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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



AT'G. 10, 1S4 2 



AND HORTICULTURAL RKGISTER. 



Boston, Wednesday, August 10, 1842. 



dispraise llieir own calling as any class in the comriiunr- I part that was dressed with these, we let stand, and 

 ty. They call it laborious, uncleanly, and a pursuit by gave us 12 bushels of rye per aero. The other parts 



"FARMERS, MAGNIFY YOUR CALl-ING." 



Prince Albert (now probablyj King Consort, has laki'n 

 into his own hands a farm at Windsor. He is now a 

 governor of the Royal Ag.icultural Society, and in De- 

 cember last, he was elected a member of the SmilliHeUl 

 Club. This is as it should be :— the head of a nation 



should be a leader in a nation's surest source of wealth, , ., , r i . 



, ,.,, II r r,i,„ Pr„=;H..ni« r,f Hon to theirnumbcrs, than lo the men of almost any 



•icu ture. Who can tfll us if any ol the 1 residents ol ' •- 



,_, ,. , a- I I other oi-cupation. II the prizes in agriculture are less 



whirh they can gain weilih but very slowly. All this 

 is true— but it is nrit true that these things constitute so 

 great an objection to farming as ihcy are often thought 

 to be. Hard labor IS not an evil: — the decree which 

 sentenced man " to earn his bread by the sweat of his 

 brow," was one of God's kindest dispensations. And a 

 browned face, and soiled hands are no very great evil, — 

 thev are more healthful if not more honest Inolung than 

 the excessively delicate and white. Money too, if it 

 comes slowlv here, yet does come in quantity sufficient 

 to get the coinforis of life, lo more farmers, in p-opor 



the United States, e.\cept Washington, JeiTerson and 

 Jackson, were noleil foi their devotion to this great 

 great cause? I conceive, Mr Kditor, imitative beings 

 as we are, nothing would go further to "magnify the 

 farmer's calling," than to hear through the farmers' jour- 

 nals frequently, of the successful experiments, the devo- 

 tion, and wholesome examples of our great men in this 



country. 



A FARMER. 



pation. II tlie prizes 

 lav»e, there are more of them in proportion to tin; blanks, 

 than in most of the other lotteries of life. 



Thai this most vital pursuit — lying as it does at the 

 very threshidd of man's subsistence — should be held in 

 esteem as one of the highest and most honorabla of all 

 occupations, is surely very desirable. And that the in- 

 fluenre of example by crowned (or half crowned) heads 

 by Presidenis and Governors — by the affluent and the 



^[J- Remarks— The enterprise, talent, and learning of | (■„„^gj_by all men of eminence— that such influence in 

 our country, have sought the crowded cities, rather than j ^^^^^ of agriculture is desirable and useful, we can make 

 the fields, for their chosen residence There has been i _^^ question. And we can heanily say, yes, in reply to 



the lot, being bare of living plants in the spring, we h; 

 rowed thoroughly, spread on bone at the rale of 9 bu;< 

 e's per acre, and sowed oats. These made only a vc 

 small growth. 



The infercnre from the two trials is, that sowing' 

 Sept. 8, was much better than the 16th, in the way 

 fitting the rye to resist the action of the winter ; ar 

 this suggests a general inference in favor of early sn: 

 ing. The rye sowed Sept. 8lh without any inanuri 

 far survived as to give 7 bushels and a peck per acri 

 while that sowed 16th, nearly all perished. That sm 

 Sept. 8, with 16 bushels of bone per acre, passed thrrn, 

 the winter so well as to give more than 19 bushel> 

 acre, while that sowed IGth, though il had near 20 1,! 

 els of bone per acre, and 100 gallons of salt ley, 

 gave only 12 bushels of grain per acre. In most yi 

 rye would grow more in the months of October and 1 

 vember, than it did last autumn, and it will seldom Iki 

 pen that eight days will make so great a difference as i 

 this case. Tho only inference by way of advice tij 

 we make is, that farmers, when they can convenie. 

 should sow winter rye early enough to give it a cli^i; 

 to get well rooted before winter comes. 



a "eneral desire with ihnse who could choose thei. 

 course, to leive the diudgery and toil of agricultural 

 pursuits, and " buy and sell and got gain" in the great 

 cities, or lo get a living in some other way in ihe popu- 

 lous places. The lields have been deserted by many, a 

 vast many, whose energy, enterprise and rank, (subiie- 

 quenlly gained,) far surpass what is displayed or gained 

 by any of the cimipanions of their early days, who re- 

 main where ihey passed their childhood, and who culti- 

 vate the acres on which their fatl«..'rs toiled. 



But few have gained fame, but few have gained afflu- 

 ence, by cultivating ihe soil of New England. Conse- 

 quently ihci young who are seeking where and how 

 they may gain the highest, or rather the most eniicing 

 rewards for which the world is toiling, leave the quiet 

 homes of the country, and launch out upon the troubled 

 billows of the crowded city, and seek there ler fame or 

 wealth, or influence. 



The farmers and the farmers' w ives, in their child- 

 hood, were the plaj mates and equals of this man who 



our correspondent, when he asks us, by implication, 

 whether it would not be useful to publish the " success- 

 ful expeiiments, the devotion and wholesome examples 

 of our great men in this country." Yes Give the ac- 

 counts — faithful and true — or show us how we shall 

 make such accounts — and we will do witat we can lo 

 give them circulation. 



There is another chapter that must be headed — 



We have Farmtrs enough already, ujtless we can enlarge 



ihe Variety of the Articles produced, or 



increase our Markets. 



But we have no room for it this week. 



-ANOTHER 



CRUSHED BONE AND SALT LEY 

 TRIAL. 



