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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



of miserable, wretched, half starved, dirty, 

 downcast, mourning cattle, that seem to deplore 

 their very existence, and are at all times more 

 iit as food for the wild birds and beasts, than for 

 the use of man. The subject of fruit, is of 

 great importance to a district of country like 

 this, where some of the finest, as the apple, 

 plum, pear and cherry, will flourish as well as 

 in any other. What is fruil, but one of the first 

 and best gifts of God to man, and where is 

 there a finer sun for ripening some of the most 

 delicious, than we have for three months in the 

 year? This is a real luxury and refinement, 

 to which every man, who has an acre of land 

 should accustom himself What cheaper luxury 

 with which to load the hospitable table ? Men 

 will have luxuries, and if so, they must pay for 

 them. We go to the Indies, to get the materials 

 of a pudding, when our gardens and fields might 

 furnish us with a much richer and healthier re- 

 past. It is the economy of fine fruit, that we 

 want.— Set a child down to a dish of fine peach- 

 es and cream (for the peach may be produced 

 in perfection among us, though it will not live 

 forever, and what tree will?) or of fine gages, 

 or if you please the horse plum, as we call it, 

 and he will soon show you what is good, for he 

 ZcHo^s— he will pass by the pudding. Then 

 there is another advantage of the fine fruits, of 

 all the productions of nature, they are the heal- 

 thiest— If they were common, dysenteries and 

 colics would be less so, and we should be saved 

 from many a doctor's bill, which no body can 

 read or spell, but which every body must pay. 

 In health lies much of the glory and happiness 

 of a man, and can it be supposed, that the Su- 

 preme Being does not require from his creatures, 

 the greatest possible attention to it, when it 

 gives him a ((lislening eye, a strong arm, and a 

 body fit for labor. There is another advantage 

 sliU, in cultivating the fine fruits. It tcachc 

 a man something; It teaches him to perform a 

 nice operation, and to doit well. It teache 

 him a lesson of eternal vigilance and indnstry, 

 and lo be up and stirring, wht-n he would other- 

 wise be yawning and sleeping. Then again, ii 

 he will know how to innoculale and engraft, 

 and generally the nature of all the fruits, he 

 must read. It is reading and education in those 

 matters that appertain to the arts of life, that 

 our laboring people want. I mean if they will 

 know how lo perform these operation*, in the 

 best manner. Tboy must read what Mr. Knight 

 has written, or Forsyth, or the American Orch- 

 ardist, or Cobbetf, or something or another, 

 and not pursue the trade of engrafting, as 1 have 

 known it '.'rue in this county. That is, cutting 

 ■ ofTthe whole bead of a tree, and filling it with 

 "•rafts, which exposes it to almost certain death 

 —placing winter fruit upon summer, or the re- 

 verse, without a single enquiry, as lo the nature 

 of the stock ; putting twenty grafts upon one 

 tree, beginning at; the bottom and going up 

 with a tier, cue upon r.nothcr. thinking I sup- 

 pose, that a tree like a horse may carry double. 

 Rely upon it, that if you teacii a boy to labor 

 and'to read, though it would be rontemptihle 

 to suppose, that reading will enable him to 

 plough as by a line ; if the operations have been 

 {foing on together, if he be not a miserable im- 

 becife, he is the more of a man for it, and in the 

 end will show you better cows and horses, po- 

 tatoes, cijrrots, and wheat, and more of them. 

 JSTo we vvant the fruits ; in our orchards the 



Pippin, the Spitzenburgh, the Rhode-Island j The gentleman who favors us with remarks on Ho, i 

 Greening, the Swaar, aad other fine apples, and 

 not so much of the miserable trash which the 

 pigs will turn from. In our gardens, fine cher- 

 ries, peaches, pears, and plums. For all this, we 

 must have the nurseries, and not be compelled to 

 send to Mr. Prince on Long-Island, or to Lansing- 

 burgh, or to Athens, for our trees, for lec cau'l 

 afford that. These would make a fine addition 

 to the agriculture of our county, not much less 

 celebrated, if I am not mistaken, than any other 

 district of country, (unless in the immediate vi- 

 cinity of the great towns) in any state whatever." 



(to EK CONIINUKD.) 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1824. 



iMPBOvr.D BREEDS OF CATTLE. The article on this 

 subject which we have republished in this day's paper, 

 from the American Farmer highly merits the attention 

 of every agriculturist, who wishes io keep pace with the 

 improvements of the day. It is quite as easy, and 

 much more economical, if we can but " gel in Ihetvay 

 of it,'''' to raise animals of the first rate and first 

 quality, as the lank, raw-boned, slab-sided " creatures" 

 which disgrace the farm yards, and cumber the premi- 

 ses of some farmers, whose cattle are caricatures of 

 their species, and as unprofitable as they are ugly. — 

 The value of the " Improved Short Horns'''' or " Dur- 

 ham Breed" is however well appreciated in this vicini. 

 ty. Denlon, owned by Stephen Williams, Esq. and 

 Ccelebs, by Col. Jaques, and the '■Jldmiral.,'' by the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural Society are in high repute and 

 Teat demand. Coelebs, we are informed, has earned 

 for hi« owner the jast season the good round sum of 

 six hundred and luenty dollars. 



culture and other subjects relating to Rural Economy 

 Is solicited to continue his favors. His communica 

 tions appear to have met the approbation of the public, 

 and have been republished in the ' American Farmer,'' 

 and several New England papers. His observation 

 on " Green Corn'''' are in type and were intended foi 

 this No. of our paper, but are unavoidably postponed. 

