1825.] 



more : But we will soininse it lo shvo 1ml one 

 tenth part, then see how much it will s;ive in 

 the whole colony. Suppose there ;irp in this 

 colony iiboni sixty towns, s;ve»{ anrl sniiill, new 

 nnd old : we will suppose tivn hiindrerl JHrnilies 

 in e;«ch town, one with another, and each Irimily 

 to consume or spend as miicji pork as will require 

 one with another twenty hushels o( corn lo make 

 (he pork of each family. Sixty towns of two 

 hunclred families each, make twelve thousand 

 families, and twenty bushels of corn to each fam- 

 ily make two hundred and forty thousand bush- 

 els 01 corn: The tenth part of this is twenly- 

 i'our thousand bushels. If there be not so many 

 towns and families as is sup(iosed, there is much 

 pork fatted and sent away in barrels, and many 

 herds of fat swine drove away, that are not con- 

 sumed in the government, enough lo make it 

 up : An<l surely the saving- twcnly-four bushels of 

 cuni ycarhj is worthy of our care and considera- 

 tion." — Essay I. n-l8. 



" I understand that some having tried steeping 

 corn, it did not well answer their expectation, 

 nor is it to he wondered at, since instead of steep- 

 ing it five or six days, they soaked it only twen- 

 ty four liours."' — Appendix to Essay II. 17 10. 



Remarks by the Editor — The work from which 

 the above is quoted has been highly and we be- 

 lieve justly esteemed by our ancestors. There 

 is a copy o.'it among the books belonging to the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which 

 are dejiosited in the building appropriated to 

 Ihe library, SiC. of the Boston Alheneimi. The 

 lille paere is '-Essays upon Field Husbandry in 

 IVew England, as it is or may be ordered. By 

 Iared Ei.r.iOT, M.A. Eccles. v. 9. Moreover the 

 profit of the earth is for all : the King himself 

 IS served by the field. Boston, printed and sold 

 )y E.los & Gill, Queen street, 1760." Dr Deane, 

 lin his New England Farmer, frequently cites 

 ithis Treatise. It is an nsel'ul and judicious com- 

 Ipendiuni of important prer,e|)ls in Agriculture 

 which have been further explained and enforc- 

 ed by subsequent writers. 



Snaking corn for hogs has been recommend- 

 ed by several agricultural writers besides the 

 lev. Mr Elliot. Dr Deane says in his .Yew Eng;- 

 aiid Fanner art. Swine page 417, Wells and Lil- 

 y's edition, '-If it be Iboiio-ht most convenient 

 o feed ihpm with corn of the preceding year, 

 t should unl be given them without soaking, or 

 'Oiling, or giindingit into meal. For thevWill 

 lot perfectly digest much of the hart! kernels ; 

 t being too bard for their teeth, it has been 

 bought by good judges, that the corn will be 

 It least a sixth part more advantage to the swine 

 or soaking it in water. But there is if I mis- 

 ake not, still more advantage in grinding it." — 

 Probably there is no way in which corn can be 

 nade so nutritious to swine as by malting it. See 

 N'. E. Farmer, vol- II. page 57." 





The following Toasts were drank at the Cattle Show 

 it Concord ; want of room obliges us to omit some. 

 " Perpetuity to the Holy ^Olliance of AgricuHure, 



ommprcp, anj Manufactures." "'/",'( e President of 

 he Ijiitlecl States — in manners and living a simple re- 



uhlican— in virtue, learningf, and talents, elevatfd 

 ihove Princes. J' ^•- Our Governar—VMs skill and ex- 

 ellence as a Furmer are known i,i Worcester, and as 



Gurrrnor acknov^ledged throusfhout the Common- 

 vealth."' " The daugltters of fn.^tiion, and the fashion 

 f daughters— The iirst make bad -wives, and the se- 

 ond bad forms." 



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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Fulmiteer by 11. Hosmfr, F.sq. " The Rev. Orator 

 oftlio Day — He has illiimiaaled the Husbandman's 

 prospect liy the rays of science, and tnlivened this an- 

 niversary by the ebullitions of wit." 



