®l)C jTavmcr's iilontl)li) iUsitor. 



155 



To Abraham Brown, of Northfield, two " 

 To I.aban M. Chadwick, Boscawen, one dollar and 

 fifty cents. 



ToAlaj. ?il.\s Call, of B«sc-a>wn, ono dollar. 



0,1 meat. 

 To Nathan I'. Ames, cif Boscawi'ii, two dollars. 

 To Knoch Little " . " one dollar and 



fifty cents. 



To Hon. .\nio.s Cogswell, of CaiilorburyjOno dollar. 



0,i Corn. 



To Keuben Johnson, of Boscawen, two dollars. 



To Hon. A. P. Cate, of Northfield, one dollar and 

 fifiy cents. 



To Capf. I,. Chadwick, orBoscawen, one dollar. 

 On Gardens. 



To .lueniiali Kimball, of f'ishersville, two dolhrs. 



To IJonj. Simpson, of Boscawen, one dollur. 



It would have aflbrded the commitleu much pleasure 

 to have dispensed more awards, lint we used up our 

 premium list, and did not like the plan of drawing from 

 our own wallets. If any feel dissati.slied, we entreat 

 them to impute the blame to an error of the head, and 

 not of the heart. 



All of whijii is respectfully submitted. 



L. BARTLETT, for the committee. 



Oct. 8, 1S45. ' ■ ; ; 



Victoria's royal subjects. They all weigh over two 

 hundred pounds a cheese, and several of them more 

 tliiiu two hundred and forty jMunds. If Her iVIiijPsty 

 desires larger than these, we will jnake them so here- 

 after. 



CONCORD, N. H., OCTOBER 31, IWi. 



The iinne.xcil poetir Rppon was read bcfiiro a 

 cotiiniittee, hfior the late Cattle Show jit Pitts- 

 field, Mass. :— 



On Swine. 



'J'heC'nminittee on Porkers, to whose ;Tr.icioiis rnro, 

 Were referred ai"l the merits ()!' Pi^js at llle fair. 

 Viewing the subject of gr;ivest lni|>or.t, 

 Beg leave, l<> your body, iti rhyme, to Ileport ; 



With sincere satisfaction vour committee have ctmnd 

 Ou those fine, not>lo nJUives ©id Berks-hire has raised, 

 Oa the size uiost Herculean, lo which our pigs grew, 

 And the digniiied bearitif; with which, in each pen, 

 The occupants snuQ''d at jr-iuarks frou^ ll;e men ; 

 Each. bearing with patience, of jokes, I'le whole bruBt, 

 Anil uttering on]y a half suppressed grunt. 

 They thought wiih gned reason. hnw'fanied liegs weuld be, 

 If but once iliey could get up a axinne juhilee. 



your cominiilee aver, and ilicy trust without tie.ason. 

 That, though to our swine friends, iias hccn denied reason, 

 There are facts enough fnrnisiied to make a strong case,- 

 That by ties i.norc tlian one, they're allied to our race. 



Take your Grunter, for instance, your. .\!derman Hog, 

 VV'lio walks, lakes his dinner, and sleeps like si l'>g, 

 W'lijl is he, gootl sirs! with his gulfawsatld gre.ase. 

 But a very respectableyKS//cc of the peace 



Take your leoi yearling:, Moco. neither dirty nor greasy, 

 Who will sin.) up all cases, and never is easy. 

 Wiio will ruui up your garrlen. your oreiiard will peel j 

 He's a newly Hedged law_\er;, just list to his squeal t 



In love and airection wh-i dares lo vie . _ 



\Vith the kind, nursing mctltier, whose home is the sty ? 

 Like the Roman Cornelia, liow well may she say, 

 When asked I'er ber jewels, "see ihem yonder at play.'' 



And the Fop dies of envy, to see his hair fail 



In the ringlets the young l>'iar waves in his tail, 



And the pig inarching plump into Ibe bower of his fair, 



Without either serenade, song, or guitar. 



