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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oet. 5, 1827. 



MIDDLESEX CATX1.E SHOW, 



Exhibilion of Manvfadures and Ploughing 

 Match, at Concord, Oct. 10, 1827. 



The Committee would give notice to the mem- 

 bers of the Society, aiiJ to the public, that they 

 have nearly completed the necessary arrange- 

 ments for the due regulation of the Farmers', 

 Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Holiday. 



From the great utility of such exhibitions as 

 we have heretofore witnessed, and the increased 

 zeal and attention of our citizens to the great ob- 

 jects of the Society, wo have reason to anticipate 

 a much greater display of the works of nature and 

 art this year, than in any former one. 



Proper pens will h : made for the exhibition of 

 all animals offered fur i premium, and assistance 

 furnished in confining' .,nd arranging them. 



Such Manufacturer ; nd Fabrics, improvements 

 in Machinery, and all implements of husbandry 

 offered for premium, must be entered at the court- 

 house by 10 o'clock, A. M. on the day of exhibi- 

 tion, where directions and aid will be given. 

 Persons in the more immediate vicinity are re- 

 quested to forward their articles for exhibition, at 

 the Court-house, at as early an hour in the morn- 

 ing as possible. 



The Ploughing Match will take place at nine 

 o'clock, A. M. precisely, and those who wish to 

 contend for the prizes must leave their names 

 with Nathan Brooks, Esq. Secretary of the So- 

 ciety, by eight o'clock, A. M. on the day of the 

 exhibition. 



A procession of officers and members of the So- 

 ciety will be formed at half past ten o'clock, A. 

 M. and proceed to the meeting-house, where an 

 Address will be delivered by the Hon. Edward 

 Everett. 

 . After the ceremonies at the Meeting-house, the 

 several Committees will immediately proceed to 

 the discharge of their duties. 



{f^The ii-ial of strength and discipline of Work- 

 ing Oxen, will take place immediately after the 

 service in the Meeting-house. 



A dinner will be in readiness at 2 o'clock, P.M. 

 At 4 o'clock, Premiums will be publicly declared 

 at the court-room, in the Court-house. — At 5 o'- 

 clock, the Society will meet at the Hotel for the 

 choice of Officers for the ensuing year. 

 J. Davis, C. Hubbard, ") „ 



J. Stacy, C. Hosmer, ' C^niimUee 

 .N. Hardv, W. Whiting, ^''/-™ff- 

 S. Patch, F. Thttle, j "'^""- 



CIDER. 



The orchards are bending under the weight of 

 apples, and the time of making cider is near at 

 hand. The general process is understood, but at- 

 tention to two or throe particulars, may greatly 

 increase the value of the liquor. Why does Bur- 

 lington cider bring, in market, double the price of 

 that made elsewhere ? 



Use water freely in making every thing sweet 

 and clean before you begin — but very sparingly 

 afterwards. 



Put your apples after being gathered for a few 

 days in a dry place, exposed to the sun. 



Let your casks be perfectly sweet. 



See that the straw used be clean and bright 



Tlirow all the rotten, or rotting apples to your 

 pigs. Keep the several sorts of apples separate ; 

 »f ground together, the cider will not be so good. 



When the liquor has undergone sufficient fer- 

 wientati^n to throw off the impure matter in it, and 



while it is yet sweet, take a clean cask, put into 

 it a bucket of cider, set fire to a clean rag that 

 has been dipped in brimstone — let it bum inside 

 the cask so as to fill it with the fcimes of the brim- 

 stone — shake the cask well, and then li',1 and bung 

 it tight. 



This mode is highly recommended t o preserve 

 the cider sweet, while it will yet be pure. The 

 crab apple should be more extensively cultivated 

 for cider. Liquor, delicious as wine, may he made 

 from it. We received from Mr Ehseeius Tow.ns- 

 end, this summer, a barrel of bottled crab cider, 

 which, during the warm weather was far more 

 grateful to the taste, and we are sure, more 

 wholesome.than any other drink thatcouldbc used. 

 On opening several of the bottles, the cider Foam- 

 ed and sparkled like Charapaigne wine. fl^^The 

 apple crop properly managed may be made very 

 profitable. A small orchard below West-Chester, 

 two years ago, produced to its owner, several aun- 

 dred dollars. — Village Record. 



SHEEP. 



The English have had more regard to the form 



than to the fleeces of their sheep, and most cf the 



44 millions in that country are of the long-wtoled 



large breeds. Fine wool for the manufactures is 



either much larger or much smaller ; and ten new 

 stars to have supplied the place of those that arc 

 lost. Some of these chrwiges may perhaps be ac- 

 counted for by supposing a proper motion in the 

 solar or siderial systems, by which the relative 

 positions of several of the heavenly bodies have 

 varied. But this explanation, though it may ap 

 ply to several of the cases, will by no means apply 

 to all of them ; in many instances, it is unques- 

 tionable that the stars themselves, the supposed 

 habitations of other kinds or orders of intelligent 

 beings, together with tlic different planets by 

 which it is probable they were surrounded, and to 

 which they may have given light and fructifying 

 seasons, as the sun gives light and fruitfulness t-o 

 the earth, have utterly vanished, and the spots 

 which they occupied in the heavens have become 

 blanks. What has befallen other systems will as- 

 suredly befall our own ; of the time and the man- 

 ner we know nothing, but the fact is incontrover- 

 tible ; it is foretold by revelation, it is inscribed 

 in the heavens, it is felt throughout the earth. 

 Such is the awful and daily text; what then ought 

 to be the comment ? — Good's Book of Nature. 



