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NEW ENGLAND FARiMER. 



CEREMONY ; Or, more Compliminls than Courtesy. 

 " Sir, will you please to walk before :" 

 No, pr;iy Sir, you are next the door, 

 "Upon mine honor, I'll not stir — " 

 Sir, I'm at home, consider Sir, — 

 " Excuse me. Sir, I'll not go first," 

 Well, if I must, why then I must — 

 But yet I wish I could evade it — 

 '^Tis strangely clownish, be persuaded: 

 Go forward cits I go forward, squires, 

 Nor scruple each, what each admires. 

 I^ife squares uot, friends, with your proceeding ; 

 It flies, while you display your breeding ; 

 Puch breeding as one's granam preaches, 

 Or some old dancing-master teaches. 

 O, for some rude, tumultuous fellow 

 Half crazy, or at least half mellow. 

 To come behind you unawares 

 And fairly push you both down stairs ! 

 But death's at hand, let me advise ye 

 Go forward, friends, or he'll surprise ye. 



From the New York Statesman. 



NORTHEIW COTTON. 



.\ valued frienH and correspondent, about 12 

 months since, wrote several essays which were 

 inserted in the Statesman under tlic signature of 

 " Agricola,"' on the cultivation of cotton in this 

 'vicinity, and urging upon our agriculturists to 

 make the attempt. The idea that this plant, a 

 native of a warm and sunny climate, would 

 vegetate in our bleak northern latitude, or at 

 most do more than spring from the ground and 

 perish before a branch would put forth, was 

 perfectly novel, and considered by many, not- 

 withstanding the ingenious arguments of " Agri- 

 cola," as entirely chimerical. Our correspon- 

 dent was so confident in his belief, that he pro- 

 cured at his own expense, a number of barrels 

 of seed from the south, wliich were deposited 

 with us for gratuitous dislribution. The result 

 of several experiments has already been stated, 

 and specimens of cotton of the growth of the 

 past year, rendered it certain that this plant 

 could be advantageously cultivated in this cli- 

 mate, were we assured that the frost would 

 appear no earlier than it did the last season. 

 But we have now the satisfaction ot communi- 

 cating to the public the result of an experi- 

 ment, aflording abundant evidence of theimpor- 

 tunt fact, thai cotton can be raised with us, not 

 only -jsithout fear of injury from the frost, but 

 that it is one of the most certain crops which can 

 be produced. 



We have seen this morning, at the Auction 

 Room of David Dunham, Esq. the crop of cot- 

 ton which grew in his garden at his seat on Long 

 Island, , and which was picked on the 5th, Mtli, 

 and ^.'jth, of December and 1 1th of the ]>resent 

 month. It is all of an excellent quality, in eve- 

 ry respect equal to any of the numerous speci- 

 mens we liavc seen vvliicb were picked before 

 the frost had touched the plant. We have little 

 doubt, the discovery that frost does not prevent 

 this plant, after it has arrived at a certain stage. 

 from yielding the desired croj), will be produc- 

 tive of Important result to tliis section of the 

 country, and we take pleasure in presenting the 

 following interesting memorandum obtained 

 from Mr. Dunham. 



" The cotton here exhibited was raised in 

 my garden on Long-Island from about 250 to 300 

 plants ; the seeds procured fiom the editors of 



the Statesman last spring, and by them obtained 

 from a gentleman friendly to agriculture. The 

 seeds were put in the ground on the border of 

 the garden the early part of May, but by inat- 

 tention, the sea island and upland were planted 

 promiscuously ; six, eight and ten seeds were oc- 

 casionally put into a hill, when on their coming 

 up, the stalks were found to be too thick, and 

 the surplus plants were transplanted into an 

 open field with some corn ; immediately after 

 which we had a terrible drought, and the plants 

 were so much stunned that they came to little 

 or nothing. In the border of the garden there 

 were many flowers planted, which must rather 

 have impeded the growth of the cotton, for 

 some of the plants wete almost hidden by shade. 

 In .August the plants began to flower, and they 

 grew very luxuriantly till the first frost, which 

 completely checked all further vegetation. 

 At this time there had been but one picking, on 

 the 20th Oct. The gardner was about to pull 

 up and throw away the residue of the plants, 

 as being of no value, but was prevented, and 

 on the 1st of Nov. as tine a picking was made 

 as the one previous. The 20th of (he same 

 month another picking, on the 5tli, 14th and 

 25th days of Dec. three other pickings, and on 

 the 14th of Jan. the present month, a still furth- 

 er picking; and a few more pods, ripe, may be 

 found towards the first of February. 



" The curiosity about the growth of cotton in 

 this climate appears to be this, — till now it was 

 supposed that our season was not long enough 

 to raise cotton, and that immediatly after the 

 frost appeared no more could be counted on : 

 but from the experiment here adduced, it will 

 be seen, that so far from the frost destroying 

 the vital parts of vegetation, it only stops its 

 progress, leaving so much nourishment in the 

 plant, that with the aid of dry, cold weather, 

 every pod of any size, matures, expands and 

 opens, like a chesnut burr; and the cotton, in 

 point of staple and every thing else relating 

 thereto, is fully equal to that produced before 

 the frost made its appearance, with the single ex- 

 ception that the pods are not so large, and ap- 

 pear to be stopped in the growth, immediately 

 after frost appears. 



'■ To every person wishing to make the ex- 

 periment, the writer would recommend that the 

 ground be prepared as for corn ; that the seeds 

 be put into the hills about the same distance 

 a])art, and that not more than four or five stalks 

 be suffered to remain in each hill ; that the cot- 

 ton be ploughed and hoed, in the same manner 

 as corn, and if found to grow too luxuriantly, 

 nip off the tops, and it will be found to yield 

 more pods. It should never be suffered to grow 

 above from three to four feet high ; and be 

 sure to plant early, as it is better to run the 

 risk of having the first crop cut ofl with the 

 spring frost, than be too late in planting ; for 

 il you can only get your plants well stocked 

 with pods before the fall frosts set in, you 

 need not be alarmed but that vou will gather a 

 plentiful crop. DAVID DUNHAM. 



A farmer in New York has raised the past 

 year, from twelve old ones, four hundrcxi and 

 Jorty Turkies. 



A large eagle was lately shot from the top of 

 a tree on the bank of the Delaware, li^iving a 

 fox trap attached to one fool, which hul been 

 missing from its place for five days or more. 



An equivocal Epithet. — It is common, m 

 days, to say the character of such a mt 

 advantageously known. Query, does it 

 advantage to the individual spoken of, 



others ? — Charleston Courier. 



A blind man on leaving a company of la 

 said he was sure there was one present 

 had a fine set of teeth, for she kept up a 

 tinual laugh for two hours. 



,\n Irishman being asked, how do y(nV' 

 potatoes in Ireland ? Faith, says he, we 

 calPem at all, for when we want 'em we gc 

 gat "em. 



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