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AND liARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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We should lie glad lo give nil ibo spoofhca innilc al 

 e ngriculiural dinner at ibr KriickoibocUer finll on 

 eSOih lilt, but our resaitted limits foibid ; but 

 eve wns so much lionrtHcss, picoaantry nnd gond 

 use in the speech of Mr. IVrgiison of Dundas, V. C. 

 at we give hia remnrl'S on tlii cccnsion, a eadiniru 

 y reported In the Albany Argus. 

 Mn. FisuGLsoK, of Cnnad.!, rose to respond on be- 

 lalfofihe visiio:i( from other stntos. to llieTeryhnnd- 

 coniplinicni, he .snid, which the t'cnileninn ot 

 !ie.>!hcr end of the tnlile bnJ just piiiil to ihnn. jjut 

 leforc I otl'er one word in reply (snid hi-) 1 beg lenvo, 

 'i the spirit of good leliowship, to n.'k if there is in 

 lis room the humoroi.scliuiiinnn oftheeomniittce on 

 lorli t [Langhicr.] BccaLise, It that gentleman ia 

 escnt 1 will not adil one word more nntil I brar 

 11. [Ren'nved laughter. The allusion here was 

 -Mr. Lincoln of Mnfs., wrh" made a report on the 

 ino family, on Thorsrioy nfierooon, that kept the 

 udience in a ronrff-in heuinuing to end. The mere 

 lltisi .n to It bv Mr, F., e-dlcd up n vivid recollection 

 if all Mr. L.'s verv happy points.] fie isnotpre.'enl? 

 I'nntinned Mr. F. in n lone of disappoinitnent ) 1 

 jcn, !;eiitlenien, will tell you v.hy. It is to save his 

 [Laughter.] N.iw, genilemcn, I oHHriss 

 Iron aa fellow farmers. I iinve no right to say feliow 

 it!2eni=, but fellow farmers. As formers 1 beg leave 

 rst to express to yon my deep sense of giRiitnde for 

 be honor conferred on me, a back- woodsman of Cnn- 

 lada, in being permitted to be present at such a meet- 

 'n^' IIS this, and for the pleasure and instruction I have 

 ■eccived here. And let me say. before I forget it, 

 ithiit this rrtieeofa judge is a veiy d Ificult and thank- 

 less one, and tho' you may discharge your duty never 

 60 faiihfiiliy and conscientiously, you aie perfect- 

 ly sure not to give entire satisfaction. At tlic same 

 time, they wlTohave iindertaktn that duty haven right 

 to call on the society for whom they act, to support 

 them in their awards, nnd to sec that no undue re 

 inniksare made on their jndgmeiits. 



Having said tliiiBninch about my fellow judges, 

 reriiiil me to rub my eyes and look about me "and 

 th'iik what a glorious meeting we hcve had — what an 

 exiiibition of stock — how great iWw.York is. Why, 

 ten yonraagn.it would havedf fieri all imr means to have 

 prndiiecd any thing l:ke wlinl we have seen. The 

 epir.t was not in existence then. But it is now, and 

 We will speed it onward. There are, genilenien, in 

 every great community — in the great slate of New- 

 Tiirl; parlicnlaily — I don't sny grndaiions c^f rank, but 

 grudaiions of circumstances; iind one of the lioppi 

 rcfulta of these meeiinjs is to bring the rich into eon- 

 t et with the honest fnrm r, and to teach the former 

 what true nobiliiy and indipeiidrnce is, and where it 

 is to be found. [Cheers] If I'np^iiiees is to he 

 found on earth — if indepeinieiice is(.v. r lo be secured, 

 it Is within the St. Iteof the plough. There it is. The 

 honest farmer comes into the city, and is bewildered 

 and as'.onislied by the splendor thi.t meets his ei c ' n 

 every hand. But, s/enilenun, what soitofspleiidor is 

 that. A single shi'ek, a ernsii fomeK'here, nnd down 

 they go bke nine pins. [Lau^hlcr.] The farmer ka." 

 always a cure reliance. Helms bis pork barrel and 

 his flour barrel, and his good lionctit wife and children. 

