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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



OCT, 11, IS43. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



THE HOMES OF ENGLAND. 



BT JOHK HOWARD DURGIR. 



" The merry homes of Englantt ! 



Around their hearihs by night. 

 What gladsome lonks of liouseliold love 



Meet in the ruddy light I 

 There woman's voire flows forth in song, 



Or childhood's tale is told, 

 Or lips move tunefully along 



Some glorious page of old." — Mrs. Hemans. 



The cheerless homes of England ! 



Around their hearths at night, 

 What hapless looks of want and wo 



Meet in the embers' light 1 

 There mothers wail and fulhers sigh, 



And heart-wrung tears .ire shed, 

 And famish'd children join their cry. 



The plaintive cry for bread.' 



" The merry homes of England !" 



Ay, sing Ihem as her fame 

 That's past and dead, — her wretched homes 



Are now her living shame : — 

 The pamperd hound and petted iteed. 



With choicest food are fed, 

 While thousands of her children need. 



And weep fur lack of bread ! 



The mirthless homes of England ! 



Where Want and Mis'ry reign: — 

 If suck the children's heritsge. 



The fathers fought in Tain ! 

 Oh, righteous God ! how long, how long, 



Shall earth her riches spread 

 For ALL — and yet the few and stronc, 



Rob .MILLIO.N3 of their bread* 



"The merry homes of England !" 



Ay, true, some such are there — 

 Whose very dogs would spurn the food 



Which makes the poor man's fare : — 

 There Rank abides ; — right " merry homes" 



Where Wealth and Power are wed, — 

 Hut see! behold yon living tombs. 



Where Hunger begs for bread! 



Oh, mighty name af England '. 



The synonynie of power ! 

 What boots thy " glorious page of old," 



While iDant 'a thy children's dower.' 

 That " glorious page" ! — oh, boast it not. 



Nor name thy noble dead, — 

 But boast o( this — if boast of aught— 



Thy children try for bread ! 



Ah! "merry, »nerry England" T 



Thy million hapless homes, 

 Will give to thee a sadder name 



In History's future tomes : — 

 They 're nursing now a host of mei» 



Who'll break oppression's rod — 

 For never will they strike in vain, 



Whose motto's " Bread or Blood!'' 

 BosTo:«, Sept. 1843. 



THE POOR. 



" I do not mourn ray friends are false, 



1 dare not grieve for sins of mine— 

 1 weep for those who pine to death. 



Great God ! in this rich world of thine. 

 I do not weep for my own woes — 



They are as nothing in my eye : 

 I weep for them who, starved and froze, 



Do curse theit God, and long to die. " 



Rev. Dr. Channing. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



A PROCLAMATION 



For a Day of Public Thanksgivitig and Praise. 

 In grateful acknuwledf^ment of llie dependence 

 of nations on the Providence of Almighty God, I 

 do, hy and with the advice and consent of the 

 Council, appoint Thursdat, the thirtieth day 

 OF November next, to be observed as a day of 

 Thanksgiving and Praise for all His goodnerss to 

 tlie people of this land. 



Ill ail especial manner, it becomes this Common- 

 wealth to adore the mercy of that IJeing who has 

 visited us, not according to our merits, but with 

 blessings from the infinite riches of His Grace; 

 giving us health in the cities and in the country ; 

 prosperity in the various branches of industry, on 

 the ocean and in the workshop, and bountiful liar- 

 vests from our fields ; preserving to us our civil 

 and religious liberties, and the opportunities of in- 

 structioii from His Word, and regeneration from 

 the influences of His Spirit. 



We would, moreover, bow in adoration to His 

 love, which shielded our fathers in taking posses- 

 sion of the wilderness ; protected their first efforts 

 to turn the solitudes into places of gladness and 

 society ; filled their hearts with the sacred love of 

 freedom, and sustained them in the hour of con. 

 flict for their existence as a nation. We give 

 thanks that an opportunity has been vouchsafed to 

 us publicly to celebrate, with solemnity, the deeds 

 of our fathers in their early struggles for indepen- 

 dence, and that so many of those who at that time 

 periled their lives for the welfare of their posterity, 

 have themselves been spared, and are still preserv- 

 ed to us. 



