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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



FEB, 14, 1844. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Mlachmenl of a Dog to a Child. — A near neigh- 

 bor of mine had a littlo boy alioiit four years nld, 

 who had a spaniel of which he was very (bnd. One 

 day, during the ahsence of the father, the child 

 was taken ill with the erciup; the mother was 

 Blarmed, and it so happened that her servants were 

 away, and she had no one to send for a physician. 

 Ti3e poor woman was in great tribulation, for in 

 spile of all lier efforts the child grew worse. In 

 about an hour after the child was taken ill, lier 

 fatlnr's carriage slopped at the door, and her moth- 

 er made her appearance. Her father's house was 

 about two miles distant. 'l"he grandmother said 

 that Carlo, the sick child's dog, "came runnin"' in- 

 to the house, all bespattered with mud, and liew 

 about and acted so strangely that she knew some- 

 thing must be the matter with little Billy, lier 

 grandson, and she came to see what it was." Until 

 tlien, the mother of tlie child had not noticed the 

 absence of the dog from the room, (or the boy was 

 playing with him when he was taken sick. Tlie 

 child remained ill three or four days, and then 

 died ; and during the whole time the dog never 

 left his bed-side: he watched by the corpse until 

 it was buried, and then look possession of the little 

 boy's chair, which he would allow no one to touch, 

 not even the child's mother. Every day ho ab- 

 sented himself for three or four liours ; and the 

 father one day going to look at his child's grave, 

 found that the dug had almost scratched his way 

 down to the coffin. He was, after this, kept within 

 doors ; but he refused to eat, and in a short time 

 died in the chair of hi.s little master. — Knickerbocker. 



A Dutch preacher, who was warmly in favor of 

 the tory party during the revolutionary war, hap- 

 pened once to get into an American camp on a 

 Sunday, and was consequently called upon for a 

 sermon and a prayer. He, from force of habit, 



coininenced the latter with "Got pless te king" 



whereupon there was considerable e.xcitement 

 among the soldiers, which being perceived by him, 

 with admirable presence i>f mind, he continued thus : 



" Yees, mine hearers, I zay, Got pleas te king : 

 pless him mit plenty of hard times and u wlijg par- 

 liament— pless him mit defeats on te land't and on 

 te zca— pless him mit all kinds of pad luck — pless 

 him mil sickness— pless him mit shord't life — unt, 

 Lord't, may we have no more of 'em." 



Scene in a School. — " Master, this ere gal keeps 

 saying I 'm a thief." 



" What does she say you have stolen .-" 



" She says I stole her character." 



At this juncture a little girl jumped up and said, 



" I geth he did— I geth he did— for I theed him 

 behind the tliool houth a calm' thumthin<'." 



Miserij in the midst of Wealth. — Thurlow Weed, 

 in one ot his letters from London, portrays the fol- 

 lowing scene of wretchedness, poverty, and death, 

 in Regent street, London. Ho says: 



"In walking up Regent street yesterday, I wit- 

 nessed a scene of anguish new to me, but not so 

 to those belter acquainted with the abodes of des- 

 titution. Observing a crowd gathering upon the 

 opposite side of the street, I crossed over and saw 

 an infant that had just breathed its last in the arms 

 of Its mother, wl,o had been sitting or standing all 

 day in that street, endeavoring to sell matches. 

 The child died for the want of food and nourish- 

 ment, and the mother, who was still pressing her 

 dead infant to hor, was a picture of destitution and 

 despair. There was scarcely strength enough in 

 her trembling limbs to bear her into an apotheca- 

 ry's shop, where the restoratives tried in vain upon 

 the child were needed by the fainting mother. 

 The poor woman by her language and deportment, 

 excited much sympathy. She was evidently in a 

 greatly debilitated stale from the want of food. 

 She had only received two and a half pence for 

 matches in two days, and had no other means of 

 support. 



Regent street, where this mother and child sat 

 starving, dazzles the eye and bewilders the imagi- 

 nation with ita wealth and magnificence. The 

 mmes of Potosi and the treasures of Golconda seem 

 to have been poured into the lu.vurious lap of Re- 

 gent street. But amid all its wealth and luxury, a 

 mother lolled in vain for the coarse food that would 

 enable her 10 give nourishment to a dying infant I 

 And thus is human life in this city painfully diver- 

 sified." 



j^ovel Introduction. — A wag says that in jour- 

 neying lately, he was put into a stage sleigh with 

 a dozen persons, of whom he did not know a single 

 one. Turning a'corner shortly after, however, The 

 sleigh was upset, " and then," said he, " / found 

 them alt out." 



A gentleman meeting a friend who had recently 

 failed, expressed great concern for his embarrass- 

 ment. " You are mistaken, my dear sir," said he, 

 " it is not 1, 'tis my creditors who aie embarrassed." 



