Vol. IX.— No. V, 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



131 



1,00 

 1,00 

 1,00 



Thomas Potic, Concord, on flniincl 

 Jlr.< Kicliaril Bradley, do, on do 

 Mrs David MorrdI, Jr, Canterbury, on do 

 Mrs Joseph Uqrnard, Ilopkiuton, 2 best 

 prs woollen Hose 



Stephen Sibley, next best do 

 Miss Lucy-Jane CofSn, Boscavven, best 

 pr. Silk Hose 



Miss L. Bliss, do next best do 

 Mrs Jona. Wood, Loudon, 1 pr. linen hose 1,00 

 Miss Eliza I'everly, Canterbury, best wool 

 Coverlet 



Miss Ascenath Mason, do next best do 

 Walter Harris, Jr, Diinbarton, best cotton 

 and wool do 



Miss Sarah Davis, host Counterpane 



Hon. Joseph M. Haki'ER, Canterbury, Pres't, 

 Maj. TiMO. Cha.ndler, Concord, F. Pres't, 

 Robert M. Wallace, Esq. Henniker ; Charles 

 I Glidden, Esf|. Northficid; Jonathan Eastman, 

 1,00 ji'- Esq. Concord; Samuel C. Bartlett, Esq. Sal- 

 50 isbury ; Col. Warren Story, Dunbarton ; Harris- 

 1 on G. Harris, Esq. Warner, Directors. 

 Samuel Coffin, Esq. Concord, Secrelary. 



2,00 



1,00 1 • — 



To add to the interest of the above Exhibition 



at Canterbury, Mr William Gault, of Concord, in 

 2,00 addition to his mammoth cucumbers before notic- 

 1,00 *-"'') presented six other varieties, of the cucumber 



— viz. Long Green Turkey, Long Orange Turkey, 

 2,00 long prickly, short prickly, early cluster and early 

 1,.50' Russia, from more than 500 of which that were 



Miss Eliza Brown, Loudon, next best do 1,00 I I'ipe and handsome, we understand he has already 



Miss Abigail Calef, Pembroke, for Straw 



Bonnet 1,00 



A. P. Stinson, Concord, best boots & shoes 1,00 



Ebenezer Morrison, Northfield, four fine 



perimens of Leather 4,00 



Ruel Walker, Loudon, on leather No. 7 1,00 



Isaac Eastman, Concord, best breaking 



p plough 2,00 



do do, best seedplough 1,00 



Nathan Emery, Canterbury, on |)lough 1,00 



A. P. Stinson, best specimen Blacksmith 



ork 4,00 



T. Ames, next best do 50 



Enoch Gerrish, Boscawen, best Cheese 2,00 



Charles Glidden, next best do 1,00 



John Kilbouru, best Butter 2,00 



Laban Morrill, next best do 1,00 



Miss L. Bliss, best specimen of Needle 



0* 1,50 



Miss Charlotte Eaton, next best do 1,00 



Miss Annette Eastman, Concord, Lace Veil 75 



Miss L. Stinson, do 50 



Miss Lucy Pettingill, Salisbury, do 50 



Samuel Moore, Loudon, best Rob Roy 1,50 



'Mrs Elizabeth Morrill, Concord, jiext best 



1 on each 2,00 



)J. A. Potter, Concord, for his improvement in 

 ! fine arts, and particularly for his excellent 

 eness of Cafit. John Eastman, of Concord 2,00 

 ^ D. Lor<I, Epsom, on fulled Cloth 1,00 



M. Harper, on do 1,00 



George Hutchins, Concord, stair Carpet 1,00 

 Misses Eliza and Harriet McClary, do do 1,00 

 Mrs Peter Renton, do on hearth Rug 1,00 



Mrs J. C. West, do on do 1,00 



'he Committee on carpets and hearth rugs, re- 

 tted that the funds of the Society would not 

 w them to award premiums on two other 

 ;?, wrought by Miss Sarah Herbert and Miss 

 M. Cady of Concord, which were entitled to 

 :h commendation. There were also several 

 ,' handsome floor carpets, which for the above 

 ;on could not receive premiums, 

 liss Eliza Peverly, for cotton Coverlet 1,00 

 . M. Harper, growing the Mulberry tree 1,00 



harvested the seeds 



Also, 4 varieties of Beets, viz. Mangel Wurt- 

 zel, 25J inches in circumference, weighing 10 lbs. ; 

 French Sugar Beet, 22J inches do, weighing 7 

 lbs. ; Long Blood, 19^ do. weighing 7 lbs. ; early 

 turnip-rooted do. 18^ do weighing 4 lbs. 



Also, 3 kinds corn, viz. long eared, small cob, 

 8 row, for field; Tuscarora do. for boiling, sweet 

 do. for do. 



Also, Large Cape Savoy and Green Globe Sa- 

 voy Cabbage, and long Dutch parsnips. 



Among the Stock exhibited, was a very supe 

 rior Heifer Calf, six months and a half old, of 

 the common native breed raised by Mr Elliot 

 Chickering of this town. The Cow, we under- 

 stand, has had for the season nothing more than 

 conmion keeping, and the Calf been allowed but 

 half the milk. It is a finely formed young an- 

 imal, of a handsome dark i-ed color, free from any 

 mixture of white, and weighs 480 pounds. 



