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NEW ENGLAND FA R M E R 



OCT. 13, 1 41 



profits arisin;,' troin l!ic application of tliose means, 

 are in no small degree ascribable to your keeping 

 your sons nt home. 



Bui I am admoniolied, Mr Editor, that T have al- 

 ready trespassed too much upon your space witli 

 my commonplace and perhaps profitless remarks 

 upon "hat, for aught I know, may be deemed a 

 trivial malter; and I will close with the expression 

 of a wish, sincerely entertained, that those of our 

 farmers who are embarrassed by the incumbrance 

 of mortgage, may speedily be enabled by some 

 means — but not nt all except by honest means — to 

 regain the full possession of their property; and 

 that those who have thu< far kept clear of bccojii- 

 ing involved in like difliculty, may never be tempt- 

 ed to do so, except compelled to it by the imperious 

 demands of stern necessity. 



Truly yours and the farmer's friend, 



J. II. I). 



Oy^The foregoing communication touches upon 

 a subject in which many are deeply interested ; but 

 upon which it is difficult to give any other aijvice 

 than the rules tor good husbandry and profitable 

 cultivation. The remarks of our correspondent 

 carry the impression that more of the mortgages 

 \ipon farms are the consequence of faults on the 

 part of farmers, than we suppose to be correct. — 

 When the father of a family dies, one of the sons 

 often buys out the other heirs : a young man works 

 at fanning by the month until he accumulates 

 twelve or fifteen hundred dollars, and then buys a 

 Binall place for twenty or twentyfivo hundred dol- 

 lars, and gives a mortgage. These are common 

 cases, and in very many instances these young 

 men pursue a wise course. " Honest industry," 

 with sound economy in expenditures, and good judg- 

 ment in buying and selling, will ordinarily relieve 

 such men from their obligations in a few years. — 

 It is desirable that every farmer should he striving 

 to take up the mortgages upon his place; but the 

 cases are numerous in which there is no want of 

 discretion in giving a mortgage — En. 



This question may not be of much consequence to 

 farmers genersUy, but to such as are seeking for 

 a particular breed in its purity, the matter may be 

 highly interesting. — En. 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETy. 



The following is a li.ot of the officers of the So- 

 ciety, elected October 2d, 1841 : — 

 President — M. P. Wilder. 

 Vice Presidents — B. V. French, Jona. Winship, 



C. Newhall, E. M. Richards. 



Treasurer — S. WaJker. I 



Corresponding Secretary — J. R. Tcschcmacher. 



Recording Secretary — Eben. Wight. 



Prof, of Botany and Vegetable Physiology — John 

 Lewis Russell, A. M. 



Professor of Entomology— T. W. Harris, M. D. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry — S. L. Da- 

 na, M. D. 



Sta.NDINO COMSIITTEES. 



Committee on Fruits — B. V. French, Chairman ; 

 R. Manning, P. I!. Hovey, L. P. Grosvenor, Wm. 

 Kenrick, .T. A. Kenrick, S. Pond, O. Johnson, S. 

 Walker, F. W. Macondry, J. Breck. 



Committee on Flowers — C. M. Hovey, Chairman; 



D. Ha<rgerston, J. Breck, S. Sweetser, S. R. John- 

 son, W. E. Carter, J. Stickncy. 



Committee on Vegetables — S. Pond, Chairman ; 

 P. B. Hovey, Jr., Kufus Howe, John Hovey, A. D. 

 Williams, J. A. Kenrick. 



Commillfe on the Library — M. P. Wilder, Chair- 

 man; R. T. Paine, C. K. DiUaway, C. M. Hovey, 

 B. V. French, S. Walker. 



Committee vn Synonyms of Fruit — R. Manning, 

 Chairman ; S. Downer, E. M. Richards, W. Ken- 

 rick. 



Executive Committee — iM. P. Wilder, Chairman; 

 Wm. Oliver, B. V. French, E. M. Richards, C.'M. 

 Hovey. 



Finance Committee — E. Vose, Chairman ; W. 

 Oliver, B. V. French. 



MASSACHUSETTS PLOUGHMAiV. 

 We have before us the first number of the pa- 

 per whose title heads this article. Mr Buckmin- 

 gter, who hns edited the Cultivator, is at its head. 

 Mr B. is active in the cause to which he devotes 

 himself, and on very many points in husbandry his 

 opinions are in accordance with our own, and con- 

 sequently we deem them sound. The first No. in- 

 dicates that the Plouffhinan ivill be what the Cul- 

 tivator wa'", a paper devoted to agriculture and to 

 various miscellaneous matters. Though we think 

 that Mr B. holds on with perseverance to sonic 

 theories which are unsound, he yet has more that 

 are good, and we cordially wish him success in his 

 labors. — En. 



