NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[Nov. 25, 



nSPORTS 



OF THE 



JJristol ^arirultural Socfctg. 



.yokes only were offereii tor tri-.il. — Yonr com- i 



mittce iiWHiil iIip preiniiims as tollovvs : | 



First premium ol' $6 00 to Allen Burt j 



Second riillo 4 00 to Seth Hodgjes 



. , . , r ,1 n .., of 'Hiird ditto 3 00 to Allen Burt I 



The Ag_ric„llural boae.y o the Couu y of 



Bristol, had thcr ann,ml LxhihM.on iho 2oth ult^ ; ,^,_^^ ^^^.^^^ ^^ .,^ ^^ .^^^^^^^ ^^^^^_ 



when the arrangements, |irevioiisly made and).,, T , .^ . 



fully carried iiilo eflect as 



published, were as 



circumstances would permit. The address was 

 pronounced by Jacob Chapin Esq. Of this ad- 

 dress it is the iluty of the authorised Commit- 

 tee of the Society "to say, and it i- their pleas- 

 ure to be the oro;an of the Sociely m ihis [lar- 

 ticular, that it gave tl:n-e sensible and instruc- 

 tive views and notices of the duties, the rewards 

 and the prospects of tlie farmer and manufac- 

 turer, which useful and careful reading and dis- 

 criminating good sense would alone present. — 

 The society have no reason to despair of ade- 

 quate success, in all measures adopted in ju- 

 dicious furtherance of its Liudable odjects. 



Committee on Agrkuharc. 



The Coramiltee on agriculture ask leave to re- 

 port, and award premiums to the following per- 

 sons a.nd on the following articles viz: 

 Nathan Slade, for the best crop of Oats, beinj^ 57 



bushels to the acre, o 00 



Roland Howard, for the second best crop of Oats, 



beings 40 bushels to the iicre, 3 00 



Richard Wild, for the best crop of Hay, beinj 



herds-grass and finetop and being T. 2 15 3 27 



to the acre, 6 00 



James Sproat, for 2d best crop of Hay, 4 00 



Richard Wild, for the best crop of Mangt 1 Wurtzcl, 



bein^ 145 bushels to 1-4 of an acre, wiight SF, 



19 3 24. C 00 



Josepli Carpenter, for the best crop of Rye on 155 



rods of ground, being 41 bu.'ihels, 6 00 



Sheflel Weaver, for second best crop of Rye on one 



acre, being ^2 bushels, 4 00 



Best tub ofbutter marked No. 1 (o .Jacob Dean, 5 00 

 Second bent do. IS to Samuel Tyler 3 00 



Bestlot ofclieese do. 33 to .'ohn Cilmore, 4 00 



Second do. do. 27 to David Guffinton 3 00 



_ Third do. do. 28 to Bernard Algier 2 On 



.\11 which is humbly submitted 



JAC013 DEAN, ) 



ELF. IS HALL, ) Committef.. 



ABIJAH REED. ) 



51 00 

 Apples and Pears of a large, size, and fine 

 quality were presented, and also Mangel Wurtz- 

 el ; all which is respectfullv submitted. 



Per order, ROLAND lIOVVAItD, Chairman. 



Apples presented by Olny Carpenter of See" 

 konk, Pears, by Dc, Greeu of Mansfield. 



Committee on Domestic .fjinmah. 



The roiimittee on Domestic Animals tlo here- 

 by award to the following persons the premiums 

 aiVixed to their several names, fur the best ani- 

 mals presented, viz. : 

 William Godfrey for best milch cow 

 Jesse Smith 2d ditto 



Oliver Ames, best bull of any age 

 Sheffield Weaver, best 2 years old bull 

 Koland Howard, Esq. 2d ditto 

 Learned Wilmarth, best bull calf not over 6 months 



old 

 Anthony Gaidner. best fat ox 



Ditto, 2d ditto 



Daniel Wither, 3d ditto 

 .loshiia Williams, 4th ditto 

 John Maromber, best boar 

 Bartholomew Burt, 2d ditto 

 John Macomber, best breeding sow 

 Dr. A. BHvliPs, 2d ditto 



Lamed Wilmarth, jr. best merino buck 

 Jesse Carpenter, 2d ditto 

 Ditto, best 6 ewes 



Benjamin Shores, 2d ditto 

 Charles Dean, the best 2 years old heifer 



In behalf of the Committee, 



GEO. WALKER 



i CominiUee on Maiiufucliircs. 



The Committee on i\Ianufaclures, respect- 

 fully report to the Bristol County Agricultural 

 Society, the following premiums viz; 



Farmers' Manufacturing Co. .\ttleborough, best 



piece of cotton shirting, g4 00 



Ribek;ih P. Carpenter, Rehoboth. best Carpeting, 6 '0 

 Abigail Phillips. Tatmton, 2d best do. 3 CO 



John Gilmnre, Raynham, 3d best do. 2 50 



Mary Porter, Taunt jn, 4th best do. « ( 



Cornelia Licllefield, Taunton, best h( arlh rug. 2 00 

 Myra Williams, Taunton, 2d best dn. 1 00 



Olive Hack, Taunton, bei't piece all wool flannef. 4 00 

 Ezekiel B. Leonard, Taunton, best piece cotton 



and wool do. 3 00 



.Inlia Hall, Uaynham, best straw bonnet G 00 



Harriet Ide, Attlehorough best legliorn do. 4 00 



.lolin Martin, Taunton, best calfskin boots, 2 0.0 



.Abraham Chace, Freetov,-n, best G calfskins, 2 00 



00 



3 00 



Committee on Ploughing and IVorking Cattle 



Your Committee on the Ploughing match and ! p.nis Hail, Uaynham, best 3 sides sole leather, 

 working oxen ask leave to report : — 5^he com- j.lohn Stetson, Taunton, best imitation beaver 

 petitors for the premiums on ploughing (being! ^^^^ 

 ten in number) did not perform the work in ,o ! '^eterThalc^ier, Attlehoro\ best 3-4 broad-cloth, 3 00 

