AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 52 NORTH MARKET STREET, (Aobicultubal Wahkhouse.) 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1843. 



tlDO. 93. 



N. E. FARMER, 



HICII IS THE MOST DIGNIFIED AND 

 HONORABLE PROFESSION.' 



" Honor and shame from no condition rise — 

 Act well your part, there all the honor lies.." 



riie latj remarks of the venerable John Quincy 



ams, before the members of the Bar of the eoun- 



of Hamilton, Ohio, were of the most interesting 



racier. Tlie following extract is worthy to be 



isurcd up and remembered by every one, what- 



r his profeosion may be, but especially by the 



tivators of the soil, who, if it were possible, in 



Adams's estimation, that any class of men 



uld be raised above another in point of superior 



nity and honor, would be the favored class : but 



his view all professions are equally dignified and 



iiorable, when honorably pursued ; and these 



ws must also accord with the feelings of every 



■d and enlightened man on earth : 



'Brethren of the Profession of the Law: — Per- 

 '8 my estimation of the profession, notwithstand- 



wliat I have said, may not be so high as that 

 ich many of you make. So deep is my imprcs- 

 T of the natural cijuality of mankind, and of the 

 damental rights which that natural equality con- 

 ! upon every human being, that I have been ac- 

 tomed, and have accustomed myself, to transfer 

 t principle of equality to all the professions of 

 n — the honest professions adopted by men in the 

 at and various pursuits of life. 

 It is common to say that the profession of the 

 w is llie highest, most honorable, and most dig- 

 ed that can be exercised by man. Possibly 

 le of you may think so. It is possible that you 

 y have entered upon the profession with that 

 )rea3iuii. But that impression is not mine. I 

 not cunsider it, in point of dignity, in point of 

 lortance, beyond that of the shoemaker, or the 

 or, or the housewright, or mason, or any me- 

 nical profession. I consider it not superior to 



profession of the healing art, destined to alle- 

 le and remove the physical evils of the human 

 e ; far less do I consider it superior to that pro. 

 lion which connects man with the future and 

 h God. 



lly opinion is, that the profession of Divinity 

 ids upon the same foundation as the profession 

 he Law. The professors of both are bound by 

 laws of nature and of God, to pass lives of pu- 



and of innocence, doing all the good they can 

 heir fellow-creatures on earth. And if it is the 

 iWego of the professors of Divinity to stand as 

 iiators between God and man, it is equally that 

 hose of the Law to maintain at all hazards, ov- 

 individual right conferred upon man by Nature 

 I God. I would say, therefore, that we ouglit 

 ■efer tlic whole question of the relative dignity 

 i importance of trades, to that sacred principle 

 latiiral equality, which is the law of nature be- 

 len man and man. 



; deem it unnecessary to enlarge further on this 

 ject, I will not discuss the right of different 

 sses to make pretensions to the superiority of 



their respective professions. If there is any one 

 profession which can claim superiority over all the 

 rest, it is that of the cuUivalor of the earth. For 

 him, more than once, that claim has been asserted. 

 But to him I should assign precisely equal rights 

 with all the rest. Because he in numbers counts 

 more than all the rest — though his profession num- 

 bers more than ten to one of all others together — I 

 cannot admit superiority on his part over the tne- 

 chanic, the merchant, or the lawyer." 



SYiMPHlTUM. 

 Our readers will recollect that we published in 

 the Journal, last spring, a letter from Mr Ezekiel 

 Rich, of Troy, N. H., to the editor of the Keene 

 Sentinel, giving an account of a new article of 

 food, bearing the botanic name of Symphitum, but 

 more generally known as Comfrey. It was there 

 stated that the root of this plant had never before, 

 to the knowledge of the writer, been cultivated as 

 food for man, or the top as hay for cattle. Mr 

 Rich stated that the product of the top of the plant 

 was very great — two cuttings, in June and Sep- 

 tember, yielding six tons per acre of goml fodder, 

 if well made; and the root, which should be har- 

 vested only once in two years, producing 2400 

 bushels per aero. The root he stated to be very 

 nutritious, wholesome and palateable for man and 

 beast. 



