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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



MISCELLANEOUS, 



PLEASURE OF PARENTAL AFFECTION. 



That man must be unamiable indeed, who does 

 not feel the greatest pleasure and delight in be- 

 caming the father of an infant born in holy wed- 

 lock. Some there are, however, who luiow not 

 how to appreciate the blessings wliich Providence 

 has bestowed upon them ; who receive with cold- 

 ness a son's greeting or a daughter's kiss ; who 

 have prineiple enough to feed, clothe and educate 

 ~tlieir children, and labor for their provision and 

 support; but possess not the affection which turns 

 duty into delight; v/lio are surrounded with blos- 

 soms, but know not the art of extracting tlieir ex- 

 quisite sweets. How different is the effect of 

 true parental love, where nature, duty, habit, feel- 

 ing,, all combine to constitute an affection the pur- 

 est, the deepest, the strongest, the most enduring 

 and the least exacting of any of which the human 

 heart is capable ! 



The selfish bachelor .may shudder when he 

 thinks of the consequences of a family; he may 

 picture to himself littered rooms and injured furni- 

 ture, imagine the noise and confusion, the expense 

 and the cares, from which he is luckily free ; hug 

 himself in his solitude, and pity his unfortunate 

 neighbor, who has half a dozen squalling children to 

 impoverish and trouble him. 



The unfortunate neighbor, however, considers 

 himself much more fortunate than the wealthy 

 bachelor; he pities the loneliness of the bachelor's 

 situation, and can never see, without feeling of re- 

 gret, rooms where no stray plaything tolls of the 

 occasional presence of a child, gardens where no 

 little footmarks show that there are living creatures 

 in the house. The parent has listened to his heart, 

 and from it he has learned a precious secret; he 

 can convert noise into harmony, expense into self- 

 gratifioation, and trouble into amusement ; and reaps 

 in one day's intercourse with his family a harvest 

 of love and enjoyment, rich enough to repay years 

 of toil and care. He eagerly listens on the thresh- 

 liold of his door for the boisterous greeting of his 

 little ones, feels refreshed by the pattering sound of 

 their feet as they hurry to receive his kiss, and, by 

 a noisy game at romps with them, drives away the 

 cares and perplexities he has experienced in busi- 

 ness, and his intercourse with the world. 



Notwithstanding the infinite pains taken to spoil 

 nature's lovely works, there is a principle 6f resis- 

 tance which allows of only partial success ; and 

 numbers of sweet children exist to delight, and 

 soothe, and divert us, when we are wearied or fret- 

 ted by grown-up people, and to justify all that has 

 been written or said of the charms of childhood. 

 It is not only to their parents and near connexions 

 that children are interesting- and delightful, they 

 are general favorites, and their caressps are slight- 

 c2 by none but the strange, the affected, or tlie 

 morose ; statesmea have romped with them, orators 

 have told them stories, conquerors have subpiitted 

 to their blows, judges, divines, and philosophers, 

 have listened to their prattle and joined in their 

 sports. They teach us one blessed, one enviable 

 art — the art of being happy. Kind nature has 

 given to them that useful power of accommodation 

 to circumstances which compensates for so many 

 external disadvantages ; and it is. only by injudi- 

 cious management on the part of parents or others 

 w-ho have the care of bringing tliem up, that the 

 art of being Iiappy acquired in their infancy, be- 



comes lost to them avJicji they arrive at maturity. 

 He must be unamiable, indeed, who can contem- 

 plate, unmoved, the joys and sports of childhood. 

 But the good and amiable man, the tender and af- 

 fectionate parent, in witnessing their infant gam- 

 bols, ajid observing the gradual opening and ex- 

 pansion of their minds, feels a pleasure and delight 

 which no language can describe, in the contempla- 

 tion that he is their father. — JVciv York Sun. 



An Anecdote — trpe anu good. — Governor 

 Chittenden — the first of the name who filled the 

 office of Chief Magistrate of Vermont, had two 

 sons, named Martin and Truman. The first, of 

 these was deemed less brightly endowed by nature 

 than the other, and a college education was given 

 him to remedy the supposed deficiency. Truman, 

 who never lacked in mother wit, was placed upon 

 the farm. It chanced one day that the Governor 

 had in his barn a calf so little endowed with ani- 

 mal instinct, as to be unable to draw sustenance 

 from its mother cow ; not all the efforts of the 

 Governor or his help could make the creature suck. 

 ' Truman,' said his father,' ' what shall we do with 

 tins foolish calf? How shall we learn him to 

 suckle?' 'I don't know, really, father,' returned 

 the son with the most commendable gravity, ' un- 

 less you send him to college with Martin.' — Barre 

 GazMe. 



BucKW-HFAT Cakes. — As the season has again 

 arrived for these delicious cakes, we copy the fol- 

 lowing direction for preparing them, which we find 

 in an exchange paper, for the ladies. 



' To three pints of buckwheat flour mixed into a 

 batter, add one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 

 dissolved in water, and one spoonful of tartaric 

 acid — dissolved in like manner ; first apply tlie 

 carbonate, stir the latter well, and then put in tlie 

 acid — thus the use of yeast is entirely superseded, 

 and cakes ' as light as a feather' are insured. 