 [Cheers] That is t! e jjlace to enliiv.ite real, tiuoin 

 depend/ nee — real, true, rati mr.l enj lymrnt. [Cheersj 

 ' Nsy more — there you find honor, inoriili:y. rcligi'in 

 • virtue, [ciiee.'s,] in their purest form. AVh>does iio'. 

 kniw thnt men, mixed. up together in the cares and 

 exi.-iicment ol busy life, do not appreciate what it is ;i. 

 be an honest farmer, living on his paternal acres ? 

 But we o ust not forgnt-thal we weie made, th'int 

 G id I to help one another. We are all links of one 

 great human chain. And I say perdition to the lenii 

 ihnt would break one of them. [Cheers.] I want 

 to see all men equal in their righ.s. 1 live under a 

 monarchia! form of government — yon nrid'-r.T r"iiub- 

 lic. But I say we are all brothers. [Chei'rs.] More 

 t'.ian ibat — we are nil scions of the same eiimnioii 

 stock. [Cheers.] Wc are of one common fiimily. 

 I say it without fear of coiuindiction lieie, that Amer 

 icnna and Britons have tli-j love of liberty in tlicir 

 hearts. [Cheers] ) say it wiihout reference to our 

 living under n Queen orn President. 1 hope there is 

 no high Canadian Tory present that will go home and 

 tell of me. [Laughter.] D/ii't inistake mc — I am 

 , n true, loyal, B.itisli subject. [Roars of laughter.] 

 Whnt [ meant to convey wns this — that the gnat out- 

 lines of the two grfe.itest na ions in the world are iiie 

 same. We have our property and lives secured by 

 tho li.ibeas corpus nnd the trial by jury. Tlint is no 

 mean matter. We have an e.iecntivc head. We 

 have a hiiuse of Peers — or a Sena'e — call it what you 

 please. Rnd we have representatives of the people. 



Thece nio the great lending outlines of tie eonstitii- 

 li ms of boih iioiione. Why allow iniyibing to rnnkle 

 ill our beans, who have every reason as nations to go 

 together? who can, il they will, sojilay into each oth- 

 ers hands 'I 1 go with the gentleman opposite (Mr. 

 'rallnindgol as to free trnile. But lliiit in a enbjeet far 

 tiio V, idcnnd ti diOiciilt forme to enter on here. ] 

 beg pardon for intruding too h ng. [Cries of "go 

 on," " go on.''] I linve been trying lor a longtime 

 to get on my legs, nnd now I don't know how to sit 

 down. [Lnughter.] Because if 1 hud the tnhnt to 

 irivo vent to it, I am o\erllowing with i:iaili.t'. — 

 [Lniighier.] 



It has just Hashed across my mind, gentlemen, wdiat 

 n pri gess this woild is making, ami this eounity in 

 partieular. We can know nothing of it. 1 need not 

 ask here — for who has r.ot read Wushingtoii Ii ving ! 

 Who hns not read Knickerbocker ! [Lnughier.] I 

 should like to see how Rip Van Winkle v\ouldhove 

 looked if he had opened hie eyes, after n thirty years' 

 slumber, on the Bull's Head \e.-terday or to-d.iy. 

 [Laughter.] Lie would have given Ijis eyes a double 

 rub. to see the progrets made since he went to sleep 

 down the river. And what would he not hive done 

 to have been told that two grcnt nniions, by the sim- 

 ple power of steimi, had been brought within a fort- 

 night'ssnil ol each other ? To i-ee n iiioiher and 

 child, hitherto enstranged by distance nnd neling, 

 hroucht together, as it were, into cluse pro.rinuiy 1 

 For there was n time when an American in London 

 was treated as a wild beast, and if a Briton rame over 

 here, why be wns the Devil nnd all. [L'Mighter.] 

