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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



[Oct. 28, 



close with him In n moment, a bear, bincker I read nf Saxony and Spanish sheep without ever j refuse a richer i'nod and prefer a coarser one. 

 thin the shades that surrounded him. and one o{\drenming of introducing them* Once introdnc- i am not at ail surprised at it. It is precisely in 

 the largest of the species, reared on his hind'ed, they spread with a velocity which is am- conformity with what tve see every day around 

 feet immediately before him, and with open j measurable. Grant, that the horned catlle im- 1 us. A sailor would pine on turhies and dung 

 month rushed upon his 



moment, Inman's presence - , , . - , , ■ m ,. . i . 



sake him but deliberately levelins: his piece | duction has given a vah'.e to all olner stock ol 

 he shot the sable robber thro' the heart and laid ; the =ame description, by inducing more care as 

 him dead at his feet. So near was the bear 

 that his hair was burned by the powder of Mr. 

 Inman's gun. His weight" was 250 pounds, and 

 his skin measures nearly 6 feet in length. — Ban- 



gor paper. 



Large Pear.—^^'e have in our ofTice a pear 

 that is eight and a half inches long, & fourteen 

 and a half round, weighing 34 ounces. It is from 

 a tree belonging to .John Watson, Esq. It this is 

 not the largest pear ever brngged of, and we 

 have heard of none larger, it is rem.irkalde for 

 the spot where it was raised. Ferry-street is the 

 Maiden-lane of Hartford, and it was raised on 

 Ferry-street. — Con. Mirror. 



C0NCLDSI0.\ OF IVIR. LOHEI.I.'S RICPOKT, moJI PAGE 107. 



1803 the first S: deepest impression mnde on my 

 mind of any differences in the agricuitnral stale 

 of those countries compared with our own, arose 

 from the marked, the unquestionable superiority 

 of their !i.orncd animals, Their proportions were 

 Letter, — their size was generally superior — the 

 ban's of their cows were larger and better form- 

 ed--t'he Show at Sniillilield, a m;irkei like that 

 of Brighton, exhibited liner animals for sale, — 

 much finer, — on common market days; than 

 Brighton, except rarely, ever exhihils. I speak 

 of the average appearance, which is the on]yfair 

 rule. 



On my return I was =!rnck with the difference, 

 the inferior state of our cattle — the comiinrative 

 amount of offal, when the animal was/jj. 



1 should limit myself, as the lirsl and principal 

 advantage derived from foreign importalioii to 

 this, that the care beslowed on the cross breed, 

 is of itself a boon, equal to all the increase<l ex- 



prey. At this cnlical I ported are not in any respect superior to our hill fowls as a constant food, and return with 

 ;e of mind did not for-jown — (not that 1 believe it), — yet their iniro- [deasu-re to bis beef and- pork, and peas soup. 

 ' ■■ ' ^ "■ '-- *~ -" "''-"" "<"-<• -•' There was rmolher very interesting fact dis- 

 closed on this examination. Thpre were three 

 to their trcalnicnt and improvement, and a gen- tine five year old steers nf Joseph E.isterbrooke, 

 eral attention to {\ie subject. If it has not produ- Esq. of Koyalston, two ofivbich had been work- 

 ced this effect, it must be only because we are cd bard from the age of 3 years, and the third 

 incorrigibly obstinate in persisting in o/(i usages, had never had a yoke around his ■j\eck. The 

 in the neglect of selecting the finest individuals judges (and better judges nbere could scarcely 

 for breeding, and of sustaining and improving by I be, than my associates) could perceive no sen- 

 generous Ibod, those which we do rr.ise. sible difference in the value of the worked and 

 It surely cannot be unimportant in a state, i imworked cattle. Of the same age, owned by 

 whose a;roal staples must forever be, their beef. | the same man, with the same treatment and food 

 pork, and wool, to urge on every occasion, to I the unworked oxen otlen were in no degree su- 

 [iress by every means, the amelioration of the : perior to those, ivliich had been submitted to 

 races of the animals which yield us these staple I labor. Great Britain might learn a lesson from 

 productions. We may indeed fairly differ as to j (/:js example, if her farmers could have been 

 the means best adapted to the end, but as this j [iresent. It is also worthy of remark that these 

 must be a subject of some delicacy and difficul-|tive years old cattle weighed about a ton a 

 ty, it would ap()ear to ns to be the wisest and j piece, and the seven years old cattle but a trifle 

 best course to give a free and unrestrained j more. I state these facts as being worthy of 

 ranfje to every sort of experiment, not the i notice, since I deem one practical remark of far 



greater value than volumes of theory. 



The Committee award the first premium for fat 

 oxen to Joseph Easterbroolcs of Royalston for his darlc 

 lireed of cattle, our staple production, are adapt- ' brown ox, weight 2104, 7 years old, 25 dollars, 

 ed to our cnllure. ■ '"^^ second premium for fat oxen, they award to 



j.fohn Temple (or his silver nosed ox, 6 years old, 

 I weight 21711, 20 dollars. 



least important of which in my judgment, nay 

 the most important, is to see, I>y actual trial, 

 how far the European improvements in the 



J he third premium to the same person, John Temple 

 for his other ox of the same yoke, 10 dollars. 



