1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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of tools and machines, made by them, for farmers, 

 — in number and variety to stagger the belief or 

 understanding of any but a connoisseur. Let no 

 one suppose that l)ecaiise ho knows what a hoe, 

 and rake, and spade, and plow and harrow are, 

 he has exhausted even the typos of agricultural 

 mechanism. Here are lactometers ; the English 

 talacre ; post augers ; meat cutters and sausage 

 fillers. Here is the science of plowing very well 

 laid out, and illustrated by the several forms »f 

 plows which these manufacturers have devised for 

 iis requisitions. Plows for all soils, — all slopes 

 of surface, and even left-hand plows for the left 

 handed Gorman and Dutch farmers of the West 

 There are nearly a hundred plows in this list, of 

 different varieties. 



No one can leave such a book, without abandon- 

 ing forever the notion that one of the great sub- 

 divisions of laltor is more useful than another 

 Each is lost without the other. The farmer can- 

 not say to the mechanic, "I have no need of thee" 

 — more than the foot to the hand, or the ear to 

 the eye. — Christian Register. 



UNITED STATES AGEICULTUEAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The Second Annual Meeting of the United 

 States xVgricultural Society, will bo held at 

 Washington D. C, on Wednesday, February 22d, 

 1854. 



Among the objects of the Association are the fol- 

 lowing : — 



The acquisition and dissemination of the best 

 experience in the Science of Agriculture : — 



The union of the men who desire to advance to 

 its legitimate rank, this most important of all hu- 

 man pursuits ; — and 



The increase and extension throughout our 

 counti'y of a more cordial spirit of intercourse 

 between thefriendsof Agriculture, by whose coun- 

 tenance and co-operation this Society shall be ele- 

 vated to a position of honor and usefulness worthy 

 of its national character. 



Business of importance will come before the 

 meeting. A now election of officers is to be made, 

 and in which every State and Territory is to be 

 represented. 



Applications will be laid before the Society for 

 the holding of National Exhibitions in different 

 parts of tlie Union. 



Delegations are respectfully solicited from all 

 the Agricultural Societies in the country, and th(( 

 attendencc of all Agriculturists, who may find it 

 convenient to honor the occasion with their pres- 

 ence. :NL\ksiiall p. Wilder, President. 

 William S. King, Rec. Secretary. 



January, 1854. 



Remarks. — We have attended the two annual 

 meetings of this Society at Washington, and found 

 great pleasure in mooting so many earnest friends 

 of the cause from various parts of the Union. We 

 hope to meet them again, with numl^ers of our 

 citizens, together with delegates from every State; 

 in the Union. It is an occasion of interest and 

 importance, and those who have never visited the 

 federal city will find it a most favorable time to 

 be there during the sittings of tlie National So- 

 ciety. 



For the yew England Farvier. 



WHAT A GARDEN SHOULD BE! 



Few words awaken a greater variety of pleasing 

 remembrances and ideas than Garden ; and its ut- 

 terance strikes a chord, that, swelling and vibra- 

 ting, carries us back to the l)irtli-place of iiian, 

 and thence, lingering in the valleys of India, oliml>- 

 ing the mountains of Europe, nestling among the 

 glades and parks of England comes to us fraught 

 ^Tith mysterious meaning, and manifests even here, 

 m bare, bleak, rocky New England, how endeared 

 are its associations and memories to the refined 

 mind. 



Is it wonderful that every mind should feel it a 

 part of its own nature to love the garden, the 

 l)irth-place of man, and his resort ever, for repose, 

 pleasure, and instruction ? Would any philosophy 

 be far wrong that, starting with the assumption, 

 that God manifestly interferes in the special ac- 

 tions of his children, should assert the first em- 

 ployment of man, and his natural and congenial 

 one, was gardening? Were it desiralde to 

 prove that division of labor constitutes the wel- 

 fare of communities, that sin of Adam,which drove 

 him from the garden of Eden, would seem an in- 

 tentional interference of God, to prevent all the 

 dwellers on the earth being tillers of the soil. 

 When driven thence, and forced to seek their sup- 

 port, some of his descendants, too lazy to cultivate 

 the earth, would turn to loss laborious occupations, 

 and try to substitute the w'ork of the wits for 

 that of the hands. 



It is worthy of notice, that amongst the more sim- 

 ple of the civilized nations, all refinement sought 

 its expression in some connection with the garden. 

 If we instance the Greeks, we cannot fail to re- 

 member that Plato and Aristotle taught in gar- 

 dens, and that Pliny and Horace were devotees to 

 its culture and beauty. Our Saviour passed his 

 most trying hours on earth in a garden, and 

 through all later time, men of leisure and refine- 

 ment devote their first wealth and opportunity to 

 developing some of nature's beauties. This pecu- 

 liar tendency of man for such arc«>rt and pleasure 

 could not escape the poets ; and therefore it is, 

 that we find all the Amative and Lyric poets, with 

 some of the Epic, basing much of their claim to 

 attention on the praises of garden walks and plea- 

 sures. There the talcs of love are told, parties 

 of pleasure planned and executed, and grave coun- 

 cil held ; and when the place is not specially re- 

 ferred to, some of its gifts or associations, are the 

 aljsolute or symbolized medium of courtesy and 

 intercourse. 



Were the critic to carefully unthread from the 

 acknowledged language of love, letters, and socie- 

 ty all the images and epithets owing their origin 

 to some connection with gardens and liowers, he 

 would deprive it of half its ornament. 

 The greatinfluonce over the mind of an association 

 with the beautiful during youth, is manifested in 

 the lives of all great men ; and it would l>e almost 

 possil)le to decide on a man's general character 

 from the place where he lived, and the scenery 

 that surrounded him ; and yet, however much the 

 distant scenery may have moulded the more ma- 

 tured mind, its effect is not to be compared with 

 that of the immediate surroundings of tlie cradle 

 and homestead upon the more pliant mind of 

 youth. Can wc expect the highest developments 



