Vol. IX.— No. 29. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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ny aLrc'iK-y in it or not, since tlie article meets my 

 ill approbation. 



IIavin;jr said this, I choose to relate the circum- 



ances connected with the two facts mentioned by 



apt. Wheeler, and not contained in the report. 



''eilher nf those facts were mtnlioned to the commit- 



5 bt/ .Mr Buckminsler, though he was very particu- 



r and full in his statements. That his four cows 



•d often run at large the past summer was well 



lown to me, and when one of the committee said 



me that the cows looked too well to have been- 



pported in that pasture, I mentioned tlie fa'ct. I 



ped however that Mr Buckniiustor would excuse 



for not exposing, in the report, what he had 



littcd to mention ; especially as I submitted to 



inspection the part which related to him, and if 



had required me to insert that his cattle had run 



large, he should certainly have been accommo- 



ted. I also knew, as did all the neighbors, that 



horses had been often let for journeys ; and I 



d heard Mr B. frequently telling, that he gave 



m grain plentifully. I did not make this known 



the committee, nor did it occur to me ; and this 



more easily happened as Mr Buckminster's own 



tements, connected with the view, did not pre- 



it a case which occasioned any difference of 



nion in the committee as to his claim to a pre- 



jni. 



[ have said that the ' Small Farmer' charges me 

 h publishing intentional falsehood. I will state 

 what the charge consists. 



^apt. Wheeler had published the fact that Mr 

 :kminster's cows, had enjoyed the principal be- 

 lt of a vote of the lown, restraining cattle from 

 ning at large. The Small Farmer after charging 

 with using Capt. Wheeler's name, adds the fol- 

 ing : ' Ilinve ynade some inquiri/ of the f eld dri- 

 of that District, who informs me that cattle are 

 allowed to go at targe in the town of Framing- 

 1, and that if he had found Mr B.^s cattle taking 

 bencft of the act, he should have driven them, to 

 pound, and that the last cattle he impounded, he- 

 Eferf to the chairman of the Committee.' 

 This was intended to make the impression that 

 B.'s four cows had not been at large the past 

 son at all, notwithstanding ??!»/ publication to the 

 trary, and that mij cattle instead of his had en- 

 id the principal benefit of the town's vote ! 

 shall now state a few facts, well known in this 

 iige, and leave the public to judge, who it is that 

 lishes intentional filsehoods. 

 ?'he Field Driver in this District of this year, is 

 Isaac Stevens. Ao one has made any inquir>/ 

 dm on this subject ; and he has never impound- 

 aiy cattle. And who then does the reader sup- 

 3 was intended by ' the field driver of that Dis- 

 ',' who has been so very faithful and vigilant ? 

 y the field driver of 1828, to be sure ! not Mr 

 ah Stone, who was chosen in 1829. Nothing 

 Id be got of him to make a story of; for he 

 :es the same statement as Mr Stevens. — And 

 ■ that the whole of this small game may be 

 erstooci, I will relate what took place in 1S2S. 

 Gardner Kellogg, who lives half a mile from 

 B.'.s was the field driver of that year. He im- 

 nded my cattle, at my request, having turned 

 n out, as I stated at the time, to induce the 

 1 driver to begin his duty with them. After a 

 days he did so, and I believe it is true, that 

 e were impounded by him afterwards. What ac- 

 nt Mr Kellogg has given to the ' Small Farmer' 

 .ny one else I am not informed — the facts are 

 1 remembered by many; and I have no reason 



lo think that he has misstated them. Whether if 

 he had seen Mr B.'s four cows taking the benefit 

 of the act the past season, he would have driven 

 them to the pound, can be best told after the ' Small 

 Farmer' shall have solved the following question. 



If the manure from the 'largest stable in the 

 county,' put \ipon a farm ' frojn 1810 to 1818 in- 

 clusive' would produce hay fi)r the ' four or five 

 years last past' in as great abundance, as if put on 

 the farm for the ' last nine years' — how long will 

 a field driver continue in power after the e.xpiration 

 of his term of oflice ? 



As the ' Smnll Farmer' in his last article does not 

 deny that he is Mr Buckminster himself, as had 

 been more than intimated by Capt. Wheeler, I shall 

 not ' alter my mind,' at least, till Mr B. shall deny 

 it. The raw material was certainly raised on the 

 farm and dyed in the wool, though a fuller may 

 have been employed in the dressing. 



Hoping that your useful paper will seldom be 

 haunted by such unpleasant and unprofitable mat- 

 ters, 



I subscribe respectfully vour obedient servant, 

 JOSIAH ADAMS. 



Framingham, Jan. 24th, 1831. 



THE QUINCE. 



Mr Fessenden — The following interesting items 

 are taken from the Library of Entertaining Know- 

 ledge. 



