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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



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by Mr Unsson : Green Top Yellow Bullock, Hood's 

 Yellow, Lewisham Oxlieart, Lawrence's Yellow 

 Tankard, Old Scotch Yellow, Purple Top Scarlet, 

 Pomeranian White Globe, Green Tankard, Long- 

 Black, Yellow Stonr, White Stone, Large Norfolk, 

 Improved Yellow Stone, Purple Top Hybrid, Dale's 

 Hybrid, ^Vhile Flat Winter, Lawton's Hybrid, 

 Yellow Tankard, Red Round, Red Globs, Green 

 Top Yellow, Grt'on Round, Green Top Yellow Ox- 

 heart, Purple I op Yellow, Flat Dutch, Early Snow- 

 ball, Yellow Maltese, Green Globe, Yellow Al- 

 trinijhani, Pollock's Fine Green Top, Early Stone, 

 Yellow. The most or all of the above are now va- 

 rieties and well worthy the attention of ilia farmers. 

 Celery Irom Col. Isaac Davis, Worcester. 



SAMUKL PO.ND, Chnirninn. 



F.iHiBrrioH OF fruits. 

 From Col. Wilder, Dorchester, Presidetit of the 

 Society ; Passe ('olmar, Beurre d' Arembnrjj, Co 

 lumbian and Bur{joina.-rter, of Boston, or Mr La 

 Cure Pears — excellent specimens, being four of 

 the most desirable kinds of the season for size, fla- 

 vor and beauty. 



From .Mr I'". Wight, Dedharn; Rod apple.s. 

 From Mr John W. Scudder, Barnstable ; a fine 

 specimen of ripe Oanberries. Mr S did not ad- 

 vise us of their being cultivated, which we under- 

 stand the Barnstable people do in great abundance 

 and perfection. These were excellent, as the two 

 specimens of preserves which accompanied them 

 testified. 



From Mr K. Vose; King of the Pippins apples. 



From Mr R. Manning ; Peais — Von Mons, (No. 



70,) Bishop's Thumb, Princess de Orange, Winter 



Nelis and Beurre Duval. Bishop's Thumb and 



Beurre Duval rank high in point of flavor. 



From Mr Win. Oakes, Ipswich; a basket of 

 Jlinister apples, beautiful in appearance; the spe- 

 cimen was past its prime : having become withered, 

 the flavor could not be judged rightly of. 

 For the Committee, 



BENJ. V. FRENCH. 



Worcesttr, JVov. IGth, 1840. 

 Joseph Brcck — Dear Sir — I take the liberty to 

 send you herewith a few " Sweet Ru.ssets," a very 

 rich eating apple, excellent for roasting and baking. 

 They originated on the farm of my father in this 

 place. The tree is a good bearer; the fruit gene- 

 rally fair. They have been in bearing about 140 

 years. Will you give them a trial, and present for 

 exhibition at the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety as a native seedling; and oblige 



Yours, &c., A. H. GREEN. 



[We have sent to the Horticultural rooms a 

 part of the above, and " tried " the remainder, and 

 find them to be a superior variety and worthy a 

 place in every orchard J, B. 



HARTFORD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 

 The' fourteenth Cattle Show and Fair of the 

 Hartford County Agricultural Society was held at 

 Hartford on the 5th inst. and was attended by an 

 immense concourse of persons, including agricul- 

 turists from all parts of this and the adjacent States, 

 and many of the most eminent of our .statesmen, 

 including His Excellency William W. Ellsworth, 

 and His Honor Lieut. Governor Hull, from the 

 State of Massachusetts, Judges of the Supreme, Su- 



perior, and County Courts, and oilier distinguished 

 strangers, delog'itei from like institutions, and sev- 

 eral others. 1 ho morning was brilliant and auspi- 

 cious for examining and awarding the premiums 

 for live stock. The .sliow of stock was without 

 a doubt the best that was ever exhibited in this 

 State. The bullocks, colts, and neat stock were 

 particularly animals of general admiration. The 

 show o( Improved Durham short horns, and full 

 blood Iloldernesses, native and cross breeds, were 

 also numerous; the Berkshire, Spanish and native 

 swine ; and the Merino, South Down, Bakcwell, 

 Dishley and native breed sheep were equally de- 

 serving of commendation. In fact, where all were 

 good, it would be invidious to make comparisons. 

 The grand total number of stock exhibited in the 

 Park and on the grounds, were seven hundred and 

 fiftyfuur specimens. 



