Vol. 1.— No. 52. 



AMD GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



411 



Shkep. — [t appears from the returns made t. 

 the Valuation Committee, that there are 300,682 

 sheep in Massachusetts, and that each county 

 owns of them as follows 



Berkshire, 99,353 



hire, 51,711 

 Franklin, 46,373 

 Worcester, 41,100 

 Hampden, 34,320 

 Bristol, 17,099 

 Plymouth, 14,603 



Dukes, 11,692 

 Barnstable, 10,868 

 Middlesex, 10,777 

 Essex, 9,200 

 Nantucket, 6,134 

 Norfolk, 3,639 

 Suffolk 520 



jiib flow from day to day, the business be- 

 comes a mere chaos, frequently shifting, and 

 sometimes at a stand, for want of knowing 



hat to do, or the manner of doing it. Thus 

 ts occasioned a waste of nine, which is 

 more importance than is generally imagin 

 ed. 



" Nothing can so effectually obviate H 

 evil, as an established system, made knowi 

 to all who are actors in it, Wat all may !>• 



nabled thereby to do their parts to advani 

 age. This gives ease to the principal, coi. 



uctor of the business, and is more satisfac 



Froin ihe s>w-York Firmer. 



CONVENTION 



In the City of Albany, fur the Organization 

 of a Stale Agricultural Society. 

 Sir— In your paper of the 17th inst., 1 

 am pleased to ohseive renewed intimation; 

 of the expediency of organizing Slate ami 

 County Agriculture Societies. As this sub- 

 ject has been too little attended to amid tin 

 many associations having for their object 

 the advancement of the Country's good, I 

 hope some public spirited and experienced 

 minds will revise and mature a sensible, 

 practical and popular plan, which shall tend 

 to concentrate some of the. agricultural tal- 

 ent, experience and enterprise of this grea' 

 State — we are behind the age and behind 

 some of our sister States in our agriculture, 

 while soil and facilities are such as offer ev 

 ery encouragement to the cultivator. 



I am opposed to asking the State for any 

 aid, whatever, for the support of an Agri 

 cultural Society, believing that there issuffi 

 dent public spirit in the community to main- 

 tain such an organization as is required, 

 without any foreign assistance. As you have 

 solicited correspondents to lend you their 

 views on this subject, I will briefly state 

 mine, that, it is highly expedient that a con 

 vention be held the present winter, in the 

 City of Albany, being central, composed of 

 individuals from the various counties of tin 

 State, engaged or interested in agriculture 

 whose business it shall be to form a Stale 

 Agricultural Society. I therefore propose 

 that such a Convention be announced ii 

 your paper, to take place at the City of Al- 

 bany, on the fourteenth day of February 

 next, 1832. 

 Saratoga County, Dec. \st, 1S51. 



Remarks: — The above is from a very re 

 spectable source. We hope Editors in eve 

 ry county of the State will notice the day 

 and use their influence to have delegates 

 sent to Albany. In some instances, perhaps 

 it will be found expedient to appoint mem 

 bersof the Legislature to the Convention. 



We should be pleased to have not only a 

 "sensible, practical ;,ud popular plan," but 

 hints and suggestions on the formation o 

 State and County Societies. — Ed. 



ry to the persons who immediately ovei 

 look it, less harrassing to the laborers, a 

 well as more beneficial to the e.mployer."--- 

 [VVashington's Agricultural Notes. 



System in farming ---A system closely 

 pursued, although it may not in all its parts 

 be the best that could be devised, is attended 

 with innumerable advantages. The eon- 

 iluctor of the business, in this case, can nev- 

 er be under any dilemma in his proceedings. 

 The overseers, and even the laborers, know 

 what is to be done, and what they are capa 

 ble of doing, in ordinary seasons. The 

 (bice to be employed may be in due propor- 

 tion to the work which is to be performed 

 and a reasonable and tolerably accurate es 



SAYINGS FOR FARMERS. 



BY DR. FRAK.LIN. 



1. Sloth like rust, consumes faster than 

 labor wears, whilst the used key is always 

 bright. 



2. Dost thou loie life? Then do n«i 

 squander fime.for that is the stuff lile is made 

 of. 



8. The sleeping fox catches no poultry. 



4. He that riseth late must trot all day 

 and shall scarec overtake his business a 



ight. 



5. Early to bed and early to rise, 

 Makes a man healthy, and wealthy, and 



wise. 



6. He that lives upon hope will die faint 

 ing — industry need not wish. 



7. There are no gains without pains, 

 it. At the working man's house (lunge 



looks ni, but never enters. 



9. Plough deep, while sluggards sleep, am 

 yon shall have corn to sell or keep 



10. One to-day is worth two to-morrows. 



11. Handle your tools without mitten — s: 

 cat in gloves catches no mice. 



