The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1785-05-09 00:00:00, page 3

I. For the best experiment made of acourfe of crops,
cither large or small, or not less than four acres, agree
ably to the principles of the Engtfh mode of farming,
mentioned in the foregoing address, a piece of plate of
the value of two hundred dollars, inferibed with the
name and occasion ; and, for the experiment made of
a course of crops next in merit, a piece of plate, like
wise inferibed, of the value of one hundred dollars.—
Certificates to be produced by the 20th of Dec. 1790.
2. The importance of complete farm or fold-yards,
for sheltering and folding cattle, and of a preferable
method of conducing the fame, for procuring great
quantities of compost or mixed dung and manure,
within the husbandman's own farm, induces the soci
ety to give, for the best design of such a yard and me
thod of conducting it, suitable to this climate and cir
cumstances of common farmers, a gold medal; and,
for the second best, a silver medal. The design to be
presented to the society by the 20th of December next.
3. For the best method of counteracting the injuri
ous effects of froft, in heaving or spewing up ground,
and exposing roots of wheat to the drying winds of the
spring, founded in experience, a gold medal ; and, for
the second best, a silver medal. The account to be
presented to the society by the 20th of December next.
4. The best method of raising hogs, from the pig,
in pens or flies, from experience, their sometimes run
ning in a lot or field not totally excluded, if preferred,
a gold medal; and, for the second best, a silver me
d^l. To be produced by the 20th of December next.
5. The best method of recovering worn-out fields
\to a more hearty state, within the power of common
farmers, without dear or far-fetched manures, but by
judicious culture, and the application of materials com
mon to the generality of farms, founded in experience,
a gold medal; and, for the second best, a silver medal.
To be produced by the 20th of December, 1786.
6. The best experiment in trench-ploughing, not
less than ten inches deep, and account of the effects
thereof, already made or to be made, on not less than
one acre, a gold medal ; and, for the second best, a
silver medal. To be produced by the 20th of Decem
ber, 1786.
7. The best field of clover on a farm, quality and
quantity to be considered, with the quantity of the
arable of the whole farm, and previous state and qua
lity of the foil; not less than ten acres cf clover, a
gold medal; and, for the second best, a silver medal.
To be produced by the 2cth of December, 1787.
down the Volunteers, and then to dragoon the nation
with a greater military force than has been in this
kingdom since the battle of the Boyne. \
" This is a very imperfect epitome of our present
political situation—melancholy to tell —melancholy to
read. From it, however, you'll learn this dreadful
truth, that the object is, to destroy all publick virtue,
either by buying off our leaders, or by the most vici
ous prosecutions, and then make us completely a
wretched province of England."
May 6.
SUMMARY of the Constitution of the Phila
delphia Society for promoting Agriculture.
THE Society's attentions shall be confined to A
griculture and rural affairs ; especially for pro
moting a greater increase of the products of land
within the American states. The members are dis
tinguished into residing members, or members, and
honorary members (that is, corresponding members.)
Members to be hereafter added, are to be ele&ed out
of such persons only as reside within a ready distance
to attend the meetings at Philadelphia with conveni
ence ; and those are defined to be only such as shall
reside within ten miles of the said city, on cither fide
of the Delaware. All members of Agricultural So
cieties in other states or countries, with whom the
Society shall correspond, and all persons of this and
other states or countries, who shall be elected for the
purpose by the Society, are to be honorary (or cor
responding) Members, and will be invited to assist the
Society, whenever they come to Philadelphia: Be
sides, they will have a right to be present at the meet
ings, without being invited. Strangers, who have a
propensity to agriculture, and wish to attend, as au
ditors, may be introduced by a resident member. The
society will publish fele& collections of memoirs and
observations on fubjeds communicated to them. They
will annually propose prizes, upon intcrefting fubje&s,
relative to a&ual experiments and improvements, and
for the bed pieces written on proposed fubjeds, All
claims for prizes are to be in writing ; and when read,
the society will determine, upon every prize, which
of the claims are most worthy to be felecled for the
definitive judgment on a future comparison of them.
This judgment is to be given on the firft Monday in
February. In the fame meeting is to be determined
the fubje&s to be proposed for prizes the next year;
which will be announced in the publick news-papers.
The society will promote the establishment of other
agricultural societies in the principal places in the
country; the members of those societies will be re
quested to attend the meetings as often as they come to
Philadelphia ; and the friends of agriculture are invit
ed to assist the society with information of experiments
and incidents in husbandry. Premiums and prizes
are equally due to persons residing in any of these
states, according to the merit of their refpe&ive exhi
bitions. Honorary members may be of any nation in
the world.
PREMIUMS proposed by the Society.
Refpedting experiments on the products of land,
circumstances of the previous and subsequent state of
the ground, particular culture given, general state of
the weather, &c. will be proper to be in the account
exhibited. Indeed, in all experiments and reports of
fads, it will be well to particularize the circumstances
attending them. It is recommended that reasoning be
not mixed with the facts: After stating the latter, the
former may be added, and will be acceptable.
