PUliLISHEl) liV GEO. C. BARRETT, NO. 52, NORTH MARKKT STREET, (at thk A(,kicui.tuuai. VVarkhcjusk.)— T. G. FESSENDEN, EDITOR. 



VOL. XI. 



B<)STOV, WEDNKSOAY EVENING, Jl LY 3. 1833. 



NO. 51. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



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For Iho New England Fakirr. 

 PRODUCT OP A TEMPERANCE PjVRW. 



Mr. Fessende.v, If you think die fnllijwiMc 

 stntiMm-iits will ill any ineasiire " provoke tolffood 

 works" you may give them a i)lace in your vahia- 

 blt! paper: liy so doing you will gratify the]ffel- 

 in^s of my tVienils, who Helight to see tlie cause 

 of'^Temperanee and Good llushandry prosper. I 

 know that what would he called higli cultitalion 

 in the County of Worcester, would he estoemed 

 hut indifferent in another place, very near th^ Me- 

 tropolis. If I may be said to have done v^ell, I 

 presume many others have done better. 



My farm is a stiff clayey soil, rocky, untvcii, 

 hills and valleys, particularly adapted to the gi-owtli 

 of fruit trees,"such as Pears, Apples, Peaches and 

 Cherries, of which I have about 200 thriftj trees 

 of tiie choicest varieties, most of them in a hfarini; 

 state ; besides mulberries, quinces, grapes, &c. It 

 contains 160 acres, 20 of wood, the renuinder 

 mowing, tillage and pasture land, all in one body, 

 with the great mail road from Boston to Washing- 

 ton running through the centre. I get mylivitig 

 by farming, and keep my eye steadily m t|ic 

 profits of my l^u-m, which must e.Kclude even 

 thing like overwrought agriculture, or extravti- 

 gance, from the premises. From my youth ui| 1 

 have been trained a farmer, and " accurdiiig ici 

 the custom of the country" was early initiated inl 

 the sublime mysteries of the sparkling cup. I do 

 not know that I was ever taught that it was the 

 handmaid of religion ; yet I thought that Bacchu.s 

 must be the constant comjianion of honor and 

 good breeding, and in fact felt ashame<l to be 

 without him any where. In agriculture he was 

 my foreman, I scarcely dared to commence a day's 

 work without consulting him. After employing 

 him many years, I began to think that he did not 

 do quite so well as formerly — indeed I began to 

 be suspicious that he never had done quite so well 

 as I had been made to believe. Some time befure 

 this he had been guilty of breaking the (leace, had 

 knocked down a great many good likely men in 

 the streets; and in many instances taken away all 

 their money. And what was much worse he 

 would often belabour them till he destroyed their 

 senses, and carried poverty, shame, and distress 

 and death and hell (if I may so speak) into many 

 families, who, had it not been for him might have 

 been prosperous and happy. One Dr. Beecher 

 advertised him, I bought the advertisements' and 

 found the villain fully described, and people warn- 

 ed against employing him. I found he became 

 more turbulent and diflicult to govern ; indeed, 

 sometimes it seemed as though he would be my 

 master let me do my best. He was very unrea- 

 sonable in his demands, and when I paid him 

 great wages, he was not satisfied, would say it is 

 not enough — give, give." At length I said to 

 him "get behind me, Satan," and drove him from 

 my farm. And I have not employed him sjice, 

 except in sickness, and then he is a dangerous fel- 

 low. If you employ him any considerable length 



of time he will he gc-tting up into your garret, and 

 doing mischief if you don't hiok out pretty sharp. 

 My neighbors all siiid I was unwise to dismiss 

 him. Say they — you can't hire* help to carry on 

 so large a farm, do so nuich hard work, and gel 

 o much hay without rum. But, as I was a yan- 

 key, 1 ventured to guess that 1 conlrl. At thai 

 time I did not know of a farm in the world, which 

 was carried on without the help of ardent spirits. 

 This was termed a new measure, and, in fact il 

 was new in those days, but it had been an old 

 measure in days of yore. It is now loo late in 

 the day to tell what the result of these " wild, 

 rash, new measures" was, for every one has be- 

 come familiar with the effects of temperance on 

 labor. 



When I concluded to di.«petisc with rum on my 

 farm, I thought it likely that I sliuuld ns(! more 

 cider than before, but in this I was mistaken ; for 

 after a short time, we began to use h^ss, till it has 

 almost entirely gone out of use by common con- 

 sent, though I make a good supply of t4ie first 

 quality, and have a plenty of it on hand — of course 

 voii will see that I am right, in calling my farm a 

 Temperance Farm. 



The following items may not all be perfectly 

 correct, but are so nearly so as to answer my de- 

 sign, and give a sum total varying but little from 

 the truth. I would remark, that in consequence 

 of sickness in my family last summer, ayd other 

 causes, my dairy did not receive that attention, 

 and was not nearly so productive as it otherwise 

 I would have been. 



\ DAIRY. 



