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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



FEBRUARY 6, 1833. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEU. fi, 1R33. 



MASS. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Committee of the Massachusetts .Is-ricultural 

 SociH}/, " Oii vegetable and grain crops,'^ having 

 attended the duty assigned them, award a-sfuUoivs : — 



To V/illiain Carter, of Fitcliburg, in the comi- 

 ty of Worcester, for )iis crop of Potatoes, being 

 69 1^ bnslicls to the acre, the premium of twenty 

 dollars. 



To Adams Knight, of Newbury, in the county 

 of Essex, for his crop of Winter-rye, 45^J bushels 

 the acre, twenty dollars. 



To Hooker Leavitt, of Greenfield, in the county 

 of Franklin, for his crop of Winter-ivheat, being 

 38 bushels and 22 quarts on an acre — or rather on 

 3 rods short of an acre, twenty dollars.* 



To Henry Sprague, of Princeton, in the county 

 of Worcester, for his crop of Barley, being 54^ 

 bushels to the acre, twenty dollars. 



The Committee, in justice to other claimants, 

 and thinking it may 'be useful, deem it jiroper to 

 notice the applications for premiums of llie fol- 

 lowing persons, — and to recommend that the sev- 

 eral statements, as to the mode of culture, not 

 only of those to whom premiums have been given, 

 but of the unsuccessful candidates, be jiublished 

 as part of this report. — In tlie judgment of the 

 Committee they are all of them well deserving the 

 attention of farmers. 



Gideon Foster, of Charlestown, county of Mid- 

 dlesex, 38 1-16 bushels of Jlinter-rye the acre. 



Tristram Little, of Newbury, county of Essex, 

 45 bushels and 20 quarts of Winter-rye the acre. 



Nathan Smith, of Koxbury, county of Norfolk, 

 4S}r bushels of ll'inter-rye the acre. 



Payson Williams, of Fitcliburg, county of Wor- 

 cester, 613 J bushels of Potatoes on an acre. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 



P. C. BROOKS, per order. 



Boston, Jail. 12, 1833. 



aiR. CARTER'S CUI-TIVATIOIV OP A PREMIUM 

 CROP OF POTATOES. 



Fitchbwg, Jan. 4, 1833. 



Hon. Peteu C. Brooks, — Sir, youi-s of the 

 2-5th ult. requesting information respecting my 

 crop of potatoes, is received. 



The soil iipon which the potatoes were raised 

 is a warm deep loam sloping to the south-east, 

 and for five years previous to the last has been 

 grass-land, and mowed eacli year. The land was 

 ploughed in the month of November, 1831, har- 

 rowed and cross-plouglied iu the month of May, 

 1832. I then spread forty cart loads of horse 

 manure upon the funowsaiid idoughed it in ; and 

 then furiowed two and a half feet apart, and 

 planted the seed in rows or drills. The seed was 

 twenty bushels of the long red potato, and twenty- 

 five bushels of common blue. Tlic planting was 

 quite the last of 3Iay. As soon as the tops ap- 

 peared, the laud was ploughed and hoed; and 

 when they were about 12 inches high, ploughed 

 and hoed again. I kept no mrnutes of the expense 

 of cultivation, and am therefore unable to state it 

 particularly. Tliere was no further labor or 

 manure expended, than as above stated, and no 

 extra expense, or more pains taken than in ordi- 



*'VUc quantity of land required is an acre, but Mr. Lcavitl's 

 land came so near to it, and his crop was so good, lliat tlie 

 Committee were induced to wave Ih.; rule. 



nary cases. Very respectfully vour ob't. serv't. 

 " W. CARTER. 



I, Joseph Smith, of Fitchburg, in the county of 

 Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachu-setts, 

 of lawful age, do depose and say that 1 was pres- 

 ent and assisted to dig and ineasure the potatoes 

 raised on one acre of land the present season, sit- 

 uated in said Fitchburg, and owned and cultivated 

 by Mr. William Carter, of said town, being the 

 same acre measured and surveyed by P. F. Cow- 

 din, as appears by the certificate hereto annexed, 

 and the whole quantity of potatoes raised on said 

 acre of land was six hundred and ninety-two and 

 one-half bushels. JOSEPH SMITH. 



Fitchburg, JVov. 19, 1832. 



CO-MMONWEALTH OF MASSACHtJSETTS. 



Worcester, ss. JVov. 19, 1832. 



Then the above named Joseph Smith, person- 

 ally a|)|)eared and made oath that the above writ- 

 ten afildavit by him subscribed, w-as true. 



Before me, Ebenezer ToRnEV, Jus. Peace. 



JK'ovemher 28, 1832. I, Willum Carter, the 

 owner of the same acre of land referred to in the 

 above affidavit of Joseph Smith, was present and 

 assisted to dig and measure the crop of j)otatoes 

 raised the present season thereon, and th;it the 

 quantity, and ali the facts set forth in said aflidavit 

 by said Smith are tnie. WM. CARTER. 