THOMAS PICKERING, Secretary.
Philadelphia Price-Current, May 6.
By the barrel. By the bushel.
Flour super. iC. gq. 455.
com. do. - 365.
Bur middlings - 355.
Pork Burlington - 51.
Beef Irish - 4^
Country - - 31.
Tar - -15 s. 6d.
Pitch - -20 s. 6d.
Turpentine - - 255.
By the Cwt.
Ship fluff -16 s. 6d.
bread - 235.
Indian meal -12 s. 6d°
Sugar Mufcov. 455. to 60s.
common 425. 6d. to 455.
Rice - 265. 6d,
Tobacco best James river
555.
York - -50 s.
Rappahannock
40s. to 50s.
Coloured Maryland
50s. to 60s.
Western Shore
long 40s.
Eastern Shore
30s. to 355.
By the lb.
Hemp - - jd.
Mould candles - is,
Tallow - - gd.
Gammons - iid.
Single refined loaf fug. is.
Coffee - iqd. to ijd.
Tea Hyfon -10 s.
Souchong 6s. to 6s. 6d.
Bohea 2s. icd. to 3s.
By the case.
Gin per quantity 30s.
8. The greatest quantity and variety of good manure,
collected in one year, and bed managed, from materi
als common to most farms; regard to be had to the
proportion and goodness offuch manure, and the quan
tity and goodness of the arable and grass lands of the
whole farm on which it is obtained, a gold medal;
and, for the second best, a silver medal. To declaimed
by the 20th of December, 1787.
9. Ihe best information, founded in actual experi
ence, for preventing damage to crops by infests, espe
cially the wheat- fly, the pea-bug, and the corn chinch
bug or fly, a gold medal; a silver medal for the second
belt. To be produced by the 20th of December next.
10. The best comparative experiments on the cul
ture of wheat, by sowing it in the common broad-cast
way, by drilling it, and by setting the grain, with a
machine, equidistant ; the quantities of feed, and pro
duce, proportioned to the ground, being noticed, a
gold medal; for the second best, a silver medal. The
account to be produced by the 10th of January, 1787.
11. An account of a vegetable food that may be well
procured and preserved, and that best increases milk
in cows and ewes, in March and April, founded in ex
perience, a gold medal ; for the second best, a silver
medal. To be produced by the 10th of Jan. 1787.
12. The best method of raising the white and other
thorns from feed, in clay ground, from experience, a
gold medal; the second best, a silver medal. To be
produced by the 20th of December, 1787.
13. The greatest quantity of ground, well fenced,
in locust trees, or poles of the fort used for posts and
trunnels, growing in 1789, from feed sown after this
time, not less than one acre, nor fewer than 1500 per
acre, a gold medal; for the second, a silver medal. —
To be claimed in December, 1789.
*, The claim of every candidate for a premium is
to be accompanied with, and supported by, certificates
of respectable persons, of competent knowledge of the
fubjed; and it is required that the matters, for which
premiums are offered, be delivered in without names,
or any intimation to whom they belong ; that each
particular thing be marked in what manner the claim
ant thinks fit ; such claimant fending with it, a paper
sealed up, having on the outside a corresponding mark,
and on the inside the claimant's name and address.
On Wednesday the 27th ult. pursuant to an act of
the Council and General Assembly of this state, in
titled, 'An a& to regulate the practice of phyfick and
forgery,' Thomas-Griffith Haight was duly examined
in phyfick and surgery, by the Honourable the Jus
tices of the Supreme Court, and Dr. William Bry
ant and Dr. Alexander Moore, and having given fa
tisfadory proofs of his knowledge and skill therein,
was licensed to pradife phyfick and surgery according
to said law.
Married, on Thursday last, Mr. Abraham Hunt,
Merchant, of this place, to Miss Polly Dagwor
thy, of Elizabeth-Town.
Died, on Wednesday evening last, Mr. Samuel
Hill, of Nottingham, in the 70th year of his age ;
and, on Friday, his remains were interred in the Pres
byterian burying ground in this place, attended by a
number of refpedable citizens.
TRENTO N, May 9.
Wheat - Bs. qd.
Corn - 3s. gd.
Rye - - 4s. 6d.
Oats - - 2s. 6d.
Flax-feed - - 6s.
Salt coarse - 3s.
fine - 2s. 6d.
By the pipe.
Wine Madeira 601. to tool.
Liibon - 401.
Port - 401.
Teneriffe 22k 10s.
Fayal - 151,
By the gallon.
Spirit Jam. 4s. to 4s. 3d.
Barbad. 3s. to 3s. 2d.
Antigua 3s. gd. to4s.
Rum Philadelphia 2s. jd,
New-England 2s. jd.
Molasses - - 2id.
By the ton.
Bar iron - - 341.
Pig iron - 101. 10s.
By the 1000.
Staves pipe - 131.
W. O. hhd. 81. los.
R. O. do. 71. los.
Leogan - 61. 10s.
barrel - 51. 10s.
