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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAV ir, i-s3r. 



Ig-^D-JS^mi^e 



fFrom the N. Y. Observer.] 

 MAY. 



BV B. S. CAPRON. 



Welcome again ! delightful May ! 



In vernal beauty fair: 

 Tliou comest.and earlli is green and gay, 



And freshness fills the air. 



Flowers that erst lay sear and dead, 



In Winter's winding sheet, 

 Bloom now in all Iho land, and spread 



Their fragrance rich and sweet. 



Waters, in river, brook, and lake, 



From icy bondage free. 

 Roll on, through verdant meads, to make 



Their journey to the sea. 



Music of birds invites once more. 

 Where late rough Winter's wail 



Sounded, in frightful cudence, o'er 

 The woodland, grove, and vale. 



Wondrous tlie change ! look up, my soul 1 



From nature to her source ; 

 What but a Power Divine could roll 



Tha seasons on their coittrse .■' 



Mortals, that power adore, and know, 



Seed-time and harvest sure; 

 Seo in the cloud yon hriUiant bow. 



His promise to secure ! 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



An Address on Te.mperanct, by William E. Clian- 

 niiig. Delivered by request of tlie Council of 

 the Massachusetts Temperance Society,- at tire 

 Odeon, &c. Weeks, Jordan &. Co., 1837. 

 The subject of Intenipeiance lias been discus- 

 sed so niucli of late, and the evils with which it 

 is fraught, have been so often and so ably [)our- 

 trayed, that j^ s difficult to give it that interest 

 which attacHro to novelty. It is the prerogative 

 of genius, however, to "lend encliantment " to 

 trite and barren topics, and like a certain person- 

 age of fabulous niythiilogy, to turn to gold every- 

 thing it touches. This altriluite of mental power 

 is extremely well exemplified in the work before 

 us, as will appear by the following 



EXTRACTS. 



" On tlie subject of Intemperance, I have some- 

 tinios thought, perhaps witliont foundation, that 

 its chief essential evil was ni>t brought out a.', 

 thoroughly and frequently as its secondary evils, 

 and that there was not sufficient conviction of the 

 depth of its causes, and of the remedies which it 

 demands." » » # 



" Intemperance is the voluntary extinction of rea- 

 son. The great evil is inward or spiritual. The 

 intemperate man divests himself for a lime, of his 

 rational and moral nature, and casts from himself 

 self-consciousness and self-command, brings on 

 frenzy, and by repetition of this insanity, jiros- 

 trates mure and more his rational and moral pow- 

 ers. He sins immediately and directly against the 

 rational nature, that divine [ninciple, which dis- 

 tinguishes between truth and falsehood, between 

 right and wrong in action, which distingiiislies 



man from the brute. This is the essence of the 

 vice, what constitutes its peculiar guilt and wo, 

 and what should particularly impress and awa- 

 ken those who are laboring for its suppression. 



"The danger of this vice lies in its almost im- 

 perceptible approach. Few who perisli by it, 

 know its first accesses. Youth does not see nor 

 suspect drunkenness in the sparkling beverage, 

 which quickens all its susceptibilities of joy. The 

 invalid docs not see it in the cordial which his 

 physician prescribes, and which gives new tone 

 to his debilitated organs. The man of thought 

 and genius detects no palsying poison in the draught 

 which seems a spriiig of inspiration to intellect 

 and imagination. '1 he lover of social jileasure, 

 little dreams that the glass, which animates con- 

 versation, will ever be drunk in solitude, and will 

 sink him too low for the intercourse in which he 

 now delights. , Intemperance comes with noise- 

 less step, and binds its first cords with a touch too 

 light to be felt. The truth of mournful experi- 

 ence shoiihl be treasured up by all, and should 

 influence the habits and arrangement of domestic 

 and social life in every class of the community." 



In treating of the remedies to intemperance, Dr 

 Channing recommends the more general intro- 

 duction and diffusion of the innocent pleasures o( 



mental culture and refined social intercourse. 



