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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



9IAIiCH13, 184^ 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A Sermon from the Lmves. — Next to the Bible, [ 

 there is nothing that speaks more powerfully or | 

 beautifully than the seasons. ! 



Spring breaks out with the laughing mirth find 

 freshness of the young child. Nature assumes a 

 roseate hue, and joy is written upon all God's 

 -works. How cheerily we watch the budding leaves 

 and the unfolding flower. This is like the dawn 

 of life. Tlie young mind lives in the present glo- 

 ry, and sees not the future. 



Summer comes. Nature is developed. The 

 earth's carpet is spread ; the trees wave with their 

 perfect foliage ; the flowers are in gorgeous bloom. 

 Heaven has impressed upon creation the highest 

 perfection. One can hardly realize the idea that 

 these are perishable. So is it with the early noon 

 of life. We see man in the pride of his greatness 

 and strength, and woman in the surpassing glory 

 of her beauty — but see 7io( the invisible mortality 

 gnawing beneath. 



But »4i((i(m7i is here. And now the flowers have 

 drooped and the "senr and yellow leaf" has fallen 

 from the chilled tree. The cold blast has driven 

 away the warm atmosphere, redolent with perfume 

 Death is written upon Nature, and Winter's white 

 shroud will be soon thrown over her corpse. So 

 is it with life. The changing seasons teach us 

 a mournful lesson ; and yet to him whose heart is 

 right it is beautiful as mournful. 



The death of Nature is not an "everlasting 

 sleep." Ere many months it shall cast off its fu- 

 neral gear, and spring up from its grave, with new 

 life, and bud and blossom as before. Nature 

 never dies — it but rests from its labors. 



Thus it is with human existence. The great 

 principle of vitality in Nature is equally applica- 

 ble to the spiritual as to the animal economy. The 

 intellect may throw its vision beyond the snows of 

 life's dreary Winter, and see itself in the bloom of 

 an eternal existence. We pity the man who es- 

 teems himself as of less value in the estimation of 

 Heaven than the mute tree or the soulless flower. 

 — Pari. American. 



country, are someiimes so abundant that herds of 

 cattle perish by their attacks. They are so tough 

 that it is diflicult to bruise them. When I came 

 out iif the wood, one was found on my neck, in the 

 act of perforating the flesh with its proboscis, but had 

 not time, so it was easily extracted. It was about 

 the size of n large bug, with a grey mottled skin, 

 which was so coriaceous and leathery, that no 

 bruising would kill it. — Ifctlsk's Travels in Brazil. 



Horrid Insects Opposite the Venda was an 



open copse, covered with brushwood. Here I en- 

 tered to collect insects, which abounded in it: but 

 I was called back and warned of danger. I thought 

 of serpents, and made a precipitate retreat; but I 

 found the danger was from n smaller, though nearly 

 as serious a cause. Among the insects of the 

 country, is a kind of tick called carapatoo. This 

 is exceedingly venomous: it has six hooked or 

 •^arp claws, with which it readily clings to any 

 assing object, and it is furnished with a proboscis 

 of a singular structure. It consists of a pencil of 

 bristles, serrated inwards, forming a terebro or 

 piercer, with which it constantly penetrates the 

 flesh of any animal to which it has adhered, and 

 burrows its head in the wound. When entering, 

 the bristles expand, forming a triangle, of which 

 the base is inside, so that it opposes a resistance 

 to extraction, which it is someiimes quite impossi- 

 ble to overcome. If it is sufiered to remain, it 

 gorges itself wiih blood, till it becomes bloated to 

 an enormous size ; if it be extracted forcibly, so 

 as to separate the head, it remains festering in the 

 wound, and as it is exceedingly irritating and ac- 

 rid in its quality, it causes violent inflammation, 

 which degenerates into a foul and dangerous ulcer. 

 These horrid insects, which are the plague of the 



Influenza. — The editor of the N. Y. Mercury 

 says : — " We have had the influenza for a fortnight; 

 and if the weather isn't more steady and regular 

 in its habits, we may have it for a fortnight to 

 come. 



Blow, O blow, ye fickle breezes, 



All among the ieaflf-ss lieeses ! 



