NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb, 



PROVERBS FROM POOR RICHARD. 



Take this remark from Richard — poor and lame ; 

 "whate'er begins in anger, ends in shame. 



An egg to-day is better than a hen to-morrow. 



Law, like cobwebs, catches small flies ; great 

 ones break through before your eyes. 



If pride leads the van, poverty brings up the 

 rear. 



He that would live at peace and at ease must 

 not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. 



He that can travel Avell afoot keeps a good 

 horse. 



The worst wheel of the cart makes the most 

 noise. 



He that falls in love with liimself will have no 

 rivals. 



Against disease here the strongest fence is the 

 defensive virtue, abstinence. 



Tart words make no friends ; a spoonful of honey 

 will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. 



Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. 



Beware of little expenses, a small leak wiU sink 

 a great ship. 



An ounce of wit that is bought is worth a pound 

 that is taught. 



A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentle- 

 man on his knees. 



What maintains one \'ice will bring up two cliil- 

 dren. 



When prosperity was Avell mounted, she let go 

 tlie bridle and tumbled off the saddle. 



A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more 

 than a change of the moon. 



He that has a trade has an office of profit and 

 honor. 



A false friend and a shadow attend only while 

 the sun shines. 



Plow deep while sluggards sleep, and you will 

 have corn to sell and to keep. 



If you would not be forgotten as soon as you 

 are dead and rotten, write something worth read- 

 ing. 



Nothing dries sooner than a tear. 



Scarlet, like silver and velvet, have put out the 

 kitchen fire. 



Never take a -wife till thou hast a house to put 

 her in. 



Hunger never saw bad bread. 



The poor have little — beggars, none — the rich, 

 too much — enough, not one. 



Old boys have their playtliings as well as young 

 ones. The difference is only in the price. 



If a man could have his wishes, he would double 

 his trouble. 



A SINGULAR CASE. 

 Mr. Moody IL Robinson, of Hancock, Vt., 

 writes us that in May, 18G0, he was in the town of 

 Granville where he was invited by a Mr. AUbe to 

 see a sick heifer, which he did, accompanied, also, 

 by Mr. J. Hubbard. He found that the heifer 

 could not drop her calf, although engaged in the 

 effort to do so for a whole week. She swelled 

 badly for a time, and then her udder and body 

 gradually shnnik away, and she was turned off to 

 pasture. In the sjjring of 1861, she was turned to 

 pasture again and grew finely and fatted well. 

 On the 28th of December Mr. Robinson was called 



to slaughter this heifer — she having been pur- 

 chased and brought to Hancock by him — and in 

 the presence of Mr. C. C. Hubbard, L. C. Abbott, 

 E. Hubbard, and Mr. AUbe and his son, he says 

 he took from her the calf heretofore spoken of, 

 which weighed 87 pounds ! It was found grown 

 tight to the womb. The feet and legs were rotten 

 to the knee joint, and the hair in some places was 

 off, but no disagreeable odor was perceptible ! The 

 weight of the heifer when dressed was 573 pounds. 



He also states that he had lately butchered a 

 hog for Mr. Augustus Fassett, of Hancock, 

 whose weight Avas 777i pounds. 



If the first of these stories is not fact, it is a very 

 lively fancy. We have no reason to doubt the 

 statement. It does not appear to us to be a lustis 

 naturce, but one of those wonderful provisions of 

 nature to preserve life, which sometimes occur. 



SUGAR, 



Sngar is not only a condiment ; it is an impor- 

 tant article of diet, and aid to digestion. Though 

 the use of sugar as an article of food seems mainly 

 to supply the carbon used in breathing, yet it un- 

 doubtedly contributes also to the production of 

 fat, for during the severe labor of gathering the 

 sugar crop in the West Indies, in spite of the great 

 exertion and fatigue, it is said that every negro 

 on the plantation, every animal, even the very 

 dogs, will fatten. 



The conversion of starch into grape sugar, also 

 appears to be the first step in its digestion ; and 

 it is probable that the greater difficulty with which 

 cellulose is converted into sugar, is the cause of 

 its indigestibility and uselessness as an article of 

 food. Sugar also plays an important part in many 

 processes of the animal system, and appears to be 

 necessary to the production of bile. It has been 

 detected by Lehman and Bernard in the blood of 

 man, and in that of the cat, dog, and ox. Sugar 

 is also supposed to be necessary to the process of 

 incubation, where, by its peculiar solvent action on 

 the lime and phosphate of lime of the shell, it is 

 thought to assist in the formation of the bones of 

 the chick, and though this idea has not yet been 

 demonstrated, it appears highly probable, from the 

 general occurrence of sugar in the egg. As an in- 

 stance of the marvellous processes going forward 

 in the human frame, I may mention that in the 

 terrible disease called diabetes, all the amylaceous 

 food converted into sugar, instead of being assimi- 

 lated by the system, as in health, passes aM'ay, the 

 sufl'erer thus deriving no benefit from the food. 



Sugar lies under a ban for injuring the teeth. 

 What shall we say of this ? The negroes employed 

 on sugai" plantations, who eat, perhaps, more su- 

 gar than any other class of people, liave almost 

 proverbially, fine, white, sound teeth, which they 

 retain in old age. But, on the other hand, in 

 England, persons employed in the sugar refineries, 

 who are from their occupation obliged constantly 

 to be tasting sugar, lose their teeth from decay af- 

 ter a few years. A strong solution of pure sugar 

 appears to have no action on teeth after extraction, 

 even after many months, and even when already 

 decayed, the action upon them is scarcely percep- 



