irot.. XXII. N:>. it. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



131 



Fourth premium of $4, for tlie next best do., to 

 aniel Tribon. 



Fifth premium of $G, for best heifer not liavins: 



d a calf, Biid not more than 3 years old, to F.llis 

 olmes, E, 15rid|;eivater. 



Sixth pruiniuin of $4, for the next best do., to 

 snjaniin Crocker, of Bridgewater. 



Seventh pri'mi'im of $8, for the best bull of na- 

 i^e or mixed breed, not ices than one year old, to 

 bram Wasljhurn, '.id, of Bridjewater. 



Eighth preniiiini of $5, for the next best do., to 

 ahum Snell, W. Bridgewater. 



Ninth premium of S4, for best bull calf, not less 

 an five months old, to S. S. Lovell, of Bridgewa- 

 r. 



Tenth premium of .$3, for tlie next best do., to 

 benezer Wilder, of Middleborou<;h. 



Eleventh premium of $4, for best heifer calf, to 

 icob Robinson, Bridgevvator. 



Twelfth premium of .S3, for next best do., to 

 )nathan Leonard, Middleborough. 



Your comuiitlee further recommend that one vol. 

 ich of the N. F. Fanner be awarded to Amender 

 Iden, Biidgewater ; Statford Sturtcvant, Halifax ; 

 aul Revere, Asa .Morse, and Mitchell Keith, of 

 ridgewater. 



Also, one vol. Mass. Ploughman each to H. W. 

 !ackett, of Middleborough ; Zenas Crocker, Geo. 

 /. Holmes, of Bridgewater ; John Tilden, North 

 0. ; Richard Thayer, East do. 



A gratuity of one vol. of Ploughman to Mr Cros- 

 y, of N. Bridgewater, for a bull calf not old 

 Dough to be entitled to premium. 



GEO. VV. WOOD, CVmn. 



On Cattle, SfC. 

 The wliolc number of beef oxen presented for 



Ploughman to Nahum Tribon, Middleborough ; 

 Stafford Stiirlevnnt, Halifax; Philander Wood and 

 George W. Bates, Bridgownler. 



HORACE AMES, CVmn. 



SEEDLING POTATORS FOR DISTRIBU- 

 TION. 

 Messrs. Joseph Bieck ^- Co. — Gentlemen — I take 

 the liberty to cull your attention to a variety of po- 

 tato which was raised from tlie seed in a ball grow- 

 ing on the vines of some potatoes procured from 

 your establi.-5hment, in J8.39, wliich were sent ine 

 for the earliest variety. I send you, via railroad, 

 one barrel for gratuitous distribution, that you can 

 have them examined and see if they are a new va- 

 riety. I supposed they were until within a few 

 days since, when I was told that a similar if not 

 the identical potato, is raised for your market. If 

 such is the fact, you need take no pains to distri- 

 bute them ; if not, I shall be glad to have their 

 quality tested, and if they are esteemed as highly 

 with you as they are by me, and you wish for some 

 for seed, I can furnish say from thirty to fifty bar- 

 rels, at $i 50 per tlour bbl., delivered in Provi- 

 dence. 



Their yield with me lias been greater than any 

 other potato I have planted, except the Rohan and 

 " Long Johns," a red potato, similar to two red 

 ones you will find in the barrel, and which last 

 came from the seed of the same ball that produced 

 the others. 



Their yield compared with the Chenango, which 



I have tried them with by way of comparison for 



two years, has been, 1841, Seedlings 17, Chenan- 



goes 11 : 1842, Seedling 20, Chenango 13. This 



year we have not tried them, except in a field of 



four acres, one-third Seedlings, the remainder Che- 



remium, were seven, which were of good quality. ! "3"?°^- a"'' ll'e difference will not be as great ; 



Ve recommend the followino- premiums : I ^"1 "hat the comparative yield will be, we cannot 



To Benj. Hobart, Abington, best fat ox, ,$10 I '^"> "^ ^ve have only dug the barrel I send, and 



John Caldwell, W. Bridgewater, 2d do. 



Isaac Alden, East do., 3d do. 5 



The whole number of cows were four, which 



pere not so good as on former occasions. 



To Nathan Willis, for best fat cow, $6 



Calvin Leavitt, 2d do. do. 3 



The other two cows the committee were unable 



o ascertain the manner in which they were kept. 



They recommend one vol. each of the N. E. Far- 

 ner to Capt. Abram Washburn, and John Cald- 

 well ; and one vid. Alass. Ploughman each to Benj. 

 iJobart and Nathan Whitman. 



NAHUM SNELL, Ch'mn. 



On fforking Oxen, Ifc. 



