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It grew up and has been continued there, because 

 found the most convenient place. It is at this 

 moment the best cattle market in the United States, 

 and is an honor to this State. A settlement has 

 been gathered around it of persons who deal in it; 

 B large and convenient hotel has been built, with 

 yards and pens, for the accommodation of persons 

 who bring Battle to the market, or resort there to 

 purchase, and a new tenant has recently been 

 placed in the house, whose character gives assur- 

 ance of civil and courteous deportment to his cus- 

 tomers, as well as good entertainment upon most 

 reasonable terms. 



Why then, it may be nsked, should a new mar- 

 ket be substituted, or the existing one be divided, 

 and both injured. It may be said Cambridge is 

 nearer tor drovers from New Hampshire and Ver- 

 mont; be it so, it is only a few miles at most, and 

 this can lie of little consequence in a journey of 

 one or two hundred: Brighton is nearer for all 

 persons coining from the western part of Massa- 

 chusetts and Connecticut, and is much more con- 

 venient for all purchasers, more especially those 

 who buy store cattle, sheep or swine, a great por- 

 tion of whom, it is well known, live in the old 

 Colony and the county of Norfolk, south and west 

 of Brighton. Brighton is also a populous village, 

 " which affords great accommodation to both buyers 

 and sellers, and many of its inhabitants depend on 

 their business with that market, in a great measure, 

 for their living ; while the settlement near the hotel 

 in Cambridge is comparatively thin. 



We have made these remarks from no unfriend- 

 ly feelings to the proprietors or projectors of the 

 proposed establishment in Cambridge, for they are 

 wholly unknown to us ; but to draw the attention 

 of persons who have been accustomed to deal as 

 buyers or sellers at Brighton, to the subject. It 

 concerns them, we think, seriously to consider 

 whether their interest and convenience will he 

 most promoted or prejudiced by dividing the mar- 

 ket ; and whether it will be wise to desert one they 

 have long been accustomed to, where so much has 

 been done and is doing for their accommodation, 

 to build up another in its neighborhood, when the 

 result must be two poor markets instead of one 

 good one ; for it cannot be expected the old one 

 will be abandoned. It should also be remembered 

 that changes, without cause, will discourage all 

 permanent and expensive improvements, at any 

 place. 



For the New-England Farmer. 

 CULTURE OP FLOWERS. 

 Mr. Editor, I envy not the individual who 

 possesses no love for a garden, no natural taste for 

 the cultivation of Flowers. What can be more 

 pleasing to the human mind, than the contempla- 

 tion of the infinite wisdom manifested by the Di- 

 vine Being in the creation and arrangement of the 

 vegetable world. For there is not a plant that 

 grows, that does not possess charms sufficient to 

 engage our attention, that has not something pe- 

 culiarly beautiful in itself to excite our wonder 

 and admiration. How transcendently beautiful is 

 nature even in the least of her productions! Flor- 

 iculture is an art calculated to interest and amuse 

 every one who has a taste for it, and is willing to 

 devote a little time in its pursuits. As a pastime 

 for those engaged in other avocations, it is pleas- 

 ant and instructive, and affords an unfailing source 

 of delightful and wholesome employment. The 



labor bestowed upon it is amply repaid, and our 

 industry abundantly rewarded by the delightful 

 fragrance and expanding beauties which are con- 

 tinually opening around us in a well cultivated 

 and tastefully arranged Flower Garden. And it 

 not only produces these most gratifying results to 

 our senses, but it imparts a most enlivening vigor 

 to our bodies, whilst it tends to elevate and ex- 

 pand our moral faculties and direct our minds in 

 gratitude to God as the Creator of them all, at 

 whose word they sprang into existence, and are 

 presented before us as proper objects for ouradini- 

 mi ration and gratitude. Flowers are easily culti- 

 vated, and a thousand hues and species may be 

 produced to ornament the grounds of the humblest 

 cottage, as well as the most ostentatious dwelling. 

 And besides the gratification and pleasure derived 

 from the wonderful variety and succession of 

 Flowers, let us not forget that he who so exqui- 

 sitely formed and colored them, has added yet an- 

 other charm in the delightful perfume contained 

 in each variety. 



And do not these reflections call up in our 

 minds a useful moral, and teach us, that as these 

 dazzling beauties which we so much admire will 

 soon pass away and disappear, we should endeavor 

 so to live, as that when the bloom of health, and 

 advantages of youth are no more, we may supply 

 their places with the fruit of usefulness and virtue. 



Tufton Lodge. 



MASS. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MR. E. HBKSY DERBY'S CULTIVATION OP 

 A PREMIUM CROP OP THRSIPS. 



Salem, 2Sth Nov. 1833. 

