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NEW ENGLi^ND FARMER. 



JANCAUT 16. 1839. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



(From the New York Journal ol Oonimercc.) 



AIY FATIIElfdllALF BUSHEL. 



My Fiitliur's Hali-bpshel (.oiiies oft to my mind, 

 And wakens dceji feelings of various kind ; 

 'Twas an liune,t lialf-bnslii-l— a noblo !mir.liusl...I, 

 It held a lialf-bushcl of thirlytwo ijiiarls I 



When I think of that hnshel— my Tatlii-rs half-hushel, 

 That dear old half-bushel so honest and true ! 

 Then look at the bushels, our city half bushels, 

 Little dandy-half-bushels, it makes one feel blue ! 



Oh I my Father's half-bushel— that country half-bushel, 

 Its like, or my Father's — oh when shall I sec ? 

 'Twas a blessed lialf-bu.shcl, and he a bless'd man, 

 For lie fill''] his halt'-bushd, and souie'.liing threw free ! 



Alas ; Fve long search'd for their likeness in vain ! 

 Scarce a man, or half-bushel, but what gives me pain, 

 So unlike to my Father's, their measures, and measure, 

 5Iy lil^ nigh robb'd of all peace and all pleasure ! 



Yet all the half-bushels, if mean, are not small ; 

 I'm vex'd with the great ones the most, after all. 

 Oh, mark out that Ash-man's next time he shall call, 

 'Tis a monstrous half-bushel— holds quarts sixtyfour ; 

 Do send the base rascal away from your door ! 



"Tis a fact I am staling, no slanders I utter. 

 But who can tiirbear, when cheated, to mutter .' 

 In New York, a barrel (I |iray you, don't laugh) 

 Wo.n't hold so Jill ;i .isii«s, .is 'tatebs, bv half I 



Zounds ! what arc the lawyers, and what are the laws. 

 But bug-bears ai.d piiantonis, mere feathers or straw.^.^ 

 Unless half-bushels are all made as one. 

 Like Fatiiefs half-bushel, I say we're undv'rjp ! 

 A'ew York, Dec. II, 18:32. ' J. B. H. 



L'lriE.'i PERFORjrtD BY A GooD Farmkr. 



Til..- i'.pproacli of iviiile>i- always induces thp thought- 

 ful, (jareliil, an<l industrious fanner to look about 

 him to see that he is prepared to meet so boister- 

 ous and inclement a season of the year in the be.st 

 possible manner. His windows, his doors, and the 

 roofs of his bniUlinijs, are all e.xainined, and, if 

 necessary made tinrlit and" secure. His b.irn and 

 stables are lookod to and put in good order. His 

 sheep, hogs, and poultry have all comfortable, dry 

 lodgings prepared for them in due season, for he 

 knows that no animal can thrive and do well, that 

 is not well housed, and well fed, and every way 

 made clean and comfortablo. His potatoes, his 

 sugar beets, his turnips, and all his winter fruits 

 and vegetables are well secured against frost, and 

 placed in such positions that ready access can be 

 had to them when necessary, without subjecting 

 them to danger of injury by expo.sure to the wea- 

 ther. His fuel is so arranged arid prepared for 

 current use, that his family can procure it without 

 any unnecessary exposure to the rude blasts of 

 winter. His fields and mea.'.ows are kept closed 

 <!uriiig the winter and early pirt of spring, so that 

 animals may not be permitted to ramble over tliem 

 and injure his grounds. His barn yard is so ar- 

 ranged that his cattle never leave it during the 

 period of winter feeding, by wliicli means lie saves 

 uU their manure for the nourishment of !iis crops, 

 His i;iin'iements of husbandry ami tools are all 



carefully lioused and arranged in good order, so 

 that they can be had when wanted for use. His 

 garden, in w hich not a weed has been permitted to 

 perfect and scatter its seed during llie autumn, is 

 thrown up into ridges about eighteen inches high, 

 separated only by trenches extending from end to 

 end of the beds ; this he knows exposes to the 

 meliorating influence of the frost, destroys the 

 grubs and worms which seek refuge during the 

 wiutor deep in the ground, and induces the ground 

 moles to look for dryer and warmer lodgings else- 

 where. By this plan of ridging his garden in the 

 fall, as soon as the frost is out in the spring, his 

 beds are dry and warm, and admit of being level- 

 led and worked at once, long before flat, wet 

 ground, can with propriety, be moved by the spade ; 