On cattle raised and trained in the county : 

 Col. Abram Washburn, Bridgewater, 1st pre- 

 mium, $10 

 Daniel Alden, of IMiddleborough, 2d do. 6 

 On oxen not raised and trained in the county : 

 To the town of Bridgewater, 1st premium, 9 

 Charles Gurney, N. Bridgewater, 2d do. 5 

 On steers not less than two nor more than four 

 years old : 



To Ephraim Tillson, Bridgewater, 1st prem. $G 



Ephraim C. Ripley, Halifax, 2d do. 3 



For yearling steers accustomed to the yoke : 



To Philander Pratt, Bridgewater, Ist prem. $5 



They award one vol. each of the N. E. Farmer 



to Paul Hathaway, Jona. Leonard, and Edward 



Cole, of Middleborough, and Horace Ames, of 



Bridgewater; also, one vol. each of the Mass. 



g what we have eaten. They are just perceptibly 

 later than the Chenango, and of the superiority in 

 quality, I need not speak, as you will judge for 

 yourselves. Should they prove of a quality to re- 

 commend them to your favorable notice, I will give 

 you a detailed account (from my memorandum) of 

 their production from the seed. Should you wish 

 for some, please inform me immediately, as Ave 

 shall take them out next week, and can forward 

 them directly from the field. 



Respectfully, your ob't serv't, 



L. M. WHEELER. 

 East Greenwich, R. L, Oct. 2d, 1843. 

 QJ^The potatoes mentioned in Dr. Wheeler's 

 letter, have been received, and are ready for dis- 

 tribution according to his wishes, and for which he 

 has our thanks. We like the appearance of the 

 potato very well. They are of yellow color, and 

 in shape oblong, and generally tapering, and the 

 specimens sent are of large size. They have been 

 examined by a number of gentlemen in the Quincy 

 market, who deal in the article, who say that there 

 is no variety like them that they are acquainted 

 with. 1'hey resemble in shape the Cow-horn po- 

 tato, which IS black. They have a very smooth 

 skin. The two red potatoes, said to have been 

 produced from the same ball with the others, re- 

 semble the Long Red, and we should suppiise they 

 were identically the same. We find the quality of 

 the potatoes fine. 



Let him who regrets for time lost, make proper 

 use of that which is to come. 



RECLAIMED PEAT OR BOG MEADOWS. 



We copy the fcdlowing extract from the report 

 of the Committee on Farms of the Middlesex Ag- 

 ricultmal Society : 



" Mr Ehenczer Richardson, of Poppercl), has re- 

 claimed twelve acres of peat or bog swamp. He 

 commenced on it eight years ago. It was then a 

 wet, sunken swamp, very miry, and wholly unpro- 

 ductive. He first drained it thoroughly, to do 

 wliich ho cut about 200 rods of ditch. When 

 drained, the land settled, and/ exposed a large 

 (|uantity of stumps and logs. These he took off 

 and used for fire-wood, and they have furnished 

 him with fuel for the last seven years. He has 

 taken off, on an average, more than 2.^ cords of 

 this wood from an acre. Wlien drained and clear- 

 ed of wood, he turned the top over with a grab, 

 bog-hoes, &c., levelled it as well as he could, and 

 planted potatoes, until the surface was mellowed 

 and subdued, and then sowed grass seed and rolled 

 it down. The committee were gratified to sec 

 tiiat Mr Richardson's neighbors were pursuing a 

 similar course with their meadows. 



The committee award to Mr Richardson the first 

 premium of $25. 



Messrs. Abie! H. Wheeler and Joseph Merriam, 

 of Concord, oflered their reclaimed meadows for 

 premium. Mr Wheeler's toeadow, though produc- 

 tive for the present, is not thoroughly drained. 



Last year, Mr Jlcrriain took the second premi- 

 um. This year he has reclaimed another piece in 

 a similar manner. His method is to cut up the 

 bushes and hassocks and burn them, then spread 

 the ashes and sow grass seed. The committee 

 cannot believe that burning such a meadow is the 

 best way to reclaim it, nor can they think that it 

 would promote the objects of the Society, to give 

 a man two premiums for doing the same thing twice, 

 or for repeating the same experiment. Under 

 these circumstances, tliey do not. feel authorized 

 to award the second premium to any person." 



Poultry. — It is scarcely creditalde how valuable 

 is the poultry in the United States. By the cen- 

 sus of 1840. it was returned at .§12,170,170. Of 

 this New York contributes $2,373,029, which is 

 more than the value of all its swine, half the value 

 of its sheep, the entire value of its neat cattle, and 

 five times the value of all the horses and mules in 

 the State. These facts are derived from " the 

 American Poultry Book," recently published by 

 the Harpers, New York. 



The first Snoic. — There was a slight fall of snow 

 at Philadelphia on the 13th inst. In Ulster coun- 

 ty, on the 14th, snow fell to the depth of four in- 

 ches. 



Rufus Newhall, jr., of Lynn, Mass., has a second 

 growth of apples upon a young tree of the Bald- 

 win variety ; and also a vine of the Isabella grape, 

 in blossom, the second time this season. 



An exchange paper states that the fatlier of an 

 interesting family near Detroit, Mich., not long 

 since stopped the only newspaper that he allowed 

 himself or family, and solely on the ground that he 

 could not afford the expense. This man chews 

 $14 CO worth of tobacco a year! 



Wisconsin, it is paid, will have for sale this year, 

 1,000,000 bushels of wheat. 



