VOIi. XI. NO. 43. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL, 



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bur and skill, slioiikl not therefore be withdrawn ; 

 yet experience has shown that it is not broad 

 enough, nor elevated enongh,nor powerful enough, 

 to secure the object in view. We never havp, on 

 these occasions, anything like a general and full spe- 

 cimen of the industry and skill of the citizens of 

 this county. Other motives, of a higher and 

 more influential character, must be called in. Men 

 should bo made more impressively to understand 

 and feel that the object of this institution being pub- 

 lic, it should receive the active and ready sufiport 

 and countenance of an enlightened connnunity, 

 and that as the design of the annual exhibition 

 is public improvement, whoever has it in his 

 power to promote this end and yet withholds 

 his assistance, fails in some of the obligations 

 of a good citizen. All should be forsvard to 

 learn, atid all a,ccordiQg to their means to com- 

 municate information. Almost all persons have 

 some skill or success in their efforts peculiar to 

 themselves, and therefore have it in their power 

 to do something for the general benefit. Every 

 thing of a useful character adds something to the 

 interest of the occasion, while the amount of good 

 must depend greatly on the number and variety 

 of the specimens brought forward. All who can, 

 should be present on such occasions, and those 

 who come should bi'iug something with them : 

 even shotdd it not prove the best, its exhibition 

 may still be useful. The man who brings the 

 best he has, is entitled to praise, while he who 

 has brought nothing, certainly has no right to 

 complain if lia find but little to interest or instruct 

 bim ; and least of all should those complain who 

 affect to be dissatisfied with the way in which 

 things are conducted here, and yet do not devise 

 and set in operation better ways. 



I must take the liberty to address a few obser- 

 vations to the numerous and respectable assembly 

 of ladies present on this occasion. I regard with 

 peculiar interest the part they take in the object 

 for which we are together, for a sentiment early 

 embraced bas been confirmed by observation in 

 every succeeding year, that the enterprise, indus- 

 try, the moral character, gentlemanly conduct, 

 and love of home, in men, has a most intimate 

 and close connexion with the order, taste, and 

 skill, with which things are managed at home. 

 I should not be at all apprehensive in bringing 

 the correctness of this sentiment to the test, by 

 carrying this assembly to the houses and showing 

 them the husbands, the fathers, and brothers of 

 those who have contributed, by their invention 

 and industry, to the interest of this day, or now 

 favor US by their presence. 



I suppose tlie females in this county have con- 

 tributed their full proportion to the interest and 

 usefulness of these exliibitions, and very sure am 

 I tliat they have derived their full share of advan- 

 tage from them. I have, in several instances, been 

 personally acquainted with the good which has 

 by this means been efiected. Increased indus- 

 try, taste, refinement in manners, and order in 

 the management of domestic concerns, in many 

 families, have been the happy result. Many a 

 man has found his table more genteelly spread, 

 furnished with better butter and cheese, his floors 

 covered with good and substantial, and, in some 

 instances, quite elegant carpets, a handsome rug 

 spread before the fire-place, ornaments upon the 

 mantelpiece, his arm-chair furnished with a com- 

 fortable cushion, and many other neat and pleasant 

 things, and has ever since loved his wife and 



daughters and borne better, worked with increased 

 animation, felt a generous pride in exhibiting 

 theso things to his neighbors and friends when 

 they called, and he is always careful to add that 

 nothing was taken from the granary or stall, to 

 foot an alarming iTierchant's bill. They have all 

 sprung up like magic. 



Industry, taste, and refinement, always easily 

 communicated in the female sex, have been pow- 

 erfully and extensively promoted here; and, as 

 might be expected, contentment, virtue, love, and 

 manliness, have followed in the train. If such 

 have been the fruits, when as yet we have had 

 but limited specimens of the taste, industry, and 

 invention of the fair, I would ask what may not 

 be expected should we be favored with a full ex- 

 hibition of what taste and industry have in this 

 county accomplished. I feel perfectly convinced 

 that those females whose means of improvement 

 have been good, could in no way, with as little 

 sacrifice of tiine and labor, consult better the ad- 

 vancement of their sex in the above and other like 

 excellencies, than by exhibiting on these anniver- 

 saries specimens of their own works. Know- 

 ledge would be thus communicated to those who 

 have a desii-e but not the best opportunities 

 to improve ; a spirit of generous emulation 

 be awakened ; neatness, order, enterprise, and 

 comfort would be introduced into jnany families 

 of the less-instructed and uncultivated parts of so- 

 ciety. 