Heading (drefs'd) ic ! . 10s.
Short shingles 12s. to 14s.
By the icoo feet.
Merchant pine boards and
fcantling 71. to 71. 10s.
Sap do. 51. to 51. los.
Ship-building by the ton.
W. O. frames 61. to yl.
Live-oak and Red-cedar
ditto - 81. to 91.
K O ULI- KHA N
WILL cover the ensuing season at the stable of
the fubferiber, in the township of Maidenhead,
county of Hunterdon, at Seven Dollars the season, the
money to be paid any time within nine months from
the ill of May.
KOULI-KHAN is full fifteen hands one inch high,
a beautiful dark bay with a fear ; is allowed, by compe
tent judges, to move equally gay, lofty and fine, to
any other full bred horse in the state ; he was bred by
Mr. Jacob Hiltzheimer, in Philadelphia ; was seven
years old last grass, and was got by Bajazet; his fire
was Mr. Welftenholmes's Tanner; his dam by Baja
zet; his grandam by Babraham ; his great grandam by
Sedbury ; and great great grandam by Childers, which
was called Lord Portmos's Ebony.
KOULI-KHAN's dam was Mr. Hiltzheimer's Mol
ly Pacolet; grandam by Old Spark; great grandam
was called Qyeen Mab; and her great great grandam
Miss Caldwell. Good pafeure will be provided, and
attendance given by
3w* RALPH PHILLIPS.
A Quantity of good
Grass and Cradling Scythes,
Now ready for sale, finifhed in the best manner, ma
nufactured in this place, and to be fold as low as in
Philadelphia. The encouragement of the publick is
requested, to assist the design of manufacturing our own
materials for home consumption. All orders (with cash)
directed to Mr. John Dobbins, or Peter Shiras, Esq.
will be carefully attended to.
Monnt-Holly, April 28, 1785. 4w±
Notice is hereby given,
TO the creditors of Thomas Taylor, William Hutch
inson, and Samuel Parent, insolvent debtors now
confined in the gaol at Freehold, in the county of
Monmouth, and state of New-jersey, that they be and
appear before two or more of the Judges of the Infe
rior Court of Common Pleas for the said county, on
Tuesday the 31st of May next, at three o'clock in the
afternoon of the fame day, to ihew cause, if any they
have, why an assignment of the said insolvents estates
should not be made, and they be difeharged from their
confinement, pursuant to an aftof General Assembly
in such case made and provided.
Freehold, April 28, 1785. 4w^
Notice is hereby given,
r T' O all those who have any demands against the
I estate of the widow Jane Blair, deceased, of Ra
ritan Landing, that they bring in their accounts pro
perly attested; and all those who are indebted to the
said estate, either by bond, note or book debt, are re
quested to make immediate payment, that the estate
may be fettled. BENJAMIN FIELD, ) r
JEREMIAH FIELD, ) £xecut -
Raritan Landing, April 29, 1785. iw*
gAME to the Plantation of the Sub
scriber in Maidenhead, on the 24th of April last
a bav mare, with a star and white hind feet, about 14^
hands high, 12 years old. The owner, proving his
property, and paying charges, may have her again, by
appiyi^g to
JOHN PHILLIPS
May 3, 1785. 2wf
~ b^E SOLD,'
A second Hand riding Chair,
And harness complete. Enquire of the Printer.'
A Labouring Man by the Year,
To whom good wages will be given.
None need apply without a good recommendation for
honesty, sobriety and industry.—
Enquire of the Printer.
April 25, 1785.
T^HEREAS a certain Person, who calls
himfelf Thomas Smith, was taken up oh suspi
cion of horse-stealing, and in the night of said instant
made his escape, and left behind him a grey gelding,
about i4z hands high, an old hunting faddie and bri
dle, a new pair of laddle-bags, and old great coat. —
Any person or persons that may have loft, or have any
demands on the above-said articles, are defireci to ap
ply to the subscriber in, the townihip of Amwell, in
the state of New-Jersey, prove their property, pay
charges, and they may have them again.
RICHARD GREEN.
7o be dijpofed oj at private Sale,
A Convenient two story dwelling in this city, hav
ing four finifhed rooms on the lower floor, and
cellar under the fame, with an extensive water lot, and
storehouse thereon: The water lot adjoining Albany
ftreet, and well situated for trade. The terms may
be known by applying to the fubferibers, who will rent
the premises, if not fold by the firft day of June next.
AZARIAH DUNHAM,
J. VANEMBURGH.
New-Brunswick, May 2, 1785. 4w*
HINT to the FARMERS.
The small white flint corn is generally efthemed the
best for exportation, and is in the highest eflimation
at foreign markets : As it is hoped 'this article will
become of considerable consequence in the trade pro
posed to be carried on from hence, the farmers will
find it their interest to plant of this kind principally.
Friday last arrived here from Charlefloh, South Ca
rolina, on his way to New-York, Dr. David Ram
say, one of the Representatives of that state in Qon
grefs.