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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 7, 1826. 



AGRICULTURE. \ 



Agriculture is a subject of great and growing 

 importance to the people of the U. States, and it is 

 gratifying to observe that an increasing attention 

 Ts paid to it. It is one of the great sources of 

 wealth and independence to the nation ; in many 

 respects it is lo be viewed as vastly more import- 

 ant than manufactures : and the increase of the 

 latter should only incite farmers to more energy 

 in promoting the former. The following remarks 

 are from the Lowell Journal : — | 



" It is unnecessary to remind thg* farmers in this 

 vicinity, that the rapid growth of this place makes 

 a greater demand for the surplus produce of their 

 lands, increases the importance of the agricultural 

 interests, and requires from ihem more vigorous 

 exertions to cultivate their grounds profitably.— 

 It is a false opinion that to encourage domestic 

 manufactures is prejudicial to the agricultural in- 

 terests. The multiplication of manufactures not 

 only furnishes a better market for produce, but 

 creates a demand for articles which before were 

 not produced at all, or only in small quantities. — 

 At the same time that land has become more val- 

 uable, and the productions thereof arc more easily 

 and profitably disposed of, it is worthy of remark 

 that the price of labor, and consequently the ex- 

 pense of managing a farm, is but little augmented. 

 We state this fact on the authority of an intelli- 

 gent and enterprising farmer in this vicinity." 



[Salem Gaz.] 



Old Maids. — None but very plain women, or 



girls who have determined to die old maids, adopt 



large bonnets — small bonnets and plain straw hats, 



were examininir the fields, fruit trees, fences, &c. I indicate not only the possession of beauty, but 



At the time we called, the Committee (the chair- 

 man of which is the venerable Timothy Picker- 

 ing) and many gentlemen of this town and vicinity. 



good nature, kindness, and sociability in the wear- 

 ers. 



The importance of good tillage would be evident 

 to any that woi'l?! examine this farm — as the grass 

 appears hardly to have felt the unusually dry 

 weather. The management of this farm bas more_ ^^^^ ^_^^,^^ ^j. ^.^^ territory, t'lat a physici,>n has 



A Michigan paper states lliat it is so healthy in 



than merited the praise of "causing two blades 

 grass to grow where but one trew before." The 

 corn on this place, was evidently the best we had 

 noticed elsewliere— every thing, in short, was 

 luxuriant, and manifested skilful tillage. 



The regularity and good arrangement of the 

 buildings and implements are likewise creditable 

 to the taste of the owner and to the good manage- 

 ment of Mr. Pearson. "A place for every thing, 

 and every thing in its place" is the motto here ; ^ _ 

 and the nice arrangement of the implements of dirty job 

 husbandry, &c. shows how apposite this motto is 

 [Newburyport Herald.] 



to procure a subsistence by "planting potatoes." 

 And that the Lawyers have been obliged to quit, 

 or starve to death !! Ho v fare the printers ? 



Numbers of passengers arrive from England by 

 every vessel. The population of the United St.ites 

 is increasing with unprecedented rapidity — and 

 piust find or be found employment. 



Burns says of Ambition that its climbing is creep- 

 ing ! and that wdth all its pride it has to do many 



Saiony Sheep. 

 On Thursday the 13th July at 9 o'clock at Brighton, 

 near Boston, will be s()ld at Public Auction. 



The entire Flock o( EUclf)ral Saxoui/ 5/* ff;?, imported 

 in the B'ri» Hyperion from Bremen consisting of 

 190 BUCKS, 

 30 EWES, 

 These .Slieep were selected from the most renowned 

 electoral flocks in Saxony, by the same agent, who 

 has been employed in the purchase of upwards of 1500 



DROUGHT IN 1748. 

 During the late drought (from which a copious 

 rain has happily relieved us) some facts came to 

 our knowledge which put at rest the question, 

 whether there ever was so poor a season for grass 

 as the present? Two of the most aged farmers in 

 this vicinity can remember a drought in the year 

 1748, which for severity and duration has since 

 been unequalled. There was a rain ou the last 

 day of May that year, and none afterwards until 

 the month of August. One man who had a stock 

 of 20 cattle, was compelled to kill eleven of that 

 number. Another, in whose business a horse was 

 indispensable, wintered him on a pittance of hay 

 gleaned from a tanyard of no uncommon size, 

 where the growth of the grass was promoted by 

 the quantity of water used in the process of tan- 

 ning. Some neat cattle were wintered entirely 

 on ragweed. [Portsmouth Journal.] 



THE FARMING INTEREST. 

 The great Sheepshearing holidays were ob- 

 served in Nantucket on the 18th and 19th inst. 

 when lti,000 sheep were gathered into one fold, 

 and divested of their fleecy habiliments. A similar 

 fete was noticed lately by an individual farmer in 

 Connecticut. These rural festivals are becoming 

 more general, and the farming interest is assuming 

 that distinguished place in public estimation, to 

 which it is deservedly entitled. In connection 

 with this we cannot refrain mentioning the high 

 gratification we received, a few days since, from 

 spending a few hours at " Indian Hill Farm" in 

 this vicinity. This farm was purchased more than 

 a century since of the natives, and has been hand- 

 ed down in the same family since, each generation 

 making some improvements. It is now owned by 

 Mr. Benjamin Poor of New-York and has for 

 several years been managed, under his direction, 

 by Mr Nathaniel Pearson — who has this year of- 

 fered it for inspection to the Committee appointed 

 for that purpose by the Essex Agricultural Society. 



