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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



NOV. 9, l<Hf 



ANn HORTICULTURAL RKGISTER. 



Boston, Wednesday, November 9, 1842. 



UJ-NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



Mr HFNfiy M Lewis is collpcting for us in Alabama, 

 Tennessee, and part of Missouii. 



Mr Israel E. Jamks is collecting for ns in the South 

 and South Wesiern Stales and Florida, assisted by Jan. 

 K. Whipple, Win. H. Weld,0. H. F. Stem and Henry 

 Piatt. 



Mr C. W. James is our agent for the Western Slates, 

 Iowa and WiscoTisin, assisted by James R. Smith, J. B. 

 Humphreys and J. W. Ewing. 



THE ELECTION. 



We e.'tclude partij politics from our columns, and have 

 1)0 purpose now to urge or ask any man to vole wilh us 

 as we vote. But as we somemlitnes prate about the far- 

 mer's work for the month, we will try to bring under 

 that head the voting to which the farmers of Massachu- 

 setts will be called next Monday. This work should 

 not be nefflecled. Our revolutionary sires, the present 

 generation, and the welfare of posterity, call upon every 

 intelligent man to do his part in supporting and in pre- 

 serving in their purity the political institutions with 

 which we are blessed. We say blessed, for whatever 

 may be thought of imperfections and faults in our con- 

 Btitutioiis and laws, no other government so good as ours 

 was ever before allowed to man, in any one of the innu- 

 merable nations that have existed on the earth. And 

 the preservation of this government is entrusted to the 

 people — to the farmers of the land as well as to others. 

 Politics is ofien decried lis a matter which wise and pru- 

 dent men will let alone. Not so— not so. True, the 

 wise and prudent will eschew politics as a Irado or pro- 

 fession—they will shun political wrangling— will spurn 

 political triikislincss— will frown in virtuous rebuke up- 

 on all "ho have the moral baseness to maintain that " ail 

 is fair in politics." Many of the practices of political 

 demagogues, many political maxims, many of tlie com- 

 mon consequences of zealous devotion to political mat- 

 ters are base, false or evil enough to make the wise and 

 prudent ponder. But by attention to politics we do not 

 mean the becnraing an office seeker, nor the base tool of 

 an office seeker;— we do not mean unqualified devotion 

 to parly ;— we do not mean the blind following of a file 

 leader, go he right or go he wrong;— we do not mean a 

 disregard of truth, facts and principle ;— we do not mean 

 a neglect of one's own business, and the going upon an 

 electioneering campaign. But we do mean such reflec- 

 tion and reading as will enable a man to judge what 

 public iiieasurea promise to be most for the public good, 

 and who are the fittest men to be trusted to advocate 

 and adopt those measures. Wo mean more than this — 

 for we hold that it is the duty oi every good and intelli- 

 gent citizen to vote— la vote for the men whom he hon- 

 estly thinks will be the wisest, most faithful, and most 

 useful public seivants. 



Butic/iyis thus to act, his duly f Why may ho not 

 let politics entirely alone !■ Why not omit to vote? It 

 is because our institutions are safe and beneficent only 

 when the administration of our alfairs is entrusted to the 

 wise and virtuous ; — it is because he is bound to give 

 liis aid 111 piocuring a wholesome and safe adminislra. 

 tion ; it is hecauso we must yield up our republican in- 

 stitutions and come under despotism or anarchy, if the 

 better portion of the community will not give their aid 

 in helping to put the reins of government into trustwor- 

 thy hands. It is because, at the ballot box, lessons of in- 

 struction are given to our law-makers and to our exccu- 

 'ive officers. 



Go to the brllol box, then, every honest, patriotic fiir" 

 mer:— Gotolhe ballot box, and there vote for those 

 whom you honestly judge to be the best men for office 



We can respect llie manly opponent of our own opin- 

 ions — we can respect the zealous sujiporter of men and 

 measures that we distrust; but the citizen who mani- 

 fests indiff'erence to our political institutions — the man 

 who cares not to vole, we cannot call a good citizen or 

 a fit subject to be favored wilh the blessings of a free 

 government. 



But when judging of the qualifications of men to hold 

 office, do it upon broad and liberal grounds. Select men 

 not because of tlieir devotion to one favorite measure of 

 yours ; not because they have at heart the interests of 

 one class of citizens moro llian those of another; but be- 

 cause their good sense, their enlarged views, their 

 whole-souled patriotism, fit them to look fairly at all 

 'objects upon which they may have to deliberate, and 

 because they will act wisely upon all. Wo be to us — 

 wo must come to us, if the representatives of merchants 

 shall feel bound to advance the merchants' interests at 

 the expense of the manufacturer, the mechanic and the 

 farmer : — equal wo, when the representatives of far- 

 mers shall act as though the tillers of the soil alone are 

 to be favored by legislative action. Far, fiir from us be 

 the day when laws shall be made to favor one religious 

 sect at the expense of others. Differing as men do nnd 

 must in their pursuits, their opinions, their sentiments, 

 their every thing — law makers and executive officers 

 should be selected not because of their views upon a 

 particular 8ub{ect, but because of their fitness to see 

 clearly and act wisely upon all matters that may come 

 before them. Go for your country — the whole country. 