" Men drink to excess very often to shake o'F de- 

 pression, or to satisfy the restless thirst for agree- 

 able e.vcilement, and these motives are excluded 

 in a cheerful community. A gloomy state of so- 

 ciety, in which there are few innocent recreatio:is, 

 may be expected to abound in drunkenness, if op- 

 portunities are afforded." * * 



" These remarks show the importance of en- 

 couraging the efforts whicli have commenced 

 among us, for spreading the accomplishment of 

 music through our whole community. It is now 

 proposed that this shall be made a regular branch 

 in our schools, and every friend of the people, 

 must wish success to the experiment. I am not 

 now called to speak of nil the good influences of 

 music, particularly of the strength which it may 

 and ought to give to the religious sentiment, and 

 to all the pure and generous emotions. Regarded 

 merely as a refined pleasure, it lias a favorable 

 bearing on public morals. Let taste and skill in 

 this beautiful art, be spread among us, and every 

 family will have a new resource. Home will gain 

 a new attraction. Social intercourse will be more 

 cheerful, and innocent public amusement will be 

 furnished to the community. Public amusements, 

 bringing multitudes together to kindle with one 

 emotion, to share the same innocent joy, Jiave a 

 humanizing influence; and among these bonils of 

 society, perhaps no one produces so much un- 

 mixed good, as music. What a fullness of enjoy- 

 ment has our Creator placed within our reach, by 

 surrounding us with an atmosphere which may 

 be shaped into sweet sounds ! And yet this good- 

 ness is almost lost upon us, through want of cul- 

 ture of the organ by which this provision is to be 

 enjoyed." 



The Lonelt Cottager. — A pious cotta"er 

 residing in the centre of a long and dreary heath, 

 being asked by a Christian visitor, 'Are you not 

 sometimes afraid in your lonely situation, espe- 

 cially in winter V replied, ' O no, sir, for faith 

 shuts the door at night, and mercy opens it in 

 the morning.' 



MOl'BRAY ON POtJL,TRV, &c. 



Moiibray on Breeding, Ueariiig and I'auening all kinds of 

 Poultry, Cows, Swine, and other Oomeslic Animals. Seen id 

 American I'lom Ibe Sixlli London E<lilion. Adapled to llie 

 Soil, Ciimaie and Culiure of die United Stales. \\y Thom- 

 as (i. Fossenden. Editor rjf the N. K. Farmer, New Ameri- 

 can Gnrd<'ner, Complete Farmer. &c. 



This I-»ot)k, piililislied by .losepli liretk A:. Co Boston, and 

 G. C 'I'horburn, New York, is for sale at the respective 

 establishments of those Gentlemen. The first edition o( this 

 useful book had a rapid sale, and met with a t'avornlile re- 

 eeplion. It has been carefully revised, and new and original 

 infbrmalior' relative to its to[)ics hav*' been dilig nlly sought 

 anf! inserted in rarious parts ol the Treatise. 



Match 15, 1837 



BRIGHTOK IVITRSERIES. 



For sale, 20,000 Morns Multicaulis, or Chinese Mulberry 

 Plants, warrnnled the true and gennne kind. Orders ad- 

 dressed (by mail) to Messrs. WINSHIP, lirighlon, Mass. 

 for Mulberry, Fruit and Ornamental 'J'rees, Shrnlis Creep- 

 ers, Herbaceous Pcrenn'als. &c &c. that are cultivated in 

 any Nurseries in the United .Slates, with a first rate collection 

 of Green House Plants, will receive prompt attention, and, 

 if required, forwarded to any part ol the Union. 



lirighion,.lan. 18, 1837. 



ASIERICAIV aUARTERLY. 



Wanted, No. 59 of the American Quarteilv Review, 

 published by U ells S,- Lilly. lSi-1, for which a liberal price 

 ^ill be paid. Send by mail, or otherwise to Jos. Bieck Jj- Co 

 Apri' 12 New England Farmer Office, 



E-REKCH BLUES. 



We have just rec-ived a few bushels of Potatoes with the 

 above name, raised in Maine. I'licy are verv large size, 

 productive, and good eating JOS BKECK & i O. 



April -. New England Farmer Office. 



LiINSEED OIL MEAL.. 



PRICE REDUCED. 



This article has met with a ready sale the past wmter, and 

 received .t decided preference wiiii many practical Farmers 

 in this vicinity. 



For the ensuing season the price will be reduced to 



'I'wentyfive dollars per ton, at the mill, or Twentyseven 

 dollars per ton in Boston. 



Apply at No. 10 Commercial Wharf, Boston, or in Med- 

 ford,atdiemill. GEO. I,. STEARNS & CO. 



Blcdlord, April J6, 1837. 



PEAR TREES. 



For sale at the Pmnological Garden, Dearborn .--'ireet 

 North Salem. Pear I'rees, of the most celebrated old and 

 new sorts, all engrafted from Bearing Trees 



, ., „ RdBEKT MANNING. 



April 19. ' 



WANTED. 



A Gardener well acquainted with the cultivation of flowers 

 and the nianagcmenl ol hot beds, to go 35 mdes liom Boston 

 apply at this Office. 

 Marcl 22 



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