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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb 



uable Morgan mare, is very promising. This marc lish farmer able to meet this constantly increasing 



was by the celebrated old Morgan Horse "Com- 

 et," or sometimes called "the Root Horse;" and 

 her dam was of Messenger descent. Mr. Hill had 

 the misfortune last spring to lose a two-years-old 

 colt, own bi-other to the one above named, and 

 which I thought a year ago now, the most prom- 

 iaing colt of hi:< age I had seen. 



Mr. Edgar Hill, son of D.Hill, Esq., and living 

 near his father, has a young stallion by Black 

 Hawk, out of the dam of the "Myrick Horse." 

 He is a stock horse of great promise, and several 

 ojjportunities have already occurred to sell him at 

 a high price. ]\Ir. Edgar Hill has several prom- 

 ising colts by Black Hawk. He is trying the ex- 

 periment of coupling Black Hawk with fillies of 

 his own get, so as to obtain colts three-fourths in 

 the blood of the old horse. Great care is used, 

 however, in selections for this course of breeding ; 

 none but mares of extra limb and substance being 

 chosen. He has a three- fourths blood weaned 

 foal, which is very fine and vigorous, and argues 

 well for the experiment. 



Where mares of extra trotting speed have 

 been coupled with Black Hawk, the colts have 

 with few or no exceptions proved fast trotters ; 

 and indeed almost any good middling mare bred 

 to him produces a colt of considerable more value 

 than the average of serviceable horses. 



F, HoiiBROOK. 



Bratfleboro'' , Jan.ll, 1854. 



demand ? The answer is by bringing to his aid the 

 most recent discoveries in science, relating to the 

 constituents of different soils, rotation and adapta- 

 tion of crops, tlie chemical qualities of the various 

 vegetables cultivated, and of the food whitli they 

 require, &c., together with the latest improvements 

 in agricultural implements. And in like manner, 

 the New P]ngland farmer can compete with the 

 Western, only by employing the same means. But 

 the New England farmer lal)ors under this addi- 

 tional disadvantage. Taking in the whole coun- 

 try west of the Alleghany mountains, the jiropor- 

 tion of the population engaged in agricultural 

 pursuits is as eight to one in all other pursuits. 

 There, where the forests and the prairies arc to be 

 subdued, the old remarkof Adam Smith still holds 

 good, that a widow with eight children is sought 

 after and married as an heiress ; and as in the days 

 of the patriarchs, the gi'eater the number of ar- 

 rows in the quiver of the Western cultivator, the 

 greater is his strength in the gate. 



Against this all but overwhelming competition, 

 the New England farmer, on his sterile soil and 

 worn-out acres, can never sustain himself, except 

 by bringing to his aid every improvement which 

 discovery in science and invention in ai't has 

 brought to light, and which is adapted to his pur- 

 pose. To cry out against these improvements and to 

 refuse their assistance, is, therefore, clearly suici- 

 dal. The vast importance of this topic to the 

 prosperity of New England can hardly be overrat- 

 ed, and some other considerations relating to it, 

 will be presented in subsequent papers. d. c. 



Waltham, Jan., 1854. 



For the New England Farmer. 



FARMING m NEW ENGLAND-No. 1. 



The farmers of New England can successfully 

 compete with those in the more fertile regions of 

 the West, only by conducting their operations 

 with superior science and diligence. It is only by 

 the aid of science and the cheapness of labor, that 

 the British agriculturist can save himself, under- 

 the operation of the free trade system,from being in- 

 undated by American productions; and the relations 

 of the New England farmer to the Western, is 

 quite analogous to that between the English and 

 American. In England there is hardly 07ie culti- 

 vator of the soil to four manufacturers and arti- 

 sans, but in the United States, the case is exactly 

 the reverse, there being about four cultivators of 

 the soil to 071C in all other occupations. By the 

 census of 1831, out of 3,414, 175 families in Great 

 Britain, 901,134, or nearly a fourth, (282 in lUOO) 

 were employed in the ja-oduct of food. The cen- 

 sus of 1H41 showed a still greater disproportion be- 

 tween these two classes, the agricultural popula- 

 tion having in many places declined, and the man- 

 ufacturing having immensely increased. The cen- 

 sus of 1851 exhibited a wider disproportion still 

 so that now considerably less than one-fourth are 

 employed in raising food lor considerably more 

 than threi!-fourths of the population. 



In the face of all these facts, however, the impor- 

 tation of corn into Great Britain, except in cases 

 of unusual scareity, has been gradually diminish- 

 ing for the last thirty years. How, then, is the Eng- 



ReMz^rks. — In this and subsequent articles which 

 we are promised, the reader will find the subject 

 of Neio England Farming discussed in a manner 

 differing considerably from the usual mode of con- 

 sidering it, and must, we think, convince the 

 doubting of the importance of a more systematic, 

 and scientific management of farm affairs. 



For the New England Farmer. 



THE DIX PEAE. 



Mr. Editor : — In the Farmer for January, a 

 correspondent, in speaking of the Dix Pear, says 

 that it does not fruit for 15 years on the pear 

 stock, and that the obvious remedy would be to 

 graft on the quince. But a nurseryman says that 

 it is not good on the quince, though it may pos- 

 sibly bear earlier, and that scions set in an old 

 stock must remain fruitless for 15 years. I have 

 three trees on the quince, planted four years, all 

 of which bore a fair crop of fine Dix pears, and 

 look well for the coming season. Barry, in the 

 Fruit Garden, says of this excellent pear, "it suc- 

 ceeds on the quince double worked, but not other- 

 wise." I can see no sign whereby you could tell 

 that they have been double worked. The trees 

 are vigorous, and about six feet in height.. 



Yours, Blytukv,'00B, 



Swampscot, Jan. 12, 1854. 



Cheap Paint. — An excellent and cheap paint, 

 for rough wood work, is made of six poands of 

 melted pitch , one pint of linseed oil, and one pound 

 of yellow ochre. 



