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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



If 



the points down to the thighs— middling intlie bel- 

 ly — not cow-bellied — nottucked up.' As a graiicr 

 te is right; but this is not the true working Dev- 

 onshire ox. 



The Wilderness "far West." 



Rev. William T. Boutell, a native of Lyndc- 

 borough in this State and the soa of our old Iriend 

 JVIaj. Nehemiah Boutell nlio has often been in our 

 Legislature, has lately visited his native State from 

 the far west. This gentleman, after receiving a 

 liberal education and completing his theological 

 studies, under the patronage of the American Board 

 of Missions has been engaged in the business of 

 instructing the Chippewa Indians. His place ef 

 residence for six years was at the distance of six 

 hundred miles westward and further into the wil- 

 derness than the westerly point of Lake Superior, 

 on Leach Lake, whose waters are discharged to 

 the ocean southerly through the Mississippi. The 

 place of his residence was in the forty-ninth degree 

 of north latitude, and more than a thousand miles 

 northwest from the settlements in Wisconsin. — 

 Leach lake is farther north than the sources of the 

 Mississippi river laid down upon the maps; yet 

 Mr. Boutell mentions that there is another consid- 

 erable lake running into the Mississippi itiil fur- 

 ther to the north and west of the Leach lake. The 

 winters commence early in the month of Novem- 

 ber, and the summer season is considerably shorter 

 than the summers in this part of New England ; 

 yet Indian corn there is a safe crop. The charac- 

 ter of the country is a dense growth of wood on a 

 Tery rich and deep soil. Mr. Boutell last year raised 

 two hundred and sixty bushels of potatoes on land 

 which he prepared himself He had a single ox 

 brought through the forest from St. Peters, the 

 nearest American settlement on the upper Missis- 

 sippi, which he yoked singly and worked as a horse 

 is usually worked. He was alone with his little 

 family among the natives, with the exception of a 



French Canadian servant and his Indian wife. 



The wife of Mr. Boutell is a half-blood of French 

 and Indian extraction — a lady of fine manners and 

 superior inlelligence, who received her education 

 at Mackinaw. Mr. B. arrived at his place of resi- 

 dence in the fall and subsisted with his family dur- 

 ing the long and dreary winter which followed on 

 one and a half barrels of flour and fifty pounds of 

 pork. A kind of fish about the size of the com- 

 mon alewife abounds in Leach lake, different from 

 any other kind known in the northern lakes— this 

 fish bears the Indian name of Twtel-o-bee. It is tak- 

 en in great quantities in the fall and hung up on 

 poles without being gutted or dressed, and Ts eaten 



by the Indians without salt or other condiment. 



Mr. B. said, running short of provisions as he did 

 in the latter part of winter, he could eat these raw 

 fish with jTood appetite. 



It is well known to travellers that communica- 

 tions are kept up through the great northtfcstern 

 lakes by theFrenchCanadian voyageurs. These men 

 are in the employment of the gentlemen of the 

 Northwest fur companies, and are hired for a small 

 stipend. Their food generally is Indian corn cook- 

 ed in a portion of lard or fat, which they consider 

 to be good living. They are carriers of goods, and 

 they navigate in batteaux where the water is suffi- 

 cient—in Indian canoes in the smaller streams. 

 Their strength, nerve and agility in passing over 

 the worst paths and roads by the portages is repre- 

 sented by Mr. Boutell to be equal to beasts of bur- 

 den. One of these voyageurs will divide a barrel 

 of flour into two sacks, slmgone over his back and 

 the other over the nape of his neck and go upon 

 the run over roads knee deep in mud ; two of them 

 carrying a boat-load over a distance of six or eio-ht 

 miles with astonishing celerity. 



Mr. Boutell, after under,, oing all the privations 

 of the wilderness for six years, hesitates not, for a 

 less compensation than other gentlemen receive for 

 less service in a more easy position, to return to his 

 charge of instructing and enlightening a heathen 

 tribe who entertain strong prejudices ao-ainst the 

 doctrines of the Divine Saviour, whose life was 

 •pent in doing good. He goes back to them in the 

 ensuing spring. We liave seldom conversed with 

 a man of his age more intelligent and better fitted 

 for the business of his employment. His ruling 

 motive must be the good which he imparts to the 

 destitute and the ignorant— not the money which 

 he is paid for his services. 



