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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



OCT. 28, lS3t. 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. 28,1^3.5. 



TOASTS, REPIilES, <fcc. 

 nt the Brighton Cattle Show Dinner. 



The Ll. Governor of the Commonwealth. — Though 

 a supporter of Agriculture, he lias nu soil on his es- 

 cutcheon. 



In a neat and pertinent reply, in which the speaker 

 alluded to the connexion subsisting between the employ- 

 ments of farmers and printers, for each was indebted to 

 the other for its enjoyments, &c., the Lieut. Governor 

 gave tiie following sentiment — 



Ploughmen and Printers. — Those who guide the 

 plough, and those who conduct the press, may they go a 

 straight course, and mahe good impressions. 



Our .Senator in Congress, Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee '=on milch cows, yearlings and bulls." — Born a 

 farmer and bred a farmer, he knows what belongs to neat 

 cattle, and is not afraid to take any hull by the horns. 



Mr Webster said, he was always glad to perform any 

 service which might bo required of him by his fellow 

 citizens, and acknowledged his indebtedness, in this-in- 

 stance, to the farmers associated with him, and gave as 

 a toast — 



" The natural allies of Agriculture, the Manufacturing 

 and Commercial interests." 



In the course of the entertainment, Mr Webster said, 

 he had recently returned from a visit to the State of 

 Maine, and had enjoyed an opportunity of pas>ing thro' 

 several parts of the county of Kennebec. That counly, 

 it was well known, was distinguished for the quality of 

 its soil, and for its agricultural improvements. He had 

 been invited to attend the cattle show and exhibition of 

 the Kennebec Agricultural Society, in the very hand- 

 some and fine looking town, which bears the name of the 

 excellent President of our own Society ; and, if circum- 

 stances had permitted, should have had the pleasure of 

 attending the meeting. That meeting was held this 

 day ; and he begged leave to propose as a toast — 



" Success and merited distinction to the Kennebec 

 Agricultural Society." 



Mr Webster also called to the recollection of the So- 

 ciety the circumstance that the Agricultural Society of 

 the County of Plymouth held its anniversary this 

 day. The little practical attention which he had paid to 

 farming, (and it was so little that it was more a recrea- 

 tion than a pursuit.) was in the old Colony ; and he 

 should have been with the Plymouth Society to-day, had 

 not his duties, as one of the Trustees of this Society, de- 

 manded his attendance here. He felt much interested, 

 he said, to see a new activity given to agricultural pur- 

 suits and improvements, in the county of Plymouth. He 

 believed the quality of the land in the southern portion 

 of the State had been heretofore underrated. Much of 

 it was warm, productive, easy land; and large portions 

 of it capable of being highly enriched from the sea. But 

 the inhabitants of the old Colony were, to a great extent 

 a sea-faring people ; and the occupations connected with 

 the sea furnished such a demand for labor as left its 

 price high ; and this, he thought, was one of the causes 

 which had tended to depress its Agriculiure. There 

 were symptoms, however, of growing attention to hus- 

 bandry. Some of the prizes of this Society, for the lar- 

 gest product*, Jiad been awarded to farmers in the county 

 of Plymoulfli, and he fervently hoped, if he might use an 

 appropriate metaphor, that the seed was sown which 

 w«uld BpriDg'Up.«ud bear much fruit. He had already 



observed, that among the inhabitants of the old Colony 

 were very many connected with navigation, and with 

 the sea, in some mode of industry, and hi-i concluding 

 sentiment should be the expression of a hope, in the form 

 of a toast, — 



" That these inhabitants might hereafter plough the 

 sea, and plough the land, with equal success." 



The late Representative from Middlesex.— The Ora- 

 tor has told us that Agriculture and Literature have 

 alwavs gone together. May our progress in the former 

 correspond with his advances in the latter. 



Mr E. Everett expressed his grateful sense of the hon- 

 or done him by the chair and the company. As he had 

 listened to the highly interesting and instructive discourse 

 of his friend, the Orator of the day, the idea had forcibly 

 occurred to him, how much more important, in the his- 

 tory of the human family, were the details of the pro- 

 gress of Agriculture, as the leading branch of human in- 

 dustry, than the accounts which fill the annals of nations ; 

