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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Sept. 17, 1830. 



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deniable fact, that one luindred acres badly tilled 

 will produce less than fifty acres well managed, 

 and that the labor necessary to the good tiUage 

 and management of the small farm, will not be 

 sufficient even for the slovenly management of 

 the large one. 



It is unnecessary to describe, how a large farm 

 may be ruined, in the case of a proprietor wliose 

 capital is small ; every jiractical farmer can ex- 

 plain, and the most superficial view of hundreds 

 of such farms, to be seen in all directions, will at 

 once convince the doubtful. It only remains to 

 see how the farmer and his family can be support 

 ed on a farm of fifty acres. 



The skilful farmer will keep his lands in a state 

 of constant productiveness ; the most injudicious 

 management or the most apparent neglect can 

 alone cause land to remain for years or even for a 

 season without contributing to the farmer's susten- 

 ance ; this state, however, seldom fails to attend 

 lar-e farms. A rotation of crops and a supply 

 of manure will secure this constant state of pro- 

 ductiveness. Every farmer is a sufficient judge 

 of the managing a rotation of crops, and, in some 

 measure, acts on that principle ; but the mind and 

 labor are so divided in the care of large farms, 

 that neither can be brought to act with sufficient 

 judgment or effect. A proper disposition of cat- 

 tle, added to a judicious collecting of manure, will 

 always produce the means of enriching and in- 

 Ti<^oratincr the soil, nor can there ever appear any 

 want of a sufficient supply of manure for evei^ 

 purpose of the farm. 



The collecting of compost, or manure, being 

 indispensable to the farmer, it s^iali be here first 

 attended to. Compost is to be considered, both 

 as to its quantity and its quality. The quantity 

 may be increased by mixing clay, or other nnfor- 

 mented matter witli the manure ; the entire mass 

 will partake of the salt?, and all ferment together. 

 The quality, which seems of more importance 

 than the (jaantity, may be improved by choosing a 

 proper «te for the manure heap. It should not 

 be made in a hole, because the rain water will 

 soon fill the hole and chill the manure ; which 

 should, in order to fermentation, preserve a con- 

 siderable heat : it should not be made on a hill 

 because its juices will run from it : it should not 

 be exposed to rain, because tlje water passing 

 through it will cany away its most valuable part; 

 nor should it be entirely excluded from the air 

 which is essentially useful to it. With these gen- 

 eral observations in view, the farmer will easily 

 contrive a proper plan for collecting a sufficiency 

 of rich compost for all the uses of his farm, 

 which, thus plentifully supplied, will never degen- 

 erate into a barren waste. The manure heap 

 should be placed near the farm yard, so that the 

 rotten straw, bedding of the cattle, &c, may be 

 easily removed to it ; a sewer or gutter should 

 also "be contrived to carry off the urine from the 

 cattle's stalls to a reservoir near the manure ; and 

 finally, it should be collected on a flat spot of 

 ground, so hard as to he, if possible, impoivious 

 lo the juices, which would otherwise sink into the 

 earth and be totally lost — jV. Y. Farmer. 



In 2d column, 



32d line, for ' 1820' read 1829 

 42d line, for 'your' read our. 



Having been absent from home and much en- 



water grape, and four pots with branches of tho 

 peach, plum, apple and quince, literally loaded 

 with their natural fruit, and decorated with roses 



Hivino- been absent Irom liome ana mucn eu- ""■" ■■■-■• •— — -> , ., <-■•■. 



ga'cdlniid lot ftlTy peruse Mr Lowell's leUer of and other flowers by the hands of t-o fair visiters 

 imn St V until this day : I am consequently un- The ,,lums, particularly, excited admiration. They 

 lb eTo t-eply ere o in time for your next paper, comprised about thirty varieties, all of grea ex- 

 able to lepiyineieio lu imi } „^ii„npp mnnv of which are natives of, and almoBi 



but shall in the one next after. 

 Very respectfully, 



WM ROBERT PRINCE. 



Lin. Dot. Gnrdrnl, N. Y., ( 

 Sept. 11,1830. i 



ALBANY HORTICULTURAL FESTIV.M,. 



The second anniversary of the Albany Horti- 

 cultural Society was held at Albany, on Tutsday 

 the 7th inst. in the spacious hall and ante rooms 

 of the Acadamy and Institute. Notwilhstaiiiling 

 the unfavorable state of the weather, it wis in 

 all respects an elegant and rational festival. The 

 annual address was delivered at 12 in one oT the 

 rooms of the Institute, by Doct. T. Romeyn Beck, 



cellence, many of which are natives of, and ahnoel 

 peculiar to, our city and neighborhood ; and others 

 of them seem to have found with us their favor- 

 ite home. Among the former, we enumerate the 

 prune and Bleecker's gage, two seedlings grown 

 from seeds which came from Germany, the Schuy- 

 ler gage, Chancellor gage, and the Jefferson and 

 Eleanor plums, the two latter known to be seed- 

 lings ; beside a large seedling blue gage. We 

 also noticed a dish of green gages, every one of 

 which grew double, labelled with the name of 

 D. B. Slingerland. 



We have not room for an enumeration of the 

 difterent sorts and baskets of fruit. There appears 

 to have been nodiffering. A branch of filberts was 



a copy of which we have received, and shall ere g^,,;,,;^^^! ^^.^^ (be garden of Charles E. Dudley. 

 long present to the readers of the New England Lj,|^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ perfectly ripe, are very fine, su- 

 Farmer. The following account of the exhihi- 1^ .'^^ ^^ ^j^^ j^^^^^^j.^^^^, .j,,^, ^j,g j,.geg p^n be easily 

 tion, &c, we have abstracted from the Albany .^ gjed. They are ornamental and appropri- 

 Argus. , ate for hedges. 



