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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



OCTOBER 23, 1S33. 



2j premium to the plough No. 4, James Baker, 



Lincoln, - - - - 10 



Do. ns ploughman, ... 5 



Jos. Baker, driver, | - 3 



3d premium to the plough No. 6, Henry Barrett, 



Concord, ... - 6 



Do. us ploughman, - - - 3 



Richard Barrett, driver, 



For tin Single Ploughs. 

 1st premium to the plough No. 7, G. M. Bar- 

 rett, Concord, - - - 15 

 Do. ns ploughman and driver, - 10 

 2d premium to the plough No. G, Richard Bar- 

 rett, Concord, - - -10 

 P. Hutchinson, ploughman and drive;-, - li 

 3d premium to the plough No. 3, H. Wether- 

 he, Concord, .... 6 

 Do. as ploughman and driver, - - 4 

 A narrow furrow slice was recommended, and 

 5J inches deep for the double trams, and - r > inches 

 for the single teams, and to be laid flat. On these 

 principles judgment was formed, and neatness ol 

 finishing otT the work. 



All the ploughs except one, were of the cast iron 

 make; principally ofHoward, Hitcheock oi Prouty, 

 Tice, Wright and Nurse. They were all good im- 

 plements ; but after careful examination of all ol' 

 them, they could not feel justified in awarding the 

 Ten Dollar premium offered, as they presumed it 

 was not the intention of the Trustees to give it, 

 unless for some improvement, or better plough than 

 that to which the Society's premium of last year 

 as they believe was so justly awarded to Mr. How- 

 ard of Ilingham ; the wood work of these ploughs 

 is also considered superior. 



It has frequently happened thai entries have been 

 made for ploughing, and the persons have not ap- 

 peared on the ground ; the Committee have thought 

 it would have a good effect in future, to give the 

 names of the defaulters to prevent a like occur- 

 rence again, as it often deters persons from enter- 

 ing, fearing they should not have a chance. 

 Per order of the Committee, 



John Prince, Cliairman. 

 Brighton, 16ft Oct. 1833. 



MIDDLESEX CATTLE SHOW. 



stead of being left by itself to ferment and con- 

 sume to ashes, will be mixed by them with other 

 kinds, and thus lie preserved, without any waste, 

 or labor. The mass is continually worked over, 

 .uid is never exposed to evaporation by the rays of 

 the sun. The art of increasing the quantity, and 

 improving the quality of manure, should be the 

 farmer's first and last study ; and it is believed 

 that for these purposes the bog is not made so use- 

 ful as be might easily be made to be. 



The difficulty of transporting animals whose 

 delicate constitutions do not admit of travelling on 

 foot, ami the unusual dampness of yesterday and 

 to-day, which rendered exposure particularly haz- 

 ardous, may account for the small number of hogs, 

 who have given countenance to this anniversary. 



Your Committee have the satisfaction to state 

 that they have received a letter from the distin- 

 guished character, to whom the Society are in- 

 debted for many useful suggestions which were 

 communicated in the last annual report of the 

 Committee on swine ; and they have thought 

 proper to annex it to this report, that it may be 

 preserved on your files. 



REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE ON SWINE. 



Your Committee are of opinion that the profits 

 of a farm essentially depend on the proper man- 

 agement of swine. They fear, however, that in 

 very many instances the farmer would do nearly 

 as well without them. In some, not to say many, 

 instances, they remain nearly stationary for mouths 

 for want of proper attention. There is a consid- 

 erable time in the summer season, when, to the 

 produce of the dairy, may be added, for their use, 

 a great variety of green and tender weeds, of which 

 the swine are very fond, and on which they will 

 grow and fatten. These are generally to be pro- 

 cured in great quantities ; and, in most cases, as 

 easily by the poor ns the rich. The hog will se- 

 lect, with instinctive certainty, those which are 

 most nutritive ; and the remainder being mixed 

 with the manure while green and full of juices, 

 add much to its quantity, without much diminish- 

 ing the strength. When the site of the barn will 

 admit of it, the hog pen should be a barn cellar, 

 with a yard at tho entrance where the animals 

 may come to the sun. They will derive consider- 

 able nutriment from the manure which is made in 

 tho barn. That which is produced by horses, in- 



To the Hog Committee of the . Igrinittural Society in 

 the County of Middlesex. 

 Gentlemen — In a letter addressed to your im- 

 mediate predecessors in office, I had the honor to 

 express, at some length, my views of the compa- 

 rative merits of your species, and my own. In 

 that communication, a deep sense of the indigni- 

 ties, which have so long been heaped upon us, 

 enabled me to be somewhat plain in my language. 

