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Quarrels. — AgricuUural Prejudices. 



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in some orchards there appeared to be an 

 over stock of this ancient and hiohly es- 

 teemed apple; but \vc are sorry to say there 

 is liardly a thrifty tree to be seen; the va- 

 riety seems to be on the decay. 



The stock on Mr. Webster's farm, taking 

 it altoijether, cannot be snrpassed by any in 

 the State. The last season lie wintered 

 ninety head. The cows are generally of 

 the Ayrshire breed, either full blooded or 

 mixed. They originated from a cow im- 

 ported by the Massachusetts Ao^ricultiiral 

 Society, and a bull imported by Mr. Web- 

 ster. This animal is finely proportioned, 

 silky, short-haired, and equal to any creature 

 of the kind we have ever seen. The cows 

 are also beautiful, and give abundant evi- 

 dence of their superiority in the quantity of 

 milk they produce — having averaged, in the 

 first of the season, 20 quarts each per day. 

 He has eight milch cows of this breed. We! 

 saw in a pasture at some distance from the 

 house, ten two-year old heifers of this blood,! 

 that could hardly be excelled in point ofj 

 symmetry and general beauty, having the 

 glossy hair and admirable mixture of colours 

 peculiar to this breed. 



For working oxen, Mr. Webster prefers 

 the Devon breed, of which he had ten or 

 twelve yoke, in excellent order, besides 

 steers. He had sent a drove of fat oxen to 

 the Brighton market a few days previous to 

 our visit. 



Of sheep, he has the celebrated South- 

 down and Leicester breeds, — more esteemed 

 for their excellent mutton than for their wool. 

 Wethers are purchased at Brighton market, 

 in autumn, and kept through the winter on 

 turnips, hay, and a little grain, and when 

 fatted in the spring, sold to tiie butcher. 

 This has proved to be good husbandry, af- 

 fording some profit, and increasing the ma- 

 nure heap. 



The Mackay breed of hogs is now the 

 only sort kept on the farm — the B^/kshire 

 having been tried and discarded. 



W^e conclude this hastily penned and im- 

 perfect account of our most agreeable visit 

 to this extensive and well-conducted farm, 

 by remarking, that the interest taken in 

 agriculture by such men as Mr. Webster, 

 Mr. Clay, Mr. Van Buren, and Mr. Calhoun 

 — all of whom are engaged, and are proud 

 to be, in the culture of the earth — is a scath- 

 ing rebuke to those weak minded or wrongly 

 educated persons, who look, or affect to look, 

 with contempt upon, and to consider as de- 

 grading, the noble occupation of the farmer. 

 And truly gratifying is it to see men of such 

 signal abilities and exalted repute, though 

 differing in politics, united and ardently de- 

 voted in the great cause of agriculture — the 



basis of national wealth and national pros- 

 perity — and whose fijllowcrs constitute alike 

 in peace and war the main bulwark of the 

 country's welfare and security. — New Eng- 

 land Farmer. 



Quarrels. — One of the most easy, the 

 most common, most perfectly foolish things 

 in the world, says an exchange paper, is to 

 quarrel — no matter with whom — man, wo- 

 man or child; or what pretence, provocation, 

 or occasion whatever. There is no kind of 

 necessity in it, no matter of use in it, and 

 yet, strange as the fact may be, theologians, 

 politicians, lawyers, doctors, and princes 

 quarrel ; nations, tribes, corporations, men, 

 women, children, dogs and cats, birds and 

 beasts, quarrel about all manner of things, 

 and on all manner of occasions. If there is 

 any thing in the world that will make a man 

 feel bad, except pinching his fingers in the 

 crack of a door, it is unquestionably a quar- 

 rel. No man ever fails to think less of him- 

 self than he did before one; it degrades him 

 in his own eyes, and in the eyes of other.s, 

 and what is worse, blunts his sensibility on 

 the one hand, and increases the power of 

 passionate irritability on the other. The 

 truth is, the more quietly and peaceably we 

 all get on, the better for our neighbours. In 

 nine cases out of ten, the wisest course is, 

 if a man cheats you, quit dealing with him ; 

 if he is abusive, quit his company; if he 

 slanders you, take care to live so that no- 

 body will believe him. No matter who he 

 is or how he misuses you, the wisest way is 

 generally just to let him alone, for there is 

 nothing better than this calm, cool, quiet 

 way of dealing with the wrongs we meet 

 with. 



Agricultural Prejudices — At the An- 

 nual meeting of the Liverpool Agricultural 

 Society last month. Lord Stanley, who pre- 

 sided on the occasion, in advocating the in-> 

 troduction of iron ploughs, to supersede the 

 lumbering wood ploughs in common use, 

 illustrated the prejudices cherished by some 

 farmers, by an anecdote. He said a gentle- 

 man in the midland counties, who presented 

 one of his farmers with a couple of iron 

 ploughs, and having left the country for two 

 years, returned, and was surprised to find 

 not only that the number of iron ploughs 

 was not increased, but no use was made of 

 those he had given to the tenant. The an- 

 swer he received on inquiring the cause of 

 this was, " Why, you see we have a notion 

 in this country, that iron ploughs breed 

 weeds ,'" 



