The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-07-31
farmers pepaytmmt.
MIR. Webster On Agriculture.

them, and cracking some capital Jokes,
lie addressed them as follows:
"General Wilder, and gentlemen Of
the United States Agricultural Society
! am happy TO see you, one and all.
Brother farmers, YOU do me no more
than Justice when Won call me the Far
mer of Marshfeld.' NV father was
farmer, and am farmer. When a boy,
among my native hills of New Hamp-
shire, no cock crew so early that | did
not hear him; and no boy ran with more
avidity to DO errands, at the bidding of
the workmen, than | did.
You are engaged in noble enterprise.
The prosperity and glory of the Union
are based on the achievements of agri-
culture. Gentlemen, will say to you
what have never before sald-that when
iortyfve years ago was called TO Dart
mouth College to pass my second grad
uation, attempted in my humble man
ner, to speak Oft agricultural resources
of the country, and to recommend tor
their more full development, organized
action, and the formation Of agricultural
societies and if memory does not betray
me, it was about this time that the first
agricultural societies Of this country were
formed in old Berkshire and. rhiIadel-
phia-(ioua cheers by the delegates
from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,
and though | have never seen hat IN
important production since that day, the
partlaIity Of any Of my curious friends
{bpWIpfr and lnItfrhip ,r\ IA, f-r,t, "a
bv exploring amongst the Slumbering
archives of Marshheld When, some
thirty wears ago | went to Marshfcld,
some Of my kind neighbors would call to
inquire the state Of politics in the South,
and others to know "A blt OF law from
the squire told them, i have come
to reside among you as a farmer, and
here | talk neither politics nor law
Gentlemen, | am naturally farmer;
am most ardrntly attached to a-ricul-
tural pursuits: and though cultivate my
lands with some little care, vet from the
steriltl Of the sol! or from neglected
hnsbandrv on my part, in Consequence
of my public engagements, they afford
no subsistence to myself and family.
To you farmers of the West and South,
the soil Of MalShtieId nay look barren
and unfrulttul. Sompti'nns the brerleS
of the broad Atlantic fan it; sometimes,
indeed. uok,ndly suns smite it. But
love its quiet shades, and here | love to
commune with You upon the ennobling
pursuits in which we are so happily ca
gagged.
Gentlemen, thank YOU for this visi
with which YOU have honored me- Ny
interests and sYmpathes are identified
with yours, shall remember YOU and
this occasion which has called YOU togeth-
or. invoke you a safe return to your
homes. invoke an abundant harvest:
and ii we meet not again in time, trust
that hereafter we shall meet in a more
congenial cline and under a klndIicr
sun. Brother farmers, | bid you good
morning.
Foop FOR M,LcH Cows. The expert
ment of Hon. John Brooke of Prince
ton, Mass, during the last winter, led to
the following results:
That : lbs. of Indian meal are very
nearl y equal to one half per cent. of
live weight Of hay: or that one pound
of meal is nearly equal to 4 lbs. OF good
hay.
That 2 lbs. of oat straw is not equal 10
one pound of hay.
That hay, straw and meal are improv-
ed by wettlng them.
That cut hav is better than uncut.
That 3 lbs. Indian meal ale equal to
12 lbs. of English hay, Or SO lbs. of flat
turnips, for milk.
That 33 lbs. carrots are not quite
equal, for milk, to 80 lbs. flat turniI,s,
or 3 lbs. of Indian meal.
On consuming 500 lbs. hay, the ma
mare dropped weighed 2,l22 lbs, giving
2.44 lbs. manure TO pound of hay.
The manure weighed 80 lbs. per cubic
foot
To PRoTEcr HAMS FROM FLIES AND
BUGS Grind some black pepper fine,
and put in box. and as soon as the
hams arc thoroughly smoked take them
down and sprinkle the pepper over the
raw part ana nanG them again IN the
smoke house. No fly or bug will touch
them.
"Hillo! little boy, where am ~ said
superanuated gent, who was Standing
at the jnncture of three post roads in the
country.
"Why, yer on yer feet, amt yer!"
tPSh1u1 | h,,a Il I 4
60 tot"
"Them roads dosen't 60 any vers;
they've been lay'n' still ever since |
know'd en-
"lon young ragamnfiin! | mean which
of these roads will lead me TO Marg-
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