NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Indiana. — John L. Robinson, Graham N Fitrh, Willis A 

 Oomuin, Thos. A. Hendricks, Jesse 1) Bright, Jamea Lock- 

 hart, Samuel Brenton, 8 iinuel \V. 1'nrker. John Spencer. 



Illinois. — S. A. Douglas, Jamea Shields, Timothy Dudley. 

 Richard Yates 



Michigan. — E. C. Seaman, Charles E. Stuart, James L. 

 Conger. 



Texas. — Thos J. Rusk, James Reilly. 



Iowa. — Lincoln Clark. 



Wisconsin.— i. 1) Doty, J. I). Weston, Chaa Sexton. 



Distriri of Columbia. — .1 os. II. Bradley, Thos Blagden, 



Joshua l'ierce, C. L. Fleischman, Kwhank, II O. Tay- 



loc, Ceo Watterstnn, J F. Callan, O. Whittlesey, F Co>le, 

 DeVere Burr. J. L. Smith, Daniel Saunders, l'rof Henry, D 

 Clagett, R Hint, N. P. Causin, J. C. Lewis, Smith Thomp 

 son, Chaa J. Stuart, J. L. Carhery, W Bell, II Martin, Thos 

 Fitman, Flodoardo Howard, Allen Dodge, John 11. King, John 

 Tyssowski. 



ItJ- The above-named persons were present at the organi- 

 zation of the meeting; many persons came in and presented 

 their credentials afterwards, until nearly every State in the 

 union was represented. 



FLOWERS AND FRUIT. 



Cannot friends in the country be induced to take 

 more pains to supply the city with flowers? As 

 soon as the wild flowers begin to bloom, and as 

 long as they continue, why cannot children or oth- 

 ers gather them, arrange them in small and pret- 

 ty bunches, and bring or send them to market? 

 "What we want are boquets 3, 6 1-4 and 12 1-2 

 cents each. It would be more profitable to pro- 

 cure, do them up, and sell thein at those rates, 

 than to deal in dandelions, berries, or any of the 

 common country contributions. There need be no 

 fear of overstocking the market. Thousands of 

 persons would gladly avail themselves of such an 

 opportunity of enjoying flowers at an easy rate 



Not only would all the wild flowers command a 

 ready sale ; the demand would increase with the 

 supply. Common garden flowers might be added. 

 Many a family in the vicinity would do well by 

 cultivating every variety, and forwarding low 

 priced bouquets to the city. Our great middle 

 class (in respect to pecuniary means) of citizens, 

 who ha<e a taste and love for flowers, are now al- 

 most wholly debarred from the possession of tliem 

 by the limited supply and the consequent exorbi- 

 tantly high prices demanded. If the whole neigh- 

 boring country were made a garden, and its sweet, 

 beautiful productions were showered daily upon 

 the city, what a blessing it would be. 



Look at the waste land within ten miles of the 

 City Hall ; look at the idle hands in an around 

 Boston ; and say can nothing be done to bring the 

 two together to the clear advantage of both, and 

 for the benefit of everybody and everything else 1 



What we have said of flowers is equally true of 

 fruit. Every variety of God's gifts, in the forms 

 so agreeable and refreshing to our appetite and 

 our well being, throughout the summer, might be 

 enjoyed by all classes, as they are now by a few, 

 were the cultivation of them extended, as it should 

 be, and the city favored with a greatly increased 

 supply. We hope a better day is coming in these 

 important particulars. A community abundantly 

 supplied with flowers and fruits, would have a 

 great deal to be thankful for. The steps that may 

 lead to such a consummation are worthy of atten- 

 tion. — Boston Transcript. 



12P Porson once boasted that he could write the 

 history of human folly in five hundred volumes. 

 The boast was not unreasonable in his day, but in 

 ours it would make a fool of the man who ven- 

 tured it. 



For the. New England Farmer. 

 FARMING COMPARED WITH MANU- 

 FACTURING IN NEW ENGLAND. 



ISY SILAS BROWN. 



Messrs. Editors: — Soon after the revolutionary 

 war very few mechanics could find employment in 

 the country ; industrious shoemakers could just 

 supply themselves and families with the necessa- 

 ries of life, and other mechanics could do but little 

 better; but few people understood the meaning of 

 '•chartered corporations," bank notes were not in 

 circulation, and specie not far from out of circu- 

 lation ; young men from the army, and others who 

 had served their country at home, were under the 

 necessity of going into business of some kind to 

 supply themselves with "food and raiment," and 

 under the stimulus of hope, and possessing a good 

 share of hereditary enterprise, they worked for 

 small wages a few years, and then purchased lots 

 of wild land in the back towns of New England , 

 New York, and a few, as far off as Ohio ; in this 

 way, and by persevering industry, many of them 

 soon became wealthy farmers, and supplied our 

 markets from their abundance with every commod- 

 ity conducive to comfort and good living. 



The success of these enterprising adventurers 

 induced a regular emigration from the worn-out 

 lands of the old settlements, which hindered the 

 increase of population upon the States bordering 

 the sea coast; this drainage, with the evil experi- 

 enced during the last war with England, in depend- 

 ing upon Europeans to do our manufacturing, be- 

 ing severely felt by the people of New England 

 and some other States, aroused some prominent 

 politicians to a discussion on the importance and 

 advantage to the country of manufacturing our 

 own fabrics from the productions of our own soil, 

 instead of transporting them to Europe, and then 

 back again, subject to a heavy duty, added to the 

 cost of transportation and manufacturing. 



The subject of manufacturing was agitated at 

 large in the journals of the day, till chartered cor- 

 porations were formed, and the business of manu- 

 facturing commenced in earnest. Manufacturing 

 in New England was expedited, in consequence of 

 a protective tariff on foreign imported goods, which 

 brought on a stagnation upon the business of the 

 mercantile class of the community, which influ- 

 enced them to transfer their capital vested in nav- 

 igation, to the erection of factories, and manufac- 

 turing such articles as they had been accustomed 

 to import from foreign lands. It was thought by 

 many people of good reputation for reasoning fac- 

 ulties, that this manufacturing project, would 

 prove ruinous to the business of the laboring class- 

 es of the community, especially the females, who 

 were dependent upon spinning, and weaving, for 

 a support. A short time, however, proved a con- 

 futation of all those erroneous reasonings, and the 

 laboring classes, instead of being deprived of work, 

 found their labor in greater demand, with an ad- 

 vance of wages which induced almost all the la- 

 boring females to forsake home and friends, to en- 

 gage in the manufacturing business, so that for 

 many years past it has been difficult to procure 

 female labor in a family establishment for double 

 the former amount of wages. Young men of good 

 reputation whom we could hire, before factories 

 went into operation in New England, for ten or 

 twelve dollars a months, will now command some- 



