER 



Is pulilislicd every \\ ediicsday Evening, at .^3 per annum, 

 payable at the end of (he year — but those who pay wilhio 

 si.vty days from Ihe time of subscribing, are eutilled to a d«- 

 duclion of (ilty cents. 



pr.No paper will be senl lo a distance without payment 

 being luaile in advance. 



AGENTS. 



A'fic York — G C. Thokkukn, 11 John sircet. 



Fhishiiis:, M K._Wm. Pkiack ^- Sons, Prop. Lin Bnt.Gar. 



Albany — W'm . Thorbukn. .3-17 .Market-sliecl. 



I'hilujeluhia — D. .y (J. L.»mjbkth. 85 (?hc3nut-stre«l. 



/5.(/'i'mo.-c— I'liblislicr of Aiiicriran Fanner. 



CiiicinnuLli — S. C. 1'akk iiu kst, 23 Lower Mnrkci-slrecl. 



Middleliury. Vt. — Wight Chapm.in iMerchant. 



Tauvton, Mass. — Sam'l O. Dusbab, Bookseller. 



Harttortl — (ioottw IN iV Co. Booksellers. 



Newhuryport — Ehkn 1:7. kr Stkiihan, BooK.selier. 



PorlsiiwiUli,N. H. — John \V. Fostkh, liookscllef. 



Woodstock, Vt. — J. A. PKATT. 



Braitleboro' — Jos Steun. Bookseller. 



Biingor.Mt. — Wm. Mann, Druggist, and Wm. B. Hari.ow, 



H,iH)a.T.N. S.—Y.. Bkown, Esq. 



Louisville — ."^AMuF.L C'ooptK, Builit Street. 



Kt. Louis — H.L. IIoKKMAS, and Wii.Lis & Stkvehs. 



PRINTED BT 

 TUTTLE. DENNETT & CHISHOLM. 



School street. 

 ORUERS FOB FRINTIKa RICKITKV BT THE FVSLISHERS. 