The dandy exclaims, " this is demnitien fine, 



O ! for the cu'-ls in the tail of that swine. "' 



There's scarce a proressieu our swine would not fill, 

 From ruling n State down lo making a pill ; 

 'V.s adversity's fire that jiurp gold mii.-:i abi^ie, 

 And of all things, the-HoL' is most tho.-nughly ii-icd. 



Tben^too, wlien the side of pork is cut up and cured. 

 And the shoulders and haiti^ in the smi'ke-house uiiinur'd, 

 A\ougl»l is lelt but the beau that's aLlied.to our race. 

 Once bake it, 'tis what '.' \.liy, a minister's flice. 

 As the world has been blessed by the writings of men. 

 So lo swine are we holdeii for gifts of the pen j 

 .And when olT the hog shulEes his own mortal coil. 

 The world is still lighter with thought of lard oil. 



As to lilniid and to bre'cd. withetjt any jest. 

 That hog, like a government, alsyays is best. 

 That is manajred the way the safest and surest 

 To round otr the pork barrel plumpest and fullest. 



Your clnirman once purchased sTiioe line Berkshire pigs. 

 At their exquisite Iwauty he often danced jigs j . 

 When he killed-tbeni and called for side pork-iri the lump, 

 They turned now the cold shoulder and now the round 

 rtimp. 



.It has long" been a point, in all circles inticli mooted, 



To whicb side in politics hogs are best suited. 



Some have. Democrats', called them ; seme, Whigs, in 



pretence; 

 All agree they are seldom found perched on tlie fence. 



For they found it characteristic nf swine, 

 To be sovereign at all times, indepe^riVJj* in ni en. 

 And in spite of the 'owner, his whip, or his dog. 

 To be sure they're contrary, then go the whole It02. 



Cheese. — ^Thirty-seven noble cheeses, from ten 

 ditVereut dairies, the same which took the premiums at 

 the late State Fair at I'tica, have been shipped on board 

 the Mediator, for Ijondon, to gratify the palates of (luecn 



Five Bays away from Ilonie. 



When 11 tiKiti lakes up uti iih'ti in pliiloso|tliy 

 or i;lliics (•tilertaitieil by ito otic olsc, it i.s ti point 

 of lii^jli gratiliiMtioii to liiul lh« fiicbs so liir lietu'- 

 int; liiiM out as to ohtuiii from their ntiUml ap- 

 pt'iiiaiiee the concession of the triitli of his 

 theory. The notice in our last pcregiinaiioiis of 

 the " little mountain at llooUsett," was wiiiteii 

 ami pnhlislied with an e.\|)(;rtalinii that it iniglit 

 he set down us one of tlie v;ii£;iries of a dise.iseu 

 imagination of Itiic liccome enthti.siastii: in rela- 

 tion lo the earth, its even and niieven surliiOes, 

 anil its capacity to [irodnce every thin;; neccs.-aiy 

 to the support, and even to the enibellishtneul, of 

 our liUtnan 'lU'e. What was our sni-pri.se lo he 

 Ciilleil on by a retuler of the Visitor — anil we 

 have not ten readers here where the iinpo; lance 

 of our paper should secure us iinndreds — liviiin; 

 in lliis viliaf;!.', who with another htid gone till the 

 w;iy to Ilpulisett to look at the clnio.slty, and who 

 bl'ousht us, as evidence that we were riolil, the 

 scoriii of nielied rocks I'rotn this niounttiin which 

 had been thrown out of the bowels of the earth, 

 and other cuiions fragtiieiits, all goiui: to tnake 

 the uitittcr as phiin as if it were an event of yes- 

 terday. IVIoreover, our informant said tlitil the 

 era;;s. and fissures of the rocks, as well as the 

 shape . of the little inotintaiti itselii proved its 

 origin in the convulsive throes oi those stifety 

 valves. of cretilion, in an age of tlie worhl when 

 this |)art of North .'\nierica vviis the region of 

 volcanoes wliieli have either become exiinet, or 

 been remove,! in veins lo oilier points ol' the 

 glolie. 



