VOL. VIII. 



NEW EWGIiAI^B FAKMEK. 



Published by John B. Russeli., at JVe. 52 JVorih Market Street, (at the Agricultural Warehouse) — Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1830. 



No. 34. 



RIGINAI, COMMUNICATIONS. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



HEMP. 



R Fessenden — Your paper of the 15tli Jan- 

 last communicated to your readers a short 

 zc of the exhibition, which had taken place, 

 out of the State House, of several loads of 

 ricau hemp, grown and fitted hy the North- 

 ton Hem]) Company, and whicli were the 

 unners of many more, to the total amount of 

 It one hundred and thirty tons, raised the last 

 on, by that intelligent and well deserving as- 

 ition. Their success must be hailed with 

 h satisfaction by the friends of American hus- 

 Iry and manufactures, being a jjowerful step 

 ard, which the self capability of soil, climate, 

 industry of New England, offer as one of the 

 erous testimonies of her fast developing pow- 

 nd greatness. The immense sums required, 

 3 the days when Independence begun, to pro- 

 the materials of the cordage, needed for the 

 , will henceforth gradually naturalize them- 

 ;s at home, and meet with a hearty welcome 

 ng our brother farmers. There is no doubt 

 the lands on Connecticut river are not the 

 fields which will be found congenial to the 

 ^th of that useful plant. Good land, where- 

 situated, on the hills and in the dales, is equal- 

 itable ; but it must be remembered that hemp 

 great exhauster, and will not succeed, crop 

 crop, on the same Spot, without the a.ssist- 

 of a sufficient dressing of manure, 

 he great national purpose of cordage, and of 

 cloth, not only may be secured, but the man- 

 ture of fine cloth, fit for shirting, might be 

 luraged, and open another vast field for a ve- 

 ■ofitable industry. There is none equal in 

 Hence, and durability, to Hemp Shirting. 

 nail field of hemp, and a well stocked garden, 

 3Steemed as two necessary appendages to al- 

 t every farm house in Switzerland ; and the 

 king and drawing of the hemp, as soon as it 

 ady for the purpose, becomes the general em- 

 of the women, young and old, who are sel- 

 seen walking abroad, or sitting at home, 

 out a small hunch of hem* tied to their apron- 

 g, to furnish them with the seasonable and 

 rite employ. It provides the families with 



, shirting, and table linen, of the most ! 

 ng anil excellent quality. Some linen of a 

 kind is manufactured for sale, and there are 

 ral towns in that country, known for the fa- 

 of those finer sorts, particularly the small 

 of Arau, in the canton of Berne, and all the 

 ges round Mount Voiron in the Alps, where 

 nowy winter mouths are universally employed 

 eaviiig among the families. 

 otton is not an article of our groivth ; we must 

 1 it from far distant parts, and we must pay for 

 Hemp would furnish us with materials far 

 rable, and would grow readily to our hands, 

 out any other cost, than |)leasant family labor, 

 istry and economy seem therefore to hold forth 

 erful arguments in favor of that culture. Fine 

 p cloth not only furnishes the best shirting, 

 IS also remarkably appropriate for the pur- 



po.se of printing, and vastly superior to cot-; 

 ton. I 



Printed cottons are of modern introduction, j 

 England, which, at the present tinie, deluges the | 

 world with this kind of goods, knew very little 

 about printing, fifty years ago. Silks were then 

 the general wear for the genteeler parts of the 

 connnunity, worsted stuffs for the lower classes, 

 and a few printed linen.s, very beautiful and very 

 durable, were imported froin Switzerland. The 

 ij otch began first to print cotton cloth, dark co- 

 lored, with ordinary copper plates. A few years 

 afler, several attempts were made to raise |>rint- 

 ing houses in some of the villages round London. 

 Swiss workmen were imported to begin that 

 manufacture, and form native hands to the same. 

 Manchester came on afterwards, and nov^ exceeds 

 them all. The climate of England not being pro- 

 pitious for the raising of hemp, nor of silk, their 

 p-licy pointed out cotton, as the cheapest niate- 

 rifd they could pay for to foreigners, and they 

 have made a free use of the discovery, as we all 

 know, that in our days, there is not a shop, from 

 th( north pole to Cape Horn, but what is over- 

 floving with British prints, of all natures and de- 

 noriinations. Their outfit is a small affair ; the 

 njaterials are light, and of small pretensions for 

 value, and for durability. But this is the con- 

 smiier's concern ; that of the foreign manufactur- 

 er is to get paid as often as possible, for jirinting, 

 and for colors. It would seem, therefore, that 

 the true policy of New England, should be to take 

 advantage of the privileges of her soil and climate, 

 so congenial to the production of silk, and of 

 hemp, to provide her manufactories vpith those 

 valuable materials, which, in the course of a few 

 year::, might be made to supply her own popula- 

 tion, and a vast surplus for exportation. 