The Cultivator's Jiccount of Durham Stock Ex- 

 hibited at the Esser County Cattle Show. — This ac- 

 count speaks of a hull "out of a full blood cow of 

 the stock of the Hon. John Welles," There may 

 be no incorrectness in this statement, and yet we 

 have the impccssion that though the Hon. Mr 

 Welles' stock are of high and good blood, that he 

 has crossed so as to bring in strains of blood from 

 several of the best breeds of cattle. This state- 

 ment, if correct, is nothing against his slock, but 

 may be in its favor. The only point to which we 

 wish to draw the attention of the editor, is the sin- 

 gle question whether that stock la pure Durham ? 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 Exhibition of Fruits, Oct. 2f/. 



From Col. Bigelnw, of .Medford ; a fine specimen 

 of St. .Michael Pears, Blue Pearmainc Apples, and 

 a kind unknown. 



From Col. Wilder; Brown Beurre and (Jallabass 

 Pears. 



From Wm. Kenrick; a large red Apple, called 

 the Coggswcll. 



From Peter Wainwright, Roxbury ; a large red 

 Apple, name unknown. 



From J. L. L. F. Warren : four dishes of excel- 

 lent Peaches — Schuylkill and Isabella Grapes. 



From S. R. Johnson, Charlcstown ; a fine speci- 

 men of Sweetwater Grapes. 



From Samuel Pond ; six dishes of fine Plums. 



From John Kenrick ; a fine specimen of Lemon 

 Peaches. 



From Mr Manning, Salem; Foster's St. Mi- 

 chael, Urbanisle, a ne»v kind (unknown,) Beurre 

 Bronze, Belle of Flanders, St. Michael, Bi/.e la 

 Mott, Long Green, Jalousie, Heathcote, Brown 

 Beurre, Alpha, Wilkinson, Fulton, and Jalousie (of 

 la Vende) Pears — all excellent specimens of their 

 kinds. 



For the Committee, 



B. V. FRENCH 



From the New York Tribune. 



SILK. 



Reasons why the people of the United Stat'=' 

 especially the farmers, should engage in the but 

 ness of silk growing: 



1st. Because silk forms the heaviest item in ti 

 catalogue of our importations. 



2d. Because we possess the means of doing 

 to better advantage than any other nation. 



;Jd. Because the necessary skill is easily acqui 

 ed, and no nation ever possessed better talents 

 acquire it. 



4th. Because the nation is under heavy embarrasi 

 ments on account of excessive importations, at 

 no other means are so sure of success in providir 

 the necessary relief. 



5th. Because it can be effectually engaged 

 by all classes of people, requiring little or no cap 



6th. Because we have more spare land than ai 

 other nation, and much well suiti-d to the grow 

 of the mulberry, which is worn out for other pu 

 poses. 



7tli. Because wo are already well stocked wii 

 the mulberry trees, which will be lost to the natic 

 if not used for that purpose. 



8. Because a stock of silk worms may bo obtaii 

 ed the first year, equal to what could be reared 

 any other live stock in a great portion of a li 

 time. 



!)tli. Because raw silk or cocoons are alwaj 

 surer of sale than almost any other commodity. 



lOtli. Because it is a very certain crop. 



llth. Because the labor of growing a crop, 

 silk requires only six or seven weeks, while that • 

 almost any farming crop requires more than i 

 many months. 



I2lh. Because most of the labor will be perforn 

 ed by women, children or invalids — who, thoup 

 willing, are unable to perforin other profitable h 

 bor. 



i:3th. Because the growing and manufacture 

 silk has never failed to be a source of wealth 

 any nation which embarked in it. 



A. OF THE North. 



If justice is not due to brutes, neither is it to men 



$'-j— CHICKENS— MUCK. 



Five dollars reward.' No. What then.' Wl 

 five dollars for the New England Farmer, accou 

 panied by a few linos that are worth publishing. 



From up country a subscriber writes : "I enclot 

 vou five dollars, to prevent being stricken froi 

 your list of subscribers; for how could I contoi 

 myself without an agricultural adviser. Your p;j 

 per costs but the paltry price of a dozen chicken 

 whose lives may be saved by five lines of the mat 

 ter contained in your pages." * * " To pa.' 

 among the farmers this fall, in our vicinity, yo 

 would find preparation for the use of inuck in a ter 

 fold greater quantity than in any preceding yeai 

 I have taken about 400 loads from the bed ihi 

 season, but have not much experience in its use a 

 yet. I am daily making imiiiiries. I tiiink yo 

 need not spare to cry Muck, Muck!" 



It is computed that .'?4,000,000 are annually earn 

 ed by the females in Massachusetts, employed i 

 the various factories and manufactories of 6tra\ 

 hats, slocks, and the like. The number of female, 

 so employed is about 40,000, of whom about 24,00( 

 arc in tlie woollen factories. 



