VoK 1.— No. 32. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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held at \V. Dittrick's, in St. Catharines, on 

 the first Saturday in October next, for the 

 purpose of deciding upon the amount of 

 Premiums to be offered at the said Fairs, 

 &c. 



Resolved, That the Treasurer be directed 

 to pay to the Proprietor of the "Genesee 

 Farmer," published at Rochester, N. Y. the 

 sum of £2, for four copies, weekly, of that 

 publication, to be addressed and forwarded 

 as follows, viz : — one to James Cummings, 

 Esq. Chippawa; one to Mr. John M'Far- 

 land, Niagara ; one to Dr. Cyrus Sumner, 

 Clinton; (Grimsby P- O.) and one to 

 George Adams, Esq. St. Catharines. Said 

 papers to remain in the care of the officers 

 to whom they are addressed, for the sole 

 benefit of the society ; and no member to 

 be allowed the perusal of each paper more 

 than two days at a lime. 



Resolved, That subscription papers be for- 

 warded to the Vice Presidents and Direct- 

 ors uf the Society, throughout the District, 

 for the purpose of raising the £50 required 

 by the Statute. 



GEO. ADAMS, President. 



Sam'l. Wood, Secretary. 



MR. COKE OF NORFOLK — THE GREAT ENG- 

 LISH farmer. 

 The New-York Enquirer, after complain- 

 ing that this distinguished member of the 

 English commonalty should, as report says 

 of him, accept a peerage, adds some memo- 

 randa of his enterprise and success as an ag- 

 riculturist. The statements, we presume, 

 are substantially, if not perfectly correct, as 

 they correspond to what we have learned 

 from other sources. 



A good deal has been said lately in our 

 papers, about the cost of elections in Eng- 

 land; perhaps the case of Mr. Coke may 

 not be generally known ; as we never see it 

 mentioned, we suppose this to be the case. — 

 His last contest for Norfolk cost him £75,- 

 000, or about g35').0u0. and once it cost him 

 £90,000, or about §375,000. including ex- 

 change. 



Cut how can he endure such enormous 

 expenditures and what is the object reaily 

 worth ? As we are apt to measure worth in 

 this country, the object is worth just nothing 

 at all, being productive only of further and 

 considerable expense, without emolument 

 or profit. Wealthy men, however, in that 

 country as in this, love power, and are wil- 

 ling to pay for it; love to lay out their mon- 

 ey on something — no matter what — which 

 other people cannot afford. Hence the ge- 

 ometrical ratio in which diamonds are esti- 

 mated ; hence the value of a white elephant 

 in the East, even to a monarch; hence the 

 extravagant price we pay for cashmere 

 shawls, blohd laces, &c. k.c. — no one of 

 which would be thought half as beautiful, if 

 they cost but half as much. But how can 

 Mr. Coke afford to throw away so much mo- 

 ney ? Simply because he is a great farmer, 

 who has lived long enough to enjoy the re- 

 sults of experiments made in his youth, — to 

 eat of the tree that his hands planted half a 

 century ago. When he came into possess- 

 ion of the estate he ^as poor, and the estate 

 poorer. The whole was not worth £2,000 

 a year ; what it is now, he himself has made 

 it. There were 11,000 acres of land lying 

 waste, which had been let for three shillings 

 an acre. When the lease expired, the man 

 who had it would not offer more than two 

 shillings an acre for arenewal. " No," said 



Mr. C, "I will keep it to breed pheasants 

 and game in — it will be worth more than 

 two shillings an acre to my friends, if not to 

 me." The man would give no more, and 

 Mr. Coke went forthwith to planting oak, 

 larch, and sweet chesnut, as they call it there, 

 to distinguish it from the horse chesnut — o- 

 ver the whole of his magnificent reserve. — 

 He persisted, year after year, until he had 

 covered the whole ; and when he came to 

 to be married, it was valued by competent 

 appraisers, with a view to the marriage set- 

 tlement, at £220,000. In the county of 

 Norfolk, he owns over 60,000 acres of land, 

 either under a high state of cultivation or 

 well worked; 5000 acres of which he actu- 

 ally farms out on his own account, — it is e- 

 leven miles round his park. When he be- 

 gan to revolutionize Holkham, fifty years a- 

 go, it cost him ten thousand dollars a year 

 for timber to keep his fences and buildings 

 in repair, (apart from his own house, that 

 being a palace, and fitted for the wear and 

 tear of centuries ;) but within the last eigh- 

 teen years, he is not only able to supply him- 

 self with timber, but to sell about twenty 

 thousand dollars worth of poles every year, 

 from clearings which are continually made, 

 where the smaller growths get crowded, or 

 the larger trees interfere with one another. 

 For the last twenty years, he has regularly 

 planted one hundred acres, every yeai, with 

 timber trees. He has five regular auctions 

 a year, and puts up these poles in lots of 260. 

