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should not only be gratified, but the public good I 

 , be promoted as well as individuals benefited, 

 rgec jjroportion of our cultivators would subscribe 

 ay for the New Kns^land Farmer. This we can 

 evident by a very little reasoning on the subject. 

 i well observed by Lord Bacon that " knowledge 

 rer." To this it may be added that agricultural 

 ledge is cask to a farmer — money in hand, and 

 f at interest. It teaches how to work to the best 

 itaje ; and he who " works it right," is on the 

 ■ay to fortune. The New Kngland Farmer is a 

 tory of that kind of knowledge which is wealth 



husbandman. Wc say nothing of our own writ- 

 aud at present will not boast of any communica- 

 which we have received or may receive from our 

 ,y and intelligent correspondents. But the ex- 

 and abridgments from the works of Sir John 

 lir, Sir Humphrey Davy, the various Dictionaries 

 ;s, works upon Farriery, Transactions of the dif- 



Agricultural Societies, both foreign and domes- 

 [uotations from the American Farmer and the 

 ■h Boy, and various other agricultural books and 

 cannot fail to prove profitable to every farmer 

 can think as well as read, and has judgment 

 ;h to make a proper use of the knowledge which 

 ccd before him. 



becoming dry as an anatomical preparation. True it ] 

 is that after we have impressed on our columns these 

 fruits of our researches, with a faint hope that some- 

 body might appreciate our exertions, the same matter 

 lias betu shortly after presented to us in some country 

 paper, witli tvery common indication of its being the 

 result of the sapience of the Solomon who conducts it! 

 These things, however, as we said before, we shall say 

 nothing about. But when we have written an article 

 which is as original as any thing can be, if composed 

 of the letters of the alphabet, (which we do not pretend 

 to have invented) with a great deal of that kind of toil 

 which exhausts the mind without invigorating the body, 

 and attenuates the thread of life till little or nothing is 

 left for the destinies to snap with their scissors — when 

 we have done this, to have the fruits of our labor come 

 staring at us in a village paper as the production of 

 some journalist, who 



" Pretends to be a sage philosopher, 

 But ne'er read Alexander Ross over ;■" 

 and who, by the courtesy of the public, and the indul- 

 gence of a free government, is suffered to soil white 

 paper and blacken every thing about him with prin- 

 ter's ink ; — this might '• in Job or Griswold stir mood," 

 and provoke to active indignation any one not as tame 

 as an over-worked ox that lies down in the furrow. 



NSPLANTED SCIENCE AXD ENGRAFTED 



LITERATURE. 

 rtaiu of our brethren of the type and quill, who 

 ge those learned hebdomadal publications ycleped 

 cates. Intelligencers, Heralds, Messengers, Patri- 

 lazettes. Journals, S^c. Sec. ijc. have, of late, been 

 assiduous in decorating their literary parterres, 

 te potatoe patches, and scieEtific pumpkin-yards 

 articles taken from the nursery and seed plot of 

 ew England Farmer. Although we are not only 

 dy willing, but truly solicitous that the public 

 d reap an abundant harvest from our humble la- 

 yel it would be no more than common civility (to 

 othlng about common honesty) would seem to re- 

 , for our co-adjutors to just intimate the source 

 whence they generally derive their agricultural 

 cs. But, instead of this, many of the gentlemen 

 lom we allude, have, since we began our estab- 

 ent, opened petty offices in one corner of their 

 papers, for the disposal of agricultural and eco- 

 cal intelligence, and taken almost their whole 

 in trade (save their brass) from our premises, not 

 without licence, but without acknowledgment 1 

 : of these Georgical geniuses, by thus engrafting 

 ;n scions on their own stumps, contrive to pass for 

 ti;ic agriculturists, when in fact they hardly know 

 •snip from a pumpkin, or a hoe from a hay-cart. 

 ■ arc, however, perfectly welcome to any or all our 

 ics, provided they will be eo good as to prefix or 

 ih the words jVew England Farmer to such of our 

 s and chattels as they may from time to time con- 

 -•nd to exhibit in their columns. Indeed, the more 

 ral publicity they give to our productions, with 

 ibovementioned condition, the better we shall be 

 icd, and, perhaps, the more their readers will be 

 fited. 



e do not intend to say any thing against gentlemen 

 >rs taking the liberty to select our selections, with- 

 intimating the source from whence thty derived 

 True it is that we have toiled through the mas- 

 matter of foreign journals, cyclopedias, and other 

 sitories of science, and employed ourselves in col- 

 ig, condensing and compactiugsuch passages as we 

 ; thought might be proper for our publication, and 

 ficial to the public, till our very spectacles waxed 

 with fatigue, and our brains seemed in danger of 



FARMER SUMMARY OF NEWS. 



CONGRESSIONAL. 



Nothing of great general consequence appears to be 

 on the carpet in our National Legblature. A motion 

 for fortifying Thompson's Island, off Florida, has been 

 adopted. Mr, Wright has offered a resolution for an in- 

 quiry into the expediency of arming all the militia with 

 njlesy excepting those residijig in cities, towns and vil- 

 lages. A bill has been before the House, and is com- 

 mitted, for incorporating an U. S. Naval Fraternal As- 

 sociation. A memorial of A\'illiam Thornton and 137 

 other citizens of (he District of Columbia, has been 

 presented by Mr. Dwight, piaying Congress to appro- 

 priate two or three millions, in provisions, or whatever 

 may be necessary to the Greeks ; which has been or- 

 dered to lie on the table. Bills have passed the House 

 tf>regiilate the collecting of duties on goods imported 

 from Canada, and for makingperpetual the laws for the 

 punishment of piracy. 



THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE 

 assembled on the 1st inst. and immediately proceeded 

 to business. 1 he Governor's Message was received at 

 12 o'clock, and is an official document of too much merit 

 for us to attempt to abridge or analyze it. The last 

 paragraph announces the determination of His J'.xcellen- 

 cy to decline being considered a candidate for re-elec- 

 tion to the office of chief magistrate. 



A late arrival at New York has brought London dates 

 to the 6th of November. They contain a report that a 

 battle has been fought on the frontiers of Spain in which 

 the royalists had proved victorious, and the Constitu- 

 tional Brigadier-General Torrigo, was mortally wound- 

 ed. Letters from Paris, however, pronounce the fore- 

 going to be mere rumours. 



The Congress of Verona ware sitling,, without having 

 hatched any thing of consequence. 



Paris papers assert that Greek deputies were on the 

 way to Verona, nnd that Alexander, and all his minis- 

 ters were decidedly in favor of a war with Turkey ; but 

 are opposed by other powers. 



The late account of Morales having gained a victory 

 over the Colombian army is incorrect. On the con- 

 trary, Capt. Mason, lately arrived at Baltimore, gives 

 information of two battles having been fought on the 

 22d and 24th of November, in which the Colombian 

 Ibrces proved victorious. The royal troops, in conse- 

 quence, were obliged to evacuate Maracaibo on the 

 26th, and that place was taken possession of the same 

 day by Gen. Montilla. 



A system of outrage appears to be the order of the 

 day in Ireland. An Irish paper states, that " the infat- 

 uated and desperate peasantry are again collecting 



arms ; and again have the gentry who were not able to 

 remove to towns or to the capital, tailed upon the 

 Government for assistance. But what can the go\- 

 ernment do more than it has done r" 



We learn from the National Intelligencer, that Com. 

 Porter arrived at Baltimore on the evening of the 2-11 li 

 inst. and almost before he v. as known to h;:ve bi<n iij 

 the city, bouglit, and sent off to .Norfolk, under lb»r 

 command of Lieut. Newell, a whole squatlron of < ighl 

 vessels, intended for service against the piratt s. '1 he 

 Commodore has proceeded to the North, to procure a 

 steam-boat to formjjart of the expedition. 



The National Intelligencer informs that Mr. Rich, 

 Consul of the United States at \'alenci3, has obtained 

 possession of the original manuscript of Columbus' ac- 

 count of his first voyage to America. Mr. Kith resides 

 not far from the port from which the illustrious naviga- 

 tor took his departure, on his first voyage of discovery. 

 The manuscript, it is said, will be translated and pub- 

 lished in the Spanish .and English languages, and the 

 original deposited in the capitoi of the United States, 

 at Washington. 



Precepts have been issued, appointing the first Mon- 

 day of March, for the second trial to elect Representa- 

 tives to Congress, in the two Worcester Dictricts, and 

 Essex South District. 



A philanthropic quaker, whose name is .\lleD, is at 

 Verona, urging the cause of the enslaved Alricans. He 

 regularly appears before the sovereigns with his hat on, 

 and they regularly admit him in the character of a 

 privileged friend. 



The Grand Jury of the City of New York have pre- 

 sented to the attention of the Court of General Sessions 

 of the Peace, the Yellow Fever, and recommended that 

 measures should be taken for the prevention of it. 



It has been estimated in South Carolina, to take on 

 an average 35 dollars per annum, to support a plan- 

 tation slave J and that the average value of a slave is 

 $300. 



In the village of Rochester, on Genesee River, N. Y 

 the first house was built in 1812. The village now 

 contains 3000 inhabitants, has forty merchants' store.^, 

 six houses of public worship, a stone court-house, two 

 factories, two printing offices, a paper mill, three Iron 

 founderies, six flour mills, six saw mills, an oil mill, two 

 gun factories, a nail factory, two distilleries, and three 

 tanneries. 



A Huntsville, (Alabama) paper states that the quan- 

 tity of Cotton grown, cleaned, and packed for market, 

 in the county of Madison, in the state of -Alabama, was, 

 in the year 1821, upwards of six millions of pounds, 

 amounting at the then market price of 12 1-2 cents per 

 pound, to $753,333. This year's crop, if equally abund- 

 ant, will bring, at the present price of 8 cents per pound 

 $482,133. 'ilie population of that county, by the last 

 census, taken late in 1821, was 17,481. The product 

 for exportation, in 1821, was therefore within a fraction 

 of forty-five dollars per soul, or, on a fair estimate, one 

 hundred dollars for each working hand. The same 

 rate would give to the Union a produce, beyond the 

 consumption, of more than four hundred millions of dol- 

 lars. 



There arc in a pond near F'aversham, three trout, so 

 domesticated, as to come at the call of the person who 

 feeds them, and actually h aji from their native element 

 to eat out of the hand of their feeder. 



At the Iron works of Truman Hart, Esq. in Pulte- 

 neyville, Ontario county, N. Y. there were manufactur- 

 ed in five days, at two tms^ forty-seven hiindred weight 

 of wrought iron of various kinds. 



Major William Howard, raised this season, on his 

 farm in Kings' County, (L. I.) a turnip, weighing 7 lbs. 

 12 ounces, and measuring near thirty inches in circum- 

 ference. 



Three beautiful varieties of Tourmaline were deposit- 

 ed in the Cabinet of the Miner.ilogical Society in this 

 town, last week, by Mr. Elijah L. Hamlin, of Paris, one 

 of green, one of red, one of \\hite, all taken from their 

 native localities in that town. Also, a fine specime n 

 Emerald, of the subspecies Beryl, found in the same 

 town. — Portland ^irgus. 



James Pleasants, a member of the United States' 

 Senate, is elected Governor of Virginia. The late pre- 

 sident Madison was put in nomination, but decUttca 

 being voted for. 