From the Philadelphia Farmer's Cabinet. 

 Manner of dividine an Cx for the TabU. 



[Fig. 45.] 

 For the information of some of our readers and especially our young friends, we publish th 

 cut, which represents the method of dividing an ox for the table in most parts of the United S 



e above 



Stat«& 



•n;-: th:"^^ '"'-''" "- -'''"' - -^'^- •^-v.a.ng .nto^ai;;;;^- buruirn^;;:, :;^^::i: 



Method of Coohng-mnd Q««r/e,-._Sirloin, roasted-Rump roasted, or steak, or .tew-Edge-bono 

 boiled-Round alamode, boiled, or savory salted beef-Veiney piece, sleak, or r^ast, or baked or saU 

 ed-Thick flank, steaks or corned-Thin flank the same-Legran, boil, soup, or stew-Lecsoup L; 

 stew. Fur« Qi/«r(fr.-First cut. 2 ribs. roast-Second c„. 9%;k= .^J.^tuLa cutr 2 ribf roast " 



mutton, piece- 

 or stewing, 



Fourth cut, 2 ribs roast-Chuck rib, boil or stew, or for making gravJ-Slouder of 



: Ued'' r"' '-^''r'f''" «^'';'^' •""' °' '""P- "' beef sausages-Bnfket,\oil or bouiU , or s.ewm<r o, 

 salted-Rattleran, boil-Stickmg piece, boil or soup^Neck, gravy-Shin, soup, excel ent ScTtch'bar 

 ley broth, stewed-Head, soup, stawed-Tail, soup, stewed-Heels, with the head, boiled, jelly , cup 



Apparatus for Boiling and Steaming Food. 



[Fig. 46.] 

 In numerous cases it is found to add to 

 fore they are given to animals. The most economical method of 



the nutritive properties of roots and grain, to boil them be- 



IS^- Subscribers in ^fassachusetls tcho v^ere fur- 

 nished by him last ijca.- and others who mail find it 

 more convenient, wishing to continue this paper, are 

 Ttjuestcd to renew their subscriptions as larlu as 

 fossibUlo JAMES BURNS, 



Publisher for Masaachasetta, 104 Washington 

 Street, Boston. 



tatoe, because the steam ir "/uickly cordon e" Burwhen"/orn VT f ^7"^.'"' """'' ^^ '^e po- 

 with water, that the steam may bj condensed " '" '" "^ ^'"^'•^' " ^''""'-^ '>'^^ '^"Vered 



orll;Lr^;i^;;xzr waT 'Snif ^;;;;^ t ;:'^::z/c' r::T';T \-^ "--' 



upper part of the boiler at C, are placed two tube!, with . op colks OneJthV^^''. ^' """ 



x;^^-Th::ete^:-,^-r^-d^ 



ways to issue forth. But should'Tvlte^r in'p'lL^ o^ra'^^t Tu^rnlt' wiU tre'ar'rha™ tT^L" f" 



IS too full of water. In th s manner ih/ ■,,i»r,A..„i u . ""'?;"="" win appear tliat the boiler 



there ,s a deficiency or excess olwate'r in the" oiler ^' '"™"^ ""'" ^'°P"°'^''' '■'^«"'-«» «'''«">- 



The quantity of water could 



A ■ .1 J . 'P'"""" '■y "='■''"'=> ^'"^ a sliding board below bv which th^ ^„^ h„ 



dy, IS withdrawn, so that a wheelbarrow or vat may be plfced below, lid the S at ' 



to ,t. By means of an apparatus of this kind, rooU^^and 'other parU of pknt^ may b^ , 

 louucaj msjinei.— Farmer's Cabijietj f "« maj oe i 



renient and econo 



1 at once emptied in- 

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