Why is a hot cake like a caterpillar.' Because 

 if makes the butter flu . 



PATEKT COItIV SHELLBR. ' 



A Corn shellcr is one of Ifie most convenient and labor 

 saving implements that the practical farmer has in use 

 Various machines for Ihis purpose have heen invented. It 

 can fje used in all cases for liirge or small sized ears, tt is 

 very simple in its construction, and durahle in its operation 

 and no way liahle to gel out of order; one man can work it 

 to good advanlage, though a man In turn, and a hoy to feed it 

 W'-rks it much hetier than one alone. They are so li^ht and 

 poriiihle, as to he easily removed Irom place lo pla'ce, and 

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

 bahitnnts of a small town. 



Kur sale at the Agriiultural Warehouse and Seed Store 

 Nos. 51 and &2 North Market Street 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 

 Nov. 1. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



rJreat improvements have heen made the past year i'n 

 has heen so formed as to la„ the furrow complctch, o, 

 f!:^ound m the heU possible ■mar.r.a: Th^ lenM , . f 

 Wot r"t '"' " ." ^"y ""<" ■ncreasert S ha 



of P^ouJ f "/'w*" "■'""• ''^'"^ Committee at the hL li 

 01 I'loughs at Worresior say 



we shou.d prefer for use on a farm, we mi;ht perhap- sa\ 

 rv pZ,?i M ^■•'"^ '""'J '^ "'"^"5' 'igt"^»nd'eL7to w.', 



BEGIN wrr^t M li '"'"'^ '■°"'' '""'' '^ ^'^""J'. ''•^'■J "'■^oc 

 BEGIN wirn Mr. Howard's '' 



^h,,Lh \ K ri'' .S""'" T""'" ".r leom, iha„ om, ol, 

 a Id '^ne I ,'•/''• I, ^" """f '"""' "'"" 'h=n tweniyse. 

 Mownrcl Plough tuned l,eent,,niie ami onckaf imhes 

 pLZV ^rT" "{"r ■' ^" -^■I'-no^ledgc that HovJa , 

 made ""^ strongest and most suhsianti: 



orltTs.nr I'^i" ''oi'^ •''," improvement made on the sh. 

 h.vtf 1, r! ""'^'""r''-.™'''^'' '^''" b^ renewed wilh... 

 the m?, H^ "'J' " W" '"'i'^'i'le^ 'his shoe likewise secui 

 fllo "»h I'ry^th." ''"""''' ""''^"' '"' ^Ue.pi'e^s t 

 The price of the Ploughs is from S6 to St6. A PIoik 

 I'm rn ^"', l^™!""? "P with four cattle, will cost al„ 

 eitra ' "" """" *'■'*'"' ^^eel and cutter, S2 



The ahove Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and retail, 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and See.l S 

 Nos. 51 & 52 North Market Sireet. by 



JOSKPH BRECK & CO. 



WILLIS'S LATEST I.IIPROVED VEGETABLE 

 CtTTKR. 



For sale at the New England Agricultural Warehouse 

 No. 51 and S2 North Market Street, Uosinn Willis's La 

 lest Improved Vegetable Cutter. This macnine surpasses 

 all others for the purpose of Cutting Ruia Ba-'a, Mangel 

 Wurtzel, and other roots. The great ohjeclion to other 

 machines, is tlieir cutting the routs into slices, which makes 

 il almost impossible lor Ihe cattle to get hold of them : this 

 machine with a litlle alteration, cuts them into large orsiiiall 

 pieces, of such shape as is m,.st convenient for the catlle to 

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

 per minute. JOSEPH BRECK &. CO. 



Nov. 1 . 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CrTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at the New England A-rK-u 

 tnral Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 5| .inil i.2 Nonii Ma 

 kel Street, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw. Hav au 

 Stalk Culler, operating on a mechanical principle i.oi U-(oi 

 applied lo aHy implement for this purpose. The niosi utoii 

 inenl effects of this application, and some of ihe consequei 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum ol power rennisit 

 to use It, that the strength of a half grown boy is sulliciei 

 to work it eHicienlly. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily culstwohuvt 

 els a minnle, which is full iwice as fast as hiis been elainie 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or slcat 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which t li • 

 cut, require sharpening less often ihan ihose t,l any oihe 

 straw cutler. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, made and pi 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so linlile as Ih. 

 complicated machines in general use lo gel nut ol order 



LACTOMETERS— a simple instrument for iPstinE 

 the quality of milk. For sale by J. BRECK «!fc CO. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughin" 

 200 " Truck and leailing Chains. "' 



2U0 " Drafl Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CO 

 No. 62 North Market st. , 



HARRIS' TRE.VTISE ON INSECTS. 



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

 onfusects. Price S2. Also, tlie second edition of Dana's 

 Muck Manual, price 62i cts. f^h. ig. 



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