VOL. XIII. NO. 35 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



1 1 — For the limst pair of woollen Stockings, l 

 1^- — For tlie l)est pair of Cotton do. " l 



13. — For tJie best Heartli Rirj;-, 2 



Tiie Couiinittee on Clotli aru authorized to dis- 

 tribute $ia 



BO.VNETS AND FANCV ARTICLES. 



1. — For the best Straw or Grass Bonnet. 4 



2 — Second best do. o 



Committee authorized to distribute $40. 



ARTICLK.S OF THE DAIRr, COCOONS, SILK 

 INVENTIONS. 



1 — For the best Butter made in the County, 

 not less tlian 25 lbs. 

 2. — Next best do. 

 3. — Ne.xt best do. 

 ■i- — For the best Cheese do. not less than 



100 lbs. 

 5. — Second best do. 



6 To the person who shall raise and pro- 

 duce the largest quantity of Cocoons in the 

 County, 



7- — To the person who shall raise and pro- 

 duce the next largest quantity, do. 



8- — To the person who shall raise and pro- 

 duce the next largest qnanlity, do. 



9. — For every ounce of well wrought Silk. 

 raised in the County, and presented for 

 premium, 12 1.2 cts. 



Committee authorized to distribute $20 



277 



$3 

 2 

 1 



5 

 3 



8 



ti 



$40 



100 

 50 



Articles (if Manufacture must bfi present fi)r examina- 

 tion at Ihe meeting of ilio Society, with marks which 

 will not in(Ju:ale lo whom die resueclive arlicles beloii.' 

 MORTON EDDY, ofB.idgewater, will provide a ph,c° 

 of cleposite for manufaclures, and no article of manufac- 

 ture will he received lor examination or premium after 

 o'clock, A. M., and no articles received manufactured 

 out of tile County. 



PREMIUMS CLAIMABLE IN FUTURE YEARS. 



1 For the best plantation of Forest trees 



not less than one acre, nor less that 1000 

 trees per acre, to be raised from the seed, 

 which shall bs in the most thriving condi- 

 tion in the year 1836, premium then to be 

 payable, on satisfactory evidence furnished 

 the Trustees, 

 2- — To the person who shall make the 

 greatest annual improvements on his farm 

 and obtain the most clear profit before 

 October, 183S, 

 3. — Second premium for the same objects. 

 Claimants must exhibit a particular account of the ex- 

 pense of culuvauon and the income of eath year As 

 rnurli as praclR-able, they must show what croi.s and 

 wliat animals give the greatest profit ; the course of cub 

 tivation that gives tin; most abundant immediate products 

 and best preserves the energies of the soil, il.o manage- 

 ment and feeding of ihe aoimals which will be most 

 likely to produce lieallb and thrift. 'J-linse who choose 



;«';"fi!?^';',''"'l™"'l"='"'"" ""'St enter theirfarms with 

 ISAAC ALUEN, East Ilridgewater before May, 1835 

 staling the number of .acres, ibe dirt'erent kinds of soil' 

 the present cordilion, llie number and ages of domestic 

 aniinas, and during the cnnpeliiion must keep their 

 ngncullural accounts and interests entirely distinct from 

 allotierinierests. Claimantsof these premiums will not 

 be allowed atier the year 183G, to take any premiums 

 tor a specific improvement or prime animal. 



No premium, not demanded within one year 

 •will afterward be paid. ' 



The Trustees will not consider tlicmselves 

 obliged by the terms of the above offers, to give a 

 premium in any case, when it shall be evident 

 there has been no competition, nor more than 

 ordinary exenion. •* 



Per order of the Trustees, 



. Morrill Allen. 



Brulgeicatcr, Januari/, 1835. 



DIPFEREMT BREEDS OP SAVINE. 



Until lately I had little idea that so great a dif- 

 ference exi.sted in the breed of swine. Last fall 

 when in Albany, I bought of j\Ir Bemeut two 

 beautiful China spotted hogs. The female was in 

 pig to a fine white English boar, sent to Mr B. by 

 Doctor llosack ; and although youns, she pro- 

 duced a fine litter of eight pigs, the finest in 

 shape and proportion that I ever saw. The male 

 pigs I gave away to my agricultural friends in dif- 

 ferent parts of the country, and the females with 

 their mother, and the China boar I sent this spring 

 to my farm on Grand Island. They have eaten 

 there scarcely any thing but grass", and yet all 

 keep too fat for good breeders, so my farmer 

 says, and lie down nearly all the time, never at- 

 tempting to get into mischief or causing trouble. 

 When we took possession of the farm,! bought 

 ten « wood hogs" of the man who had occupted 

 the place previously: To be sure they looked 

 scurvy and mean, with long snouts, high thin 

 backs, light quarters and long tails; vet I thought 

 something could be made of^them. 'So at it we 

 went. I ordered the hogs to have all the slops 

 and wash of the family, not a small one, with the 

 skim. milk of several cows ; and even my beauti- 

 fiil plump Chiuas were turned off to pick their 

 own way for the benefit of these graceless rooters 

 of the woods. Well, we kept the ^rascals about 

 six weeks, and fed them well, and* actually, the 

 more we fed them, the worse they looked ; and 

 finally to get rid of the nuisance wliich their siiilit 

 occasioned me whenever I visited the farm, a"nd 

 to be free ■ from their mischief, for the Vandals 

 were continually i>rying about to see what harm 

 they could do when not eating, I agreed witli 

 one of my men to put the hogs^into a boat and 

 rid the island of them at once, sell them for the 

 most he could get, and give me half the amount^ 

 He thought sellmg hogs to the halves a good busi- 

 ness, and forthwith despatched them to a neigh- 

 boring still yard, a worthy receptacle for such a 

 concern. 



