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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. fi, 1826. 



NEW ENGLAND FAR MER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1826. 



all St. Boston, were on MoniUiy evening. 



SOBSTANTIAI, COMPLIMENT. 



We beg leave to proffer our most grateful ac- 

 knowledgments to the Rhode Island Society for 

 the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, for the 

 efficient testhnony of their approbation which they 

 have manifested in the following vote. Our ut- 

 most efforts sliall not be wanting to justify the fa- 

 vourable opinion which their deeds as well as 

 words have expressed of the .Wew England Far- 

 mer. 



" At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the 

 Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of 

 Domestic Industry — 



" Voted, That Mess. Wm. Rhodes and Thomas 

 BuFFUM be a Committee to procure 1.50 copies of 

 the fifth volume of the New England Farmer, — 

 the same being for the use of the members of the 

 Society." 



FRUIT TREES. 



When farmers raise their own fruit trees from 

 the seed (as they will in time if they rightly com- 

 prehend their own interest) it is never worth while 

 to graft them in the nursery. Let them grow till 

 you can ascertain what sort of fruit they will nat- 

 urally produce. The famous Baldwin, or Pecker 

 apple was a come-by-chance. Had the original 

 tree been cut off and grafted near the ground, ac- 

 cording to the usual proceeding in nurseries, the 

 public could never have been benefitted by that 

 valuable fruit. Mr Upham of Newton, gave us an 

 apple whicli grew on a tree spontaneously produc- 

 ed on his premises, which has as fine a flavour as 

 any apple we have tasted tliis season. An e.\peri- 

 enced nursery man assures us that the best way 

 to manage with apple seeds intended for sowing is 

 to keep them in the fruit throiigli the winter, and 

 sow them in the spring. 



STAGGERS IN SWINE. 



A friend of the Editor, who is an experienced 

 agriculturist, says that he is of opinion that the 

 staggers in swine are sometimes, if not always, 

 the consequence of feeding them with swill, in 

 which salt-petre is a constituent part. That he 

 has had several hogs which slackened, and some of 



them died, with that disorder, the origin of whose j gj^^^^^ ^^^^ Exhibition of said Society, will be hoi 

 distemper could be traced to a certam time and ^^^^^ ^^ ^j^^ village of Pawtuxet. on Monday the i»th, 

 occasion, in which they were fed with the liquor 

 in which a ham cured with salt-petre had been 



in the uoor-yaru of iVii .ior. 

 Merchant's Coflee-House, Lini 

 raised the present season, beans of a sort new to 

 us, but which we are informed were originally 

 from South America and are here called snake 

 beans. One of the pods of these beans is 24 inch- 

 es in lengtli — and many others lack but little of 

 that length. — Mr Seth Bemis, of Watertown, Ms. 

 has presented to us two apples, Rhode Island 

 Greenings, one weighing ].5|, the other 15 ounces. 



From a melon vine, produced from one seed, in 

 the garden of Dr. IJolbrook, on Milton Hill, were 

 obtained three water melons, the whole weight of 

 which was 8.3J pounds ; one melon weighing 23 

 pounds, a second 20, and the third 31 J pounds. 



A water melon which grew the present season 

 in tlie Garden of R. H. Gardiner, Esq. of Gardi- 

 ner, Maine, in circumference the smallest way was 

 38 inches, but measured lengthwise, it girted 44J 

 inches, and weighed 31^ pounds. 



A single Squash Seed, accidentally dropped in 

 the garden of Nath'l Southworth Esq. of Lyme, 

 N. H. has produced, during the past season, by ac- 

 curate measurement, 462 feet of vine, and the e- 

 normous number of 600 squashes. Besides these, 

 which are mostly full grown and fit for use, there 

 still remain an abundance of smaller squashes, too 

 inferior to notice, and too numerous to count. 



The Cucumber, an account of which was given 

 in our paper of the 13th inst. now measures eight 

 feet nine inches and a quarter. [Haverhill paper.] 



An English Turnip was raised this season in 

 Concord by Mr. Farwell, which weighed 11 pounds, 

 and measured -39 inches in circumference. 



CONCORD (mass.) CATTLE SHOW. 



We are informed that things are in a promising 

 train for producing an excellent Cattle Show, &c. 

 at Concord on the 11th inst. Among other oxiii-j 

 bitions will be those of trials of strength and do- 

 cility in oxen, in drawing loaded wagons. This 

 we believe will be a novelty in the annals of the 

 Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufac- 

 turers ; and we advise Messrs Everybody,- & Co. 

 to present themselves as spectators on the occa- 

 sion. 



vlio keeps the Workin;,' 0.\en must be entered before 9 o'clod 



pit' 



The Ploughing Match will commence on Tue 

 day morning, at 10 o'clock, and immediately ail 

 the other trials of Working Oxen. 



The reports of the Viewing Committees mustj 

 in readiness for the Standing Committee on Tue 

 day at 12, M. precisely. 