 this enables his family to have a supply of garden 

 vegetables several weeks earlier than tho.'e who 

 have less intelligence or industry ; Ihe deeper 

 tilth and more tliorongh pulverization of the soil, 

 ■Iso increases the growth of his plants, and enables 

 lliem the better to protect themselves against the 

 contingencies of either very dry or very wet sea- 

 sons. 



During the evenings, that are now growing long, 

 his wife and daughters are industriously engaged 

 in light but necessary household duties, while the 

 boys are reading instructive, useful books, and 

 among them the Farmer's Cabinet occupies a con- 

 spicuous place, both on account of its variety and 

 its practical utility ; this furnishes texts for rational 

 and improving conversation which cultivates and 

 improves their minds and warms their affections, 

 and produces on them even a greater effect, than 

 ridging and trenching the garden does on the veg- 

 etables. — Farmt) 's Cabintt. 



December Diseases. — The principal disorders 

 of the past month were of an inflammatory nature 

 mogt frequently occurring about the throat and air- 

 passages, sometimes extending to the lining of the 

 brandies of the wind-pipe, occasioning cough, 

 hoarseness, thirst, lassitude, want of appetite, &c., 

 denominated cold or catarrh, according as they are 

 more or less severe. 



Every nation is furnished with so many remedies 

 for complaints of tliis kind, handed down by mothers 

 to daughters, from the old times of simple living 

 and long life, that it would not he becoming in us 

 to intrude our advice wliere it is not wanted. 



A cold, however, it should be borne in mind, 

 though in itself a slight disease, is often the foro- 

 riinner of that highly dangerous and generally fa- 

 tal complaint, consumption. The inflammation is 

 communicated from the lining membrane of the 

 lungs lo their substance ; causing ulceration; and 

 hectic fever succeeds. 



Sometimes it occasions asthma, or dropsy in the 

 chest. It should not, therefore, be neglected ; but 

 only the most simple precautions, except when the 

 disease is of peculiar severity, are requisite. 



Diseases in this month are peculiarly prevalent 

 among children, who are apt to overload their sto- 

 machs with cakes, pics and p'lim-puddings — three 

 most dire offenders in these days, producing not 

 diarrhoeas and pneumonic fevers in lillle. children, 

 but dyspepsia, gout, apoplexy, and all the diseases 

 of repletion in gnat ones. All complaints which 

 result from too rich, too stimulating, or_ too abun- 

 dant a diet, are nv re numerous at this season than 

 at any other. 



Visceral obstructions are frequent at the ap- 



proach of winter, and should be coun teracted by a 

 cooling regimen. Ripe fruits, and acidulated liquids 

 may bo used with freedom, but a dry diet should be 

 careliilly avoided. Colds at this season usually 

 end in lung fevers, and typhus commences its in- 

 roads ; the clothing therefore should be warm, and 

 every kind of exposure most strictly guarded 

 against; for in spite of all its festivities, December 

 is a dangerous month ; its coldness though gene- ' 

 rally agreeable, is frequently damp and penetrating; 

 and its dinners, routs and hilarities — those arch 

 enemies of blue devils and potent shorteners of the 

 human visage — often lead to worse diseases than; 

 they can cure, and to more melancholy thoughts 

 than they can dissipate Boston Medical Intelli- 

 gencer. 



Tt'UPS, RA.MNCrl.VSES, Pl.VKS .4.\D VIOI.AS. 