 Tills is not BO now. As we come to tee each ether, we 

 come to like one niioiher better than ever before. I 

 have said already, 1 am n loyal Briton, nnd I rejoice; 

 I cannot tell you bow I rejoice — in the present stnteof 

 nfihirs between the two countries. [Cheers] Ins- 

 sure yon gentlemen, i am not alone in this Ilun 

 dreds and thousands of Britsh hearts are beating with 

 jiiy nt this moment, ntthe prospect of a termination of 

 all our difficultiee. I sincerely hope, gentlemen, 

 though I have no objection in the woi Id to mectina 

 the Americans in the lield -aye, on the tented field — 

 that if we must meet, it mav be on the iei.led field ol 

 the BulleHead. [Roarsof Laughter.] Tbalisibe 

 field for me. No dulling, if you please — but the dril- 

 Iiii2 of turnips. [Laughter,] 



Gei.tlemcn, 1 hardly dare trust mytclf to speak of 

 that glorious man — the Fniher of this com, try— to 

 ivhom allusion was made so handeonuly just now. 

 Gentlemen, I icvere the mcmoiy of Washington, If 

 ever there was n Pairio: on earth, Wnsbington wve 

 the man. [Cheers] 1 visited Mt. Vernon not long 

 :-ince, and ■■ am not ashamed in thi-s company to say, 

 how my heart swelled ns I stood at thr.t great man's 

 tomb. I could not help repeating, to the astonish- 

 ment of the man who showed mc the grounds— 



*' H'.iw s ecp tl.c liravc \vhns:iik to reel, 



Kv ulltlieir eiiiiiitry's wis! es I lest! 



Wlie,. Siirir.p withdcwv iili»rrs cnl.l, 



Helurns to il<:tl< tlieir lu,llowe.i uioul.l, 



Gentlemen, I 'o.-get the rest of it. [Ciice:s loud and 

 long.] 



Mr. F. touched briefly in cunclnsi-n on the sub- 

 ject ol tigricultmal education. He felt totally incom- 

 petent to say how the, object wns to be brouglit nbont, 

 hut he would eny this, that farmers might be educa- 

 ted too high, and might he kept far beneiiih their pro- 

 oer position The point to be ninied nt wns tbt:t men 

 if h'gh ediieat on should he ncquainted with theprac 

 lic.il detcil-j of hiiihnnd.ry, and that men h ho under, 

 stand the practical details should not he ignorant ol 

 science. He knew an individual, who, like many in 

 London, hud acquired a fortune in busines--,deteMiiin. 

 ed to iiavo done with the shop and buy an estate. He 

 closed his bonks, nnd down he went to the country. 

 His first inquiry there, as an Englishmnn's w.is njt to 

 be, wna where the nearest butcher's was ! [Laugh, 

 ter ] He wns toirl that every gentleuian kdl.d his 

 own mutton. " D — d dirty work," snid he, '•but 

 I'll try." The man liiiew no tnoro of a country life 

 ibn'i the weather-eock on the steeple. [Laughter. J 

 Mr. F. concluded by giving 



Viuncshi; Mcnu/acUipes — Plenty of feet for chil- 

 dien'd stockings, and the good hoiictt house wile that 

 bcnislhem. [Thiee cheers giveo smnHmg.] 



Prcventio.i of SttiUl. 



Putschk's (German) Lncyelopcedia of Agriculture 

 gives the following ns the celebrated rcue.ipt of M. 



Sehruil?., ol Duerer, in the province of Julicre, (Prus- 

 sin,) for prepnring seed wheat song to pieventemnt 

 in tho crop. So confident was Mr. S. in the efTicncy 

 of his method, that be offered a standing reward of a 

 ducnl, for every Lead of smutted wheat fouitd in bia 

 field?. 



For every 500 lbs. of seed wheat, take one lb, nlum, 

 I ib. copcrns, \ lb. snlipetrc, and i lb. verdigris. 

 Pulverize these ingredients and dissolve them in a 

 siiflicicnt quantity of boiling wnter. When the so- 

 lution has become cold add ns much moie wntcr ns 

 will be required to moisten the whole t!:oroughly. 

 The henp should then bo turned scvoinl times within 

 the ensuing 24 hours, nnd ucllini.\ed ; and il is ready 

 lor seeding^ 



Self-Regulatiiit; Stove, invented by E. Foot 

 Jun., Soucca I'aliw. 



