Vol. XI.-No. 15. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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To John Mackay for the next hest Boar, 11 mo. j riam, ploughman, 

 old, the 2(1 riremium of $8. -|ft „, driver, $2. 



To GeorL'e M. Barrett for the third l)est^oar, 5 

 mo. olil, the preiniiini of $5. | 



To John SlacUay for t'le best Sow, 4 mo. old, Ist j 

 prerainin of $12. 



To Isaac, Rohbins for next best Sow, the 2d pre- 

 mium of .$8. 



To John Mackay for the next best Sow, 2 years 

 old, the 3d premium of $.5. 



To Isaac Rohbins for the best Figs, the 1st prc- 

 rainni of .§10. 



To John Mackay for next hest Pigs, the 2d pre- 

 niimn of S5. 

 Per order, 



I. THORNDIKE, Ciiainnan. 

 BENJAMIN SHURTLEFF. 



i : Samuel Blood, 10 years old. 



GORHAM PARSONS, 

 JOHN CHOATE, 

 MOSES NEWELL. 

 Brighton, Oct. 17, 1832. 



The Committee ore Worldng Oxen, award the fol- 

 lowing premiiwis, 



1st. To Silas Conant of Concord, -f 25. 2d. Royal 

 T. Marble, Sutton, 20 dolls. 3d. Sherman Barrett 

 of Concord, 15 dolls. 4th Paul Learned, Water- 

 town, 13 dolls. 5th. George M. Barrett, Con- 

 cord, 8 dolls. Respectfully submitteil, 



LUKE FISKE, for the Committee. 



The commitlee on Butler and Clieese report, 



That they have awarded the first premium on 

 butter, of $20, to Luther Chamberlain of West- 

 borough; second premium of §15, to Stephen Hast- 

 ings of SterUng. There were two kegs of butter, 

 (entry No. 9,) of very excellent quality, but too 

 much salted. 



First premium on old eheese, of .$20, to Daniel 

 Hunter of New Braintree ; second premium of f 15 

 to Hollis Tidd of New Braintree. 



First premium on new cheese, of $10, to RoswoU 

 Converse of New Braintree ; second premium of 

 $5, to Luther Hunter of New Braintree. 



For the greatest quantity of butler and cheese 

 . made between the 15th of May and the 1st of Oc- 

 tober, premium of $20 to Luther Chamberlain of 

 Westborough — 2626 pounds of butter, and 5420 

 pounds of cheese, from twentyseven cows. 



The committee on Ploughing Match of two yoke of 

 oxen, report, 



That they award the first premium of $15, to T 

 H. Merriam of Concord ; .«8 to Otis Merriam, plough- 

 man ; $4 to T. Merriam, driver. Second premium, 

 $10, to Charles Howard of Hingham ; $5 to Mr 

 Fearing, ploughman ; $3 to J. Cushing, driver. — 

 Third premium of $6, to A. H.Wheeler of Con- 

 cord ; $3 to A. H. Wheeler, ploughman ; $2 to J. 

 Jepson, driver. 



The joint committees of two and one yoke of 

 oxen award to Charles Howard, of Hingham, $10 

 for the best plough on the ground. 



Per order, JOHN PRINCE. 



Committee on single teams award as follows, viz. 

 First premium to Samuel Hoar, of Lincoln, plough 

 S15 ; S. Hoar, ploughman, $8 ; driver, $4. Second 

 premium to T. P. Merriam, of Concord, plough, $10; 

 T. P. Merriam, ploughman, $5 ; Royal T. Marble, 

 driver, $3. Third premium to Abiel H. Merriam of 

 Concord, 14 years old, plough, $6; Abiel H. Mer- 



AMERICAN WILD HORSES. 



Lewis and Clarke, speaking of the horses found 

 to the west of the Rocky Mountains, say, that 

 they appear to be an excellent race, lofty, elegant- 

 Iv formed, active and durable; many of them ap- 

 ]ieur like fine English coursers ; some of tlieni are 

 pied, with large spots of white irregularly scattered, 

 mid intermixed with a dark brown bay ; the great- 

 er part, however, are of an uniform color, marked 

 with stars and 'white feet, and resembling in fleet- 

 ness and bottom as well as in form and color, the 

 best blooded horses of Virginia. The natives suf- 

 fer them to run ;it large in the plains, the grass of | 

 which affords them only winter subsistence: their 

 masters taking no trouble to lay in a winter's store 

 for them, notwithstanding they will, unless nmch 

 exercised, fatten on the dry grass afiorded by the 

 plains during the winter. The plains are rarely if 

 ever moistened by rain, and the grass is conse- 

 (|ucnlly short and thin. The natives, excepting 

 those of the Rocky Mountains, appear to take no 

 pains in selecting those of the male horses for 

 breed ; and, indeed, those of that class appear 

 much the most indifferent. Whether the horse 

 was originally a native of this country, or not, the 

 soil and climate appear to be perfectly well adapt- 

 ed to the nature of this animal. 