Hereditary Insanity. — By great temperance in 



living and avoiding mental emotion and exertion 



imported from Saxony and Spain. The Saions ^g much as possible, insanity may be prevented, 



have given their attention to the fleeces, xliich 

 they have brought to so great perfection, that 

 Spain possesses no flock that can be compired 

 with some of those in Saxony. Sheep of the Sax- 

 on race are pretty numerous in the countries of 

 Silesia, Moravia, &c. In France there arc but 

 few flocks of pure merino blood. The Frmch 

 import great quantities of fine wool from Spin 

 and Saxony, and tliey arc now making efforts '.o 

 introduce the Saxon race of sheep into France. — 

 Hamp. Gaz. 



even where the predisposition to it is strongly 

 marked, till at length the predisposition itself is 

 worn out. By looking at the subject in this point 

 of view, that dread of insanity which exists so 

 strongly in many minds may be greatly lessened, 

 as it holds out a reasonable ground for expecting 

 that the tendency fo the malady may be gradually 

 overcome, and that by simple and practicable 

 means. — Lancet. 



Cultivation of the Vine. — We have received, 

 a.\d hastily looked over a little work entitled, "the 

 Anerican Vine Dressers' Guide, by Alphonse Lou- 

 hat. This gentleman is a practical man, who for 

 years in the south of Prance has been personally 

 engaged in the cultivation of the vine. He has 



Pilfering Fruit. — At the late term of the Court 



of Common Pleas in this town, John Marsh was 



indicted for stealing three water melons from the 



garden of Benjamin Hey wood, in Grafton, on the 



26th of the last month, (Sabbath day) to which he • , ,, ^ ,•,,.,• , 



, , .,, , ^ . J : c n conceived the project which he thinks, and as it 



plead guilty, and was sentenced to pay a fine or I . ■ . , 



, , , -^ , 1 r .. .■ • 11 . appears to us upon very lust ground, very practi- 



ten dollars and costs of court, amounting in all to i '^f, r- ■, ■ c j , ■' ' . 



, . J. . . , ,, ni, . J- J ; cable 01 introducing, as tar as depends upon him. 



about forty two dollars. 1 ne court was disposed '. , ,,. f- r- .i • , • , , • 



, ■' , ■ „ , . . 1 u »i the general cultivation of this productive plant in 



to award r. heavier fine, but was prevented by the f, ?t ,, , „. . j i. ■ , j • . . 



,. ,.,.^ r.i J r I ». 1 I the United States : and having already imported 



supposed inability of the defendant to pav a larger , , . , , ■,.. n .t. j ■ > 



., , , . J 1 1 and planted skilfully many thousand vines, he 



sum. Such an example was wanted, and we nope ' '^. ,■ .• . »l e ^ ■ 



J ,1.- 1 . L ^ J .1 now gives directions as to the manner ol treating 



It may do good. It a regard to character and the .,.,,,, . m »t ■ 



. , .. °, . I a- • ^ t 1 . e u- them in all their various stages, lo those who 



I are engaged, even on a small scale, in raising 



rights of others, is not sufficient to deter from this 



most mean and odious description of pilfering, the ... ,..., , .,, .,■,,. ,. , 



, ,_ ,j I ■ ■ ,, c 1 ■ » .1 ■ 1 grapes, this little volume will, we think, be useful 



law should be rigidly enforced against the viola- ■ " , ■ .. .■ , V »i ^ ■/ i •, 



c ■. r^ ^ c ■ 11 u 11 I and instructive: and we wish that it may lead 



ters of it. Good fruit would be more genertUy . . ., , • ,■ ,. ., • 



,^..,-c^L 11 u . • J I, imanv to enter upon the cultivation of the vine, 



cultivated if the owners could be protected in ",he ; „ ■ , ^ . . • ,. u ,. ^ , 



. ^ .. „ .u 1 J ■ »■ • One good effect which would result from the gen- 



enioyment of it. One very worthy old man in tiis ■ ,■.,.■ i-.i.- i .. j .l . 



■^ -^ ■' ■' era! introduction of this plant, and the consequent 



abundance and cheapness of light wines, would 



town had a valuable peach tree, which bore very 



full the present season, giving promise of an abon- , ..... <• .l ■ . i.- i 



, JT ,1 . i- 1 u » u ,■ ..L be a diminution of the intemperance which now 



dance of excellent fruit, but belere they were r;pe I ,. ,-. , , i .u , . i- 



., , J .1 ■ • , .1 , ; so discreditably marks the character of our popu- 



the marauders commenced their nightly havoc up-;, ,. ^ •. • • .i j u nr t i . • 



,. , • ■. . 1 ., ,j .. ., .1 I lation : for it is justly said by Mr. Loubat, in con- 



on it, which so irritated the old gentleman thathe , .. , . ," • ij .1 . „•.• 



. , .... .L r -^ , wr' ; eluding his preliminary address that "it is noto- 



cut down the tree to save the fruit : — norc.va. . ... ,, ., .• . ., 



-^ ■' nous that all the nations among whom the grape 



ASTRONOMY. ^'"^ '^ cultivated, are extremely sober and tem- 



* ■■ ^- But worlds and systems of worlds are ^ perate."— JV. Y. American. 



not only perpetually creating, they are also per- l in;'Tliis book i.s for sale at ilie New England Farmer office, price 



petually diminishing and disappearing. It is an ^'^«^'[^; 



extraordinary fact that within the period of the 

 last century, not less than thirteen stars in difl'er- 

 ent constellations, none of tliem below t!ie sixth 

 magnitude, seem totally to have perished ; forty 

 to have changed t'.icii" magnitude by becoming 



Facts. — A single mercantile house, on Long- 

 wharf, has sold, since the first of January last, 

 thirty-seven thousand barrels of Genesee flour; of 

 which less than three hundred barrels have been 

 disposed of coastwise; the remainder hag been 



