NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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cultural knowle(Is;<?, forbid the continuance of 

 these indolent and den:r:idin2r opinions. It is 

 perceived that agriculture as well as its coadju- 

 tor, manufactures, is susceptible of great and 

 indefinite improvement, and this improvement 

 cannot be extensively and with due rai)idit_y 

 circulated, and promoted, but by journals pub- 

 lished more frequently, than the formal and 

 stated journals of the several ag'ricultural socie- 

 ties. There is another reason, Ibesides the more 

 frequent opi)ortunities afforded by ncwspa|)ers, 

 and their much more extended circulation.which 

 should give them the preference and make them 

 more extensively useful. The periodical jour- 

 nals have more stateliness and formality — they 

 are composed of essays written in a style more 

 elevated and more learned, than communica- 

 tions in a weekly newspaper commonly are. 

 Many intelligent farmers are therefore deterred 

 from communicating their experiments or sug- 

 gesting their doubts or their inquiries. No man 

 feels the smallest fear of addressing the Editor 

 of a newspaper, secure of secrecy, and equally 

 secure of admission if he suggests any thing in- 

 genious, novel or interesting. 



It would seem to be a paradox, or extremely 

 strange, if while our commercial community 

 consisting at the utmost of 500,000 persons can 

 sustain several hundred newspapers, the agri- 

 cultural interest composed of the residue of the 

 community and amounting to nine millions can 

 support but two or three exclusively devoted to 

 Ogricidture. It would argue less intelligence, 

 less zeal for their best interests, less desire »i' 

 improvement among farmers, all which we be- 

 lieve, and hope not to be the case. The truth 

 we believe to be, that they have never been 

 awakened — that they are more quiet, less ad- 

 venturous, less active, but full as intelligent 

 and full as desirous of improvement when the 

 path is laid open to them. 



We have to be sure had newspapers printed 

 in the interior, and agricultural towns, but they 

 have too often been mere copyists of the news- 

 papers of the metropolis. They have, too often, 

 been meagre and dull, with little original mat- 

 ter, and still less of articles devoted to agricul- 

 ture. Two journals form an exception to this 

 rule — The Plough Boy, printed at Albany, and 

 the American Farmer, printed at Baltimore. — 

 The well merited success of these works en- 

 title the Editors to great praise, and they will 

 have the honor of turning the attention of the 

 public to its most interesting and important con- 

 cern. Whatever success may here;\fter attend 

 agricultural journals will be and ought to be 

 attributed to them in a great degree — but the 

 .expense of postage — the difference in the modes 

 of cultivation in Maryland and New York, ren- 

 der these interesting papers of less value with 

 us, than their intrinsic merits would seem to 

 promise. We want a New England agricultur- 

 al newspaper. It should be centrally placed — 

 and we ask is there any place more convenient 

 than the Metropolis of New England ? We are 

 not citizens of the new city of Boston — we have 

 no local prejudices — but we think that the ag- 

 ricultural societies of Maine, New Ham|)shire, 

 Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massa- 

 chusetts, the cultivation, soil, climate and habits 

 of which are very similar, (taken in a general 

 view) can find no place more convenient for the 

 communication, and dissemination of the exper- 

 iments, essays and ofhcial papers of their sever- 



al societies, and individnals of these states can 

 j as conveniently conmiunicate with the Editor of 

 a paper at Boston as with one at a distance in 

 his own state. 



Having made these remarks favorable to the 

 new paper just published in Boston, we think it 

 proper to add, that we have no connection 

 whatever with the journal, but we believe the 

 Proprietor, and Mr. Fessenden the Editor, per- 

 fectly competent to the undertaking, and that 

 with suitable patronage they will fult'il all the 

 just expectations of the agricultural public. 



Without such aids both by u-ay of subscripiion 

 and of communication on the subject of agriculture, 

 </((,v, and every other such undertaking must neces- 

 sarily fail — with them, they must succeed. Noth- 

 ing in New England ever failed, to which she 

 put forth her force with perfect good will. 



We are happy to remark, that a respectable 

 paper edited at Plymouth, called the " Old 

 Colony Memorial," devotes a part of its pages 

 to agriculture. A writer in that paper with 

 the signature of " Monumet" asks, "• is there 

 " no method of staying the ravages of the worm 

 " that is devastating our grass and our corn- 

 " fields ? What is their history ? Is their pro- 

 " duction or their progress in any way connect- 

 " ed with the excessive dryness of the season ? 

 " Why have they a singular distaste for shade 

 " or moisture, leaving a verdant circle round 

 " every tree, and making an exact line of de- 

 " marcation between meadows and upland ?" 



While we must commend the spirit of inquiry 

 and the desire of improvement and of obviating 

 existing evils which check the laliors of the 

 farmer discovered by this querist, the writer of 

 these queries will we are convinced excuse us, 

 for expressing our regret, that he did not give 

 us more precise descriptions of the insect which 

 has proved to be thus injurious. If he has as- 

 certained, that it was a worm, which produced 

 this devastation, he might have described its 

 length, its color, and its first appearance, and 

 duration. Is it the same worm, which attacks 

 the grass, and the corn ? A worm, which should 

 destroy or injure Indian corn in August, must 

 be an important enemy, and should be describ- 

 ed. Let us intreat our farming brethren when 

 they meet with such an insect to preserve a 

 few of them in phials, that they may be exam- 

 ined by naturalists. A FARMER. 