I was about to add a few remarks on another 

 subject, but am admonished by the passing of 

 time that I must close. Before I do this, how 

 ever, I must be permitted to call to recoUec 

 tion the retnark, in which, at the opening of 

 this address, I si)oke of the oliject of this Society 

 as being of a worldly nature. This I did, not be- 

 cause I suppose it bas no bearing upon moral and 

 future concerns. I by no means wish to incul- 

 cate the sentiment which I fear has too often been 

 inculcated, that the conduct of this world's con- 

 cerns can ever be separated from the moral con- 

 dition of the soul or its prospect in a higher or 

 more perfect scene of action. The abstract and 

 subtle discriminations of acute and fine-spun so- 

 phistry have left, and must leave, the connexion 

 between, the outward conduct and the inward 

 feeling, the business of the present life, and the 

 retributions of eternity, unafii^cted. Assuming, 

 therefore, in the present case, that the motive is 

 good, and the comparative worth of every part of 

 life justly estimated, how certain it is that in pro- 

 portion to the enterprise and diligence and atten- 

 tion to the duties of this world will be the actual 

 advancement of man in the scale of moral attain- 

 ments. How certain that institutions like yours, 

 designed to encourage industry, economy, enter- 

 prise, and carefulness, and which indeed direct 

 the attention to the works and ways of God, and 

 develope the riches of his wisdom and goodness, 

 must have a favorable bearing upon the under- 

 standing and the heart. When I commenced this 

 address, it was my intention to have dwelt more 

 particularly on this point than I have done. I 

 think it would be both interesting and useful to 

 show how certainly every real improvement in 

 the condition and outward circumstances of men, 

 tend to correctness of feeling, elevation of con- 

 duct, moral rectitude, benevolent action, and de- 

 votional dispositions. 



If the proper and wise conduct of this world's 

 concerns lead the mind and heart to God, how 



naturally does the reflection come in, that all the 

 wisdom and skill a man possesses, comes also 

 from Him. Just and appropriate is the observa- 

 tion 'of one of the holy prophets, who says, in 

 reference to the enterprising and successful yeo- 

 manry of bis times, that Ms (that is, the farmer's) 

 God doth instruct him and direct him. In no busi- 

 ness of life is there greater need of that wisdom 

 which Cometh from above. You will therefore 

 receive with interest the account which one of the 

 wisest of men gave, concerning his own conduct, 

 in relation to this matter — " When", he says, 

 " I perceived I could not otherwise attain this 

 wisdom except God gave it me, I prayed unto the 

 Lord and besought him with my whole heart, 

 and said, O God of my father, give me wisdom, 

 for hardly do we guess aright of things that are 

 upon the earth, and with labor do we find out the 

 things that are before us." In regard to the wis- 

 dom which men have acquired, and the success 

 which has, in consequence, attended their efforts, 

 the wise and good will be ready to adopt the lan- 

 guage originally uttered in a similar connexion, 

 This also Cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, 

 who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in 

 working. 



HOW TO CHKAT THE MOON. 



Some farmers are very careful to sow their 

 spring crops and gardens at a proper time of the 

 moon, and thus frequently anticipate, or pass over 

 the best season of the year. By attending to the 

 following directions, they will escape all the in- 

 convenience arising frotn the influence of the 

 moon : — 



Select some fair day, as near the usual time of 

 sowing as possible — rise very early in the morn- 

 ing, and sow your seed boldly. Cover all up 

 carefully, before night, making the land appear 

 smooth and even. When the moon comes on 

 next evening, she will be unable to determine 

 whether the field has been sown or not, and will 

 therefore bestow no influence upon it, either bad 

 or good. 



It is important that the land be thoroughly dried, 

 so that it can be made to appear natural. 



Wheuever wheat turns to chess, it is done by 

 the influence of the tnoon. By attending to the 

 above directions, sowing clean seed, this evil may 

 also be avoided. — Genesee Farmer. 



NEW POTATO. 



We were shown last Saturday a quantity of new 

 ootatoes just taken from the ground. They were 

 jianted late last fall and by the assistance of a deep 

 coat of manure and good, warm soil, th*y vegetated 

 during the winter and grew so large as to be fit 

 for eating on the last day of March. It seems to us 

 there might be some expedient contrived by which 

 vegetables can be had earlier hi the seaon, if not a 

 considerable portion of the year round. — J^orthamp- 

 ton Courier. 



A servant being asked if his master was within, 

 replied, " No." "When will he return ?" " Oh, 

 when master gives order to say be is not at home, 

 we never know when lie will come in." 



IiONGEVITY. 



A friend informed us that, on visiting the alms- 

 house in this town lately, he found four women, 

 occupants of one room, whoso united ages were 

 three hundred and fifly-tsvo ! — Exeter (A". H.] 

 jVcivs Letter. 



