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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 9 



conferred on him. Cure this, and we should no 

 longer " postpone to a more convenient season," 

 (as unbelievers do the consideration ot religion,) 

 matters that imperatively require our immediate 

 attention. We should never lose, as now ire- ' 

 (luentiy happens, a subordinate and subsidiary, 

 but stil") important cro|>, by delaying to s -cure it at 

 a critical time, merely because, (as we say,) " ?'< 

 would be working out of turn.'''' We should do 

 every thing at the right season, but the particular 

 order in which they were done, would always be 

 varied according to the changes of the weather, 

 and the condition of our arable lands. There 

 W(?u!d be no interference in our agricultural oper- 

 ations, and of course, all would be perlbrmed with- 

 out loss or misapplication of labor. Thus to act, 

 at all times, is the great art to secure success in 

 all the branches oi husbandry ; and none who 

 practice it constantly, will ever be under any ne- 

 cessity to abandon their native homes, their friends 

 and their kindred, for strange lands, m pursuit of 

 riches. 



In connexion with the subjects heretofore no- 

 ticed, permit me to say a faw words more ; to 

 which I invite the attention, not only of our mem- 

 bers, but of all my auditors who may not have 

 loined us. There are among j'ou some very fa- 

 vorable symptoms of the spirit of internal improve- 

 ment. But take care — take special care — that, in 

 the exuberance and ebullition of your newly ex- 

 cited zeal, you do not overshoot the mark — you do 

 notburst your boilers — by undertaking to do some- 

 thing or other, which nature has torbid. Take 

 care, my good friends, that, where wealth is cer- 

 tainly to he obtained by managing properly the 

 surface of our mother earth, you do not dig too 

 deep into her bowels after it, merely because cer- 

 tain parts of this said suriiice exhibit indications, 

 which many take for positive proofs, that there are 

 beds of goid, copper, or other precious metals, 

 some two, three, four, or five hundred feet below, 

 which will soon make all the diggers after them 

 as rich as Crossus — that is, if such beds be cer- 

 tainly (bund; and also, if their veins (as they are 

 called) be certainly very extensive, and if they 

 will yield an abundance of ore that is very 

 rich. 



In striking contrast with the foregoing ifs, suf- 

 fer me to add one, in regard to which, 1 tiiink, 

 there cannot be even a shadow of doubt. If' you 

 will improve your certain advantages, advantages 

 which the dullest man may see and comprehend, 

 such as the navigation of your river — your great 

 water-power (or manulactures — your public roads 

 leading directly to this town — roads whcse condi- 

 tion, at some seasons, would disgrace a communi- 

 ty even of Hottentots ; then as surely as the sun 

 rises and sets, Fredericksburg, and the whole 

 country connected with her, Vv'ill rapidly increase 

 in wealth and commercial importance, until she 

 becomes one of the first towns in the state : for 

 Nature, herself, has placed the means in sight of 

 every one who will open his eyes to see them. So 

 much by way of advice — a thing so frequently of- 

 fered — so rarely accepted. But being confident 

 that you will nut mistake my motive, and that you 

 will ascribe wiiat I have said to the deep and sin- 

 cere interest 1 leel in your wellare, I will make no 

 apolotry, since I am sure it can do no harm and 

 hope that it jjossibly may effect some good. 



in conclusion, permit mo to make one more sug- 



gestion, and this I address particularly to the ladies 

 anil gentlemen of this town and its vicinity. It is, 

 that they will immediately form a Horticultural 

 Society here. The advantages and benefits deri- 

 vable fi'om such associations, is no longer a mat- 

 ter of doubt or vague speculation. Wherever es- 

 tablished, either in other countries or our own, 

 they have certainly led, not only to vast improve- 

 ment in the quality and quantity of supplies for 

 the table, but to many important discoveries in re- 

 gard to the multiplication and perfection of old 

 and new varieties of garden (i'uits and vegetables, 

 as well as to the introduction of many practices in 

 the tillage and manuring of land, which are high- 

 ly beneficial to the general interests of agriculture. 

 Horticultural Societies, therefore, have nearly as 

 high claims to the encouragement of all the true 

 friends of husbandry, as agricultural societies 

 themselves have. One of the strongest of these 

 claims is founded on the fiict, that we should have 

 the ladies as our most efficient associates ; the la- 

 dies, who are always friends to every thing which 

 can meliorate and improve society. Horticulture 

 is an employment in which they take a delight, 

 almost instinctive, an employment (or which a 

 very great portion o( them manliest a natural taste, 

 and in which therefi)re, they are peculiarly fitted 

 to excel. Jn truth, the virtuous and intellitrent por- 

 tion o( their sex are to the moral world what flow- 

 ers and (i'uils are to the natural — they beautify, 

 adorn and embellish it, with its most attractive 

 charms. Their aid is essential to the prosperity 

 of all our pursuits ; their co-operation to the suc- 

 cess of every domestic concern ; they call forth 

 all the best affections of our nature, by encoura- 

 ging us in every good word and work ; while the 

 greatest blessings of life cannot be half enjoyed 

 without their participation. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 

 APPLES FOU FATTENING HOGS 



Although the attention of our readers has been 

 before called to this subject, we believe its impor- 

 tance is too little appreciated generally; and as 

 the present is the season for action, we shall lay a 

 {ew (acts before them, showing the advantages of 

 employing apples as Ibod for liittening hogs, over 

 other substances. We shall first endeavor to 

 show that they are a valuable kind of food, and 

 secondly, that they are a cheap one. 



First, with reijard to their value. A corres- 

 pondent of the Maine Farmer in 1834 made the 

 ibllowing experiment. He commenced (ceding his 

 hogs on apples in August. A pig (bur months 

 old and weighing 95 pounds, was led 18 days as 

 ibilows: — first, two bushels of sour apples, boil- 

 ed with six quarts of oats and pea meal, weigh- 

 ing four and a half pounds, were given him. At 

 the end of six days he had gained six pounds. — 

 He was then kept six days on the same quantity 

 of boiled sweet apples and meal, at the end of 

 which time he had gained six pounds more. He 

 was next fed on an equal quantity of boiled pota- 

 toes and meal, and at the end of six days he had 

 gained only five pounds. Here the superiority of 

 both sweet and sour apples over potatoes was de- 

 cisively shown. 



A correspondent of this paper at Lockport, in a 



