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I v?rote to inquire who he xvap, whether ihe au- 

 thor was known, whether he was to be attended 

 *o or not, as grood authority, — how much tar was 

 to he used, and if he ever knew a poor milker to 

 beafliected with it, &c. &c. I did remark that if a 

 preventive so simple, and so easily applied, was 

 a sure one, it was a valuable discovery. Rut 1 

 doubted then, and now doubt, as well as Mr. B. 

 I had no idea that so discerninfr a man as Mr. 

 Butman would take me to be the author of that 

 prescription, nor will he if he reads affain. I am 

 always pleased with his remarks, lor he is not 

 afraid to intimate something new. This he has 

 done, in doubting or denying that such a disorder 

 . that called garget exists \n cattle. But in the 

 same breath he urges the adoption of a preven- 

 tive, which is more frequent milking when highly 

 fed. A good milker's bag will become distended 

 — the milk curdled, and oi' course she is injured, 

 and if he had said that the disorder called garget 

 by common consent, (Mr. Butman excepted) is 

 thus produced, there would have been less ano- 

 maly in his logic. Pray, Mr. Butman, do not 

 disorders always arise from a cause— hiuh keep, 

 or something else? I had so believed. 1 am 

 aware that certain things are seen in animals 

 which do not produce injury, such as the turning 

 of the fluids or secretions of the body, if I may 

 so express myself, to bone, hoofs, nails, wool, hair, 

 horns and the like; this is the order of Providence, 

 and not similar to a wound by a sharp instrument, 

 or the disorder called the "garget, produced by 

 high feed, &c. There is o-enerally much in Mr. 

 Butman's remarks as published, worthy of no- 

 tice, and the piece alluded to, about our allowing 

 our cattle to injure one another with their horns, 

 when it may be so easily prevented, is of conse- 

 quence. 



1 hope we shall yet hear from the Litchfield 

 correspondent. J. W. 



N. B. If the public had chosen to give the 

 name garget to that disease of the cow, manifest- 

 ed by an enlarged hag, caused by high feed or 

 the want of beinir milked often enough, I doubt if 

 Mr. Butman or 1 can hinder it. 



A SELF-MADE MAN — THE I.ATE JUDGE BUEL. 



[From the Eulogy on liis life and character, pronounced before 

 the New York State Agricultural Society, Feb. 5, 1840. By 

 A. Dean, Esq. of Albany.] 



The subject of these remarks was born in Cov- 

 entry, in the JStaie of Connecticut, on the fourth 

 day of January, 1778. He was the last born, and 

 the last that has died, of a family of fourteen chil- 

 dren. His fiither, Elias Buel, held the commission 

 of major in the war of our revolution, and was a 

 fair sample of the plain, unassuming, straight-for- 

 ward character of the New England farmer. 



As an instance in proof that the end of the good 

 man is peace, it deserves to be mentioned, that (he 

 advanced years and declining strength of this ex- 

 cellent sample of New-Ensiand's earlier popula- 

 tion, together with his aged consort, received for 

 the last five years of their lives their stay and sup- 

 port from the filial affections of their youngest 

 child ; until, fully matured, and at the advanlied 

 age of 86 years, they both left this world, and as if 

 their union had become indissoluble by bonds that 



had been lightened by nearly three fourths of a 

 century, ihey left it within the brief period of six 

 weeks of each other. 



When he had arrived at the age of twelve years, 

 the family, including himselt; moved from Coven- 

 try to Rutland, Vermoni, and two years afterwards, 

 when he had completed the age of lburteen,he be- 

 came an apprentice to the printing business, in the 

 office of Mr. Lyons, in Rutland. 



The young apprentice distinguished the first four 

 years of his term by a close, assiduous, and unre- 

 mitted attention to the attainment of the priming 

 art. 



In June. 1797, he formed a connexion in busi- 

 ness with Mr. Moflit, of Troy, and commenced the 

 publication of the Troy Budget. Tnis was conti- 

 nued until September, 1801, when, at the age of 

 twenty-three, he married Miss Susan Pierce, of 

 Troy, and immediately moved to Poughkeepsie, 

 where, in connexion with Mr. Joiner, he com- 

 menced the publication of a weekly paper, called 

 the Guardian. This was continued about, a year; 

 after which, he entered into another co-partner- 

 ship, and commenced the publication of the Politi- 

 cal Barometer. Tiiis last proved to be an unfor- 

 tunate business connexion ; and after about a year's 

 continuance, either through the mismanagement 

 or dishonesty of his partner, he found himself re- 

 duced to utter bankruptcy. 



This is, I am sorry to say, rather a common his- 

 tory ; and man}', thus situated, abandon hope, and 

 yield themselves up to liatal despondency. Not so 

 Judge Buel. Wiih the unshaken assurance of 

 success which naturally results li"om the firm de- 

 termination to deserve it, he saw, with apparent 

 indifference, the slow, labored, and rather scanty 

 accumulations of some six or seven years sudden- 

 ly swept from him ; and read, in this lesson of mu- 

 tability, at least the chance of elevation, as well aa 

 depression, in individual condition. He never, for 

 one moment, lost confidence in the general inte- 

 grity of men, nor in the ultimate success of industry 

 and application. He left Poughkeepsie and re- 

 moved to Kingston, where he established a weekly 

 paper called the Plebeian. Here he continued du- 

 ring the period of ten years, li-om 1803 to 1813, ap- 

 plying himself with diligence and activity to his 

 business. During a part of this time, he sustained 

 with reputation the office of Judge, in the Ulster 

 county court ; and by his persevering industry, and 

 well directed application, he not only retrieved his 

 losses, but also acquired some considerable real 

 and personal estate. 



In 1813, his reputation as an editor and a man 

 having made him favorably known to the pub- 

 lic, he was induced, through the exertions of 

 Judge Spencer and some others, to remove to the 

 city of Albany, and to commence the Albany 

 Argus. The next succeeding year, 1814, he 

 was appointed printer to the state, the duties of 

 which, together with the editorship of the Arffus, 

 he continued to discharge until the year 1820 ; 

 at which time he sold out with the determination 

 to abandon the printing business. 



It is worthy of remark, that while engaged in 

 this business he always performed himself the 

 labor essential to its successful prosecution. He 

 was always the setter of his own types, and until 

 he came to Albany, the worker of his own press. 

 Is there not something in the very nature of the 

 printing art, that tends to originate and perpetuate 



