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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NOV. aa. IS43 



MISCELLANEOUS*. 



THE DAIRYMAN'S BILL. 



(Continued from page 165 ) 

 " I will instantly gjo in sparch of him," cried Da- 

 vidson ; and in spite of his wife's remonstrances, 

 he dressed himself for the wenthcr, and acconnpan- 

 jed by a servant, sot ont through the dark and 

 rainy streets. Lonff and anxiously did he search, 

 but in so populous a district, with so imperfect a 

 knowledge of the individual he was in quest of, 

 it is not wonderful ihat he did not discover Sandy's 

 residence. At length, from an old woman who 

 kept a small shop in which milk was one of the ar- 

 ticles sold, he learned enough to give him the 

 strongest hopes of having discovered the abode of 

 the man he sotfght. The residence, however, was 

 at so great a distance from the spot in which Mr 

 Davidson was, that he saw the necessity of return- 

 ing home for the time to relieve his wife's anxiety. 

 At an early hour he was resolved to resume his 

 inquiries in the quaiter to which he had been di- 

 rected. Mrs. Davidson and her husband slept hut 

 little in the few hours that now intervened be- 

 tween night and morning, so deep was the impres- 

 sion which the little incident we have related made 

 on their minds. 



Davidson had fortunately been directed to the 

 right quarter. The officials of the law had reached 

 Sandy Patterson's humble abode; they refused his 

 request " for a little time" in consequence of his 

 inability to produce fifteen pounds. Nanny and 

 her daughter were sitting in a corner, hopeless, 

 and soon to be, to all appearance, houseless ; one 

 of the cows wag already brought out from her 

 stall, and stood lowing at the door, amid a crowd 

 of intended purchasers. Already was the poor 

 cow " put up," when Mr Davidson arrived, made 

 himself known, and put a stop to the proceedinn-s. 

 Conceiving himself to be in a great measure the 

 cause of all their distress, he was not contented 

 with paying the sum he owed the poor dairyman, 

 but advanced enough to settle the whole amount 

 of the claims against him. The worthy Sandy 

 could only speak his gratitude by tears. This af- 

 fair was no less an era in his honest family's his- 

 tory, tlian it was in that of Mr Davidson. This 

 night's experience taught him a le.-ssnn — that the 

 whole hopes of a family may be dependent on a 

 sum altogether unimportant to the individual who 

 owes it, and that in the discharge of such obliga- 

 tions, benevolence is as much to be gratified, in 

 many instances, as conscieiiciousness. It may 

 serve to show the interest which he and his family 

 ever after this period look in the Pattersons, when 

 we mention, that the little girl to whose acciden- 

 tal presence in her father's lobby, the happy issue 

 of this affair was owing, was permitted by her pa- 

 rents, no long time afterward, to dance at the wed- 

 ding of Sandy's pretty daughter Peggy, who mar- 

 ried a certain William hinted at, as the attentive 

 reader may have observed, at an early part of this 

 true story. — Blackwood's Magazine. 



Curious Fact. — Does not the following, which 

 we find in the Columbia (S. C.) Advocate, strongly 

 support the dnctrine of Liebig, that, in the absence 

 of other means of nutrition, the nutritive organs 

 act upon, and appropriate the stores already exist- 

 ing in the body ? — in other wdrds, would the pig 

 have lived eo long had he been lean at the time of 

 disappearance ? — .lib. Cult. 



" Some two months ago, Mr James Kyles of 

 this place, missed a favorite pig, which, as it was 

 very fat, he supposed some lover of fat pigs had 

 appropriated to his own use, and gave it up for lost, 

 until last Tuesday, when he commeiicrd the repair 

 of his house, and on raising the floor, he found his 

 pig, and still breathing, after at least ."JS days pf 

 entire abstinence from food or drink. The pig is 

 still living, and able to take a little meal and wa- 

 ter. A number of the most respectable persons 

 can attest the above fact." 



[The hear supports itself in winter upon the 

 same principle Jimtr. Far.] 



