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ip^, to be still niirc terrible. A hunter of my 

 aiiitaiice usod to amuse himself, whenever ho 

 some fine specimen of the rattlesnake, with 

 avorin;jr to citch liiin. This he was enabled 

 I by means of a lim^ stick, split nt the end, 



which he was accustomed to seize him by the 



of the head, 

 ne day, as he was posted at some distance 



his friends, watchirijj far Ills game, (deer,) he 

 jived one of these reptiles, which he seized in 

 ninner above mentioned ; and then, after hav- 

 irmly placed his fingers behind his head, he 

 ■ted himself by openini^ its mouth in order to 

 line his teeth and fangs. 



tiie meantime, the snake, qinie unnbeerved oy 

 riend, who was entirely absorbed in the in- 



ion of the creature's head, had twisted its 



in numerous folds around his arm. Little by 

 , he was conscious of a sli^fht pressure, ac- 

 lanied by an alarming- numbness in this mem- 

 He immediately endeavored to disengage 

 rm, but, at the same time, the pressure and 

 mess kept augmenting, and he, by degrees, 

 vith horror, that his fingers were losing all 



r of retaining their hold. At last, the head 

 e animal began to slip away, gradually draw- 

 lear the palm of his hand, and the thoughtless 

 ;r had just begun to realize the horrible con- 

 !nces which might result from his imprudence, 

 his companion at the next post, alarmed by 

 ries, most opportunely arrived, and, hastily 

 ig out a little bottle of ammoniac, he poured 

 mients into the rattlesnake's mouth. Sudden- 

 is frightful scene was coni;)letely changed : 



nimal unrolled liiinself, fell to the ground, and 



killed. 



vill just mention, e?i passant, for the informa- 



of the uninitiated, that some hunters in these 



• ns are accustomed to carry with them a bot- 



f this alkali, to provide against the chance of 



dogs bring bitten by the snakes, 

 jersonally know both the human actors in this 

 lie scene, and I am sure that one of them will 

 inly never expose himself to a similar danirer. 

 Jo not add any reflections to these light sketch- 

 le consequences and inferences naturally flow- 

 rom the incidents they embrace. The peru- 

 loivever, will not fail to point out to us the 

 er we are always liable to incur by making 



ferocious creatures the objects of domestic 

 :enient or careless investigation. 



B , M. D. 



''omalo Pickles. — Take tomatoes when Iwo- 

 s ripe — prick them full of holes with a fork ; 



make a strong brine, boil and skim it. When 



put your tomatoes in : let tiiem remain eight 



, and then take out and put them in weak viii- 



Let them lay twentyfour hours; then lake 



out and lay a laying of tomatoes, then a thin 

 ig of onions, with a leaspoonful each of cinna- 



cloves and pepper, and a tablespoonful of 

 ard ; then pour on sharp vinegar. You may 

 hem in jars, if you like. — Michigan Far. 



nxims. — Never expect your lands to give you 

 '. if yon give them lillle ; nor to make you rick 

 u make them poor. 



J " save at the spigot and let out at the bung," 

 soon empty the largest hogshead ; so will 

 ■imy in small matters and waste in large ones, 

 liily squander the largest estate. — Anon. 



INDIAN HILL FARM. 

 In vol. x.\i, page lO'J, of the New England Par- 

 mer, wo noticed the celebrated " Indian Hill Farm" 

 in Newbury, owned by Col. Poore, and alluded to 

 other lands which he was reclaiming. We ex- 

 tract the following description of " Meadciw Farm," 

 (which it seems is the name that has been given 

 to the lands we alluded to,) from two numbers of 

 the Newbiiryport Herald of last month; and we 

 take the liberty of gimrantying a most hospilablo 

 reception to any friend of agricultiir(^, who may bo 

 disposed to visit old " Indian Hill Farm," and are 

 sure that they would not only be gratified but in- 

 structed by an inspection of the premises and the 

 rKciciiig and diaining now going on at "Meadow 

 Farm."' 



