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NEW ENGLAM) FAlLMEil, 



Oit. 9, 1829. 



From ihc Uostoji I)ail> Advcnisir 



BUUiUTON SHOW. 



One of llic finii if u liouHC in Ilo.-lon, tliat 

 •Inunlitfr.siiinl |iiii'ksiiioro liL-vfaiiil |i<>ik tluiii niiy 

 oilier ill New I'.ii^'liiiul, lias sii'ul, williiii ii fi-'W 

 ilovs, tliut till,- iii)i>iovPiiii'iit ill llie r|ualii.v ul" neat 

 caille ill till- lu^l nil <<r a ilo/x-ii yi^iii-*, may l>e 

 fairly esliiiiatea al len per cent. Tliiii is to .say— 

 the cattle now driven to this market will yielJ, in 

 c iiiSo'iiuMH-e ofa liivoralilc change in the rraiiiu of 

 the animal, (tii per cent more dc.ili than was ob- 

 tained rriJiii those that came to us twelve years 

 b;,'o. Ami this improvemeiit he, wholly ami nii- 

 liesitnlin^'ly, ascribes to ihc intlnciiee ofoiir Cattle 

 Hliows. The sin^'le honsc alhidcil to, slaughters 

 from Wirtc to six thousand head of cattle in .i year. 

 Takiii" the average weight of each to he nine hun- 

 lired poniids, it will he, at once, scon that this ini- 

 iiiovcmentinthe quality of neat stock, will amount 

 to no less a sum than from 15 to 30,000 dollars a 

 year on the beef brought into the market by that 

 luie house. 



The im|irovcmcnt in stcine, by a change in the 

 brecils, is said, by the same gentleman, to have 

 been quil« ecpial to that in neat cattle. 



The writer has conversed with the principal 

 provision dealers, and they all have confirmed the 

 bIiovc account. 



These are facts which ought to take fast hold 

 Ml the public iiiinil. They show the vast good, 

 which may be done by a little judicious encour- 

 Bgcinent. 



The consumption of liulkr in the city of Boston 

 ii immense; amounting pr<jbably U) fuiir millions of 

 pounds in a year. Vet but a small part of it is 

 (jood — one half of it is a slow poison. Let there 

 be one or two large premiums of a laindred dollars 

 jirovided, to be awarded at the Hiighton Show — 

 let the field of competition be open to the farmers 

 throughout New Kngland — let there be a public 

 inic of the butter on the day of the show — let 

 this be continued five successive years, and who 

 can doubt, that there will be a mulerial change in 

 the quality of all the butler brought to Boston 

 niarkel. We now pay 13 to 14 cents for the most 

 ordinary — from 15 to 16 for something a little 



I, ..tier and from 20 to 25 for that which has no 



bud taste. It would not be extravagant to say, 

 that a/kw hundred didlurs, in premiuins, wouM en- 

 able IIS to obtain our three or (bur millions of 

 pounds of butter of gooil (piality, nt two-thirds 

 th(! price now paid for a like ipialily. The Jire- 

 Miiums olfered for butle.- by the Mas.«achusetts 

 Agriciilmral Society are necessarily small — the 

 fluids of tho society do not ailinit of large ones. 

 The subyeriptioii premium of one hundred chdlars, 

 rnLsed in liosloii last year, ami awarded at Hiight- 

 on, brought a number of large lots of butter to the 

 roin|iclitinu. And there can be little <loubt that 

 some firkins have been mailo and |ut up this sea- 

 son with moH! than usual care, with the cx|iecla- 

 lioii of the siime amount of premium being again 

 offered. Should not this spirit be kept up? Anil 

 would not the intervcnlioii of a year, wilhoiii the 

 renewal of tho premium, damp it ? If, wilhiii a 

 V»eek, a huiulnd ilollars should lu' raised by siib- 

 K-ription, and public notice given, it will be in sea- 

 vili. — .\nl wbi'lhi-r the liberality of the contrilm- 

 t'lrs call over Iw exercised with a better prospect 

 of doing a substantial gmid, is a qiicstioi> which 

 inny buj dafely left to their own good sense, 

 without iiwro words. 



Iribles for ciiliii.My piirpo>es, uiu! at the siiioe 

 a com|ieteiit supply of most ol the fruits i.iid 

 grtables wliirli arc now found only on li.e tal ' 

 of the rii-li. 



We have said nothing of (lowers and orn.'.mei 

 shrubs, because we acMr<-ss ibeye reiiiai-k> !■> pi 

 tical and hiboring men. These are indei-il iii:it|r 

 of luxury, and when they are prope,ly cull 

 evince a tine taste, and dcxervedly attract tin; 

 teiifion mill ailmiration of ihns!- who witniss i 

 I5iit the cullivalion of these have noihing k 



We Iioih; the effect of the cstablislinient 

 Horticultural Soi-iely in the stale will be, lo ilil 

 a belter understanding, and a greater iiilen si 

 the conimiinity upon thisiniportaiit branch of g 

 living, than lias heretofore existcil. — ll'orc 

 Yeoman. 



(JAKDK-NS. an acre of tolerably good soil, lo raise ci:oiigl 



Our readers will find in another column an ac- [ his own corsiimplioii of the e iioii carileo v 



count of ih • recent interesting anuiversiiry meet- j 

 ilig of Ihe Ilorliculliiral Society of this slate. 

