Vol. fi.--No. l:^. 



NEW ENGLAND FARiVlEll. 



.91 



The f;inn of Calvin Barber, Esq. in Sinisbury, 

 contains about HO acres of land improved. For 

 this farm ho received the society's third premium 

 in 1825. 



Great pains have been taken by Mr Barber to 

 eradicate bushes and weeds, and he has, by ditch- 

 ing, successfully reclaimed a number of acres of 

 cold swamp land, that was useless before he com- 

 menced his operation. 



The mountain farm of Mr. Preserved Marshall 

 m the north part of Farmington, received the so- 

 ciety's 2d premium in 1825, and contains about 50 

 acres. This farm durinff the last year, has re- 

 ceived additional improvements, and by the large 

 crops of hay he has unquestionably been fully re- 

 munerated for all his improvements. 



The farm of Mr. Aaron Goodinan,in WestHart- 

 ford contains about 47 acres of cultivated land 

 and was viewed by your committee last year. 



This farm is managed in such a manner, that 

 the propriotoo receives from his lands a rich re- 

 ward for his labor. 



The farm of Ward Woodbridge, Esq. in West 

 Hartford, contains 92 acres. For this farm the 

 proprietor had awarded to him last year, the So- 

 ciety's 3d premium. 



The views of Mr. Woodbridge appear to be 

 those of reason and experience, viz. to give to the 

 soil a liberal return for its products. 



By the good management and perseverance of 

 the tenant, Mr. Tuller.tliis farm has received last- 

 ing improvements. The closest attention is paid 

 to economical and neat husbandry. 1 



Mr. Albigence Scarborough has the last year 

 commenced a system of improvement on his farm 1 

 of about 120 acres, worthy of imitation. 



The greatest part of his farm is naturally of a 

 good soil ; this he has benefitted by tlie use of the 

 plough and manure. Between the public road and | 

 !iis house, were a number of barren sand knolls, 

 interspersed with frog ponds. From the ponds he 

 has opened drains, end has taken from their bot- 

 toms the mud and decomposed vegetable matter, 

 and spread it upon the knolls, and scraped sand 

 from the knolls into the pond holes ; and in this 

 manner lias converted both sand knolls and frog 

 ponds into good land for cultivation, and greatly 

 improved the whole appearance of his farm. From 

 the public road to his house, which stands in about 

 the centre of his farm, he has opened and made an | 

 excellent road. This farm is judiciously divided-i 

 into fields, with excellent fences. 1 



The farm of Mr. Harvey Marshall, in Hartford, 

 was viewed by your committee last year, and con- 

 tains 38 acres. Mr Marshall has 14 acres of 

 wood-land in Farmington. By the application of 

 large quantities of manure as a top dressing, be- 

 fore and after a thorough use of the harrow, large 

 .crops of hay have been obtained from land that 

 was formerly pasture. 



The farm of Mr. Samuel Bartlett, in the north 

 f!ast part of East- Windsor, contains about 430 

 acres of land under cultivation. A great propor- 

 tion of this farm is appropriated to the raising of 

 grain. From GO to 75 acres are annually in rye, 

 and about 25 to 30 acres to corn. After a crop of 

 rye, his fields are pastured from four to si:: years, 

 and then fallowed for another crop. Under this 

 method of cultivation, his lands produce good feed, 

 excellent crops, and the soil gradually improves. 

 A portion of thi^ large farm is a permanent mead- 

 ow, that is annually overflowed ; this, with some 

 highly cultivated land adjoining his house and 



barn, enables him to cut hay sufficient to winter 

 about (JO head of cattle and horses. This farm 

 was formerly divided into fields, by ditches and 

 broad, hedges. They are all removed, and in the 

 place they formerly occupied we found a smooth 

 surface and substantial fences. 



Great attention has been paid by Mr. Bartlcti 

 to improve liis stock of Cattle, and we think he has 

 been very successful. We observed more fine im- 

 proved stock on this Farm tlian on any other. 



It may by some be said that they cannot afford 

 to hire labourers, make good fences, or purchase 

 manure to make improvements on their Farms. 

 To those we re-pectfully reply, that xvc think that 

 if the labour and manure are judiciously applied, 

 and ther fences properly made, that the capital 

 invested forthose purposes would be a much more 

 profitable investment than it is to invest (as most 

 of us do,) our capital in the purchase of lands to 

 increase the size of our Farms. Others may say 

 that with capital any man can make his Farm ap- 

 pear well ; but they may be assured skill and at- 

 tention are as necessary as capital, and when 

 these are wanting, capital will soon be lost in 

 farming. 



Skill, capital, industry, and economy combined, 

 are necessary for a Farmer to make his Farm 

 profitable. * 



The applicants for premiums will please ac- 

 cept the most grateful thanks of your Viewing 

 Committee, for the polite and hospitable treat- 

 ment they received while attending to the duties 

 assigned them. 