Last week we detailed ihe results of a trial, on our 



own lands, of crushed bone as a manure for winter rye. 



Thiit bono was applied Sept. 8, upon land that was 



phm'cd in August, 1841. .4bout the 14th and 15lh of 



now dwells in his' merchant palace, enjoying all the j September, we plowed more land similar to the other, 



comforts, luxuries nnd distinction which wealth confers; I i. e. poor, plain pastureland. Afier rolling, we put upon 

 they were the familiar playmates of that lady who rides 100 square rods of ihis, 12 bu.^hels of bone mixed with 



in her carriage, dresses in the richest silks and satins, 

 and moves in the most polished circles in society. The 

 fathers and the mothers in the country, speak often of 

 the good fortune of those who left their circle in youth, 

 and mingled themselves up in the mnss that crowd the 

 city; and when they ti.uch up<m a topic like this, there 

 comes up a contrast of their own humble stale, with the 

 supposed enviable, cotnlition of those who in early life 

 had no brighter prospects than their own. The manners 

 and tones, if not the words of parents, tell their chil- 

 dren that other places than the fields, other pursuits 

 than agriculture, oS'i^r the most tempting prizes. At 

 such limes, youthful as[iirations to be rich, or famed, 

 will prompt the mo.-t enterprising or talented of those 

 children to leave the plow, and the toil and sweat of the 

 field, and devote themselves to trade, commerce, manu- 

 factures, or to the learned professions From this cause, 

 among others, coines the comparative low rank which 

 many think is given lo agriculture among the occupations 

 of men. This pursuit, however, is not in disrepute with 

 the reflecting and wise portion of tlie people who have 

 left it, or with these in the cities and towns, whose 

 opinions are emitled to any consideration. 



Tile furmers Ihemselves are quite as much addicted lo 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 



Saturday, ^vg. 6, 1842. 



A D. Williams — some fine specimens of Dutch Ki 

 and White Currants. 



John Hovey — Early Harvest Apples and Mulberrii 



Dr. John C. Howard — Sopsavine and Williams' F 

 vorite Apples. 



Oii< John-on, Esq., of Lynn — two bunchesof lilac 

 Hamburg Giapes. 



John F. Trull— Scarlet Plums. 



George Walsh, Charlestown — Royal George Peaelie 



Apricots — fine specimens — from A. S. Lewin, lIi 

 bury, and Wm. Thomas, Boston. 



H. J. Oliver, Brookline — Plums ; two varieties of A 

 pies, viz ; Eaily Bough and River .' 



J. F. Allen, Esq., Salem — fine specimens of V 

 Figs 



J. L. L. F. Warren — Sugar-lop Pears. 



Grapes — White Chasselas, Zinfindal, Black Han;l 

 and White Frontignac— all specimens of great size 

 well colored — from John C. Lee, Esq , of Salem. 

 For the Committee, 



S. WALKER. 



about one large ox-cart load of soil that had been pre 

 viously saturated with salt ley. The usual rate of ley to 

 soil was about GOO gallons to len cartloads of soil. Proba- 

 bly, therefore, we applied in this load that was mixed 

 with bone, about 60 gallons of salt ley. The bone and 

 ley were applied on 15th of Sept., and the seed, rye, 5 

 peeks per acre, was sowed, hnvtowed in and rolled the 

 16th ; that is eight days afier the other. 



The piece sowed, of which this hundred square rods 

 was a part, conlained an acre and an half or more. The 

 whole was sown on the same day. All came up well. 

 But about llie last of September the wealher became 

 cold, and the remainder of the autumn was prevailingly 

 cold. This rye consequently was very email when the 

 winter set in. The oiher lot, which we described lasi 

 week, having been sowed eight days earlier, and those 

 days having been warm, that lot attained l") twice the 

 size, before winter set in, that was reached by the lot 

 we now are describing. We aie unable, therefore, to 

 make any fair comparison of the two lots. 



The lesult was, this rye being small, nearly all of it 

 was killed by the freezings and thawings of the winter, 

 where we gave no dressing to the land, and was very 

 biiilly injured where the bone and ley were used. 'J'he 



Qj^At an adjourned ineeling of the Mass. Horiiculli 

 ral Society held Aug. 6th, it was 



Voted, That tlie Annual Exhibition of the Society L 

 held on the I4lh, 15th and Ifith Sept. next. 



An Address will be delivered by J. E. Tkschehach ki 

 Esq. 



The fallowing gentlemen were chosen a Committee t 

 provide the anniveisary dinner : 



M. P. Wilder, Chair.nan ; Samuel Walker, B. \ 

 French, C. M. Hovey, David Haggerslon, H. W. Dn 

 ton. Joseph Breck, J. C Howard, Eben Wight, .1 1 

 L. F. Warren, F. W. Macondry, P. B. Hovey, Jr., J 1 

 Allen, Otis Johnscm, S. R. Johnson. 



Adjourned lo Satuiday, Aug. 20th, at 11 o'clock. 

 EBEN WIGHT, /fee. fiec', 



[Jj=Tlie Dahlias exhibited list week by the Presiii . 

 of the lloiticultiiral Socieiy, the names of » liich as wril 

 ten by the Chairman of tlie Flower Commiltee, uc r 

 vnrcailahle by any one connected with our paper, w 

 learn are called I'resident Von Litchenberg and Anclrcvi 

 Hofer. 



I 



The Season— On the; nights of ihe 1st and 2d of tlii:| 

 month, there was frost in the wet or fresh meadows 0| 

 Worcester and Essex counties. No damage to the crops , 

 The latter p.irt of last week nnd the first ol this, brough 

 copious rains. The potatoes, corn, and vines have now 

 an abundance of wet to carry them on far towards tht, 

 completion of their growth. 



