AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



riJBUSHCD BY JOSEPH BREGK & CO., NO. 52, NORTH MARKET STREET, (Aomcultural Warehouse.)— T. G. FESSENDEN, EDITOR. 



voi,. XV. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1837. 



NC. 30. 



fFor the New England Fiirmer.) 

 We »re mucli pleased to have an opportunity to pub- 

 lish the following. We never lielieved that Mr Whit- 

 harsh could be so blind to his own interests as to commit 

 the petty frauds of which he is accused, even if his char- 

 acter and standing in society did not render such a sup- 

 position, as preposterous as it is injurious. 



Northampton, Ja.^. 21, 1837. 

 Mr Fessenj)f.,n — Dear Sir : — You are doubt- 

 less well acquainted with the facts in relation to 

 the rude and nialioiims attack on my cliaracter, 

 by the Editajfcf the Genesee Fanner, accusing me 

 of decoptioWRi tli« sale of Mulberry Seed, last 

 spring — it is plainly to be seen, that it will be 

 iinpossible to brinp; forward any evidence that will 

 convince him that there was no diception inten- 

 ded. He does not wish to be convinced, as appears 

 by his conduct, and sb-iild 1 procure the certifi- 

 cates of respectable individuals in this part of the 

 country who purcli;ised theseed, and were satisfied, 

 'I should be accused of forgery — I knoiv he has 

 received commtinications in favor of the seed — 

 from disinterested persons, (unsolicited by me,) 

 which he has not inserted, and that an important 

 part of Mr Fancher's letter is suppressed, wherein 

 he says that tv^itTsoii in MIlidv wishod to pur- 

 chase a// his seed if be would warrant it the mill- 

 ticaulis. He replied thtit lie could not and 

 did not sell the seed. Tlie jilants from that seed 

 1 still maintain, are superior to any we had. 1 

 am not prepared to yield niy judgiiient to those 

 who have manjfested so much iguoranc^^gn the 

 subject of the mulberry and silk worm, nor am 

 I prepared to recommend the multicaulis as the 

 best, merely to advance my pecuniary interest. 

 , On my arrival at New York in the spring, my 

 opinion respecting the different kinds of mulber- 

 ries was solicited by inany persons — among them 

 were nurserymen. My answers were candidly 

 given. To one nurseryman I wrote that the seed 

 was not the midticaulis, but what I considered 

 letter. He wrote, in reply, that he should take 

 pains to write to people, and undeceive them, and 

 afterwards (for (larticular reasons which are not 

 necessary to stale) he threatened to cause an arti- 

 cle to be inserted in some of the Silk journals, ex- 

 posing my deception in the sale of seed. 1 took 

 no notice of the letter, but handed it to a friend 

 in New York. ] shall publish it as soon as I re- 

 ceive it, that tho.se interested may see from whence 

 comes all this vile slander. I would have you 

 notice that all the persons brought forward by the 

 Editor of the Farmer, are interested in the sale of 

 Mulberry Trees, and will spare no pains to injure 

 my reputation, and of the establishment at North- 

 ampton. I shall not a|ipeal to my friends for their 

 testimony iu my favor, but challenge the Editor of 

 the Farmer, or any other person, to j)rove me guilty 

 of fraud, deception or meatiness, iu this or any 

 other transaction of my life. The assertions of 

 Mr Tucker may go for what they are worth. He 



has brought forward three or four persons who 

 say they understood the seed to be the multicau- 

 lis, and thus proves my intended deception, while 

 the letter of Mr Fanchcr disproves every word of 

 it. I can produce the evidence of hundreds who 

 purchased it, not as multicaulis, but Chinese, and 

 will now have no other. The Editor of the Far- 

 mer misleads the readers in his paper of the 14tb 

 inst. He says that Mr Fancher "goes no farther 

 than to say that he did not say it zoas multicaulis." 

 VVHiile any one who can read, may see that he says 

 he told the!!i it was not the multicaulis. JVot one 

 paper was delivered from Northampton, to my 

 knowledge, as such. I shall take no farther no- 

 tice of any assertions Mr Tucker may make, till 

 he proves them to be true. He has much to say of 

 the price of the seed ; it was richly worth all that 

 was detnanded. I know of many instances of $75, 

 $100, 812.5 worth of trees being sold from the 

 produce of one $5 paper; while many refuse to 

 sell, and wish for more seed. I have therefore 

 offered to those who lost anything by the seed, 

 another pajjer gratis. Before I take leave of this 

 subject, allow me to repeat, that I have aroused 

 the jealousy of some persons who think that, be- 

 cause they have cultivated nurseries off nit trees, 

 for many years with success, that they are more 

 compentent than others, to judge respecting the 

 inulherry ui.dsilkxvorrnjWhii ; ii) fact they knovy lit- 

 tle or noshing of either, 'they cultivate such trees 

 as will sell, leaving the morus to take care of 

 themselves. 1 have considered it of the utmost 

 importance to the success of the silk culture in 

 this country, that we should commence with the 

 right kind of mulberry and on the right system. 

