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NEW ENCJLAND FARMER, 



Aug. 17, 1831- 



The number of apple trees on the farm ; the 

 proportion grafted ; whether planted in orchards 

 or partly by the fences against the road ; the 

 quantity of winter apples gathered and cider 

 made ; treatment of trees, and manner of making 

 cider. 



The form and dimensions of barns, sheds and 

 barnyard, and manner of collecting and making 

 manure. 



The number of oxen, cows, and young stock, 

 horses and sheep, kept on the farm through the 

 year, and the quantity of butter and cheese 

 made, distinguishing the new milk from the 

 other cheese, and the breed of cows, whether 

 foreign, mixed, or native. 



The number of swine and quantity of pork 

 made. 



The labor employed in carrying on the farm, 

 and quantity of ardent spirits consumed. 



As it is deemed important to ascertain the 

 best rotation of crops, it is expected that the 

 applicants for these premiums will state the kind 

 of crop, if not able to state the quantity, raised 

 on the several and respective pieces of tillage, 

 mowing, and pasture land described in their 

 statements, for two years next precednig the 

 present one. 



The manner of feeding his stock in the win- 

 ter season ; whetiier he gives his milch cows 

 or oxen grain or roots of any kind, and the kind 

 and quantity. 



His treatment of calves he intends to raise; 

 whether he lets them continue to suck, or weans 

 them soon after born — how soon — what food he 

 gives them, and how long he continues to feed 

 them. 



His manner of making cider and cleansing 

 his old barrels, and the time he draws it off, if 

 at all. 



The kind of food given to bis swine, and the 

 manner in which it is prepared. 



The age at which he finds it most profitable 

 to make "beef of his working oxen and good 

 milch cows. 



If it be a sheep farm, the manner he treats 

 his sheep in tiie winter ; whether they are 



of extirpating the worm that attacks same, or other circumstances, may have been 



the Locust tree 100 00 sent to the hall, merely for sale. 



For a new, effectual, and satisfactory 

 mode of extirpating the Borer which 

 attacks the apple tree 



For any newly invented Agricultural 

 Implement, or Machine, superior to 

 any designed for the same use, that 

 shall have heretofore gained a premi- 

 um, a reward not exceeding twenty 

 dollars, according to the importance 

 of the invention 



TREES AND LIVE HEDGES. 



For the largest plantation of the White 

 Mulberry tree, not less than two thous- 

 and plants, nor less than three years 



housed or left out in the yard, the food given , For the best Apple Orchard planted 



Claims for the premiums on Butter and 

 I Cheese, must be made in writing, addressed to 

 50 00 Benjamin Guild, Esq., Boston, post paid, on or 

 before the first day of December, 1831. And 

 the parcels deposited before Tuesday the 6th, 

 at (iuincy Hall, on which day, at 10 o'clock, 

 A. M. the committee will examine the lots of- 

 fered for premium, and none will be admitted 

 after that hour. 

 20 00 The premiums will be awarded at the Hall 

 on Wednesday the 7th. 



Each lot must be marked with the initials of 

 the owner's name, and the place of manufac- 

 ture. 



,, ; , , ■ , , ,- „ .!,„ 1^. It is particularly recommended to the com- 



old,tobe claimed on or betore the 1st \ J u . ■ .i „■„„„, 



of December, 1832 8.50 00 P*"" '"•■"■ ''^"^^ "'^ ''""'"" ^"^ P"' "P '" ^'"^ """^^^ 



For the greatest quantity of raw or un- 

 manufactured Silk, not less than ten 

 pounds, raised by the claimant, and 

 presented before the 1st December, 

 1833 20 00 



For the best plantation of White Oak 

 trees, not less than one acre, nor fewer 

 ? than 1000 trees per.,acre — raised from 

 the acorn — not less than three years 

 old, and which shall be in the most 

 thriving state on the 1st September. 

 1832 100 00 



For the best plantation of White Ash 

 Larch, or Yellow Locust trees, each 

 of not less than one acre, nor fewer 

 than 1000 trees per acre, to be raised 

 from the seeds, and which trees not 

 less than three years old, shall be in 

 »» the most flourishing state on the 1st 



September, 1832 50 00 



For the best Live Hedge, made either 

 of white or Cockspur Thorn, planted 

 after 1820, not less than one hundred 

 rods, and which shall be in the most 

 thriving state in 1831 , 50 00 



For the best Buckthorn Hedge, not less 

 than 100 rods, and which shall be in 

 the most thriving state, in 1831 50 00 



Com. 



them, and the time they generally lamb. 



