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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



rjri«Y 12. 1843. 



I S C £ L L A N E U S 



mY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE. 



My Country! 'tis of thee 

 Sweet laiiJ of liberty— 



Of thee I sintr : 

 Land wliere nur Others died ; 

 Liiiid of tlie pilgrim's pride; 

 From every niountain-side, 

 Let Teiiiperaiico ring. 



My native country ! tlie 

 Land of the noble free— 



Thy name I love; 

 I love thv rocks and rills, 

 Thy woods and temided hills: 

 Mv heart with rapture thrills, 



Like that above. 



Let music swell the hreeze, 

 And ring from all the trees, 



Sweet temperance' song : 

 Let mortal tongues awake, 

 Let all tliat breathe partake, 

 Let rocks their silence break, 



The sound prolong. 



Our fathers' God! to thee— 

 Author of liberty! 



To thee we sing: 

 Long may our land be bright, 

 With Te'mperance' holy light- 

 Protect us by thy might. 



Great God,' our King ! 



nway on one side for about ten days, he thought 

 he 'd just take a look at t' other side, and when he 

 trot round, he found a man there who had been cut- 

 Tim^ at It for three weeks, and they 'd never heard 

 one° another's axes. And I 've heard tell, (though 

 I somewhat doubt thnl story,) that the Ohio pars- 

 nips have sometimes grown clean through the 

 earth, and been pulled through by people on t'other 

 side." 



" Wal, now," says the Yankee, " I rather guess 

 you've said enough— vour's is no doubt a tall 



country, but 1 do 'iit b'leive all what you say about 



it. Ho'w 'd you hke to trade (or some clocks to 



sell out west ':" 



"Never use 'em— we keep time altogether by 



pumpkin 'vines. Vou know they grow just five 



feet an hour, and that's an inch a minute. So we 



can 't trade, no how." 



The Yankee gave up beat, and suddenly cleared 



out. — Erch. pap. 



The Hoosier and the Yankee.— We were greatly 

 amused, not long since, at a dialogue we heard be- 

 tween a Downeaster and a Hoosier from the West. 

 They wore respectively " cracking up" their own 

 localities, and " running down" their opponent's. 



At length, says he Hoosier — 



"Why, our land is so rich, there's no comparin' 

 it with liny thing on airth. Why how d' ye 'spose 

 we make our candles?" 



" Do n't know," said the Yankee. 



"We dip 'em in the mud puddles," says the 



Hoosier. 



"Yes," replied the Yankee, " and I guess there 

 is n't many places iu your diggins where a man 

 could n't dip candles in mud puddles, I have heard 

 of a man travelling on your roads all day long 

 where ihe mud was so deep that you could n't dis- 

 kiver a glimpse of his legs for hours together." 



" Well now, stranger, just tell us if it's fact 

 what they say about the stones in your parts. 

 They do say there are hull counties down east, 

 where the stones are so thick that they have to 

 sharpen the sheep's noses, so that they can get 

 them between the rocks to eat grass." 



"There's no doubt but we have consider'ble 

 many stones in our country, but then travellers on 

 our roads ain't in danger of being way-laid and his 

 blood taken by muskeeters as big as oysters. And 

 now suppose you tell us about your own country, 

 as you're the only man I ever see from the West, 

 that had n't got the fever n'agurso that he could n't 

 talk." 



" Wal, stranger, I can tell you all about it. If 

 a farmer in our country plants his grounds with 

 corn and takes good care on 't, he 'II get a hundred 

 bushels an acre ; if he tnkes iniddlm' care of it, 

 he 'II get seventyfive bushels an acre ; and if he 

 don't plant at all, he's sure of fifty. The trees 

 grow so large that 1 once knew a man who com- 

 menced cutting one down, and when he had cut 



^ fjint. Mr Estabrooke, formerly clergyman 



of Athol, in this county, was well known for his 

 wagTish turn of mind, no less than for his fervent, 

 unaffected piety and genuine benevolence. 'I'here 

 are many anecdotes connected with his long minis- 

 try—and he died at a very advanced age— which 

 are well deserving. Towards the last of his life, 

 a proposition was made in parish— or as it, then 

 was, in town meeting, to increase his salary to an 

 amount corresponding with the increased e.xpenses 

 of living, and the increased wealth of the society. 

 The inJtion was in a fair way of passing, when, to 

 the surprise of every one, the old gentleman rose 

 and begged his friends not to vote a. larger sum for 

 him. ife asked it as a favor of the parish. Some 

 one inquired if it was not the fact, as had been 

 stated, that the present salary was insufficient 

 for his support. Mr K. admitted this, but begged 

 that they would not vote him a larger sum. His 

 friends pressed around him to inquire the reason, 

 which he declared was peculiar and of rather a 

 private nature. On being pressed, however, he 

 stated his inducement to the course he had taken. 

