NO. 6. 



THE FAnMERS CABINET. 



91 



twinge, if it should ward ofl' nothings worso 

 from liim who is compelled to lie out at all 

 seasons. — G. in the Genesee Fanner. 



Aiiiiiial Ciittle SSioAV, &c, 



\n the tiiird number of the Farmers' Cabi- 

 Itiet, we atmouiieed the organization of the 

 Agricultural .Society of New Castle county, 

 iDelaware. We learn from the Wihnington 

 j Watchman, that the annual Cattle Show, 

 Silk and Horticultural Exhibition of the So- 

 ciety, will take ])lace on Wednesday, the 

 I9th of October, (this month,) commencing 

 «t 9 o'clock A. M. and ending at 3 1'. M., 

 with the sale of Durham short horn cattle, 

 horses> sheep, oxen, etc. &.c. The Cattk 

 Show will be held in tiie immediate vicinity 

 ■of the city, and the Silk and Horticultural 

 Exhibition in tiie City Hall, under the super- 

 intendence of the ditlerenc Committees ap- 

 pointed for the purposes. On the same day, 

 Dr. VVii.Li.vM Gibbons will read an Essay on 

 Silk, pursuant to appointment. The follow- 

 ing are tlie Judges appointed to award the 

 preuHums otierod by the Society, viz : 



On J\reat Cattle— Edward TatnaJl, .f. J. 

 ■IJrindly, Dr. J. \V. Thomson, Wm. Robinson, 

 John C. Clark, \\'m. Solomon, and John Plait. 



On Horses — John Richardson, John Caldwell, 

 Thomas Garrett, Philip Keybold, Thomas W. 

 Robinson, Henry \A'hiteIey, and John Higgins. 



On Oxen and Swine — James Canby, Wm. 

 Chandler, Richard Topham, John Clark, Col. 

 Thos. Robinson, David Gemmill, Marcus E. 

 Capelle. 



071 Sheep — Philip Keybold, Henry Latimer, 

 Joseph Wetherall, J. P. Garesche, Samuel Can- 

 by, John Kiddle, and Henry Dupont. 



On Crofis — James Price, James McCullougb, 

 Thomas Stockton, William J. Thurlock, Benja- 

 min Webb, Jesse Gregg, and Philip Reybold, Jr. 



On Farming Implements — Justa Justis, Thos. 

 Baldwin, Samuel P. Johnson, James Canby, 

 Benjamin Webb, John Reybold, Washington 

 E. Moore. 



On Butter and Ot7— Eli Hiilis, Willard Hall, 

 James Webb, N. G. Williamson, Charles Du- 

 pont, John Wales, Wm. Hemphill Jones. 



On Beet Sugar — Merritt Canby, Dr. H. Gib- 

 bons, Washington Rice, Dr. H. F. Askew, John 

 L. Robinson, .John Bonney, Edward Grubb. 



On Sillc—Dr. Wm Gibbons, John H. Price. 

 P. B. Delaney, Wm. P. Brobson, Alexander S. 

 Read, Thomas J. Higgins, John Andrews. 



On Vegetables — J. A. Bayard, J. T. Price, 

 Enoch Roberts, Jacob Caulk, Anthony Bidder- 

 man, Anthony Higgins, John Jones. 



On Fruit— Wm. R. Sellars, H. H. Bayard, 

 Dr. J. W. Thomson, Edward Canby, George 

 Griffin, W. E. Moore, Samuel Wolieston. 



On Flowers— Mernil Canby, J. Garesche, 

 Georga Reynolds, Dr. J. S. Naudain, Henry M. 

 Bavard, Edward Grubb, Z. B. Glazier. 



The following gentlemen were appointed a 

 Committee of Management of tlio ("atlle Show, 

 to whom ail persons having horses, caltle, &c. 

 to exhibit, will please to refer for information : 

 Samuel Wollaston, Wm. Chandler, W. R. Sel- 

 lars, 'Phonias W. Robinson. 



iUortfcuIturc anti iJotang. 



t'oo \aiii)iis ti('(rs tlu'ir \ariniis Cniits piiidiice, 

 Soiiio till- (IcIiL'lillnl lasle. iilid soiric foriiFC ; 

 SrT, sprOiiliTi;; plants enrich tilt' plain and wood, 

 l'"(ir pliysi<; siiii.e, and poino drsipn'il lor fond; 

 Sr(>, Iragrant llowcis, with dilii^rent rolnrsdy'd 

 On fniiiini; in'.'ad.s unlold their gaudy pride 



Blackmore. 



Vegetable Vitality. 



No. II, 



We lately passed the season of winter, dur- 

 ing which the vegetable world was stripped 

 of all its beauties. We have been since 

 visited with the genial showers of spring. 

 The surface of the earth became vitalized, 

 and the general process of vegetation every 

 where commenced. The particles of unor- 

 ganized matter thus rendered visible, rushed 

 into vegetable life, and, under the organic 

 influence of previously formed plants, or 

 seeds, their active energies have been ren- 

 dered subservient to all the changes of the 

 vegetable process. We have already stated 

 that the quickened particles of unorganized 

 matter possess a secretive power ; conse- 

 quently we may form some" idea of the vege- 

 tating principle by which the seeds of plant?, 

 when placed in the vitalized soil of spring, 

 unfold themselves into beautiful groups of 

 flowers, and how the majestic oaks of the 

 forest become annually clothed with their in- 

 numerable leaves. 



What can be more natural than tliat the 

 little secretingagents, recently discovered by 

 the compound microscope, when quickened 

 by showers, and a due proportion of light and 

 heat, should ascend with the sap, and pass 

 through the branches to the buds of trees, 

 and tiierc assisting in unfolding the leaves, 

 and carrying Oil the vegetable process ; and 

 that, as the summer retires, and as they have 

 performed their appointed duty, they should 

 drop, with their airy habitation, to their 

 mother earth, and again lie dormant till the 

 reviving breath of another spring shall quick- 

 en them for all the purposes of future vegeta- 

 tion ? In a lecture delivered by the late Dr. 

 Pascalis, on the animalization of plants, at 

 the celebration of the birth-day of Linnseus, 

 on the 24th May, 18'-23, that scientific gen- 

 tlemen endeavored to show that insects were 

 formed from plant.^. He alluded to the 

 Aphides, the life of which, he said, regularly 

 commences with the buds or gemma of plants ;. 

 the me/ocs formed from the pollen or farina 



