1825.] 



NEW ENGLAND FAII.MEH. 



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lectinns of his nntraespol, we have so often h;irl 

 Decision lo admire. 



Bv Admiral Sir Isnac Coffin, the slate of Mas- 

 piichusell* has been presented, within onr notice, 

 of improved domestic animal':, which mn«t have 

 cost several thon«and d^illars ! The value ofthe 

 melioration thus to he wronsfhl upon their native 

 slock, it would he difficult to eslimate. We re- 

 memher, at the moment, donations hj him of a 

 stallion, of the race of the London hrewers' 

 dray horse;* a bull of the im|iroved shrri horn 

 breed, and a pair of t!ie celehrated Hereford 

 cattle; and now, a pairof liie Yorkshire Cleve- 

 land bays, male and female — This is the stock 

 which we have Ions; been anxious to see in- 

 tiochiced into Maryland. It will he remember- 

 ed that the late Robert Patterson, seein? in 

 F.ng^land the great value of this blood, in their 

 coach horse, bought a fine colt on the spot, 

 for which he gave 100 CTnineas — that horse has 

 since lieen sold into Washington county, for 

 gl.50O — still we are without the breed, because 

 no farmer who has the mean*, has had the spirit 

 to impon a mare, though there is every reason 

 to believo tliat her first stone colt would more 

 tlia 1 pay all ex[ienses. 



Whilst some of our most wealthy citizens re- 

 fuse to give more than live dollar*, others go as 

 fir as two dollars, and others refuse to give a 

 single one, to promote agricultural improve- 

 ments in Maryland, here we have, the example 

 of an officer in a foreign service, acting under 

 the retincd and generous impulse of attachment 

 to hi* naive sput, makinar otTerinsrs of the most 

 substantial kind, in whatever he can understand 

 to be most conducive lo the welfare of those to 

 whom he is bound by the ties of youthful as- 

 sociations — ties so universal, so congenial to ail 

 viituous hearts, as naturally to raise, the indig- 

 nant question — 



' Breathes tlierc the man. wilVi soul so dead, 

 \^ ho never to hiraseli hath Fait), 



Tins is my own, my native land ! 

 Whose heart halh ne'er within liim burned, 

 As home his footsteps he hath tinned. 



From wandering; on a foreign strand ^ 

 If such there breathe, go, marli him well. 

 For him, no Minstrel raptures swell ; 

 Hia^h though his titles, proud hi? name, 

 Bnniidless his wealth, as wish can claim ; 

 I'espite those titles, power, and pelf, 

 The wretch concentered all in self, 

 Living, shall forfeit fair renown, 

 -ind, doubly dying, shall go down 

 To the vile dust from whence he sprung, 

 Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung !'] 



This animal has a hrnad tail, and the natural 

 color of the wool is da'k brown, or snuff color. 

 The fleece is supposed to weigh about 25 lbs. 

 is uncommonly close and compact, and reaches 

 nearly to the ground. The body appears to 

 be robust and of great strength, in prime con- 

 dition and sound health. The size is greater 

 than any ofthe largest Sheep of our country. 

 The head is beautiful, the eyes piercing and 

 quick in motion, no fleece beyond the ears; 

 the head appears to project out tronithe fleece, 

 having the appearance of the dark brown short 

 fur on the deer's head. The horns are hand- 

 somely seated on the head: and ol the middle 

 size. It isrea;retted that this extraordinary and 

 valuable animal is taken out of this state to 

 New-Jersey. — 'V. Y. paper. 



C.\R.\MANL4N SHEEP. 



In the Charles &. Ellen, Capt. Gerry, which 

 arrived some weeks ago from Smyrna, wa« im- 

 ported a Ram, native of Cararaan, in Asia ftWnor. 

 taken from on hoard of a Turkish vessel bound 

 to Constantinople. It was presented to Capt. 

 G. by the Greek Admiral Tombaro, who assur- 

 ed him that it was a genuine native ofthe above 

 place and that it would prove a great acquisi- 

 tion to improve the breeds in this country. 



Their value in the market at Constantinople 

 is 200 to 250 dollars; their wool is peculiarly 

 adapted to the manufacture of Camblets, and 

 their flesh is esteemed excellent and delicate. 



* The valuable dray horse was presented by Gen. 

 John Coffin, brother to the Admiral, a native of 

 Massachusetts. The admiral sent to the Society a 

 heifer of the Improved Short Horn Breed, which with 

 the first calf, gave 8 quarts a day, when the call was 

 six weeks old, and permitted to take all it could. 



From the Boston Daily ^drerliser. 



THE SEASON. 



It is loo early to give a detailed report ofthis 

 season compared with others. But the winter 

 has been so extraordinary an one, both in this 

 country and Europe, that it may he interesting 

 to put on record its effects and its terminalion. 