" Worcester, J^ov. 28, 1832. Then the above- 

 named William Carter made oath that the above 

 statement by him subscribed, is true. 



Before me, Ebr. Torrey, Jus. Peace. 



This is to certify, that I, Philip F. Cowdin, be- 

 ing sworn surveyor of the town of Fitchburg, have 

 this day measured apiece of land for Win. Carter, 

 whereon potatoes grew the present season, and 

 find it to contain one acre and no more. 



PHILIP F. COWDIN. 



Fitchburg, JVov. 14, 1832. 



Xeivbury, Oct. 29, 1832. 

 To Jonathan W'ixship, Esq. Secretary of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Society. 



Sir, I send you a statement of my method of 

 raising a crop of winter rye, on one acre of land 

 the present year, which 1 wish to enter for a pre- 

 mium. The soil is a gravelly loam, rather dry 

 than otherwise. The land was planted with corn 

 iu the spring of 1831, and manured in the hills 

 with about six cords of manure to the acre, of 

 common quality. In the month of August follow- 

 ing, said acre was sown with three pecks of seed 

 and hoed, in the usual manner. In the month of 

 August of the present year, the rye was reaped 

 and threshed, and found to measure forty-five 

 bushels and five .eighths of a bushel. There is' 

 standing on said acre of land seventy-five ajjple- 

 trees, from two to six inches through at the root. 

 ADAMS KNIGHT. 



I hereby certify, that I assisted in reaping, 

 threshing and measuring the abovementioned rye, 

 and there was forty-five bushels and five-eighths 

 as above stated. TIMOTHY K. NOYES. 



I hereby certify that I measured the land on 

 which the abovementioned crop of rye was raised, 

 and found it to contain one acre and no more. 

 WADE ILSLEY. 



Essex, ss. Oct. 29, 1832. Personally appeared 

 the aforenamed Adams Knight, Timothy K. Noyes, 

 and Wade Ilsley, and made oath to the truth of the 

 above certificates before me, 



SILAS MOODY, Justice of the Peace. 



ITEMS OP HVTELLIGENCE. 



The last news from Euro[ie is tliat the Citadel 

 of Antwerp was surrendered to the French on the 

 24th of December, but it was believed that the 

 diflferences between Holland and Belgium will not 

 be settled by this capture. 



The next English Parliament, it is supposed, 

 will contain a majority of Reformers, amounting 

 to 257 for England alone, and that Scotland will 

 increase the number, so that the whole will 

 amount to 300. 



The Charleston nullifiers arc suspending their 

 operations for the ])resent, apparently waiting to 

 sec if Congress is sufficiently frightened to adopt 

 the measures which they advocate. At a great 

 free-trade, alias nullification meeting, at Charles- 

 ton, Gov. Ilainilton, who heads the party op- 

 posed to the U. S., made a long' and animated 

 speed], in which he recommended temporary for- 

 bearance out of courtesy. It appears that he has 

 ordered some sugar to be imported for the purpose 

 of trying the question relative to tarifi' duties.. 

 ' The recent Messag* of the President, (he observ- 

 ed,) by which all intentioh of the immediate use oS 

 force is disclaimed, marks a course of forbearance 

 free from any difficulty that a most fastidious 

 sense of honor could suggest. We are in tact in 

 the tranches, resting on our own arms, and ui a. 

 |)ositio;i in which moderation and forbearance will- 

 give a vastly argumented efficiency to our resist- 

 ance, when we are called upon to make it.' 



Mild Weather in Philadelphia. The U. S. Ga- 

 zette of the 30th ult. observes that the state of 

 the weather has given new activity to the steam- 

 boats. ■ They begin " to walk the water" again, 

 and we may now hope for regularity iu intel- 

 ligence from the south and east. 



JVeifl Rail Road. The Journal of Humanity in- 

 forms that a Rail Road is contenijdated from 

 Andover to Boston, to connect with the Boston 

 and Lowell Rail Road at Wilmington, a distance 

 of seven miles from Andover. Most of the dis- 

 tance being nearly level, the expense it is estimated 

 will not exceed .$100,000. The amount of money 

 actually paid, for transportation of passengers and 

 ba"-ffage from Andover to Boston, is estimated to 

 be .at least $40,000. 



Three expresses have been established by the 

 New York papers to bring on the news from 

 Washington daily in advance of the mail. 



Remarkable instance of Presence of .Mind. In 

 the awful and destructive hurricane which occur- 

 red in the vicinity of Liverpool, in October last, 

 and which caused the loss of the ship Grecian, of 

 Boston, the English ship William Neilson struck 

 on the banks, went to pieces, and every person 

 on board perished ! The letter-bag was picked 

 up on shore the following day ; and on opening 

 it, it was found to contain a quantity of chaf, 

 which the Captain, with a presence of mind in 