If they /(ii/, no lasting injury can ho the con- 

 sequence, becnu'-e the opponenis of imported 

 slock contend, that the progress of change is 



vera shxc, and ]i' disadvantageous, will ot course . 



be checked by individual interest, beforeiany , l "we it to my colleagues, to whom I wholly 



groat evil should be effected. My own rorivic- ''eferred the decision in this case ol lat cattle, to 



lion is, that the experiment has been sa far h^^^' '!'',' I.'^*'"' "^"ly,"'"' ^"f "'^ I''"''"''"'" ''■''^"^'^'■ 

 'uccessful "^ I ty and delicacy : i he cattle were all so hne, 



" Having'made these ffoneral remarks, which I «« ^i"''' ^" ""'''' ''°™'\ pioporlions .and good 



am sensible have been^extended to what, 1 fear, 'J^"''''^' ''"';" even such judges as Mr. livichestcr 



will be felt to be a tedious length, let us now *'^ ^}'- ^'"^'"'^ my associates, must have been, 



advert to our present cattle show, and to those '""I ""--V """ embarr.assed. 



animals which fell under the particular and ^^nUu^ subject, I will take occasion to say, 



minute notice of the Committee of which 1 was "'"■" "'"■ .•^^'."'« ''^e '"'•''=' '^f^'" '""^ '^'g^^'' 



Cbiirmin '" "'^ opinion than the English cattle, taking 



,„ . . ,, , „ ,| Such^an exhibition of fat cattle has, so far as 'hP^°''"''""'^7''5'''"*°'^f«-'f- , „ , 



pense. V\ e have been we all know, ""erly , ,.„„„^ ^^^^^ ,,^^^ ^^^^ ^„ Brighton, and I be- , The great distinction, which 1 should make 



careless of our young Slock 1 be 'nlrodudion j .^^^.^ i^ ^^_^_^_..^_^ .^,^^,^ ^^^- ^„ ,^,^ ,^^,^ from the experience o( b years, at our catile 



ofane-^breed produces of Use fa greater ''e-j „„rtecn animals, weighing from 167.5 to 2319 show.=, would be this that U'e crosses ot the 



gree of care Ihis is a good no easily eslima -| „,,, ^^,| ^^^,^ . to'i ye^i^,■^ of a?e. In every ^'''/'''''f'^ *'*'<;'' ^'"'f "' ""« ' '"' ^'«pr"fitable 

 ed. The attention to o»ei.nunal naturally leads ^^..,^^ l^^,( ^, ,,J ,,^^„ j,„^^^,, ,„ ,„rd ! '"'"'' .'^«''l' '/'' "'"' ^i^^ f'""i^ "r rather keep 

 to an increased attention to a promising one o, _ ^^^^^ ^^^^ .^ ^^^_,^ ^.^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^_, j^ more lat on the same Jood .ban our own race« 

 native race, and so the wbo.e mass are gradually | (•„,., ^^^,^^^,^ /^/„,^,^ English writers give as 



improved. Is not this the way, the ordinary 

 course, by which all oilier improvements in hu- 

 man industry are produccil? 



If Mr Slater bad not introduced his cotton mill 

 into Rhode Island some 30 years since, can any 

 man say that there would have been at this day 

 a cotton (aotory in New Enijland ? I do not mean 

 to say thai Ihcre might not — bul I have no doubt 

 that this establishment accelerated the inlroduc 

 tion of tlietn. The knnwledj;e, that other na- 

 tions possess superior niocl^s of industry does not 

 excite, or but very sloZk;ly cxcilc.i,^ disposition to 

 copy the example. One successl'ul eff. it at 

 home does more in 8 years, thnn ,50 years' Suc- 

 cess in another country. We are, it is tru.\ i ni- 

 tative animals, but still we need to have "ic tx- 

 amplp before oi;r oti'n eyes. We Hp[)ly these re- 

 marks which we believe to be sound, to iigricull.i- 

 ral iin[irovements,and especially li; (be; amelior;.- 

 tion of our domestic anim;ti6. How long liad we 



the average course of falling in England. Op- 

 crate (IS it may, it is both my duty and inchnatiim 

 to stale fairly and I'lilly the rijsults and the Cicls. 

 The greater part of these animals had been ta- 

 ken off from labor about seven months." Their 

 food had been generally what is called t-nb 

 Meal, that is the corn and cob of Indian Corn 

 ground together. Some interesting facts were 

 slalfd by one farmer, which 1 deem it u duty to 

 exhibit. 



He tried his ox with pure Indian meal, and 

 after a few days' trial, the anima! relused it — 

 He then tried the coarser food of Cob meal, 

 which I have just defined, and he took to it gree- 

 dily. This is a modern exfieriment and may 

 prove of great practical utility, k Shrewsbury 

 i.irmer, I think by the name of Rice, was the 

 first who communicated it to our society, though 

 it may have been in use long before. It is im- 

 portant however to know, that an animal may 



1 know very well, that this opinion is ques 

 tinned by very high authority, but my opportu- 

 nities have not been few, serving lor so many 

 years on this (.'ommittee, and I am constrained 

 to say, and it is my duly to say it, as I believe it, 

 that upon precisely the same fiiod the improved 

 races <>l Gre:it Britain (as we see them here) 

 not only have more pridilablf flesh, on parts of 

 great value, bul they will thrive lasier on the 

 same food than our native stock. Excefitions 

 of course, every man ot sense knows occur in 

 all breeds ; 1 know personally, that an animal, 

 taken from its mothpr at a Ti'eck old, lre:t\c(\ pre- 

 cisely as native slock by lis side was treated, has 

 been alvmys fat, while the others were lean. 

 1 touch not the question, for it is hut conjecture 

 whi iber, with our inferior and often careless,' 

 Irealnient, they will not degenerate. //'Iliey do, 

 and only wlien they do, we ought to consider 

 them no longer objects of attention. 



Tlie competition for bulls «c are sorry to 



