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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



OCTOBER 34, I'^t- 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



iFrom the New York Wirror.i 



NEW ENGLAND. 



New Englanil ! dear New Eri;;laiiJ ! 



My birth-place proud aiid fVfe ; 

 A traitor's curse tie on my head, 



When I am I'alse to thee! 

 While rolls the hrighl Uonnectii ut, 



In silver to the sea — 

 While old Wachuselt rears its head, 



I will rempniher ihce ! 



By every rerolleclion dear. 



By friendship's hallowed tie, 

 By scenes engraven on the heart, 



By love thai cannot die — 

 And hy the sweet— the farewell kiss 



Of dearest Rosalie, 

 New En^lanil -dear New England ! 



1 will rciiiend.er Ihee ! 



I may not climb thy misty hills, 

 ^ At purple eve or morn. 

 Nor bind among the laughing girls 



The yellow sheaves of corn. 

 'I may not tread the crags that hear, 



The thunder of the sea. 

 But by the bright autumnal sky, 

 I will remember thee ! 



Though in the far and sunny soutk. 



The eyes of love may shine. 

 And music at the revel charm, 



And beauty pour the wine, 

 I will not listen to the harp, 



Nor join the revelry. 

 But in the fountain plunge my cup. 



And drink a health to ibec .' 



And when from weary wanderings, 



At length I hasten back. 

 How blithely will I tread again, 



The old familiar track. 

 And if my Rosalie be true ; 



(And false she cannot be,) 

 New England ! in thy mountain streams, 



I 'II drink again to thee ! 



THE NOBILITY OF LABOR. 



BV ORVILLE DKWEV. 



So material do I deem this policy — the true no- 

 bility of labor I mean, that I wotild dwell on it a 

 moment longer, and in a larger view. Why, then, 

 in the frreat scale of things is labor ordained for 

 us ? Easily, had it so pleased tJie Great Ordainer, 

 might it have been dispensed with. The world 

 itself might have been a mighty machinery for the 

 production of all that man wants. 



The motion of the globe iijion its axis might have 

 been going forward without man's aid, houses 

 might have risen like an exhalation, 



" With the sound ' 

 Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet. 

 Built like a temple ;" 



gorgeous furniture might have been placed in them, 

 and soft couches and luxurious banquets spread, 

 by hands unseen ; and inan clothed with fabrics of 

 nature's weaving, rather than iini)erial purple, might 

 have been sent to disport himself in those Elysian 

 palaces. "Fair scene !" I imagine you are say- 

 ing ; " Fortunate for us had it been the scene or- 

 dained for human life !" But where, then, tell me. 



had been Imman energy, perseverance, patience, 

 virtue, heroism ? 



Cut offwitli one blow from the- world ; and man- 

 kind had sunk to a crowd of Asiatic voluptuaries. 

 No, it liad not been fortunate. Better that the 

 earth be given to man as a dark mass, whereupon 

 to labor. Better that rude and unsightly materials 

 be provided in the ore-bed and in the forest for him 

 to fashion to splendor and beauty. Better, I say, 

 not because of that splendor and beauty, but be- 

 cause the act creating them is better than the 

 things themselves ; because exertion is nobler than 

 enjoyment ; because the laborer is greater and 

 more worthy of honor than the idler. 



I call upon those whom I address to stand up for 

 the nobility of labor. It is Heaven's great ordi- 

 nance for human improvement Let not that great 

 ordinance be broken down. 



What do I say ? It is broken down ; and it has 

 been broken down — for ages. Let it then be built 

 up again ; here, if anywhere, on tliese shores of a 

 new world — of a new civilization. But how, I 

 may be asked, is it broken down .' Do not men 

 toil, it may be said ? They do indeed toil, but they 

 too generally do it because they must 



Many submit to it, as, in some sort, a degrading 

 necessity ; and they desire nothing so much on 

 earth as escape from it. They fulfil the great law 

 of labor in the letter, but break it by spirit. To 

 some field of labor, mental or manual, every idler 

 should hasten as a chosen coveted field of improve- 

 nrent. 



But so he is not impelled to do, under the teach- 

 ings of our imperfect civilization. On the contra- 

 ry, he sits down, folds his hands, and blesses him- 

 self in idleness. This way of thinking is the her- 

 itage of the absurd and unjust feudal system, under 

 which serfs labored, and gentlemen spent their lives 

 in fighting and feasting. It is time that this oppro- 

 brium of toil were done away. 



Ashamed to toil art thou.' Ashamed of thy 

 dingy workshop and dusty labor-field ; of thy hard 

 hand, scarred with service more honorable than that 

 of war, of thy soiled and weather-stained garments, 

 on which mother nature has embroidered, mist, sun 

 and rain, fire and steam her own heraldic honors ? 