I'eiiig e.veecdingjy jciatified in that pari of our 

 kicuhralintis v\ liich related to the Hooksett mouu- 

 lain, we now pio'ceed tofniish the acennnt'whicii 

 we iiist week begiui. 



Gob P>ei;jtiiviiu Poore resides ou a farm at Vv'est 

 >fewliury, i! ur miles out of Newburyporl, which 

 h.id become to the editor a rnaiirr of iiMrresl 

 from the fitct that, in theyear 1844, he htiil been 

 iiuarded by the Miissachusetts Agrieu!tiif;il So- 

 ciety the sum of S'-OO for the best farm oU'ered, 

 and a gratuity of $50 for. lite best method of 

 ih.-iinitig land.--. Allhottgh we cannot eo!i.:ede 

 thtit Col. Poore's farm, or farm maitagetnee.t, is 

 the best and the most profitably ciiltivtited, we 

 are yet willing to concede iinich to the persever- 

 ance and the maiiagemeut of its owner w ho is 

 abiitidantly supplied uiib the means to da for 

 agrit^nlture and hoVticulture, on his premises,, 

 whatsoever his hand fitidetit to ilo. 



The ancestors of this gentleman came tcihis 

 country about the year 1640, nearly two hundred 

 years ago, and then settled at the place now 

 called Indian Hill, being a rising ground niemor- 

 ablo for a fight between the whites and tin; In- 

 dians .several years after the arrival of the set- 

 tlers. The father of Cob P. (the. hit* Dniiiel 

 Nojes Poore, ST. D.) died in Jatmnry, W57, in Hie 

 78tii year of his age. Dr. P. was lined at Diin.i- 

 iner Academy, and was it classinale at'Harvard 

 University with Riifiis Kitig aitdTliotnas Dawes. 

 The Pooi-es are of an ancient fiimily who came 

 to England from Normamly in 1006. Herbert 

 Pauj>ere or Poore, was bi.-iho]) of paruie, and as- 

 sisted in the coronation of King .lohn, .-itid was 

 also one of those " hisl'.ops and bitrous'.' who 

 uresti-d froni.that arbitrary and weak nionaHdi 

 Ib.e fiiinons Magna Charta, in 1915. 



The late Saninel L. Ktuipp, who was curious 

 in these matters, wrote an Qbitntiry notice of Dr. 

 Pooi<e in the N. Y. Mirror, and then isaid " the 

 doctor's father was an agrictdtmist of the old 

 sidicHil. Tlie ImikI which he ctdtivated hail ciniie 

 down, a lineal inheritance, from the first .settler 

 of the name, who felled the trees for chjaritig." 

 Mr. Ktiapi) compliments the Doctor as 'disiiti- 

 guislied in his d.ay for hia manners as a gentle- 

 man, as well as for skill in his profession." 



Indian Hill fiirin has contiimed in the line of 



tlie oldest son from its first settlement : as a mat- 

 ter of family pride, aflcr the manner of the Eng- 

 lish line of primogeniture, the fiirni is inherited 

 by the eldest sou, and iho females and yoinig- 

 er sons are considered as having a home 

 and a support upon the farm during the term of 

 their nnttnal lives. When Dr. Poore died, be 

 left mtiiden sisters, who re.-^idcd as long as they 

 lived upon the liirm, which then came into the 

 possession of its lu'esent propileior. 



The originid grant, or deed, from tlie Indian 

 chief, signed " Tom," with an tirrow-hcad mark. 

 is still in existence : it bears dali; KJ.'JO, and grants 

 the land about, anil including, tlie liill, as far as 

 the eye (!oiihl reach. Ihe Indians marlo the 

 reservation of planting corn upon thi.s land as 

 long its they chose. They did (roniintie upon the 

 ground seven years, during a portion of which 

 time there existed at old Nev.buiy, and else- 

 where, a siinguiuary hostility of the Indiaiif.: yet 

 so carelid was the first settler lo conciliate the 

 friendly feelings of the Inditms, that, although far 

 in the forest beyond the protection of block- 

 houses and stockades, the (ttmily reposed with- 

 out molestation. It was a |)i aciice of the Indians, 

 when the hopes of life became extinct, lo aban- 

 don their ehierly helpless people lo their liile. 