Roxbury, Sept. 3d. 



LATEST FROM EUROPE. 



London papers have been received at this port, by 

 the ship Champion, which bring dates from that place 

 as late as July 31. They contain little matter of in- 

 terest. Tranquillity appears to be in a great measure 

 restored to Spain, and the national militia, who had 

 been encamped in Madrid from the 1st to the 17th of 

 July, broke up at the last mentioned date, and retired 

 to their homes. It is reported, however, that two di- 

 visions of French troops had crossed the frontier, and 

 entered the Spanish territory. It is thought that these 

 movements will serve to unite the Spaniards in fa%'or of 

 the popular cause. The French soldiers too, it is said, 

 have expressed an unwillingness to oppose tlie progress 

 of freedom in Spain. 



The Greelis appear to be stemming the torrent of 

 oppression with some prospect of eventual success in 

 the acquisition of freedom. They are said to have 

 burnt, on the y^d of June, the Turkish admiral's ship, 

 and two others, aud it is stated that the Capt. Pacha, 

 who commanded at Scio, during the infliction of the 

 barbarities w'hich have desolated that island, has lost 

 his life by the fire, which consumed his ship. The 

 Greeks promise their troops lauds seouestered from the 

 Turks. 



The distress of the Irish for want of Ibod api cars to 

 be but little if in any degree mitigated. 



The llrilish I'arliament has made an appropriation 

 for publishing by authority, a uniform and regular cdi 

 tion of British History. It is expected to cost about 

 9000 dollars a year. 



The fever in JVi w York continues to prevail, notwith- 

 standing the removal of the inhabitants from the quar- 

 ter in which the disease made its first appearance. On 

 the 30th Aug. were reported 4 new cases — 31st, 3 — 

 Sept. 1st, 4 — 2d, 4 — 3d, 6. A very considerable part 

 of the population has left the city. 



LAW OF PATENTS. 



CHARLES EWER, Ao. 51, Cornhill, has juUjnih- 



lished, price $3,.'j0, hound, 



AN ESSAY ON THE LAW OF PATENTS FOR 

 NEW INVENTIONS. Bi TnoMAs Gr££j< 

 FF.ssE.fDEN, Counsellor at Law. 



" As the West Indies had never been discovered, 

 "without the discovery of the Mariner's Needle ; so it 

 " cannot seem strange, if Science be no farther devel- 

 " oped, if the Art itself of Invention and Discovery be 

 " passed over." — Bacon. 



The second edition, with large additions, corrected 

 and improved by the author. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS TO THE AUTHOR. 

 Salem, Sept. 4, 18vl. 



Sir — 1 have examined your MS. on the Law of Pa- 

 tents with as much care as my engagements would per- 

 mit, and I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion, 

 that the work will be highly useful to all persons who 

 are engaged in obtaining patents, or in vindicating 

 them in Courts of Justice. The manuscript contains a 

 collectioa of all the cases, on the subject of Patents, 

 within my knowledge ; and the principles contained in 

 them are detailed with accuracy and fullness in the 

 Summary, at the conclusion. I know of no work so 

 comprehensive as yours on this subject ; aud it may be 

 relied on as a safe guide. I hope you will receive en- 

 couragement sufficient to justify the publication, which 

 I should think would be profitable as well as exten- 

 sively useful. JOSEPH STORY. 



Thomas G. Fessenden, Esq. 



Boston, September 25, 1821. 



Sir — We have looked over the manuscript of the sec- 

 ond edition of your publication on the Law of Patents. 

 This edition is a grerd improvement on the first, and 

 we think it will be a valuable and useful book to the 

 profession, as it contains the statutes, and states we be- 

 lieve accurately, all, or nearly all the decisions, which 

 have been made on a branch of the law, daily growing 

 more interesting and important. WM. PRESCOTT, 

 Thomas G. Fessenden, Esq. D. WEBSTER. 



Boston, September 2.7, 1821. 



Sir — The new edition of your Essay on Patent-Law, 

 which I have taken seme time to examine, is a very 

 improved work. More ample materials, furnished to 

 your hands, by decisions, subsequent to your former 

 edition, have enabled you to present to the public, and 

 the bar a more minute analysis, as well as a more com- 

 prehensive view of this branch of law than has yet ap- 

 peared in England or in this country. Your method of 

 arranging all the decisions, in the order of an anna-' 

 lytical digest of the several requirements and provisions 

 of our statutes for granting patents, puts the lawyer at 

 once in possession of the judicial construction of the 

 statutes ; while your synthetic summary, far more ex- 

 tended and comprehensive than in the former edition, 

 place within reach of the mechanic a sure mean* o 

 judging whether hi« invention is a fit subject for a Pa- 

 tent ; what is required of him by the statute in order to 

 obtain his Patent ; and what provisions are enacted for 

 securing to himself and heirs his meritorious privilege. 

 I cannot conclude without wishing you the success 

 your labors surely deserve. GEO. SULLIVAN. 



Tliomas G. Fessenden, Esq. 



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