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NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



Dec, 



ble origin. These facts indicate a definite course 

 to be i^ursued in feeding our crops. All vegetable 

 matters are replete with the principles of reproduc- 

 tion, and should consequently be economised and 

 turned -to profitable account. Our lands are in want 



of all the fructifymg substances we can procure, , , ., • . ■, • . c 



1 ^, . . til. t r« „ ■ ^o^„ t^ ^u;„v, dress, and it consisted in part oi a 



and this is one oi the most prouiic sources to which i ' ^ 



we can hopefully amly.— Germantown Telegraph, influence of the "reciprocity bill" 



For the New England Farmer. 



FARMERS' SHOWS. 



On looking over the awards made at some of our 

 county exhibitions the present season, I find $30, 

 $25 and $20 awarded to young ladies who made 

 the best appearance on horseback, in the field ; 

 and $10, $8 and $5 to those who presented the 

 best products of the dairy, prepared by their own 

 hands. The query arose whether those gentlemen 

 who thus ordered these premiums, had not sufi'ered 

 their fancy to run away with their judgment. No 

 one will hesitate to admit that it is an elegant ac- 

 compHshment for a young lady to be able to ride 

 handsomely on horseback, at a proper time, and 

 in proper places ; but will any one presume to say 

 that the funds of our agricultural societies were ac- 

 cumulated to reward such feats of equestrianism ? 

 Reference is here made to the late show at Bridge- 

 water; which, if we do not mistake, is not the first 

 time that the attention of the sturdy farmers of 

 that section has been diverted from their proper 

 business, by the display made by ladies. Diversions 

 of like character have occurred in the western part 

 of the State. If they should become general, some 

 further provision for the encouragement of the la- 

 borer will need to be made by the Legislature. 



October 12th, 1856. * 



HORSES. 



Those who have the care of horses are frequently 

 very negligent in the manner of discharging their 

 duty. There is no animal in existence so suscepti- 

 ble to the effects of dirt, impure air, bad bedding, 

 &c., as the horse. All excrements in the horse's 

 stable, however small in quantity, should be removed 

 at least once a day, and a clean, dry place left the 

 acimal to stand or lie down on. Many a horse 

 when stabled for an hour's feeding, is placed in a 

 close filthy place without a breath of pure air — 

 there obliged to make his meal. We would almost 

 as soon think of eating in such a place ourselves, as 

 of compelling the horse to do it. If you have no 

 windows in your stable, by all means make one at 

 once, or knock off" a board to let in light and pure 

 air. When you have removed the droppings from 

 the stable at night, strew the floor with dry straw 

 or rusk ; the value of the manure will more than 

 pay the expense — besides rendering your horse 

 healthier. 



Horses take cold very easily ; for this reason they 

 should never be turned from a warm stall where 

 they have perspired for an hour, directly into a 



COL. NEEDHAM'S ADDRESS. 



At the late Fair of the Windsor County Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Woodstock, Vt., Col. Needham, 

 recently of Groton, in this State, delivered the ad- 



a discussion of the 

 upon agricultural 

 labor in New England. 



It will be remembered that the Legislature of 

 Vermont took action in opposition to the "bill," and 

 that Senator Foote, of Vermont, was the only New 

 England Senator, who voted against the ratification 

 of the "treaty" in secret session. 



Col. Needham argued that labor in the Canadas 

 costs but little more than one-third of what it does 

 in New England ; that the land of the Canadas is 

 much more productive than the soil of New Eng- 

 land ; and that the admission of wheat, rye, barley 

 and other staples of New England, the Middle 

 States, and the West, to our markets, from ihe 

 Canadas, free of duty, would be prejudicial to our 

 farmers ; and that by bringing the price of igno- 

 rant, foreign labor into direct competition with our 

 own, an open attack had been made by the gov- 

 ernment upon the free labor of the North and 

 West. 



Senator Pearce attacked the bill when it was be- 

 fore the Senate, in a speech of great ability, in 

 which he used the following language : 



"I think it is a very important measure, a depar- 

 ture from the general revenue policy of the coun- 

 try, involving in it consequences, direct and remote, 

 a probable and a serious injury to one of the great- 

 est interests of the country — an interest as little or 

 less protected than any other, and quite as much 

 entitled to the benefit of direct or incidental pro- 

 tection as any. 



"The bill proposes to allow the importation into 

 the United States from Canada, free of duty, of 

 wheat and breadstuff's generally, and other products 

 of that colony, upon condition that similar articles, 

 the product of the United States, may be imported 

 into Canada free of duty. Now, sir, there is no 

 reciprocity in all this ; the bill is delusive. If it 

 pass, not a dollar's worth of all these products will 

 be exported from the United States to the Cana- 

 das." 



But, on the contrary, as Col. Needham argued, 

 the amount of grain to be poured in upon our mar- 

 kets from the Canadas, to depress agricultural la- 

 bor in New England and the West, will annually 

 exceed the amount of our exportations. 



Honolulu, Hawailvx Isla>-ds. — We have re- 

 ceived the "Pacific Commercial Mvertiser," pub- 

 damp pasture. " Neither should a horse ever be left fished at Honolulu, July 17, 1850, and in looking 



to lie down over night in a damp pasture where 

 there is no shelter, but let a shed be built, to which 

 they can retire at night. A horse will never he 

 down in an open lot when he can find a place of 

 shelter ; and if there is nothing better, they will 

 always get near a fence or tree, at night. — Weekly 

 Visitor, 



over its colums we find how it happens that the 

 Honolulu people send to us for nearly fifty copies 

 of the JsTtw England Farmer. They are enthusi- 

 astic in the great art, and probably seek informa- 

 tion everywhere, so that forty odd of these island- 



