THE FARMER'S xVIONTHLY VISITOR. 



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last stage of tlie disease, being left for a time iiione, 

 cra'.vle'T out into liis garden where a luxuriant bed 

 of these plants was growing; thinking that the 

 juice of tlie fruit would cool the burning fever that 

 raided within hini. He ate several, and was reviv- 

 ed. He ate more, and was soon able to return to 

 the liousc with more strength than when he crawl- 

 ed out. He ate them every day, and recovered his 

 health. This fact I learned from one who witness- 

 ed the horrible ravages of the Cholera ill the west 

 seven years since, where persons in apparently 

 good health in the morning, were sometimes struck 

 down in si.x hours. One instance I will mention : 

 a friend informed ine that he had invited a gentle- 

 man from New Orleans to dine with him, at 2 o'- 

 clock He did not come at the time — the family 

 wait'^d half an hour, and then dined by themselves. 

 At .*> o'clock a messenger came to him from the 

 hotel, to say that Ins friend was just dying of the 

 Cholera. He was apparently well at 12 o'clock. 



Besides its medical qualities, the Estomato is 

 much used for culinary purposes. — for making 

 sauces, soups, &c. It makes a fine preserve ; ecjual 

 if not superior to the Guava Jelly of the West In- 

 dies. It should be ;ca/f/crf (/irce (raes in the syrup, 

 by which process it loses the native taste, and be- 

 comes a preserve of the lirst quality. V. 



For tile I'^aniier's Wonlhly Visitor. 

 The last Flower of Autumu. 



Sv."eet liovv^cr ! why art thou here .-' 

 The Summer time is gone, and now the reign 

 Of sober Autumn, desolate and sear. 



Shades Nature's fair domain. 



He has the woodlands drest, 

 And music has forsook her S3']van bov.'er ; 

 Long since thy kindred sunk to their sweet rest — 



"Why art thou here, lone flower.-' 



Thou weep'st above their tomb, 

 "Who should have been associate with thee ; 

 Alas, that no kind friend may cheer thy gloom. 



And bid repining fiee ! 



Thou weep'st above their tomb. 

 So he, wide wandering, on the wild waves thrown, 

 Mourns o'er his long lost kindred's narrow home. 



Unfriended and unknown. 



Or art thou here thus lone. 

 In this decay-marked season, fair, yet meek, 

 To type the guileful rose that blooms upon 



Consumption's faded cheek ? 



Fair Flora's sweetest dower ! 

 Thou'rt dear to me, for thou resemblest too 

 Friendship sincere, that when earth's chill storms 

 lower, 



Remahis to solace woe. 



Remembrancer of Spring ! 

 'Well may'st thou weep, for Autumn's withering 



breath. 

 Ere long with sullen dirge-like wail, will bring 



I'o thee untimely death. 



K'eii thus the v/ithcring blight 

 Of cold neglect destroys the virgin bloom 

 Of fem^ile loveliness, and makes the niglit 



Of death a welcome doom. 



Yet a few dr.^'s, and then 

 T'lou'll slumber sweetly v^here thy kindred lie, 

 Witli them, perennial plant, to bloom again 



lieneatli spring's genial sk_v. 



Tiiou art the light of ho])e 

 Unlo the Autnmn of man's hoary years. 

 That doth to Heaveh's own spring a vista ope 



Fitr tiircugh this vale of tears. 



Poor flower I my sad heart grieves 

 For thee, last of thy race, but tliou hast bred 

 Thoughts that will cheer me, like thy perfumed 

 leaves, 



When thou, alas, art dead. J. H. C. 



Salisbury, Oct. 1839. 



For the Farmer'n RIoiitlily Visitor. 



FniEND Hill : — As many people are very fond 

 of the intestine of our neat cattle, commonly call- 

 ed tripe, and many more would be, if they under- 

 stood cleansing and preparing it for the table, I 

 thought some might be pleased with directions 

 which will enable them to prepare it in the best 

 iwaiiner possible. 