 .\nd though that meeting was held in UostoM,aiid 

 embraces many of the first names in the common- 

 wealili, vvi; hope no one will consiiler himself too 

 hiinible or remote to be allected by the objects of 

 that association. I'cople in general are too iiiul- 

 tentive to that part of domestic economy which 

 is deiiominatcil iinrdtninf;. We do not menu by 

 this term, any of the higher branches of this use- 

 ful, as well as maamental art, but choose to con- 

 fine our lemarks to the simple subject of kitchen ' with making a useful kitchen gar.le i.l it i 



this, we repeat, we confine these observaiion 

 Within our own observation, these have been 

 unwisely and unaccountably iieL'leeted by the ag- 

 ricultural coiniminity. That which might be ea- 

 sily made the most productive of profit, as well as 

 luxury and comfort of any jinrt of a farm, is too 

 often I he most neglected, and the least profitable. 

 Kverv oiii> is by no means a sluggard, where the 



thorn and the thistle peep over his garden wall, Orchard Rohhin-^. — The C'harlestown .\i 

 and the rank weeds choke the few culinpi-y vege- states that three persons, full grown men, v 

 tables which are lef to struggle there after being • Cjncd before Justice Soley last week, for depp 

 once committed to the soil. This maybe re- 1 (i(,|,s committed on Sabbath before the last, on 

 marked of many good farmers, and otherwise, ,„-{.|ianl of Mr Asa Tuft.-, Winter-bill. They 

 prudent huslumdmen. They seem to consider ;,ttempled to steal the fruit several times bef 

 their gardens as beneath their notice, and iiuwor- JJr Tufts found assistance, and secureil tlirei 

 thy of any expense of time and labor. them, who weie compelled to pay about/ur/y 



This may be true to a certain eiteiit if their /,,rij the fine being double for the same theft 

 value is to be estimated by what they ai'fially dis- 1 the Sabbath. They were all foreigners, 

 pose of for money, vvhieli is ordinarily jiroiluced jrarden and orchanl robbers beware — the ar 

 in gardens. But if men regard their own plea- 

 sure and comfort as<)f any value, and they in fact 

 pay large sums for the thing they call pleasure, 

 every farmer wcjuld find his garden a source of 

 actniil (irotil, and of vvliieh, if he once knew its 

 value, lie would not willingly be deprived. 



Tha way in which many, and we might say 

 most gardens are mniiaged, is, to select a favored 

 spot, enrich the earth, till it until it is sufficiently 

 mellow, and then ap|iropiiato it to the raising of 

 most common vegetables, sueli as potatoes, 

 beets, carroty, &c. Even these are soon neglect- 

 ed, and by autumn, the crop of weeds very far 

 exceeds, in quantity and luxuriance, the vegeta- 

 Ides with which they have been suffered to grow. 

 llow few, for instance, notwithstanding the 

 ease with which it may bo done, ever think of 

 raising a supply fi>r their own families of the va- 

 rious kinds of melons whieb ripen in our climate. 

 So with grapes, peaches, and plums, to say no- 

 thing of the various fruit-bearing shrubs that 



the law is strong, and when they are detei-tt 

 is sure to go hard with ifreiii. — Saltm GazcUt 



From ll.e l!i-rk»lnre Ar-i.s. 



RAILROAD. 



Theodore Sedgwick, Esij. of Storkbridsri 

 the last Lenox paper, has, under his own pi 

 signature, again addressed the public on the 

 jectof the contemplated Railroad, the coiis'i> 

 tioii of whieb, our readtrs will remember 

 postponed frcmi the last June to the jiext Jai 

 session, for a final decision. The remarks so! 

 ted lo the public by Mr Si'dgvviek proceed 

 an lio!-.est heart, am! a sound head, and de: 

 consideration. Our limits will not permit g 

 the whole of them : the ensuing cxirari 

 sullice, to which we pray the nttcntion ol 

 readers : — 



The truth i.s, that the question of the e.\pe 



cy of tliis meitsiire is perfectly simple, perl 

 would grow and fioiirisb in our gardens — they I plain, in all its parts. But then like every 

 seem by a kind of common consent to bo appro- else, it must be looked into and studied, a 

 prialed lo the pnbil<:s of the rich and Inxinioiis 

 alone, ns if the palates of the laboring classes 

 were too obtuse lo enjoy any but the coarsest and 

 cheapest of Heaven's bounties, while in triilli no- 

 thing is wanting but a little attention on the pint 

 of any one who owns a garden of almost aiiv si/.i', 

 to proiluee for his own eoii^uiiiplion, what his lieh 

 neighbors purchase in market, and literally 'Mo 

 sit under his own vine,"' and enjoy the luxmy of 

 eating its fruit in peace. 



Nolhing is wanting but a lillle care in selecliiig 

 the .seeds and rools whi.b he would cidlivale. anil 



in pitpariii'/ the ground to receive ll 

 afterwards besiowiiig such liltlo attentions fioiu 

 time to lime ns every man has it in his power to 

 bestow, lo preserve them from injury, lo enable 



things are studied, which are to be iiiulers 

 Without this allention to it, it is not plain 

 more than tho simple rules of .Xriiluiietii 

 pluin, to a child who has just began to c 

 That a subject iVeo of ditficiiliy, is not well 

 ilerslood by a great number of the most rv sf: 

 hie men ill our coniiimnily, is not an mieoii 

 case. It is a very common case. The sidij 

 new, there is little cxiierience in regard 

 they have had neither leisure or opportunity 

 lend lo it. Their igiioiance is iheretini' ii 

 parageim-iit : but the whole pi'ople will be 



nd pariiL'ed, if their iV-ars are lo be taken for 

 opinions. 



As has b-en said, this Is a iM-rfectly « 



qiiesliiui, and there is not llie smallesl dilfim 



nnv man who is the occupant of a (piarlei or half i the way, but the want of inform.-ttiiin. Th* 



