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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



APRIL 14, 1841. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



[mutos, Wehneshav, AnnL 14, 1141. 



DSATH OF THE PRSSZDEKT. 



Ciir OF WASiii.vnTciN, ) 

 April 4, 18-11. 5 

 An all-wise Providonco having suddenly reniovcdl 

 from this life WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, late 

 President of the United States, we have thought it our| 

 duty, in the recess of Congress, and in the ahsence of 

 the Vice President from the se.it of Government, to! 

 make this afflicting bereavement known to the country. 



by this declaration, under our hands. 



He died at the President's House, in this city, thisj 

 fourth day of April, Anno Domini, 1841, at thirty mill 

 utes before one o'clock in the morning. 



The People of the United Stales, overwhelmed, lik( 

 ourselves, by an event so unexpected and so nielaii 

 choly, will derive consolation from knowing that his! 

 death was calm and resigned, as his life has been palri-||g ^^^ placed, 

 otic, useful, and distinguished; and that the last utle 

 ranee of his lips e.iipressed a fervent desire for the per 

 peiuity of the Constitution, and the preseriation of its 

 true principles. In death, as in life, the happiness of 

 his country was up|iermost in his thoughts. 



DANIEL WEBSTER, 



Secretary of State. 

 THOM.\S EVVING, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 

 , JOHN BELL, 



Secretary of War. 

 J. J. CRITTENDEN, 



Attorney General. 

 FRAJVCIS GRANGER, 



Postmaster General. 



andjiift; was a lover of Ins country— of his whole coun-|er dry upland, has been raised , -it lees expense than the 

 {try. We believed, that as President, his ruling aimlbeet. On the moister soils the beet may do better. We 

 [would be to preserve the integiity of the Constitulionihave raised them quite profitably for the last two sea- 

 Band laws, and to promote the proVperity and permanentisons, on peat-meadow or bog lands. Grown there, they 

 jwelfare of the Union. Without belief that he was ihefare large and coarse, but yet answer a good puropse. 

 jablest among our statesmen, we had undoubtirig confi-| We, however, would not advise any one to go into the 

 Idence that he was highly capable and eminently irust-|<:ultiviilion of them to the exclusion of carrots. It is 

 juorthy. Without imagining him perfect, we trusted|g"ud husbandry to try several kinds. The season in 

 [that he was good. His acts, his writings, and the con-|which one fails may be favorable toothers. The carrot 

 jcurrent testimony of his fellow citizens, taught us that|will keep longer than the beet, and is better for spring 

 lie was brave and skilful in war — a good classical scholar guse. 



of ihe old school — a philanthropist — and a man of mosta Our correspondent adds — "I planted sugar beet seed 

 exemplary character in private life. Such cf)nlinues toBin iMay, on strong and well manured land ; hoed in 

 be our esiimate of the man, now when his ear is deaf togjune and July, and soon after hoeing the last time, I 

 tho voice of human censure or praise. We mourn hissjigcovered that my beets were dying, and on exaniira- 

 fall as a national calamity. But " we sorrow, not wilh-ftion I found nearly one half of them wilted down and 



out hope" — not without hope, that he who was takenBnearly dead. If you can assign any cause for such a 

 from the most honorable civil station in our world, hasEchange in my beets — which ended in a failure of the 

 entered upon the performance of higher duties, and thegcrop — I shall feel myself much indebted to you." In 

 enjoyment of richer honors than any earlhly station cangl838 our crop was injured, as was supposed, by drougth, 

 afford,— not without hope, that He who presides overEin a manner similar to this. In 1839, but earlier in the 

 the destinies of nations, will be the guardian and theSseason, while the plants were small, some bug or worm 

 strength of those on whom the burthen of governing usgappnrently cut them off just below the surface of tho 



ground. We can say no mure, excepting to ask a ques- 



Let the gathering of the the Farmer of North BendStion of our correspondent in return, viz: whether he 



nto the garner of the Lord of the harvest, speak outican ascribe his failure to either of these cau.ses'' and if 



President HARRISON is no more! The Nation's! 



n solemn and impressive tones, telling the husband- 

 men of our land, that each of them must soon give in 

 an account of the crop upon that moral field, which 

 is confided to iiis cultivation. Let thetn be influenc- 

 ed to sow abundantly to the spirit, liusting that they 

 shall reap therefrtini immeasurable st'trcs of delicious 

 fruit, under the cloudless skies and on the lovely fields 

 which lie beyond the dark valley through which they 

 all must pass. 



CTi':srrrr^KMmumMl'\:f,:!,'.'Mii-i!uSlj^'jxmit.imimi\.iu.'fumvivr.\7-iim 



ANSWERS TO A CORRESPONDENT. 

