irOI/. T\ll. NO. 30. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



237 



setts ['lou^liinan. Cattle not to be removed 

 1 the pens t)eforo 1 o'clock, P. M. 

 llninmiits for premiums on slock and beef cut- 

 are required to exhibit to th« coinmitten evi- 

 co of llio iimde of rearing and trealinfr animala 

 red for premium. The committees will please 

 ;tly to enforce this requisition, and award no 

 nium for a milcli cow, unless the quantity of 

 ; and butler produced, for at least ten days in 

 1 of llie months of June and September, be ac- 

 itely stated. 



nimals must have been kept in the county six 

 ihs to entitle tliem to premiums, 

 laims for stock oC every sort, and entries for 

 ploivin;; match, to be made on or before Sept. 

 , 1*34-1, to Abram Washburn, 2d, Bridgewater. 



Articks of Ihe Dairy. 

 or the best butter, not less than 30 lbs. $7 



or ne.\t best do. not less than 20 lbs. .'i 



or the ne.tt best do. do. 3 



or the best cheese, not less than 100 lbs. 7 

 or the next best do. not less than 75 lbs. 5 



or the next best do. do. 3 



he committee are authorized to distribute 3 

 of the New England Farmer and 3 of Massa- 

 letls Ploughman. 



Fruits and VegelnbUs, 

 he committee on Fruits and Vegetables are 

 orized to distribute twentyfive dollars for ex- 

 dinary fruits and vegetables that may be de- 

 ed for exhibition. 



Inventions, 

 he committee on Inventions are authorized 

 stribute for inventions and improvements 

 le structure of implements of agriculture, 

 patentQ,d, as rewards of ingenuity, $15 



he committee are authorized to distribute 2 

 of New England Farmer and 2 of Massachu- 

 I Ploughman. 



Bonnets and Fancy jhticles. 

 he committee on articles of Usefulness and 

 sy, are authorized to award $50 



Mannfaclures. 

 he committee on Cloths and the most use- 

 .rticles of Household Manufacture, are au- 

 izcd to award in premiums, according to 

 • judgment iif the comparative excellence 

 utility of the articles p*e8ented, $75 



Cocoons and Silk. 



the person who shall raise and exhibit 

 argest quantity of cocoons, $8 

 or the next greatest quantity, C 

 or the next do. do. 3 

 or every ounce of wrought silk, raised and 

 ted in iho county, 10 cts. 



rticles which have received a premium, are not 

 ;ied to a premium afterwards. If a competitor 

 my of the Society's premiums shall be discov- 

 to have used any deception or disingenuous 

 sures, by which the objects of the Society have 



1 defeated, such person shall not only forfeit 

 premium which may have been awarded to 

 but be rendered incapable of being ever after 



mpctitor for any of the Society's premiums. 

 . S Cloths, fancy articles, products of the 



j dairy, cocoons and silks, articles of invention,- 

 j fruits, vegetables, &c. must be deposited in the 

 j Town Hall, before i) o'clock, A. M. on the day of 

 ' cxhibiiion. 



Articles manufactured out of the county of Ply- 

 mouth, not admissable. 



Premiums Claimnhlf in Future Years. 

 To the person who shall, on the Ist of Sept. 

 j 1815, have the largest quantity of land in the 

 best slate of preparation for English mowing, 

 which was swamp land or fresh meadow, June 

 Is'- 1844, $15 



Second premium, ]0 



Third do. Mr Colman's Report of European 

 tour. 



For the most accurate experin-.ent in the use 

 of lime. Claimant required to select one acre 

 of land of even quality ; the manure for one- 

 half acre to be prepared as follows, viz: As 

 soon as the frost is out of the ground next 

 sprintr, take fifteen cartloads of muck or mead- 

 ow mud, and five loads of manure from slock, 

 and five casks of lime ; let the lime be slack- 

 ed so as to become tine, then carefully mix the 

 whole together. At planting time, spread Ifi 

 loads of the above on the furrow, mi.t it well 

 with the soil by cultivating or harrowing, and 

 put the remainder in the hill or drill at plant- 

 ing. Pot the same quantity of the same kind 

 of manure, excepting the lime, on the other 

 half acre. Let the whole be planted to corn, 

 the second year be sowed to English grain and 

 grass seed, the third and fourlh years n)owed, 

 and let the produce of each half acre be weigh- 

 ed and kept separate. Payable in 1846, 25 

 Second premium, ]5 

 For the most careful and satisfactory experi- 

 ment in the use of plaster of Paris, on one 

 acre of land, payable in 1847, 20 

 Second premium, 12 

 For the most accurate experiment in the 

 use of salt on one fourth part of an acre, paya- 

 ble in 184,5, 10 

 Second premium, 7 

 Experiment in the use of salt as manure. 

