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.THE FARMER'S MONTHLYjnSITOR. 



Ills lovino- wife, her fiitnrc prospect sec ; 



Ciuia 2- but kn„v; tl,ut through his mouth ,vould 



In thi"si>ort life, this dirty loa'>-;"^J^ff^' 

 Would she con«-"' «" ^''•^<' ''"* '""'' ^°' J' , ' 

 And, ;«ddcd to Ills filth, become b.s w.fe ? 

 Nor is this all-thls dirty practice leads, 

 To kindred habits and to filthy deeds 

 Uslno' this weed, an able statesman thinks, 

 Creates a thirst for stimulating dr.nks. 

 Full many a one (who envies him his lot.) _ 



Smokes, and cliews, and drinks, and dies a sot. 

 If you would know the deeds of him that chews, 

 Enter the house of. God and see the pews. 

 The lady's parlour, carpet, painted floor, 

 The chimney piece and panels ol the door, 

 Have all in turn been objects ol abuse. 

 Besmeared and stained with his tobacco juice. 

 I've seen the wall, beside a certain bed 

 Of one who chews tobacco— near the head- 

 Bedaubed and blackened with this hatelulju.ee, 

 While near it lay old quids for future^use. 

 I've seen Ihe woman who loved snuft so well, 

 (How much she took no mortal tongue can tell,) 

 Pick up old quids and dry them by the fire. 

 And o-rind them up to satiate her desire. 

 I've s° en the bride u'|.on her wedding gown 

 The dirty pipe and filthy weed lay down. 

 And then prepare the hateful thing to smoke, 

 Before she had the nuptial silence broke ; 

 And like a daughter true of mother Kve, 

 Her new-made husband she did not conceive 

 Was constituted head, and not a lunh, 

 She smoked herself, and gave the pipe to him ; 

 And he, like Adam, in submission true, ^ 



Took from her hand the pipe, and smoked it too. 



growing region laying upon the surface w ere it 

 tie previous frost existed, it is very likely that the 

 flow of maple sap will be more than common in a- 

 bundance in the coining spring. /• j 



The maple trees of the second growth are iound 

 to produce the sweetest sap. The rapidity with 

 which this growth has sprung up during the ast 

 twenty years has astonislicd the owners of land m 

 many places. Not only is this tree valuable for its 

 capacity to yield sugar, but it is also among tne 

 best timber trees of the country. A nil grown 

 rock maple, that is a perfect tree of the original 

 growth, within a few miles of Mernmack river, 

 is said to he worth at least fifty dollars to be appli- 

 ed as the keel of a ship, cwiivr. 

 It is from the sun-ar tree that the beautiful "bird ^ 

 eye maple," used by cabinet makers and carpen- 

 ters extensively, is procured: this is becoming as 

 common in finishing the elegant panelling of steam 

 boats and shljis a.s the best mahogany. 



Mr Hugh M Coi.lkv, formerly of Dunbarton, 

 N H. who removed a few years since to fayston, 

 Vt. a few days ago brought to this town with two 

 horses 1464 feet of rock maple boards, three eighths 



of an inch thick, for which he received seventy- 

 ' three dollars. Mr. M'Colley made from his maple 

 trees last year 1800 pounds of sugar, and intends 

 to increase the quantity produced the present spring 

 to 4(100 pounds. 



We hope to '^f- •■i''''^' ^^ ^'''' close of the sugar 

 makinc, to announce the success which shall at- 

 tend the operations of the present year. And we 

 respectfully invite from those who undertake this 

 business statements of the quantities produced 

 by individuals in the several towns, together with 

 the expense of the manufacture, for publication in 

 the Visitor. 



. Good pork finds a good market. 



We remember at no time of seeing so great a 

 quantity of pork on the way to market as has pass- 

 ed through this town from the northerly sections 

 of this State and Vermont since the season of 

 sleiMiing commenced. The road between this place 

 and Nashua has been covered constantly w. 

 sleighs : the stages could not pass the road «'.thout 

 the loss of an hour or more taken up m turning 

 out The trains of lumber boxes sometimes con- 

 Bisted of two, sometimes of a dozen m the same 

 company. What a great pity it is that some of e 

 rail roads at the east and south, could not have the 

 benefit of such a transport as is daily lorced oyer 

 the deep snow and deeper sand up and down the 

 Merrimack ! Yet since the first great reduction in 

 the price of pork in the early winter neither he 

 increased quantity sent forward to market, nor the 

 very depressed pric«s of hogs in the gre.at western 

 market, has been able to keep the price down here. 

 In the Boston market the supply has not been hard- 

 ly equal to the demand ; for in the first week of the 

 present month the average rise was one cent in a 

 pound. Common hogs sold quick at "■■";t«v^"S 

 those weighing over three hundred wentoff at / 1-4' 



'^'^The fact is, the New England pork of the pres- 

 ent year is better than it has usually been, ^ork 

 fattened as our pork is need fear no competition 

 with the Western pork. The Vermont tarmers, 

 who have extensive dairies, excel almost all others 

 in the production of fine pork. It is no uncom- 

 mon event to see upon their lumber sleighs hogs 

 marked witli the weight of over five and six hun- 

 dred pounds each at the age of eighteen months. 



