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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MARCH 20, IS4*.| 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Pure Water the Bed Drink. — There is no axiom 

 of health more just than that "men never have a 

 true appetite till they can eat with relish any ordi- 

 nary food." It is told of John Bailes, who lived I 

 to the age of V28, that his food for the most part 

 consisted of brown bread and cheese, and his drink 

 water and milk. He had survived the whole town 

 of Northampton (Eng.) three or four limes over, 

 ■with a fern exceptions, and said strong drink (in- 

 cludiii;; tea and coffee,) killed them all, though 

 this assertion is rather too general. Water mani- 

 festly IS the natural beverage of all animals: whole 

 nations, as the Mahometans and Hindoos, use it 

 alone os a beverage. Unlike other drink, it does 

 not stale the appetite, but the contrary ; indeed, it 

 was observed by Hippocrates, about two thousand 

 years ago, that water drinkers have generally keen 

 appetites. Water is a fluid that requires no di- 

 gestion, for it is not necessary that it should under- 

 go any changes : it is the natural menstruum, that 

 hoWs in solution both what is essential for the nu- 

 trition and healthy functions of the body, and what 

 has become refuse, after having served its destined 

 office in the animal economy. Water, therefore, 

 from its congenial qualities, can never much dis- 

 turb the system, except it be taken immoderately, 

 when the body is over-heated. It is told of Lord 

 Heathfield, so well known for his hardy habits of 

 military discipline and watchfulness, that "his 

 food was vegetables, and his drink water, never in- 

 dulging himself in animal food or wine ;" and Sir 

 John Sinclair, in his work on longevity, says, in the 

 account of Mary Campbell, then aged 105, that 

 she preferred pure water to any other drink. — Se- 

 lected. 



Resemblances. — Some philosophical observer has 

 remarked, that every animal, when dressed in hu- 

 ma/i apparel, resembles mankind very strikingly in 

 features. Put a frock, bonnet and spectacles on a 

 pig, and it looks like an old woman of eighty. A 

 hull dressed in an overcoat, would resemble a law- 

 yer. Tie a few ribbons round a cat, put a fan in 

 its paw, and a boarding school miss is represented. 

 A cockerel in uniform is a general to the life. A 

 hedgehog looks like a miser. Dress a monkey in 

 a frock coat, cut off" his tail, trim his whiskers, and 

 you have a city dandy. Dunkeys resemble a good 

 many people. 



Collecting a Bill. — A gentleman from New York 

 who had been tarrying in Boston for the purpose of 

 collecting some money due him in that city, was 

 about returning home, when he found that one 

 bill of 8100 had been overlooked. His landlord, 

 who knc'V the debtor, thought it a doubtful case ; 

 but added, that if it was collectable at all, a tall 

 Yankee, then dunnino- a person in another part of 

 the room, would annoy it out of the man. Call- 

 ing him up, therefore, he introduced him to the 

 creditor, who showed him the account. 



"Wall, 'squire, 'taint much use trying, I guess. 

 I know that critter. You might as well try to 

 squeeze ilo out o' Bunker Hill monument, as to 

 try to collect a debt out o' him. But any how, 

 what '11 you give, sposin' [, do try ?" 



"Well, sir, the bill is $100. I'll give you — 

 yea, I'll give you half, if you collect it." 



" Agreed," replied the collector: "there's no 

 harm in trying, any how." 



Some time after, the creditor happened to be in 

 Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encoun- 

 tered his enterprising friend. 



" Look here !" said he : " I had consider'ble luck 

 with that bill o' your'n. You see I stuck to him 

 like pitch to a pine plank, but for the first week or 

 two It was n't no use, not a bit. He was always 

 short, or else he was n't at home ; and I could n't 

 get no sort of satisfaction. By and by, says I, 

 after going sixteen times, 1 '11 fix ye : so 1 sot 

 down on his door step, and set all day and part of 

 the evening, and began agin early next morning, 

 and about ten o'clock he gin in. He paid me my 

 half, and I gin him up the note .'" — Sat. Covr. 



Severe upon the Lawyers. — When Peter the 

 Great was sojourning in England, for the purpose 

 of making himself acquainted with its various 

 crafts, in pursuance of his plan, he attended at 

 Westminster Hall, during a trial conducted by 

 some of the most eminent counsel of the day. At 

 its conclusion he was asked what he thought of 

 the system of English jurisp.iidence. " When I 

 left Russia," he replied, '• there were three lawyers 

 in St. Petersburg: as soon as I return, I'll hang 

 two of them." 



