MISCELLANEOUS 



A Wonderful Horse.— A rnther remarkable oc- 

 currence transpireil a short (iistance from this town 

 a few dnys aS". While two yoiins mi'", appren- 

 tices wiih Mr D. Lee, grocer and tea dealer, in 

 Dewsbury, were tak'nga short walk down the side 

 of the river Calder, their master's warehouse dog, 

 which was accompanying thpjn, strayed into an 

 adjoinincr field, and on seeing an ass, which was 

 graziiin-, s'jddenly fell upon it, worrying it in a 

 most ferocious manner. A number of men being 

 at a short distance, and seeing the dog likely in a 

 short time to worry the poor ass to death, went and 

 commenced a fierce attack upon the dog with 

 hedge stakes, but without succeeding in getting 

 hinroff the ass, which he was mutilating in a most 

 shocking manner. A horse, belonging to Mr Geo. 

 Fell, of'^Earlsheaton, had witnessed these proceed- 

 ings'evidently under most agitated feelings, and, 

 as^if conscious the poor ass must perish unless he 

 interfered, made a rush through the hedge, cleared 

 off the men who were trying to liberate the ass, 

 and in a most furious manner seized the dog with 

 his teeth, and dragged him off, and aimed several 

 blows at him with his fore and hind feet, and had 

 not the dog made off, it is supposed he would have 

 despatched him in a few minutes 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



but I have lived long and alone ; and I can find 

 ample scope for observation even in a desert. I 

 knew that 1 had crossed the track of a camel that 

 had strayed from its owner, because I saw no mark 

 of any human footstep on the same route ; I knew 

 that the animal was blind in one eye, because it 

 had cropped the herbage only on one side of its 

 path ; and I perceived that it was lame in one leg, 

 from the faint impression which that particular 

 foot had produced upon the sand ; I concluded 

 that the animal had lost one tooth, because wher- 

 ever it had grazed, a small tuft of herbage was 

 left uninjured, in the centre of its bite. As to 

 that which formed the burden of the beast, the 

 busy ants informed me that it was corn on the 

 one side, and the clustering flies that it was honey 

 on the other." — Lacon. 



AIG. 16, 184a. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



When the 



Visilins; the Heathtn.—An old clergyman, and 

 rather an eccentric one withal, whose field of labor 

 was a town in the interior of New England, one 

 Sunday, at the close o^ the services, gav? notice 

 to his congregation that in the course of the week 

 he expected to go on a mission to the heathen. 

 The members of his church were struck with alarm 

 and sorrow at the sudden and unexpecied announce- 

 ment of the loss of their beloved pastor, and one 

 of the deacons, in great agitation, exclaimed — 



horse had accomplished this feat, he, with head | „ ^Vhy, my dear sir, you have never to W us one 



and toil erect, pranced about the ass in a noble " ' "" " '^'' 



and most dignified manner, as if proud of having 

 gained a mighty conquest, and manifested evident 

 tokens of pleasure, as if sensibly feeling that he 

 had done an act of benevolence. All who beheld 

 this wonderful deed of Mr Fell's horse, were pow- 

 erfully struck with his evident intelligence and 

 sympathy for his fellow-brute. — Wahefidd (Eng.J 

 Jour. 



word of this before ! What shall we do ?" " Oh, 



brother C ," said the parson, with the greatest 



sang froid, " / do nH expect to gu out of town .'" — 

 JV. Y. pap. 



Great improvements have I'ecn maile thie past year in 

 form and workmanship of these Plnujhs; the muuld hi 

 has heen so formed as to lay the furrow romplelely ( 

 turning in every particle of grass or stuhhte, andleavinfi 

 ground iyi the best possible manner . The length of 

 mould lioard has lii n very much increased, so that 

 Plongh works with the greatest ease, liolh with respea 

 the holding and ihe team. The Coininillee al the late 

 of Plonghs at Woreester, say, 



" Should our opinion he asked as to which of the PloM 

 we should preier for use on a farm, we mighl perhaps si^ 

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

 try Prouty & Mears, hut if your landis heavy, hard cm 

 BEGIN WITH Ma. Howard's.'* 



At the above mer.t;oned trial the Howard PI'-ugh 

 more -work, trilh the same power of team, than any i 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more than tweniys 

 and one half inches, to the 112 Itis. draught, whil 

 Howard Plough turned iwevtynine and one half inch 

 Ihe same power of team 1 All acknowledge that How 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most sulistani 

 made. 



