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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Nov. 9, 1831. 



Affricultiiral. 



larly fat Ciitlle, Sheep and Swine, there was 

 less conipLtiiioii thnn was desirable. They 

 trust, however, that there is no diminution of 

 that general interest in the concerns of the So- 

 ciety which should characterize an agricullurul 

 ommunity. Your coiMniittee may he perniilled 



REPORTS 



0/ Committees at the .Annual Meeting of I lie Bristol 

 .Agricultural Society. 



The Committee on WORKING OXEN have ' to remark that alihousli i he farmers of the County 



attended the duly assigned them, and submit the ! of Bristol have evinced le.«s ami.ilion of excellence 



following as their Report. "' «''«"■ agricultural operations than those o some 



The whole nund)er entered for ].remiums, was i other Counties in the State; yet, since the es- 



ighteen yoke This is a larger number than | lablishment of your Society there has been an evi- 



,as been entered at any previous year. Your dent improveinent in the method of raising and 



$7 00 

 G 00 

 5 00 



4 00 

 3 00 



5 00 



has . . 



Committee were hi;,'hly gratified with the man 

 lier in which they performed. They displayed 

 not only 



strenKlh in drawing, but great 



managing stock, as well as in its general quality ; 

 and they observe with pleasure that many persons 

 are willing to present for observation or iinita- 



facility in Wking and turning their loads, and | tion the productions of their care and enterpn.se, 

 a discipline, wliich required the whip to be used rather for the };"'P'>^^ "J ^"^"''''^S'^'^'^l^^ 

 rather as a wand than as an instrument to inflict 



pain. There was scarcely a yoke that perform- 

 ed which did not merit a premium. One yoke 

 of four years old oxen, belonging to Samuel A. 

 Dean, appeared to great advantage. The li 



leave lo report that they have .twanled the fol- 

 lowing premiums : 



Leprilette Sweet, Attlebovo', 1 yoke oxen, 

 Jacob Dean, Mansfield, 

 Schuyler Sliepard, do. 

 Samuel A. Uean, Taunton, 

 Zeph. Dean, do. 

 Luther L. Short, do. yoke steers and horse, 



The Commitiee recommend that the sum of 

 $2 be awarded to Samuel A. Dean, and the sama 

 sum to Jesse R. Carpenter, in addition to ihs 

 regular premiums. 



The Committee also award a premium of $3 

 to Daniel Hrig^s, Jr, Norton, for best plough. 

 Second do. Jacob Dean, Mansfield, $2 



Per order of the Committee, 



C. Leo.'vard. 



MIDDLESEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



THE CASTOR OIL BEAN. 



Mr WriglU's Leic 



littee oti Agricultural Experl- 



Coiicnrd, Oct. 5, 1831. 



Gentlemen — As vou are assembled to take in- 



formation to others, than from regard to the pre^ 

 miums offered. The true object of Agricultural 

 Associations and Exhibitions is to call forth a gen- 

 eral interest and inquiry on the subjects which 

 ihey embrace ; and by presenting and comparing 

 ited number of premiums, however, offered by i the results of individual experience to introduce a j to consideration the agricultural concerns of the 

 the Society prevent the Committee from be- general improvement in the pursuits of husbandry. County, permit me to give you an ac<-ount of an 

 stowing rewards where they were really ,le- 1 The man who obtains a ;j<e»mtm for an animal de- experiment which I have trie.!, and which has been 

 served This exhibition it is believed, would i rives lit.le benefit from the amount of money re- [ crowned with complete success. 1 have for sev- 

 not lose by a comparison with that of any of ; ceived, compared with the advantage of Jearnin^j er.il years past been in the practice of appropria- 

 our neighbouring societies. After much consid- ; AotWo ra.se anrf/eeJ an animal deserving a pre-: ting, annually, a small piero ol ground for the 

 Committee have awarded the (bl-|miura. Much — almost everything depends upon culiure of the PrrZnia C/iriih, or Castor Oil B-an, 

 raising Cattle from a good slock. — Our farmers, itiand I find that the crop produced is about half as 

 S5 00 1 is believed, pay less regard to the quality of do- "many bushels as would l>e raised of Indian Corn, 

 4 00] mestic animals than their own interests demand. Uipou the same land, and under similar cultivation. 

 3 00, The additional expense of procuring breeding an-. The Oil here presented has all the sweetness of 

 2 00 . i„mls from a good stock is small, and an excellent fresh I>utter, and wiihout any bad taste or smell : 

 ^ ^'^ breed once obtained is, whether for use or for the! but as it has just coiiie from the press, it has not 



eration your 



lowing premiums, viz : 



Bildad Burt, for the best yoke of oxen, 



Horatio Leonard, 2d do. 



Schuyler Shepard, 3d do. 



Jesse R. Carpenter, 4th do. 



Peter Thatcher, Jr, 5th do. 



Luther L. Short, for the best yoke of three years 



old Steers, 



John Padelford, 2d do. 



Daniel Kdson, 3d do. 



Sydney Williams, 

 * Seth Hodges, 



Leprilette Sweet, 

 Peter Thatcher, 

 ON stock. 



4 00 

 3 00 

 2 00 



Committee. 



had time to clarity itself, and assmiie that while 

 ness peculiar to imported, or the Southern Castor 

 Oil. 