A remarkable property possesceil by this Stove, is 

 tlint ol governing its own heat, so ns to muintoin, 

 wiihout variation, the precise degree which may ha 

 icquiied. 



Within and near the upper pnrtol the Stove, is 

 placed n brass roti — straight and inflexible. Should 

 the he:.t rise too high, the expansion of the rod, act- 

 ing on n lever by which its motion is much increased, 

 is made to close a dumper that governs the admission 

 of nir : Or should the heat fall loo low, the continc- 

 lion of the rod opens the damper nnd lets in a full 

 draft. A suflicient quantity of fuel beiny placed ill 

 ibe .''tove, its burning is held in constant check by the 

 closing of the damper — consuming no faster than a 

 want of sufficient heat to keep it clofcd permiife : Thus 

 is kept an uniform heat. 



The mnniler in which the degree of beat nt which 

 the stove sunll ninininin itself, is changed, is equnlly 

 simple, though not so easily described : By merely 

 moving a point, r, difiercnt degreesof expansion, nnd 

 of course different degrees of heat, nre requirid to 

 close or to open the damper. A dial-plntc, like the 

 face of a clock, forms n port of the front uf the stove. 

 Onthis are mniked tho dili'erent degrees of heat re- 

 quired, — nnd the index being turned to a degree, the • 

 s;ove will itnincdialely ndnpt ittclf to that point, nnd 

 there remain without vnriaiion. 



Had the invention slopped here, there wotdd have 

 been left a delect which prchnbly would have dietioy- 

 ed its usefulnrss. Should the lient rise so high ns to 

 close the damper, end ti en from any cause continue 

 to rise above that point, some pnrt of the structure 

 must neeessnrily give nwiiy, or cls-j he so loi sdy nnd 

 impeifeclly ni de as to allow mcii a variation ; — or 

 sbonld the heat continue to fall nfier opening ihe damp- 

 er, the same difficulty would be presented. We re- 

 gret thnt we cannot, without drawings, convey to tho 

 reader the simple manner in which these difliculiies 

 are removed The inomrnt the htal should rise nbovo 

 ihe point of clooing tho damper, the rod disconnects 

 and detaches itsell from it, and eo remains until the 

 heat returns again to the cnuie point — viben iinniedi- 

 iiiely it re-connects itself, and resumes its nppropiiale 

 iiuliis. Or should the hint fill after ope ir.g the 

 damper, the rod hceoir.esdisconiucted until a retuin to 

 tl e same point. This part, moie tbi.n any other, will 

 sliike the attention of the mecbanic. It is said to be 

 before unknown in mechonies, a;.d is as remarkable 

 lor itseiinpliei'.y ns its ingenuity. 



The stove bus various oihcr Vnlunble qunlities. It 

 •a e.mimnicd that from three-fourths to tivc-sixibs of 

 tho heat from the fuel consumed in nn ordinary stove, 

 is carried ofi' by the cmreut patsing throngh it to the 

 chimney. In this stove, no more nir being ndmilled 

 than is necessary to sustain the combustion, very litde 

 ciiirent is made and uenrly all ihe heat is expended 

 in the room. And besides, the smoke and cinders, 

 being long retained in contact with ihe fire, arc most- 

 ly consumed, 



The fuel in this stove being permitted to burn no 

 faster than is wanted, eno'igb iniiy be put in at once 

 to In.vt I'i or 24 hours. Wood is eonveited into a bed 

 of charcoal, which grndunlly consumes, but no faster 

 than is tequired. A person may go from home, and 

 leave bis stove ihronirli ihe doy. or through the night, 

 nnd v,-\ien be reinrr.s find it at i rccisely the entnetem- 

 perutuieat which ho left il. 



Kemedy Agjsit»!-l Fiost. 



It is rceommencled. in sime of the French ngricul- 

 'urnl j.npers, to ileposiie some wet stiany niaiiuie in 

 ihe finks of n fruit trie whin in blossrun, to protect 

 ihe fruit Iron-, frost. If nppliid in the evening, it is 

 said, thai, should frost occur in the ,niglit, it will ba 

 visible on the upper suriaee of the manure, but the 

 firuit budaur blotsonis will wholly tseape iiijuiy. 