 COMSTRDCTION OF BARNS. It has been intlmatec 

 that some of our subscribers would be much obliged i 

 we would furnish some model or description of the bes 

 mode of constructing BARKS. We have heretofore djs 

 cussed this subject, and devoted several pages to re 

 marks on the most eligible situation and construc- 

 tion of Earns, and other Farm Buildings. See N. E 

 Farmer, vol. i. page 353, 361, 369. See, likewise 

 the Remarks of Col. John Hare Powel, N. E. Farmer 

 vol. ii. p. 141. We should be happy, however, to re 

 ceive communications on this subject, and should an; 

 thing further occur to us, which promises to be useful 

 we will publish it. 



TO coRRF-SPoNDENTS. The request of " A Far 

 .mer" in \'ermont, to insert in our paper " the practice 

 of some gentlemen in Massachusetts with regard to 

 grafting fruit trees," shall be complied with to the 

 tent of the information we can procure. 



With respect lo the method of " cultivating Tea- 

 sels," our correspondent may find an article on that 

 subject in the first volume of the N. E. Farmer, page 

 272. The following from Mr. Wells Si. Lilly's edition of 

 Deane^s New England Farmer, may, perhaps,be of use. 

 " Mr. Miller says " This plant is propagated by 

 sowing the seeds in March, upon a soil that has been 

 well prepared." Any time in April will answer in 

 this country. " About one peck of seed will sow an 

 acre ; for the plants should have room to grow, other- 

 wise the heads will not be so large, nor in so great 

 quantity. When the plants are come up, they must be 

 hoed in the same manner as is practiced for turnips, 

 cutting out all the weeds, and singling out the plants to 

 about eight inches distance. And as the plants ad- 

 vance and the weeds begin to grow again, they must 

 be hoed a second time, cutting out the plants to a wi- 

 der distance ; for they should be left, at least a foot a- 

 sunder, and should be kept clear from weeds, especial- 

 ly the first summer : for when the plants have spread 

 so as to cover the ground, the weeds will not so readi- 

 ly grow between. The second year after sowing the 

 plants win shoot up heads, which will be fit to f.ut a- 

 bout the beginning of August -, at which time they 

 should be cut and tied up in hunches, setting them in 

 the sun, If the weather be fair; but if not they must 

 be set in rooms to dry them. The common produce is 

 about a hundred and sixty bundles or staves, upon one 

 acre which they sell for one shilling a stave." 



FOREIGN. 



The last advices from Europe were received by tin 

 way of Charleston from Liverpoel, and include Londoi 

 dates to the 5th Dec. They contain however, nothin; 

 of much importance. The French troops areUavin, 

 Spain, and their principahcommandeis have already re 

 turned to France. The troops remaining are command 

 ed by Count Bourmont. 



Gen. MIna has left Spain and arrived at Plymouth 

 where the populace took his horses from the carrlag 

 and drew him in triumph to the hotel. 



From Havana.— Ther V. S. schooner, Wild Cat, Lt 

 Wolbert, arrived at New Orleans from Havana whic 

 place she left Dec. 14th, informs, that the Governor c 

 Cuba had issued a Proclamation, announcing that i 

 was the intention of the King of Spain to restore all th 

 Colonies to the mother country as soon as possible. 



Pirates Taken. — We learn from Capt. Labouisse, ai 

 rived from St. Domingo, that the govtrnment and mei 

 chants hired a small Haytlen schooner and manned h< 

 with 40 men, with a supply of provisions, for a cruise i 

 the Mona Passage, after a gang of pirates. The schi 

 after an absence of 12 days, returned, having succeec 

 ed In capturing Iwenly-luo pirates.— She also recaptui 

 ed a considerable amount of property, consiftiug < 

 coffee, indigo, and hides.— J\aaor!«; Advucale. 



Antique. — The Swedish Consul at Alexandria, FgypI 

 has obtained possession of a commercial note writte; 

 on papyrus. 102 years before the birth of the Savioui 



DOMESTIC. 

 Maine Svferers. Ihe amount of the collections i: 

 money, cloihing, &c. lor those who sull'eied by fire ii 

 Maine Is said to have been $25,239 74 cents. 



A Plattsburgh paper of Jan. 10 says, a large numbe 

 of villains concerned in counterfeiting specie dollar 

 have been arrested In Upper Canada. Among Ihe cul 

 prits are a Methodist Preacher, several physkians, ape 

 thecaries, b!acksmlths,and a number of young lawyers 

 At Savannah on the i2th and loth inst. the ther 

 mometer in the shade, was at 75— the peach and plr.r 

 trees were beginning to put forth their buds, and it wa 

 feared a succeeding frost would destroy the fruit fo 

 the ensuing year. 



A ho"-, i 1 months old, and weighing when dressei 

 C47 lbs" was exhibited in Uoston market a few day 

 since. It was raised at the Cambridge Alms House. 



The Concord, Mass. Gaiette of the 24lh Inst, state: 

 that eighteen cases of the small pox had occurred ii 

 Lexington previously to last Saturday. "V e are an 

 Ihorlzed by Dr. Hurd, who superintends the 1 (xirgtn 

 Hospital, to state that no new case has occurred slnc^ 

 that date. Of persons now sick only three arc consid 

 ered dangerous ; the others are either already rf rover 

 in" or have the symptoms of a mild and favorable na 

 ture. There have been hut three deaths. Some per 

 sons have already recovered and been dismissed froii 

 the hospital." 



