ol. v.— No. 10. 



Ni:W ENGLAND 1 A!{\H:|{. 



CAi'iL,E SHOW AT DANVKllS. 

 gcments for the .l^ricultural Kxhihition at 

 Janvcrs, on Tkurida'j October 12, 18'2(j, 



1)1/ the Essex .Igriculttiral Sociel:/. 

 \M claims for premiums must be entered with 

 bcieUiry of the Society, on or before 9 o'- 

 A. iM. of the day of E.xhibition, and each 

 lilt will be expected to furnish a description 

 tiniT of tlie animal or article offered for pie- 



\M animals intended for exhibition or premi- 

 ust be placed under the direction and care of 

 iciTs of the Society, before 9 o'clock of the 

 nj of the day of Kxhibition, that they may 

 anjed in their proper places ; and tliey must 

 ;'.ie in these places until 2 o'clock P. M. 

 \11 articles of manufacture or extraordinary 

 li must be deposited at Dustin's Hall, (the 

 provided for their exhibition,) before 10 o'- 

 of Die same day, to be entitled to a premium. 

 !'he several committees for examining stock, 

 ill meet together at Southwick's tavern, at 

 )ck A. M. and thence proceed immediately 

 performance of their respective duties ; at 

 time the owners or keepers of the animals 

 cles presented for premiums must be pres- 

 1 :^ive any information that may bo required 

 •ning- them. 



^he Ploiighing Match will commence pre- 

 at 11 o'clock. Si.x premiums, amounting to 

 y-five dollars, are offered on this subject. — 

 IS intending to engage in the Ploughing 

 , must make known this intention to t!ie 

 ;ary, on or before the Monday next preced- 

 10 day of E.'cibition. The expense of keeping 

 earns as may come more than ten miles for 

 irpose, on the night previous to the trial, 

 er successful cr not in the competition, will 

 d by the Society. 



it half past one o'clock, the members of the 

 y will dine together. Tickets for the din- 

 n be obtained on application to Mr George 

 ,vick. 



vt 3 o'clock there will be a meeting of the 

 y at the New Meeting House, when the 

 ts of the several Committees will be read, 

 .e usual business of the Annual Meeting 

 cted. At this time the Report of the Com- 

 for viewing Farms will be read to the So- 



"he following gentlemen have been appoin- 

 d duly authorized to act as Marshals on this 

 on: — 



ESSE PUTNAM, of Dativers, 

 DAVID EMERY, " Xcwbin-y, 



(OSIAH NEWHALL, '• LmnJieU, 

 'OHN TRAILL, " Murblehead, 



vIOODY BRIDGES, " .ir^dovsr, 

 JENJ. WHEELER, " Danvers, 

 dtr of the Commiftec of Arrangements. 

 JOHN W. PROCTOR, Secretnry of 



Essex Agricultural Societif. 

 Iters, Sept. 24, 1826.- 



75 



OH the occasion, for the breed of which iireiiuums 

 were offered. 



AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



! Berkshire Society will hold its annual Fair 

 tstield, Ms. on the 4th and 5th of October. — 

 Jttford, Con. on the Uth and I'ilh of October 

 Merrimack Agricultural Society at Concord 

 . on the 18th and Ufth of October. — The 

 bridge Agricultural Society was to have been 

 ockbridge on Wednesday last. It was ex- 

 d there would be a fine exhibition of horses 



DETACHED HINTS FROM N. Y. AGRICUL- 

 TURAL MEMOIRS, WITH REMARKS. 



In the treatise on gardening some quotations are 

 made from the London Horticultural traii.-jaotions, 

 as to the effect of ringing in accelerating the pro- 

 duction of fruit on young trees. It is there said 

 '■ that the decortication, or the stripe of bark re- 

 moved should not be larger than would fill up in 

 two, or at most, three years in trees bearing kernel 

 fruit and in one year on trees bearing stone fruit." 



Long experience has taught us, that all ringing 

 except of grapes is injurious, often fatal; and if 

 it does not fill up the first year, the limb so treat- 

 ed will die. It ought never to be used, except on 

 a single limb, for the purpose of knowing what the 

 fruit will prove. 



Dr Shadrack Ricketson, of Duchess county 

 confirms, by his own experience the practice of 

 sowing timothy in the autumn and alone, without 

 grain. It is well to have this practice now geting 

 to be common with us, confirmed by judicious per- 

 sons in other states. 



Judge BuEL has an interesting article on the 

 raising a crop of Swedish turnips after a crop of 

 clc\cr, he has tried it three years successively. — 

 He gives the Swedish turnip to his oxen and cows 

 at the rate of one bushel per day, beginning on the 

 first of March. We are persuaded, that this course 

 is a very profitable one for persons who have small 

 fariis, and that tiiey will keep a greater stock in 

 proportion, and in better condition, than some of 

 their neighbours who liave a great farm negligent- 

 ly cultivated in the old fashioned modes. Of the 

 value of roots to horned animals in winter, and 

 spring, we can speak with confidence from long 

 continued e.xpcrience. 