 The Committee on Vegetable Crops : 



Gentlemen, 1 wish to be considered an appli- 

 cant for the premium offered by the Society for 

 the best crop of Turnips. My crop was raised 

 thjs season as follows : — The piece of land con- 

 tains, as per the certificate of the surveyor, two 

 acres one quarter and seven poles, sloping a little 

 towards the south ; the upper part of the piece is 

 a light gravelly soil, the lower part of the same a 

 good rich loam. The crop taken from it in 1832 

 was Indian corn, potatoes and winter squashes, 

 with a common allowance of manure. Late this 

 spring it was ploughed and harrowed and allowed 

 to remain in that state till we had finished our 

 English haying. About the 20th July, we carted 

 on to each acre, and spread as evenly as possible, 

 about ten ox cart loads of old manure left of the 

 preceding year, each load drawn by a single yoke 

 of oxen. The land was then ploughed and har- 

 rowed, which covered the manure and the growth 

 of weeds. The seed was sown on the 26th or 

 27th of July by a drill barrow moved by a man 

 walking at a quick pace in rows about two and a 

 half feet apart. The seed was raised the present 

 season by myself ; the quantity sown on the 

 whole piece did not exceed one and three quarter 

 pounds, and was covered by passing the ox roller 

 over the ground. There was a slight shower the 

 morning we commenced sowing the seed, which 

 gave the crop a fine start; and although my other 



a week or ten days afterwards the men went 

 through them, thinned them out to single plants, 

 and cut up what weeds they found with their 

 hoes. Nothing more was done till we commenced 

 taking them up on the 7th Nov.; between that 

 day and the 23d we carted to the barns as follows: 

 Thirty Ox cartloads topped in the field, and twelve 

 and a quarter loads untopped. The men were 

 directed to have every load of the topped ones fill- 

 ed as nearly alike as possible ; one of them was 

 sent to the public scales and weighed, as per the 

 certificate of the weigher 252.5 lb. nett, which 

 makes the thirty loads to weigh 75750 lb.; or at 

 56 lb. the bushel, as per the rule established bj 

 the Society, gives 1352^ bushels. On the 23d, 

 thinking it imprudent to risk the remainder of 

 them any longer in the field, I directed the men- 

 to pull all that were then in the field, and cart them 

 with their tops to the barn, on which day we carted 

 twelve and one quarter ox cart loads, each one of 

 which was filled as full as could be piled on. 

 Topping these, and carefully measuring each load, 

 they were found to measure 377£ bushels, which 

 added to the others gives for the whole crop 173&J 

 bushels. I expect to consume these turnips iB 

 feeding the different kinds of live stock on my 

 farm the ensuing winter. 



I am, gentlemen, with great respect, 



Yours, &c. E. Hersy Derbs-. 



Essex ss. Nov. 29th, 1833. — Then personally 

 appeared before me E. Hersy Derby, Esq. and 

 made oath that the facts and allegations therein set 

 forth, in the annexed statement, were true. 



Before me, Jonathan P. Saunders, 



Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum. 



Essex, ss. Nov. 29th, 1833. — Then Lott Fenely 



personally appeared and made oath that the facts 



set forth in the statement annexed made by Mr. 



Derby, were according to his knowledge true. 



Jonathan P. Saunders, 



Just, of the Peace and of the Quorum. 



Salem, Mass. Nov. 29th, 1833. — I certify having 

 measured a lot of land, part of at enclosed piece 

 of land of E. Hersy Derby, Esq. situated within 

 his farm in South Salem, on which the past year 

 a quantity of Turnips had been raised — and that 

 the same land contained two acres, one quarter 

 and seven poles. 



Jonathan P. Saunders, Engineer, fyc. 



We, Lot Fenely, foreman on the farm of E. 

 Hersy Derby, Esq., Thomas Boylan and John 

 Reilly, laborers on said Farm, certify as follows: 

 we were employed in pulling, topping and carting 

 in a crop of turnips raised in one field this season, 

 on the farm. We commenced on the 7th Nov., 

 and between that time and the 23d Nov. carted to 

 the barns thirty large ox loads of Turnips that 

 were topped in the field : the loads were all filled 

 as nearly alike as possible. The one sent to the 

 public scales to be weighed was in every respect 

 a fair sample of all the others. We.also carteM to 

 the barns on the 23d Nov. twelve and a quarrer 

 crops suffered severely by the great drought we ox cart loads of Turnips with their tops on from 



experienced about that time, the Turnips did not 

 appear to suffer in the least. As soon as they 

 were in the rough leaf we passed between the 

 rows with a light scarifier drawn by a horse, to 

 loosen the ground and destroy the weeds. About 



the same field, which on topping and measuring 

 we found to contain 377£ bushels of Turnips 

 without their tops. Lott Fenely, 



Thomas Hoylas, 

 Salem, Nov. 29th, 1833. John Reilly. 



