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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



SKPTEIIfBF.R 19, W38. 



MISCELLANEOUS, 



For the ^'?w England Firmer. 



PUDDING AND BEANS. 



Oh ! what is there better lliait puddinif and heans ! 

 Nor turkey ; nor surloin ; nor inuttun and greens, 

 Clin vie with the honest " old Indian," well done, 

 Well lathered with 'lasses, as hright as the sun. 



'Twas our forefathers' dish, in rough times of yore. 

 When first they *' tooV lodgings," on old Plymouth shore ; 

 The corn for their food ; and cold water to drink, 

 Made hearts to resolve, and cool noddles to think. 



'T is the pride of their sons on Saturday night. 

 When winds whistle loud, and the kitchen burns bright. 

 All round the oak table to huddle with glee. 

 And flourish their trenchers in right jollity. 



Ah ! what snoring succeeds among the " nlil folks," 

 While the youngsters are slyly whipping the yolks 

 Of eggs, newly laid, and when mingled the " pop ;" 

 All hands on the floor, for a reel or a liop. 



Oh ! pudding and beans !— the delight of my youih ; 

 When loved all the lovely, with ardor and truth ; 

 Whigl women were true ; and their lovers were gay 

 As roosters on barn-top, and hens in the hay. 



FAMINE IN INDIA. 



The upper provinces of tiie Bengal presidency 

 were (when the last desputches reached England,) 

 tlie scenes of the most frightful misery and inortal- 

 . ity. Owing to the e.xtreme poverty of die natives, 

 occasioned by the impolitic and ruinous system 

 pursued by the government of India towards the 

 occupiers and cultivators of the soil, tens of thou- 

 sands have been reduced to utter starvation. On 

 ■, the 14th of April last, 78,000 pining wretches, men, 

 women and children, were fed by bounty at Agra ; 

 and between the 1st and 1.5th of March 71,000 in- 

 firm and sightless creatures were relieved in a sim- 

 ilar manner. So great have been the ravages of 

 death Ihat the air for miles is tainted with the efflu- 

 via from the putrefying carcasses of men and cattle, 

 and the rivers of the Jumna and Ganges choaked 

 up and poisoned by the dead bodies thrown into 

 th^ir channels. The water and fish of these rivers 

 arc rejected as unfit for use, and men are kept con- 

 stantly employed in pushing the accumulated bod- 

 ies down the torrents. From the July number of 

 the Oriential Herald we learn that starvation, dis- 

 ease and death, are doing their work at Cawnpore, 

 Muttra, Gwalior, tmd Delhi, while the wealthier 



natives look on with listlessness and unconcern 



Though a famine fund has been established by tlie 

 European public of India, it is found impossible to 

 meet the necessities of tlie destitute and dying 

 multitudes. 



A correspondent in Calcutta thus writes on the 

 10th of April: — "Since the despatch of the over- 

 land mail for Berenice, which lell Bombay at the 

 close of that montli, public attention in this quarter 

 has I been engrossed by the accounts which daily 

 reach the capital of the horrid ravages of famine in 

 tlie provinces to the west and northwest. It is im- 

 possible to compute the numbers who die in their 

 tedious progress from the desolate districts to the 

 towns where food is procurable. We hear almost 

 daily of mothers deserting their children on tlie 

 highways ; of infants crawling around t!ie grana- 



ries to pick up the grains of rice accidentally scat- 

 tered during the process of distribution at the 

 doors ; of the roads being lined with dead bodies, a 

 prey to the vulture and jackall; of the courses of 

 small rivers actually obstructed by the masses of 

 bodies tlirown therein, by those who are employed 

 to clear the highways ; of the inhabitants of the 

 large towns of Agrn, Cawnpore, «Sz.c. being com- 

 pelled to abandon their evening drive, from the im- 

 possibility of encountering the clfluviafrom the pu- 

 trid corses around! And the worst of it is, that 

 two months more must ela| se before a fall rain can 

 be expected, and the earth yield fruit wherewith to 

 appease the irresistible cravings of hunger. 



CnRE FOR HvDRopnoBiA. As the Hydropho- 

 bia season has set in, we comply with the request 

 of a correspondent by giving insertion to the fol- 

 lowing. What we happen to know of tlie extra- 

 ordinary property of the chloride of lime induces 

 us to put great faith in its properties, in the cure 

 of the wound inflicted by dogs, above other means. 

 — Edilors Mercury. 



We are^indebted to M. Coster, a French phy- 

 sician, for the following valuable discovery, as a 

 preventive to hydrophobia. Take two table spoon- 

 fuls of fresh chloride of lime in powder, mix it 

 with half a pint of water, and with this wasli keep 

 the wound constantly bathed, and frequently re- 

 newed. The chlorine gas possesses the power of 

 decomposing this tremendous poison, and renders 

 mild and harmless that venom agaiist whose re- 

 sistless attack the artillery of medical science has 

 been so long directed in vain. It is necessary to 

 add that this wash should be applied as soon as 

 possible after the infliction of the bite. 



Another plan which has been extensively tried 

 at Breslau and Zurich, and many other parts of the 

 continent, consists not merely in cutting out the 

 bitten part, (mere incision has been found too often 

 unavailing,) but in combining with the incision ef- 

 fectual means for keeping open the wound and 

 maintaining it in a state of suppuration during a 

 period of at least six weeks. Other curative means 

 as the exhibition of mercury, bcUa-donna, or lyltoe, 

 were also employed in tliese cases ; but upon these, 

 it is thought that but little reliance can be placed. 

