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AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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-Melingcr lins rniscd ond reeled ICO lbs. of 



oons, and made 12 lbs. of silk. 



DtveutU hoB raised and reeled 190 lbs. of 



>cocin8. 



•^— Shelly I.V. Co. lino rained and reeled 172 lbs. 

 cocoons, Olid made IdJ lbs. of Bilk. 

 Many more bnve raised from 20 lo 50 lbs. Mr. 

 umncy adds, that he will worronlhis bilk to be not 

 jiial but much bettor than the best of Calcutta or 

 jlian 6ilk, for quality and texture. 

 These, together « ith the facts stated by Dr. Dcane, 

 ■ Greenfield, to be given in our iie.xl, and the rc- 

 >rt8 from the Auburn penitentiary, with many 

 ibers that have reached us, speak with an eniphasis 

 hicb iinist cnmninnd attention. 

 'he Constitution of Wyoming County Agri- 

 cultural Society, 

 Recently formed, provides that their oflicers shall 

 J located one in each town in the county. 

 Any person can become a member of this Society, 

 ,' paying into tho Treasury, fifty cents annually, and 

 r subscribing to this Constitution. 

 The funds of the Society shall bo appropriated for 

 ic encouragement of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 rts. 



OFFICKRS OF THE SOCIETY. 

 For President, 

 3. C. FERRIS, of Middlebury. 

 for Vice Presidents, 

 Ptter rAirjcRsox, Esq., of Perry, 

 Eee.mzkr P, BtcK, of Sheldon, 

 C O. Shkpap.d, of China. 

 For Scfretarij, 

 At;cusTUs Frank, of Warsaw, 



For Treasurer, 

 Tkuman Lewis, of Orangeville. 

 For Directors, 

 LevereltPeck. of Bennington ; EzraBisliop, of At- 

 ca i Milo Warner, of Java ; George B. Chase, of 

 Dstile ; Uriah Johnson, of Covington ; Christopher 

 ost, of Gainesville ; Daniel Wolcott, of Wethers- 

 eld. 



The Society holds its annual meeting on the Tues- 

 ;y succeeding the third ?>Ionday in October. 



NOTICKS OF NE\V PIJIJUCATIOSS. 



New York State Mechamc ; under the direc- 

 'onofthe Now York State Mechanics Association. 

 ublisbed at Alb.vSt — weekly — by J. Muneell & 

 !o. — at ,$] ,50 per annum— in advance. Eight pages 

 uarto. 



Ckntral New York Farmer. — A monthly Jour 

 lal devoted to Agriculture. Rome, Oneida Co. N. 

 Johnson and Comstoek, Editors. IJorar.c N. 

 lill, Proprietor. 50 cents pei annum. 7 copies for 



3. 16 pages — 8 vo; 



Easter.-) FAK>rER & Journal of News. — Semi- 

 lonthly. Ei:;ht pages folio. Edited by Francis O. 

 . Smith. Portland, Mc. One dollar per annum. 



The British American Cultiv.ktor. Toronto. 

 Jpper Canada. W. G. Edmundson, Editor. J. 

 i^astman and W. G Edmundson, Proprietors. One 

 lollar per annum including postage. 16 ps^es qto. 



United Sutes Farhlk an.o Journal of Aher- 

 CAN Institutes. — Each number from 32 to 40 large 

 ctavo pages, illustrated with engravings. Price two 

 lollars per annum in advance. S. Fleet, editor, as- 

 listed by S. Blydenburgh. 



We welcome the above nevr co-laborers to the lield 

 ind heartily wish them all the success they can desire 

 for themselves. The field is white for the harvest ; 

 md the world is wide enough for us all. We have 

 only to express our regret that so recently have they 

 come to hand ; and so recently have we ourselves 

 come to hand, that we cannot pay our personal re- 

 spects to ea-h cf them. We may Lave this pleasure 



at some future time. Wo can eay ol all of tbem that 

 their appearance is not fair only but respectable t and 

 that they work woiiderrully cheap. Wo hear contin- 

 ually that presently prices vtust come iloten. It is 

 rather diflicult to imagine how the prices of agricul- 

 tural periodicals arc to go down any farther. There 

 is no getting below the bottom unless v/e knock the 

 bottom out. Where that will bring us, imagination 

 does not venture to prodicl. The great consolation is 

 that having got down, we need not live in rontinual 

 fear of a lurthor fall ; and flat upon our backs, it can 

 only be said of us that "we are looking up." 



We welcome our old friend Fleet back again to the 

 duties of ' auld lang syno' , and arc rejoiced to find 

 him still j/cf^ and sound, wind and limb. 



The old Pioneers in the ciiusc, the American Far- 

 mer at Baltimore, and its early coadjutor, Tbe New 

 England Farmer in Boston, preserve a green old age, 

 and hold the even tenor of their way. 'Honor to the 

 brave.' 



The Albany Cultivator is still in its power and un- 

 stinted obundancc, pouiing out its monthly floods of 

 inlelligence and wise and judicious counsel ; and 

 moving on like the brenking-up team of the prophet 

 with Us twelve yoke of oxen. 



We are looking daily for a Family Vititor from the 

 Granite Hills, radiating with intelligence far and wide 

 like the reflections in a sunny day from itsov^■n White 

 Summits ; and*urning with a warmth of zeal, which 

 has made many a farmer in that region trickle, who 

 never had his ico melted before. 



