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land lies iieaily flat, timii where it is drawn 

 arouiiil the stalks iti n lii^'li iiill. 

 riie statciucnt shows tliat tliis farm has been 

 tivatcil with jiidgineiit, economy, and skill, in 

 baiulry ; and tliis impression, we think, its 

 loaraiico wonld make on any aj;ricnlturist who 

 uld lia]>pen to pass by it. The barns are large, 

 one of them is on a model for saving and pre- 

 r manure and vegetables for tlie use of the 

 n the winter, which might be adopted with 

 aiitage in smaller buildings. The crops of the 

 year taken together were large, and it is he- 

 ed few, if any, farms in Massachusetts will be 

 id to have yielded a greater profit lo the eulti- 

 ir. Tiie expense for labor, it will be seen, 

 small in proportion to the work done. His 

 cows, averaged 277 gallons of milk for the 

 on, which was the principal, and probably ihe 

 t (n'ulitable, proiluct of the farm. 

 s ilie milk was sent to market instead of bein^ 

 ufacturwd into butter and cheese on the farm, 

 iccount of the management of it possibly may 

 he so generally useful to agriculturists, as a 

 ntelligent account of the management of a 

 farm might prove. We think, however, the 

 ncr in which Mr Ware has cullivated this 

 , and the great product he has obtained, which 

 long the tests of skilful husliandry, deserve 

 commendation and entitle him to a premium, 

 le conuniuee lhiid< it also deserving of spec- 

 )tice, that Mr Ware carried on this extensive 

 in the neig!d)orliood of a great market town, 

 )ut the use of ardent spirits, except for medi- 



Iurposes. It appears that the laborers were 

 ied freely with family beer, molasses and 

 •, and cider with their food, and nothing more, 

 practice the committee consider a saving of 

 ise to the farmer, and health to the laborer ; 

 ilihougli not very uncommon at this day, 

 in a large scale and highly creditable to the 

 s, and it is hoped will serve to encourage oth- 

 imitate their example. The committee rec- 

 ;nd that a premium of $75 be awarded to 

 'are, for the skilful and successful manner 

 ich he has cultivated his farm, 

 •laim has also been made by Jonathan Allen, 

 if Pittsfield, in the county of Berkshire, for a 

 um for his valuable farm in that town. The 

 contains 250 acres, and appears to be improv- 

 nciiially as a Sheep Farm. It is washed on 

 le by the Housatonic, which annually over- 

 a tract of 40 acres of meadow, bordering on 



leaves a deposit on the land that renders 

 rther manure or dressing unnecessary. From 

 act, if Mr Allen is not mistaken iu his esti- 

 Ite gathers annually from eighty to ninety 

 letter than two tons and a quarter to an acre, 



be.st of English hay. A young orchard of 

 eighteen acres, and about five acres more 



upland, are laid down to grass, for hay; 



t of the farm is pastured and tilled alter- 



rotation of crops he has usually practised, 

 en wheat or rye the first year, Indian corn 

 ttoes the second, and the third, to lay the 

 lown with oats, or some other spring grain, 

 ■rdsgrass and clover. His jiractice is to sow 

 uarts of each, but it is to be observed that it 

 )asture, if that ought to make any difference 

 quantity. He lays down in this manner 

 ten acres annually. 



Allen informs us that ho has tiied different 

 ^ B and ways of sowing grass seed, viz.— iu 



the fall ivith rye, and alone in October after taking 

 off a crop of corn, and upon the snow covering 

 wheat or rye, and in the spring with oats or other 

 spring grain, and that ho is satisfied tlic last is the 

 best titnc and way of sowing- it. He observes 

 that he made several experiments of sowing grass 

 seed alone in the fall, but always found that the 

 grass did not get to maturity the next season. 



Wo are informed that a committee of tlie Agri- 

 cultural Society of that county, judged that as 

 many as three or four acres, out of eleven acres 

 of corn planted by him this year, would yield as 

 much as 90 bushels to the acre, and awarded him 

 a premium for it. The land on which this crop 

 was raised was broken up the same year, having- 

 been manured on the grass for three or four years 

 before, and was dunged in the hill with manure 

 from the hogpen, when it was planted. Mr Allen 

 has not stated the quantities of manure used by 

 him in any case, and as to most of his crops has 

 given us only an estimate of their amount. This 

 omission, we suppose, may be owing to his not re- 

 ceiving the notification of the Trustees offering 

 this premium, and prescribing the particular infor- 

 mation that must acccompany his application, until 

 his manure had been applied and most of his crops 

 gathered. The first notice he received, he says, 

 was only two days before he made out his state- 

 ment, viz. the i6th of October. 



The committee much regret this accident, but 

 they consider that the utility of the premiums of 

 farms wilt essentially depend on their obtaining 

 from the applicants a precise specification of their 

 whole process of carrying them on, and of the 

 crops they yielded ; and that from the want of this 

 particularity in Mr Allen's statement, the Trustees 

 would not be justified in awarding him a premium. 

 William Prescot, Chairman. 

 To be continued. 



