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NEW ENGLA.\D FARMER. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



THE AMERICAN BOV. 



" Father, look up and sec tliat flag 



How gracefully it flics ; 

 Those pretty stripes— tliey seem to be 



A rainbow iu the skies." 

 Il is your country's Hajr, my son, 



And proudly drinks the light. 

 O'er ocean's wave — in foreign climes, 



A symbol of our night. 



" Father — what fearful noise is that, 



Like thundering of the clouds? 

 Why do the people wave their liats, 



And rush along in crowds !" 

 It is the voice of cannonry. 



The glad shouts of the free. 

 This is the day to memory dear — 



Tis Freedom's Jubilee. 



" I wish that I was now a man, 



I'd fire my cannon too, 

 And clieeras loudly as the rest — 



But, Father, why don't you .'" 

 I'm getting old and weak— but still 



My heait is big with jny ; 

 I've witnessed many a day like this — 



Shout 3'e aloud, my boy. 



" Hurrah ! for Freedom's Jubilee ! 



God bless our native land : 

 And may I live to hold the sword 



Of freedom in my hand !" 

 Well done, my boy — grow up and love 



The land that gave you birth ; 

 A home where Freedom loves to dwell, 



Is paradise on earth. 



XOVr.MBEU 14, 1«38. 



From the Cleveland Herald and Gazette. 

 THE LAKE FISHERIES. 



Few persons except those engaged in or con- 

 nected with the business, are aware of the extent 

 of the Lake fisheries. They are a source of pro- 

 duction which ought not to be overlooked, in esti- 

 mating the resources of the country bordering upon 

 tlie Lakes. There are no publislied statistics of 

 this trade, so far as we know, nor any records, from 

 which the quantities of fish put up for market can 

 be accurately e.stimated. Estimates only can be 

 given, and these may be more or less correct, ac- 

 cording to the accuracy of the information on which 

 they are based. 



Lake fish form a staple article of provisions at 

 all the Lake ports. The principal kinds are White 

 fish aiid Mackinaw trout. The latter, a delicious 

 fish, resembles the Salmon trout, and are possibly 

 tlie same. They vary in size, from five pounds or 

 under, to fifty or si.\ty pounds weight. Hcsides 

 these, there arc pike, pickerel, and difi'crent kinds 

 of bass : the cisqud or cisiiucvct of Lake Superior, 

 a fine fish, like the mackerel in appearance and 

 flavor, but larger ; and the muscrilonge, also a de- 

 licious fish, weighing sometimes fifty or sixty 

 pounds. The cisquet is scarcely known in market, 

 as they are caught only in Lake Superior, and few 

 have been put up. Tlie muscalonge is not, in Lake 

 Erie at least, caught in very large quantities, and 

 is generally sold fresh. There may be other kinds 



Very few white fish are taken in Lake Erie, large. These two kinds usually bear about tl 

 and we believe no trout. Pike, pickerel, and bass same price. 



are caught in abundance about the islands in the The total quantity, we should guess, was 

 upper part of the lake, and in the iMaumee bay over-estimated. According to the' collector's 

 and river. These are salted in considerable quan- turns, there were 4,082 barrels of Lake fish &» 

 titles. In Detroit river the same kinds are found down the Ohio canal from this place in 183tj, ai 

 as in Lake Erie, and white fish are caugiit to some iJ,:i4S barrels in 1837. 

 extent. If any contemporary upon the Lake has tl 



In Lakes Huron and Michigan, and the straits of means, we shall be glad to see a fuller and moi 

 Mackinaw, trout, white fish, and other kinds are minute account of the fisheries than this— whic 

 caught in abundance. The Thunder Bay Islands, ; is such as our imperfect information on the subje 

 a group near, Thunder Bay, in Lake Huron, the enables us to give. 



Beaver, Fox, and Manitou islands, near the foot of i 



Lake Michigan, and Twin rivers, on the western j 



s!i-re, are the principal fisheries of those two lakes I , A.vecdote.— A colored servant happening 

 Fish are caught, however, at other places in the! ^ clergyman complaining to his master of th 



lakes. They are also caught in the vicinity of >s"ffi<^>eiicy of his salary, thought the minist 

 Mackinaw in abundance; about the small islands T"^ complaining of the drought and scarcity 



in the strait?, and at Point St Ignace 



It is supposed that these fish might be taken in 

 Green Bay. A year or two since, some persons 

 caugiit a very large quantity of trout at Sturgeon 

 Bay in winter, fishing with a hook tlirough the ice. 

 They pilud up their fish, intending to carry them, 

 frozen, to Navarino, to be salted ; but a sudden 

 thaw spoiled the speculation. 



In St Mary's river, at and below the Sault, the 

 same kinds of fish are caught in plenty; but Lake 

 Superior furnishes not only the largest and finest 

 flavored, but the greatest abundance of fish. Until 

 within two or three years, the fisheries of that lake 

 have been unimproved, if not unknown ; and it is 

 supposed that they are now not half explored. Im- 

 mense quantities have been taken upon Lake Supe- 

 rior for two or three years past ; it is said that these 

 are mostly caught "about the group of islands 

 known as the " Twelve Apostles," near the head 

 of the lake. But little is known about tliis how- 

 ever, as the trade of Superior is, in fact, monopo- 

 lised by the American Fur Company and the Hud- 

 son Bay Company. There is no mode of going up 

 this lake except in vessels of one of these compa- 



vegetables, ran to the garden and conveyed to tl 

 chaise of the minister a large quantity of celery, 4 

 After the worthy guest had gone, the negro cam 



in and said, " Massa, I guess Mr "<rot 



iiry enough now ; I cram his big empty box full." 