 We were pleased upon opening a communication, to 

 find it from the pen of the correspondent to whom w 

 made a " confession." He is correct in supposing that 



chosen Head sleeps in dust! The object of the nation's! we are, or at least wish to be, without ceremony, " ao- 

 confidence and trust has gone down to the grave I Mil-j 

 lions in the land are made mourners ! The hopes and! 

 fond anticipations of millions are disappointed! Neverj 

 before, from our Presidential Chair, did one's " spirit re- 

 turn to God who gave it." The event in its cirrum- 

 stances is singularly solemn and impressive. In the ■ 

 nals cf the world it has no parallel. No other man has| 

 been taken at that hour of intense and wide-spread so- 

 licitude, when a nation's eyes were anxiously watchiugl 

 his first exercise of the highest powers in that nalion'sj 

 gift — powers conferred voluntarily, peaceably, and yelB 



by the intens'-st party strife. No other has been taken] 



when millions were expecting from him such extensive 



changes in the policy and administration of a free na-i 



lion's government. The bereavement leaches over ourg 



whole land and goes deep as the well-springs of patri- 

 otic hopes and fears in the human soul. But He who! 



both gave and has taken, says to the sorrowing, *' Befi 



still, and know that I am God." 



The reflecting and devout of all parlies must sit awhileB 



in talm and solemn meditation. Willi such mtn, nov 



quaintcd with all who have a wish to obtain information 

 fiom our labors as editor. " His remark, that agricultu 

 al papers have done much to excite our farmers to com- 

 mence and pursue a course of improvement, is well 

 founded ;. and we wish that every farmer would take 

 some one of the many agricultural papers of the day,] 

 for there is not one among them that would not give 

 hints, suggestions, facts rnd opinions that would be 

 found profitable on every farm. Our correspondent's 

 encourajiOment and good wishes for ourself, are contain- 

 ed in the following sentem e : " Go on, I say, unto the 

 end, and I trust and hope, that a handsome reward will 

 be found for you at the end of the chapter. ' 



Roots. The question, " What kind of roots do you 

 consider the best to give to cows that give milk in the 

 winter?" we will answer. Sugar beets first; carrots 

 next; (we are not acquainted with the parsnip for this 

 purpose;) the mangel wuitzel, rula baga, and fiat tur- 



p, are all servireable in moderate quantities to the 

 stuck in winter. But turnips of all varieties give an un 

 Ipleasant taste to the milk. This evil, however, may be 



so, to which of them .' The beet, it must be remember- 

 ed, is a great " toper." 



Cream-Pot Stock. Another inquiry in these words, 



Can 1 obtain some of the Cream Pot breed of cattle 



from Col. Jaques or any other person in your vicinity.' 



If so, at what price can three or four year old heifers be 



had ?'■ — we must request Col. Jaques to answer. 



Seed Sotrer. The remaining inquiry, " which is the 

 best seed sower.'" we cannoi answer in abisolute terms. 

 Willis' seed sower has been extensively used, and we 

 learned from him a few days since, that he had never 

 heard a word of complaint relative to it from any source. 

 The price is $14. Cfieaper implements can be had, so 

 far as the original cost is concerned, but whether cheap- 

 er in the end, our information does not enable us to de- 

 termine. But we believe that if an instrument is so 

 constructed as to drop the seeds regularly and without 

 any failures, and this whether there be much seed or 

 little in the hopper, that it will be cheap compared with 

 one doing the work less faithfully, even though the lat- 

 ter can be had for the asking, while the fo: mer is held 

 so high as to remind one that he " may buy gold loo 

 dear." Willis' is the only implement for the purpose 

 kept for sale at Breck &• Co.'s Agricultural Warehouse, 

 though there are several others there fur exhibition. 



the r.Tshne«s and indiscretion of party judgment will beHmainly, if not entirely, remedied by pouring two or three! 



silent. Indiscriminate jiraise and gratuitous detractio 

 will stop there, " where the wicked cease from troublinj 

 and the weary are at rest." 



While he was living, we made no allu.^ions to the 

 character of General Harrison in our columns. Now 



LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC NOTICES. 

 We have been favored by Mr Jordan, with a copy of 

 ihe .\pril No. of Silliman's Journal, and also of the New 

 York Review. IVlr Jordan, 121 Washington street, is 

 the Boston publisher of these valuable periodicals. The 

 publisher of Tales of the Ocean (S. N. Dickinson, 52 

 Wssliingtoii street.) has laid on our table a copy of that 

 work. These and other works of a similar character, 

 are very acceptable to us, and we are willing to name 

 them in our columns; but critical notices of works not 

 specially adapted to the wants of the agricultural com- 

 munity, however favorable our private opinion of them 

 may be, are not consistent with our design to adhere 

 rather closely to our appropriate field of labor. 



s of boiling water into each gallon of milk, immedi 

 ate|y after it is taken from the cow. 



The sugar beet will make as much milk as any one 

 of the roots, and the milk will be rich and sweet. The 

 carrot is believed not to increase the quantity so much 

 that he is gone, we wish to say that we most henrtilyBas the heel, but ils effect upon the quality is probably 

 joined in the efforts to promote his election, and that wc lequally favorable. Our own experience makes the ear- 

 sincerely lament his death. We believed him to be anjjrot a more certain crop than the beet, and taking severalB[nerited and firm hold upon the esteem and support of 

 honest and true man ; one who feared God ; was kindjseasons in succession, the carrot, on good, rich, but rath-Bllio farmers of western New York. 



(j3=We are indebted to the editors of the New Gene- 

 Isee Farmer, for a paper of " wild rice,'' for which they 

 jhave our thanks. We give them, also, our good wishes 

 Ifor their suece.-'S in eflbits to give lo iheir paper a well_ 