Horses are said to be found wild in n}any parts 

 of this extensive country. The several tribes of 

 Shoshonees who reside towards Mexico, on the 

 waters of the Multomah river, and particularly, 

 one of them called Shaboboah, have also a great 

 number of mules, which the Indi.ms prize more 

 highly than horses. An elegant horse may be 

 purchased of the natives for a few beads and olh- 

 er paltry trinkets, which, in the United States, 

 would not cost more than one or two dollars. The 

 abundance and the cheapness of horses, will be 

 extremely advantageous to those who may here- 

 after attempt the fur trade to the East Indies, by 

 the way of Columbia river and the Pacific ocean. 



ibie. Admiral Hosier buried his ship's companies 

 twice during a West Indian voyage, in 172G, part- 

 ly from the unhealthiness of the Spanish coast, but 

 chiefly from the ravages of scurvy. Bad food and 

 want of cleanliness swept away the people of the 

 middle ages, by ravages upon their health, that 

 the limited medical skill of those days could never 

 resist. Matthew Paris, a historian of that period, 

 states that there were in his time twenty or thirty 

 hospitals for lepers in Europe. — fVfirking Man's 

 Companion, No. XIII. 



The Course of Trade. — It is a well establi;^hed 

 principle, that every new facility for transporta- 

 tion, to and from a jdace, in one direction, gener- 

 ally increases the amount transjjorted in other di- 

 rections. This principle has been well illustrated 

 in the case of the Canal from this town to Provi- 

 dence. Although the goods brought up the Canal 

 are many fold greater in amount than all that were 

 brought to town before it was constructed, yet \Ve 

 are satisfied, from pretty careful observation, that 

 the amount of transportation, by wagons, from 

 Boston, the present season, is greater than it ever 

 was before the Canal was made. And, we are 

 perfectly convinced, that the increased facilities 

 for business in this vicinity, which will be afford- 

 ed by the Rail Road, when that shall be in opera- 

 tion, will, in turn, add to the amount of transpor- 

 tation on the Canal, and render that stock more 

 valuable than it would be without the Rail Road. 

 Such are the mutually beneficial effects, which 

 well devised schemes of improvement produce on 

 each other. — Mas.i. Spy. 



VEGETABLES. 

 In the early part of the reign of Henry VIII. 

 not a cabbage, turnip, or other edible root, grew 

 in England. Two or three centuries before, cer- 

 tainly, the monasteries had gardens with a variety 

 of vegetables; but nearly all the gardens of the 

 laity were destroyed in the wars between the 

 houses of York and Lancaster. Harrison speaks 

 of whcaten bread as being chiefly used by the 

 gentry for their own tables ; and adds, that the 

 artificer and laborer are "driven to content them- 

 selves with horse corne, beanes,peason, oats, tares, 

 and lentiles." There is no doubt that the average 

 duration of human life was at that period not one 

 half as long as at the present day. The constant 

 use of salted meat, with little or no vegetable ad- 

 dition, doubtless contributed to the shortening of 

 life, to say nothing of the large numbers constant- 

 ly swept away by pestilence and famine. Till 

 lemon juice was used as a remedy for scurvy 

 amongst our seamen, who also are compelled to 

 eat salted meat without green vegetables, the de- 

 struction of life in the navy was something incred- 



Durable Fence. — Deacon Winslow Marston, bas 

 on his farm a kind of fence which for durability 

 and beauty can hardly be exceeded. On each 

 side of the road adjacent his dwelling, are rows of 

 large button-wood trees, set ten or twelve feet 

 asunder. Into these, when young, cedar rails 

 were inserted as into common posts. As the trees 

 increased in size, the wood formed closely around 

 the ends of the rails and firmly secured them in 

 their places. We have nowhere else seen this 

 experiment tried on so large a scale. It is certain- 

 ly a durable and cheap fence, because it will re- 

 quire no repairs at least for one generation, and is 

 moreover constantly increasing in value. Were 

 our roads lined with this kind of fence, it would 

 add not a litlle to the beauty of the countrv, and 

 the comfort of tbe traveller. — Barnstable Jour. 



JVao Brunswick. — A gentleman extensively en- 

 gaged in agiiciiltural pursuits in Su.sse.x Vale, call- 

 ed on us this morning, and communicated the very 

 gratifying intelligence that the crops in all parts of 

 King's County, but particularly in the Valley, are 

 most luxuriant, and truly encouraging to the hus- 

 bandman. He represents the wheat crop as nev- 

 er having been more abundant or of a heavier and 

 better quality ; the potatoes, oats, barley, &c, will 

 also, it is anticipated, yield good crops. Tbe hay, 

 except on clayey grounds, is very heavy, and 

 nearly twice as abundant as last year. — Acadian 

 Record. 



The English Agricultural Report for August, 

 states that during the early part of the month, the 

 greater i)art of the wheat in tbe Southern dis- 

 tricts was cut and carried, but that during the last 

 ten days, there had been heavy rains, which had 

 materially injured every description of corn lliat 

 was exposed. 