 The Indians, roving ami htiiuing from place 

 to phice, left one of their old women sick tit 

 the wigwain on tlie llill^she hud hiid a con- 

 siilerable lime, when she wtis found alive by the 

 first mother .of the Poores, who .•iccideiilally went 

 to the Indian hut, and discovered hi'r llicre ne.-ii- 

 ly exhausted. She soon supplied lood and noui- 

 ishment until liH; was restored. When suflicietit 

 strength had returucd, Mi's. Poore took tlie iiged 

 w ild one of the forest into her own liimily, feed- 

 ing anil luirsiiig her, where she remained ;is long 

 as she lived. "I'lie returning Indisitis, who liiui 

 abandoneii Ihe old one at a point of near ex- 

 ll:ln^tiotl, looked upon her as one risen fnnn the 

 dead. J-iy acts of kiiid-ne.'-s .'^uch as this, which 

 would have done honor to the fiime of Williiiin 

 Penn,-were the children of ihe forest conciliated 

 to tlie Poore.«, so as to become a better' protev-lion 

 than firearm.s, or wtills and jiatllemenls. ,. ,. 



Col. Poore, the piesent owner of Indian lliiJi 

 had mtide an independency in mercantile pur- 

 suits at New York and elsewhere, before the 

 dem'f.se 'ot his liitler. Since that lime he ha'a' 

 occupied and carried on this farm as an af 

 mnsement. Absent iluring all the winter inoiitlis 

 on busineSfi, it vvouhl" be a wonder if lie couhi 

 make the busiue.ss of suidi ;i farm a mailer of 

 ))rofit, as a irioney making concern. The farmer 

 always at home, iias ti decided advantage of him 

 in tliis respect. But the geiitlemiUi has lijid aiv 

 advjintage in the management of his farm thai, 

 where, few others siltialed.as iie is coiijd have 

 gone along tit ail, he has ilone well. System ami 

 method is every tiling in the management of the 

 common concerns of life. Mow great would be 

 esteemed the vtiltte to the man of busine.sy, of 

 the record to which he cotihl , turn for the exact 

 irnasactious of every liay from the lime i.e com- 

 menced bnsines.s Col.' Poore, for the i.ist twentyT 

 five \ears, has had a svsletn of his own, a daily 

 record, from vvliicli he cjin post every iinporlant 

 tninsLiclion of life. At first he had manuscripts 

 prepered,iit which the diaiy was entered. After- 

 wards he bad books printed with the sjiace for ev- 

 ery day in tire year. So valuable was his inethud 

 coiisitiered, that an i-Nteiisive book.seller at New 

 York LOW prepares large editinns annually. 



On the Indian lliii I'arm-sonie ten to fifteea 

 hands are kept con.-tantly emidoyed : no incon- 

 sideiable part of I he labor i.^ in those pcrmaneHt 

 improveiTients which, when jndicionsly applied, 

 contribute more to the vuliie of ihe land than 

 so much capital expended in it.* original cost. 

 When leaving for several motitlis. Col., Pooie laya 

 put his work in all its dcpiulmi-nts. The ordi- 

 nary operations of the field are .always first ill 

 order. The extra imiirovements, such as diggisig 

 and constructing diains, filling up niorasseb", 

 building causeways and bridges, constructing 

 stone fences, excavating mciulows and laying out 

 materials for intinnre. &c., are alv, ays m order 

 in tiiiies of iei^nre. Evi;iy iielil upon the firm, 

 and every hand employed, is designated by num- 

 ber. Each day tin; emphiyincnt of the men, and 

 the particular field n|)on wliicli work is done, are 

 respectively enteied. In the absence of tlie 

 husband, the lady makes it a pJeasant pastime to 