Our ancient political and private economists, 

 have told, that a penny saved is a penny got, but 

 when economy and industry are jointly concern- 

 ed, as would be the case in this instance, the 

 penny saved might eventually beget a great gain, 

 because the habits and views consequent to the 

 practice of a well directed industry, are far supe- 

 rior to the smaller results of economy isolated and 

 alone. 



1 give myself the pleasure to accompany this 

 communication with a sample of hemp linen of 

 Swiss manufacture, the only one I have. It will 

 show the article, which possibly tnay gratify the 

 curiosity of some of your friends. 



Respectfully yours, J. M. G. 



Weston, March 9, 1830. 



Cattle Shoio, Exhibition of Manufactures, Plough- 

 ing Match, and Pnhlii Sale of Animals and 

 Manufactures, at Pawtuxet, R, 1., on Wednesday, 

 the 29th of September, 1830. 



The Standing Committee of the Rhode Island 



Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Iii- 



dustry, offer the following Premiums. 

 For Stock. 

 For the best Bull, to be kept in the State one 



year after the fair, $12. For the next best $10. 



For the next best $8. 



For the best Bull Calf $5. For the next best 



$3. For the next best $2. For the next best $1. 



For the best Cows not less than three in num- 

 ber, which shall iiave yielded the greatest quanti- 

 ty of milk, in any thirty days previous to the 29th 

 of September, a certificate thereof, duly sworn 

 to, will be required, and the Cows must be exhibit- 

 ed at the fair $12. For the next best Cows 

 not less than two in number — same conditions 

 $8. For the best Cow — same conditions $5. 



For the best two year old Heifer, having had a 

 calf — same conditions $6. For the next best do 

 do do $4. 



For the best Heifer yearling $4. For the next 

 best do $2. 



For the best pair of working Cattle, to have 

 been owned in this State at least three month.":, 

 not exceeding six years old $8. For the next 

 best $3. For the next best $4. For the next 

 best $2. 



For the best j)air three year old Steers $6. 

 For the next best $-1. For the next best $2. 



For the best pair two year old Steers $S. For 

 the next best $4. For the next best $3. 



For the best Merino or Saxony Ram to be kept 

 in the State one year after the fair $8. For the 

 next best do — same conditions $6. For the next 

 do do do $4. 



For the best Eves, not less than six in nutn- 

 ber $6. For the next best do do $4. 



For the best Boar to be kept in this State until 

 the 1st of April, 1831, $6. For the next best do 

 do do $4. For the next best do do do $2. 



For the best Pigs not less than two in number, 

 nor less than four months old, nor more than 

 eight months, to have been raised in the State $6. 

 For the next best, 4$. For the next best, $2. 



For the best stud horse not less than three years 

 old, having been kept for mares in the State the 

 season previous, and to be kept for mares the year 

 succeeding the fair $30. 



For the best brood Mare and foal by a horse 

 that may be deemed of the best blood $10. For 

 the next best do — same conditions $8. 



No stock from distilleries or breweries, will be 

 entitled to any premium. No animal on which 

 a premium has heretofore been awarded, shall be 

 entitled to a second premium, except it be for an 

 entirely distinct premium, and for qualities diffe- 

 rent from those for which the former premium 

 was awarded. 



For Grain, Vegetable Crops, and Agricultural Ex- 

 periments. 



To the person who shall raise the greatest 

 quantity of Indign Corn on not less than four 

 acres in one piece of ground, and not less than 

 eighty bushels to the acre $20. 



To the person who shall raise the greatest 

 quantity of Corn on not less than one acre of 

 land, and not less than one hundred bushels $10. 



To the person who shall raise the next greatest 

 quantity do do $6. 



To the person who shall raise the greatest, 

 quantity of Barley on not less than two acres $8. 



To the person who shall raise the greatest 

 quantity of Onions in proportion to the land culti- 

 vated $5. 



To the person who shall raise the next greatest 

 quantity $3. 