PREPARATIONS FOR WINTER. 



Be putting your dry fuel under cover — be collecting 

 such fuel as lies scattered about where the snows of win- 

 ter will cover it and prevent your finding it when want- 

 ed. 



Drive the needed stakes and make all necessary pre- 

 paration for hanking up your houses and other buildings, 

 where bankings ore desirable. 



Batten if necessary your barns nnd sheds, so that your 

 animals shall not he exposed to currents of air pressing 

 in directly upon them through cracks. 



Wake for the hogs a warm nest. Comfort — we have 

 before said, and we repeat it — comfort is cheap food for 

 all domestic animals. If you can throw the manure 

 from the horse stalls where the pigs can get access to it, 

 they will like that much to sleep upon. In cold nights 

 they will go to that even if it be outof doors, rather than 

 sleep upon straw in any common hog-house or barn. If 

 you can make under the barn a good receptacle for your 

 manure, and can winter the pigs there in a warm place, 

 they will thrive better than where exposed to cold, and 

 your manure will be much better for Iiaving them among 

 it. Four shoals will gain 100 lbs. more on the same 

 feed, in four winter inomhs, if kept in a warm and com- 

 fortable cellar, than they will in a common pen. 



THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 



This work, issued monthly at New York, and edited 

 hy A. B. and R. L. Alleji, Esqrs , has now reached its 

 7th No. By some inadvertence we failed to receive it 

 until recently. Now that all the numbers have come 

 and we have bad opportunity to examine it, we take 

 pleasure in recommending it to the agriculturists of the 

 United Slates. The editors eihibil more reflection and 

 good sense, and write in a more spirited and forcible 

 style than is common iin the papers of the day. We 

 wish the work ihe success il deserves. 



WHITE CARROTS. 



We have at our office several fine while carrots, f 

 the field of B. V. French, Esq., where he oblaii.'cl so 

 thing over 22 Ions per acre. This is a large yicld- 

 pccially for ground that was nol prepared with extra' 

 nary care and expense. We understand that M 

 thinks that subsoil plowing his land in the sprinj 

 1841, contributed very much to the size of this 

 1842. 



We have been repeatedly asked whether the m 

 carrol is as rich and nutritious as the yellow, and wli 

 er it will keep as well. And we in turn have put 

 same questions when and wheie we could. Bu 

 have yet received no satisfactory an<wer. Some t 

 the white as good as the yellow, and some deem ii 

 so good. Some think that the white will not keep 

 — that it becomes corky early in the winter ; others 

 it ihe character of keeping well. The questions a 

 some importance, because the while carrot prove 

 most fields, much the most productive. If its valut 

 bushel is equal to that of the yellow, it will c.ime 

 the most exLensive cultivation, apparently. If its \ 

 is not as great, the sooner the fact can he c'labli ' 

 and made known the belter. There are enni.^h of 

 kind raised this season, to settle the mooted points, I 

 users of them will only be careful in their observal 



THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN'S COW. 



We gave some account of this extraordinary cbi 

 week, and asked whether the gentlemen on the con* ^ 

 lee who examined her, would confirm the account 

 have since seen one of the committee, who says thai 

 statements were correct, and also that the owner 

 publish soon a full account of her in the Americat 

 ricullurist. When the account comes' we will give j 

 our readers. 



Health. — Repletion, or eating loo mud., is '.he ■ 

 of most maladies, and this is particularly i:; ;i us 

 advance in life. Occasional fasting will g(..i.i ally 

 reel indispusition, without medicine, which tlioi 

 considered as only a desperate resource. We re 

 about a fourth of the twentyfour hours for sleep ; 

 should be good, and that only can be acquired by 

 ular digestion and inhaling pure air while in bed 

 tutor's Simplicity of Health. 



The best practical rule of morality is, never to d 

 thing which you would be unwilling that all tlie 

 should know. 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



At an adjourned meeting of the Society, held Noi 

 it was 



Voted, That the Massachusetts Ilorticultural Si 

 have learned wilh emotion and deep regret, the d 

 of their late worthy member, Mr Robert Maicni 

 Solom ; and that sensible of the valuable services fa 

 rendered the cause of Horticulture in our coiintrj 

 more especially lo this Society, of which he has b 

 most active and zealous member from its origin ; 

 would most respectfully lender the sympathies am 

 dolence of its members to the family of the deceas' 

 their afflictive bereavement. 



Voted, That (he Recording Secretary be direct 

 communicate a copy of ihe foregoing vote to Ihe f 

 o( the late Mr Manning, and that ihe same be eii j'^ 

 on the records of ihe Society. 



Adjourned to Saturday, Dec 3d, at 11 o'clock. 

 EBENEZER WIGHT, Rcc. Sec 



