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NEW ENGLAND PARMER. 



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There you may keep as maay turnips, cabbages, 

 potatoes, iSLC. as you please, and they are always 

 bandy to fodder out in the stable toyour cattle ; 

 and the cattle need scarcely go out of the stable 

 in a month. 



The yard was well watered by an aqueduct, 

 and a trough on the south side of the barn was 

 kept always full. Upon the north, or back side 

 of the barn, were the stables; they were built 

 in one building, and joined to the main part, of 

 about 25 feet in width, 30 feet long-, and 12 or 

 14 feet high. A door led from the barn into it, 

 besides another door from without u]>on the east 

 side, where the cattle were admift(;d from the 

 yard. A tloor was laid over head, al the dislance 

 of seven feet from the lower one. The stalls 

 were arranged upon each side of (he building, 

 so that the cattle stood with their heads towards 

 the outside of the building, leaving a space in 

 the middle to pass. In foddering, the hay was 

 pitched from the bay in the barn through a win- 

 dow over the stables, and then put down into 

 racks; very little hay could be wasted in this 

 way, and the boys could he trusted with the 

 foddering. The manure made in the stable was 

 put down through the floor into another cellar 

 large er.ough to admit of a cart and team to take 

 it away. 



Surh is the conslructinn and the situation of 

 this barn, and 1 think it is the most convenient 

 of any that 1 ever saiv. Though the barn was 

 not largo, the cellar, wliich extended the wlxole 

 dimensions of it, gave large receptacle* of hay, 

 and the apartments under the floor and stable 

 gave ?i)acious vaults for the reception of the 

 farmer's green fodder and manure ; and pre- 

 served the former from the frost, and the latter 

 from the sun, which would soon eva])orate its 

 strength and nourishment. 



Most farmers I saw had (wo or three small 

 barns, and some two or three large ones. No- 

 thing appears more detrimental to their inter- 

 ests. Superfluous buildings are nothing but a 

 tax upon farmers, the cost of repairs being very 

 great. 1 had rather see the starks stand thick 

 around the barn, than to see more than one barn ; 

 and 1 am convinced that a barn 50 teet by 30, 

 of the construction just mentioned would be 

 suflicient for most of our largest farmers. In 

 England it is not a general practice to put hay 

 in the barn, but it is stacked out in very large 

 stacks and then thatched. Their barns are fill- 

 ed with grain, and so would those be of 

 every American farmer, if they managed it 

 right. 



Torn the water from the road upon your low 

 lands, and it will help them amazingly ; and do 

 it now before the ground freezes. Prepare for 

 winter, for it is close by. !n haste, 



THE FARMER'S FRIEND. 



important to the interests of agriculture, as the 

 production of them. 



The Worcester farmers have undertaken, and 

 with great success, to meet us even at Brighton 

 on this ground. Now there is no reason, why 

 our farmers should not manage their cattle as 

 well, though they have not the pastures, and 

 cannot lind it for their interest to raise them. 



In the Ploughing Match.es the Norfolk larm- 

 ers have generally been the conquerors ; but of 

 late years, they have not been as successful, in 

 carrying the premiums for miorking cattle. 



The Worcester farmers, justly proud of their 

 stock, have been in the practice ol sending to 

 their Cattle Show 50 or GO yoke of fine calile, 

 all collectnd in a single team, which has an im- 

 posing and very agreeable effect. 



Nothing of this sort has taken place at Bright- 

 on. Our larmers are too busy, or possibly "loo 

 indifferent to the reputation of Norfolk and Mid- 

 dlesex, to pay llii.i homage to the " Farmer's 

 Festival." 



Yet we cannot doubt that if they were con- 

 vinced that such a display would promote llie 

 objects of this Show, that they would cbeerl'ully 

 give one day's work of their teams, for this pur- 

 pose. 



It is believed that we could collect, at far less 

 trouble and expense than is incurred by the 

 Worcester Farmers, fifty or sixty teams of cat- 

 tle, which would equal or surpass aTiything to 

 be seen in New England, because our farmers 

 buy only the best cattle and employ the best 

 drivers. 



