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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



narrated it to their employers, and it was also a Grand Agricultural Banquet Avill be held on the 

 told to visitors who came to visit the quarry. The grounds, and at which Col. WiMcr, the President 

 visitors naturally expressed the wish to witness so, of the Society, will preside. Tlie President of the 

 curious a specimen of intellect ; but as the rock [United States, the heads of departments, the Gov- 

 could not always be blasted when visitoi's came, ernors of the States, with other distinguished 



the bell was rung instead, and for a few times 

 answered the same purpose. The thrush flew 

 down close to where they stood, but she perceived 

 she was trifled with, and it interfered with the 



guests, have been invited to attend. It is antici- 

 pated that this will be one of the most interesting 

 and imposing parts of the exhibition, and in 

 which ladies, as well as gentlemen, will partici- 



process of incubation; the consequence was, that pate. The exhibition of cattle will be largest 

 afterwards when the bell was rung she would peep ever held in America, if not in the world, and the 

 over the ledge to ascertain if the workmen did j concourse of people will be immense. From Mas- 

 retreat, and if they did not, she would remain saehusetts, there will be a large delegation, 

 where she was, probably saying to herself — "No, I Persons desirous of obtaining any further infor- 

 no, gentlemen, I'm not to be roused off my eggs' mation in regard to the exhibition or the transpor- 

 merely for your amusement.'-' — Cor. London\ tation of passengers or stock, may procure the 

 Dispatch. ^same by addressing Wm. S. King, Esq., Secretary 

 I of the United States Agricultural Society, at Hor- 



GREAT NATIONAL CATTLE SHOW. 



The United States Agricultural Society, of 

 which the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder of Massachu- 

 setts is President, will hold a National Show of 

 Cattle, open to general competition, without sec- 

 tional limit, on the 25th, 26th and 27th days of 

 this month, at Springfield, in the State of Ohio. 

 Six Thousand Dollars will be awarded in Premi- 

 ums, several of Avhich are larger than have ever 

 been offered by any Agricultural Society either 

 in this or other countries. Among these we no- 

 tice the following : — Fioe Hundred Dollars for 

 the best bull and five cows or heifers, of one year 

 or upwards, from any one herd. Three Hun- 

 dred Dollars for the best Durham bull. Two 

 Hundred Dollars for the best Durham cow. 

 Other large premiums are offered in the respective 

 breeds. The judges in the various classes have 

 been selected with great care, and constitute a 

 phalanx of Agriculttiral talent of the first order. 

 Among the names we find those of Gov. Wright 

 of Indiana ; Col. Stevens, John A. King, Lewis 

 F. Allen and Col. Johnson, of New York ; Cassius 

 M. Clay and Brutus J. Clay, of Kentucky ; Judge 

 Watts aud Dr. Elwyn, of Pennsylvania ; Judge 

 Musgrave and Col. Medary, of Ohio ; Richard 

 Peters, of Georgia ; S. B. Findlay, of Virginia ; 

 and from Massachuetts, Moses Newell, C. V. 

 French, John Brooks, Paoli Lathrop, Simon 

 Brown, and other distinguished Agricultui-ists. 



Extensive preparations have been made for the 

 accommodation of strangers. Extra trains will 

 convey passengers to the neighboring cities and 

 towns, who cannot obtain lodgings at Springfield. 

 Private houses will also be open for the reception 

 of guests. 



The principal railroads will take stock free of 

 charge, and passengers at half price. On stock 

 the freight must be paid on the passage out, and 

 on the certificate of the Secretary of the Show 

 that the animals have been exhibited and have 

 not been sold or exchanged, the money paid for 

 transportation will be refunded, and they returned 

 free to the point from which they started. 



Visitors should be careful to obtain excursion 

 tickets on the several railroads, and at Springfield 

 to have them stamped by the Secretary of the 

 Show, in order to make them available on their 

 return at lialf price. Passengers from New Eng- 

 land will take the New York Central Railroad at 

 Albany. 



On Thursday, October 2Gth, at 2 o'clock, PM., 



ticultural Hall, Boston. 



THE PUMPKIN. 



At the dinner of the Bristol County Agricultural Society in 

 New Bedford, on Thursday last, Charles T. Congdon, Esq., ed- 

 itor of the Neiv Bedford Mercury, was called upon by the 

 President, to which he made a response in verse, from which we 

 copy the following capital panegyric on the pumpkin : 



dear New England ! who shall dare dispute 

 Thy well-earned title of the Land of Fruit, 

 When on thy hills yon glowing globe we see — 

 Pumpkin or pompion — doctors disagree ? 

 Lo ! where the verdant vines luxuriant run, 

 He turns his fair, round belly to the sun ! 

 Bathed in those' beams he, comatos and calm, 

 The bursting Falstaff of the blooming farm. 

 Awaits his fate — the inevitable hour — 

 The hand that plucks him from his native bower, 

 Only exclaiming, could we hear lis cries : 

 " Take me to Bedford, and I'll take thj prize ! " 



yeWow orb ! no hand divine is nigh, 



To snatch thee up and set thee in ihe sky, 



A modern star, uncatalogued and new. 



To fright the saints and bother science too ; 



But bide thy time ! — when chill November falls, 



A voice shall issue from the State House walls ; 



And every parson, from his pulpit high. 



Proclaim aloud Thanksgiving Day is nigh. 



Then, when around the dear domestic board 



Affection's tide has tremulously poured ; 



When the fond mother — years of absence o'er — 



Clasps to her heart her wandering son once more ; 



When love, refusing to be longer pent, 



Smiles in the eyes a timorous assent ; 



When laughing childhood, full of fowl and fun, 



Finds to its wonder that it cannot run — 



'Tis then, premium pumpkin ! then shall shine 



In splendor new this excellence of thine. 



Pie of my country ! still upon thy breast 



3Iidsammer sunbeams in November rest ; 



The magic circle of thy snowy paste 



Delights the eye and titillates the taste ; 



While through thy form the steel is ranging bright. 



Our aqueous mouths are puckered with delight, 



And like faint soldiers who from fight would cease. 



We cry for quarter and demand apiece. 



E^ Instruct your son well, or others will in- 

 struct him ill. No child goes altogether untaught. 

 Send him to the school of wisdom, or he will go 

 off himself to the rival academy, kept by the lady 

 with the cap and bells. There is always teaching 

 going on of some sort, just as in fields — vegetation 

 is never idle. 