Boston opens the year with a numerous family, and 

 all healthy and hearty. The Boston Cultivator, un- 

 der its intelligent editor, H. G. Meriam. The Far- 

 mer's Journal, edited with all the industry and expe- 

 rience of S. W. Cole, not unknown in the walks of 

 agriculture. Add to these the Massncbusetts Flough- 

 nian to which is united the Yankee Farmer, under 

 the veteran Buckmineier, lull of practical lore, but 

 who, unfortunate man I aa we learn from tho New 

 England Fanner, does not yet know how to spell his 

 own name, as be is quoted the Massachusetts Flow- 

 man. We shall give him up, if he does not find out 

 his mistake S'ton. 



Then there are the spare hands, the Boston Con- 

 rier and the Mercantile Journal always n aJy to lend a 

 helping hand and able to do three days works in one. 

 As to friend Sleeper's sound and useful agricultural ad- 

 drest: al-Wcslboro, we had prepared a notice of it for 

 this paper but it is necessarily excluded. A man so 

 wide awake to all good interests should be called any 

 thint; but Strr.pcr. 



Wc had prepared to speak of other agricultural con- 

 temporaries, equally demanding our re^peet ; but it 

 would be idle, for it seems like noting the trees in a 



thick forest^ 



Effects of Increased lintjes. 



We quote an ortiole from the New York Evening 

 Post, depicting in strong colors, tbe evils which must 

 fall upon the silk manufacturers in Lyons, from the 

 impost by our government of 20 per cent, upon im- 

 ported silks. There is, it is to be presumed, no e.x- 

 agerated coloring in this picture. The operatives in 

 the silk manufactories both of Franco and England, 

 and so also of China, are probably the worst paid and 

 lihe worst fed of any class of laborers on the coutineut. 

 We may, wc must, if we are men, feel for them. 

 Every benevolent mind dseply corapaasionates their 

 condition : but the care of them and their relief be 

 long to their own government and not to us. The 

 situationof few ol the manufacturers of any descrip- 

 tion, on any [.art of the European continent is better. 

 They are all worked excessively and fore moat hardly. 

 The wretchedness in England prevailing among 

 many classes of manufacturers is extreme, and almost 

 past relief. But hew to remedy this, or even how to 



alleviate it, is dillicult to say. This is a problem 

 for the solution of which tho heart of tho christian 

 pbilaulhiopiBt aches with agony. 



If all men were christians, and lived only and fully 

 upon christian principles, if justice and the love of 

 our neighbor prevailed every where, there would bo 

 little of this sulIcrinE. There would be no oecaeion 

 for laws other than what would bo dictated by every 

 man's own heart and conscience. All penal enact- 

 meiiie would be needless, and government would bo 

 felt by us only aa the great law and power of gravita- 

 tion are felt by us. But it is not so ; and while the 

 reigning spirit of chrietianity is universal love and 

 universal equity, that of the world is universal selfish- 

 ness and universal raparity. 



In such a condition of things, it seems idle to talk 

 about free trade. There is not, nor is there likely to 

 bo, a civilized nation upon the earth where it exists : 

 and for us to act upon a system of entire freedom of 

 trade, would be only to crush our own industry, tn 

 arrest our own improvement, and to expose ourselves 

 as helpless victims to the rapacity of other nations. 

 If other nations were willing to receive the proJucla 

 of our industry without" impost, we might ihen con- 

 sent to admit theirs upon the same terms; hutwhila 

 ihey prohibit all competition with th";ir labor, wo 

 should seek, in tbe same way, to protect and encour. 

 age ours. Tho only true independence cf an individ- 

 ual or a nation, lies in its power to supply its own 

 wants; and this it should constantly seek to do. 



We cannot, in this case, enter upon the great and 

 vexed subject of protection. It would be a charming 

 pietuie, if we could see all the nations of the world 

 engaged in a free and unrestricted exchange and in- 

 terchange of their various products. Hut at present, 

 such a thing can exist only in the benevolent imogi. 

 nation. In the present condition of society, nations 

 are compelled to act upon tho defensive, or sufl'er tho 

 bread to be taken from the mouths of their own chil- 

 dren. The governments under which these unfortu- 

 nate people live and suiTer, are responsible for a great 

 portion of the misery to which they are reduced ; and 

 for that system of bloody tyranny by which they com- 

 pel them to stifle their complaints, and to die in the 

 agonies of starvation and famine. 



Our movement in this matter moy produce extreme 

 distress, but it is the duty of their own governments 

 to alleviate their sufl'erings, or by timely jirovision pro. 

 vent them. There is not a single objection to be urg- 

 ed against tho encourogemcnt of our own manufac- 

 tures in this case, but what would opply with equal 

 force to the invention of any kind of art or machine- 

 ry by which labor may be abridged and transferred, 

 and consequently vast numbers be thrown out of em- 

 ployment. In tho end, however, all such improve- 

 ments redound as much to the benefit of the labor- 

 ing as of other cbsses. It would not be difficult to 

 show that the consequences of the free introduction of 

 j-oreign luxuries, foreign silks, gewgaws, and wines 

 jUto our country, if it could be examined in all its va- 

 rious influences, has been productive of more sufl^ering 

 or evil in orr coiintiy, t an the imposition of 

 duties upon such articles can produce in Lyons or 

 other manufacturing towns in France or England, 

 from tke If. Y. Eiismig Post. 



Tiie following possage occurs in a letter written at 

 Paris, for the London Examiner : 



" Alter Paris, the greatest and most dangerous ag- 

 glomeration of artizans ie at Lyons, ond these must be 

 mjch affected by the 20 percent increase of -duty on 

 silks imported into the United Slates, half the French 

 export of silks going to thot country. If to a thus di- 

 luinislied demand for work, and consequently no hope 

 of a rise in wages, be added dear bread and increased 

 taxation, Lyoif? may give some trouble during tbe en- 

 suing year.' The trouble, however, is now without 

 danger to the Government, for Louis Philippe has 

 takeli care to surround and curb the town of Lyons 



