256 



NEW ENGLANDFARMER. 



FEB. 7, 184- 



MISCELLANEOUS 



^ Rare Character. — A correspondent of the 

 Lynn Wnshinjtunisn frives the followinrj account 

 of one of the jVlarbleliead Representatives, Mr 

 Samuel Chinn. " He is 35 years of age — a stroni' 

 heallliy man — and,' to use his own language, ' lie 

 has neither ache nor pain.' For the last ten years 

 this man has lived on a simple vegetable diet, 

 causing not the voice of mourning among the herds 

 and flocks, which graze peacefully upon the moun- 

 tain side; and during the last four years lie has 

 lived upon nothing hut unground wheat and fruit. 

 He makes his breakfast of fruit, the other'two meals 

 of wheat, patronizing neither millers nor cooks. 

 La.«t year, ho was elected a deleg,ite to the Wor- 

 cester Democratic State Convention, and with a 

 true democratic spirit, he filled his pocket with 

 wheat, walked to Worcester in one day, (a dis- 

 tance of 58 miles,) attended the convention, and 

 the next day returned home by the same democrat- 

 ic express, having patronized no hotels. He is 

 now ready to walk 75 miles in a day, whenever in- 

 terest or duty may require it." 



" ; Told You So."—" Wife ! wife ! our cow 's 

 dead — choked with a turnip !" 



"I told you bo; I always know'd she'd choke 

 herself with them turnips." 



"But it was a pumpkin — a smasliing big 'un." 



" Wal, it 's al! the same. I know'd all along 

 how it would be. Nobody but a ninny, like you, 

 would feed a cow on pumpkins that wasn't chopt." 



" The pumpkins was chopt. And 't wasn't the 

 pumpkins neither, what choked her: 'twas the 

 tray — the eend on't is stickin'out of her mouth now.' 



"Ugh ! Ugh! There goes my bread tray. No 

 Jongfr ago than yesterday, I told you the cow 

 would swallow that tray." — IJart/ord Jour. 



Afftcling — "Everything is arranged for your 

 wedding with Susan Tompkins," said a father to 

 his only son ; " and I hope you will behave your- 

 self like a man, Thomas." 



The individual addressed was a young man, 

 seated in a chair, despatching a piece of bread and 

 molasses. 



His only answer was a sigh, accompanied by a 

 flood of tears. 



The parent started, and in an angry voice de- 

 manded what objections he conid have. "Susan 

 is handsome and wealthy, and married you must 

 be some time or another. Your mother and I were 

 married, and why should n't you be, pray .'" 



" Yes," finally sobbed Thomas, ''but that's a 

 different case : you married mother ; but I 'ra sent 

 out to marry o strange gal !" — Selected. 



A gentleman was joking an honest Hibernian 

 about the many blunders made by his countrymen, 

 and mentioned, in illustration, the two cats that 

 ended a quarrel by eating each other up, leavinn- 

 nothing but the tips of their tails. " Faith, your 

 honor," says Pat, "an surely th.u was not a blun- 

 der, for it is I myself that once kilt a cat by cutting 

 cIThnr head, and the next day she caine in mewing, 

 with licr head in her mouth !" 



A man with a large wife, has this advantage, 

 that ho can see her a great way off. — Eich. pap. 



[True — and it is sometimes more agreeable to 

 Bee one's wife a great way off, than it is to see her 

 near you.] 



.iuful Situation. — A notorious tipler, {saya the 

 Boston Courier,) in a town not forty miles from 

 Boston, returned home last washing day, v ith a 

 jug of rum, and pretty well 'corned' beside ; and 

 staggering into his wife's domain, mistaking a tub 

 of well warmed water for a settee, suddenly settled 

 himself into It, and became a fast prisoner. In 

 this predicament he called lustily for Nabby. His 

 " gude wife" seeing his rfee;? interest in her affairs, 

 seized the jug, danced around the philosopher, 

 pouring the contents over his head, disregarding 

 his beseeching appeal of " Nabby, save it ! Save 

 it, Nabby !" to which she replied, "Go it, Joe — 

 long life to your honor," &c. 



" Wliy do you not hold up your head as I do :" 

 inquired an aristncratic lawyer of a laboring far- 

 mer. " Squire," replied the farmer, " look at that 

 field of grain: all the valuable heads hang down 

 like mine ; while those that have nothing in them, 

 stand upright like yours." 



A St. Louis paper tells a story of a disconsolate 

 widower, who on seeing the remains of his late 

 wife lowered into the grave, exclaimed, with tears 

 in his eyes, " Well, I 've lost hogs and I 've lost 

 cows, but I never had any thing cut me like this." 