IMost of my butter was sold in Boston by Col. 

 ^kynard, and brought from 17 to 28 cents per lb. 

 Aliout 350 lbs. the most sold at any one time, 

 liijinglit 24 cts. — we will call the whole, 22 cts. lb. 

 B tier 3487 lbs. at 22 cts. $767.14 

 N"ew Milk Cheese, 1575 lbs. 



St 9 cts. - - 141.75 



Cieese, 735 lbs. 4J cts. 33.07J 



Oo. 152611)8.3 cts. - 45.78" 



Veal, and 4 calves that were 



raised, - - 151.47 

 Total of Dairy, - S1139.21J 



BEEF. 



I fatted 9 cows, and one ox that weighed 1005 lbs. 

 One bull 6 years old which I raised on skimmed 

 milk, and with his mate, a stag, did most of the 

 ox work on my farm for four years. He had 85 

 lbs. of rough tallow, and weighed 1209 lbs. The 

 ox, bull, and 9 cows, amounted to 8308.36. Four 

 oxen were sold by Col. Fay, at Brighton, to G. 

 Adams for 39s. cwt. The whole atnouut for beef 

 was - - - - $603.44 



PORK. 



I fatted 19 hogs which I bought of Theodore 

 Smith, that he drove to Columbia county, N. Y. 

 Their average weight, when I bought them, was 

 86 lbs. I kept them through the winter on Eng- 

 lish turnips, boiled, with a little, and but a little, 

 corn and cob meal put with it. AVhen slaughtered 

 14 of the best averaged a fraction over 500 lbs. 

 each, 15 of them were carried to Boston, and 

 sold for 7i cts. The hogs amounted to $651.82 



Dr. Beecher's Temperance Scrnioos. 



Total of Dairy, Beef and Pork, $2394.47 J 



TIk^ above is the produce of one year, com- 

 mencing March 25, 1832, and ending March 25th, 

 1833. S.iMUEL Chamberlain. 



ff'eslboroiigh, 1833. 



P. S. Since writing the above I see by refer- 

 f'uce to dates that I was a little mistaken about 

 the time of reading Dr. Beecher's Temperance 

 Sermons. I commenced my temperance move- 

 ments in 1827, and his sermons were published in 

 1828. I well recollect how refreshing it was to me 

 to read this little volume. I sent immediately to 

 Boston for i dozen of the volumes, and circulated 

 lliein as fast as I could ; and it gives me pleasure 

 now to think that I then did some good by exam- 

 ple as well as precept in so good a cause. Excuse 

 any tiling that may look like egotism. My only 

 apology is that I thought it not best to spoil a good 

 story for want of a little of that article. S. C. 



For the Neio Enghmd Farmer. 

 PREP.\.RATI01V OF SEED CORN. 



Mr. Fesse>den, In addiiioii to the information 

 you have given on preparing seed corn wiih tar, I 

 cheerfully comply with the request of your "wor- 

 thy friend Essex North" in relation to that subject. 

 My method of preparing seed corn with tar, may 

 be unlike that of any other person ; whether it is 

 as good or better, I am unable lo say ; I only 

 know it answers my purpose perfectly well. 



1 put my tar into a kettle of boiling water of 

 siiflicipnt quantity to cover the whole of the seed 

 I wish to prepare ; when the tar lias remained 

 long enough in the water to become a thin liquid, 

 I turn my corn into the kettle or other vessel con- 

 taining the hot water and tar. I then turn off the 

 water, leaving the corn and the tar at the bottom, 

 and commence stirring it while hot and continue 

 it, till the tar is equally distributed among the corn 

 and every kernel has received a wetting ; I then 

 sprinkle in plaster, and continue sprinkling and 

 stirring alternately until the tar is all absorbed and 

 the kernels comjiletely separated and dry. 



I have never used any thing to make the tar 

 thinner, nor have I ever soaked the corn previous 

 to the preparation ; though I am not certain but it 

 would vegetate sooner. Yet I think that if the 

 tar should be an obstruction, that the swelling of 

 the seed, after the application of tar, would assist 

 the germ in bursting ihe envelope with which it 

 is enclosed. I mention one fact, however, to show 

 that tar alone is no obstacle : in the course of my 

 planting the present season I got out of lar ; but 

 had on hand a mixture of tar and rosin, so hard 

 that it would scarcely yield to pressure ; I used 

 this as a substitute with equally good success. I 

 am not very particular as to the quantity of tar, 

 not measuring it, but should think rather over 

 half a pint to one peck of corn. 



Winter grain looks well, as is usual in cold sea- 

 sons, and this so far, is certainly one. 



A new era has commenced here in the culture of 

 winter wheat, on old lands. If the ground be well 

 prepared and in a high state of cultivation, as 

 much certainty attends this, as most other crops ; 

 a top dressing of manure, to be harrowed in with 

 the seed answers well. Lime should also be free- 

 ly used. Wheat on strong lands should be sowed 

 thick, from two to two and a half bushels lo the 



