Litchfield enquirer., 1841-03-25

water as soon as the calves Rre secured at
their posts. Cows must not be allowed TO
drink cold water soon nfter parturiIion-they
amy drink the first mess OF milk before the
cRit is old enough to complain or 10 know
what he has lost and pailful Of water with
quart of hot erIberS in it is the best drink
that Gun be furnished to the mother on the
day when she brings forth her young.
The aNe aud saw ut the wood pile affords
tbs " hoirSnme exercise, 10 inure US to LABOR
and To prepare us for line more steady occu-
paiions of the field, which have now been
INTERRUPTED for three or four months. The
bars at the entrance Of our fields must be
we'll secured, 10 keep our neie hbOrs' cattle
from poaching, for 0ur oscn are not allowed to
be cut. Neighbours poultry must all be driv-
en- from our barns and yards, but we must De
cautious and not fling stones, by mistake, at
our own.
Heaps of coarse manure tina: are to be us
ed this season may be overhaulcd rs soon as
the frost is out, as slight fermentation Will
improve the mass, and render it more mt Tor
the field. Fruit trees should not he trimmed
at this season, provided we have anything
else tn do, but TO keep the boys from idle
ness they may be set 10 scrape oft all the
loose bark and the moss, which furnish such
a convenient harbor for vcrmin. Ashes or
lime will each have good effect in destroy
ing worms at the roots Of trees.
Canker WormS.-March in our latitude Is
the month for the ascent of the canker worm
upon our trees; and people who have neg
lected to try other remedies are advised to
place little quick lime close about the bod
les of their trees to destroy those worms that
lie near the roots-rnany may be destroyed
in this mode, and if il were practised few
years in succession, this favorite place of
rendezvous for the worms might be render
edtoo hot for them-digging up the soil and
suffering hogs to root about the trees have
both a tendency to destroy these worms and
to make room for the roots Of the trees.
THE FARMERS OF NEW ENGLAND.
Mr.. Colman in one of his addresses, last
year, before an agricultural society in Con-
necticut, thus describes the happy condition
of an industrious New England Farmer.
"The farmers of New England have every
reason to thank God for the condition in
which they are placed. They need not sigh
for more genial climes nor more fertile soils |!
these they cannot have without dreadful
Attachments of health and comfort. Of all
the conditions on earth, which it has been
my lot to see or read of, arm bold to aver
that know of none more favorable to health,
competence, enjoyment, and Intellectual and
moral Improvement. than that enjoyed by
the rural population of New. England. de-
spise the contempt with which some pretend
to look down upon us, and the opprobrium
which they have the impudence to cast upon
my highest boast, that am New.England
man & a yankee. lido not ask to have living
without labor; this would be asking for a
curse instead of blessing and boon for
which have no claim. only ask that
living shalt be secure to me with reasonable
labor; and this New England, in various
departments of industry, promises to all her
Better than all this, more than any other
community in our country New England is
our common brotherhood, linked together by
o common sympathy, q common origin, and
the interchange of good offices. In our civil
and religious blessings where is communi.
ty more favored Where are the means of
education more extended, the institutions of
religion better maintained, the public peace
more quiet, the standards of morals higher,
the course OF justice more established, and
the courtesies Of life more freely rendered
Where is the spirit Of inquiry and improve.
ment more prompt and diffusivo!
From the beautiful prairies of the great
Western valley, fertile as the banks Of the
Nile. and magnificent beyond description,
yet return 10 my native home in New Eng
land with all the warmth Of u first love. Her
secluded valleys, her verdant meadows, her
rounded submits, her dense forests, her rocky
mountains, her crystal lakes, her ocean
bound shores, her silver streams, her gushing
springs-are all charming to me. Here, too,
my friends and brethren dwell. am salts.
fled to live under her stormy skies, 10 en-
counter her bristling tempests, to dig in her
hard soil-for the mind, as well as the body,
is braced by the exposure and the toll. In
the midst OF what others deem evils, see in
Vulnerable compcnsations for which look
in vain to other countries and chimes appa.
rently more favored. In whatever direction
turn my eyes, there is every where such an
exuberance Of blessings to those who will
perform their duty, that it would be the
height of ingratitude to complain, and the
height of folly to abandon u certain good for
that which is at least uncertain and doubtful.
cling to her with the warmest affection of q
child-and, having been so long sheltered
and nourished by her failing care and
kindness. ask only that may find my last
resting-place in the lap which gave me birth
From The Philadelphia North American.
Places and Things in Chma.-Pekin, the
capitol Of the Chinese Empire. is in nearly
tho same latitude as Philadelphia. One who
should 60 directly eastward from this city
until he had passed somewhat more than
half way round the globe, would arrive at
Pekin. To reach Canton by going directly
eastward, one must start from the city of
Havana in Cuba, or some place in that lati.
iude. Canton lies on river which empties
into hny, aud its situation is somewhat like
that of Philadelphia. The Delaware break
water might represent tho harbor of Macao.