The decorations of the hall were chaste and . .j. 



splendid. This room is 80 feet long, 40 broad, 

 and 20 high, and ornamented by twenty Corin- 

 thian columns, four upon each angle, exclusive of 

 four at the corners. The whole room was encir- 

 cled with appropriate festoons, fastened at the top 

 of each shaft, and decorated at these points with 

 twenty large bouquets of the richest flowers, two 

 and three feet in height, and (lartially concealing 

 the capitals. Brilliant bunches of flowers were 

 also displayed over the different entrances, and 

 upon the mantles. A large and beautiful str.r, 

 composed of the double helianthus, dimnishing 

 to points from a six inch centre, and the ntervals 

 filled with paintings of fruits, was consiiiruous op- 

 posite the principal door. The upper cid of the 

 hall exhibited a bouquet of uncommon size and 

 singular beauty, eight feet high and six feit broad, 

 n the form of a heart, and surmounted by a splen- 

 did floral eagle, jieering amid the draper; of the 

 festoons; the whole displaying some thoustnds of 

 flowers, and of almost every hue and color that is 

 pencilled by the prolific hand of nature, stulding 

 and encircling clusters of grapes passing in i con- 

 tinuous vine through the centre and in prallel 

 shoots from each side. A large sheet of paintings 

 of fruit, in colors, by a youth, appeared as a pe- 

 destal. Above, and near the ceiling, wen the 

 .nitials of the society, in large letters compoMd of 

 the richest flowers, surrounded by an oval of ever- 

 green, interwoven with roses, &c. — Such wei-e 

 among the floral decorations of the hall, which 



\t half past 3 P, M, about one hundred gen- 

 tlemen sat down at Cruttendin's. .lesse Buel, 

 E.-q. presided, assisted by three Vice Presidents 

 anl the Chairman of the Committee of Arrange- 

 inmts. Gov. Throop, and several gentlemen, 

 vv<re among the guests. After the cloth was re- 

 imved, several toasts were drank; we have room 

 but for few of them. 



By J. Buel, Esq. President. The Garden— 

 Created for the felicity of man : a Paradise still 

 to those who know how to estimate its treasures} 

 and appreciate its charms. 



By E. C. Delavan, Esq. 2d Vice President. 

 Horh'cuHitrc— May a taste for its pursuits extend, 

 until all our waste i>laces shall bud and blossom, 

 and produce an hundred fold. 



By Isaac Denniston, Esq. 3d Vice President. 

 77,6 memory of De Will Clinton— The friend o\ 

 Horticultural institutions— his genius shed a lustrt 

 over our pursuits. 



By Dr P. Wendell. James .l/eose— Distin- 

 guished as well for his literature and science, as 

 for his ardent /.cal in the promotion of horticul- 

 tural and agricultural knowledge. 



By John T. Norton, Esq. The Garden— An 



apt emblem of the heart of man : if neglected, il 



runs to waste and ruin; but if well cultivated and 



improved, its usefulness is unbounded, its source* 



of delight inexhaustible. 



Bv Rev D Brown. Our knglhened caialoguf 

 •' . „ „ -.1 1 ) „„:,! .« 



„„.„..5 ..,- -- , \ofhl(ssins;s — 'Comfort me with apples,' said a| 



were arranged under the general superintendencej _^^^.^^^g^^^g ,,,^ ^^^^.^ ^^^^^ ,j,Q,.g jeUcious fruiti 

 of Mr Wilson, of the Albany Nursery, assisted by " ^^^^ ^^^^^^ j.^^.^ 



other professiona gardeners \>«'^'-S^ '•«7"^%,,2d;„/ rf ,be London H, S,-Therud. 

 was designed and executed by Mr Matthew Mm- I'lesiaeui 



FOB TUB NEW FNGLAND FARMER. 



ERRATA, 



Mr Eessenden — I must beg of you to make 

 the following corrections in my communication 

 inserted in your paper of 3d inst. In first column, 



phy, gardener to E. C. Delavan, Esq 



Nor were the contributions of Pomona less 

 splendid and interesting than those of her fair 

 sister. The centre table, extending through the 

 hall, was appropriated to these, and exhibited a 

 rich disiday of peaches, plums, pears, grapes, ap- 

 ples, melons, &c, while at the lower end of tie 

 hall, some huudreils of ladies and other visiteis 

 were regaled with these rich delicacies of the 

 garden. In the centre of the fruit tables were 

 two pots with vines growing in each, and each 



northern blasts have not withered a fair leaf of 

 his fame. 



Sent by Gen. Dearborn, President of the Massa- 

 chusetts llorticultural Society. 



The State of JVeiv lorJ.— Distinguished for iB 

 raiiid advancement in commerce, manufactures, 

 rural economy, and internal improvements, as foi 

 the intellectual attainments, enterprising spirit and 

 elevated patriotism of its citizens. 



The annual election was held in the course of 

 the day, and the following gentlemen chose» 



two pots with vines growing in eacn, ana eacn iiie uay, inu "n; ■"•■" & b 



bearing from eight to ten branches of the sweet officers of the society for the ensuing year : 