Sticking Hogs at the Soulli. — A traveller in that 

 region, who had some little knowledge in the art 

 of butchering swine, stopped at an inn in South 

 Carolina to breakfast. It was the season for kill- 

 ing pigs, and as such jobs are there done by the 

 negroes, he saw Scipio and his wife enter the pen 

 among a number of grunters that woul<l weigh 

 from fifty to seventyfive pounds each. Scipio had 

 an apron on, and in his hand a knife, the blade of 

 which had been a cut-and-thrust sword : it was a 

 terrific instrumi'nt indeed. Catching a pig, his 

 fore leg was held back, and Scipio began running 

 the sword into his neck. The porker soon stopped 

 his music, but the operator pushed in farther and 

 farther. " What are you doing .-" said I — " Is that 

 the way you stick a pig in these parts ?" " I mus 

 touch him heart, massa — he no kill 'less I touch 

 him heart." "Why, it must be lower down, I 

 think," said I, " for see, the point of the blade is 

 coming out under his tail !" — Far. Month. Visitor. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH 



Great improvemenis have lieen made the past year i 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs; the mould 

 has heen so formed as to lay the furrmc completely 

 turning m ei'enj particle of grass or sluhble. and iecivh 

 ground in the best possible manner. The length o 

 mould t'oard has he a very much increased, so tha 

 Plongli works wiih the greatest ease, both with resp, 

 the holding and ihe team. The Committee at the lau 

 ol Roughs at Worcester, say, 



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

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

 the inquirer, i/ your land is mostly light and easy to 

 try Prouty & Mcars, hut if your land is heavy, hard on 

 BEGIN WITH Mr. Howard's." 



At the above meritioned trial the Howard Pl"ugl> 

 more work, xoith the same paver of team, than any 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more than twenty 

 and one half inches, to the 112 lbs. draught, whi 

 Howard Plough turned ticentynine and one'half inci 

 the same power of team .' All acknowledge that Hov 

 Uoiighs are much the strongest and most substan 

 made. 



There has been quite an improvement made on the: 

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

 having to furnish a new landside: this shoe bkeAvise se- 

 ttle mould hoard and landside together, and strengthen 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from $6 to Sl5. A PI 

 sufficient for breaking up with four cattle, will cost 

 SIO GO, and with cutter St, with wheel and culler, 

 extra. ' 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and ret 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed 

 Nos. 61 & 52 North Market Street, by 



JOSKPH BRECK & t 



To Preserve Potatoes in a Dried State. — We see 

 it staled in one of our exchanges, that to wash, cut 

 them in pieces, steep fortyeight hours in water, and 

 dry them in an oven, one hundred parts of fresh 

 potatoes will give thirty so prepared. In this 

 state they can be kept for years, or ground into 

 flour, uhich mixed with one-third rye, makes ex- 

 cellent bread Tenn. ^iericx" , 



PATENT COIIN SHELLER. 



A Corn shellcr is one of the most convenient and labor 

 saving implements that the praclical farmer has in use. 

 Various machines for this purpose have been invented. It 

 can be used in all cases for large or small sized ears. It is 

 very simple in its constructiou, and durable in its operation, 

 and no way liable to get out of order j one man can work it 

 to good advantage, though a man to turn, and a boy to {eed it, 

 wnrks it much better than one alone. Tliey are so light and 

 portable, as to be easily removed from place to place, and 

 one machine will serve for several families or even the m- 

 babitants of a small town. 



For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store 

 Nos 51 and 62 North Market Street 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Nov. I. 



\V1L.L.IS'S 1.ATEST I.lfPROVKD VBGETABLK 

 CLTTKR. 



For sale at the New England Agricultural Warehouse, 

 No. 51 and 52 North Market Street, Boston, Willis's La- 

 test Improved Vegetable Culler. This machine surpasses 

 all others for the purpose of Cutting Ruta Baga, Mangel 

 VVurlzel, and other roots. The great objection to other 

 machines, is Iheir cutting the roots into slices, which makes 

 it almost impossible for the cattle to gel hold of them : this 

 machine with a little alteration, cuts them into large or small 

 pieces, of such shape as is most convenient for the cattle to 

 eat. It will cut with ease from one to two hushels of roots 

 per minute. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Not. 1 . 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 200 " Draft Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CO., 

 No. 52 North Market st. 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CUTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. ai Ihe New England Ag 

 lurat Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 and 52 North 

 ket Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Ha' 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not i 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most i, 

 inenl effects of this application, and some of the consei< 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1 . So great a reduction of the quantum of power req ' 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown boy is suffii 

 to work it efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, iteasilycutstwol 

 els a minute, which is full twice as last as has been cla 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or i 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whicl: i 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any i 

 straw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made an I 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable a), 

 complicated machines in general use to get out ofor<ij 



LAUTO.METERS— a simple instrument for te 

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



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