Give us enuffles, gives us sneezes. 



Give us paing, and aciies, and wheezes ; 



Give us any thing you pleases — 



but don't give us the influenza ofteiier than four 

 times in a year." 



'• Patrick," said an employer the other morning 

 to one of the workmen, "you came late this morn- 

 ing: the other men were at work an hour before 

 you." 



"Shore, and I'll bo even with 'em to-night, 

 then." 



" How, Patrick ?" 



" Why, faith, I '11 quit an hour before 'em all, 

 shure." 



" Dick," inquired the maid, " have you been af- 

 ter that salseratus ?" " No, 1 haint." " If you 

 do n't go quick, I 'II tell your mistress." "Well, 

 tell mistress as soon as you please ! I do n't know 

 Sally Ratus, and wont go near her: — you know 

 well enough I 'm engaged to Deb." — Sat. Cour. 



PATENT COKN SHELTER. 



A Corn shellcr is one of the most convenient and labor 

 saving implements llial ihe praclical farmer has in use. 

 Various macliines fur I his purpose have heen invented. It 

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

 very simple in its construction, and duratde in its operation, 

 and no way lialile to get out of order; one man can work it 

 10 good advantage, thougli a man to turn, and a boy to feed it, 

 works it much belter than one alone. They are so light and 

 portable, us to t>e easily removed from place to place, and 

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

 habitants of a small town. 



For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store 

 Nos 51 aud 52 Nortb Market Street 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Nov, 1. 



\V1L.L,IS'S LATEST I.MPROVED VEGETABLE 

 CUTTER. 



For sale at the New England Agricultural Warehouse, 

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

 test Improved Vegetable Gutter. This machine surpasses 

 all others for the purpose of Cutting Rula Baga, Mangel 

 VVurtzel, and other roots. The great ohjection to other 

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

 it almost impossible lor the cattle to get 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 lo two bushels of roots 

 per minute. JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Nov. 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. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH 



Great improvemmts liave lieen made the past year 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs; the mould 

 has been so formed as to lay the JnrrmD completely 

 turning in erery particle nf grass or stubble, andieavii 

 ground in the best possible manner. The length o 

 mould hoard has hf ji very much increased, so thf 

 Plough works with the greatest ease, l.oth with resp 

 the holding and the team. The Committee at the lat. 

 of Ploughs at Worcester, say, 



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

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

 the inquirer, if your land is mostly light and eas> to 

 try Prouly & Mears, hut if your landis heavy, hard or 

 BEGIN WITH Ma. Howard's.'' 



At the aliove meif.oned trial the Howard Ploug 

 more vrork.trilh the same power of team, than any 

 plough exhibited. No uther turned more than Iwenij 

 and one half inches, lo the 112 Ihs, draught, whi 

 Howard Plough turned twentmine and one half ine 

 Ihe same poicer of learn .' All acknowledge that Hoi 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most suhslai 

 made. 



There has been quite an improvement made on the 

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

 having to furnish a new jandside: this shoe likewise i. 

 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 

 410 50, aud with cutler Jl, with wheel and cutter, 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and re' 

 the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed 

 Nos. 51 & 52 North Market Street, by 



JOSKPH BRECK & ( 



HARRIS' TREATISE ON INSECTS. 



For sale by JOSEPH BRECK &C0., Harris' Treatise 

 on Insects, Price 32. Also, the second edition of Dana's 

 Muck Manual, price 62i eta- Feb. 16. 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW Cl'TTES. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at the New England A 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. 51 and r>2 Nnril 

 ket Street, have lor sale. Green's Patent titraw, Hi 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle noi 

 applied to any implement lor this purpose. The most 

 inent effects of this application, and some ol the cont-, 

 peculiarities of the luaclune are; 



1 . So great a reduction of the quantum of power re 

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

 10 work it efficiently, 



2. .With even this moderate power, it easily cutslwe 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has beeu cl 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or 

 power. 



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

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any 

 straw cutler. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, inade a 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable 

 complicated machines in general use to gel out ofc 



LACTOMETERS— a simple instrument for t 

 the quality of milk. For sale by J. BRECK «!t. i 



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