PKUIT AND OKA A MENTAL TREKS. MULBEB 

 RIKS, &c. 



Xarscry of Williiim Kenrkk. 

 5fi^^ii& The Catalogue of Fruit and Orname 

 ¥Sfefi^ Trees for 1S3S is now ready, and will be 



to all who apply. It comprises a most exte 

 sive selection ol the superior varielu-s of Peai 

 Apples, Plums, Peaches, Cherries, Quince 

 Gooseberries, Raspberries, Currants, Strawberries, Gra 

 Vines, &c. The stock of Cherries and Peaches now 

 is particularly lar^e. Also, Ornamental Trees, Shrut 

 Roses, Honeysuckles: Pjeonies, Dahlias and other Herb 

 ceous Flowering Plants. 



1 00 OOO '^^°"'"' MuLTicACLis are now oifc 

 -•-""j""" ed for sale; the trees genuine at 

 tine, will be ready for delivery at ihe cities of Boston, ^'e 

 York anil Philadelphia, in October next, at prices fair, ai 

 varying with the size, and the quantity which may be d 

 sired. Also, Broussa and other varieties. 



Mulberry and other trees, when so ordered, will he secur 

 ly nackcd for sale transportation to distant places, and a 

 orders promptly executed, on application to B. D. Bee 

 Commission Store, No. 132 Water Street, New '^'ork. 



, M. 



, ...,„^ ^„„.„„- PcwELL, Seed Store, No. 7 Arch Street, Philadelphia, or 



nies • and the Ampi-inn Fur rnmnnr,,, Ar.^^ L J 'he subscriber, Nonaiitum Hill, Newton, near Boston, 

 lULs , ana iiie Arneiican 1< ur Company does not Aiujnst l, iss-". WILLIAM KF.NRI 



permit adventurura a passage in its vessels. 



Two schooners have been heretofore employed 

 upon Lake Superior ; one belonging to each of 

 these companies. A new one was built the last 

 spring by the American Fur Company, so that there 

 are now three. When the canal around tlio Sault 



WILLIAM KENRICK. 



MULBKRRY TREES. 



200.000 Genuine Mulberry Trees, and as many more » 

 may be wanted, of the most approved kinds— consisling 

 the best selected varieties now in use, for cultivation, feedii 

 worms, and makinsr silk ;— being acclimated to ibis countr 

 and adajitod to cither warm or cold climates, affording 

 rare opportimity for companies or individuals to be suppliei 

 de St Marie shall be finished, it is likely there will *"''"'" .''''^ ■""*' extensive colleciion of mulberrry trees 



seen in any village with n the Uniied Stales. 



Autumn is decidedlv ihc best lime for removal, and order 

 left with Messrs. I. B. Colt, Secretary of the Connectici 

 Silk Manufacturing Company, Hartford; Alonzo Waken:n 

 at the office of the American Institute, No. 1S7 Uroadwa' 

 N. Y. : Thomas Lloyd, Jr. No. ■,■36 Filbert street, Philadc 

 phia, Pa. ; Luther I. Cox, Baltimore, Md. ; B. Snid&r, . 

 Co. Savannah, Ga. ; Bliss Jenkins, &Co. Mobile, AI ; Jam< 

 Lyman, St. Louis. Mo. ; Case and Judd, Columbus, O. ; G 

 Harwood, Rochester, N. Y.; and the publishers of this ad 

 vertisement.or with the subscriber, iu Norlhamplon, Mass. 



Orders left wilh the above gentlemen will be proinptiv at 

 tended to, and each will be furnished with samples of ih^ 

 foliage. 



Several valuable farms may be had wilh or without Mul 

 berry Plantations. 



Apply at the office of D. STEBBINS. 



Norlhan 



be a rush of competition for the business of Lake 

 Superior. Whether the expectation of those who 

 are sanguine will be realized, as to the extent and 

 value of tiie trade thns to be opened, time will de- 

 termine. Furs are growing scarce upon the shore, 

 it is said ; fish are abundant, and whether there are 

 minerals upon the shore worth digging for, is dis- 

 puted. But when that ship canal is completed. 

 Lake Superior, and tlie country around it, will he 

 minutely explored, and its resources, ivhatever they 

 may be, ascertained. ' 



But to return to fish ; a gentleman who has 

 good means of judging, estimates the quantity 

 put up for market upon the "lakes in 18:57 at 12,000 

 bane's, and of these he judges 7000 barrels were 

 brought from Lake Superior. At nine dollars the 

 barrel, which may be taken as a fair price, the 

 whole would amount to $108,000. 



The same gentleman estimates the proportion of 

 trout caught in Superior at one-fourth of the whole 



ihampton, Aug 22, 1838. 



of fish, but those named are the chief, and the most the rest chiefly white fish. In the other lakes he' 

 valuable. | thinks the proportion of trout to white fish not so 



THE NEW ENGI.A.'VD PARMER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per annum 

 payable at the end of the year— but those who pay within 

 sixty days from the time of subscribing ate entitled to a de- 

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TL'TTLE, DENNETT AXD CHISHOLM, PRINTERS, 

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