There has l»een quite an improvement made on the 

 or land side ol this Plough, which can he renewed wi 

 liaving to furnish a new landside; this shoe likewise se 

 the mould lioard and landside together, and strengiheu 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from S6 to Si 5. A Ph 

 sufficient for hreakiug up with four cattlo. will cost i 

 SiO 60, and with cutler Si, with wheel and cutter, 

 extra. 



The ahove Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and ret; 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed i 

 Nos. 51 & 52 Northftlarkei Street, hy 



JOSKPH breck & c 



Horse-shoes, made of iron, were first used A. D. 



Rtason pronounced Sorcery.— The ignorant have 

 often given credit to the wise for powers that are 

 permil'ted to none, merely because the wise have 

 made a proper use of those powers that are per- 

 mitted to all. The little Arabian tale of the Der- 

 vise, shall be the comment of this proposition. 



A Dervise was journeying alone in the desert, 

 when two merchants suddenly met him. " You 

 have lost a camel," said he to the merchants. "In- 

 deed we have," was the reply. " Was he not 

 blind in his right eye, and lame in his left leg ?" 

 said the Dervise. "He was," replied (he mer- 

 chants. " Had he not hst a front tooth ?" said the 

 Dervise. "He had," rejoined the merchants. 

 ■' And was he not loaded with honey on one side 

 and wheat on the other?'" "Most certainly he 

 was," they replied, " and as you have seen him so 

 lately, and marked him so particularly, you can, in 

 all probability, conduct us to him." " My friends," 

 said the Dervise, " I have never seen your camel, 

 nor ever heard of him but from you." " A pretty 

 Btory, truly," snid the merchants ; "but where are 

 the jewels which formed a part of his cargo ?" " I 

 have neither seen your camel nor your jewels," 

 repeated the Dervise. On this they seized his 

 person, and forthwith hurried him before the Cadi, 

 where on the strictest search, nothing could ho 

 found upon him, nor could any evidence whatever 

 be adduced to convict him, eilher of falsehood or 

 of theft. They were then about to proceed against 

 him a.s a sorcerer, when the Dervise, with great 

 calmness, thus addressed the court:—" I have heen 

 much amused with your surprise, and own that 

 there has been some ground for your suspicions ; 



381. 



Saddles came into use in the fourth century. 

 Stirrups were not made till a century later. 



Pens first made of quills, A. D. G.35. 



CHFESE PRF.SSES. 



SCf.F-GOVERINING CHEESE PRESSES— two kinds 

 — lately iinpro\ed by the Shakers. These are so construct- 

 ed ihal'they govern and regulate themselves without weights, 

 and are by (ar the best presses now in usr. 



For sale at llie N E. Agricultural Warehouse, 51 and 52 

 North Market street. JOS. BRECK ii. CO. 



June 7, 1843. 



GRINDSTONES ON FRICTION ROLLERS 



Grmdstones of different sizes, hung on friction rollei 

 moved with a fool treader, is found to be a great in,) 

 ment on the old mode of hanging grind.siones. Stones 

 in this manner are becoming daily more in use, and wh. 

 used give universal satisfaction. 1 he rollers can he a 

 ed 10 stones hung in the common way. hot saie 

 BRECK &. Co., No. 51 North Market street. 



LACTOMETERS— a simple instrument for ti 

 the quality "fmilk. For sal e by J. BRECK & < 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A WEKKLY PAPFR. 



Terms, $3 per year in advance, or ^f 2 53 if no 

 within sixty days. 



isj. B. Postmasters are permitted by law to fra 



subscriptions and remittances for newspapers, w 

 expense to subscribers. 



TUTT1.E AND DENNETT. PKIKTERS. 



21 School Street. 



