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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MAT IS, IS'J*. 



MISCELLANEOUS.. 



Tho foMowinn; beniitiful liule allogory is copied 

 from llje N. O. Crescent City : 



A hnmnriinij bird once met a bmterfl/, and beinj 

 pleased wilb ibo beauty of its person, and <ji"ry of 

 its win^s. made an otFfr of perpetual friendship. 



"I cannot, think of it," was the reply, "as yon 

 once spurned ine, and called nie a drawling dolt." 



" Impossible I" exclaimed tlie hnmmin(; bird. 

 "I alivays entenuined tho highest rfspect for such 

 beaulil'nl creatures as you." 



" Ptrliapa you do, noa'' said the other, "but 

 when yon insulted ine I was a cnterpillar. So let 

 me give you this piece of advice : Never insult 

 the liiiinble, as iliey may one day become your su- 

 periors." 



Insnnihj Produced by MiUerism. — Dr. Wood- 

 ward states, in his last annual report of the Wor- 

 cester Asylum, that the number of cases of insani- 

 ty from religious causes, has increased the last 

 year in most of the institutions of the country. In 

 this liospital, 28 cases of 230 are attributed to this 

 cause, \Tt of which have arisen from tiie Miller ex- 

 citement, and much larger proportions are ascribed 

 to the same cause in some of the New England 

 institution. It is rare, says Dr. \V., that a popu- 

 lous religious error has produced so much excite- 

 ment in the community, and rendered so many in- 

 sane. 



A Rule that Wouldn't Work Both Ways. — Squire 

 S. of our village, has a very sagacious dog. He 

 sits up like a man in his chair, allows ynu to put a 

 hat upon his head and a cigar in his mouth, and if 

 any bystander chances to give hini a piece of coin, 

 his owner is the only person who can get it from 

 liini again. — Western Reporter. 



A remarkably sagacious animal, truly — but not 

 so good a financier as the elephant we have heard 

 of, who tool; in money on very s|)ecial deposite. 



" That 's a very knowing hnnimal of yours, is 

 he?" said a cockney gentleman to the keeper of 

 the elephant in question. 



" Very," was the cool rejoinder. 

 " lie performs strange tricks and hantics, does 

 he ?" inquired the cockney, eyeing the animal 

 through his glass. 



" Siirprisin' !" retorted the keeper. "We've 

 learnt him to put money in that box you see way 

 up ihere. Try him with a dollar." 



The cockney handed the elephant a dollar, and 

 sure enough, he took it in his trunk, and placed it 

 in a box high up out of reach. 



" Well, that is wery |hextraordinary — hastonish- 

 in', truly !" said the green one: "Now let's see 

 hiin take it out and hand it back." 



" We never hams him that trick" retorted the 

 keeper, with a roguish leer, and then turned away 

 to etir up the monkeys and punch the hyenas. — 

 M. O. Picayune. 



A clergyman vras once catechising a class of 

 children belonging to his congregation, and coming 

 to a little boy who was soinelliing of a rogue, he 

 asked him what he knew. "I know something," 

 replied the urchin, with a significant look. '' WkII, 

 my son, what do you know ?" asked the pastor. 

 "I know where there is a bird's nest, but I shan't 

 tell you, for fear you will steal the eggs," answer- 

 ed the unsophisticated jiivenil?. 



Chicken Manufactory. — Nature is getting super 

 fluous. We rather think she will soon be voted 

 out of fashion and dispen.^ed with, 'i'here is a 

 chap just over our publication office, hatching chick- 

 ens in a big box, filty a day, having a thousand 

 eggs always " doing." The trouble of attending 

 them is slight, ihe heat costs very little, and the 

 chickens crack their shells and walk up to their 

 dough and water like wood-choppers to their din- 

 ner, or sailors to their grog. They are clean, 

 strong, and lively, grow fast, and rarely die, (not 

 being dragged through the grass,) and whoever has 

 a hatching machine, can have "spring chickens" 

 every week in the year, and at small expense. If 

 we could only invent a machine to lay eggs now, 

 hens would be done with. — A'. Y. Tribune. 



Distinctions A French abbe travelling in a 



stage, was asked by a young clerk, an atheist, and 

 would-be wit, if he knew what difference there 

 was between a priest and an ass. " No," replied 

 the abbe. " Then I will tell you," said the clerk: 

 " the priest carries the cross on his breast, and the 

 ass on his back." 



After the laughter had subsided, the abbe asked 

 the clerk if he knew the ditference between a 

 clerk and an ass. " No,'' was the reply. " JVor J" 

 rejoined the abbe. 



Fastidious. — An apprentice in Baltimore, com- 

 plained to a nwigislrate that Ins master was starv- 

 ing him. 



" Indeed ! what does he give you to rat ?" 



"Why — why," lisped the fellow, " nolhini: — but 

 bread, and potatoes, and beef, and mutton, and 

 such like." 



" Well, what would you have ?" 



