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NEW E N G L .'^ N D FARMER. 



MARCH ar, 18-iV 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



(l"'rom the Newark Daily Adrcriiser.) 

 LIFE IN THE PRAIRIES. 



Interesting ConRESpoNnKN-cp, We have been 



politely furnislied witli the following- letter from Mr 

 C. C. Smith of SmilhtoH-n, (Illinois,) to a friend in 

 Pliiladelphia, and wo tni.H it will prove the fore- 

 runner of many more from the same distinjnished 

 observer of men and things in the VVeat. Mr S. 

 is a brother of the lionorable John Sinith, of Jack- 

 sonville : 



From Mr Smith, of Siniilisliiirg, Smith county, Illinois, to 

 Jolr.i TImmsoii, E«q.,ol' I'hilaielphia. 



D:;ar Thomson. — As yoti cannot by possibility 

 have an idea of what prairie innd is, you must be 

 answerably ijrnorant of what I have suffered in 

 toiling from Pole^rovc, our county seat, to this 

 ])o;iie of mine. It was knee deep every step, and, 

 then, so tenacious — so viscous — not even the chem- 

 ical terminology would express the treacle and tar- 

 mixture through which I have pissed. liut home 

 is home ; and though I have a stump in my parlor, 

 and see daylight throtigh the windward side of my 

 log-hqssc, yet I assure you there is a comfort even 

 in this. It is something to be monarch cf all he 

 surveys; it is something to have overcome difficul- 

 ties. Every man respects himself the more for 

 having lived through a real scuffle ; and, then, one's 

 wife and children, when healthy and.happy, are as 

 delectable in a wilderness as any where else. 

 There I justas I write, I hoar' tlie sharp percussion 

 of two rifles. It is Charles and Tom returning, no 

 ■doubt, with wild meat enough to serve one of your 

 .Arch street dinirer-parties for ten times. There is 

 soinel.hino- in that. A bear and a wild turkey give 

 us a painful pleasure in the chase, and then are 

 sustenance to us, and afford talk to the ctu'dren for 

 day after day. I wish Tripes and his sister, in 

 Spruce street, who have got to bo vegetable mon- 

 gers, a.nd think all meat poison, w^ould try their 

 .luck for a month or so on thiscide. of tlw Wabash ; 

 they would surely die of chagrin at ilw; e.'iplosion 

 of- their theory. For, wiien they should be present- 

 ed to a family of wild frontier rangers, fellows who 

 Jjave welNgigh forgotten the taste of wheat, whose 

 richest loaf is corn ash cake, and who use jerked 

 beef or vcnsion with their tea, and have flesh, flesh, 

 flcish, froin Christmas till Christmas, they would see 

 as Etout, noble, light-nervod, broad-backed, six foot 

 backwoodsmen as ever turned out of the forests of 

 Pannonia ; men that never saw a doctor, unless 

 Bome wandering missionary happened to be a 

 "Thpmpsonian," and who are as likely to live to 

 eighty years as the no-meat and no drlnli folks are 

 to survive this winter. 



Jones has gone. lie made no impression on our 

 sort of people. Rely upon it, these We.stem lnd:>, 

 to use iheir own slang, have cut their eye-teeth ; 