By order of the Viewing Committee, 



HENRY WATSON, Chairman. 



Hartford, Oct. 4, 1827. 



The award on Farms was as follows : 

 To Ward Woodbridge, of Hartford, for the best 



cultivated Farm, a silver cup, valued at $30 



To Calvin Barber, ofSimsbury, for the 



second best do .$20 



To Albigence S'carborough, of Hartford, 



for the third best do 10 



Connecticut, laid hira down ten thousand dollar.% 

 in my presence. 



REWARD OP INGENUITY. 



Mr. Thornton of the Patent Office, Washington, 

 relates the following anecdote. 



Mr. Gilbert Brewster, a very ingenious artist 

 from Connecticut, came to the Patent Office about 

 the middle of October, 1823, and requested per- 

 mission to examine the models. I informed him 

 they were deposited for public inspection, and 

 that he was at liberty to see and examine them as 

 often and as long as he pleased. Instead of spend- 

 ing a few hours, he visited them daily for about 

 six weeks ; then thanked me for the gratification 

 he had enjoyed, declaring them worth a thousand 

 dollars, or that they were of incalculable value to 

 the real mechanic. He said he sa%v movements 

 and combinations of which he had before no idea, 

 and that he was now enabled so to improve the 

 machinery for spinning wool, as to reduce the 

 price from eight cents to one cent per pound. He 

 1 went away and returned in about three months, 

 ! with two models, declaring on his return, that he 

 had perfected what he had contemplated, and that 

 ihe could then spin wool at a lower price than the 

 English, who could not effect it for less than four 

 cents per pound. I issued three jotents for his 

 machines, and a gentleman who accompanied him 

 from New-York, and who had engaged to buy 

 these machines for a manufacturing company in 



SUNFLOWER. 



An account was given, a short lime since, of a 

 gigantic sunflower in New York. The length ol 

 the stalk was twelve tVot, and thedisc of the larg 

 est flower four feet in circumference. We saw 

 Inst week in the garden of a gentleman in Deer 

 field, several flowers of this species of an uncom- 

 mon size. Of one, the stalk measured fourteen 

 feet in length ; on anotlier stalk a leaf measured 

 eighteen inches in its shortest diaiueter, or ho 

 tween the extremities of the lobes, and the diam- 

 eter of a flower, accurately measured, was seven 

 teen inches, giving a circumfei-enoe of four feel 

 and three inches. Thi.s valuable plant deserves 

 to be more extensively cultivated than it is. Its 

 leaves are said to furnish a good fodder for horses. 

 The seeds arc eaten with avidity by horses, pigs 

 and sheep, and for poultry no grain is so valuable. 

 It is said that poultry fed upon these seeds will 

 lay a greater number of eggs than those fed in a- 

 ny other manner ; besides this.a valuable oil is ob 

 tained from them, and the stalks, when burnt 

 form a considerable quantity of alkaline manure. 

 Hamp. Post. 



Muscadine wine. — -'V gentleman of Lauderdale 

 county, Alabama, made the last season, a consid 

 erable quantity of Wine from the Muscadine, or 

 Muscadine Grape, which he says resembles infla 

 vor and in color,the,host Madeira wine, and which, 

 he believes, only wants age, to render it as fine as 

 any wine he ever drank. Muscadines grov/ indi- 

 genously,pretty plenteously,on and near tiic banks 

 of most all the rivers and creeks of Nortii Caroli 

 na ; 'and it might be worth the while of some of 

 our enterprising citizens, to make an experiment 

 in manafacturing a wine from them, such vast 

 quantities of which are imported from abroad, and 

 consumed among us. If we pretend to render 

 ourselves independent of foreign nations,let us not 

 stop halfway — but manufacture our rf)-i»A-,as well 

 as our food and raiment. 



A delicate Soup. — There is no disputing about 

 tastes. — The Indians consider rattlesnakes as 

 choice morceaux. The Persians cat horses; the 

 Frenchmen, frogs; the Russians, tallow candles; 

 and the Americans, bears. — We have learned from 

 geographies, that the Chinese made soup of bird'* 

 nests, but we had no idea, until lately, that they 

 were esteemed such luxuries as to be sold for their 

 weight in gold. We should as soon think of mak 

 iug soup of birds' feathers as of birds' nests. Still 

 it may be very fine. — Salem Obs. 



When the English and French v,;ere disputing 

 as to their respective rights to certain territories 

 in America, Voltaire happily remarked that they 

 were quite agreed upon only one point, viz : that 

 the real owners, (the natives) had no right at all 

 to the lands in question. 



In 1760 the Cotton Goods manufactured in Eng- 

 land amounted in value to only £200,000. — In 

 1824, to £33,000,000. 



I A Jail to Let. — The jail of York, (Penn.) has not 

 a single tenant at the present time, either for 

 debt or crime. This fact may bo set down as one 



; of the favourable " signs of the times." 



