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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



WOV. 6, 1839. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



THE TWO APPLE TREES. 

 A rich husbandman had two sons, the one exact- 

 ly a year older than the other. The very day the 

 second was born, he had set in the entrance of his 

 orchard, two young apple trees, equal in size, which 

 he had since cultivated with the same care, and 

 which had thriven so equally, that nobody could 

 give the preference to one of them before the other. 

 When his children were capable of hand ing 

 garden tools, he took them, one fineepring day, to 

 see these two trees which he had planted for them, 

 and called after their names. When they had suf- 

 ficiently admired their fine growth, and the number 

 of blossoms that covered them, he said, " You see, 

 children, I give you these trees in good condition. 

 They will thrive as much by your care, as they 

 will lose by your negligence, and th.;ir fruit will 

 reward you in proportion to your labor." 



The youngest, named Edmund, was indefatiga- 

 ble in his attention. He was all that day busy in 

 clearing his tree of insects that would have hurt it, 

 and he propped up its stem to hinder it from taking 

 an ugly bend. He loosened the earth all round it, 

 that the warmth of tke sup and the moisture of the 

 dews might cherish its roots. His mother had not 

 tended him more carefully in his infancy, than he 

 did his young apple tree. 



His brother Moses did none of all this. He 

 spent his time on a mount that was hard by, throw- 

 ing stones from it at passengers in the road. He 

 went among all the idle country boys in the neigh- 

 borhood, to box with them ; so that he was always 

 seen with broken shins and black eyes, from the 

 blows and kicks he received in his quarrels. He 

 neglected his tree so far, in short he never once 

 thought of it, till one day in autumn he by chance 

 saw Edmund's tree so full of apples, streaked with 

 purple and gold, that were it not for the props 

 which supported its branches, the weight of its fruit 

 must have bent it to the ground. 



Struck with the sight of so fine ti growth, he ran 

 to his own, hoping to find as large a crop on it ; 

 but what was his surprise, when he saw nothing but 

 branches covered with moss, and a few yellow 

 leaves ! Quite angry and jealous, he went to his 

 father, and said, " Father, what sort of a tree is 

 this that you have given me .' It is as dry as a 

 broomstick, and I shall not have ten apples on it. 

 But my brother! — Oh ! you have used him better. 

 Bid him, at least, share his apples with me." 



" Share witli you," said his father ; " so the in- 

 dustrious would lose his labor to feed the idle. — 

 Take whatyou get; it is the reward of your negli- 

 gence, and do not think to accuse me of injustice 

 when you see your brother's rich crop. Your tree 

 was as fruitful and in as good order as his. It 

 bore as many blossoms, and grew in the same soil; 

 only it had not the satne usage. Edmund has kept 

 his tree clear even of the smallest insects ; you 

 have suffered them to eat up yours in its blossom. 

 As I do not choose to let any thing God has giv- 

 en me, and for which I hold myself accountable to 

 him, goto ruin, I take this tree from you, and call 

 it no more by your name. It must pas3 through 

 your brother's hands, to recover itself, and is his 

 property from this moment, as well as the fri;it he 

 shall make it bear. You may go and look for anoth- 

 er in my nursery, and rear it, if you will, to make 

 amends for your fault; but if you neglect it, that 

 too shall belong to your brother for assisting me in 

 my labor." 



Moses felt the justice of his father's sentence, 

 and the wisdom of his design. lie went that mo- 

 ment and chose in the nursery the most thrifty 

 young apple tree that he could find. Edmund as- 

 sisted him with his advice in^rearing it, and Moses 

 did not lose a moment. He was never out of hu- 

 mor, now, with his comrades, and still less with 

 himself; for he applied cheerfully to work, and in 

 autumn, he saw his tree fully answer his hopes. 



Thus he had the double advantage of enriching 

 himself with a plentiful growth of fruit, and at the 

 same time, of getting rid of the vicious habits 

 which he had contracted. His father was so well 

 pleased witli this change, that the follov/ing year 

 he shared the produce of a small orchard, between 

 him and his brother. 



The Farmer's Cabinet says that the sugar beet 

 is superior to anything else for the fattening of 

 sheep. Mutton which has been brought into Phil- 

 adelphia market, by several farmers, fed on the su- 

 gar beet, hay, and a small portion of corn, commands 

 an extra price, as the meat is more juicy than any 

 other, and exceedingly tender. 