The whole statement to be sworn to by the 

 applicant. The Trustees to be at liberty, in all 

 cases, before they award the premium, to visit 

 by a committee, or such other persons as they 

 shall appoint, the farms of the applicants, if they 

 deem it expedient. 



N. 15. Claims to be addressed to Benjamin Guild, 

 Esq. in Boston, (post paid) bel'oie Uie first day of Octo- 

 ber next. 



50 00 



EXPERIMENTS, DISCOVERIES, .\ND INVENTIONS. 



For the experiment of turning in Green 

 Crops as a manure, on a tract, not 

 less than one acre, and proving its 

 utility, giving a particular account in 

 writino- under oath of the process and 

 the result §20 00 



For the most successful use of the Drill 

 Plough, in the cultivation of any small 

 grains or seeds, on a scale of not less 

 than one acre 



For an effectual and satisfactory mode 

 of destroying the Bee-moth or of pre- 

 venting its ravages 



For an effectual and satisfactory mode 



20 00 



since 1822, not less than 100 trees, 

 and which has been managed, in all 

 respects, with care and skill, and shall 

 be in the most thriving condition in 

 the season of 1S31 



Claims for the premiums on vegetable and 

 grain crops, and experiments and inventions, 

 together with the evidences required, are to be 

 n writing, and sent free of expense, to Ben- 

 jamin Guild, Esq., in Boston, Assistant Rc- 



manncr. 



Agricultural Implements of new invention, 

 intended for exhibition, must be sent to the Hall 

 on or before Tuesday the 6th December. 

 R. Sullivan, ") 



E. H. DrRBY, [ 

 .loHN Heard, Jr. ( 

 GoRHAM Parsons, J 

 BosTov, Jan. 1S31. 



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FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMIR 



STOCKS FOR FRUIT TREES, &c. 

 Mr Fessenden — Althoiigli your valuable pafier 

 has treated very extensively (and in my opinion 

 very properly) upon :lie suhjcct (if raisins! Fruit 

 Trees, yet I have cxiunined its files, nn.l likewise 

 several res|iectal)le vvriti^rs on Ildrlicnlrnre almost 

 in vain, fur practical inlbruiation on the snlijecl of 

 raisin;; the stocks proper for tlie diffiTf nt .ipecies 

 and varietii^s of fruits. The re;ison of this scarcity 

 of iuforinatioij probably arises in a };ieat degree 

 from tlie fart, that must persons procure their fruit 

 trees already in^'rafied or budded from the nm-se- 

 ries, and that the luirsery mi'U cuniinnnly acquire 

 their knowledge from expericnciMl livinj; cultiva- 

 tors. As however, there are coiisiiloralile inconven- 

 ienries attendin;; the procuring of trees from distant 

 nurseries, and a difficulty of g-etting- vi!,'(irous and 

 healthy trees, to say nothing of the expense of 

 purohasinj; a considerable niimlicr, which one 

 UMist do at the lu-eseiit time to be certain of ob- 

 tainin" the best kinds, 1 think many persons would 

 prefer, (if they could without difficulty obtain the 

 requisite iiifiirinatioii) to raise a part, at least, of 

 their fruit trees from the seed and attend person- 

 ally to the grafting or luiddiug thein. I do not 

 suppose it is advisable for the great body of the 

 conimuiiiiy tu do this, for I think that the proprie- 

 tors of the large nurseries are doing a very 



cording Secretary, on or before the first day of I important service to the country, and deserve, and 



December next, and they will be examined by 

 the committee, previous to the 7th day of De- 

 cember, on which day the premiums will be 

 announced at Quincy Hall. 



Competitors for the Butter and Cheese pre- 

 miums will please to take notice, that there wid 

 be a public auction after the examination by 

 the committee. There will be no charge for 

 auctioneer's fees, but the government duty must 

 be paid by the owners of the butter and cheese. 

 The committee will be at liberty to withhoM 

 from the auction sale, any parcels, either of 

 20 00 } butter or cheese, which they may have reason 

 'to suppose, from the ordinary quality of the 



will continue to receive the patronage of the pub- 

 lic. The Princes, Landreths, Kenricks, Wiuships, 

 Buel and others, are entitled to much credit for 

 their exertions in introducing and cultivating nevr 

 species and varieties of fruits and other vegetables, 

 and we doubtle.ss owe to those exertions in com- 

 mon with tlie Horticultural Societies the introduc- 

 tion of many new kinds, some of which may be 

 justly estimated of national advantage. The Messrs 

 Prince especially have spared no pains or expense 

 in the collection of the choicest and most unbound- 

 ed variety of the gifts of Flora and Pomona. 

 But to return to the subject of this conunuuicatioo. 

 I should be much gratified, and believe it would 