 The following are the results of this treatment: — 

 From 180] to 1824, the number of persons admit- 

 ted into the Breslau hospital was 184, of whom two 

 only died of Hydrophobia; from 1783 to 18'24 in- 

 clusive, there were admitted into the hospital at 

 Zurich 233 persons bitten by ditTerent animals, 

 (182 by dogs) of whom only four died, — two on 

 the second day of admission, and in whom the dis- 

 ease had probably become developed before they 

 were submitted to the treatment, and tlie otlier 

 two were bitten in parts (inside of the cheek and 

 eyelid) where the prescribed means could not bo 

 employed with the requisite exactness. — Liverpool 

 Mercury. 



A writer in the Genesee Farmer says, " When 

 I was a school boy I had a large wart upon my 

 thumb. My teacher told me to rub it against my 

 front teeth as soon as I awoke in the morning, for 

 a number of mornings, and it would soon disappear. 

 I obeyed, and my wart disappeared in less than two 

 weeks, without pain, except in the act of rubbing. 

 I may add that I have had warts at times since, (be- 

 ing now 54 years of age,) and tiie same means ap- 

 plied for a short time always removed them." 



NEW ELEMENTAKir -WORK OS BOTAXV. 



Peler Parley's Botany : with descriptions of Trees, Shrubs 

 and Plants; with a large numl)er of fine cngi-avings. 



The publishers invite Teachers, and others interested in 

 this subject, To examine this work, as they believe it will be 

 found one of the most prarticnlly useful in use, being a C( 

 plete manual of Botany lor the adult and the pupil. 



Parley^s Cyclopedia of Bot(^y. — This work appears to 

 be exaclly what is wanted by young persons and in families. 

 It nut only ^-untains the strictly scientific part of the subject, 

 in an introduction and very full and cumplele genera of Plants, 

 but it also contains a copious glossary of terms, and what is 

 most important, a Dictionary of Plants, of nearly 300 page 

 containing faiBiliar descriptions uf all the most interesting 

 trees, plants, and shrubs. — These are alphabeticallv arranged , 

 with an English index, so that the reader may iinnicdiaieiy 

 turo to any plant he wishes lo read abuut. The work is 

 histrated by over 200 engravings, and is sold tery cheap. — 

 Boston Paper. 



For sale at the New England Fanner Office, 51 & 52 

 North Market Street. JOSEPH BKECK & CO. 



REMEnV FOR. C.IXKER WORMS 



The subscriber having obtained letters patent for his cir 

 cular metallic trough and roof for preventing canker worms 

 or other insects from ascending fruu or other trees, now oilers 

 his services lo apply the same to any extent that maybe 

 wanted. They were put on to three orchards belonging to 

 Jonathan Dennis in Portsmouth, R. I., in the autumn of 

 1837, and exterminated the canker worms so completely 

 that some of the trees hang so full nf apples as to render it 

 necessary to prop them, although they have been eaten by 

 the worms for a number'of years jirevious, notwithstanding 

 the application of tar. The public are invited to examine 

 the orchards above referred tOy The trough and roof is 

 made of lead and beat to conform to the shape of the tree, 

 and the ends soldered together and made enough larger than 

 the tree to allow the trees lo grow ten years before it will fill' 

 ,tbe space. The space between the trough and the tree is' 

 filled with hay,straw, seaweed, or any substance that is easily I 

 compressed by the growth of the tree ; the trough is kept in 

 its place by three nails driven into the tree below it ; when I 

 the tree has grown so as to fill the space, the trough may be ' 

 enlarged by putting in a short piece so as to answer ten years 

 more.. A little cheap oil is suiiicienl to fill ibo troughs and 

 filling them three times has been tiiund to answer for one 

 year, by stirring the oil once sometime after they are filled. 

 Those who wish to have their trees fitted, would do well to 

 make early application to the subscriber, postage paid. For 

 sale, State, Town and County rights by 



JO.X.iTHAN DENNIS, Patentee, 



Porlsmnulh, R. I., August -ii, ls:i7. Iw 



COUMTRY SEAT IIV NEVVT.>«, Pl>R SALE. 



The subscriber offers for sale the house in which he now 

 resides, witii the Barn, Sheds, Garden anil about 35 aeres ol 

 land, situated on Nonantnm Hill, in Newton, 5 1-3 miles from 

 the city. The garden occupies nearly two acres, is stocked 

 with a great variety of fruit tress, and about 10,000 Anlnerp 

 Raspberry Vines. The place may be seen and further partic- 

 ulars obtained on application at the premises. 



LOT WHEELRIGHT. 



July 16tli. 



ALOERiVEV STOCK .FOR SAI.K. 



For sale, a full blooded Bull, 3 jcais old the first of July 

 next — one Cow, five years old — and a Heifer three years old'. 

 The Cows are said to be the riche.-^l !\lilkeis of any imported. 

 For further particulars address L. M. WllEATON, ^o^ton, 

 Mass., or a line left at this office, will meet with prompt 

 attention. June 27 



AMERICAN h-l-OWER G.\RDEN CO.MPANIOIir. 



The American Flower Garden Compariion, adapted lo the 

 Northern Stales. 



By Edward Savers, Landscape and Ornamental Gardenei 

 Published by Joseph Breck & Co., and for sale at the 

 Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, No. 51 and 52 North 

 Market Street, Boston. 



FUR S.\1.E. 

 A Ram and Ewe from the Capo Good Hope. Inquire a( 

 this office- 



THE NEW KNGLA.M) FARMER. 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per annum 

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

 sixty days from the time of subscribing are entitled to a de- 

 duction of 50 cents. 



TCTTLE, DENNETT AND CUISHOLM, PRINTFRS, 



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