The following is the method by wliicli this very 

 valuable and highly palatable part of the beef is 



prepared. After it is ta'Kcn from the cieature, make 

 an incision of about 18 inches, tiiroBgii whicii turn 

 out the excrement, with care to keep the outside 

 clean ; then turn it inside out and sew up this open- 

 ing perfectly tight; rinse off the remaining impu- 

 rities in warm water, put it into an empty tub. Af- 

 ter which, take two quarts of air or dry slaked lime, 

 which rub over it v.'ith the hands, the hands being 

 previously grea.«ed to prevent tiie lime from cor- 

 roding them. Add about three quarts of warm wa- 

 ter, in which let it remain from fifteen to twenty 

 minutes. Then with a knife scrajjc it while in the 

 tub and the inner pellicle orskiia, together with the 

 remaining tilth, will readily peel oil", and leave the 

 tripe perlectly white and pure. Wash and rinse 

 off all impurities : after which, cut it into conven- 

 ient slices to boil : then put it to soak hi cold wa- 

 ter, with the addition of a little salt, in which let 

 it remain twenly-four hours, changing the water 

 three or I'oiir tini''s. It has now become free from 

 all external impurities; and that strong ranktaate, 

 which in the ordinary process is retained, is now 

 e.'itracted, and it is left perfectly sv.eet. 



Process of Cooking. Boil it until it is tender; 

 then cut it into small pieces, add butter to it, warm 

 it again, not so as to fry it, and it is one of the most 

 delicious and palatable articles of food on the table. 



ADDIIESS 

 Ddiccrcd at Kecne, jV. IJ. Srpt. 25, 1S3EI, at the rc- 



qutst of tlic Members of the Chcshirr. County j)g- 



ricultural dissociation. By IS.\AC HILL. 



The farmers of Cheshire will not consider me 

 guilty of the ostentation of having travelled from 

 home with the sole view of instructing tiiem in 

 their every day business. I come not here so much 

 to impart as to obtain knowledge. 1 have no great- 

 er pretensions in agricultural knowledge than those 

 of a ne-\r convert to the Christian faith : like him 

 I have ardent breathintrs for the cause, and the 

 more probable chance with me, as with him, is that 

 my zeal may not be according to knowledge. 



In their ov.'n peculiar calling there is no class of 

 men less liable to be led astray by error and 

 false theories than the intelligent farmers of 

 New England : there are none so well qualified in 

 their business to grasp and apply whatever new in- 

 formation or theory shall be of superior value. So 

 that if I had the power of language to make the 

 worse appeai>ithe better argument^or if my judg- 

 ment had led me to receive and adopt false theo- 

 ries I'rom mere illusions of fancy — there could be 

 little danger I should mislead any individual of the 

 audience which I now address. 



I shall, gentlemen, on this occasion present you 

 little that is new or original. ''Line upon line, 

 precept upon precept," should be the doctrine^ of 

 the agriculturist; and that old information, that 

 knowledge derived from our own experience, re- 

 peated by other tongues as from their knowledge 

 and experience, may leave upon our minds an im- 

 pression of not less value, if of less interest, than 

 some latent recent discovery that is calculated to 

 astonish our senses. 



I make no pretensions to scientific knowledge — 

 still less to have made discoveries in science or to 

 have brought to light the application of any fact 

 bearing upon the welfare of the agriculturist. I 

 will attempt no more llian tiie repetition of I'acts 

 which you all do know, having only the htimble 

 wish to do some little good by such an exhibition of 

 the trea.iures of oivr common experience as shall 

 fix upon them your attention. 



The Jnmestotvn niid Plymouth Colonics 

 contrasled. 



First. I call to your notice the position of New 

 England as contrasted with other sections of our 

 country. The first settlements of that portion of 

 the New World now known as the Republic of the 

 I'n'Ued States of North America were at James- 

 town in Viraiiila and the old Colony of Tly mouth 

 in IvIassachusetLS. The first attempt at settlement 

 was in ibSo, soon after Sir Walter Raleigh took 

 possession of the country for the crow'ii of England 

 and named it in honor of the virgin queen Elizabeth, 

 Virginia, ■ when Sir Richard. GrenvilV? with one 

 hundred and seven adventurers, who were nearly 

 all destroyed bv famine and the Indians, landed at 

 Roanoke. This attempt entirely failed, although 

 supplied with another body of adventurers ; tor 

 when Gov. White in 15110 arrived with provisions 

 for the colon}' which he had left three years be- 

 tbre not an Englishman could be found. Nearly 

 twenty years after this, in 16011, one hundred and 

 seventeen years after the first discovery of Ameri- 

 ca, the first permanent settlement of an Eiiglis' 

 colony was made in this country at Jamestown, 

 thus named witji the river James on which if i 

 situated, in honor of the British sovereign who suc- 



ceeded Klizab«lh. The eloquent Wirt thirty-sev 

 en years ago, in one of the letters of the British 

 Spy, thus describes the position and condition of 

 this first settlement: "Tjic site is a very handsome 

 one. The river is three miles bro.ad ; and, on the 

 "opposite shore, the country presents a fine range 

 of bold and beautiful hills. But I find no vestiges 

 "of the ancient town, except the ruins of a church 

 "steeple, and a disordered uroup of old tombstones. 