Suppose for one year the trial should be made^ 

 and that the farmers of Koxbury, Dorchester, 

 Brighton, Brooklyn, Watertown, and Waltham, 

 should send their cattle, — with experienced 

 drivers, clad in an uniform farmer's dress, — we 

 think it would be one of the most interesting 



Fruits Jor Ihc Brighton Cattle Show. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



The improvement of Horticulture forms a 

 most important part of the duties of every Ag- 

 ricultural Society, and e.^pecially of the metro- 

 politan one— of that, which holds its meetings 

 near the Capital. It is a well known fact, that 

 two thirds of the labour of our farmers is devot- 

 ed, anil perhaps a still larger proportion of the 

 profits in this vicinity, is derived from raising 

 vegetables and fruits for Boston market. It is 

 an employment highly honourable and deserving 

 of encouragement. No means have yet been 

 devised more eflectual for this end, than public 

 notice of successful exertions. The farmers and 

 cultivators of this vicinity are therefore res- 

 pectfully invited to send to the Brighton Cattle 

 Show any specimens they may have raised of 

 an extraordinary size or value, and especially to 

 send to our least any fine fruits wliich they may 

 deem either new, or excellent in their qualities. 

 It will be the duly of the Trustees to give due 

 credit to every individual who shall send such 

 productions; and for this purpose they are re- 

 quested to leave their names with Mr Dudley, 

 with the articles they may exhibit. This is not 

 an idle parade. It may serve to make known 

 new and valuable varieties of fruits which olten 

 remain for many years entirely unknown, except 

 in the immeiliate neighbourhood where they are 

 raised. It is now perfectly well ascertained, 

 that there have existed fine fruits in our country 

 for 50 years, which were unknown to persons 



ten miles from the spot in which they grew. — S scenes of this Great Show, and would prove, 

 The most remarkable case is that of the Seckle i|,^j ^q expense is here spared in procuring the 

 pear, which was not generally known in this] i,gst (.,.,(||e^ ;,nd in the skilful management of 



' them. It would be a fine display of the agrir 

 cultural advancement of these counties. 



country till within ten years, though the parent, 

 and probably original tree has existed for nearly 

 forty years. Ills now considered in England and 

 in America, as one of the best of that species of 



fruit. 



J. LOWELL, 



in hehaff of Iht Trustca. 



The Brighton Cattle Shoiv. 



TO THE EDITOR OF TDE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Our excellent neighbours in Worcester have 

 always exceeded us in the display of their ex- 

 Barns should be made perfectly light, and be jcellent (cam? of cattle. There are various causes 



which have produced this obvious distinction. 

 In the first place, they are the raisers of the 

 finest animals. It is the best grazing county in 



painted; and I hope my brother farmers will 

 lake care that they are surrounded with a large 

 yard with a wall feet high, and above all the 

 rest, that they will see that they have the ma- 

 nure three feet deep in the spring. In order to 

 insQre this, I advise them to keep their teams 

 ■employed this fall in collecting turis and all man- 

 mcr of stuff, and drop it into their yard. And 

 when you go after turfs, don't get the poorest 

 earlli you can find. But if your land is sandy, 



From Ike JV«(i Yoik Paliiot. 



Mr. Periins. — The subjoined extracts front 

 an article in Newton's " London .Tournal of 

 Arts and Sciences" will doubtless be perused 

 with intert-'sl — on account of the individual 

 whose theory is analyzed, ks well as the philo- 

 sojdiic pr'nciples laid down. These remarks 

 hr.ve particular reference, as will be seen by 

 Iho note of Mr. Perkins, to the calauiily of 

 the .^tna.scme lime since, on her passage' from 

 New Bruiswick to this city. 



From ejperimcnts on steam, lately perform- 

 ed by Mr. I'erhins, it has been discovered that 



the state. In the lower and sea-port counties, 



we are only [lurchasers, and we select fiom 1 er.plosinni do sometimes take place by the de 

 those, which they send to market, our fines! ; composition of water. Mr. I'erkins is of opin- 

 working cattle. It would be perfectly absurd ' jon, that nany of the falnl accidents which liave 

 for Norfolk and I\liddleses to contend Vi'itb Wor- 1 i;iken plate in Inw, as well as high pressure boil- 

 cester as to the capability of raising cattle. It erg have seen j)roduced by an explosion of gas, 



would not be for our interest to attemjit it, and [ 



get clayey soil, that it may be mixed with it, wo should fail, if we should do so. Yet the 



and make the land belter. You will find ridges 

 along side of your fence.", that may be taken an<l 

 put m the yard ; and you will put stubble and 

 weeds and a great many other tilings tliere that 

 "»vill make miinurej if you have your eyes open. 



iig ot fine cattle is not the only, nor the most 

 important art in Agriculture. 



The training of them to the plough, and to 

 draught is equally essential. The skill required 

 in the management of this useful niiiraul is as 



nd not bj steam pressure. Mr. Perkins feels 

 himself torne out in this conclusion, from cer- 

 tain tacts, which we will now stale. It has been 

 before noiced in this Journal, that Mr. Perkins' 

 metiiod o! generating steam, is by heating his 

 water in i coiled tube, under pressure, and af- 

 terwards tbrcing it into a very strong iron tuber 