 Select one-fourth part of an acre of dry land : 

 prepare two compost heaps, as follows; three 

 loads in each heap : — In one heap mix one 

 bushel of salt, and in the other put the same 

 kind of manure and no salt. Put one heap on 

 one-half the lot, the other heap on the other 

 half. Plant one-half of each part to com, the 

 other half to potatoes, next spring. The year 

 after sow grain and grass seed, and on the 

 part on which salt was used the year before, 

 sow half a bushel of salt on the ground, and 

 sow the same quality of salt the third year in 

 the spring. Keep the crops separate and 

 weigh and keep an account. 



For the most satisfactory experiment to de- 

 termine the best time in the year for cutting 

 timber to ensure durability, payable in 1850, 25 

 Second premium, 12 



Six samples of timber shall be cut the first 

 year in dilfcrent months, according to the judg- 

 ment of the experimenter : the slicks shall be 

 not less than eight feet in lenglh, nor less 

 than six inches square, all to be of the same 

 dimensions and as near equal as possible with 

 respect to sap wood. These samples to be 

 equally exposed to the weather until 1850. In 



1845, the experimenter shall hew out another 



set of samples cut in diflcrcnt months from the 

 first, and expose in the same manner, until 

 1850. The experimenter shall also, at the 

 same time he hews and cuts a stick of timber, 

 cut a sapling of the same kind of wood and ex- 

 pose with the timber unbarked. 



Claims to the 1st, 2d, 3d, Gih and 7tli of 

 these premiums, must be iiiaJc to Morrill Al- 

 len, Pembroke, on or before April 14th, 1814. 



For the most extensive forest, of any sort of 

 trees suitable for timber, raised from the seed, 

 not less than 1000 trees to tlie acre, which 

 shall be in the most flourishing condition, and 

 more than five years old in Sept. 1845, 50 



Second premium for the same object, 30 



Third do. do. do. 20 



For the best plantation of oak or other for- 

 est trees, suitable for ship timber, not less than 

 1000 trees per acre, to be raised from the seed, 

 which shall be in the most thriving condition, 

 and more than three years old in Sept, 1847, 40 



Second premium for the same object, 25 



Premiums not demanded within a year, will be 

 considered as generously given to promote the ob- 

 jects of the Society. And on all premiums above 

 five dollars, awarded to gentlemen not members of 

 the Society, the Treasurer is directed to make a 

 deduction of twentyfive per cent, to increase the 

 funds. 



The Trustees will not consider themselves oblig- 

 ed by the terms of the above offers, to give a pre- 

 mium in any case, when it shall be evident there 

 has been no competition, nor more than ordinary 

 exertion. 



All entries for premiums may be made by let- 

 ters post paid. Letters unpaid, will not be consid- 

 ered. By order of the Trustees, 



MORRILL ALLEN, 

 ANTHONY COLLAMORE. 



Bridgewater, Jan. 1844. 



Wood. — Wood cut in the shortest days of win- 

 ter has been proved by actual experiment to en- 

 dure much longer than that of a similar descrip- 

 tion cut in June. The laws of vegetable physiolo. 

 gy, and particularly those involved in regulating 

 the wonderful economy of the ascent and descent 

 of the sap, are as yet too imperfectly understood 

 to admit of a satisfactory explanation of this fact, 

 although the fact itself is now becoming univer- 

 sally well known. 



Wood partially seasoned, is preferable in many 

 respects for fuel, to that which is thoroughly so. 

 It is an egregious error to suppose that the entire 

 mass of fluid contained in wood, is mere n-ater. 

 Like the blood of the human system, it is a com- 

 pound liquid, of which pure aqueous elements con- 

 stitute the base, but in both cases chemistry has 

 developed the presence of • other substances. In 

 partially seasoned wood the water is absent in a 

 great measure, and all that is combustible in the 

 fluid, \eh.— Selected. 



Women. — Sheridan once wrote : "Women gov- 

 ern us ; let us try to render them perfect : tho 

 more they are enlightened, so much the more shall 

 we be. On the cultivation of the minds of women, 

 depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that 

 nature writes on the hearts of men." Napoleon 

 said, " The future destiny of the child is always 

 the work of the mother." 