 " On one of tlicso [in the character of a British 

 " traveller incog, or as a spy (says Wirt, who had 

 then just commenced practice as a lawyer in Vir- 

 ginia)] shaded by the boughs of a tree, whose 

 trunk has embraced and grown over the edge 

 of the stone, and seated on the head-stone of an- 

 other grave, I now address j'ou." One might sup- 

 pose, if Wirt had not taken his idea of writing a- 

 mong the toinb stones from some ancient Europe- 

 an legend, thatW alter Scott had nearly twenty years 

 afterwards drawn his picture of Old Mortality from 

 the bright fancy of a 3'outhful American scholar. 



The desolation of Jamestown and the region of 

 the vicinity continues down to the present time. 

 Whole sections of that country, which was origin- 

 -lly fertile and scarcely less inviting than the fair 

 territories of the v^est, are deserted by the inhabi- 

 tants. Not only the churches, but the tenements, 

 the fair mansions of better days, are becoming a 

 waste and a desolation. This may be said of much 

 of the country of the Ancient Dominion below the 

 Blue Ridge. A Senator in Congress, whose place 

 of residence was in the vicinity of Jamestown, in- 

 formed me that plantations were there abandoned, 

 because the products of the whole soil were insuf- 

 ficient to sustain the colored population neces- 

 sary to their cultivation. That part of Virgin- 

 ia close by the national metropolis, so produc- 

 tive in wheat and the usual farm crops in the life- 

 time of the Father of his country, the region round 

 about Mount Vernon constituting the farms of 

 George Washington, and embracing several thou- 

 sand acres, are now little better than a useless waste; 

 the beautiful artificial fruit and flower and kitchen 

 gardens are overrun with wild grasses and briars : 

 in the place of the fig tree is the thorn ; "and glad- 

 ness is taken away and joy out of the plentiful field ; 

 and in the vineyards there is no singing; thetread- 

 ers tread out no wine in their presses ; and the Al- 

 mighty has made their vintage shouting to cease.' 

 Such is the condition of the country of Poca- 

 hontas, whose production, down to the days of the 

 war of the revolution, from its crops of tobacco, 

 furnished almost exclusively that foreign credit 

 from which the scanty means and munitions of 

 war for the country were procured. In less than 

 half a century is the soil run out,; and for the want 

 of "^il^ans and energy to renew it, large tracts of 

 country and comfortable and sometimes expensive 

 and elegant dwellings are abandoned to the rapid 

 consumption of time. 



The Plymouth colony followed the Virginia 

 settlement in 1020. In the cold and gloomy month 

 of November the May-flower, so much damageti 

 by adverse winds and waves as to be almost a 

 wreck, doubled Cape God, with little more than one 

 hundred adventurers, and landed on v/hat is now 

 deemed the most sterile and barren soil of the 

 United States, well representing however the hard 

 face of the whole country of New England, as the 

 fruitful, easy soil of Jamestov/n did that of Virgin- 

 ia. The first inclement winter saw more than half 

 of the number laid low in the dust, the victims of 

 want and disease. Yet were the remainder sus- 

 tained bj' that indomitable spirit of liberty which 

 prompted them to forego every chance of comfort 

 that they might enjoy the right of worshipping 

 God according to the dictates of their own con- 

 sciences, under their own vines and fig-trees, with 

 none to molest or make them afraid. 



In the lives of tliese devoted pilgrimg, in the 

 very hardness and sterility of tire ground, the 

 "rock' on which they landed, do we read the char- 

 acter of the generations whicli have succeeded 

 them. Not here as in Virginia has the country de- 

 generated. Here "the wilderness and the solitary 

 places have become glad, and the desert rejoices 

 and blossoms like the rose. It Itlossoms exceed- 

 ingly, and the glory of Lebanon has been given un- 

 to it." 

 Man's necessity his greatest temporal 



blessing. 

 For her pli3'sical and moral progression, for her 

 increased means and wealth and the excellent hab 

 its of her population, New England is not less in! 

 debted to the roughness and sterility of her soil 

 than to the obstinate morals and unremitting per 

 severance of her original pioneers. If the Virgin 

 la colony had not been composed of a softer and 

 more pliant race, perhaps an easier and more abnn 

 dant soil and a more temperate climate, inducing 