•' Why — why — pliim-piidding, and cukes, and 

 roast turkey, and such like !" 



'■ Shall I see you home this evening?" asked a 

 long-haired, bushy. headed dandy of a young lady, 

 whom he met in the street. " Yes, sir," said she, 

 "if you go and stand on the steps till I get home." 



In advance of public opinion. — Thinking more 

 of yourself than the public thinks of you. (How 

 few are free of this weakness !j 



WILLIS' LATEST IMPROVED SEED SOWEl 



In using this machine, the farmer may be c«^itaintfc 

 Ills .seed is put into the ground, and at the s.iini! lli 

 in Ihe best possible manner. There bus been a gr( 

 difficulty in machines fur sowing garden si eda ; th 

 uro very apt to clog up, and the fiirmer migitt ^tt over 

 acre of land and not sow a single seed ; but not so wi i 

 this; it is so eonslructed ihal it cannot possihly cli 

 In using this sower, the farmer can siive one half 

 his sCfMl, and do the work at less tlian one quarter t 

 expense of the common way of sowing, and have 

 done in a much better manner; it opens the luno 

 drops the seed covers it over and rolls them dow 

 It will sow any kind of Garden Seeds; say Kuta Baj 

 Mangfl Wurlzfl, Turnips, Carrots, Beets, P.irsnips, C 

 ions, Sf-c For sale at tlie New £nglaiid Agncullii 

 Wiirebouse and Sei-d .St"re, Nos. 51 and 62 ISonii M 

 ket street, by JOSEl'H BRECK &, CO. 



March of Refinement. — " Professor of the art of 

 sub-dividing wood," is the proposed substitute for 

 the term ivood-sawytr. 



"Learning," says Felthain, "falls far short of 

 wisdom ; nay, so far, that you scarcely find a 

 greater fool than is sometimes a mere scholar." 



Never say you can't do 



you despair. 



thing : try it, before 



NITRATK OF SOOA FOR AGRlCrLTCRAI. 

 PlIKPOSKS. 



RENJAMIN B.1.NGS, No. 39 & 40, Lewis' Wharf, has 

 for sale, a quaiiiity of the ahove named article, which has 

 been much approved of in Engbiiii, an! as far as used lu 

 this coiinlry has lieen found highly heneficial on grass land, 

 trees and pinnts generally. 



Boston, March 20. 1.344. 3m 



GRINDSTONES ON FRICTION ROLLERS. 



Grindstones of different sizes, hunt^on friution rtjllers ana 

 moved wiih a fool Ireader, are found To he a great improve- 

 ment on the old mode of hanging grindslnnes. .Stones hung 

 in this manner are hecoming daily more in use, and wherever 

 used, give universal saii.= faclion. The rollers cnn he attach- 

 ed to sinnos hung in the commna way. For sale by J. 

 BRECK & Co., No. 51 Norlh Market street. 



HOWARD'S IMPROVED EASY DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 



Great iniprovemenis have been itiaile the past year in 

 form and workmanship of these Ploughs ; the mould be 

 has been so formed as to lay ike furrow nomp/dely oi 

 tunnvff in every parlicle of grass or sluhble, and lenving 

 ground in the best possible manner. The length of 

 mould board has been very much increased, so that 

 t'longh works with Ihe greatest ease, both wuh respect 

 the holding and the team. The Committee at the late t 

 of Ploughs at Worcester, say, 



" Should our opinion be asked as to which of IbePlou; 

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

 the inquirer, if your land is mostly light and easy to wi 

 try Prouty & Mears, but if your landis heavy, harl orroc 



BEGIN WITH Mb. HoWAED's.'" 



At Ihe above me!;t:oned trial the Howard Plough 

 more work, -irilk the same power of learn, flian any ot 

 plough exhibited. No other turned more ihan twentyso 

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

 flmcard Plough turned twentynine and one ha.' f inchei 

 the same power of team ! All acknowledge thai Howai 

 Ploughs are much the strongest and most substantii 

 made. 



There has been qnile an improvement made on the si 

 or land side of , this Plough, whivh can be renewed witli 

 having to furnish a new iandside: this shoe liltewise sect 

 the mould board and Iandside Ingeiiicr, and slreugthens 

 Plough very much. 



The price of the Ploughs is from S6 toflg. A Plol 

 sufKcient for breaking up with four cattle, will costal 

 SiO flO, and with cutter *1, with wheel and cutter, SS 

 extra. 



The above Ploughs are for sale, wholesale and retai! 

 the New Kngland Agricultural Warehouse and Seed St 

 Nos. 61 & 52 North Market Street, by 



JOSKPH BRECX & CO 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



A WEKKLT PAPEa. 



Terms, $2 per year in ittlrance, or l|'2 50 if not | 

 within sixty days. 



N. B. — Postmasters are permitted by law to franl 

 siihscripti'jns and remittances for newspapers, wit) 

 e.xpenee to subscribers. 



TUTTLE AND DENRETT. PKIKTF.RS. 



21 Scbool Sttree. 