 One great advantage is, that the batter is ready for 

 baking as soon as it is made. 



A Woman in a Thousand. — J^s v/e were pas- 

 sing down Vine Street, below Tenth, a few days 

 since, a horse tied to a post and attached to a 

 waggon, became much frightened, reered upon his 

 hind legs, and was about to start off amidst a group 

 of children in the immediate vicinity. A lady see- 

 ing the alarm of the animal, and the peril of the 

 children, started forward, seized ilie reins with both 

 hands and drew hirn forward witiisuch strength, that 

 the horse was pulled to the earth and overturned 

 on one side, notwithstanding he made strenuous 

 efforts to break loose, and dragged the female to 

 and fro for several seconds. She retained her hold 

 however, until some men in a neighboring 

 stone-yard eame to her assistance : and thus it is 

 probable, that by her presence of mind and nerve, 

 she prevented some serious accident. When the 

 reins were taken out of herhands, she was so agita- 

 ted as to be nearly unable to stand. She deserves 

 no little credit, and may well be described as one in 

 a thousand. — Phila. Inq. 



PriETTV GOOD, WHETHKR TI'.UE oa NOT. The 



following is vouched for by the Baltimore Clip; 

 per : — 



A Dutcliman from the West Wont to pay hio 

 Excellency the President of the United States, a 

 visit. He happened to call just as the President 

 and four otiiers were sitting down to dine. The 



President asked him to be seated, at the same time 

 inquiring if there was any thing new or strange in 

 his couiitry. 



" No I tinks not, except dat one of my cows hash 

 five calves." 



" .\h ! indeed — and do they all suck at one 

 time." 



" No sar," replied the Dutchman; " four on 'em 

 'suck.= ^vhile de tudder lookish on, shusht as I tush."' 



The hint was so significant that a clean plate 

 was immediately ordered, and the Dutchman coat- 

 ed at the table where he partook of a comfortable 

 pinner with his Excellency the President. 



GalSES'S P.VTBNT STR.WTT CUTTER- 

 JOSEPH iJrECK & CO. al the New England Agth 

 luval ^Val■chollse and Seed Store, Nos.51 and 02 Norlh Mi 

 ket Sireet, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay aii 

 Sialk Cluum-, nperaliiigon a mechanical principle not IJefore 

 applied m any implemenl for this purpose. The most prom- 

 inent cllocts of tliis application, and some of the conseqiienl 

 peculiarilies of the machine are: 



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

 to use if, that the strength of a half grown hoy is suIl 

 to work it very effieienfly. 



2. vViih even this moderate power, it easily cuts two Imsh- 

 els a muniie, which is full twice as fast as has been claimec 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or Mcaa 

 power. 



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

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any • 

 straw cutler. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made anc- 

 put logeiher very slrongly. It is therefore not so liable a: 

 the complicated macliines in general use to get out of order 



IVIIVSUIP'S BRIGHTOM KURSBRISS, 



ASD COT.^NIC GARDC.Ng. 



-i" : ,;'■ Vis. Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs,' Cieep 

 ■;■ "j ers. Herbaceous, Perennials, Greeii Hi us 

 ■■ ■" ''-''''"i? Phuits, &c. 



•fc ;■'.,■?" Orders addressed to Messrs WINSllII 

 ,..<r;ir— _ Brighton, Ma.ss., wdl be promptly exec ilec 

 and lor-.ai-ded to anv part of this or other countries. 

 .•\pvil 1(1. 



KOIi.\N POTATOES, 



For sale at the New England Agricultural Warehouse an - 

 Sfeed Store, No. 52 North iUarktt Street, al S.'i per barrel. 

 October 16. JOSEPH ERECK & CO. 



ruit i 



ud Ornamental Trees, Floivei-ing Slirubs 

 Plants, &c. 



The present being the most Aivorable season for trans 

 planting all hardy trees and shrubs, we would remind thos 

 who are in want of Fruit or Ornamental Trees, Shrub) 

 [ferbaceous Plants, &c. that ,wo can furnish them at shot 

 notice at nursery prices, well packed for transportation t 

 any part of the counlry. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



October 15, 



aiORUS 111TJI.T1CATJL1S. 



cnoo Multicaulis from 2 to •! feet high, wood well ripened 

 now staudiiv,' ill the fielil on the Jones Place in Angell Stree 

 half a mile from the Providence Market, for salelow (if ti 

 ken ill the field) by JOSEPH STETSON on the premise 

 or on applicatioa to STIMSON & HODGES. 



Providence, October 23. 



PEAR TREE.S. 



For sale at the garden of the subscriber a large collecti 

 of Standard and Dwarf Pear Trees comprising most of ih 

 choice varieties of European and Amerieiyi origin. 



Ur<lersjiy mail will be immediately answered. 



Ocloher 16. . ROBERT MANNING. 



BOMESTICATKD WIMJ GEESE. 



A few pair for sale. Enquire at this office. 

 November 6. 



THE KEW EWGLAKD FARMER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per annm 

 payable at the end of tlie year — but those who pay with 

 sixtydays from the tiine of subscribing are entitled to a c- 

 ductionof 30 cents- 



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