The statement was of such a character as to ex- 

 cite some inquiry in our neighborhood, and Mr 

 Abednego Robinson, who is always foremost in 

 making experiments for the improvement of agri- 

 culture, last spring took some pains to collect the 

 icattered roots of the Comfrey on his own farms in 

 this town, and from those in his neighborhood, and 

 succeeded in making a small bed of half a rod 

 square. 



A few weeks since, in company with some other 

 gentlemen, we visited his premises. The plat was 

 set out in rows of about fifteen inches distant. 

 The tops were thickly set, and we should judge 

 that an acre like it would have produced three or 

 four tons of tops when dried. Mr Robinson has 

 since informed us that he has cut and dried the 

 tops of this plat, and found the weight to be ti 1-2 

 pounds. 



This was cut some time in September. It had 

 suffered the disadvantage of a very dry season, and 

 scarrely started until July. There cannot be 

 much doubt, when the root is firm the next season, 

 that it will at two cuttings each produce 2.5 pountis, 

 which is about eight tons per acre. Mr Robinson 

 says his stock of all descriptions eat it eagerly. 



Another plat on dry ground did not succeed as 

 well as this on moist ground : this, he thinks, may 

 be imputed to extremely dry weather after setting 

 it out. As the season has resulted, it is impossible 

 to judge fairly what ground is most favorable to 

 its culture. It is presumed that it may be culti- 

 vated on variable soils, and will produce in propor- 

 tion to their quality. 



We could not but observe the great beauty of 

 'Sis vegetable in its vigor, standing very erect, 2 1-2 



feet high, full of leaves, and thick with bloom. Mr 



R. thinks that the culture of this vegetable will 



prove a valuable acquisition to agricultural pro- 

 ducts. — Portsmouth Journnl. 



Emigration Westward. — We were rather surpris- 

 ed to find by a late statement in the travelling notes 

 of Horace Greely, that emigration to the far west is 

 going on, from tlie supposed fertile soils of western 



New York and Pennsylvania. He stales "New 



England never witnessed such an emigration as is 

 now going forward, not only from Buft'al,,, but more 

 especially from Cattaraugus and Cliaulnuque coun- 

 ties, from Western Pennsylvania and Northern O- 

 hio, to the region of the Upper Lakes and the Mis- 

 sissippi — mainly to Northern Illinois and Southern 

 Wisconsin. Those regions would soon be filled to 

 overflowing, were they not in turn drained by emi- 

 gration to Iowa and the Indian territories. So waga 

 Die world. We feel the evils which surround us, 

 and are heedless of those in the distance ; and the 

 emigrant from Connecticut to Iowa is at first aston- 

 ished to find as much discontent in his new country 

 as in the old, and a larger proportion bent on ' go- 



ing West' to better their fortunes. No matter 



the Pacific Ocean will bring us up by-and by." 



Leaves — Among the many materials which at 

 this season may be collected for manure, leaves are 

 far from being the least valuable. As soon as old 

 Boreas has shaken down the withered foliage, har- 

 ness up your team, and devote a day or so to haul- 

 ing in a supply to be used as litter for your hogs, 

 sheep, cows, horses and other domestic animals, a°nd 

 whose comfort during winter, is, like your own, pro- 

 moted by the luxury of a warm bed. In this way, 

 very important and valuable acquisitons may be made 

 in a short time, and without an outlay of much ex- 

 pense. — Maint Cultivator. 



Eggs.— A correspondent says—" Eggs that pro- 

 duce the male chicken may be distinguished from 

 those that produce the female, by their being long- 

 er and more pointed at the ends than those of the 

 female ; which are more rounded at the ends. 



People who raise chickens for the market will do 

 well to select those eggs which produce the male 

 chicken to set their hens with, as the males will be 

 larger and of more value than the females." 

 man. 



-Plow. 



The breeders' convention at New York, on the 

 17th of October, the object of which was to fix upon 

 a scale of points constituting a perfect animal, post- 

 poned the consideration of the subject until the next 

 fall meeting of the New York State Agricultural 

 Society. Mr Allen, of New York, mentioned the 

 following as the chief points of excellence : 1st, a 

 deep wide brisket ; 2d, a general fineness of bone, 

 hair, skin, and small olfal ; ;)d, good handlino-. 



No man ever regretted that he kept aloof from 

 idle companions in his youth. 



