AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



POCIJSHED BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 52 NORTH MARKET STREET, (Agricoltural Warehodse.) 



91.. xvin.] 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1839. 



[NO. ir. 



AGRICULTURAL. 



WORCESTER CATTLE SHOW. 



The annual festival of the Worcester Agricultu- 

 I Society was held on Wednesday, Oct. 9. The 

 hibition of the people of the county was maffni- 

 It is estimated that more than 8000 persons 

 eembled on the husbandman's holiday, principally 

 )m our citizens. Many guests from abroad were 

 ent. The earliest train of cars on the Boston 

 ilroad brought five hundred passengers; the cars 

 the Great Western Railway added many to the 

 ncourse of strangers. 



The Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agri- 



Iture, was well represented by the Hon. John 



ells and Mr Codman ; iMr Joseph Breck was the 



legate of the New England Farmer; Gov. Isaac 



11, a native of Worcester county, was present 



mi NewHampshrre; John G. Deane, Esq. attend- 



for the associations of Maine ; the societies of 



)nnecticut were absent, and Rhode Island and 



rniont omitted to report themselves in the meet- 



y of the friends of agriculture. 



The ploughing match on the field of Capt. Lewis 



gelow, was first of the exercises, and is said to 



ve been conducted in fine style. The teams 



re handsome and well trained, the ploughmen 



ilfu), the implements made by Ruggles, Nourse 



Mason, wliich is all that need be said of their 



ality, and the work done well and quick. 



The religious e.xercises in the church were per- 



•med in an appropriate manner by the Rev. Kr 



veetser, of Worcester, chaplain nf the day. 



Previous engagements with the most interesting 



all animals, prevented the editor from listening 



the address delivered by Alfred D. Foster, Esq. 



is said to have been distinguished for beauty of 



pression and sound and correct sentiment. The 



pics- discussed, as we are informed, were of the 



■nefits of labor, the condition of the American far- 



ar, the progress and improvement of agriculture, 



id the motives which should induce the young 



isbandman of New England to remain in his na- 



'c land, where industry receives its just reward, 



id the moral, religious, and social institutions, af- 



rd means of happiness, instead of emigrating to 



e west. 



At half past two, the members of the Society 

 ith their guests and many strangers, sat down to 

 1 e.xcel lent dinner, provided by Mr Putnam, of the 

 entral Hotel. The Hon. Levi Lincoln presided, 

 isisted by the Hon. Edmund Gushing, of Lunen- 

 irg, and the Hon. Joseph Bowman, of New Brain- 

 ee. Vice Presidents of the Society. The religious 

 :rvices at the table were appropriately and im 

 ■esaively performed by the Rev. Mr Sweetser, of 

 le Calvinist church. After thanks had been re- 

 irned, the president rose and said, " that under tlie 

 )undant causes for gratulation and enjoyment in 

 le occasion, an event had reached his knowledge, 

 le tidings of which could not but be received by 

 1 assembly of farmers and persons especially en- 

 aged in cultivating the products of the earth, with 

 le deepest emotions of interest and mournful re. 



gret. The papery of the morning bring intelli- 

 gence of the decease of the Hon. Jf.ssf, Buf.l, the 

 distinguished, scientific, and eminently successful 

 practical farmer of a neighboring state ; and I have 

 been advised," added the president, " that this time 

 and place may be deemed the most appropriate to 

 make to you the melancholy communication, and to 

 invite from you an expression of the sentiments of 

 grateful esteem with which you have regarded his 

 labors in the cause of agriculture, and of the cher- 

 ished respect in which you will hold the remem- 

 brance of his private and social virtues. 



'•To Judge Buel, of Albany, more perhaps than 

 to anj' other single individual, is the country in- 

 debted for an illustration of tho influence of high 

 intellectual powers upon the common and humble 

 occupations of life. He afforded, in his own per- 

 son, a bright example of the agency of learning and 

 literary apcomplishments to direct the hand and 

 ameliorate the condition of labor. He was above 

 nothing that was useful, and whether engaged in 

 the investigation of the laws of nature, or in the ap- 

 plication of discovered principles to practical re- 

 sults, he was alike the servant and the benefactor 

 of the farmer. As a skilful horticulturist, he was 

 no less eminent than as a successful husbandman ; 