 ,. . , , ^ ,11 III Fanny Presbray, iauuton, best pr. woolen 



iinished a manner as we could have wished. — . ■', . •^' i r 



Notwithstanding forty minutes were allowed i p,^,,!,.] firl„„g. Xg^ton. best plough, 

 them to perform the work, and being cautioned I Daniel Kriggs, jr. Norton 2d best do. 

 by us again^.t haste, the work was [)crlbrmed in I Nancy Smith, Norton, Milk weed bonnet, 

 from 20 to 21 minutes, a shortei time (in the Harvey Hamdcn, Wellington, Diaper table 



opinion of your committee) than the wotk, with 

 the ploughs used, could bo well jierformed. — 

 Your commitee, however, after strict exatniua- 

 ;ion, award the premiums as follows: 



First premium of $6 00 to Jolm I'addleford 

 Second ditto 4 00 to llurii? Dean 

 Third ditto 3 00 to Jolm Williams 

 Fourth ditto 2 (10 to Samuel C;rockcr. 

 fOll WORKING nXf,.N. 



Your committee are sorry that among so many 

 line working oxen as were . present, that three 



cloths 



The committee woiild farther report, that 

 thev were much gratified with the sjiecimens 

 of prints exhibited Iiy the Taunton and Fall- 

 River printing Establishments. 



JOSEPH E REED, \ 

 EPH'M. RAYMOND, f Commit- 

 HENRY WASMRURN, ( tee. 

 JONATHAN BLISS, ) 

 Taunton, Oct, 25. 1825. 



From a A'eto York Faver. 



INSECTS IN WHEAT. 

 The following notices of an insect, that preys 

 upon wheat, on certain farms in the town of 

 Brooklyn, on Long Island, which have been 

 furnished us for putihcalion. are contained in a 

 letter to Stephen V.in Renssalaer, [iiesident of 

 the Slate Agricultural S.-)ciely, &c. ice. dated 

 New York, Oct. 3, 1825. 



An enemy to the cultivation of wheat, un- 

 knot n in these parts until now, has very lately 

 been di'^covered in King's county. It is estima- 

 ted that .Mr Remsen, ol the Wallabout, has iost 

 one-third of his crop by it. The destroyer is 

 an insect that infests the grains of wheat, while 

 yet in the spike or ear. On shelling them out 

 early in September, and dissecting them, the 

 larvcE WHS readily found in some and the chrys- 

 alis in others ; nestling amidst the erosion and 

 ruin lliey had formed. A hole was easily dis- 

 tinguishable where the wound had been made 

 by the parent insect in the seed, while young 

 and succulent, for in-erting the egg. Jn this 

 respect, there is a resemblance to tha injury 

 done the pea, in its immature slate by the busr, 

 [hruchtis.) The ravages were committed in the 

 sheaf, while yet in the stack or barn, and the 

 full amount of the mischief ascertained only 

 when the wheat was measured up, or carried 

 to mill. 



A small bundle of bearded wheat was brought 

 by J. licinscn, E=q. from his father's, unlhresh- 

 ed. The ears were put under a large and con- 

 venient vessel of glass, and caretully ualchcd 

 from time to time. Day after day imagos or 

 perfect winged insects conliiiuod to hatch. They 

 were the subject of repealed observations. 

 'I'here could be no hesilation in pronouncino' 

 Ihera to belong to the lepidnplerous order ; and 

 it seenis about as plain that in scientific arrange- 

 ment tluy ought lo be (daced in the tinea, or 

 " molh" iamily, of the phaltciia, or " miller' 

 Iribe. 



In rl! these pailicubirs, the creature under 

 consideration is suflkiently discriminated from 

 the Hessian fly, which is a cecitlomia, and from 

 the wee\il, which is a curculio. \l is, however, 

 not the tinea granella of the books, (called by 

 the French, fausse Icigne Jes bles.) >vhich prejs 

 u[)on the grain and connects several seeds to- 

 gether bv its web, forming thereby a sort of 

 tunnel or tube where it conceals itself, and 

 whence it comes forth for depredation. I have 

 searched Count Ginannis' elaborate work ujion 

 the diseases of wheat in its growing stale, (Ma- 

 latie del Grano in Erba ; .Pesaro, Ito. 1759,) 

 without liiuling such an insect as this. Our in- 

 vader is about the size of a woollen molli; and 

 of a dull tin or polished iron colour, and if the 

 season is favorable to the evolution of the germs, 

 comes forth while the operation of harvesting 

 is going on. 



As far as I can judge, Ihis is the insect intend- 

 ed by Colonel Langdon Carter, of Sabine Hall, 

 Virginia, in his memoir upon a creature that lie 

 denominates a Jlij-'ti.-en-il. He wrote in 17G8, 

 and his tract «as published in the transactions 

 of the American Philosophical Society at Pliil- 

 adelphia, vol. i. p. 27!, and sequel. Though 

 dated that year, the author refers fo the lime 

 Iwenty-five years prior, that is to 17 13, for the 

 confirmation of his statement. It is delightful 

 to honour the memory of this gentleman. As 



