Vol. IX.— No. 17. 



AJND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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To UiMijainin Wooilbiiry of Siitton, liis cattle, 

 four years old, first preniiuin, §25,00 



To Lt?oiiard Woodbury of Sutton, his cattle, 

 four years old, second preniiuin, $20,00 



To Luther Whitiufr, of Sutton, his cattle, four 

 years old, third proniiuni, §15,00 



To George M. Barrett, of Concord, his cattle, 

 four years old, fourth premium, $12,00 



To Henry Barrett, of Concord, his cattle, four 

 years old, fifth premium, §8,00 



Many other Cattle were very deserving and 

 perlormeJ well, and in other years would have 

 obtained premiums ; but the superiority of the 

 show, in this respect, over former years, excluded 

 tbeni. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



Per Order, LUKE FISKE, 



Brighton, Od. 20, 1830. Chairman. 



COMFORT. 



This is a very con:ifortable word ; and it is a sad 

 pity the French don't know what it means. But it 

 is a still greater pity that we, who have the word, 

 and do know its meaning-, should so often sacrifice it 

 for the most unsubstantial reasons. The fact is, we 

 BXe ashamed to be comfortable, lest we should ap- 

 pear ungentecl. The best chamber in the house 

 must be shut up for company ; the lightest and the 

 aandsomest parlor must be kept closed for the same 

 •eason. We must have a large house, and few do- 

 mestics, for the sake of appearances, — and we some- 

 limos cut ourselves off from intelligent society, be- 

 tause we cannot afford to receive tiiem with quite so 

 nnch show and ceremony as our neighbors. All 

 Ibis is foolish. If we cannot afford to be elegant, 

 e can, at least, be comfortable ; and if we can pro- 

 ture the elegancies of life, why not enjoy them eve- 

 )y day ? Why must spring-cushions, and warm car- 

 lets, and airy rooms, and handsome walls, be shut 

 IP three hundred and f?fty days of the year, for the 

 \c of making a grand show off, now and then ? 

 hy do we not consult our comfort by living in 

 mailer houses, and keeping more domestics .' Sure- 

 , leisure for intellectual and tasteful pursuits is 

 etter tlian the reputation for lofty rooms and Veni- 

 an windows. Why should we refrain from seeing 

 ultivated people in a social, cordial way, because 

 lOther can give them better wine and rarer fruit? 

 I admire splendor, and where circumstances war- 

 Mt it, I am even strongly in favor of magnificence ; 

 Ut above all things I do love comfort. 

 I believe no people in the world have such fear of 

 ablic opinion as the Americans. To a certain e.x- 

 nt, the check is a salutary one; but our domestic 

 'e is a matter of much more concern to us than it 

 to the pubhc; and we ought to have sufficient cour- 

 fe to study our own comfort, and gratify our own 

 Etes. 



Our manner of visiting, and of receiving visiters, 

 llaborious in the extreme. If friends are staying 

 us, we feel as if every moment must be devo- 

 to them. We cannot sleep, or ride, or read, or 

 !it, for fear our frienns should be left alone. This 

 making visUing a burden to them, as well as to 

 rsehes. We soon become uneasy at such con- 

 aint. and they are restless under a conviction that 

 7y impose it upon us. The fact is, it is a luxury to - 

 risiter sometimes to be left alone — to read, or ram- 

 ?, or sleep, according to fancy. Many a time, 

 len I h.ave really admired and loved my hostess, I 

 )uM have thanked her from my heart for a little 

 .a.\ation of attention— the privilege of beingsome- 

 les left to my own thoughts— the luxury of a little 

 ire freedom, for her and for myself 

 At the South, they manage these things better 

 in we do. Their hospitality is unbounded. Vis- 

 rs may be at home in a mansion, without depriving 

 ? inhabitants of the pleasures of home. Every, 

 ng is at the service of friends; but if the hoFtess 

 shes to visit, where her guest has no particular in- 

 aatiou to go, she does not hesitate to leave her to 



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herself,to dispose of time as best suits her. What a re- 

 lief not to bo oWi'gfrf to visit, or obliged to stay at 

 home ! This perfect freedom is the only thing that 

 can make visiting a real pleasure to all parties. A 

 friend lately told me of a very elegant woman he had 

 seen at the South, who formed the most prominent 

 attraction at all the fashionable parties. 



' I saw her once early in the morning,' said he, 

 'buying some fine fruit, at her door. She had on a 

 calico morning-dress, and a very neat plain cap. 

 I thought her an uncommonly genteel domestic — but 

 never dreamed of its being the brilliant belle I had 

 seen the evening before, until she bowed and spoke 

 to me. We entered into some conversation con- 

 cerning the fruit she was buying ; and simple and 

 commonplace as the remarks must have been, dur- 

 ing such an interview, I was absolutely enchanted 

 with the graceful ease of her manner. A New Eng- 

 land woman would have escaped into the house, on 

 my approach — or not recognized me; or, if I had 

 spoken first, would have blushed, and fidgetted, and 

 apologized for her morning dress.' Which course is 

 the wisest.' — not to ask, which is the most comforta- 

 ble. An ordinary woman will never get a character 

 for real elegance by starving herself for state occa- 

 sions ; and a truly tasteful one will lose nothing by 

 being sometimes seen without coronation robes. 



Journal and Tribune. 



BLOATING IN CATTLE. 



A gentleman recently from France, communi- 

 cates to us the following cure lor this commonly 

 fatal disease. 