" Patrick, I want somebody to kill my hogs : do 

 you understand butchering?" "Faith, an it's me 

 that can lend you a hand at the same ; but it's a 

 ioss you 'II want along with me — for getting the 

 jur off is the only part of the business that i under- 

 stand." 



Poverty. — At a late celebration, a poor man who 

 was present offered the following toast: "Here 

 is a health to Poverty — it sticks by you when all 

 other friends forsake you." 



PATENT COIl.\ SHISLLER. 



A Corn sheller is one of the most convenient and labor 

 saving implements that the practical farmer has in use. 

 Various machines for this purpose have been invented. It 

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

 very simple in its construction, and durable m its operation, 

 and no way liable to get out ofiirder; one man can work it 

 to good advantage, though a man to turn, and a boy to feed it, 

 wrks it much better than one alone. They are su lisht and 

 portable, as to he e.asily removed from place to place, and 

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

 habitants of a small town. 



Kor sale at the Airricultural Warehouse and Seed Store 

 Nos. 51 and 52 North Market Street 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Nov. 1. 



WiLLIS'S LATEST I.MPROVED VEGETABLE 

 CUTTKK. 



For sale at the New England Agrieullural Warehouse, 

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

 test Improved Vegetable Cutler. This macnine surpasses 

 all others for the purpose of Cutting Ruta Baga, Manuel 

 Wurtzel, and other roots. The great objection to other 

 machines, is their culling the roots into slices, which makes 

 it almost impossible lor the cattle to gel hold uf Ihem : ihis 

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

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

 eat. It will cut with ease from one lo two bushels of roots 

 per minute. JOSEPH BRECK Si. CO. 



Nov. I. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trare Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 200 " Truck and leading Chains. 

 200 " Drafl Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CO 

 No. 52 North Market st. ' 



HARRIS' TREATISE ON INSECTS. 



For sale hy JOSEPH BRECK & CO., Harris' Treatise 

 on Insects. Price i^. Also, the second edition of Dana's 

 .Muck Manual, price 62j cts. Feb. 16. 



HOWARDS IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH 



Great improvemenls have been maile the past year 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs; the mould 

 has I.een so formed as to lay the furrow romplclehi 

 tm-nwg- in every particle of grass or stufMe, andicavh 

 ffround t7i tlie best possibte manner. The leiicth c 

 mould board has he n verv much increased, so ths 

 llongh works with the greatest ease, both with resp 

 the holding and the team. The Committee at the lat 

 ol I'Innghs at Worcester, say, 



" Should our opinion be asked as to which of the Ph 

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

 the inquirer, it your hind is mostly light and easv lo 

 try 1 routy & Mears, but if your land is'hcavij, hard or 



BKGIN WITH Mh. Howabd's.'' 



At the above mentioned trial the Howard Pl"u" 

 more work, uUh the same pewer of team, than any 

 plough exhihiled. No other turned more than twenl) 

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

 JJoward Ptouffh turned tjcenlyvine and one half inc 

 the same power of team ! All acknowledge that Hoi 

 Houghs are much the strongest and most substai 

 made. 



There has been quite an improvement made on the 

 or land side ol this Plongh, which can be renewed w 

 having to furnish a new bindsiile ; this shoe likewise s- 

 the mould hoard and landside together, and strengthe 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from S6 to Sl5. A P« 

 sufficient for breaking up with four cattle, will cost 

 «io 50, and wiih cutler il, with wheel and cutler, 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and rei 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed 

 Nos. 51 & 52 North Market .'Street by 



JOSKPH BRECK & ( 



GREEN'.S PATENT STRAW CVTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK it CO. at the New Enijland A: 

 lural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 nn(iri2Noril 

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

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle noi 

 ap[ilied toaviy implement for this jiurpose. The most 

 inenl effects of this application, and some of the const 

 peculiarities of the machine are: 



1 . So groat a reduction of the quantum of power ret 

 to use it, that ihe strength of a half grown boy is sut 

 to work it ethcienlly. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easilycutstwo 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as lias been cl 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whic 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any 

 straw culler. 



4. The ipacbiaeis simple in its construction, made a 

 together very strongly. Il is therefore not so liable 

 complicated maohines in general use lo get out of or. 



LACTOMETERS — a simple instrument for ti 

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



NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



▲ WEIiKLy PAPER. 



Terms, $2 per year in advance, or $2 50 if no 

 within sixty days. 



N. B. — Postmasters are permitted by law to fra; 

 subscriptions and remittances for newspapers, ' 

 expense to subscribers. 



TWTTLE AND DEItWETT. PRIKTERS, 



SI School Strest. 