The Reports of the above Society, which are 

 unusually interesting, we shall publish, as soon as 

 we have room. 



from the roots air and bent, the indispensable agents 

 to vigorous growth. Treat your trees as you would 

 favorite corn hills, which you wish to make the 

 most of, except give them no unrotted dung. Wash- 

 ing with a strong ley in May will destroy insects, 

 and promote the be^tli and vigor of your trees. To 

 persons living remote or who are unable to obtain 

 their trees for earli/ spring plantnig, we recom- 

 mend that they procure them in the autumn and 

 lay them in hi/ the heel, as nurserymen technically 

 term it ; which is merely to dig a trench on a dry 

 piece of ground, laying the earth on one side — the 

 trench wide, enough to contain the roots; put the 

 roots into this, close together, letting the stocks 

 est in an inclined position upon the bank of earth 

 and then cover the roots and a part of the stocks 

 with earth. In this way they escape injury from the 

 frost of winter, and are in readiness for early plant- 

 ing in the S|)ring. Besides, better jjlants are gene- 

 rally obtained in the autumn than in the spring, 

 after nurseries have been culled Buel. 



■tephen Chase, culture of Silk 1,00 



. C. West, for his garden 1,00 



Thomas Ames, for the best Cider 3,00 



ic Virgin, best ploughing 3,00 



harles Glidden, next best do 2,00 



imes Greenough, best teamster 1,00 



tephen Moore, ploughman 1,00 



harles M. Glidden, do 1,00 



Ihe Officers of the Merrimack Agricultural 



'tJyi-^ected for the year ensuing are 



SHORT DIRECTIONS FOR TRANSPLANT- 

 ING TREES. 



Food is as necessary to the health and growth 

 of plants, as.it is to inimals. The best food fur 

 plants is rich, pulverized earth, or rather the vege- 

 table matter which it contains. That your trees 

 and shrubs may live and thrive, proceed as fol- 

 lows : dig for your trees holes at least three feet in 

 diameter, and 18 inches deep, and for .shrubs a 

 proportionate size and depth, throwing away 

 the lower spit of earth. Then fill up the hole to a 

 proper height for setting the tree, with rich surface 

 earth, or perfectly rotted manure, blended with 

 four out of five parts of earth. Set your tree and 

 cover with surface soil, treading down when the 

 roots are covered with earth. See that the roots 

 are trimmed of all bruised and broken parts ; that 

 they are separately extended in their natural direc- 

 tion ; that fine earth everywhere comes in contact 

 with them. A potato or two, or a gill of flaxseed 

 or oats, may be advantageously placed in the hole 

 before the tree is set, and a pail of water turned in 

 al'terthe hole is two thirds filled. The rich earth 

 affords nutritive pasture for the young root to 

 range in ; the potatoes, &c, keep the ground loose 

 and moist, and enable them to roam freely ; and 

 the water brings the earth in contact with the 

 roots, and prevents them from becoming mouldy. 

 Keep the ground free of grass as far as the roots 

 extend ; for these exhaust the moisture and nu- 

 Itriment necessary to the plant, and exclude 



Agncultural Societies. — On our first page will be 

 found the proceedings of the meeting in Oakland 

 County, for the formation of an Agricidtural Socie- 

 ty. We cordially wish success to the new associa- 

 tion. The experience of the old States abundant- 

 ly proves that such enterprise is sure of its reward, 

 in the impidse it imparts to the operations of the 

 farmer, in the increased value of his land, and in 

 the augmentation of his profits. More than all it 

 diflT.isesa spirit of emulation, the good influence of 

 which cannot but be extensively felt. 



If similar association^ were formed in each coun- 

 ty, there would be more frequent occasions for the 

 publication of such notes as the following, handed 

 to us by a friend from Tecumseh. — Detroit Jour. 



Mr Jere. Arnold, of Tecumseh, has this season 

 cleared 45 acres of land, ploughed 102 acres the 

 first time, sowed 30 of it to oats, and harrowed, 

 cross-ploughed and sowed 60 acres of tie above 

 land to wheat; and he has hauled 95 cwt. from 

 Detroit to Tecumseh, distance 55 miles. 



The whole of the above work has been done by 

 Mr Arnold and two small boys, one 14 the other 

 11 years old ; and his whole team has consisted of 

 four horses, but the work has nearly all been done 

 by three ; he has had but one plough, and all has 

 been done without the use of ardent spirits. 



Sept. 27, 1830. 



Silk. — A Silk-Cultivation Society has been form- 

 ed in Holland. The efforts of a similar Association 

 in England are said to have failed on acount of 

 the humidity of the climate. They have abandoned 

 their mulberry plantations, one of which was in 

 England, and the other in Ireland. A writer in the 

 Bulletin Universe! thinks the business cannot be 

 made profitable in Europe much larther north than 

 at present. 



Mr Benj. Pickering, Newington, N. H. has a 

 sweet apple tree which has produced three crops 

 of ripe a])ples this season. 



Mr Jabez H. Hammond, Windsor, Vt. has a 

 cabbage showing 24 good hard heads, which grew 

 on one stump. 



The drought was so great in Tennessee last 

 summer, that thousands of forest trees died, par- 

 ticularly where strata of limestone were near tlie 

 surface of the ground. — Boston Patriot. 