Speculation. — A young man in an adjoinmg town 

 was mightily smitten with the beauty of a lady 

 whose father had a suit at law which must forever 

 make or break him, and "popped the question." — 

 She answered in the affirmative, and was express- 

 ing a desire for immediate marriage, when he thus 

 interrupted her — " I can have the refusal of you 

 for six months, can't I .-'" 



A ho.nicide of rather a singular character wa 

 perpotrated last Thursday, near Syracuse, N. Y .- 

 A pedler, bending under the weight of his pack, ei 

 countered on one of the by-roads of that region 

 foot pad who demanded his money. The pedU 

 handed out his pocket book. '< Is that all ?" aske 

 the robber. "No," said the pedler. "Well the 

 fork up, and be quick." The pedler put his har 

 in his bosom, drew out a pistol, and shot the robbi 

 through the heart. The body was recognized i 

 that of a convict just discharged from the Aubui 

 prison. 



It is estimated that during the month of Octobe 

 $4,000,000 of property was consumed by fire 

 the United States. 



The New Orleans papers generally express tl 

 opinion that there exists an organized plot to redu( 

 the cities of the south west to ashes. ' 



The Providence Journal mentions a Rohan pota- 

 to received at that office, which weighs 34 1-2 oz. 



The Barnstable Patriot tells a monstrous pump- 

 kin story, viz : that Capt. Peter Baker, of South 

 Dennis, raised on his farm the past season, from 

 one seed, 714 1-:^ lbs. of pumpkins ! 



An Irishman said the hard hearted priests, in- 

 stead of the tenth, would if they dared, take the 

 twentieth of a poor man's earnings, and so keep on 



The news of the battle of Bunker Hill was four 

 days in getting to Newport, R. I. Passengers are 

 now conveyed from Boston to Newport in about 

 four hours^ 



The Atlas states that Massachusetts has lost 

 more officers in the Florida war than any other 

 State in the Union. So she did in the war of the 

 revolution. — Trav. 



Hximane. — A society is about being established, 

 the object of which is to discourage the use of figs 

 and old cheese ; it having been ascertained that we 

 deprive a great many innocent littlt creatures of life 

 every time we indulge in those luxuries. 



The city of Mobile has been placed under mar- 

 tial law. The panic and excitement in consequence 

 of the late successful attempts to burn 'the city, 

 have been beyond all parallel. Several persons 

 have been arrested under circumstances which make 

 it almost certain that they were among the incen- 

 diaries who fired the city. 



■WINSHIP'S BRIGHTON NITRSEKI ES, 



AND BOTANIC GARDENS. 



f^xf^^imc. Fruit and Ornamental Trees, ShruJis, Ciei 

 ^^S^^ ers, Herbaceous, Perennials, Green Hii 



^\^^ Orders addressed to Messrs WINSII 

 -^e^is^r^ Erighlmi, Mass., will be promptly exec il 

 and forwarded to any part of this or other countries. 

 April 10. 



A man in Coventry, N. H. has fifteen children 

 whose aggregate length, is upwards of ninety feet ! 



GREES'S P.i.TENT STRAW CUTTKR,. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at the New Enjiand .'\gric 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store, Nos. 51 and 52 North M 

 ket Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay ; 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not bei 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most pre 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the cousequ 

 peculiaiilies of the machine are: 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum of power requii 

 lo use it, that the strength of a lialf grown bny is sulfici 

 to work it very efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two hu 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been clair 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or stc 

 jiower. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whicht 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any ot 

 straw cotter. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, marie 

 put together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable 

 the complicated machines in general use to get out of ord 



ROHAN POTATOES, 



For sale at the New England Agricultural Warehouse 



Seed Store, No. 62 North Market Street, at S5 per barrel 



October 16. JOSEPH BRECK & CC 



The present heing the in )st favorable season for trr 

 planting all hardy trees and shrubs, we would remind tf 

 who are in want of Fruit or Ornamental Trees, Shn 

 Herbaceous Plants, &c. that wc can furnish them at si 

 notice at nursery prices, well packed for transportatioi 

 any part of the country. JOSEPH GRECK & CC 



October IB. 



MORUS MULTICAULIS. 



6000 Multicaulis from 2 to 4 feet high, wood well ripen 

 now standing in the field on the Jones Place in Angell Str 

 half a mile from the Providence Market, for sale low (if 

 ken in the field) by JOSEPH STETSON on the prem 

 or on application to STIMSON & HODGEi 



Providence, October 23. 



THE NEW ENGLAND PARMER 



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