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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



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' li in size as to be able to creep through, 

 It length pnssed into your wheat, with the in- 

 1 of returning after they had filled themselves, 

 jl tins they could not do Ihen, and it is not prob- 

 )le that they have attempted it since, so you had 

 Hter look tor them, fo;- ore this, they have cost 

 )U as much as they ar§ worth, in the damage they 

 ive done to the wheat crop. 



Grabb. — Well, 'tis no use to try to do any thing 

 ore, and so I'll go straight home — no, not straight, 

 T if I do, I shall get au'.ongst the porkers, and 

 ley are grumblers by profession. 



9. Pigs. — Porkers, did you call us r 'Twill be 

 ng before we have any pork about us, with our 

 resent mode of living — call us grunters, for so we 

 e, and with reason; we wonder you are not afraid 



meet us aller dark, for we are but the ghosts of 

 lings that have been. There is this consolation 



it, however — our lives will be spared, for we 

 lall never be worth the trouble of killing ; indeed, 

 at in a little time would be no murder, as it 

 ould be like one of your neighbors, who killed his 

 gs to save their lives ! 



10. Grabb. — Ah! well, here come the horses; 

 ley are the only generous animals upon a farm ; 

 ut where are ye ail going in such a hurry ? 



Horses. — We have come at last to the resolution 

 r no longer starving quietly, so we are going in a 

 ody to break over the fence into Farmer Clement's 

 over; we know where the weak place is, for we 

 ave heard yon promise for the last three months to 

 et it mended, and of course it is not done yet. We 

 not intend to break into your own clover, as that 

 ould be punishing ourselves the next winter, for 

 8 calculate there will not be more food than 

 nou ;h for us all, if we eat stock and block of the 

 'hole farm. 



By this time the farmer had reached his house, 

 nd going in, said to himself, there is no comfort 

 ut of doors, let us see if we can get a littlo within. 

 Vife, bring the rum bottle and a pipe. Talk of 

 he independence of a farmer's life, indeed! 'tis all 

 . hum — here am I, with the best intentions in the 

 ?orld — 



Hife. — Not the value of a cent! all your inten- 

 ions never grow into actions .' Now just sit down 

 ind I'll sum up the thousand and one promises that 

 'ou have made me to do the necessary repairs about 

 he house— and to begin with the roof of the dairy, 

 urhich was stripped off by that storm last autumn, 

 ind there it remains in the same state to this day. 

 Grabb. — Take care, Ut me get to bed, out of the 

 way. 



Frank. — Oh ! thank you ; but now, to make a 

 perfect picture, we should visit his fields with a 

 good farmer and husbandman. 



Father. — 1 hat indeed would be much more agree- 

 able, and some day we may do so; but it is now 

 late — let us get to bed, as Grabb said, but not for 

 the same reason, blessed be God ! 

 [Pan II. next week.J 



CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 



Mr Editor — It is gratifying to observe that 

 you have improved the advantageous position you 

 occupy as the conductor of a public paper, exten- 

 sively read among the moral people of New Eng- 

 land, in ad(ninistering seasonable advice regarding 

 the wanton destruction of useful birds ; and the 

 same feeling will doubtless prompt you, in good 

 time, to add remarks against cruelty to animals in 

 general. This sin, so utterly revolting to the feel- 



ings of the benevolent mind, and, moreover, so com- 

 pletely calculated to make men ashamed of some of 

 their species, will doubtless be practised so long as 

 our race cover the face of the earth ; and hence 

 the necessity that all whose conspicuous stations 

 in life give importance to their advice and personal 

 example, should con.stantly strive to inculcate the 

 humane usage of all those creatures which a be- 

 neficent Providence has placed in the keeping of 

 man, for his convenience and support. 



I did not, however, take my pen for the purpose 

 of writing an essay upon this subject ; for kindness 

 to animals is a duty which needs no argument to 

 commend itself to every rational being. The mass 

 of mankind, sensible that for wise purposes, the 

 " beasts of the field and the fowls of the air" are 

 committed to their guardianship, feel no other than 

 kmdly emotions in all their usage of them. Mo.-t 

 descriptions of cruelty, too, wherever it comes un- 

 der observation, is the result of sheer barbarity — 

 the evidence of unmerciful feelings on the part of 

 those who inflict it : but we have reached a season 

 of the year when a kind of cruelty is practised, 

 which, although very common, is rather the result 

 of custom than of a wish improperly to use the les- 

 ser order of created things; and therefore can 

 more easily be brought into disuse. I allude to 

 the practice of exposing the various feathered tribes 

 to the ball of the "sportsman," and permitting them 

 to be fired at for given sums per shot : a practice 

 involving the sin of gambling, and evincing coward- 

 ly and barbarous conduct too on the part of those 

 who engage in it. It is as old, perhaps, as New 

 England thanksgivings ; but old as it is, it would 

 be infinitely " more honored in the breach than in 

 the observance ;" and it is to be devoutly hoped 

 will soon be laid aside, and considered as disrepu- 

 table as racing, gambling and cock-fighting. 