The following Toasts Were drank at Bridgewater : 



'■^Agriculture — the most certain source of wealth, 

 strength and independence." " The spirit of eimila- 

 lion—ns sure to be lound in the brightness of the 

 plough-share as in the flai-h of the sword." " The 

 Earth — improving ils improver, giving him health, 



strength, and wealth." •' The systematic Farmer 



who attempts no more than he can accomplish, and 

 well accomplishes all he attempts." " Great Crops — 

 they will never incumber old fashioned farming." 



Voi.ONTF.ERS. — By Ihe Hon. Wit.i.iAm Davis. — 

 Brirtgfwater and ils dirisions — tufty thentwi towns ever 

 maintain the high character of the old — Cy Kii.burn 

 Whitmam, Esq. — The Orator of the clay— a hopeful 

 plant from a well cultivated soil : — As Farmers we will 

 remember our errors, for he has told them pleasantly. 

 —By B. Brown, Esq. — The Farmer whose peculiar 

 habits of industry, temperance and economy, have pro- 

 cured him long life, health and respectability. [Allu- 

 sion was had in the last volunteer to Dea. Jolm IVhit- 

 man, of K. B. now in his 91st year, who with his own 

 hands dug over a quarter of an acre of bushy unsub- 

 dued land, the past season, and planted it with pota- I 

 toes, which promise a good crop.] I 



r. r> J , . , . , ; tiemen remote should employ some person to receive 



Enormous Produet-K correspondent informs us that ; .,„ri ,y for them 

 ,vlr Moses Holden, ol Barre, raised, this season, from a ' 

 single seed 31 Pumpkins, weighing 653 lbs. and that 

 the aggregate length of the .hfferent branches of the 

 vine was 6J6 feet. — Mass. Yeoman. 



Jl Marine Cravat to prevent persons from di-ownin". 

 has been invented in England. It is in ihe usual form 

 of the cravat, buckled round the neck, and possesses 

 suiBcient buoyancy to keep the head above water. 



Georgia. — We have good authority for saying that 

 the Georgia differences will be adjusted without the in- 

 terference of Congress. For the prrsent Georgia will be 

 cnitten't with the land of those Creeks who were know- 

 ingly parties to the Treaty, and a compromise with the 

 others will be left to future arrangement. Our informa- 

 tion comes from the highest sources at Washington, aiid 

 may be relied on. — Nat. Int. 



Preparation of Razor Strops.-^Mr Thompson, a Sur- 



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Fruit and Orvamciitat Trees, ^c. 



P-. ■ ¥^<'1< SALE, at the Kenrick 

 A Place, near the Brighton Post 

 Office. The Nurseries have been 

 much extended, & besides a vari- 

 ety of l^flglish Cherries,PeBrs, Ap- 

 ricots, Sec. contain many thous- 

 ands of grafted Apple trees of su- 

 perior kinds, thrifty, handsome 

 and of good size. Also, some thousands ol budded Ptarh 

 Trees, remarkably thrifty, and comprising a choice col- 

 lection of about 40 (if the most ajiproved sorts discover- 

 ed in our best gardens, or brouglit to the markets ; the 

 Peach trees are from 5 to 8 feet high and sold at the 

 moderate price of 30 cents each. Of good sized orna- 

 mental trees,the flowering Horse Chesnul; flowerin" C: - 

 talpas ; European Mountain Ash i Weeping V\ illow ; 

 Evergreen Silver Fir ; and the Larch ; Butternuts, and 

 Eiit;lish Walnuts. Currant bushes of the prolific red 

 kind, of all sizes, by the dozen, hundred, or thousand 

 on moderate terms. Also, the black, white, and Cham- 

 pagne do. ; red, and white Ro^es ; Lilacs, Senna, Gum 

 Acacia, English Grapes, &c. 



Orders addressed to JOHN or WiVT. KENRICK, and 

 sent to the Brighton Post Office, or to the office of DA- 

 NA & FEN NO, Brokers, in State-street, will be duly 

 attendfd to. 



N. B. Trees will be packed in clay and mats for ship- 

 ping, and conveyed to Boston, when ordered ; and on 

 Patnrdays without charge for conveyance ; but Geu- 



In removing trees, one year's growth is frequently 

 lost, if the trees happen to survive, by unreasonably di- 

 minishing th( ir roots; therefore special care will be 

 taken for their preservation. 



