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AND HORTlCULTUIiAL REGISTER. 



PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO 52 NORTH MARKET STREET, (Aoricultuhal Waeehouse.) 



V01-. XIX. 1 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1840. 



[N3. 17. 



N. E. FARMER 



WORCESIER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The twentyfirst annual festival of the farniers of 

 Worcester county, was lieiil on Weilnosilay, Oct. 

 J4th. The festival came in the most beautiful 

 nionlliofthe seasons of New Enslaml, and was 

 belli under the most cloudless and briijlit skies 

 which smile on the autumnal days. From the cir- 

 cumstance tlmt the postponemejit of the show from 

 tlie time first (i.ved prevented interference with oth- 

 er exhibitions, our friends and neighbors who have 

 usually been deprived of the opportunity to visit 

 US, were enabled to bo present. No accurate es- 

 timate of the niiirdiers in attendance can be made : 

 the substantial yeomanry and husbandmen were 

 here,, and no finer show of men was ever n)ade : 

 it is probable that at least twelve thousand persons 

 participated in the innocent festivities and useful 

 exercises of the day. Never was an assembly 

 more exemplary in conduct: no riot, disorder, ac- 

 cident, or difficulty of any kind, is known to liave 

 thrown a single shadow over the brijihtness of a 

 happv occasion : to tlie contrary, the numerous 

 sprclators departed pleased and ^n-atified with the 

 interesting exercises and exhibitions of the htdiday. 

 The Society was honored by the presence of freii- 

 tlemen connected with agricultural publications, 

 with horticulture, and with the improvement of the 

 soil. Among them were the editors of the Parmer's 

 Visitor, N. E. Farmer, Yankee Farmer, and Horti- 

 cultural Magazine, the Commis.sioner of the -Agri- 

 cultural Survey, the Hon. John Wells and Mr Cod- 

 man, of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, 

 and delegates from each of the county societies of 

 the commonwealth, with many strangers. 



The animals of the farm wore more numerous in 

 quanti'y and more excellent in quulity than ever 

 before. On turning over the records of the socie- 

 ty. It is pleasant to notice, that from the commence- 

 ment in 1811) to the present, there has been a reg- 

 tjlar and progressive increase in the favor with 

 which the institution has been rt^garded, and in 

 the evidence of the beneficial influence it has ex- 

 erted. 



Having no political connexions or alliances, it 

 has furnished common ground where all might meet 

 as friends, and join in united efi^orts for the good 

 of the community. P.irty and sect have alike been 

 forgotten, and c■ltholic^!■ and protestants, defenders 

 and opponents, of the principles and practices of 

 the administration, have stood side by side and giv- 

 en their hearts and hands to the work of being 

 use!ul. No one but jealous and discontented par- 

 tizans ever suspected that the condition was other- 

 [ wise: and no one who was not impelled by morose 

 land disturbed feeling, has ever suirgestod th-;t there 

 I could bo improper motives in tJKise who have yiv- 

 I en time, labor and money, to promote the piirpo- 

 ' ses of one of the bvst of all our local associations. 

 ' The whole nuiiih'T of cattle, sh-'ep and sv/jne 

 ! was five hundred and forty. The abstract from the 

 Seciclary's books below, contains a compurative 

 vii.'wof the slitistics of his department. 



A TABLE 



Showinf; the number of .*hxi units cxiiihilcd i-jtch yeiir 

 at the Vnttte Shoiv of the ll'orcestcr Couiili/ Afrri- 

 cullurril Socieli/, and the number of towns Jrom 

 ichieh thiy were, broiicrht. 



Years— l>i\9, '34, '3.'), '3i;, '3: 



Ploughing with double 



teams 



Towns 

 Single teams 



Towns 

 Bulls 



Towns 

 Milch cows 



'I'owns 

 Heifers 



Towns 

 Working oxen 



Towns 

 Stei.'rs 



Towns 

 Calves 



Towns 

 Fat cattle 



Towns 



Sheep. 

 Rams 



Towns 

 Ewes 



Towns 

 Wethers and lambs 



'I'owns 



Swine. 

 Boars i 



Towns i 



Breeding sows 



Towns 

 Other swine S 



Towns 1 



II 



10 



10 



(3 



3 



2 



15 



10 



15 



8 



19 



10 



6 



3 



5 

 4 



13 

 1 



8 

 4 



11 

 5 



10 

 !) 

 3 

 o 



3> 

 

 15 



7 

 19 



8 

 IG 



7 



9 



t] 



7 

 5 



49 

 5 

 9 

 1 



4 

 1 

 o 



1 



22 

 1 



12 



6 



21 

 9 

 9 

 C, 



10 

 4 



21 

 9 



25 

 7 



15 

 6 



14 

 3 

 4 

 2 



5 

 2 

 3 

 1 

 10 

 3 



3 

 o 



4 



1 



30 



o 



10 

 (i 



14 

 G 



12 



e 



9 

 2 



18 

 10 

 24 



8 

 2G 



9 

 17 



3 



'l!8, '3(1, '40. 

 II 22 



4 



18 

 7 

 G 

 4 



23 



4 



28 



10 



2! 