And, joining supplication with thanksgiving, we 

 should offer prayer that the virtues of our ances- 

 tors may not be to us a subject of vain glory, but 

 may be as messengers, summoning us to live in a 

 manner worthy of their example ; like them, to 

 prefer our country to ourselves ; like them, to love 

 religion in its simplicity and purity, and like them 

 to cherish a living faith, and the hope of iininor- 

 tality in a better world. 



And in meekness of spirit remembering oiir un- 

 worthiness, we should also pray for forgiveness of 

 our sins through the intercession of our only Me- 

 diator ; and that our children may grow up in the 

 nurture of the Gospel; that the days of the aged 

 may yet be increased and made long in the land 

 which has been given them ; that the public bless- 

 ings which we enjoy may yet more and more be 

 extended throughout the world ; that the inaliena- 

 ble rights of human freedom may prevail ; and 

 the whole earth may be filled with joy, by the es- 

 tablishment of civil liberty and the diffusion of Di- 

 vine truth. 



And I invite this Commonwealth lo keep that 

 day as a people whose God is the Lord. 



Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this 



wentyseeond day of September, in the year 



of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 



fortythrce, and of the Independence of the 



United Slates the sixtyeighth. 



MARCUS MORTON. 

 By His Excellency the Governor, with the ad- 

 vice and consent of the Council. 



John A. Bolle?, 

 Secretary of the Commonwealth. 

 God save the CommonKealth of Massachusetts. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



Great improvements have been made the past year in t 

 form and workmanship o( these Ploughs ; the mould bt i 

 has been so formed as to lay the furrmo coinpletehj on 

 turning in every particle of grass or slul'bte, andicarin^ i 

 ground in the best possible manner. The length of I 

 mould board has he n very much increased, so that 1 

 Plough works with the greatest ease, I'oih wah respoct 

 the holding and ihe team. The Committee at the late tr 

 of Ploughs at Worcester, say, 



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

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

 the inquirer, if your land is mostly light and easy to wci 

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

 BEGIN WITH Mr. Howard's.'' 



At the above mer.f.oned trial the Howard Plough i 

 more work, with the same pdwer of team, than any ot 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more than twentyse 

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

 Howard Plough turned twentt/nine and one half inches 

 ihe same power of team ! All acknowledge that Howai 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most substantii 

 made. 



There has been quite an improvement made on the si 

 or land side of this Plough, which can be renewed witli 

 having lo furnish a new landside; this shoe likewise seci 

 the mould hoard and landside together, and strengthens 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from 86 toSl5. A Ploi- 

 sufficient for breaking up with four caltle, will cost al 

 i[0 50, and with cutter Si, with wheel and cutter,*; 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and retai 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Si 

 Nos. 51 & 52 North Market Street, by 



JOSEPH BRECK & Cf 



-WILLIS'S LATEST IMPROVED VEGETABI 

 CUTTtR. 



This machine surpasses all others for the purpose of 

 ting Ruta Baga. Mangel Wurtzel, and other roots, 

 great objection to other machines, is their cutting the r 

 into slices, which makes it almost impossible lor thee 

 to get hold of them : this machine with a little altera 

 cuts them into large or small pieces, of such shape; 

 most convenient for the cattle to eat. It will cut with 

 from one to two bushels of roots per minute. 



For sale by JOSEPH BREGK & CO., No. 62 N 

 Market st. 



GRINDSTONES ON FRICTION ROLLERS 



Grindstones of different sizes, bung on friction rollers 

 moved with a foot treader, is found to be a great iinpi 

 ment on the old mode of hanging grindstones. Stones I 

 in this manner are becoming daily more in use, and whci 

 used, give universal satisfaction. The rollers can be an 

 ed to stones bung in the common way. For sale h 

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



LACTOMETERS— a simple instrument fortes 

 the quality of milk. For sale by J. BRECK & C' 



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