 Ashamed of those tokens and titles, and envious of 

 the flaunting robes of imbecile idleness and van- 

 ity ? It is treason to nature, it is impiety to He'nv- 

 en ; it is breaking heaven's great ordinance. Toil, 

 I repeat, toil, either of the brain, of the heart or of 

 the hand, is the only true manhood, the only true 

 nobility ! 



fortune rather than not to be liberated from such 

 an irksome engagement " As well might the far- 

 mer have the original Venus de Medicis placed in 

 his kitchen," said the orator, "as some of the mod- 

 ern fashionable women. Indeed," continued he, 

 "it would be much better to have Lot's Wife 

 standing there, for she might answer one useful 

 purpose — she might sail his bacon .'" — J^'orthamp- 

 ton Courier. 



Lot's Wife Mr Colman, in his Agricultural 



Address last work, illustrated the folly of modern 

 fashionable female education, by an anecdote. A 

 young man who had for a long while remained in 

 that useless state, designated by " a half pair of 

 scissors," at last seriously determined lie would 

 procure him a wife. He got the " refusal" of one 

 who was beautiful and fashionably accomplished 

 and took her upon trial to his home. Soon learned 

 that she knew nothing either how to darn a stock- 

 ing or boil a potato or roast a bit of beef, he re- 

 turned her to her father's house, as having been 

 weighed in the balance asid fotind wanting. A 

 suit was commenced by the good lady, but the 

 husband alleged that she was not " up to the sam- 

 ple," and of course the obligation to retain the 

 commodity was not binding. The jury inflicted a 

 fine of a few dollars, but he would have given a 



Beware of Lqco-Foco Matches. — A boy was 

 bringing into our room some parcels of these 

 matches, when a bunch, wrapped in a paper, slipped 

 froiTi his hand, and fell on the carpet ; the friction 

 occasioned by the fall instantly ignited the bundle. 

 We doubt not but many recent fires have been 

 caused the accidental ignition of these phosphora- 

 ted matches. Every house-keeper should see that 

 these matches are securely kept in metal or earthen, 

 and apart from all combustible materials. Another 

 modern improvement — the portable furnace — we 

 doubt not, has led to immense losses by fire Cul- 

 tivator. 



Nursery of WtllUim Kenrids. 

 :j»-'!'^^. The Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental 

 _-j*xai.'--.^ Trees for 1835 is now ready, and will be sent 

 j§ to all who apply. It comprises a most exten- 

 sive selection of the superior varieties oi Pears, 

 Apples, Plums, Peaches, Cherries, Quinces 

 Gooseberries, Raspberries, Currants, Strawberries, Grape 

 Vines, &c. The slock of Cherries and Teaches now ready 

 is particularly laro^e. Also, Ornnmental Trees, Shrubs, 

 Roses, Honeysuckles ; Pseouies, Dahlias and other Herba- 

 ceous Flowerfns; Plants. 



1 f\f\ (\f\f\ MoBus MuLTiCAnLis are now offer 

 J-UvljU"" ed for sale; the trees geuuine and 

 tine, will be ready lor delivery at the cities of Boston, I\t 

 York and Philadelpliia, in October next, at prices fair, and 

 varj'ing with the size, and the quantity which maybe de 

 sired. Also, Broussa and other varieties. 



Mulberry and oiher trees, when so ordered, will be secure- 

 ly packed for safe transportation to distant places, and all 

 orners promptly executed, on application to B. D. Bbeck 

 Commission Store, No. 132 Water Street, New York, M. S 

 PcwELL, Seed Store, No. 7 Arch Street, Philadelphia, or to 

 the subscriber, Nonantum Hill, Newton, near Boston. 

 August 1, 1834. WILLIAM KENRICK. 



9IUI.BKRRT TREES. 



200,000 Genuine Mulberry Trees, and as many more as 

 may be wanted, of the most approved kinds— consislin" ol 

 the best selected varieties now in use, for cultivation, feeding 

 worms, and making silk ; — being acclimated to this country, 

 and adapted to either warm or cold climates, affording a 

 rare opportunity for companies or individuals to he supplied, 

 from the most extensive collection of mulberrry trees ever 

 seen in any village within the Uniled States. 



Autumn is decidedly the best time for removal, and orders 

 left with Messrs. I. ii. Colt, Secretary of the Connecticut 

 Silk Manufacturing Company, Hartford ; Alonzo Wakeman, 

 at the office of the American Institute, No. 167 Broadway, 

 N. Y. ; Thomas Lloyd, Jr. No. JM Filbert street, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. ; Luther I. Cox, Baltimore, i\ld. ; B. Snider, & 

 Co. Savannah, Ga. ; Bliss .lenkins, SiCo. Mobile, A I ; James 

 Lyman, St. Louis. Mo. ; Case and Jiidd,CoIunibus, O. ; G. 

 Harwood, Rochester, N. Y. ; and the publishers of this ad- 

 vertisement, or with the subscriber, in Northamplon, Mass. 



Orders left wilh the above gentlemen will be promptly at- 

 tended to, and each will be furnished with samples ol the 

 foliage. 



Several valuable farms may be had with or without Mul 

 berry Plantations. 



Apply at the office of D. STEBBINS. 



Northampton, Aug 22, 1S33. 



THE NEW ENGLAND FARRIER 



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