Rail Roads. — The Baltimore American remarks, 

 that the country people in that pare of the State, 

 who are in the habit of employing a driver and a 

 team of five or six horses in sending a wagon 

 load of sixteen barrels of flour to market, at the 

 rate of about twenty miles a day over the best 

 turnpike roads, will perhaps be a little surprised 

 when informed that on the railroad, last week 

 loads of seventyfive barrels of flour were repeat- 

 edly brought I'rom Ellicott's mills to Baltimore, by 

 a single horse only. The distance was travelled 

 with ease in two hours, being at the rate of six 

 and a half miles an hour. Much greater loads 

 than these have been heretofore drawn by one 

 bor.se, but the fact we have just stated will never- 

 theless be deemed sufficiently striking to illustrate 

 the utility and value of rail-roads and the ease , 

 cheapness, rapidity and certainty with which com- 

 modities may be transported on them, either to or 

 from market. 



Mew Hampshire Temperance Society, formed 

 1S28, has 94 Societies and 4,279 ineinbers. 



Vermont Temperance Society, formed 1S28, has 

 127 Societies and 12,497 members. 



It IS stated that at one of the meetings of the 

 Tailoresses in New York, which was held for the 

 purpose of taking measures on tlie subject of the 

 low rate of their wages, that the inequality of the 

 rights of the two sexes was considered, and expres- 

 sions of opinion in favor of extending the right of 

 suffrage to females were made. 



Rail Roads. — Niles' Register says — loads of 

 seventy-Jive barrels of flour are now brought from 

 Elicott's mills to Baltimore, 13 miles in two hours, 

 by one horse, without more ap|)arent labor than is 

 caused by the drawing of a gig, with two persons, 

 over a good common road. This appears a com- 

 mon load. On the 15th inst. one horse drew four 

 carts laden with one bundrc<l barrels of flour, from 

 the mills to the relay bouse, six miles, at the rate 

 of seven miles en hour — another horse then drew 

 the same load with equal speed to the depot in 

 Baltimore. Neither horse appeared distressed. 

 This result is the eflbct of the almost entire anni- 

 hilation of friction in the machinery of Winan's 

 improved cars of ftlr Cooper's model. A locomo- 

 tive engine is plying on a part of the road, for the 

 gratification of those who wish to ride by steam, 

 at the rate of 18 or 20 miles an hour. 



Many rail roads are about to, be made in differ- 

 ent parts of the United States, the subscriptions for 

 which bave overflowed. The Liverpool and Man- 

 chester rail road has made unexpected dividends. 

 The stock is at a great advance, though the road 

 cost about ^35,000 a mile. 



A late Liverpool paper says — On Saturday laa 

 the Majestic, a new engine which hasjnst been put 

 on the railway travelled 6 times between Liverpool 

 and Manchester, a distance of one hundred and 

 eighty miles ! The total quantity of goods convey- 

 ed backwards and forwards, amounted to one buii- 

 Ired and 42 tons ! The same engines travelled 

 ou Monday one hundred and twenty miles, with 

 kiads similar to those taken on Saturday. There 

 are now ten engines of Mr Stephenson's employed 

 on the railway. 



The expense of fuel, oil, and attendance on this 

 engine, is said not to to exceed $5 a day. At this 

 rate of cost, 25,560 tons may be transported one 

 mile for five dollars — or fifty tons one mile for one 

 cent. 



natural history. 

 'The science of Natural History is eminently impor- 

 tant to the civilizeil world, and ought to be duly appre- 

 ciated and thoroughly understood. The study ana pur- 

 suit of its various branches are fraught with instruction 

 to man, evincing the subserviency of the products of na- 

 ture to his will, and industry. Of the benefits of this 

 science in the improvement of many arts, no one doubts. 

 Our food, our medicine, our luxuries, are improved by 

 it. There is not a department of human inquiry or la- 

 bor, either for health, pleasure, ornament or profit, but 

 is indebted to this science for support. It is an interest- 

 ing and laudable source of enjoyment, by which the 

 mind is expanded, and the beai t warmed and animated 

 with the glowing spirit of devotion. He who surveys 

 the vast field of nature, and devotes a portion of his lime 

 to the study of the principles which influence or gov- 

 ern the motions of animated beings, however minute 

 they may be, will not only derive pleasure from the pur- 

 suit, but will gain tlie only means of discovering the oh- 

 ject and utility of their creation. 



The Snow-hull, or Guelder Rose, and the High 

 Cranberry, of our swamps, take readily, by inocula 

 tion, each on the other. To me, a Snow-Ball 

 when covered with flowers in spring, and loaded 

 with the fruit of the High Cranberry, in autumn, 

 and through the winter, is a novel spectacle, though 

 not rare. Both the snow-ball and the cranbei-ry, 

 however, in llie garden, are so apt to be loaded 

 with insects, that I have had to cut down all the 

 bushes with their leaves, for two summers in suc- 

 cession. 1 bad rather fbrego the pleasure of this 

 netv family alliance, than breed such hosts of ene- 

 mies, especially in a garden. — Genesee Farmer. 



Though patience be bitter, the fruits of patitnte 

 are sweet. 