"Sam," said a lady to a milk boy, "I guess 

 from the looks of your milk, that your mother put 

 dirty water in it." " No she did n't nuther — I 

 seed her draw it clean out of the well, 'fore she 

 put it in." 



The Currency — Mr William Banks, of Ohio, 

 has married Mary Gould. The probable result of 

 this union will be, an increase of Banks in Ohio. 



Never choose a woman for a wife who has thin 

 lips and a sharp nose — except you want a scold. 



PATENT COIIN SHEL,L,KR. 



A Corn shellcr is one of the most convenient and lahor 

 saving implements that the practical farmer has in use. 

 Various machines for this purpose have been invented. Il 

 can be used in all cases fi)r large or small sized ears. It is 

 very simple in its conslruclion, and ilurable in its operation, 

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

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

 works il much better than one alone. Tiiey are so light and 

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

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

 habitants of a small town. 



For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store 

 Nos. 51 and 53 North Market Street. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



Nov. 1. 



■WiL.L,IS'S 1,ATEST I.tlPROVED VEGETABLE 

 CUTTER. 



For sale at the New England Agricultural Warehouse, 

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

 test Improved Vegetable Cutter. This macnine surpasses 

 all Cillers for the purpose of Cutting Ruta Baga, Mangel 

 Wurtzel, and other roots. The great objection to other 

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

 il almost impossitde ior the cattle to get hold of them : this 

 machine with a little alleration, cuts them into large orsmall 

 pieces, of such shape as is most convenieiu iur the cattle to 

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

 per minute. JOsiEPH BRECK & CO. 



Nov. 1. 



DRAFT AND TRACE CHAINS. 



400 pair Trace Chains, suitable for Ploughing. 

 2uo " Truck and leading Chains. 



2IJ0 " Dralt Chains. For sale by J. BRECK & CO., 

 .\o. .52 North Market st. 



HARRIS' TREATISE ON INSECTS. 



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

 nn Insects. Price S2. Also, the second edition of Dana's 

 .Muck Manual, price 62j cts. Feb. 15. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



Great improvemonls have been made the past year in 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs ; the mould h 

 has been so formed as to lay the furrow complriely • 

 turning in erery particle of grass or stubble, and lenv'int 

 ground in the best possible maimer. The length of 

 mould hoard has ht n very much increa.scd, so that 

 Plough works with the greatest ease, both wiih respec 

 the holding and the team. The Cominiliee at the late 

 of Ploughs at Worcester, say, 



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

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

 the inquirer, if your land is mostly light and easv to v 

 try Prouty & Mears, but if your landis heavy, hard orn 

 BEGIN WITH Ma. HowAnn's.'' 



At the above mentioned trial the Howard Plough 

 more uork, with the same peicer of team, than any 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more than Iweniys 

 and one half inches, to the 112 lbs. draught, wh'ih 

 Howard Plough turned twenty-nine and onr^half inchi 

 the same power of team .' All acknowledge that Howi 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most substant 

 made. 



There has been quite an improvement made on tne s 

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

 having to furnish a new landside; this shoe likewise see 

 the mould board and landside together, and strengthen; 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from S6 to S|5. A Plo 

 sufficieut for breaking up with four cattle, will cost a 

 Slu 60, and with cutter Si, with wheel and cutler, si 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and rela 

 the New England Agricultural Wareliousc and Seed S 

 Nos. 61 &, 32 North Market Street, by 



JOSEPH BRECK & C«;| 



GREEN'S PATENT STRAW CITTFR. 



JOSEPH BRECK cfc CO. at the New England Agr 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store Nos. SI and 52 North j 

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

 Stalk Culler, operating on a mechanical principle not bi 

 applied to any implement forlhis purpose. The m.ost p 

 inent effects of Ihis application, and some of the conseq 

 peculiarities of the machine are : 



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

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown hoy is sutfli 

 to work it efficiently. 



2. With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two b 

 els aminule, which is full twice as fast as has been clai 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or si 

 power. 



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

 cut, require sharpening less often ihaii those id' any 

 straw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple in its coiislruclion, made am 

 together very strongly. It is therefore not so liable a' 

 complicated machines m general use tu get out of ordi 



L.\CTOMETERS— a simple instrument for tes 

 the quality of milk. For sale by J. CHECK & C( 



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