 He declared th;it he was opposed to voting any 

 more money, because it mas difindl for him to get 

 what had formerly been voltd ! The people were 

 set into a roar of laughter— the increase was 

 voted, and what was belter, promptly paid,—Barre 

 Gaz. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



Great improvements have lieen matte the pnst year in the 

 form and workmanship of lhes.e Ploughs ; Ihe mimlri Ik ard 

 lias hcen so formed as to lav the furrow roviplelely orcr, 

 tuTnuj\^ in every particle. of grass or siuihtp, and ceavins the 

 ground in tlie best possible vianncr. The length of the 

 mould hoard has hf n very imieh increoscd, so that the 

 Plough works witli the greatest ease, hoth with respect to 

 the holding: and the team. The Coininiuee al the late Iriul 

 of" Ploughs at Woreester, say, 



" Should our o])inion he asked as to which of the Ploughs 

 we should prefer for use on a farm, we might perhaps say lo 

 the inquirer, it your land is mostly light and easy to work, 

 Iry Prouly & Mears, hut if your landis heavy, hard orracl.y, 

 BEGIN WITH Mr. Howard's,'' 



At the aliove mer.f.oned trial the Howard Pl"Ugh did 

 more irorb, jriih the same pmrcr of team, than any other 

 plough c.rhibitfd. No oilier turned more than Iwentyse.'eB 

 and one half inches, lo the 112 Ihs. draught, while the 

 Howard Plough turned t7cent}/nine and one half inche 



Howard I'tough turned ucenii/nine anil one naij inches, to 

 the same power of leant ! All acknowledge ihnl Howaril's 

 Plonglis are much the strongest and most substantially 

 made 



made. 



There has heen quite an improvement made on the shoe, 

 or land side of ;iiis Plough, which can he renewed without 

 having to furnish a new Uindsiile^ this shoe likewise secuies 

 the mould hoard and huidside t(jgelher, and strengthens the 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from $6 to St5. A Plough, 

 sufficient for breaking up with four caltle, will cost ahont 

 SlO 50, and with culler Si, with wheel and cutter, S2 60 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and retail, at 

 Ihe New England Agricultural Warelio:ise and Seed Sunt, 

 Nos. 51 & 52 North Market Street, hy 



JOSKPH BRECK & Cf>. 



BVRDES'S IMPROVED PATEXT HORSE 

 SUOKS. 



The suhscriher lakes pleasure in announcing 

 to the puhhc, llial afier years of study and 

 hihor he has perlected his machinery for the 

 iiiinufacture of HORSE SHOES, which he 

 now offers at the price of Horse Shoe Iron in 

 lar of equal quality, thus saving the expense 

 of making, (which amounts in all cases to the 

 first cost of Ihe iron.) besides the Shoes are 

 more easily lilted to the hoof, and in no dan- 

 ger of pricking, the holes being all punched at a proper dis- 

 lance from the edge. The quality of the iron is also warrant- 

 ed superior to any herelolore used for the purpose. 



All persons desirous of testing the great value and supe- 

 rioritvof these over hand made Shoes.by sending S.3 by mail 

 or otherwise, lOO lbs assorted sizes will be immediately for- 

 warded, warranted lo suit the section of the country for 

 which they are ordered, by applying to the suhscriher at the 

 • ks-Kellogg&Go.; Warren, Hart & Lesley, Troy- 

 John Townsend% Lewis Benedict & Co , Albany-^Piersons 

 1 Co., New York-Charles Smith, No 42 I"-ha street 

 Bnsion-A M <V- »• W. Jones, Pluladelphia-aiid b.. Pratt 

 & ijrother, ISalti.nore-where f""''" '"'"^''"""R/r^I. ^^ 

 had on the subject. HENRI BUUUlilN. 



Troy Iron and Nail Factory ) 

 April 1,184J. 5 



GRINDSTONES ON FRICTION ROLLERS. 



Grindstones of different sizes, hung on friction rollers and 

 move tw Ih a foot treader, is lound to be a great 'mP™;- 

 inent on the old mode of hanging grindstones. Stones hung 

 m this manner are becoming daily more in nso, and wherever 

 used "We universal satisfuclion. The rollers can he auach- 

 edio stones hung in the common way tor sale hy J. 

 BRECK & Co., N o. 51 North Market street. 



LACTOMETERS-a simple in^"-";"^,"' f""^ '^,^"'"8 

 the quality of mil k. For sale by J. BRECK & CO. 



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