 and it is a poor speculation to send us your refuse 

 wares. I told Jones, long ago, that if lie would 

 contentedly jog on as book-keeper, he would soon 

 be able to get into a better berth. But what ruined 

 him with Filter & Firth was, his indolence, his 

 want of interest in what he was doing. You say 

 he was honest and punctual — so he was ; but then 

 he was dead. I have known him to sit like a wax- 

 work for two hours over the same page of his ledg- 

 er. Such a man can't possibly live here. Every 

 one is on the alert. It is this that characterizes 

 tiie new States. You sec it in the air of the peo- 

 ple; you hear it in their outre phraseology. They 



are courageous, independent, and full of resources, 

 from the very necessity of the case. I am con- 

 vinced that the strong point? of human nature, 

 good and bad, were never brought out more de- 

 cidedly than in, these States. Plenty of strong 

 food, plenty of hard work, high hope, perpetual 

 novelty, ample room for every kind of expansion, 

 carelessnosM of the opinions of others, conflict with 

 real dangers, and the hardiness produced by out- 

 door athletic performances — these are what make 

 'he men of Tennes^-ee and Kentucky the most en- 

 ergetic as they are the largest specimens of the 

 homo sapiens. The same occurs in Maine, Vermont, 

 and Michigan. It is the exact antipodes of Chest- 

 nut street in every particular. Take a city chit, 

 who wears a ring, and m hiskcr enough for a bear, 

 and a flash coat worth fifty dollars, and exhibit hira 

 to a genuine boy of the woods, and the latter would 

 deal as gently with hiin as with a young opposum, 

 and as much wonder at his prettiness. Now the 

 whiskered and the scented one has his uses : you 

 would not readily put liim on a forlorn hope, or ask 

 his aid if you were drowning ; but he plays a good 

 part at a soirrc, and stands gracefully behind a 

 counter, and forks his chopped meat with exemplary 

 precision ; yet I should not wish to see him here ; 

 he would think our ways rough and our clothes in- 

 tolerable. Jones, without being effeminate, was 

 what we call helpless, and he has gone home. O, 

 for a keg of pickled oysters ! Before the winter 

 has locked every thing up, try to contrive a way for 

 the two or three books which Grigg promised to 

 box. The lame boy does very well in the v/ood- 

 yard, but we need one .ir two lads of all work. The 

 mail-boy comes within three miles once a week. 

 Adieu. Your true friend, 



C. C. SMITH. 



SCIOiVS OP FRUIT TREKS. 



Scions of a qreat variety of .^pple.s, Pears, Phims, n'ld 

 Cherries, front liearing Trees, which have Iiecn ]»roveii at the 

 Pomological Garden, Salem, Mass.. for sale hy the subpcri- 

 hcr. ROBERT MANNING. 



Feh. 0. tp 



FARM FOR S.VIjE OU Ti) IjET. 



The suhscriher offers for sale or to let, a farm situated on 

 Charles Kiver, in the north pan of Newton, and near the 

 Newton CheinJCTil Works. It contains fifty acres or upwards 

 of gno.l Ian J, and has on it a jooH house and other buildings. 

 Its pleasant situation on the hank of the river renders it a de- 

 sirable place for a country seat, or its vicinity to the Walthara 

 Factories an excellent location for a market or vegetable larm. 



Forty acres can be added to the above, if desired 

 March 13. 4wis* SETH BKMIS, Wi 



Watertou 



FARM FOR SALE. 



For sale a valualilc farm, situated in Newton, half a mile 

 from the tipper Falls Village and ten miles from Boston. 

 The farm comprises about 100 acres of land, one third of 

 which is covered with a thrifty growth of wood and fencing 

 timber. It has a good well of water, besides a never failing 

 brook which passes through the farm. The buildings are 

 of ample size, and in good repair. A lot of about ten acres 

 of the laud near the buildings, is on a level plain of superior 

 quality for the growlh of the mulberry tree For particulars 

 iiicpiire of Miss Ann Bent, 214 Washington Street, or of E. 

 F. Woodward, near the premis s. 



Boston, March 6, lS3;i. tf 



woRii.s iiiui.,ricAi;i.is. 



JOSEPH DAVENPORT will personaliy attend to the 

 selling of the largest lot of Morns Multicaulis unsold in the 

 ITniicd Sliites, after the first of Aprd next, at his planlalion 

 Hvo miles southwest of the city of llartlord. The sale of 

 this splendid lot of trees has tieeu delayed till the jiresent in 

 consequence of his iinex])ecled absence since last fall. He 

 invites purchasers to call on him, in person, so far as consist- 

 ent, as they may belter select for themselves ; yet all orders 

 sent to the city Post Office, will be executed with all possible 

 care and dispatch. His long experience will enable him to 

 packthein in a manner that will ensure safety to any part of 

 the country. 



Hartford, Cl., March 20, 1S3S. 



PRIZE ^VHEAT. 



Tht iniitington Xew Ifliile ff'he/tt, which obtain-, 

 <d the " Medal" (U the Liverpool .'3griciiltural\ 

 Meelinff. 



The attention of Agricultnralisis is (rgain called to this] 

 very valuable, prolific and perfectly hardy description oli 

 Vyhite VVheat The prominent proprelies of which arc itsj 

 ripening much earlier with length and strength of straw, 

 largeness of ear and grain, and its superior incahngqunlitiejj 

 which can be utlesled by several well known Surrey Millers. 