The Volatile Spirit of Ammonia is found to 

 produce instantaneous relief. Its action is chem- 

 ical, decomposing the gas geuernted in the stom- 

 ach by fermentation. 



M. Thenard, the celebrated French professor 

 of Chemistry, speaking of the utility of scientific 

 investigations, and of the innumerable instances 

 where they had been found subservient to the 

 general interests of society, among many others 

 adduced this as an example, and related the fol- 

 lowing anecdote, in illustration of its effects. 



A short time previous, while on a visit to his 

 native village in some remote part of France, a 

 drove of 30 or 40 cattle broke into a field of 

 rank clover, and all of them became affected 

 with bloating, and when discovered some of 

 them were so far gone as to fall down upon their 

 fore legs. He called immediately for Spirits of 

 Ammonia, but none could be found in the place, 

 and they were obliged to send four miles to a 

 neighboring village before it could be procured. 

 He commenced by giving it to those most severely 

 affected, and so on to tlie others, and all were 

 saved excepting two. If there had been uo de- 

 lay in getting the remedy, jirobably none would 

 have been lost. 



The dose for a cow or ox is a table spoonful; 

 for a sheep a teaspoonful, diluted in water or any 

 convenient litpiid. If not effectual, repeat the 

 dose. — .4m. Citizen. 



EARLY RISING. 



Early rising is a habit so easily acquired, so neces- 

 sary to the despatch of every business, so advanta- 

 geous to health, and so important to devotion, that, 

 except in cases of necessity, it cannot be dispensed 

 wi;h by any jirudent and diligent man. 



Thanks to the goodness of God, and the foster- 

 ing hands of our kind parents, this habit is so 

 formed in some of us, that we should think it a 

 cruel punishnient to be confined to our beds after 

 the usual early hour. Let us prize «nd preser\'e this 

 profitable practice ; and let us habituate all our 

 children and servants to consider lyin" in bed 

 after daylight as one of the ills of the aged and 



the sick, and not as an enjoyment to people in a 

 state of perfect health. 



If any of us have been so unfortunate as to 

 have acquired the idle habit of lying late in bed, 

 let us get rid of it. Nothing is easier. A habit 

 is nothing but a repetition of single acts : and bad 

 habits arc to be broke as they were formed, that 

 is, by degrees. Let a person accustomed to sleep 

 till eight in the morning, rise the first week in 

 April at a quarter before eight, the second week 

 at half after seven, the third at a quarter after 

 seven, and the fourth at seven : let him continue 

 this method till the end of July, subtracting one 

 quarter of an hour each week from sleep, and he 

 will accomplish the work that at first sight appears 

 so difficult. It is not a stride, it is a succession of 

 short steps, that conveys us from the foot to the 

 top of a mountain. Early rising is a great gain 

 of time ; and should the learner just now supposed, 

 rise all the harvest month at four instead of eight, 

 he would make that month equal to five weeks of 

 his former indolent life. 



Country business cannot be despatched without 

 early rising. In s|)ring, summer, and autumn, the 

 cool of the morning is the time both for the plea- 

 sure and riddance of work ; and in the winter, the 

 stores of the year are to be prepared for sale, and 

 carried tp market. The crop of next year, too, is 

 to be set, or prepared for. Every business worth 

 doing at all, is worth doing well, and as most bu- 

 sinesses consist of a multiplicity of aflairs, it is 

 impossible to disentangle each from another, to 

 put all in a regular train, and to arrange the whole 

 so that nothing may be iieg-lected, without cool- 

 ness and 'clearness of thinking, as well as inde- 

 fatigable application. The inorfling is necessary to 

 all this, and the time and the manner of setting 

 out generally deternrine the success or the list- 

 lessness of the day. Besides, all businesses are 

 subject to accidents, and to set forward early is to 

 provide for the repair, if not for the prevention of 

 them. It is a fine saying of Job, 'If my land cry 

 against me, or the furrows thereof complain, let 

 thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead 

 of barley.' 



Lying long and late in bed impairs the health, 

 generates diseases, and in the end destroys the 

 lives of nniltitudes. It is an intemperance of the 

 most pernicious kind, having nothing to recom- 

 mend it, nothing to set against its ten thousand 

 mischievous consequences, fijr to be asleep is to 

 be dead for the time. This tyrannical habit at- 

 tacks life in its essential powers, it makes the 

 blood forget its way, and creep lazily along the 

 veins, it relaxes the fibres, unstrings the nerves, 

 evaporates the animal spirits, saddens the soul, 

 dulls the fancy, subdues and stupifies a man to 

 such a degree, that he, the lord of the creation, 

 hath no ap|ietite for anything in it, loaths labor, 

 yawns for want of thought, trembles at the sight 

 of a spider, and in the absence of that, at the 

 creatures of his own gloomy imagination. In 

 every view, therefore, it was wise in the psalmist to 

 say, 'M}' voice shall be heard in the morning.' 



Remarkable Hank of Silk. — A hank of silk, pro- 

 duced by a single worm, was lately reeled in the 

 jiresence of several gentlemen, in Bolton, which 

 was 365 yards in length, and on being weighed 

 was found to be of the texture of 15000 hanks in 

 thelb. A single pound of this silk would reach 716 

 miles. The worm was only 7 days in spinning 

 the hank, consequently it produced at the rate of 

 52 yardjs per diem. 



