The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 06 (1820)

[9] In Flanders, wheat yields 20; rye, 26; barley, 26; and oats, 40, for one.--Wheat holds only the fifth rank in value in the harvest of Flanders. In England, wheat never yield...

A pear tree, brought from Holland, and planted in the year 1647, is now in full bloom, standing in the Third Avenue at the intersection of Thirteenth Street, New York. This is p...

Numerous and important are the boasted advantages of our free government. Men and things are professedly estimated, in this region of sturdy republicanism, in exact accordance w...

_Enormous Bird._--Mr. Henderson has discovered, in New Siberia, the claws of a bird, measuring each a yard in length; and the Yaknts assured him they had frequently in their hun...

Of the Greek plough, we know nothing; and the general disuse of that described by Virgil and Pliny, furnishes a degree of evidence, that experience has found it incompetent to i...

Various gymnastic games are also practised occasionally; but mental exercises find their place better after hard labour: They do indeed in the fields full as well as on the benc...

Oh, Poverty! of pale, consumptive hue, If thou delight'st to haunt me still in view; If still thy presence must my steps attend, At least continue as thou art--my friend! Whene'...