1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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hold so much in common; we speak the same lan- 

 guage ; our literature is one ; and for the most 

 part our religion is one ; bound by ties so solemn 

 and tender, our alienation, for ever so short a time, 

 we could not but regard as a fearful calamity. 



Friends and brethren, accept this humble effort 

 on our part towards the perpetuation of peace and 

 good-will between us. May you be still more abun- 

 dantly blessed by the Giver of all Good than you 

 have yet Ijeen — and bright and great as have been 

 the preceding ages of your country, may its future 

 be even greater and brighter than the past. 

 Signed, 

 F. W. Pattisson, J. P. for Essex Co., 



And 99 others. 



On motion, a committee was raised to prepare 

 and report a reply, which they did as follows : 



The committee appointed to consider the subject 

 of the address, report the following reply, and re- 

 commend that it be signed by the Town Clerk, the 

 Selectmen, and such other citizens of the town as 

 may find it convenient to do so, and that it be fair- 

 ly transcribed and sent to the first signer of the 

 Address. 



To our Brethren of the Town of Coggeshall, Essex County, Eng- 

 land : 



We acknowledge the receipt of your late Ad- 

 dress, asking us to exert whatever influence we may 

 to perpetuate peace between Great Britain and the 

 United States, and we accept it with jjleasure. — 

 Standing, as we do, on soil baptized with the blood 

 of both nations, and that was once the theatre of 

 war, we fully appreciate the sentiments you have 

 expressed, and most earnestly desire that the bonds 

 of union now so happily existing between us may 

 never be broken ; that both nations may remain 

 not only the conservators of peace, but continue to 

 cherish the arts of peace, the literature and reli- 

 gious freedom of which both have become such 

 eminent examples. 



It was the spirit of Peace which you invoke that 

 settled this town without the shedding of blood, 

 and which has enabled us to live in harmony and 

 concord ever since. 



We tliank you for your kind thought of us, and 

 trust that a common ancestry, a common literature 

 and rehgion, together with the important commer- 

 cial relations existing between us, and the highest 

 civilization that the world has ever known, may 

 keep us united in friendship and love, and convince 

 us that War would be an unnecessary, as well as a 

 fearful calamity. 



In the spirit of Peace, therefore, and of fraternal 

 regard, we return your friendly greetings. 

 Simon Brown, j) 

 E. R. Hoar, > Committee. 

 R. W. Emerson, ) 

 Concord, April 7, 1856. 



Ohio Agricultural College. — An institution 

 has been incorporated under this name and put into 

 successful operation at Cleveland, Ohio. Its design 

 is to place within the reach of farmers, both old and 

 young, the means of acquiring a thorough and prac- 

 tical acquaintance with all those branches of science 

 which have direct relations to agriculture. 



The plan of instruction consists in daily lectures, 

 which embrace all the departments of agricultui'al 



science ; chemistry, in its applications to soils, ma- 

 nures, &c.; anatomy and physiology, with reference 

 to feeding and breeding of stock ; geology and min- 

 eralogy, and botany ; natural philosophy, rural ar- 

 chitecture, draining and farm-book-keeping, and the 

 political economy and history of agriculture, are in- 

 cluded in the plan. Harvey Rice, President, and 

 Thomas Brown, Editor of the Ohio Farmer, Sec- 

 retary. 



For the Neip England Farmer. 



THE ORIOLE'S LAMENT. 



Cairee, cairee, pip-pip-pee, 

 Where are ye, come, come to me ; 

 Here I hung your cradle soft. 

 Safe on bough that waved aloft ; 

 Here ye nestled 'neath my wing. 

 Here I nursed you in sweet spring. 



Answer me, my fledglings dear, 

 Mother's call will ye not hear? 

 Summer's o'er, frost nips the rose, 

 Green leaves fade, the chill blast blows, 

 Autumn lowers, come, come away, 

 To climes where shines a brighter daj'. 



Cairee, cairee, hark ye, here am I, 

 Hither to me swiftly fly ; 

 Long I've sought you mourning sore, 

 Grove and wildwood wandering o'er ; 

 On your birth-tree last I light, 

 Ere my hope shall sink in night. 



Late I carolled, blithe and gay, 

 'Mid the blooming trees of May ; 

 Joined with warblers of the skj', 

 Recking nought of danger nigh — 

 Darlings sweet, your tender voice 

 Bade this swelling heart rejoice ! 



Now I flit, in sad October morn, 

 Robber fell has left my breast forlorn ; 

 Man, thou spoiler, didst thou hear my lay, 

 Boon most free, and thus my trust betray, 

 Heeding not my wail, my dire alarm. 

 Pitying cry to save my brood from harm ! 



Ravished offspring, silent groves, farewell ! 

 Winter's harp, thy dirge my grief shall tell ; 

 Lonely, far I fly to southern skies. 

 Where may foes no more my peace surprise ; 

 When sweet spring these northern climes shall greet, 

 May we hope, in man a friend to meet? J. L. 



Salisbury, Conn. 



For the New England Farmer. 



WHEAT CULTURE IN MAINE. 



Mr. Editor : — Much has been said against this 

 State as a wheat growing State, and the idea is be- 

 coming quite prevalent among many farmers that 

 wheat cannot be profitably cultivated here. The 

 farmers here contend that a very tenacious soil is 

 required for the production of this grain, and conse- 

 quently you see but very little wheat growing on 

 light loams. Now that a tenacious soil is not best 

 adapted to the cultivation of this grain I will not 

 dispute, but that it cannot be successfully grown on 

 light soils, I will attempt to dispute, for on such 

 soils I experimented the past season with good re- 

 sults. Two years ago I purchased a flirm which 

 consisted mostly of what was called by the neigh- 

 bors weak land, and had been under the scientific 

 culture of an old sea captain for twenty years pre- 

 vious to my purchase. The land was completely 



