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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



OCT. T, 1833. 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 7. 1235. 



Kssex Agrxcnltaral Society. 



The Annual Exhibition iif this Society took place on 

 the 30lh nit. We bad the pleasure of being present, and 

 were highly gratified. The Ploughing Matuli was well 

 contested ; the ploughmen .-ikilful, the cattle quick and 

 docile, the ploughs of the best construction, and, of 

 course, the performances first rate. The exhibition at 

 the cattle pens was respectable; »he animals appeared to 

 bB of the best breeds, as well as good specimens of their 

 kinds. The show of Manufactures, of Fruits, Flowers, 

 Culinary Vegetables, etc. such as deserves particular de- 

 scription, as well as honorary notice, which will proba- 

 bly appear in Reports of Committees, &c. and which we 

 shall be happy to transfer to our cohimns. The dinner 

 was well served, well attended, and consisted of all the 

 substantials and luxuries which farmers can wish for, or 

 temperance sanction. There were spirits in profusion, 

 such as the Spirit of social intercourse, the Spirit of am- 

 ity, the Spirit of conviviality, &c. but no ardent spirits. 

 At three o'clock, the members of the Society, and a 

 large and respectable concourse of spectators assembleil 

 at the Unitarian Meeting House, to enjoy the feast of 

 mind. The exercises consisted of a Thanksgiving hymn, 

 Prayer, by Rev. C. C. Sewall, Hymn, Address by 

 Daniel P. King, Esq., The Farmer's Song, written for 

 the occasion, by Dr Andrew Nichols. The Address 

 was precisely what it should be ; plain, useful, but elo- 

 quent, consisting of " proper words in proper places," 

 and every sentiment proper for the time, place, and cir- 

 cumstances, to which it was adapted. It was soniewhat 

 more excursive than is usual on similar performances, 

 containing useful admonitions, relative to the rights and 

 duties of farmers, iheir families, and assistants of both 

 sexes — good maxims and directions for moral and intel- 

 lectual culture, as wellae the tillage, which is exclusive- 

 ly the farmer's province. The "Farmer's Song " (which 

 we insert below) is pretty pertinent poetical, and such 

 as we should have been proud of producing. 



THE FARMER'S SONG. 

 The Farmer's life we love, although 



Fatigued by toil we be; 

 Contented, to hard work we go, 

 None happier than we. 

 We love the lands we cultivate. 



The cattle that we rear; 

 Sloth, Vice and Slavery we hale, 

 But count free labor cheer. 



CHORDS. 



We cast our seed on well-tilled ground, 



We dress our crops with care; 

 And when the harvest time comes round, 



We earth's abundance share. 



We envy not the rich and great ; 



The humblest farmer's lot 

 Is better than a vast estate. 

 By fraud or rapine got. 



By healthful toil we win our bread 



Beneath the glorious skies, 

 Enjoy the beauties round us spread. 

 And high God's bounties prize. 

 Cho. — We cast, &c. 



From early dawn to closing day. 

 To plough, plant, weed, or mow, 



The Farmer, whistling, hies away — 

 His wife as busy too. 



To wash, to churn, to cook, to sweep. 



By turns her hand she plies, 

 Stops hut to rock her babe to sleep, 

 Or hush her children's cries. 

 Pho. — We cast, &c. 



'T is busy life, yet often here 

 Th' affections of the heart 

 In holiest purity appear. 

 And highest bliss impart. 



We thankful take what God bestows, 



And learn to feel and know. 

 That the best cure for human woes 

 Is industry below. 

 Cho. We cast our seed, &c. 



We strive to culture heart and head, 



Our lives from vice to free. 

 And trust, like well filled grain, when dead, 

 Life-giving bread to be. 



To more successful enterprise 



Than we ourselves have known ; 

 Or seeds, whence future crops shall rise 

 Superior to our own. 



chorus. 

 Our morals grown on well tilled ground, 



Our habits reared with care, 

 We trust, when here no longer found, 



To heaven's abundance share. 



Every thing we .saw and heard appeared to us worthy 

 of a place in the " Transactions" of a Society which 

 has numbered among its officers and members such men 

 as Col. Pickering, Mr Colman, and others, whose ex- 

 ertions have contributed in a very high degree to the im- 

 provement of American husbandry. 



tion of wool growing among them, it is quite otherwise, 

 and we heard it stated the other day, on credible author- 

 ity, that the small town of Hinsdale, with only about 

 eight liundred inhabitants, had already sold forty thou- 

 sand dollars worth of wool of this year's growth ! This 

 town is situated near the very tip top of the Green moun- 

 tains, and before the introduction of sheep, exported 

 scarcely $500 worth of any domestic productions. Now 

 let the American System "go a-head." — Korthamyton 

 Courier. 



Agricultural Exhibitions. 



