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Vol. V No. 10. 



riiicc'iOii, ami wliicli have never been j-okoil — 

 The coiu'.minicalion being roaii it vv;is orderi'd, 

 hat the thanks ot'the BoirJ in behalf of the oily 

 )c presented to M: Bo^ltton for his liberal don:i- 

 ioii. — lios. Pal. 



The Rockinjhr.m Agrieiiltural Society met at 

 C.voter on the 1.-th nit. 3'hc exhibitions thongh 

 in some respects; iuforior to tliose of former j'ears, 

 ivcre in .others better. The working o.\en and 

 3 attracted particular attention. Owing lo a 

 mistake in giving notice, the .«ho\v was not in all 

 respects equal, nor the attendance of the citi-ens 

 o general as might otherwise have been expsct- 



.1. The address, by .Tr.nies Thorn, Esq. was list- 

 ened to \. ith much gratification, and it is hoped 

 til it ho will comply with the example of his predc- 

 cps.^ors in permitting it to be published. 



Tlic officers elected for the ensuing year, are — 



Bradbury CiUey, President. .lohn Folsora, Vice 

 President. Ichabod Bartlett, Cor. Secretary. — 

 Samuel T. Oilman, Rec. Secretary. Samuel 

 Cushman, Treasurer. Jeremiah Ma.son, Nathan- 

 iel Upham, Nathaniel Gilnian, 3d, .loseph Blake, 

 Levi Lane, John Harvey, Alan.^on Tucker, John 

 Rogers, Benning W. Sanbjru, Directors. 



William Smith, Esq. is appointed to deliver the 

 next annual address. 



VACCINATION. 



The sni.all po.x has been so long a stranger that 

 people care very little about it. The neglect may 

 one of these days be seriously repented, for the 

 disease i,- by no means exterminated, and in a few- 

 years there may be hundreds in this town exposed 

 to it. There is now at the pest house a deci'led 

 ease of ihe small po.x. The medical gentlemen in 

 this town are all of them, We believe, provided 

 with vaccine matter. The expense of vaccination 

 is very little, the sickness pro luced by it a trifle, 

 and the evil to be prevented of very great conse- 

 quejice. The old saying that an ounce of preven- 

 tion is worth a pound of cure, never had a better 

 application, or a more perfect e.xemp itication than 

 in this very matter. Every head ol' a family should 

 con-ider it a duty to see that all under his author- 

 ity is guarded in this way agaii.st the small pox, 

 not merely on their own accounts, but for ti.e gen- 

 era! safety. It is a kindness which providcsAe 

 .•seems to offer and which like many otijcr favottrs 

 is but too little'regarded. — Con. .Mirror. 



From the Hampshire Gazelle. 



CATTLE SHOW. 

 The Hampshire, Franklin and Hanipden Ag- 

 ricultural Society held its annual meeting at North- 

 ampton, on the 11th ult. There Tiere many con- 

 current circumstances unfavourable to the interest 

 which is usually felt and reciprocated upon such an 

 occasion. We only mention the time, which was 

 by ten or twelve days earlier than usual, and when 

 our farmers are generally engaged and particular- 

 ly were they this year in securing their crops, and 

 before the feeders upon the river were ready to 

 nihkc their purcliases for the st.nll. This was ow- 

 ini'- to a mistake and mis'pprehension of the Com 

 mit'ee with reference to the meeting of other So- 

 cieties The day, however, was fine and the num- 

 ber of competitors srreater than was expected. Af 

 tcr the various committees had executed the com- 

 missions with w.'iicii they were charge'', the So- 

 ciety lepaired to the church, where, besi.'es trie 

 usual religious exercises, they were favored with 



an address from the Hon. Mark Doolittle, which 

 vas e.xceedingly appropriate and interesting, and 

 cannot fail to be useful. As the Society have ten- 

 dered him a vote of thanks, and rciiucsted of him 

 a copy for publication, we hope soon to be able to 

 phice the address in the hands of those who had 

 noi an opportunity to hear it. After the exercises 

 in the church, the Society paitook of a .'inner 

 served up in rich abundance and in fine order by 

 Mr J imcs Curtis. 



The premiums have never been awarded upon 

 articles better entitled to them than they were 

 this yeai\ The cattle and the young stock were 

 very superior. The swine, also, among the most 

 useful and necessary of animals, were, in compar- 

 ison with any hen^tolore e.xhibited, of a perfect 

 kind. The inteilij.'ent committee upon manufac- 

 rures, in their department, speak for themselves. 



REPORT O.N MANUFACTURES. 



The committee on manufactures report,that there 

 has been gretit improvement made in the quality of 

 the articles presented for premiums this year over 

 that of any former exhibition. The number of ar- 

 ti,-ies w:is smaller than on other anniversaries. — 

 fulled cloths are improved greatly in their manu- 

 facture. The dressed flannels are of the finest 

 wool, complete in their manufacture, and command 

 general admiration. The cnssimere shawls are 

 well manufactured and of the most brilliant scar- 

 let. There w'ere three pieces of Scotch plaid ex- 

 hibited, all of which shew great skill in their man- 

 ufacture and much taste in the selection and ar- 

 rKngemcnt of the colors. As it respects the floor 

 and stair carpets, it is enough to say that they 

 maintain the high standing, which those presented 

 last year gained ; and it is gratifying to sec them 

 sought after, as the most durable and cheap car- 

 pets ROW in market. The hearth rugs were much 

 admired for their beauty and appearance of dura- 

 bility, and it is our duty to state, that tho.;e manu- 

 factured by Mrs and Miss Thayer of Greenfield, 

 although they did not obtain the highest premiums 

 were considered by your committee as manufac- 

 tured upon the best and most economical principle. 