A RS H "&"1?APEN (at thi ir Book aijd¥t^ona7y 

 store. No. 362 Washington street,) have from 

 the manufacturer a constant supply o( Portable Electri- 

 cal .Machines, peculiarly constructed for Physicians. — 

 These machines being very light and closely encased, 

 together with all the necessary apparatus, cannot fail 

 to suit the Faculty in every respect. They have like- 

 wise Thermometers proper for Chemical, Botanical, 

 Surgical, Brewers', Distillers', 3\igar Refiners', Dyers' 

 Bathing and IMarine purposes, made in the neatest 

 manner. e0p3t. 12 



FOR SALE^a Farm situated in the pleasant and 

 flourishing vilfige of Dixmont, through which the 

 mail stage passes twice a week from Augusta to Ban- 

 gor, and is only from 16 to 20 miles distant to four ports 

 'on's instrument maker, has found that the best razor i "" 'be Penobscot river. It has a convenient farm-house, 



strops are thus made. 



Glue a piece of common calf-skin leathfr on a slip of 

 wood, and when dry, rub it with a piece of French 

 chalk — called by mineralogists, steatite — then, with 

 a piece of the finest lamp black lead that can be pro- 

 cured ; and thus proceed, using the French chalk and 

 Mack lead alternately, one after the other, until a suf- 

 ficient coat or bed is formed on the leather. Mec. Mas 



There are now in our office, two pears from the farm 

 of Mr. Gurdon Wadsworth, in this town, which weigh 

 20 ounces each, and measure fourteen and a halfincires 

 in circumference ; also a pear and an apple from the 

 farm of Mr. J. P. Jones, East-I-|artford,the former weigh- 

 ing 20 ounces, and measuring thirteen and a half In- 

 ches, and the latter weighing 18 ounces, and measuring 

 thirteen and a half inches. Hartford Times. 



.Merinos. — This breed of Spanish sheep succeeds in 

 North Jutland ; where professor Krairup, has lately 

 sold 700 lbs. of the wool. 



Erratum. — The following note belongs to a reference 

 after the words " extremely rare," on the first column of 

 this day''s paper. 



* I presume the cows of New Jersey, in their origin, 

 were generally no smaller than those of New York or 

 -Xew England : yet in a part of it, on the old stage 

 road between Trenton and Newark (I do not recollect 

 where) I have repeatedly observed herds oirery small 

 cows, such as I never saw elsewhere ; which I ascribed 

 to the extreme poverty ol their pastures, — lands which 

 had been in tillage, hut which appeared to be ex- 

 hausted by long-continued cropping without manur- 

 ing. 



2 large barns, sheep folds; sheds, and out bouses all in 

 good repair ; will summer and winter 100 sheep and 

 from 15 to 20 head of neat cattle ; with a good set of 

 farming tools of the most approved kinds, which may be 

 had with the premises if required. — For further parties 

 ulars, inquire of BENJAMIN BUTMAN, on the premi- , 

 ses. 7t^ Di xmont (Me.) Oct. 13, 1825. 



FRUIT TREES, &c. " 



AMES BLOODGOOD & CO. have for 

 sale at their nursery, at Flushing, on 

 Long Island, near New York, 



Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowering Shrubs & Plants of 

 the most approved sorts. 



The proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engrafting of «// their Fruit Trees, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Trees they order will prove genuine. 



Orders left with Mr Zebedee Cook, jr. No, 44 State 

 Street, Boston, will be transmitted to us, and receive 

 our prompt and particular attention. Catalogues will 

 be delivered, and any information imparted respecting 

 the condition, .fee. Sic. that may be required, on appli 

 caton to him. Sept. 30. 



E PARSONS & CO. City Furniture M-arehouse, 

 • Union Street, near the Union Stone, keep con- 

 stantly on han<i for sale, a general assortment of furni- 

 ture, chairs, looking glasses, feathers of all kinds, fire 

 jets, brushes, bellows, ifcc. &c. 



FOR SALE, a full blooded BULL eighteen months 

 old, got by Mr Parsons' Alderney Bull out of an. 

 Alderney Cow imported by Joha Hubbard, Esq. — En- 

 quire at this office. 