At 2, P. M. on Tuesday, the premiums will 

 declared in the Society's Hall, after which 

 Auction sale of premium articles will take plad 



The owners of Working Oxen, or Cattle exh| 

 ited in the yoke, will bring with them a chain 

 each yoke, to secure them to posts which 

 erected and appropriated for that purpose. , 



Marshals will be appointed, and will be undi 

 oath, and charged with the execution of the 

 rangements, and with the preservation of good i 

 der on the occasion. JOHN B. FRANCISJj 



Sept. 28. Secreta 



Worcester Agricultural Society. 



QJ^The Trustees of this Society are remind! 



that a meeting of the Board stands adjourned j 



Tuesday, the 10th of October, 6 o'clock, P. M. 



the Probate Office. 



WILLIAM D. WHEELER, Rec. Sed 

 Worcester, Oct. 2. 1826. 



(jTj^The Members of the Rhode-Island Society 

 for the Encouragiment of Domestick Industry, are 

 informed that the 7th Annual Meeting, Cattle 



boiled. We cannot say whether our friend is 

 right as respects cither the prognostics or diag- 

 nostics, (as medical men would say,) of this dis- 

 ease. But we would suggest the thing as worth 

 investigation, as it Felates to an animal, which 

 among the more intelligent part of the farming 

 community has more friends than admirers. The 

 remedy for this disorder, ao far as we can learn, 

 most approved of, is '• two table spoonfuls of castor 

 oil, and cutting the end of the tail to make it 

 bleed." See N. E. Farmer, vol. iii. page 396. 



AGRICULTURAL EXTRAS. 



Largest of Jill. — Major Benjumin T. Reed of 

 Marblehead. has left in the office of the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, an apple raised in that town, whicl 

 weighs a little more than 24 ounces ! This apple 

 is anonymous, an^i it is said that neither its origin 

 or pedigree has been traced. The tree v/hich pro- 

 ducc-'l it yields bountifully, and most of its apples 

 weigh 16 or 16 ounces each. 



and Tuesday the 10th, of October. 



All entries for premiums (excepting working 

 Oxen) at any time previous to Saturday, the 7th of 

 October, must be made to the Secretaries of the 

 Show, or directed to them and left at the Post-Oftice 

 in Providence or Pawtuxet. All entries on Sat- 

 urday, 7th, and after that day, are to be made to 

 the Secretaries of the Show, who may be found 

 at the Hall of the .Society, and no entries will be 

 received after 9, A. M. on Monday. 



All manufactured articles must be deposited at 

 the Fair House on Friday or Saturday. 



The General Meeting of the Society for the 

 clioice of Officers will be holden on Monday pt 

 9, A. M. 



At 11, A. M. a procession will be formed, -ind 

 proceed to tlie Meeting House, where an Address 

 will be pronounced by Joseph L. Tillingiiasi', 

 Esq. Tlie procession will be conducted from 

 thence to Aborn's Hotel, where a dinner will be 

 provided ; after dinner the several viewing Com- 

 mittees will proceed to the duties assigned them. 



Bristol Agricultural Society. 

 CJ^-The Cattle Show, Exhibition &c. of 

 Bristol County Agricultural Society, will take 

 place on Tuesday the 31st of October next, instead 

 of tlie 24th, as heretofore notified, in consequence 

 of some circumstances which the Society are un- 

 able to control. per order, 



WM. A. F. SPROAT, Sec'i/.; 

 Taunton, Sept. 25, 1826. 



Rail Road. — Massachusetts is about to enjoj 

 the honor of putting into operation the first rail- 

 road in this country. There is an immense ledge 

 of beautiful granite in the town of Quincy, froiB 

 which llie Bunker Hill Monument Association in- 

 tend to draw the materials for the construction ot 

 their monument. It was found that a railway from 

 the quarry in Quincy to the water's edge, w 

 be of great public advantage, and accordingly 

 act of incorporation was procured, and the ri 

 road commenced in May last. Its whole length 

 is about three miles. It has a stone found^itioii, so 

 as to resist the frost, and the top timbers are fa- 

 ced with iron, on which the rail-read is laid. The 

 whole road is nearly finished, ('ontracts for the 

 delivery of the granite in Boston have already 

 been made. The liberality and public spirit ofi 

 company of the citizens of Boston have supplied 

 the means for the formation of this valuable work. 

 [National Journ d.] 



WHOOPING COUGH. 



It is said tliat a plaster of gum galbanum appli- 

 ed to the breast, cures this complaint. 



The Vergcnnes, (Vt.) Cattle Show on the 22d 

 ult. was well attended, some of the neat c-itfle 

 were very superior. Ti.e articles of domestic inaD- 

 ufacture, though not numerous, gave evidence of 

 increasing skill and improvement. 



The raising of Mulberry trees in Pennsylvaiift, 

 continues to receive attention. The Editor otw 

 Press calciiUitcs tliat in leas than two years, thw 

 will be 200 silk looms at work in Philadelphia. • 