 Tliey were wholly worked in the loom, and had 

 more attention been paid in the selection of fig- 

 ures and colors, no otl'.ers that were offered would 

 have been able to compete with <heiii, and we 

 would recommend that mode of manufacturing 

 them in preference to any other that jve have 

 seqn. The articles of v'oclen and worst.°d hose 

 have generally been very superior; but for strength 

 and softness of v.-ool those made by Hannah Cook 

 and Lucy Davis excel any that have been offered 

 before to this Society. The industry and skill of 

 the ladies is elegantly displayed in the needle 

 v.'ork upon lace and muslin as well as upon the 

 more substantial articles. They give abundant 

 proof in the household manufactures that while the 

 husbandman is in the field the house is not neg- 

 lected. The butter and cheese offered this year, 

 is greater than the last, and as for its quality, we 

 may safely challenge -any part of our country, or 

 any other, to e.xcel it. Let the cheeses made by 

 Mrs Slebbins of Conway, weijhing from 70 to 80 

 pounds each, after they have arrived at a proper 

 age, be compared with the best English cheese, 

 and we do not think they would be second best. — 

 The miscidlaneous articles offered for gratuitous 

 premiums, have mo.stly obtained them, for in gen- 

 eral they were very superior. The model of a 

 machine for turning broom and rake handles, pre- 

 sented by William Patrick of Leverett, was new 



i2r, 



to your counnittee, appeared to them to be deserv- 

 ing of the attention of the Society. They have 

 awarded him a premium of five dollars. 



Vour committee will forbear to particularize any 

 further, although much more is due to many of the 

 competitors. J. SHEPHERD, per order. 



JVOTICES 'OF E.YGUslTpATKjy'T IJV- 



yj::jvrioM<s, s,-c. 



Thomas Hancock of London has obtained a pat- 

 ent, "for a new and improved manufacture which 

 may in many instances be used as a substitute for 

 leather." I'he substance of the specification is as 

 follows. The invention consists " in filling, satu- 

 rating, and cointiining various fibrous substances 

 in their manufactureil and unmanufactured state 

 with a composition which leaves to the fibres suffi- 

 ci.'ut flexibility.and at the same time unices and con- 

 soli iates them into a mass, thereby increasing their 

 strength and durability, and producing, by these 

 means, a manufacture which may be in nianv in- 

 stances substituted for leather, and be applied to 

 otl;er useful purposes, such as soles for shoes and 

 boots, hose, pipes, pails, and other articles which 

 have heiotofore been made of leather; and also 

 to other useful purposes, such as the roofs of vi- 

 randas, corn and flour sacks, packing cloths, and 

 tarpaulings. The fibrous substances I employ in 

 this manufacture are wools, cotton, hair, silk, flax, 

 hemp, carded, combed, <.r hackled, and combined 

 with the E.ime substances, woven or manufactured. 

 As the same process is applicable to all the combi- 

 nations, it will be necessary to describe the meth- 

 od I pursue in one case only, as any variation may 

 be made in amnging the different substances, at 

 the discretion of the operator : — I take a piece of 

 cotton cloth of any convenient .si .e, and strain it 

 on a board, au'' spread over it v.ith a spatula, or 

 other convenient instrument, a full coating of the 

 compound, to be herein after described. I then 

 spread on or over the compound a layer of carded 

 cotton, somewhat siudlar to the article known by 

 the name of wadding, spreading over this again 

 another piece of cotton cloth prepared as the first. 

 I then submit the whole to sufficient pressure be- 

 tween boards or plates of metal, cither passing 

 them through or betv.cen rollers or otherwisr, to 

 force the composition quite through the layer of 

 carded cotton, I then carefully remove it from the 

 boards or plates, and leave it to dry either in the 

 open air, or in a warm room, heated to eighty or 

 ninety degrees of temperature, and proceed to 

 make others in the same manner. When 1 per- 

 ceive that they are nearly or quite dry, I again 

 submit them to the press ; or if one of these stra- 

 ta is not sufficient to make up the thickness I re- 

 quire, 1 put two, three, or four, or more together, 

 spreading the said compound on the surfaces again 

 if necessary, and increasing the pressure. After 

 they have been in the press some hours, they may 

 again be exposed to the air or returned to the 

 warm room to complete the drying, and if neces- 

 sary pressed again. When I wish to have the 

 carded cotton for either or both surfaces, I care- 

 ful y separate at the end of two or more pressings, 

 the l.Hst layer or layers of cloth from the cotton 

 below it ; soon after I take it out of the press, as 

 it will then separate, and proceed as before des- 

 cribed. In this manner I introduce into this man- 

 ufacture, hair, wool, silk, hemp, and the like, or 

 any mixture of these fibrous substances, or any or 

 all of them, mixed with chopped hemp or tow, and 

 carded to"-ether ; or I hackle or comb hemp or 

 fiax, and lay the fibres parallel v\ ith each other. 