9 



27 



II 



8 



3 



8 

 5 

 31 

 4 

 7 

 3 



1 



1 

 4 

 2 



13 



10 

 C 



19 

 4 

 4 

 2 



4 

 2 

 6 

 1 

 49 

 1 



9 



5 

 1! 



7 

 11 



5 

 12 



1 

 29 

 II 

 22 

 10 

 31 



8 

 20 



9 



10 

 5 



44 

 5 

 G 

 3 



5 

 2 

 3 

 2 



48 

 3 



15 

 (i 

 19 

 II 

 20 

 8 

 53 

 13 

 23 

 8 

 42 

 10 

 20 

 12 

 12 



11 

 7 



21 

 5 



3 

 2 



48 

 3 



19 



18 



15 



9 



7 



5 



44 



10 



38 



6 



25 



9 



22 



12 



11 



5 



10 



G 



77 



C 



IG 



4 



14 



G 



12 



4 



82 

 5 



133 2G9 2.59 27G 311 34-> 415.540 



The ploughing match comuienced at 9 o'clock 

 of the morning, and was conducted with great spir- 

 it. The forenoon was occupied with the trial of 

 working oxen, and the examination of the stock in 

 the pens. 



About 1 o'clock the members of the Society and 

 their guests, formed a procession, and proceeded to 

 the Central Hotel, where the table was spread with 

 extraordinary elegance by Mr Cyrus Stockwell : 

 those who were not deprived by the engagements > 

 of duty as marshals, members of committees, or by 

 the labors of other offices, from partaking of the' 

 abundant repast, speak of the e.xhibition on the fes- I 

 tivo board as well suited to the excellence of the ' 

 other departments, and the workmanlike perfor- ] 

 malices of those who attended to the liberal enter- 1 

 tainmoiit, as giving abundant testiiiiony of their } 

 sati-^fiction. , | 



The President of the Society was at the head of 

 the table; the Rev. Mr Smallcy of the Union 

 church officialed as chaplain, and after brief space 

 had been allowed for refrer.hmenl, the former ad- 



dressed the company and afterwards the guests, by 

 allusion to the general topics of the occasion, and 

 to the official sttiti.m or public relations of each, in 

 a manner which called from them appropriate re- 

 sponses. The Rev. Henry Colman and the Rev. 

 Allen Putnam, of Danvers, offered pleasant re- 

 marks and good sentiments, which we expect to 

 be enabled to report at length. 



A few of the sentiments announced by the Pre- 

 sident, furnished to him by the pens of skilful wri- 

 ters, arc given below, without regard to the order 

 in which they were announced. 



The Garden — Man's home in his first estate, it 

 is still redolent with the •' odors sweet" of Para- 

 dise. 



'I he only shares that pay a sure dividend, /j/oug^A- 

 shares. 



Woman — Without her, Eden was a desert ; with 

 her, the desert is an Eden. 



The Liberty Tree — We shfuild be careful while 

 we pluck the fruit, not to break the bratuhes. 



The first instance of profanity in the world — 

 ■when the first apple damned the first pair. 



The Agricultural Commissioner — Why can he 

 impart new iviirmth to the interest felt in agricul- 

 ture ? Do yon give it up .' Because he is a C'ule- 

 man. 



The Norwich and Worcester Railroad. — Being 

 Rockcd-ioell in its infancy, it has become a bless- 

 ing to its parents, whose hearts it has riveted with 

 " hooks of iron." 



The North-eastern Boundary — Why is Uncle 

 Sam like a horse that won't stand cropping ? Be- 

 cause he won't give up any part of his Maine. 



New England Soil — It may be cold and rugged, 

 but it yields the best of all harvests — intelligent, 

 virtuims, and free men. 



That culture where each successive crop enrich- 

 es the soil ; where the fruits are used without be- 

 ing consumed, and distributed without being diu.in- 

 ished — tlie culture of the mind. 



Woman — She spoili us with an apple : she aton- 

 ed for the wrong by forming; a pair. 



The Capital of the Farmers of Worcester Coun- 

 ty — Safidy invested in those capital stocks which 

 have alwavs borne premiMm*. 



In allusion to the presence of Hon. Isaac Hill, 

 the editor of the Monthly Visitor, and one of the 

 guests of the Society, the President gave 



New Hampshire — From which the agricultural 

 Visitor is always a most welconce guest. 



By the Hon. I^aac Hill, of the Farmer's Visitor. 

 — ; he Memory of Levi Lincoln, the elder: The 

 generous friend of agriculture as the last business 

 of his life. His race have emulated the grand ex- 

 ample of their illustrious progenitor: and to them 

 is the '-heart iif the commonwealth " indebted for 

 much of its agrir nitural pre-eminence. 



By Mr .Toseph Breck, of the New England Far- 

 nier.— The Farmers of Worcester Cocnty : Their 

 works, as tiiis day exhibited, ;.rc" the best proofs of 

 their merits. 



By Mr C .M. Hnvey, of the Horticultural Maga- 

 zine. — The Agricultural Society of Worcester, and 



