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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



Fanny Bowers, 1 skirt, " 50 



Lucy Tolmao, 1 tidy, " 25 



Eliza A. Couant, wrought muslin, '' 25 



A. J. Tolniaii, 2 quilts, " 50 



Augusta Thayer, 1 pair slippers, " 25 



Caroline Adams, 1 sofa-cushion, " 25 



Isabella Peniiis, 2 collars, " 50 



Helen 11. Head, travelling bag, Woburn, 50 



Clara Gowin^, skirt and pin-cushion, " 50 



F. Winn, 1 pair shoes, Concord, 25 



Mary A. Moore, quilt and collar, Chelmsford, To 



Mrs. G. M. Barrett, 3 rolls carpet, Conoord, 2 00 



Rebecca Barrett, slippers and embroidery, " 1 00 



Mrs. N II. AVarren, embroidered dress, " 1 00 



P. P. Rodders, 6 pair hose, Woburn, ^ 50 



Rebecca Kodgers, 6 pair do., " 50 



Susan Rodgers, 6 pair do., " 50 



Susan Parker, quilt, Lincoln, 50 



Eliza Pierce, 1 pair slippers, Concord, 25 



Polly llartwell, bed spread, Lincoln, 50 



" II. Pierce, picture-frame, Lexington, 25 



M. J. Smith, pencil drawing, &c., Waltham, 1 00 



Eber G. Gleason, wrought chair. Concord, 1 50 



Rebecca Melvin, 2 pair hose, " 25 



C. Hall, embroidered skirt, Carlisle, 50 



Mrs. S. D. Hunt, 1 tidy, Concord, 25 



A. M. Stacy, crochet collars, " 50 



H. H. Robinson, skirt and mantle, " 1 00 



H. Tarbell, 3 blankets, " 1 00 



Mrs. Sampson Mason, 1 chain, " 1 00 



Mrs. G. L. Prescott, embroidered scarf, &c.. Concord, 60 



Anna Draper, embroidered collar, Charlestown, 25 



Barker, eiubrnidered blanket, " 25 



M. II. Prescott, lamp mat, Acton, 25 



H. G. Rice, sofa pillow, Acton, 25 



Sarah C. Rice, slippers. Concord, 25 



E. 15. French, quilt, Tewksbury, 50 



Sarah M. Chapin, tidy, rug, &c., Concord, 25 



E. AVheeler. 6 pair hose " 75 



J. M. Smitli, wrought skii-t, " 1 00 



Ann Hastings, 4 chairs and embroidery. Concord, 1 00 



A. C. Brown, wrought collar, Framingham, 25 



n. H. Hoar, under-sleeves. Concord, 25 



S. C. Hastings, slippers, Concord, 25 



M. J. Jones, embroidered slippers. Concord, 25 



Harriet Heakl, embroidery, Carlisle, 50 



John Br-jwn, hose and mitts. Concord, 50 



Sarah C. Brown, picture-frame, &c.. Concord, 1 00 



Matilda C. Brown, rigorlet, &c., Concord, 50 



Miss Elizabeth Brown, rigorlet, &c.. Concord, 50 



Miss Sarah W. Ilcywood, worsted hose. Concord, 50 



Miss Margaret B. Rice, 1 chain, Concord, 1 00 



Miss E. D. Church, wrought slippers. Concord, 25 



Miss H. E. Cowdry, 1 shirt, Acton, 25 



Miss Sarah A. HiUiiird, embroidered skirt, Acton, 50 



Mrs. Jonas C. Hastings, embroidery and flowers. Concord, 1 00 



J. Gleason, millinery, Concord, 2 00 



R. H. Raymond, embroidered skirt, Littleton, 75 



Amelia Johnson, wax flowers, Charleston, 1 00 



Mrs. George Bingham, rug, Lowell, 1 00 



Sarah E. Rice, fancy box. Concord, 25 



Silas B. Wilde, specimen of printing. Concord, 1 00 



Warren B. Ball, (lustre) Concord, 1 00 



Susan B. Foster, quilt, Tewksbury, 50 



APPLES AND PEARS. 