S. W.ALKER, of Roxbury. oifers for sale in beds, or 

 suc;h qiKijitiiies a>i may biiil purchasers. Iroiii I lo 230ii bulbs 

 nf choice Tulips. The bulbs wore imporlod from Holland, 

 France anJ Lnglaml, to which yearly acidilions have and 

 will continue to be made ol the ntwcsi and choicest vari- 

 eties. Persons wishing to purchase a bed of superb Tulips, 

 will do well to make a selcclion for tliemsehcs when Ihe 

 bulbi are in bloom, (nl.oul the 1st of June.) The prices will 

 conl'onn to ihe quality of the flowers selected, but in- no case 

 will llie charge exceed the loreest market prices, in the coun- 

 try where llie bulbs were raised, and che.Tper than the like 

 ijnalilijciM be imported. 



Tulips in beds of from 30 lo 100 rows, containing from 

 •iio lo 7U0 bulbs, or by Ihe dozen, 1(10 or 1000. 



Viola grandijlDra — Panay, or Heartsease. Upwards o( 

 2000 superb varieties will be exhibited and offered for sale, 

 when the Tulips are in bloom. 



Ran nnaduscs— fine mixtures, at from S2 to S.t per 100. 



I'inks—^nQ named varieties, fr_oni 25 cents lo Si each. 



For particulars apply to S. WALKER, or to JOSEPH 

 BRECK .V CO. eow 



^jj'iif;-^. The Cataloijue of Fruit 



'^'•^f'^ Trees for ISJS is now reaJy 



S'^^Vl^' '" ''" ^''^° ''PP'y- I' conipi 



''^ ^ ^'' sive seleeliou of the superior 



FRUIT AND ORKAMEXTAI« TREES, MVIjBER. 

 RIES <&c 



IVursery of M'dliam Kenrick. 

 The Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental 

 y, and will be sent 

 .„.y .^ , , .- prises a most exten- 



^ ^ sive seleeliou of the superior varieties of Pears, 

 <&Efr*- Apples, Plums, Peaches, Cherries, Quinces. 

 Gooselierries, Raspberries, Curranis, Strawberries, Grajie 

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

 is particularly large. .K\»o, Ornanieulal Trees, Shrubs, 

 Roses, Honeysiiikles; Paeoiiies, Dahlias and other Herba- 

 ceous Fl.nverini! I'lnnts. 



ion OOO '^'^'"^'■'^ JIuLTicAULis are now offer 

 \.\J\y ^\J\3\J ctl for sale; the trees genuine and 

 line, will be ready tor delivery at the cities of Boston, Ne 

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

 varying with the size, ami ihe quantity which may be de- 

 sired. Also, Broussa and other varieties. ' ^' 



IVinlberry and tiiher trees, when so ordered, will l.e secure- 

 ly packed tor safe Iransjiorlatiou to distant places, and all 

 oraers jirumptlv execulcd, on application to B. D. Bheck, 

 Coimnission Store, .\o. 132VVaier Street, New York, M. S. 

 PcwEi.i., Seed .Store, No. 7 Arch Street, Philadelphia, or to 

 the suljscriber, IVonantum Hill, Newton, near Boston. 

 .\ugust 1, I83-. WILLIAM KENRICK. 



F.-lUfll IN BRUOKLINE. 



For s.ile a furm situated in Brookline, about four miles 

 from Boston, coiilainine forty acres of first rate Tillage Land 

 and thirty acres of Woodland and pasture— with a good 

 House in comple.e repair f Barn, Chaise-house, Corn-barn 

 Shed, &c. 



The Farm will be sold low, together with the Stock, Hay 

 Tools, &c. if applied for soon, at No. 3li, North Market St., 

 Boston, or Ko.\bury Sli-eet, near Boston line. 



Dec. 2li, 1838. JOHN HUNT. 



THK NEW £NGLA.\U P.\UMER 



Is puhiished every Wednesday Evenii;g, at 83 per ann im 

 pnyableat the end of the year — but those who pay wilhin 

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

 duction of 58 cents. 



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