 The timber is in high credit, and the sales 

 average about §4000 each, of 820.000 a 

 year. The monthly expenses of his estab- 

 lishment at Holkham, is about §5000 ; keeps 

 70 servants, 45 being men servants. In a 

 word, he is thebttilder of his own private for- 

 tunes — a .strong-minded, straight-forward, 

 useful man, a self-made philosopher, and 

 what is more, a practical farmer; living un- 

 der that extraordinary system of poor laws, 

 where men are bribed to pauperism and pre- 

 cipitate marriage, he has contrived to keep 

 the while counttv, fir and wide, in a healthy 

 state, by the mere in uence of a quiet and 

 sober example. What had such a man to do 

 with a peerage? 



From thn Western ''louyh Boy. 

 Mr. Editor: — In your last Ploughboy, 

 I observed ,ui interrogatory ; *' has no gen- 

 tleman in St. Louis, the Buffalo Berry ?" — 

 There is one in my garden, about four years 

 old, which has not yet produced a single 

 berry. Dr. Farrar has several of these 

 shrubs older, and perhaps, ijaay bear this 

 year. If you know of any persons "ho wish 

 to cultivate the grape, such as the " Cape," 

 " Red Madeira," Arkansas, and a grape of 

 good character, from El Passo, a village be- 

 tween Santa Fe and Durango, they may have 

 them from me gratis, next November. I 

 should have timely notice, through you. I 

 have been obliged to distribute most of my 

 collection. The balance on hand I wish to 

 give those who will make good use of them, 

 and divide with their neighbors. Would to 

 God our agriculturists would attend more 

 to many articles you have named in your val- 

 uable paper. The gooseberry and currant 

 make valuable and cheap wines. The Eng- 

 lish make more champaigne wine from their 

 gooseberries, than the French from their 

 grapes, and a most elegant imitation. I 

 would engage 100 slips of the large English 

 gooseberry next November, on the same 

 terms as the grape slips, to any person who 

 will engage earnestly in the business. They 

 i 



are the genuine kind for making cham- 

 paigne wine, green and delicious when ripe, 

 and as large as hickory nuts. Some of the 

 bushes have now upwards of half a bushel 

 on each. They do not grow as large as the 

 wild, or native bush, nor are they as hardy 

 as in England. A. 



St. Louis, June 24, 1831. 



From the Western Ploughboy. 



Mr. Sawyer : — In the fore part of May 

 last, I had a valuable horse seized with the 

 botts, and in a few moments was evidently 

 in the greatest agony imaginable. My wife 

 immediately referred me to the cure publish- 

 ed in the second number, page sixteen of 

 the Ploughboy. I immediately tried it, but 

 was compelled to sweeten the milk with su- 

 gar. In a few moments after I drenched 

 my horse with about three pints of it, he ev- 

 idently was better and relieved of his dis- 

 tress , got up, shook himself, and whicker- 

 ed after ether horses. 



At this time a horse doctor arrived, whom 

 I had previously sent for, and like a bold 

 Jacksonian, said he went the 'whole hog' 

 for the spirits of turpentine. I told him I 

 thought the horse better, but leit it for him 

 to say, as I was no horse doctor. He insis- 

 ted on giving :he spirits of turpentine by 

 drenching. My horse's head. was then rein- 

 ed up, and a half pint of the spirits turpen- 

 tine poured into his right nostril, (as he re- 

 fused to swallow it when turned into his 

 month) and the effect was distressing. I ob- 

 served to the doctor, the turpentine would be 

 most likely to go into his lungs while his 

 head was in that position; but the reply was 

 no; with a nod of wisdom, as if the gods di- 

 rected him. But, alas ! for my poor horse ! 

 The application was a fatal one. He was 

 seized while in the hand of the know-eve- 

 ry- thing, and yet know-nothing doctor, 

 with a distressing cough ; it continued, and 

 on the fourth or fifth day, his lungs were in 

 a high state of inflammation, his breathing 

 was laborious, his eyes were glassy, his thirst 

 insupportable, his hoofs dry and crumbling, 

 his mine began to fall off.thin stranguary en- 

 sued, dimness of sight stiffnpssof the joints, 

 serous blisters were on various parts of his 

 body, deafness, suffusion of mucus in the 

 bronchia or windpipe, total blindness and 

 death. Thus ended the services of a most 

 valuable horse, th?t fell a victim to the ca- 

 price of a braggadocio mountebank. Let 

 the owners of property be careful, who they 

 employ to doctor their horses, as well as 

 themselves and families. 



Since the death of my horse, 1 have con- 

 versed with a very intelligent man, who tells 

 me he lost a very valuable horse by drench- 

 ing with spirits of turpentine, in the same 

 manner, and that he died with precisely the 

 same symptoms. He is a man of undoubted 

 veracity, by the name of Johnson, and lives 

 in this county. 



N. B. I have tried the milk and honey of 

 late in a case of botts. and it produced im- 

 mediate relief. I believe it to be an infalli- 

 ble remedy when followed with physic, it is 

 a remedy that carries reason with t : and 

 no other should be made use of. 



Dear Sir: — I have written the above in 

 a great hurry ; but, if you think it worthy the 

 columns of your useful Ploughboy, give it a 

 place. I shall be in Edwardsville shortly, 

 and will pay you then for my paper and shall 

 not think it lost money. Yours, 



DANIEL ROBERTS 



Sandy Bluffs, Morgan, co. 111. 