James Eustis, South Reading, apples, $8 00 



John B. Moore, Concord, apples, 6 00 



W. F. Conant, Acton, apples, . 4 00 



Asa Clement, Draeat, apples, 3 00 



Robert Chal'fin, Acton, apples, 2 00 



W. W. Wheildon, Concord, best single dish, 3 00 



Converse Smith, Waltham, 2d " " 2 00 



Charles E. Giles, Lincoln, 3d •' " 1 00 



Ilovey & Co., Cambridge — pears, 6 varieties, 6 00 



Josiah Stickney, Watertown, " " 4 00 



Hovey. .& Co., Cambridge, best single dish, 4 00 



A. G. Fay, C^ .noord, next best, 3 00 



Josiah Stickney, Watertown, next, 2 00 



David Loring, Concord, next, 1 00 



VEGETABLES. 



John B. Moore, Concord, $6 00 



Nathan Barrett, " 5 00 



C. B. Clark, " 4 00 



Andrew V- eiliiigtiin, Lexington, 3 00 



John Raynnldj, Concord, 2 00 



James P. Brown, " 1 00 



6. Bird, Framingham, 1 00 

 And sums of less than one dollar to twenty-tliree other per- 

 sons. 



BLTCTER. 

 A. G. Sheldon, Wilmington, set of silver sjxions. 



John Kimball, Littleton, $2 50 



Sherebiah Spalding, Chelmsford, 2 00 



Asa G. Sheldon, Wilmington, 1 50 



Joshua Harnden, Billerica, 1 00 



INVENTIONS. 

 Wheeler, Acton, washing machine, $3 00 



Fo^ the New England Farmer. 



HAWAIIAN AGRICULTURE. 



Makawao Maui, Hawaiian Islands, \ 

 June 19th, 1854. i 



Editors of Farmer: — Gentlemen, — Iwroto jou 

 in January, giving you, if I rightly remember, 

 some items of a report which I last year sent 

 down to the chairman of the committee on wheat 

 raising. Another meeting of the Hawaiian Agri- 

 cultural Society has, I suppose, been held lately 

 at Honolulu, the metropolis of the islands. In 

 good time we may have an Agricultural Society 

 on Miiui. If so, you shall hear. 



In the mean time, let me tell you of our labors, 

 and trials, and encouragements, in agricultural 

 pursuits in my own neighborhood, where more is 

 doing, I presume, than on all the islands besides. 

 I mean in labors strictly agricultural. 



1. Labors. I think I have, in writing you, re- 

 marked on the seeming reluctance of most men 

 from foreign countries to engage in agricultural 

 pursuits. The passion for sudden riches has been 

 so strong ia the bosoms of ninc-tcntlis of these 

 men, that speculation, not manual lubor, has 

 been the order of the day. In raising wheat I 

 was nearly alone, so far as foreigners were con- 

 cerned, for several years; and but for the hope of 

 inducing the people to engage in this important 

 business, I might have abandoned it myself, as 

 my wheat cost me more than foreign flour. But 

 I was enabled to hold on through "■ good report 

 and evil report," and I am glad I did so, for I am 

 now able to report a great increase of labor be- 

 stowed on wheat raising. 



Of some 3000 bushels of this grain raised in 

 1853, not less than 1000 were lost from inability 

 to thresh it, only one horse-power being in the 

 place till Rlarch. Of some 400 acres sown, 2 or 

 300 were lost by the cut worm, and chiefly owing 

 to late sowing. We have, then, about 1100 acres 

 of wheat in this and a neighboring district. It is 

 all in this neighborhood. Two or three hundred 

 acres have been harvested, and some of it threshed 

 and ground. You can see from this tliat there 

 must have been an increase of labor. I am happy 

 to say that this is true. As many as sixteen for- 

 eigners have this year engaged in the wheat rais- 

 ing business, and they have all done well, very 

 well indeed. Quite a number of Hawa,iians in 

 this neighborhood have raised wheat, and one of 

 them may have 1500 bushels. Just now native 

 men, women and children, arc busily engaged 

 reaping and binding. One or more has learned 

 to cradle, and others will soon learn. One of 

 Ilussey's reapers is marching through a wheat 

 field with a velocity which perfectly astounds the 

 natives — more, even, than did the execution of 

 the sickle ten years ago, which began there to 

 supersede the case-knife. So you'see the labors of 

 the husbandmen are increasing. I am not with- 

 out hope that it may, ere long, be as honorable 

 to raise wheat as it is to measure tape, or weigh 

 sugar and rice. 



2. Trials. It would have been foolish in the 

 extreme to expect success in agriculture without 

 trials or drawbacks. They have not been greater 

 than with you, or than the trials connected 

 with the manufacture of sugar. One trial some 

 of my neighbors have experienced ; on finding 

 that wheat will not flourish on half cultiva- 



, ted ground — that they cannot sow by the way- 



