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MERRIMACK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 



The annual exhibition of theMciriniacU County Ag- 

 ricultural Society will be held at Warner Centre Vil- 

 lage, on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 7th and Slli. 

 The coniriiitteea named below have been apijoiiitcd by 

 the Directors of the Society. 



The order of business will be as follows : — 



On Wednesday — At nine o'clock, A. .M., the Socie- 

 ty will meet and fill all vacancies in the several com- 

 mittees, who will forthwith attend In the duties assign- 

 ed them. Address at ii o'clodi, P. M. The report 

 of the committees on Farms, Crops and tJardens will 

 then be tnade. After which a dissertation will be de- 

 livered by Rev. .Mr. Wortli, of rishersville, on the 

 subject of raising fruit. 



On Thursday— .\t nine o'clock, A. M., the reports 

 of the conjinitlees will be read. /Vt 11 o'clock, A. .M., 

 the I'loughijig .Match will take place. At 2 o'clock, 

 P. M., dissertations from lion. Isaac Hill, of Conc'oid, 

 on renovating worn out lands and reclaiming waste 

 lands, and Joseph Pillsbury, of linsrawen, on slock. — 

 Report from the committee on Plou;^linig .Match, choice 

 of ollicers for the ensuing year, and other necessary 

 business transacted. 



ISAAC K. GAGE, Secretary. 



STANDING COJIMITTEES. 



On Ploughing Mulch — Isaac Virgin, Concord; Na- 

 thaniel Rolfe, Fishersville; John Kilbourn, Benjimin 

 Walker, Nalium Blunchard, Canterbury; John Taylor, 

 Franklin; Asa Pattee, Warner; John Barker, llenni- 

 ker. 



On IVorking Oxen — Simeon B. Little, Boscawen; 

 John C. Gage, Fishersville; John Durrell, Bradford; 

 Benjamin Whipple, Dunbartou; John Sawyer, Con- 

 cord; Henry Burley, Franklin; Albert Ames, Canter- 

 bury. 



On 2 and 3 year old Steers — Henry Rolfe, Jr., .\sa 

 M. Gage, Fishersville; John Fartner, Enoch Gerrisli, 

 (Jeorge A. Kimball, Boscawen; Newton Sawyer, Salis- 

 bury; Henry Faruuin, Concord; Calvin Gerrish, 

 Franklin. 



On Yenrlings — Lab.nn Morrill, Canterbury; Timo- 

 thy C. Rolfe, Abial R. Chandler, Benjamin Simpson, 

 Fishersville; George \V. Brown, Concord; Warren H. 

 Smith, Northlield. 



On Bulls — James George, Eddy Fairbanks, Warn- 

 er; Ilazcn K. Farnum, Benjamin Farnum, Concord; 

 .\brabum Burbank, Enoch Couch, Boscawen. 



On Cows — Stephen Pingrey, Salisbury ; .\nios Cogs- 

 well, Canterbury; Aaron \\ hitteniore, Jr., Truewor- 

 thy L. Fowler, Pembroke; Abram Brown, Northlield; 

 Little Burbank, Nath.in P. Ames, I3oscavven. 



On .Vari's and Colts — Joseph Swett, Andovcr; Lo- 

 renzo Ferrin, Warner; Friend L. Burbank, Jjaban M. 

 Chadwick, Boscawen; Leonard .Morrison, Fishersville; 

 Andrew Taylor, Canterbury ; William H. Hayes, San- 

 bornton. 



On Sheep — George W. Nesmith, Franklin*; Joseph 

 Pillsbury, Fred-*rick W. Collin, Boscawen; William 

 H. Gage, Fishersville; James Greenough, Canterbury ; 

 Webster B. Davis, Warner; David F. Kimball, Salis- 

 bury. 



On Swine — George W. Dow, W. S. Foster, Con- 

 cord; James M. Harriman, Pbineas Colby, Warner; 

 Reuben Johnson, Samuel Martin, Fishersville; Tho- 

 nns Little, John B. West, Garl.ind Calef. Boscawen. 



On /?uWcr^Nathaniel B. Baker, Joseph A (iilmore, 

 Concord; Luther G. Johnson, I ishersville; Asa P. 

