New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-03

believe that the export oi l-i'wi go up 10 GOO
and that without any alteration IN the British Tariff
TO encourage it, But who does not know that the
avenue TO profit must be utterly inaccessible that Is
not penetrated By Yankee enterprise. See Willis 5
letter in hch he speaks of W enham Massachusetts,
nee being hawked about the streets Of London ia carts
nicely painted and labeled 'Wenbam Ice How,
but by such extraordinary sagacity and Industry,
could such population be kept out of debt ard
thriving with a soil 50 rocky and climate cold
The dairy produce is consolidated in the last cen
sus under that one bead no distinction being made
between butter and cheese any more than between
horses and mules. The whole amount il set down
AZ the value OF s337-7, OO7. OF this amount much
more than two-thirds il produced East Of the Chesa-
peake, including Pennsylvania
This branch Of British agricultural industry Is
protected b. duty of los. Cd say - 62i per hun
ared on all cheese imported from foreign countries.
and % Sd lor 62i cents on that which is imported
from British possessions We dare not take room
here TO 20 into the remarks which the subject in.
ytes on the influence which heritage and the treat
ment of the cows exercise on the products OF the
dairy. but let the reader have patience. all in good
time for that and for prac teal dissertations Still
ton Parmesan and other kinds OF cheese. The best
essay on the making of the latter, from A to T., IL
from the pen OF Mr. jefferson. being notes made by
him in dairy In Parma. where he attended closely.
and took notes from morning to night rhHe he 'rds
Minister of the United States 10 France"
The essay of Mr. WHITE enters very fully into
the description Of the manufacture of Cheshire
cheese. and we think its attentive perusal would be
sufficient initiation into the mystery of producing 1t,
providing our soil and climate DO not offer insupera-
bic obstacles Mr.. White states that twelve thou
sand tons of cheese are made in Cheshire annually
that there is reason for believing that cheese has
been made in that county for more than seven hun
dred years, it being stated by Fuller in his "Wor-
thies Of England, that in the year 100 the Count
ess Constance of Chester, though the wife of Hugh
Lupus, the Kings first cousin, kept herd OF kline,
and made good cheeses three of which she present
ed to the Archbishop of Canterbury
We have next short articles upon Electro Cul-
ture." silk Plant "Guano,' Nature or Wild
Maize"
very beautiful colored engraving illustrates the
history of the cotton plant, and Mr. SKINNER prom
ises his readers TO commence in the October number
Sketch of the history and Uses OF Cotton by
w. b. SEABRooE, Esq, President Of the South
Carolina gricutural Society. The first of a series
of papers on the sugar cane is also promised in the
forthcoming number. These subjects Of the
highest importance, egitimatcy connected with
the purposes and intent of this publication, and
evince Mr. SINNERS determination 10 do that which
we wish authors and publishers would more scru-
pulously attend to. namely, to stick to his title,
which we are sure will afford ample verge and
-pace enough" even for his talent and industry to
occupy.
THOUGHTS on Trees and Horers, suggested or
revived by letter from a clergyman is beauti-
r g,,ll ,C nf continent
and the prose Of fact suggestive of the influence OF
the clergy resident in the country upon the encour-
agenent of arboricuure and Horticulture. and 1t is
asked how better could they enforce the spirit OF
all true religion ?" Allusion is made to what has
been done in this respect in the grounds about IT.
Mary's Seminary at Baltimore and the Catholic Col.
legc at Georgetown ID. &. The whole Of this artl.
Gle is as amusing as novel and as instructive a
lecture and may we add without offence as fall OF
elevation Of thought and moral and religious feeling
a. n sermon. At the close of this last mentioned
article we have the letter which suggested it, Ii Is
written by Rev. J6Hy o. CHoULEs, OF Jamai
ca Plains, and headed The Clergy, their opporlu'
mites and power TO improve the public taste tor
agriculture and horticulture" We must be allow
ed ,o make the following extracts from Mr. Choues
letter
The conception of the WORK the Farmers Ii.
brary is precisely, think, what 1t should be. and
the execution of the Magazine very satisfactory /
entertain no doubt respecting It's success wish II
could find its way into the hands OF our Clergy
they are of all men possessed oil the best opPortuh
lies TO improve the taste and science OF the farmers
of our land. Had the time would gladly write
AN article for your pages pointing out the claims OF
agriculture and horticulture on the ministry ! know
some Of my brethren who feel this subject IN all It's
magnitude they aim 10 dlnuse correct opinions,
cultivate good taste make men happier and places
preffer because they have lived III the region; and
verify they have their reward For my ownpart |
would rather get the population OF village all out
TO plant trees and beauty the walks and avenues of
the hamlet than convene them TO argue upon alb
s,ractnotons of no possible practical utility Wemay
learn a great deal that is good from the example OF
men who went before US Ii we dislike the ialti'
AT all events we may admire the taste OF the church
men of other DAYS, whose abbeys and clolsters all
testify to sound taste and whose noble avenues
and orchards proclaim good husbandry
"I wish | could set hundreds of men planting
trees who seem 10 delight in worse labors. l do
love trees. and love the men who planted the ems
of New Haven Newark, and those OF the sweet
village live in Why does not every man plant
out tree-many trees In Providence there are
some noble Gins which | saw planted only twenty
wears ago. man may see inc result Oh MS iaooi D.
and his children would be proud TO point out the
trees the old ancestral trees, OF his foreiather 5
planting. Men may rail at the world as much as
they please, but IS beautiful one, and, II we are
only cheerful and active in it, will become yet more
beautiful Nearly all the beauty of residence a
village country town, arises from lis trees and
not only should every man carefully adorn his ow n
habitat but men should club together TO beauiiy
their vicinage The strong attachment felt by men
in England to homeseads arises In no small degree
from the pains which have been taken to adorn and
enrich them by previous generation
Mr. CHouLEs speaks very highly OF awork now
in the press ION the trees of America by Mr.. j. d.
BROWNE. His description OF ii gives us very
grca, desire 10 see it. He says 1T is really ma
tional work, and its author deserves well of his
country"
The Poetry Of Rural LIFE" Again we must be
allowed 10 extract, and this time the article is
short we will give nearly the whole of it.
The HowIrrs, MARY, as well as her kinsman.
are deserving of honorary membership in every so
cietv formed for promoting attention to agriculture
and horticulture though they are probably incapa-
bic of deciding critically between the merits OF De
vons and Durhams-though they may not be able to