The Cattle Show and Exhibition of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural Society will beheld at Brighton on the 14th 

 of October. Address by Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn. 



The Plymouth County Agricultural Fair will take 

 place at Bridgewater, on the 14th of October. Address 

 bv Morion Eddy, Esq. of Bridgewater. 



The Middlesex County Agricultural Society hold their 

 exhibition at Concord this day, the 7lh of October. 



The Bristol County Agricultural Society will hold their 

 next Cattle Show and Exhibition at Norton, on the 14th 

 of October. 



The Worcester County Agricultural Society hold their 

 Exhibition at Worcester this day, the 7th of October. 



The Rhode Island Agricultural Society held their Cat- 

 tle Show, Ploughing Match, &c. on the 30th of Septem- 

 ber. 



Merrimack County Agricultural Soriety at Boscawen 

 Plain, 14th and 15tli of October. 



Long island against the world. — A large cabbage 

 was raised on the farm of Piatt Slratton, Esq , Flushing, 

 weighing 28 1-2 lbs. Also, four cabbages weighing 107 

 lbs. and sold at New York market for six cents per lb. 

 Beat this who can. — ^*. Y. Times. 



We think we can beat the above. At any rate, we 

 can come up to it, by showing a turnip now in our office, 

 which measures 2 feet, 5 inches in circumference, and 

 weighs 7 1-2 lbs. It has been sent us by Mr Richard 

 Tompkins, of La Grange, and was raised by him. It 

 would take a pretty good sized pot to boil together the 

 cabbage of 28 1-2 lbs. and this turnip of 2 feet, 5 inches 

 in circumference. — Povghlieepsie Tel. 



Little Jersey against the world. — As an ofTset to 

 the above, there is growing in the garden of Mr James 

 Van Horn, of New Egypt, N. J. a radish, measuring 

 thirty inches in circumference, and thirty eight inches 

 long. We think now, Long Island will liave to ac- 

 knowledge, though she m.ay stand against the world, yet 

 she will find it perhaps rather a difficult matter to stand 

 against " little Jersey." The radish has not yet acquired 

 its full growth. 



Pooh ! That's nothing ! There is at the store of John 

 L. Williams, in this city, a pumpkin, raised by the Hon. 

 Walter Patterson, of Milburn, which is 6 feet in circum- 

 ference, and weighs 118 pnunda, '■ little Jersey against 

 the world," indeed ! why, we could stow away the whole 

 state within this pumpkin. As for Long Island — whew ! 

 such a diminutive object would be lost within, it. — Hud- 

 son, JV. Y. paper. 



Wool Growing in the western part of Massachusetts 

 is one of the most lucrative pursuits our farmers follow 

 out. The " hill towns " as they are called, — meaning 

 those between the valley of the Connecticut and the 

 western line of the Stale, — are extensively engaged in 

 growing wool. These towns are situated among the 

 hills, and on the sides of the Berkshire mountains, where 

 the soil is hard and cold, and not rich fiir cultivation, hut 

 admirably fitted by nature as a fruitful grazing country. 

 Here, among the rocks and woodlands, and in deep ra- 

 vines, and on the warm sunny hill sides, are immense 

 numbers of sheep fed. Formerly it was otherwise, and 

 the earnings of the farmer were but a hard pittance for 

 much labor expended on an unfruitful soil, and but little 

 was produced in the towns boyond supplying the imme- 

 diate necessities of man and beast. Since the introduc- 



Proposed cattle fair — The publishers of the Bal- 

 timore Farmer and Gardener propose holding a Cattle 

 Fair, for the sale of superior animals of the various im- 

 proved imported and other breeds, at Baltimore, on the 

 day following the termination of the Central Course Ra- 

 ces, being on Saturday, Oct. 24th. Persons who may be 

 disposed to send animals to the Fair must address them 

 by the 1 1th inst. The object of the Fair is to make a 

 mart where the agriculturists of the country may resort 

 with a certainty of getting such animals as they believe 

 they are purchasing — it is therefore requested, that when 

 the stock sent are of the imported full bloods, or of their 

 respective grades, certificates of pedigree, well authenti- 

 cated, will be forwarded, or brought with them. 



Method of moulding shells. — Put G pints of water 

 into a kettle, add to it an ounce of olive oil ; make the 

 water boil ; then put in your shell, and it will grow soft. 

 Take it out and put it into a mould under a press, and it 

 will take the figure you want. This must be done quick- 

 ly, for if the shell cools the process will fail. 



Hardening wood. — To harden wood for pulleys, &c. 

 boil it seven or eight minutes in olive oil, and it will be- 

 come as hard as copper. 



The Blind Staggers is prevailing extensively among 

 the horses in Princess Ann County, Maryland. The Vil- 

 lage Herald asks for a remedy. Can any reader give it ? 