PHiLEMOiN Halsted, of Westchester, recom- 

 mends the following mode of harvesting Indian 

 Corn. " Give up the old method of cutting the 

 top stalks, and when the corn is sufficiently hard, 

 or ii'hen you cavnot find an ear soft enough to boil 

 and then procceJ to cut and stout your corn in the 

 following manner. Bring the tops of two hills to- : 

 getUar without cutting, bind them with a few i 

 spears- of straw, then cut and set up about enough j 

 to make four sheaves, if bound, then put a band of 

 straw around the lop, and then you may add as j 

 many more and bind the whole with two bands, al- 1 

 ways keeping the hottom of the stout open so as to 

 admit the circulation of air. In gathering the corn | 

 proceed thus, throw down the stout, unbind and | 

 begin to gather the corn. When you have stalks 

 enough for a sheaf, bind them, and lay them aside 

 until you have enough for a stout. By this you 

 save all the silk, and small husks and underleaves 

 ofthe corn which were all lost by the former 

 practice of topping and gathering corn." He adds, 

 that from careful notire he is satisfied, that it takes 

 no more time than tlie old method. — Mass.Ag.Rep. 



FARM HOUSES. 

 Among the work.s preparing in England, we no- 

 tice a " Series of designs for Farm Buildings, with 

 a view to prove that the simplest forms may be 

 rendered pleasing and ornamental by a proper dis- 

 position of tlio rudest materials. In the course of 

 the work, the Village Church and Parsonage will 

 be introduced, together with the School Holise.— 

 Occasional Ideas will be added for ornamental roof 

 houses, and seats to decorate the pleasure grounds 

 — by P. F. Robinson, architect." We hop^c that, 

 some copies of this work will reach this coijrfty. 

 It is in the projier disposition ofthe materials, and 

 not in multiplicity of ornament, that the true beauty 

 of Architecture consists, and if this proper dispos- 

 ition be observed, an elegant building may be for- 

 med out of the rudest materials. [Phil. Gaz.] 



PAUPERS 0.\ FARMS. 



We liopc the article on the first page of this 

 day's paper, under the above head will meet at- 

 tention from those who are able and willing to fur- 

 nish information respecting the objects of the very 

 respectable writer's inquiry. In the 3d volume of 

 the New England Farmer, page 302, we publish- 

 ed a brief notice of a pamphlet, entitled " State- 

 ment of the Expenditures for the Support of the 

 Poor in the Town of Salem, from March 1824 to 

 March 1825." By this it appears that the net ex- 

 pense to Salem, (containing about 1.3,000 inhabit- 

 ants) for supporting more than 350 paupers, dur- 

 ing the period above mentioned was only G4 dol- 

 lais 85 cents! The pamphlet we have mislaid, or 

 we would give such extracts as should appear to 

 us most likely to meet the views of Mr Goodrich. 

 If a similar account has been published or should 

 be furnished us in manuscript, of subsequent ex- 

 penditures at the same establishment, we should 

 be happy to receive it, and if agreeable, to publish 

 all, or the most important details which might be 

 of use to others engaged in the superintendence 

 of similar inetitutions. 



GRAFTIXG FRUIT TREES. 



Mr Samuel Presto.n of Stockport, Pennsylva- 

 nia, for whose judicious observations we have often 

 been indebted, recommends to let trees grow in 

 the nursery, " and plant them out as natural fruit ; 

 then, when they begin to bear, I go round in the 

 fall and mark such as 1 disapprove of the fruit, and 

 graft them on the limbs the next spring ; and such 

 are the best and most steady bearing trees that I 

 have: they produce p reasonable equal quantity of 

 apples every year, and much larger and fairer thart 

 such trees of the same kind of apple as irregularly 

 bear every other year." 



There is a singular curiosity in Rowan county, 

 N. C. called the A'atural tf'aU. Some have sup- 

 posed it to be an an. lent, artificial wall, but geolo- 

 gists call it a basaltic dyke. 



CARBURETTED HYDROGEN GAS. 



Sir Humphrey Davy has made experiments o» 

 Carburetted Hydrogen Gas, the substance which 

 has been used for lighting the streets in London, 

 and says that in theatres and private apartments 

 it prodcces he&dache and sickness. It may, how- 

 ever, be useful in lighting streets. Its operation- 

 on the human system is, we believe, precisely like 

 that ofthe gas from burning charcoal, which in a 

 close apartment is known to be injurious, and 

 sometimes fatal. 



The largest steam packet built in England is 

 called the United Kingdom, of 1063 tons, of two 

 engines of 100 horse-power each. 



Oats. — The crop of oats has been so abundant 

 in Pennsylvania, that six and a quarter cents per 

 bushel could not be obtained for them at Pittsburg 

 a short time since ! 