 Cate, .Northfieid; Joseph B.irnard, Hopkinton; Fisher 

 Ames, Boscawen. 



On Cheese — Jeremiah Kimball, Fishersville; .Abra- 

 ham Brown, Hopkinton; .Moody A. Pillsbury, Boscaw- 

 en; Jeremiah H. Wilkins, Pembroke; Jesse Kimball, 

 Canterbury; Charles F. Low, Concord; E. C. Badger, 

 Warner. 



On A'ee'lh Work — Edmund Worth, Henry H. 

 Brown, Fishersville; Joslali Stevens, William P. Hill, 

 George O. Odlin, J. E. Hood, Concord; John Green- 

 ough, Boscawen. 



On Carpeting — Isaac F. W'illiams, John M. Hill, 

 George G. Fogg, Concord; Samuel D. Quimhy, Fish- 

 ersville; Enoch Coffin, Samuel Chadwick, Silas Call, 

 Boscawen. 



On Blankets and Flannel — John S. Brown, .\buer 

 B. Wijiu, .Ara Morrill, Fishersville; John Sanborn, 

 Thomas Elliott, Boscawen; Asa P. Tenney, Sherman 



D. Colby, Concord. 



On Ji'oolen and Silk Hose — James Peverly, John 

 Abbot, Concord; Caleb B. Tracy, .\bial Gerrish, 

 John S. Stevens, Boscawen; .\bial Rolfe, Fishers- 

 ville. 



Or, Silk Goo./s— Isaac Hill, A. B. Currier, John F. 

 Brown, Concord; Harlcn P. Gerrish, Fishersville; 

 Robert P. Lane, Sutton; Hazeu Kimball, Hopki[iton; 

 Enoch H. Pillsbury, Boscawen. 



On Leather, Boots and Shoes — Levi Bartlctt,T. D. 

 Robertson, \^'arner; Henry S. Glcason, Fishersville; 

 David Morrill, Canterbury; Josiah II. Philbrick, San- 

 hornton; Rufus Virgin, iieorge C. Robinson, Concord; 



E. P. Cogswell. Boscawen. 



Jlrticles of Special Improvement — Gov.Colby, New 

 London, Ira Perley, J. L. Itobinson, Concord; Warren 

 .lohiison, l''isherville; Jeremiah Tilton, Northficid; Ca- 

 leb Merrill; James Proctor, Fraidilin; Leonard Eaton, 

 Warner; F.beneKer Price, Boscawen. 



Committee of .'Irrangrments — Levi Bnrtlclt, Jason 

 D. Watkins, George A. Pillsbury, Phineas Colliy, T. 

 D. Robertson, James George, Ldily Fairbanks, Elliot 

 C B.idger, Samuel .Aiken, WebsterB. Davis, Warner. 



Marshals — Col. Josiah Stfnens, Concord; Capt. 

 Enoch Collin, Capt. Moses Whittier, Boscawen; Lieut. 

 Abial Rolfe, Fishersville; Capt. Joseph Whitney, Can- 

 terbury. 



bilked in an oven at the time required to be used. 

 The peculiar udvaiitoKcs ari.^^in},' (ioiii packing 

 apples in siiiid, are e.vplaincd iind roiniiieiited 

 on us Hdlnus, by llie hilu Mr. Wehstiir, anllinr of 

 tlie " Aniericnn dictiunuiy nl' the English Lun- 

 i:iiai;e. " "1st. The sand keeps the apples lioiil 

 the air, wliicli is essential to tliiir preservation; 

 2(1. The sand checks the eMipuralion or per- 

 spiration of the apples, thus presei viiij; in lliem 

 their full flavor— iil the same time any moisture 

 yielded by the apples will be absorbed by the 

 sand — so that the apples are kept dry, and all 

 miistiness is prevented. IMy pippins in May, or 

 Jnne,nre as liesli as when first picked. iCveii 

 the ends of llie slems look as if jiisi separated 

 IVoiii the twi<;s; 3d. The sand is eipially ii pre- 

 servative lioiii the lidst, ruts, &:e. But after tlio 

 extreme heat of June takes place, all apples 

 speedily lose their flavor, and beeoine insipid." 