" A LITTLE Farm well" — Fenced. — It is al- 

 ways a sign of a thrifty farmer to have his fields 

 well enclosed. V'oii may be sure, when you see 

 land nicely fenced, the owner of said land under- 

 stands its value — what it is, or may be — and that 

 he moans by due culture to develope its riches and 

 render it productive. Especially is a stone wall — 

 the materials thereof being gathered from the 

 acres that are to be devoted to pasturage, or pre- 

 pared to give the mower a heavy swath, or turned 

 into tillage — especially is a stone wall, under such 

 circumstances, pleasant evidence that the acres 

 belong to a man who is in earnest to do his duly 

 to them, and have them return due and gratefully 

 given crops for beast and man, for his pains. As 

 go the fences so goes the (arm. This is a sale 

 test in ninetynine cases out of a liundred. When 

 the rails are part up and part down, the posts loose 

 in the holes and reeling in the wind — when the 

 stone walls are remarkable for their serrated top 

 and for their numerous air-holes — you need not 

 pause to inquire whether the man who lives behind 

 that pile of brush wood, in the house with clap- 

 boards swinging in the breeze, and old hats in the 

 windows, takes the "New England Farmer," or 

 makes both ends meet, or is forehanded. Yon may 

 at once conclude, he liad ralher hold himself up 

 by the fence half the day, than spend an hour in 

 making fence. But where you observe a straight 

 and perpendicular procession of rail and posts or a 

 substantial stone wall, plumb and square, you may 

 be tolerably sure, without in(|uiring, the man who 

 dwells alongside that shed with its glorious ranges 

 of wood, sawed, split and piled, in that neat house, 

 before whose door-way sleds are not trying to gel 

 warmth enough to last through next winter, and 

 hay-carts and wheels are not cracking in the July 

 sun, you may be tolerably sure that man " knows 

 what 's what" — how to turn a furrow, liow to turn 

 a penny, carries corn to market, and hires all the 

 help he can get in haying time. The frame in 

 which a farm is set, generally shows how highly 

 the proprietor values it, and how much labor he 

 bestows to make it profitable. 



Whetlier it will support the truth of these re- 

 marks or not, we cannot tell; but if any one wish- 

 es to sec an excellent stone wall, recently made, 

 reminding one of the miles of good wall in Rhode 

 Island and C<mneclicut, let him go out to that part 

 of West Newbury, known by the classic name of 

 " Dog Town," near the big rock and the little meet- 

 ing house. We know not who built this wall, but 

 it is quite a nice one — even on the face, of due 

 height, and constructed of stone f)btainod by clear- 

 ing the lands ; a very good mode of doing things ; 

 for why should not tlie land when it can better it- 

 self, pay for its own protection. We have seen 



more ambitious walls — laid in mortar — broader 

 and loftier — erected by gentlemen farmers, who 

 look on and pay tlie bills, and farm for pleasure 

 and not for profit, linl, for a farm that is kept to 

 profit and not for amusement, this Do" Town wall 

 deserves a premium from the Agricultural Society. 

 It looks finely where it is, and is a solid proof that 

 the spirit of the age has reached a secluded and 

 out of the way spot — a decided and " fixed fact," 

 as is said of the veto power, wherewiUi to put 

 down all who deny that society is going ahead, 

 and man triumphing over iiis accidents ; and mak- 

 ing circumstances, even rocky circumstances, sur- 

 round him as supporters and friends, keeping right 

 and tighi, iike hoops to a iiogshead. — J\'ewburyport 

 Herald. 



A LITTLE FARM WELL FENCED. 



Messrs. Editors : — Gentlemen — I was much 

 pleased with your description of a " Lillle Farm 

 well Fenced," and yesterday took a ride in tliat 

 direction, and a ramble over the premises — and 

 have learnt a few facts that may interest your 

 readers. This "Lillle Farm well Fenced" has 

 been an eye-sore to all travellers on that road for 

 years — and the reason was, it had many owners: 

 no one wishing to purchase the other shares, and 

 no one share being worth attention, it was suffered 

 to lay waste. It was originally two farms of about 

 35 acres each, consisting of swampy, wet meadow, 

 and rocky knolls and dells. A few years since, of 

 a summer day, (says my informant,) Col. B. Poore, 

 of the celebrated "Indian Hill Farm," was quietly 

 taking levels, &c., in company with some engineer, 

 or man with various instruments. Some thought a 

 railroad was in progress, and some one thing and 

 some another. It soon came out that the shares 

 had all been purchased, and the place christened 

 " Meadow Farm." Then came the stout arm 

 wielding the bush-scylhe, and then followed the 

 ditchers under charge of one Wilson, from Eng- 

 land, — then the wall-building, under charge of the 

 Scotch foreman from " Indian Hill Farm," Mac- 

 Diincan, I believe they call him — and here one 

 moment and there the next the Colonel could bo 

 seen, sometimes dressed like ihe poorest working 

 man, and working too ; at other times richly dress- 

 ed, and accompanied with some strangers in this 

 region. 



But do not be satisfied with this description ; go 

 see it, for it is not now what it has been, and will 

 not be what it is now in a few years. 



How a few years alter the value of property. 

 When Col. Poore, then quite a young man, began 

 draining the meadows at " Indian Hill Farm," he 

 was laughed at, and called a " book farmer." Then 

 swamps were worthless in the public estimation — 

 now, every man who has swamp land is thought 

 rich, and draining is becoming as common as plant- 

 ing. Success attend ail improvements in agricul- 

 ture — and he who makes two blades of grass to 

 grow where one or none grew before, certainly is 

 entitled to the thanks of all. — Ibid. 



A Floral Curiosity. — The Augusta (Geo.) Chron- 

 icle says : " We have often heard of a white black- 

 bird, but never till now of a green rose ; yet such 

 an one has been produced in Bladen, N. C. This 

 change in the color of the flower, is supposed to 

 have been elTicted by setting out a common daily 

 rose-bush in the spot from which a sumach biisli 

 had just been removed, and it is believed the roots 

 of the two mingled." 



