\ \. NO. 48. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



38 1 



iiR lowem cslimalioii, of the vtlua of 

 ) per week, fur tlip year of 52 neeka, 

 lU.KX) per annum. Iutelli);ent far- 

 I leil ine that it must bo an induitri- 

 inan, on a f«r:u of 'J(H) acres of fair 

 ;:r l.ind, >tIiu can tell to the amount 

 SOi) per annum over and above the 

 ily of his oirn family and work handa. 

 uniisli, ihcrcforo, the supply f»r the 

 ufactiirers would rei)uir« thirteea 

 a of "iUO acres each, is 3,G00 acres, 

 h I estimate at $70 per acre, is 182,000 



V. A farther inTestincnt of agricuU 

 I capital ia required to furnish the 

 les, (ire-wood, coil, provender for 

 horses, &.€. Sic, estiinated at 6,000 



$i,4aa,ooo 



hiis, one million four hundred and iwontytwo 

 s:ind dollars is the agricultural capital now in 

 isition to supply the manufacturing investment 

 ily one hundred and forty thousand dollars, 

 challenge refutation on the foregoing attte- 

 t of facta. .■Xgriculturists, examine it closely 

 carefully, and then s.iy who is most to be ben- 

 ;d by a protective tariff, which will enable that 

 lisliment to continue the operation, you or the 

 ufaclurer.' Every woollen manufactory in the 

 itry in proportion to its extent, ia alike the 

 ;el for the agriculturist for his wood and his 

 isions. If tliat establishment is driven to a 

 ^sinn nf its operations for the want of ade- 

 ( protection, it is quite probable that others 

 cease to operate from the same cause. 

 re then, will you find a market for the pro- 

 of your farms ? Should the present Tariff 

 go into effect, which imposes a duty of twenty 

 :ent. after the 30lh June next, it will be utter- 

 id entirely out of the question for the manu- 

 irers of wool to sustain themselves for a single 

 th against foreign competition, under so sig- 

 ■nt a protection. England will take your 

 ID pay fur her broadcloths at 25 cents the 

 id, for tiie same quality you have been selling 

 ■)ast year at 45 cents, (wool being a raw mate- 

 she only levies one cent the pound duty, to 

 er manufacturers.) 



jt your other productions, such as your beef, 

 . flour, lumber, itc , are loaded with so heavy 



ity, that it amounts nearly to a prohibition 



r now pays in England a duty of three dollars 



1 quarter the barrel. Very little if any of the 



ucts of your farms enter into the composition 



yard of foreign broadcloth ; whereas, the 



rican is almost wliolly of American product 



labor. The suspension of the woollen manu- 



ircs will throw out of employ a population, 



filths of whom are women and children, who 



ncapable of agricultural labor. They who are 



all consumers of agricultural products must, 



necessity, become in part producers, and add 



n e already overstocked market of the products 



jriculture. What insane, what fatal policy, to 



ign iiur manufactories to destruction, and our 



en and children to beggary and want, (which 



be the inevitable result) if the present tariff 



goes into effect. If they are sacrificed, you 



ers, when too late, will find that your interest 



. follow suit, for want of the home market the 



n ufacturev now furnishes. Europe will not take 



bread stuffs, they raise enough for themselves. 



''here, I will ask, are you to find a market for 



productiotu now consumed by the manufactur- 



iag population, wlucli have been llius far tustainod 

 by laws of protection, now about being abandoned, 

 uiileaa tho farming interest will arouse to rescue 

 them, and save their lioine market • If you be- 

 lieve in the truth of (hoso rcmnrks, lot our rcpre- 

 aentative be instructed to stand by our interests, 

 against the Free trudo sophistry of the Suutheru 

 Niillificrs. Tlicy have taken most osprcial care 

 that their productions shall not be interfered with 

 by the introduction of similar articles of foreign 

 growlli. 'I'lioir cotton, rice, and tobacco, are pro- 

 tected by prohibitory duties: not a pound of for- 

 eign cotton, or rice, enter.s into American con- 

 sumption. If I liave understood the votes our rep- 

 resentative in Congress has recently given on the 

 incidental reference of the TnrilV (jucstion, they 

 have been against Protection, and hostile to your 

 interests, and of tho prosperity of the county and 

 State he represents. If such are his views, I hope 

 and trust that his constituents will see the necessi- 

 ty of instructing him otherwise, that Protection be 

 sustained. 



Tho agricultural and manufacturing industry of 

 the North I consider in a most critical and dan. 

 gerous position ; our Currency prostrated, and but 

 a shadow of a chance of being speedily improved ; 

 the nation as well as individuals heavily in debt to 

 foreigners, and the main hope for better times 

 must rest on a Protective Tariff. Protection to the 

 manufacturing industry under which the nation 

 has so signally prospered, began on the immediate 

 adoption of the Constitution ; and as a proof that 

 protection was intended, the heading or the caption 

 to Vnefinl law passed in 171)1 reads as follows : 

 " If'hertas, it is necessary for the support of Gov- 

 ernment, for the discharge of the debts oj the United 

 Stales, and the encourugcment and protection of man- 

 ufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares and 

 merchandise imported ;"* and laws designed for 

 protection have continued to be enacted ever since, 

 recognizing protection. What consummate folly, 

 thfrefore, not to say wickedness, of some of the 

 members in Congress, to waste the time of the 

 House at this moment debating the constitutionali- 

 ty of laws for protection ! Those interests that 

 have been the most thoroughly protected by legis- 

 lative enactments, have been the most successful, 

 viz : navigation, ship building, manufactures of 

 leather, carriages, cabinet ware, hats, coarse cotton 

 goods, and a thousand other articles which the do- 

 mestic producer has now furnished, excluding al- 

 most wholly the foreign article, and furnishing a 

 large ainounl for export. 