The introducer of ii strongly reioiumends, if the soil be 

 neb and kintlly. that verj- lilijc or no manure I.e applied, the 

 ori::iii ol this Wheat wast hrec ears, discovered on a inouniaii, 

 in Switzerland; and the Propagator, Mr Withingloii, a prac-j 

 Ileal Agriculturalist, Land Agent and Vainer for 40 years is 

 so perfectly satisfied, (rom ilic impartial trials he has miidc, 

 during S1.X years on " poor soils," of its giowing more Straw 

 than any other kinds, "of its superiority in "standing the] 

 weather," and not degenerating in the produce or quality 

 that he intends for the future, to sow no other sort. | 



Twelve bushels sown oi ordinarv wet land in common' 

 cultivation, last year produced 3oo ■bushels, and a similar 

 sowing on light land, gave an equally favorable result. The 

 present prosjwcts despite the season, are equally flattering. 

 Two bushels per acre have been found an abundant Seeding, 

 on ncconnt of its great disposition to Tiller, several single 

 grains having produced each from 30 to 40 ears, the length of 

 many lining t'rnm ,=i to 7 inches and verv few under 4 inches. 

 It has this year lieen satisfactorily proved by three disinter- 

 ested Fanners to be a most " rapid growing " and superior! 

 spring wheat, sown so late as the middle of March, it is nowj 

 the luili of .luly in full ear, and calculated to produce atj 

 least 'J' to 35 bushels per acre ! Mr Mouatt, of Stoke, near] 

 Guilford, ■• Transplanted " on the lOth of March, without 

 Manure or Water, and quite unknown to Mr W. a quair 

 of this wheat In ni a sowing in the Autumn, and which 

 now be seen in every respect equal to the latter, and far 

 passincT several other kinds growing alongside. The var. :.:i 

 essays by impartial parties combined with an unusually severe 

 Winter and unpropiiious Spiing, prove this to be the most 

 desirable wheat ol the day. — English Paper. 



N . P.. We have on hand a small quantity of the Whiti.s-g- 

 Tov WiiKAT, which is decidedly the finest article of the Und 

 we have ever seen. Those who are desirous of lr\ing it, can , 

 have a small parcel, not exceeding one pint each, il applica- 

 tion is made for it soon. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 

 March 13. 



FRESH SEED. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural Warehouse 

 and Seed Store, fresh lots of the following kinds of seed. 

 Rohan Potatoes Chinese or Tree Corn 



St Helena " Diitton " 



Early While Potatoes Small Canada, 



Varieties of Spring Wheat Early Jefierson ■' 



Buck " Tuscorara and Sweet Corn 



Indian " Barley, Bedforil Oats 



And a full supply of Peas, Beans, iVc 

 March 13. JOSEPH BRECK i CO. 



P.IUM IN OROTOX FOR SALE. 



The subscriber offers for sale, his farm in Groloii, Mass., 

 consisting of about 2:^0 acres, much oi it first rate land, and 

 in a highl}' cuuivated and productive condition. There are 

 two dwelling houses and commodious barns, and the place 

 may easily be divided into two good farms. Il is; well stock- 

 ed with fruit; with an abundance of fuel for use and sale, 

 and excellent water. It is difficult to find a place combining 

 more advantages in respect to comfort or profit. Jt will be 

 so then eligible terms. Inquire at the N. E. Farmer Office 

 or to the subscriber on ihe premises. 



Fob. 13, 1639. Wtl.LlAM SALISBURY. 



MULBERRV SEED. 



Brussa Mulberry Seed, fresh and warranted good, for sale j 

 bv ROBERT G. SHAW & Co. 



"Feb. 20. 51 Commercial Wharf. 



AVANTS A SlTUATruN. 



A Gardener who understands the management of a Green! 

 [louse, Hot Beds. &c. litis had long experience in the busi- 

 ness, and can produce the best recomtnendations. Apply at 

 the New England Farmer Office. 



Feh. 27. JOSEPH CRECK & CO. 



THE NEW ENGL.\MJ FARMER 



Is puhiished every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per anniin 

 payable at the end of the year-=-but those who jiay witlijn 

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

 [|uctionof GO cents. 



TUTTLE, DENNETT AND CHISHOLM, PRINTFRS^. 



17 StllOOI. STREtT DOSTON *'. 