 Many phiiils, which perish, in our ordinary 

 winters, have survived the last. The wall tloiv- 

 er, which always perishes with us, though it 

 survives the winter of Great Britain (10 deg. 

 more north) hasslood our frosts and is now again 

 pushing vigorously. The Chinese plants, and 

 among others the Chinese roses, have generally 

 stood our last winter's frosts. The Cbrysan- 

 ihemum indiciim is starting as fresh as if it liad 

 been in its native climate. The peach tree has 

 suffered no loss of its tender branches, and its 

 flower buds are vigorous. Last year, they 

 "ere generally killed by I he frost. This leads 

 me to make a remark, which many years' ex 

 perience has confirmed, that tlie loss of our 

 (leacb trees is rather to be attributed to early 

 thaws in February and March, and to siibsequenl 

 severe weather, than to tale spring frosts. 1 

 know that this opinion will be controverted, 

 but 1 am persuaded that the peach tree will en- 

 dure, when in flower, very severe frosts, with- 

 out much injury — but the great mischief arises 

 from the destruction ofthe young wood itself, 

 and the flower bud*, arising from cold sleet and 

 severe storms in February and March. Simple 

 continued cold it can sustain, but it cannot en- 

 dure alternate heat and severe frost. 



An equable season is the one fitted for this 

 Persian tree. 



1 have no fear of late frosts, unless extremely 

 severe, so as to affect the leaves, after they have 

 put forth. 



The season would hare been extremely early 

 had it not been checked by the late cold weather. 

 Yet as it is, many plants are unusually forward, 

 as will be seen by the following comparison : 



In 1815 — Apricots in flower ' May 1 



1816 ' ' April 29 



1821 ' ' April 21 



1823 ' ' April 20 



1825 ' ' April 11 



1816— Gooseberries put forth leaves April 20 

 1823 ' ' April 10 



1825 ' ' April 1 



1822-Peaches & nectarines against > . ■. „„ 

 a fence, la flower ^ F "•^ 



1825 ' ' April 10 



The same proportion of time holds as to hya- 

 cinths and violets and all the early flowers. So 

 that we may safely affirm, thai the season is at 

 Ibis time more forward than usual by at least 

 ten days. 



Grass may he made an exception — or at least 

 it is not so much earlier than usual. And we 

 should not be surprised to find, the I ifr; flower- 

 ing trees as Inle in expanding their blossoms as 

 in ordinary years. 



Those who predict either a permanently early 

 or a fruilfiil seasrn, from first appearances, must 

 learn to expect disappointmenls. A cobl speil 

 of weather may disappoint their ho[ies. One 

 thing is certain, that early spring following a 

 mild winter, is favouratde to the industrious 'ar- 

 mer, [irolongina; materially his acli^^■ s- .mon of 

 iinluslry, and enablins; him lo do liis woik well, 

 and without needless hurry 



A ROXBURY FARMER. 



Jlpril 14, 1825. 



There have been those who have put in their 

 heans and corn. Let them not be surprised if 

 they are obliged to plant them anew ; yet it is 

 laudable to make such experiments, because 

 thev m.Ty be successful. We tnoy have asprmg 

 as mild as has been onr nnexam|ded winter. 



THE COAL TRADE. 



At Mauch Chunk, Lehigh, there are 100,000 

 bushels of coal on the landinc; and between 600, 

 000 and 800,000 bushels uncovered in the mine. 

 Five or six hundred thousand feet of stuff are 

 s.iwed and seasoned, and ten th.^usand logs have, 

 been brcught to the village. The saw mills are 

 cajiable of culling 20,000 foot of limber a day. 



In the tunnel "which has been commenced, 

 between two and ilitee miles from the river, 

 the workmen have proceeded upwards of two 

 hundred and thirty feel, and expect to get to a 

 vein of Coal next month. 



About 25,000 tons of coal, eq lal to 700,000 

 will be brous^bt from the mines on the Lehigh 

 to Philadelphia, duiina: the ensuing summer. 



Although the Schiiijlkillv/\\\ not be navigable 

 before June, there are already about 90,000 

 bushels of coal on the landings on that river. 



This amount will be increased to hundreds of 

 thousands of bushels during the summer, so that 

 Philadelphia will look like a pretty decent col- 

 liery before next autumn. 



Dr. S. M'Culloch visited last summer, the new 

 garden ofthe Horticultural Sociely of London, 

 at Chiswick. He there saw their overflowing 

 well, obtained by boring, the stream as thick 

 as his arm, of fine drinking water. It was turn- 

 ed toihe greatest advantage over the groimds, 

 for the purpose both of ornament and utility — 

 in the formation ofsmall lakes and the irrigatioQ 

 of the garden. To the qneslion as to the sur- 

 rounding country, he says it is level as the lands 

 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, as far as the 

 eye can reach — no overhanging or neighboring 

 higher grounds. — Phil. Paper. 



There has been a rapid decrease of capital punish- 

 ments in London within four years. In 1820, forty-one 

 executions occurred; in 1821, thirty-three; in 1822, 

 twenty-three; in 1823, only seventeen. In the eight 

 years from 1816 to 1823, the total number was two 

 hundred and three. In the three last years there were 

 none punished for murder. 