At 2 o'clock, P. M., a procession was formed in 

 the State House, and with martial music under the 

 direction of the grand and assistant marshals, pro- 

 ceeded to the South Meadow, where the plough- 

 ing match was witnessed by thousands on foot, in 

 barouches, coaches, hacks, gigs, waggons, and on 

 horseback, who appeared delighted to witness nine 

 ploughs in operation at once, which reminds us of 

 the noble sentiment contained in Lieut. Gov. Haw- 

 ley's letter, regretting that his engagements would 

 not permit him to be present, although he contents 

 himself with sending "Speed the plough," among 

 his sincerest wishes for the prosperity of the So- 

 ciety. 'J'he successful competitors ploughed the 

 quantity set out, being three sixteenths of an acre 

 each, in twentyseven, thirty, and thirtyfive minutes ; 

 all performed the labor in a farmer-like style, al- 

 though the land was a strong sward, yet none of 

 the teams or ploughmen appeared in the least fa- 

 tigued. After which the procession returned to 

 the City Hall, where the exhibition of domestic 

 manufactures, vegetables, fruits, &c., was held, 

 which were of a high order and are deserving of 

 commendation. 



On Friday 6th Nov., the Society met again, and 

 having attended religious services and listened to 

 an address on agriculture, proceeded to award and 

 bestow the prizes. Our limits do not allow us to 

 insert the reports in full with the names of the suc- 

 cessful competitors. 



Report of Committee of Inspection. 



The Committee on Stock, Report : — That the 

 amount and quality of the Stock presented were 

 superior to any similar exhibition ever before wit- 

 nessed in Hartford County. The improvement, 

 your Committee believe was commenced under the 

 influence of the former operations of this Society; 

 and it must be truly gratifying to the lovers of fine 

 Stock to see what has resulted from the laudable 

 and persevering enterprize of the F.iriners in the 

 County during the suspension of the Society's op- 

 erations. 



There were five divisions of your Committee. 

 One to judge on working oxen ; one on bulls and 

 fat cattle ; one on cows and sheep, one on trains of 

 working cattle, and one on Horses and Swine. 



The collection of working oxen 'offered for pre- 

 mium was large and generally very fine, and your 

 Committee would gladly have awarded more pre- 

 miums had it been in their power. 



The trains of working oxen exhibited consisted 

 of 12 good yoke from Windsor, 15 from Wethers- 

 field, many of them superior; 50 yoke of fine se- 



lected cattle from Hartford; 74 from East Wind- 

 sor, and 79 from Farmington. The Committee 

 had much diflieulty in deciding between the two 

 trains from Farmington and East Windsor, both 

 being highly meritorious. Your Committee can- 

 not do justice to their own feelings without recom- 

 mending that a gratuituous premium be awarded to 

 the town of Farmington of fifteen dollars. 



The exhibition of bulls was large and fine, and 

 would have done honor to any show in our country, 

 embracing foreign, native and mixed breeds. 



The comiiiiitee found it ditBculty to decide, and 

 regret that the difierent kinds of animals were not 

 placed together for their convenience, thereby ena- 

 bling them to form an opinion from close compari- 

 son more readily and more satisfactory to their own 

 minds. 



There were but two fat oxen on the ground, both 

 of which were highly meritorious. 



The committee were pleased to see so many 

 good cows, embracing both foreign and native 

 breeds, showing a good degree of attention to this 

 important domestic animal. 



The exhibition of sheep was not so full as could 

 hnve been desired. There were a few specimens 

 of fine South Down, Dishly and Merino breeds. 



The fat wethers presented were not, in the 

 judgment of the committee, worthy of the Society's 

 preniium offered on that kind of stock. 



The committee regret that there was no com- 

 petiticm on horses, there being but one two years 

 old colt on the ground. 



The exhibition of swine was very superior, 

 showing great improvement within a few years on 

 that very valuable kind of stock. 



The committee regret that several very fine an- 

 imals were not entered on the stock book in time 

 to enable them legally to compete for the society's 

 preniium. 



There was a great number of remarkably fine 

 animals exhibited whose excellences we would 

 gladly enumerate in particular, would not a minute 

 description render our report altogether too lengthy. 

 But such a description is the less demanded, as 

 there was a large collection of intelligent and 

 practical farmers present who were evidently de- 

 lighted, and we doubt not greatly benefited by 

 their own examination of the good qualities com- 

 bined in those noble animals ; and we confidently 

 believe the exhibition will give a new impulse to 

 the spirit of agricultural improvement in the county. 

 .Ml of which is respectfully submitted, 



D. W. GRANT, Chairman. 



American Copper. — A late number of the Wis- 

 consin Enquirer says that Messrs. W. Alfred and 

 P. W. Thomas of New Baltimore in that territory, 

 have met with complete success in their experi- 

 ments on smelting copper ore. They constructed 

 a very simple furnace which cost only ten dollars, 

 in which they smelted on the 28th of Sept. last, 

 2,500 pounds of ore, from which they obtained 

 nearly 700 pounds of good pig copper, pronounced 

 by good judges to be superior to the South Amer- 

 ican pig copper. The time occupied in procuring 

 from the ore the above amount of copper, was only 

 nine hours. Neither Mr. Alfred nor Mr. Thomas 

 had any experience in the business of smelting, 

 and the result is justly deemed a matter of great 

 consequence to that territory, which abounds in 

 rich copper ore. 