I consider it ihe duty of those who possess any 

 informaiiiin that will advance the interests of the 



iiarket, incalculably more valuable than an ord'- 

 nary one. In a pecuniary point of view this sub- 

 ject deserves attention. The importation of for- 

 eign domestic animals has greatly contributed to 

 improve our races of catlle in this country It is 



known that for more than fifty years past jireat ef- 1 Agriculiurisls or Manufacliirers of the County, to 

 forls have been made iu (Jrent Britain and France ! lay it bef ire the Society, that it may be made ben- 

 to improve the stale of their horned cattle — while ' cficial lo all ; this has induced me to present this 

 The Committee on STOCK ask leave to report j with us no such effort had been made. Of coirse it sample for your inspection. It was manufactured 

 that they have awarded the following premiums : j is to be presumed that those nations haveinijroved by Mr Benjamin Draper, of Bnxboro', who had 

 To Israel Drayton, Somcrsel^, best fat ox, $10 00 j (/^e,-,. ,ace^^ while ours have been stationary. If it I erected a press for that purpose. The kernels 



^ ^^1 should be admitted that the fine natural pastUKSon i pressed cold yield two gallons of Oil to the bushel, 

 ihe beautiful, fertile, and moist hills of Wore sler, i I do not lliiiik, however, that during tho contin- 

 that ' New Englaml paradise for fine cattle, had nance of the present low prices of the Southern 

 krpi up a race of cattle, vigorous, and nearlyper- Oil, that the cultivation of the Castor Oil Bean is 

 feet in their forms, the same could not be atlrm-,of any very great agricultural importance, only. 



6 00 

 4 00 



10 00 



7 00 

 .5 00 

 4 00 

 2 00 



8 00 



Nathan Slade, Somerset, 2d do. do. 



Israel Brayton, Somerset, 3J do. do. 



Jesse Carpenter, Attlebnro', 4th do. do. 



Abner Bailey, RIansfield, best bull, 



Justin Howard, Easton, 2d do. do. 



Lucas Daggett, Attleboro', .'id do. do. 



Benj. Shores, Taunton, best bull calf, 



Artemas Stebbins, Swanzey, 2d do. do. 



S. B. King, Taunton, 5 best milch cows, 



Nathaniel U. Williams, do. for 2d do. do. 



Jesse Carpenter, Attleboro", .3d do. do. 



Samuel A. Dean, Taunton, best heifer, 



Edmund Porter, do. 2d do. do. 



Elbridge G. Dean, do. 3d do. do. 



John Sweet, Norton, best merino buck, 



Peter Thatcher, Attleboro', (i merino ewes, 3 00 



John Sweet, Norton, 6 do. different breed, 3 00 



Leprilette Sweet, Attleboro', best boar, 



Julius Fisher, Taunton, 2d do. do. 



S. B. King, do. best breeding sow, 



Leprilette Sweet, Attleboro', 2d do. do. 

 As the Committee have no power to award 

 premiums for horses, they recommend to the 

 Society to allow Virgil B. Bucklin, of Seekonk, 

 for a two years old stud, two dollars. 



It not being convenient for the Committee at 

 this time to enter so thoroughly as they could 

 wish into the subjects committed to them, they 

 merely take occasion to observe, that in some 

 kinds of stock presented for premiums, particu- 



ed of Bristol, or of ihe Souihern Counties, <r of 



the northern part of Middlesex or Norfolk. Ticre 



can be no doubt that our race of Milch cots is 



T nn S'^"'^''"^^y ordinary, and our catlle at large infaior 



A r\n\to those of England, of ilie Netherlanils an of 



3 QQ I Normandy. The introduction of Merino nd 



Saxony sheep into ihis country has been auei<e<l 



with remarkable effects. Your committee re ret 



that more attention is not paid to the raising .nd 



managing of sheep in this country, only 2 or Sots 



were exhibited for premiums. 



Some handsome specimens of swine were pe- 

 sented, and a great variety of valuable bulls fi.m 

 which the commitiee found it somewhat diflich 

 to make selections fur the ))remiums awarded. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 

 Horatio Pkatt, ^ 

 Eben. Williams, I Committee. 

 Jacob Shepard, | 

 Joseph Carpenter, j 



P L O n li II I N G . 



The Commiltee on PLOUGHING have it- 



2 00 



3 00 



3 00 



2 00 



3 00 

 2 00 



as it has a tendency to develope tiie slumbering 

 resources of this section of tin- Country. Yours 

 respectfully, ANTHONY WRIGHT. 



Cei tijicate from Dr Jnsiah Barllett. 

 CoNCOiiD, Oct. 4, 1831. — This may certify that 

 the subscriber has, within the last two years, made 

 frequent use of ihe Oil raised and mamifactiired 

 by Capt. A. Wright, and has invariaiily found it 

 to pos.iess all the qualities of the best imported 

 Castor Oil. J. Bartlett. 



Large Jipple. — The Lincoln Intelligencer, a 

 Maine paper, stales in substance that an apple, call- 

 ed the Jackson apple was raised by an ol I friend 

 of the General, at Bowman's Point, Ilallowell, 

 which weighs one pound and girts 13 inches. 

 The Eililor of the Maine Inquirer, published at 

 Bath, states that he has seen an apple, raised in the 

 garden of Col. Thomas D. Robinson of that town, 

 which girts 1-5 inches, and weighs 22 ounces ; and 

 that he could show a bushel of apples, raised in 



the same garden, the smallest of which would be 

 tended lo the service assigned them, and Pg ' larger than the apple first mentioned. 