Meetings ought to be called in every town be- 

 fore it is too lata, to memorialize Congress so to 

 adjust the tarifl" that every interest is thoroughly 

 protected. If the manufacturers are prostrated, 

 the farming interest must also fall, so fur, at least, 

 as any proht on their industry is concerned. 



The manufacture of iron, cotton, and in fact ev- 

 ery branch of industry, is but the handmaid of ag- 

 riculture. Wlien they flourish, the agriculturist is 

 moat generally prosperous. S. 



'In 17!trj General Washington in his speech made the 

 followinij reniarkfi — '* Congresi have repentfijly directed 

 their Attention to the encouTOgemtnt of manufactures; 

 the object is of loo mucli iniportance not to insure a con- 

 tinuance of these efTdrts jn every way wliicli shall np- 

 p«ar eligible." — Mr. Jefferson in his ineisiige of 1802, 

 stales '* tfiat to cultivate peace, maintain commerce and 

 navigitti'iii, to foaler our fiaheries and protect manufac- 

 tures, fidupted to our circumstances, Sec , are tfie land- 

 marks by which to guide ourselves in .'ill our relaiiuni." 

 Other Pretidenti have held the same language. 



III.ACK GUM IN CHERRY AND PLUM 

 TREES. 



In almost every direction that we travel, wo no- 

 tice the almost complete destruction of tho cherry 

 and plum trees. It is dona by a small insect 

 which dcpoiites an egg in tho bark. .Soon after 

 the hatching of the worm, a fungus kind of wood 

 shows iuelf, which turns black, and finally tho tree 

 dies. 



The only remedy that we know is, pruning off 

 the diseased branches and burning them up. This, 

 to bo effectual, should be done by all who liave 

 trees so aSectcd, for unless all do it, they allow a 

 new awarm of the enemy to come forth to continue 

 their depredations upon the same or other trees. 

 We should judge from the many iinsiglilly treoe in 

 the country, that little or nothing had been done, 

 and, as a natural consequence, moat nf the treea 

 are dead, or very nearly bo. There is onothcr re- 

 medy which euggestcd itself to our mind on read- 

 ing Boucherie's method of charging trees with dif- 

 ferent fluids. Might not some fluid be put into the 

 circulation wliich would not kill the tree, and yet 

 kill the insects? \Vc have heard that if sulphur 

 be put into a hole bored in an apple, quince or oth- 

 er tree infested with the borers, it would kill them. 

 We have never seen this done, and are at some 

 loss to conceive how it can act, unless particles of 

 the dry sulphur are taken up by the sap and floated 

 through (he vessels until they come in contact with 

 the insect or worm. It is possible, however, that 

 some new substance may be formed by the combi- 

 nation of the sulphur with some element of the 

 sap and thus be the means of producing the effects 

 alleged. 



Boucherie found that by cutting a notch in the 

 trunk of a tree so as to hold a portion of any fluid, 

 while the tree was in leaf, it would rise and be 

 circulated throughout the whole trunk and limbs. 



Experiments ought to be instituted in order to 

 ascertain what fluids nioy be thus injected which 

 shall be death to insects but health to the tree. — 

 Maitie Farmer. 



WILL CHARCOAL ON LAND PREVENT 

 RUST IN WHEAT? 



A writer, Mr J. H. Hepburn, in the Transactions 

 of the New York State Agricultural Society, says 

 that he has "just been made acquainted with anoth- 

 er result of the application of charcoal to arable 

 land — that is, wherever charcoal has been applied, 

 rust never affects the growing crop of wheat. That 

 wherever a field generally had been ' struck with 

 rust,' as it is called, these places where he had ap- 

 plied charcoal, invariabli/ escaped." 



Has any one observed anything of the kind in 

 Maine? The only place where its effects would 

 be likely to be exhibited, are where coalpits had 

 been made and the old bottoms sowed over with 

 the rest of the field. It has not been long aince 

 the direct application of charcoal has been recom- 

 mended as a manure, and very few people have 

 tried Its efticacy at all, and that on but a very 

 small scale. There may be many instances, how- 

 ever, where coal hearths are left and where tha 

 good or bad results may be noted. If applied di- 

 rect, we presume it ought to be made fine. — Ibid. 



As the enn breaking in winter, ao is joy in tha 

 season of affliction. As a shower in the midst of 

 summer, so are the salutary drops of sorrow min- 

 gled in our cup of pleasure. 