12. He that by the plough would thrive, 

 Himself must either hold or drive. 



13. The eye oi a masier will do mor 

 work than both his hands. Not to oversee 

 workmen is to leave them your purse open. 



14. A little neglect may breed a grea 

 nischief — for want of a nail Ihe shoe wa 

 lost, and for want of a horse the rider w i 

 lost. 



15. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. 



16. If you would be rich, think of saving 

 as well as getting. 



17. What maintains one vice would briin 

 tip two children. 



18. Beware of little expenses — a smal 

 leak will sink a great ship. 



19. If you would know the want of mon 

 ey, go and try to borrow some — for he tha 

 goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. 



20. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and 

 a great deal more saucy. 



21. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined 

 with poverty, and supped with infamy. 



22. Lying rides on debt's back. 

 _ It is hard for an empty bag to stand 



upright. 



21. Creditors have better memories than 

 debtors. 



25. For age and want save what you may. 

 No morning's sun lasts the whole day. 



2C. Rather go to bed supperless than rise 

 in debt. 



27. If you do not hear reason, she will 

 surely rap your knuckles. 



28. He that hath a trade hath an estate 



profit and honor. A plowman on his legs is 

 higher than a gentleman on his knees. 



'Knowledge for the People.' 1 — Lilly and 

 Wait, and Carter and Hendee, have just re- 

 published the fourth number of this delight- 

 ful little work. It is devoted to zoology ; 

 the modes and habits of life of birds, expla- 

 nations of the phenomena of their flight, 

 migration a fcc. W e consider this one of the 

 nost popular and truly useful publications 

 of the day. The following extract it taken 

 from the present No. — N. E. Farmer. 



Birds are extremely important creatures 

 in the economy of Nature in general ; al- 

 though their immediate utility to mankind is 

 . finitely less than th^t of mammifera. — 

 1'ney destroy innumerable insects; and the 

 thoughtless extripation of some birds, suppo- 

 sed to be noxious, as sparrows, crows, &c, 

 in many districts, has generally given rise to 

 an infinitely more prejudicial multiplication 

 of vermin. Other birds destroy larger ani- 

 n. ds, as field-mice, snakes, frogs, lizards, or 

 sonsume carrion. Many extripate weeds. 

 On the other hand, they assist the increase 

 nd propogation of animals as well as plants. 

 For instance, it is known that wild-ducks, 

 in their emigrations, carry impregnated 

 pawn into the remote ponds, he, and thus 

 tock them with fish. [Insects have also 

 been known to stock ponds on hills with fish. 

 The large water-beetle, which feeds upon 

 the spawn of fish, occasionally in the eve- 

 ina, climbs up the steins of rushes, kc. out 

 f the water, so as to take wing ; in these 

 circumstances it has been caught, and, on 

 being put into water, has ben found to give 

 int the spawn with which it h; d gorged it- 

 ;elf previous to taking flight, both in a di- 

 ;ested and undigested state; so that, on tri- 

 il, it has been found to produce fish of vari- 

 ous kinds — Jameson. J Many birds swallow 

 ds which are subsequently expelled 

 whole, and thus extensively dispersed; as 

 p doves of Banda, with be nutmeg. The 

 excrement of sea-birds manures bare cliffs 

 nd coasts, so as to rtnder them capable of 

 producing useful plants. Many species of 

 falcons may he taught for the cnase, as well 

 as the cormorant for taking fish. Many 

 fds, together with their eggs, fat. &c, 



fiinate may be made of the product. 

 But when no plan is fixed, when direc- and he that hath a calling hath a place of 



serve for food ; the entire skins of sea-birds 

 for the clothing of many Northern nations ; 

 ihe feathers for stuffing eds, for writing, for 

 va ions and often costly ornaments; in 

 which respect, also, they form an important 

 article of trade among many savage people, 

 particularly the islanders of the Pacific O- 

 eean . — Blumenbach. 



Horrid case of Intemperance. — The Port- 

 land Courier of Wednesday says, yesterday 

 asmoke was issuing from a house in Centre 

 street which showed it to be on fire. An 

 alarm was given and people went in. The 

 chamber from which the smoke came was 

 fastened, and the inmates could not be pre- 

 vailed upon to open it. The door was forc- 

 ed open, when a sight most shocking was 

 presented. A man was lying on the bed so 

 drunk as to be unable to move, the woman 

 was also intoxicated and raving about the 

 room, cursing and swearing like, a ma.iiac, 

 and in the cradle was a little child burning to 

 diath." 



The clothes and pillow in the cradle were 

 much burnt, and the physician who was call- 

 ed in considered it doubtful whether the 

 child would recover. The family was given 

 in charge to the overseers of the pool;. 