 and the improved fruits of our gardens and orchards 

 will annually hereafter bear witness in this depart- 

 ment, to the liberality and extensive influence of 

 his exertions. He died in the midst of a life of 

 the most active usefulness. Indeed, the inexorable 

 messenger arrested him in the very pathway of his 

 labors. He was on a journey from the place of his 

 residence to the city of New Haven, on an occasion 

 like that which we are now assembled to celebrate, 

 there to instruct from the treasures of his reading, 

 reflection, and experience, an agricultural associa- 

 tion, and to participate in the festivities of the har- 

 vest home of the farmer, when he was himself sud- 

 denly gathered to the great harvest of mortality. It 

 is not for me," continued the president, "to attempt 

 his biography, or in this place, to speak of the many 

 interesting relations whici he had sustained, both as 

 a public and private man, to society. The State of 

 which he was a citizen, and the country to which his 

 life was a blessing, will long and deeply deplore his 

 loss. It is my purpose only, in simple and brief terms 

 to announce his death, to give opportunity to a distin- 

 guished individual now present, who was personal- 

 ly and intimately acquainted with his worth, to offer 

 in happier language, appropriate expressions of re- 

 spect for his character and grief for his loss." 



The Rev. Henry Colman, Agricultural Commis- 

 sioner of the State, rose and remarked in substance, 

 that in the tribute of respect and gratitude just paid 

 by the president of the Society, to the character and 

 distinguished merits of the late .Tiidge Buel, he cor- 

 dially sympathised. An eminently useful man had 

 indeed fallen ; one who ought justly to be regarded as 

 an instructor and guide in the great work of agricul- 

 tural imprbvement. To him the community is largely 

 indebted for the teachings of an enlightened mind, 

 operating upon the results of a broad experience in 

 the application of human labor. Mr Colman proceed- 

 ed to pronounce a brief but beautiful eulogium upon 



the beneficial influences of a life like that of Judge 

 Buel, devoted to the original employment of man, 

 in the culture of the earth. His writings, he said, 

 were among the best practical treatises upon the 

 subjects of husbandry and the raising and manage- 

 ment of plan* ) and trees, and now that his instruc- 

 tive labors were unexpectedly terminated, there 

 could be in such an assembly as he was addressing, 

 but one perv.-iding sentimenl of regret in the mel- 

 ancholy event. As expressive of this sentiment, 

 he would beg leave to introduce the following reso- 

 lutions: — 



Resolved, That this meeting of Worcester and 

 Massachusetts farmers have learnt this day with 

 deep regret, the decease of Jesse Buel, Esq., of Al- 

 bany. 



Resolved, That the memory of Judge Buel should 

 be cherished with the highest respect by- the agri- 

 cultural community throughjut the whole country, 

 for the eminent zeal and intelligence with which he 

 has devoted his distinguished talents to the cause 

 of agricultural improvement, and contributed ao 

 largely to its advancement. 



Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary of 

 the Worcester Agricultural Society, be requested 

 to transmit these resolutions to his bereaved family, 

 in testimony of their respectful condolence in this 

 private and public calamity. 



The resolutions having been read, were there- 

 upon immediately and unanimously adopted. 



The follawing sentiments, among others, pre- 

 pared for the occasion, were successively announc- 

 ed from the chair : 



Tilling the jiarih — An employment of man in 

 paradise — it brings with it still, the cheerfulness of 

 health and flie happiness of content, and raises him 

 to the dignity of true independence. 



Education of the Young — The culture of a virgin 

 soil — if sowed with good seed, the harvest richly 

 repays the labor; if left fallow, noxious weeds alone 

 spring up in baleful profusion. 



Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures — An 

 honest old trading firm ; always successful when 

 true to each other. May there be no dissolution of 

 copartnership by mutual consent. 



The JVational Team of twentysix strong — Who- 

 ever drives or whoever holds — may there be no 

 shoving or goading; no getting over the traces and 

 no breaking the chain. 



Cure for hard limes — Cheat the doctor by being 

 temperate ; cheat the lawyer by keeping out of 

 debt; and cheat the demagogue, of whatever party, 

 by voting for honest men. 



Morus Mutticauiis — A tough name for a tender 

 tree. Though it has woriri'd itself into the affec- 

 tions of so many, may they never find themselves 

 bit by a caterpillar, nor see their hopes fly awajr on 

 the wings of a butterfly. 



The Plough — The great instrument of human 

 subsistence ; the pioneer of civilization ; the true 

 foundation of national wealth. Speed the plough. 

 The president remarked, that in announcing the 

 last sentiment, which referred to the " instrument" 

 by which we subdued the earth, his eye was arrest- 