In the south of France, jiarticularly on the bor- 

 ders of the Garonne, the Quince is very extensively 

 grown ; and the peasants prepare from it a mar- 

 malade, which they call cotignac. The term mar- 

 malade is derived from the Portuguese name for 

 the quince, marmelo. 



Two centuries ago, marmalade seems to have 

 been in general use, princi[)ally from a belief that 

 it possessed valuable medicinal properties. The 

 seeds of the quince are still used in medicine, on 

 account of the great quantity of mucilage which 

 they yield to boiling ivater. 



The Chinese, who are said to carry the cultiva- 

 tion of fruit to much greater perfection than the 

 European gardeners, are stated by Marco Polo to 

 have ^eaci, white in the inside, melting, and with 

 a fragrant smell, of the enormous weight of ten 

 pounds. 



The fruit catalogue of the London Horticultural 

 Society contains above 600 varieties of the Pear ; 

 and it is there observed, that ' the newly introduced 

 Flemish kinds are of much more importance than 

 the greater part of the sorts, which have been 

 hitherto cultivated in Great Britain, and when 

 brought into use will give quite a new feature to 

 the dessert.' 



The names of fruits in all countries, occasion- 

 ally present some laughable anomalies, such as 

 the ' Bnn-Chretien Turc,' one of the finest of the 

 French Pears. 



by the state to advance this u6w S|)ccies of inter- 

 nal inqirovement. One hundredth part of what the 

 State of Massashusetts is about to receive from 

 the General Government, a|)propriated todissenii- 

 uatitig a knowleilge of this business would ulti- 

 mately yieUI a vast ca|)ital to this Commonwealth. 

 A practical silk grower should be sent to attend 

 the annual Agricultural Exhihitioiis, in each county 

 in the Commonwealth, and gratuitously distribute 

 the seed of the mulberry, and the eggs of the 

 silk worm, with oral practical instructions on the 

 subject, at the expense of the state. 



1 would beg leave to suggest to our Legislature 

 the propriety of authorizing and empowering 

 the Governor forthwith to take measures to ad- 

 vance this new, important and useful business. 

 There seems to be a field of internal improvement 

 he re that should not be neglected. 



A Friend to Industrt. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SILK. 



The prosperity and happiness of our people 

 greatly depend upon constant employment and 

 moral improvements. No pursuits seem more fa- 

 vorable to afford both these objects, than the cul- 

 ture and preparation of silk. These tnay be car- 

 ried on in each family, and at all seasons of the 

 year. No employment can be more favorable to 

 moral 'improvement and domestic virtue, than 

 that which can be innocently carried on at the fire 

 side of every family. Somethmg should be done 



THE SEASON. 



Mr Fesseinde.n — I should like to seq the com- 

 parative forwardness of the last spring in Illinois and 

 Massachusetts exhibited in your paper. I furnish 

 you below with a statement extracted from the 

 Illinois Monthly Magazine. — The ' Koxbury Far- 

 mer' could give a similar statement for Massachu- 

 setts. 



Washington City, Jan. 1831. 



.'Ipril 1. Peach trees in blossom. 

 " 2. Asparagus fit for the table. 

 " 3. Peas, Beans, and Onions planted. 

 " 6. Hearts-ease, and Violets in bloom. 

 " 7. Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, and other roots 



planted. 

 " 10. Prairies green, Gooseberry and Currant 



bushes in bloom. 

 " 15. Cabbage plants transplanted. 

 " 18. Lilac in bloom. Strawberry vines ditto. 

 " 25. Raspberries in bloom. 

 " 27. Lettuce, Radishes, and Pepper-grass fit 



for use. 

 " 30. Roses and honeysuckles in full bloom. 

 None of the above articles were injured by 

 frosts. 



India Rubber. — This valuable produ'^t, first 

 made known by La Condamine, in 1736, is the 

 juice of several species of trees growing in South 

 America. It flows from the trees as a milky fluid, 

 which soon hardens upon exposure to the air. 

 Various attempts have been made to transport it to 

 Europe in its fluid state, without success. Its 

 application to the arts is various, but until re- 

 cently, no advantage has been taken of one of its 

 most remarkable properties, its elasticity. Two 

 ingenious chemists of Paris, Messrs Rattier and 

 Guibal, by an entirely new solvent and a very deli- 

 cate jirocess, have succeeded in spinning it into 

 threads of various S'zes. This is ' subsequently 

 woven into suspenders, garters, surgical bandages 

 for ruptures, fractured or dislocated limbs, &c. 



Economy. — Some persons are ashamed of this 

 virtue, for a virtue it is, and the reverse of it, waste- 

 fulness, is a sin. Many are penurious, and they 

 call it being economical ; but a person may spend 

 or give money liberally, and be withal very 

 economical. — True economy is to spend only 

 what one can afford and that judiciously. Some 

 people will sooner spend what they cannot afford 

 or use a little deception, than say, I cannot afford 

 the expense. 