 That you " richly deserved" all that was then said, 

 your "good sense" must have already informed 

 yon. But the delicacy so natural to my race re- 

 strained me from expressing at that time all that I 

 desired. The flattering manner in which my epis- 

 tle was disposed of, and the perfect good feeling 

 with which it was received by your Society, make 

 me bold to renew the subject, and to add such 

 further hints as may occur to inc. And since my 

 first ancestor was turning up the soil, before yours 

 saw the light, I may be excused, if I should find 

 time before closing in adding some intimations on 

 the subject of agriculture. 



But I must in the first place express my aston- 

 ishment that you could ever have taken into your 

 heads to imagine yourselves our superiors. W; 

 are what we were made to be, genuine bona file 

 hogs, and nothing else, fie remain as in the be- 

 ginning, having never fallen from our first cstat*. 

 Will you say as much for yourselves ? you not 

 only admit, but insist upon, and contend for, al 

 sorts of depravity, from very great to total ; som3 

 of you maintaining that it is your very nature al- 

 ways to do wrong, and others that it is only a wa; 

 you have got! Have the most expert slanderer* 

 among you ever accused us of any thing so bad ' 

 Compare your own acknowledged crimes with al 

 you have ever charged upon us, and say whethei 

 the tenants of your State prisons ought not to out- 

 number the inmates of your hogpens. I will not 

 wound your feelings by a recital of even your 

 most common transgressions. I choose rather to 

 repel the charges you bring against us. 



And first, you have the assurance to charge us 

 with obstinacy. And where is the semblance of 

 proof to support the charge ? We sometimes differ 

 from you in opinion, it is true. But which is the 

 obstinate party is the question. The truth is, you 

 alwayB have your own way right or wrong ; and 



because we cannot help giving you an occasional 

 look of mingled grief and disapprobation, you pre- 

 sume to call us obstinate! 



Then again you seriously charge us with a wont 

 of cleanliness. I will have the candor to admit 

 that we are not at all times equally attentive to 

 our external appearance ; but is it not most fre- 

 quently owing to your neglect to furnish us with 

 proper apartments ? Let your wives and daugh- 

 ters cook and eat, and wash, and make soap, and 

 Sleep in one small room, without either floor or 

 ceiling, and then say which of us would be called 

 the most lovely ? A hog needs a parlor as much 

 as any body else.; give him one, and you will find 

 him there at all proper hours, as fit and as pre- 

 pared to see company as the best of you. 



We are next charged with being gluttons. And 

 here again I will be frank and candid. We do in- 

 deed hold it a sound maxim, that a bog should eat 

 all be can get — and we have generally found this 

 a safe rule, which seldom occasions us any in- 

 convenience ; though, for manners sake, we some- 

 tiiin s leave a part of our allowance. But, with 

 the exception of this last circumstance, do you not 

 do exactly the same thing? and like us, would you 

 not gladly eat more if you could get it? 



One word as to drinking. Since the hint given 

 in my former letter, you have been rather silent 

 on that point. But how do we stand on that 

 score ? Just read the histories of men and hogs, 

 and compile them. Do you find that we had ever 

 any license law to enable us to get drunk for the 

 public good ? Do you read that we ever posted as 

 drunkards, a list of hogs, otherwise respectable ? 

 Have you ever known a guardian appointed over 

 one of our number, for excessive drinking, gaming, 

 idleness, or debauchery ? or that guardian removed 

 from office for the cause of intemperance ? but I 

 forbear. 1 know you have at last begun to follow 

 the example which we .have so long set you. I 

 am heartily glad of it; I trust the time is soon to 

 come, when a drunken man will be as strange a 

 spectacle, as a drunken hog ; and when the sight 

 of a swill pail will not necessarily be associated 

 with the idea of a rum jug. 



You will excuse my frankness, gentlemen ; you 

 appear to me to need plain talk ; and, if I shall be 

 instrumental in mending your morals or your man- 

 ners, it will give me many hours of pleasant re- 

 flections. 



In the mean time we shall be happy to supply 

 you with any thing in our line. In travelling 

 through your county, I have observed your or- 

 chards, and have thought you might be in need of 

 some of our bristles. A tar brush applied to your 

 trees in the winter and spring would soon rid you 

 of the cankerworm ; and Pickering's conical brush 

 would exterminate the caterpillar. By the way, I 

 cannot but commend your practice of setting your 

 apple trees so that the fruit may fall into the road, 

 as it is exceedingly pleasant and refreshing to us 

 on our travels. 



We have also a good supply of lard, which we 

 can recommend to the lovers of pancakes and fried 

 fish, and whatever else pertains to the frying pan. 



Also, an assortment of bladders for those who 

 are too heavy for their element, and who wish to 

 rise above their natural level. 



Alio on hand, a few prime sausages of domestic 

 manufacture, and warranted not to rip. 



Also, the newly invented self-taught plough, 

 construced on the principle of the hog's nose, with 

 double ntiuld boards, in imitation of the chaps. 