AMERICAN COMMERCE. 



On the 12th of May, in the House of Commons, 

 Mr Alexander Baring observed — 



"The Chancellor of the Exchequer had not, 

 perhaps, given the House all the information it 

 was desirable to have, as to the increase of the 

 trade of the United States of America : but he 



knew that nine-tenths of all the foreign trade with i Sheep on orders from Russia and Prussia. 

 Liverpool was carried on by American ships. — 

 The docks of that town looked at all times more 

 like a port of the United States than an English 

 harbour. He looked at this subject with some anx- 

 iety, but he was not aware that it was possible to 

 alter it. He should listen with great willingness 

 to any suggestions having this for their object : 

 but though he thought the evil a serious one, he 

 saw no means OI remeuymg it." 



Sheepshearinf:. — This patriarchal festival was 

 celebrated on Monday and Tuesday last in this 

 place, with more than ordinary interest. For some 

 days previous, the sheep drivers had been busily 

 employed in collecting from all quarters of the 

 isiand,the dispersed members of the several flocks: 

 and committing them to the great sheepfold, about 

 two miles from town,preparatory to the ceremonies 

 of ablution and devestmeiit. 



The principal inclosure contains 300 acres ; to- 

 wards one side of this area, and near the margin 

 of a considerable pond, are four or five circular 



As there has been no pains or expence spared in this 

 selection, being for account, and under the direction of 

 one of the first mercantile houses in Leipsic, they may 

 justly be considered at least equal in every respect to 

 any that have been or can be brought from Saxony. 



Certificates of the descent and purity of the breed 

 are deposited at the OflSce of the .Auctioneers for in- 

 spection until the day of the sale, 



Catalogues will be ready for delivery 10 days 

 previous. 



The sheep may be examined at any time before the 

 sale which will take place at Brighton, as advertised, 

 near the Agricultural Hall. 



The Agents pledge themselves that none of the 

 above flock will be disposed of at private sale previous 

 to tliat time, when Ihey will all be sold without any 

 reserve. 



June 23. COOLIDGE, POOR & HEAD, Aucl 



Legacy for Young Ladies. 

 MRS BAR.'JAULD'S posthumous work entitled"^ 

 Lrgict) for Young Ladies^^'' edited by Miss Lucy Aikin, 

 is just published at 8 1 VVashington street. ( up stairs.) 



The January number of the Eclectic Review has the 

 foUowin:; notice of this interesting little work. 



".V Legacy for Youne Ladies from Mrs Barbauld, re- 

 fences, one within the other— and about 20 feet q"ir" only to be announced to excite a general desire 

 ' - to share in It. The pieces which compose this delight- 



ful little miscellany, ' were found among her papers 



apart — forming a sort of labyrinth. Into these 

 circuits, the sheep are gradually driven, so as to 



by the members of her own family.' They consist 



be desiffnated by their earmarks, and secured for i chiefly of papers of a light and elegant cast, allegories, 

 their proper owners in sheepcotes arranged later- I prose by a poet, andjeux d'esprit in verse, short ess.ays 

 ally, or nearly so, round the exterior circle. Con- 

 tiguous to these smaller pcns,each of which is cal- 

 culated to contain about 100 sheep, the respective 

 owners had erected temporary tents, wherein the 

 operation of shearing was usually performed. The 

 number of hands usually engaged in this service, 

 may be imagined from the fact that one gentleman 

 is the owner of about 1000 sheep, another 700, and 

 numerous others of smaller flocks, varying in num- 

 bers, from .3 or 4(X) down to a single dozen. The 

 business of selecting, sei/ing ■ and yarding the 

 sheep, creates a degree of bustle,that adds no small 

 amusement to the general activity of the scone. — 

 The whole number of sheep and lambs brought 

 within the great enclosure, is said to be lf!,000. — 

 Tliere are also several large flocks commonly 

 sheared at other parts of the island. [Nan. Inq.] 



a;.d letters. . A singular neatness and perspicuity of 

 style, and a feminine elegance of mind, admirable good 

 sense and true simplicity, characterise all the produc- 

 tions of Mrs Barbauld. There is no pretension, noth- 

 in"' tha; savours of the blue ; she never lectures, or dis- 

 courses, or theorizes, but charms us at all times with 

 admirable sentiment in beautiful language. Wt know 

 of no cue who would better deserve to be styled the 

 Female Addison ; only such comparisons must always 

 fad to be very accurate, and the style of Addison is 

 less perfect than hers." 



PATENT HOES.— J & A. Fale's Patent Hoes con- 

 stantly for sale by French & Weld, 31 & 32 South 

 • Market St., and French & Davenport 713 VVashin^on 

 *treet, who are appointed sole agents for vending the 

 <ame. eptf. Boston. April 28, 1826 



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