Preserv.4tion of Apples. — Apples intended 

 to be preserved for winter and spring use, 

 should remain upon the trees nnlil they are 

 quite ripe, which usually lakes place at the com- 

 ing of the flr.-5t heavy fiost They should then 

 be plucked fioni the trees by band, in a fair 

 day, anil packed up immedialely in casks in 

 alternate layers of dry sand, plaster, chaff", saw- 

 dust, eft- bran, and conveyed to a cool, dry place, 

 as soon ua possible. The sand or saw-dust may 

 be dried in the beat of the summer, or may be 



Potato Diskase. — T'lie J..ondoii correspon- 

 dent of the JJoslon Atlas, writes: 



"It is now a well antbenliealed fact that tlio 

 potato crops in ICn^laiiil and Ireland are already 

 nearly lo=t, by the same disease that spread so 

 widely last season. There is not a field in eith- 

 er country that is not either totally or (lartially 

 blasted by this peslileplial disease. Tlie very 

 switie will not eat the diseased polatoe.", and yet 

 the poor people are cot.ipelled to eat llieui or 

 starve! Wherever lids is the case, a very fiital 

 fever rages, and sudden deaths occur. It is stat- 

 ed that diseased potaloes act upon the lininan 

 frame as a slow p<ii>ou which eventually de- 

 stroys life. In some villages, wheix! blighted 

 potatoes have been eaten, Ilie P^nglish cholera 

 (ji'evails to an niarminj; e.xteni, and the inference 

 is that this diseased food produces the cholera. 

 It is stated that on fields where ^jmho has been 

 e.\tensively used, ihe disease is more destructive 

 to the potato. Even the leaves of yonn'jc and 

 healthy trees have been uflected where potatoes 

 have been planted. They wither suddenly and 

 fall off. The smell emitted fiom the fields is 

 described as most ofi'ensive, and a kind of smoke 

 arises from the groiin<l like a thick mist. — 

 What the legions of poor [.eople in England 

 and Ireland w ill e.xist upon it is impossible to say; 

 unless government again purchas<;s large qnan- 

 tiiies of Indian corn for their relief, they will 

 be in a most deplorable condition. Already in 

 Ireland several large meeiiii£s have been held 

 by the snfl'ering masses, for liie purpose of stat- 

 iiiij tlieir situation and devising some means 

 for their complaints to reach the wealthy classes, 

 and finally the government." 



Steali.ng Fruit. — Some one or more scoun- 

 drels robbed a peach tree on the premises of 

 Dr. Joseph N. liales on Sunday night, ami not 



content wiili bearing oil' the ripe finit, broke 

 down a branch two or three inches in diam- 

 eter and carried it away. It was a rare kind of 

 tree, which Dr. Ji. had caieriilly cultivated for 

 two or three years and had just commenced 

 bearing. 



There is no punishment by statute or lynch 

 law half severe cnoiigli for such scoundrels. — - 

 They ought to have their eyes picked out willi 

 hot piuclier.s, their flesh filled with needles, their 

 bands drop of! wiih rot, their tongues eaten 

 wilh vile maggots, their ems grubbed out with 

 dull knives, tlieir feet roasted over burning coal,«, 

 iheir knees stuck through with rusty skewers, 

 their hair pulled out by slow \\eight.s, their noses 

 ground off v\itli rasps, their jaws taken off" with 

 dull saws, their throats filled with melted pitch, 

 their teeth drawn out one by one, their legs worn 

 off by travelling on scorpions, their bowels shot 

 into with Mexican copper grape, their backs 

 opened by cats drawn b;ickwards and healed by 

 aipia f'oiiis, anil ihen he drawn by the magnetic 

 telegraph over four thousand miles of stump 

 fence. In addilioii tliey shonld be held to pay n 

 smart fine and all damages. — Barre Gazette. 



Havana Ciuars. — A letter from the Havana 

 informs ns that the nillivation of toliacco is in- 

 creasing immensely in Cuba, in consequence of 

 Ihe great demand linr Havana cigars, w hilst in 

 many distriels of the island the cultivation of 

 coffee is on the decrease. I'he system of tiafffc 

 in tobacco is very loose and unsatisfiictory, the 

 commodity is cliieffy brought to the city on 

 horses, and there ofl'ered for sale on the so cull- 