 I considered it of sufficient importance to undei- 

 take a t«ur through France and Italy, to procure 

 information, and collect trees and seeds. The re- 

 sult of that tour has been highly satisfactory to 

 iriyself, and I hope will prove of some benefit to 

 the country. I returned with the strongest con- 

 viction, that our coiuitry is destined to produce 

 more and better silk, than any part of tbe world. 

 I have labored several years in the cause and have 

 now more at stake, than any one individual in 

 tile country, both in a moral and pecimiary point 

 of view ; !uid do you. Sir, think I could stoop so 

 low in deception as this, to degrade myself, and 

 injure the cause which 1 have so much at hei'.rt ? 

 I ho|)e not. Respectfully, 



Samuel Whitmarsh. 



CHAPTER OIV PORK. 



From the correspondent of the New York Ex 

 press, dated Cincinnati, Dec. 31. 



Some of the items I gave you in my letter of 

 the 9th inst., on the subject of Pork, and particu- 

 larly on the slaughtering, I had collected some- 

 time since. Having visited the packing and 

 slaughtering house within the last day or two, 1 

 found additions and improvements had heon made 

 this year, 1 was not before aware of. I will there- 

 fore give you another letter on Pork, and go some- 

 what into particulars. Less is doing this winter 



in Pork, than was anticipated the past summer. 

 It was known that hogs were plenty throughout 

 the country, and it was believed that the prices 

 would consequently be low, — or lower than last 

 year, — but the uncommonly high prices j)aid last 

 winter, induced the drovers to scour the country 

 and purchase all the hogs they could find, and on 

 driving thetn to the city, they demanded what our 

 packers thought an exhorbitant price, — say frr 

 liogs weigliing 200 to 250 pounds, $7,00 pef hun- 

 dred, — the consG<)uence was, that the packers 

 generally declined purchasing, and the drovers 

 would not sell for less, so that but few hogs were 

 p.lcked for the first three weeks of the season. — 

 In fact, up to this time, only about 50,000 hogs 

 have been slaughtered, whereas two years ago, at 

 the stme time, more than 120,000 were slaugh- 

 tered and packe<l. Some of our pork merchants 

 are not packing at all, others are doing a little, and 

 none to an extent of former year.s. Hogs, how- 

 ever remain firm at the' prices demanded by the 

 drovers, ai'd snl^^ were made yesterday at $7,2.5 

 per hundred pounds, for hogs weighing about 250 

 pounds. The pork season generally Lasts about 

 eight or ten weeks — last year it closed in less than - 

 eight weeks — in fact, but few hogs were slaugh- 

 tered after the first of January. Eighty thousand 

 was the number packed last winter. (In the pub- 

 lication of ny httcr of tiifi 9lh, by a typhograplii- 

 cal error, the number is set down at sixty thou- 

 sand.) It is supposed that there will not be more 

 packed in the city this winter than last, and shout 

 a half of the number of winter before last. Hog* 

 are driven to this market from the interior of In- 

 dian, Ohio and Kentucky. I will now give you 

 the modus operandi of slaughtering, which is per- 

 formed with such expedition at the slaughtering 

 hnu.ses of .lohn W. Coleman, Esq., who has tnade 

 a large fortune at this business. 1 find, on visit- 

 ing these houses, which are situated on the north- 

 east extremity of the corporation line, and border- 

 ing on a small stream called Deer Creek, or, as it 

 would more jiroperly be called at this season of 

 the year. Bloody Run, that the number of slaugh- 

 ter-houses now amount to nine, the largest is 160 

 feet long by 60 wide. The others average 100 

 feet long by 60 wide ; Mr Coleman has also anoth- 

 er slaiigihter-house at Covington, on the Kentucky 

 shore, which makes in all, ten houses. At each 

 of these houses, he has Wj:i employed, 36 to 40> 

 men, — making altogether, about 380 men, whom 

 be pays from Sl,25 to $2 per day each. Near 

 these houses are pens of various sizes, and 'cover- 

 ing altogether, about 40 acres of grotCnd — into 

 these pens are drive;.i the different droves ot hogs- 

 by their respective owners, as they come into the 

 city, [)reparatory t'j the operation of slatigbtenng^ 

 These pens hold from one hundred to one tliou- 

 sand each. In these slaughtering houses there 

 are large kettia s at each end, filled with water, 

 which is kept constantly boiling, and the opera- 

 tion of killinf , scalding,' dressing, &c., goes on 

 simultaneous' ,y m fc«3th ends of the several houses, 

 the hogs are In jug up in the centre to be drcsSed^ 