 and which, for the most part, are little else than tales of 

 the successions and personal quarrels of emperors and 

 kings, and pictures of a few striking events, principally 

 battles and strokes of state policy, into which whole 

 countries are plunged by the interests and passions of 

 their rulers. A real history of man would bestow but 

 little attention on these topics, and would re-produce to 

 us, as far as possible, the condition and pursuits of the 

 masses of its industrious millions. These are not only 

 more iinportant in themselves, but even in their political 

 connection. Mr E. said he was more and more con- 

 vinced that the connection between political reform and 

 the condition of those who cultivate the soil was flirmore 

 close than was generally supposed, and would account 

 for the failure in practice of many fine paper theories of 

 liberty. Where the land, and the chief part of its pro- 

 ducts, are monopolized by one class, and the labor ne- 

 cessary to raise those product-s was performed by anoth- 

 er, under whatever name, — tenants, vassals, serfs, — tn 

 whom a small portion of the produce only was granted 

 as their share, often the smallest portion that will sustain 

 life, — there it is impossible for a free government to 

 snhsist. On the other hand, where the land is for the 

 most part owned by those who till it, and all the fruits of 

 labor are appropriated to the support and reward of labor, 

 (which is the case, where a man works on his own soil, 

 and in his own employ,) there it is impossible for any but 

 popular government, with all the safeguards for rational 

 freedom, to ba maintained. I give you, therefore, Mr 

 President, said Mr E., 



" The independence of the yeomanry, the or.ly safe 

 basis of practical liberty." 



Tlie Representative in Congi ess from Suffolk, Chair- 

 man of the Committee on Manufactures i — A proof 

 of what can be made out of the product of our soil, when 

 passed through that best of manufactures, Tlie Free 

 Schools of J^ew England. 



Mr Lawrence, in reply, gave the following sentiment : 

 The good old State of Massachusetts. — The cause of her 

 elevation among her sisters, may be found in the early 

 establishment of her free schools, which created, and have 

 sustained, virtue, intelligence and patriotism in her yeo- 

 manry. 



The Orator of the day, the Adjutant General of the 

 State. — He has proved that now, as in the times he has 

 told us of, a good soldier can be a good farmer. 

 General Dearborn, in answer to this toast, said — 

 " May every farmer acquire wealth and education, 

 and every wealthy and educated man become a cultiva- 

 tor of the Boil." 



The U. S. Judge for this Circuit.— la Old England 

 his learning would have placed him on the wool sack, in 

 New England it gives him the confidence of the wool 

 growers. 



Judge Story, in reply to this senliment, gave some- 

 thing like the following — 



The Yeotnanry of Massachusetts : We this day enjoy 

 the fruits of their labors ; may our posterity enjoy the 

 fruits of their virtues. 



The County of Worcester. — Her citizens have this 

 day taken every premium for zcorking oxen ; her states- 

 men have long taken the first premium for working men. 



To this toast, Ex-Governor Lincoln gave the following 

 in reply — 



Scientific Husbandry — which, under the auspices of 

 Agricultural Societies has plainly proved that the joint 

 labors of the head and hand can do the best work in Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



In answer to an honorary notice of Mr Sprague, that 

 gentleman gave the following — 



The pure Saxon blood of A'nc Enlgand. — May it be so 

 justly appreciated by the whole United States that they 

 shall soon award to it the highest premium. 



President Quincy gave — "Useful experiments and 

 well adapted premiums: The true rail roads and steam 

 engines to advance the progress of Agriculture." 



Many other sparkling sentiments and flashing antithe- 

 ses were given and reciprocated : but we were not able 

 to collect them, and hope that the preceding may suffice 

 as specimens, although perhaps not so accurately report- 

 ed as we could wish. 



PUMPKIIVS. 



A Pumpkin, weighing .'53 pounds, and which measures 

 four feet, four inches, in circumference, has been left at 

 our office. It was raised by Capt. Daniel Chandler, of 

 the Farm School, and is of the variety known as the 

 Connecticut family pumpkin. The seed came from 

 Connecticut, the legitimate pumpkin dominion, and was 

 obtained by Capt. Chandler at the New England Seed 

 Store. 



Pumpkins have also been received from L. Thaxter, 

 of Edgartown, of a pneuliar sweetness, thick skinned, 

 and a very valuable variety. 



JtlANGEI- WURTZEI,. 



The culture of this article is of great importance to all 

 who winter stock, and produces an exceedingly profitable 

 crop : 80,000 lbs. have been grown on one acre. Col. 

 Jaques, who is well known to most of our readers as be- 

 ing most indefatigable and persevering in his efforts to 

 introduce improved breeds of animals in this country,- 

 says — " That his cows give nearly as much and quite as 

 good milk in January, fed upon Mangel Wurtzel, as they 

 do in June. Two and a half pounds of seed is the usual 

 quantity sown on an acre." 



HOPS. 



The Boston Courier remarks ; — " There has been con- 

 siderable excitement in the Market, since our last report, 

 owing to the reported short crop and anticipated im- 

 provement in European markets. An increased demand 

 has been manifested, particularly for first sorts, the sup- 

 plies of which fall much short of expectation, and some 

 extensive operations, we understand, have taken place 

 within the range of our quotations." 



We observe, with mingled feelings of pleasure and 

 pride, that the Hon. James Barbour, of Virginia, has sub- 

 mitted a proposition to the people of that enlightened 

 and patriotic state, to found a Professorship of Agricul. 

 turCj with 3.patternfarm, and such a paper as the Farm- 

 er's Register. — Ball. Farmer. 