I imagine, Mr Editor, that the way to overcome 

 all kinds of unnecessary destruction of innoxious 

 birds, as well as a propensity to inflict cruelty upon 

 domestic animals, is to enact no laws upon the sub- 

 ject, but to spread abroad a salutary influence in 

 the community by persuasive means. Parents 

 should inculcate upon their children principles of 

 benevolence, and visit with the severest displeas- 

 ure, any breach of their known wishes upon this 

 subject. They should teach their offspring that an 

 Almighty Power, without whose knowledge " not a 

 sparrow falleth to the ground," for wise purposes, 

 filled the earth with animals to minister to their 

 convenience : and that to give them unnecessary 

 pain, and for no useful purpose, is exerting a power 

 which will mar their happiness, and which they 

 have no right to exert. 



The writer has reason to believe that the fol- 

 lowing anecdote, read to one of his children, will 

 not soon be effaced from the mind of the child, or 

 cease to exert thereon a correct influence. 



" An idle youth, living upon the banks of the 

 Loire, rowed his boat to the centre of the river, and 

 then, for the purpose of drowning him, plunged 

 therein his Newfoundland dog. The animal, upon 

 every attempt to regain the boat, had his head borne 

 beneath the waves by a pa'ddle in the hands of his 

 destroyer; but by reason of the strength for which 

 that species of the canine race are so celebrated, 

 was enabled successfully to maintain himself above 

 the surface of the water. Finding his efforts to 

 regain the boat unavailing, he turned for the shore, 

 when his brutal companion, in making a renewed 

 attempt upon him, lost his balance, and was precip- 



itated within the waters. In thia dilemma, when 

 human aid was beyond reach, and when his bufl'el- 

 ings would soon have been succeeded by the gur- 

 glings which I recede dissolution, the dog with ca- 

 paciousjaws seized his arm, and brought him a^ive 

 to dri/ land.'" — Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 



RoHAPi Potatoes The rage among cultiva- 

 tors for the Rohan potators. has in some parts of 

 the country been more violent and it is believed 

 much more useful, than the rage for speculation in 

 Morus MuUicaulis. The current price during the 

 last planting season, was something like $20 per 

 bushel. The disti.iguishing trait of the Rohan is 

 the remarkable abundance with which it produces. 

 A writer in an English agricultural paper states, i 

 that in 1837, he raised from sixty moderate sized 

 Rohans, planted under trees, and injured to a con- 

 siderable extent,by drought, twentufour bushels full 

 measure. In France, these potatoes frequently at- 

 tain the weight often pounds. When cooked they 

 are said to possess a fine flavor, and from the abun- 

 dance with which they yield, and the consequent 

 cheapness with which they are raised, they will, 

 probably, when generally introduced, furnish an ex- 

 cellent substitute for the common potato, for the 

 purpose of fattening hogs and beef cattle. — Coos 

 County Democrat. 



Great YIELD OF Rohan Potatoes. — Mr Ste- 

 phen Ordway, of Loudon, happening to be in Con- 

 cord on one of the last days of May, at the store of 

 Maj. M'Daniel saw some remnants of Rohan pota- 

 toes which had been kept for sale. He was told 

 they had sold at seventeen cents the pound, and he 

 paid two cents for one small potato weighing two 

 ounces. This he took homo with him, and cut it 

 into seven pieces, which he planted in four hills — 

 two in three hills, and the smallest eye of all in a 

 hill by itself. The ground on which these hilla 

 were planted was in a spot of hard pan which had 

 not been manured for three years. It was near 

 his house, where early potatoes had been planted, 

 which had already made their appearance above 

 ground at the time. Mr Ordway dug the product 

 of his potato on the 21st September, the vines be- 

 ing still green ; and this weighed seventeen pounds, 

 or one hundred and thirtysix for one. The largest 

 potato weighed one pound and fourteen ounces, and 

 several weighed from one pound to one and three- 

 fourths pounds. 



From a single Rohan potato sent to the editor 

 of the Farmer's Monthly Visitor from Boston, hav- 

 ing eighteen eyelets, was raised full three pecks in 

 measure, weighing thirtyfour and a half pounds, and 

 one hundred and eightyfour in number. One hill 

 was entirely eaten by mice, and serious depreda- 

 tions were made in some others. The weight of 

 the seed potato did not exceed four ounces. The 

 largest potato weighed two pounds. — Farmer's 

 Monthly Visitor. 



The Rohans. — A gentleman in this village [Au- 

 gusti, Maine,] planted, last spring a Rohan potato 

 weighing six ounces, which he cut in twentytwo 

 pieces, and put two pieces in a hill. He dug them 

 on Wednesday, and found the yield of his potato 

 to be 148, which weighed si.xtysix pounds, and 

 measured five pecks. Another gentleman raised 

 100 potatoes, weighing fortythree pounds, from a 

 Rohan of about the same size and planted in the 

 same manner. — Kennebec Gaz. 