I actually believe, that with what those raven- 

 ous beasts consumed, we can keep thirty of the 

 China breed, well growing, fiit, and quiet. They 

 are of good size, will fat to full 400 Jiounds, and 

 their pork is of most superior quality. I believe 

 them every way superior to the Byfield or Grass 

 breed, being longer bodied and very broad. I in- 

 tend increasing the breed as rapidly as possible 

 from iny own stock, and keeping no other, unless 

 to imjirove by an occasional cross from abroad, to 

 keep up good blood and constitution. Yet strange 

 to .say, although my China boar is pronounced by 

 excellent judges the most perfect animal of tlie 

 kind they ever saw, he was kept through the last 

 fall and winter in town by a neighbor of mine, 

 and did not earn his keeping. So much encour- 

 agement for procuring fine animals to improve the 

 stock of the country. I however obtained the an- 

 imals for my own use, and their superior quality 

 abundantly pays for their extra expense in pur- 

 chase. 



JVcat Stock. We found on Grand Island among 

 the settlers, a little breed of cattle, very hardy 

 and aAive, that were accustomed to full feeding iii 

 the summer on the abundant grass and herhaffe 

 of the island, and during winter starved ofl:^ their 

 flesh to pretty sorry dimensions by the return of 

 spring. I bought a number of these little cows, 

 say fifteen or twenty. They are mostly excel- 

 lent milkers, tolerably shaped, and may be much 



improved by crosses of the finer breeds. I have 

 also purchased several of the best cows to be 

 found in the neighboring country, and intend 

 making a thorough trial in breed'ing. My im- 

 |>rovcd Short Horn bull is at one fiirm, and the 

 Devon at another, and we have about thirty cows 

 in calf to the first, and twenty to the latter. 1 

 have also three Devon cows of the best blood to 

 be found, and intend if time and opportunity of- 

 fers, to make some regular comparisons of the 

 expense of keeping, quantity of provisions con- 

 siiincd, and the relative profits for dairy and bi'cf 

 of the two breeds and their crosses. Both ap- 

 pear well. But to my eye the iuiproved Short 

 Horn bears the palm. His splendid stately figure, 

 noble carriage, great size and fine beautiful limbs' 

 show much in his favor; while the compact 

 roundness and solidity, deep mahogany color, and 

 beautiful form of the little Devons, have much to 

 commend them also. In fact, both breeds are 

 good for diflerent jiurposes, and cannot be too 

 highly esteemed; yet 1 am free to say that fur- 

 ther observation inclines me to prefer the improv- 

 ed Short Horns for a general .stock. 



Cattle in our neighborhood have sometimes 

 died of the bloody murrain, supposed to be caus- 

 ed by sucking in leeches when drinking. We 

 have as yet lost none. 1 have had constructed 

 some heavy plank troughs, 12 or 15 feet long, and 

 fastened on to heavy wooden blocks, to prevent 

 being upset, for the use of the cattle. In these a 

 coating of tar has been poured over the bottom, 

 and sulphur and alum sprinkled on; then a con- 

 siderable quantity of salt, so that the cattle can 

 lii^k it up at their pleasure. Cattle will never eat 

 more .salt than they want, and the other articles 

 serve as preventives to disease. Many people only 

 salt their cattle occasionally. But this is apt to be 

 neglected, and cattle get altogether too little, and 

 cannot be kept perfectly healthy without enough 

 of It. It also seems to keep them about home, 

 and attaches them to the yard, and makes them 

 docile, afl^ectionate, and easy to manage. All do- 

 inestic animals have good feelings and dispositions 

 if kindly treated, and much of the sulleuness and 

 vice in which they sometimes indulge, arises from 

 bad treatment in the first instance by their keep- 

 ers. These matters should be well taken into ac- 

 count by every farmer and breeder of stock. 

 Not only humanity, but economy and good thrift 

 requires it. — Genesee Farmer. 



PllESERVATfON OF IRON FROM RUST. A maS- 



tic or covering for this purpose, proposed by the 

 Societe d'Encouragement, at Paris, is as follows : 

 Eighty parts of pounded brick, pas.sed through a 

 silk sieve, are mixed with twenty partsof litharge ; 

 tlie whole is then rubbed up by the muller with 

 linseed oil, so as to form a tliich paint, which may 

 be dilute.l with spirits of turpentine ; well clean- 

 ing the iron before it is applied. From an expe- 

 rience of two years, upon locks exposed to the air 

 and. covered daily with salt water, being coated 

 twice with this mastic, the good effects of the pre- 

 paration have been thoroughly proved.— Fanitee 

 Fanner. 



Relief for cramp in the stomach Warm 



water, sweetened with molasses or coarse brown 

 sugar, taken freely, will often remove cramp in 

 the stomach when opium and other powerful 

 medicines have failed. lb. 