A Mr. Emerson of Thelford, Vt. produced this 

 year on his farm and brought and sold them in this 

 town a slauirhtered sow aged twenty inonths,and .ler 

 four plos twlevc months of age. The meat of the 

 BOW weighed 6-.15 pounds, and the four pigs averag- 

 ed more^than 400 pounds each. 



Anticipated benefits from a Geological 

 Survey. 



plains of thS Connecticut river valley : of course 

 the former are n.t so good and so productive lands 

 as the latter. , . . 



The primitive rocks of the mountains, which are 

 continually wearing off and washing through the 

 streams below, undoubtedly give character to he 

 soil of the alluvion upon the beds of the rivers: the 

 soil of the whole face of the country was original- 

 ly rock, and partakes of the nature of that ],articu- 

 lar kind of rock which formerly abounded in the 



vicinitv- 



The'benefits which we expect from accurate ge- 

 olo<Tical examinations and analyzation of the soils 

 and" rocks of our State, are those perfect demon- 

 strations which shall teach the farmer at once to 

 apply to every soil whatever is indispensable to its 

 greater fertility. ,. . , .. 



Tlie whole country in the Merrimack or the 

 Connecticut river valley partaking in a degree of 

 the same materials upon the surface, a similar rem- 

 edy for want of fertility may in the same region be 

 every where applied. 



A great change within a few years has gone over 

 the opinion of most men in relation to the value of 

 land Much land that was considered ])oor land is 

 found to he the land most profitable for cultivation. 

 Land lyimr in the vicinity of rich alluvial ground 

 upon the rivers which had lain for years without 

 beinf thouirht of for cultivation now has the pre- 

 ference as being more likely to produce a certain 

 crop. We believe all the light lands on the Con- 

 necticut river are of scarcely less intrinsic value 

 than the richer intervales not actually overflowed. 

 Thomili not quite as rich, the lighter lands upon 

 the Merrimack are gradually coming into use: 

 under the nev/ system of husbandry which allows 

 of no succession of scouring crops, even the pine 

 barrens, when accurate geological demonstrations 

 shall teach what may be best applied to supply the 

 deficiency in the soil, will be profitable for cultiva- 

 tion, as they will surely be more easy to be tilled. 



The Sugar time approaches. 



Tlie season approaches for the manufacture of 

 maple su<rar. The cost of the sugar imported ijito 

 the United States, at prices ranging from tour cents 

 -nd a half for -tiie inferior to eight cents tor the su- 

 perior sugar, during the year 1836, which ,s the 

 last retufh we have, exceeded seven and a half 

 TOiUlons of dollars. The duty paid to government 

 on this suirar amounted to nearly three millions ot 

 dollars ; and the merchant and retailer exact no less 

 profit on the duty than on the original cost. Ma- 

 ny leasons might be urged upon the tarmers who 

 have maple trees fit to be tapped to bring them in- 

 to use the present year. There are in our beliei 

 Bufiicient maple trees in the States of Maine, New 

 Hampshire and Vermont to furnish half the sugar 

 and molasses necessary for the consumption of their 

 inhabitants: every pound 'produced will save at 

 home the price of the cost and the duty on the 

 pound of imported sugar whose place it will sup- 

 ply From tha abundance of snow in the maple 



We anticipate, not without a little enthusiasm, 

 the commencement of the Geological Survey which 

 has been directed by the Legislature ot New Hamp- 

 shire The science of Geology, which is yet in its 

 infancy, is to be of immense importance to the Ag- 

 ricultural interests of the country when further 

 and more exact developments shall be made 



The experience which Doct. Jackson has al- 

 ready rained in the researches of the three last 

 years-his great activity of personal observation— 

 the readiness with which he combines the discov- 

 eries of others with those which he digs out ot the 

 earth and brings forth from the crucible— emin- 

 ently quality him for doing all that may be neces- 

 sary to elucidate those facts that may be uselul to 

 the practical agriculturist. 



Doct. Jackson has selected as an assistant (and 

 the selection has been ratified by Gov, Page) Mr 

 John B. Chandler, of this town— a self-taught 

 ' chemist, whose talents have recommended him as 

 a lecturer and teacher at one at least of our higher 

 seats of learning. We cannot doubt that Mr. 

 Chandler will fulfil every anticipation of those who 

 recommended him to his principal. We could re- 

 ly on no man of the country for more accurate 

 chemical results than such as may be ^ttempted 

 by the Assistant Geob.gist; and we are glad that a 

 gintleman belonging to the State should have been 

 touMitout after diligent inquiry beyond the units 

 of the State from those best acquainted,and cliosen 

 for tlie practical part of the service. 



It is ascertained that a comparatively small 

 chancre of the most sterile soil is only necessary to 

 make" it highly productive. Much of the most 

 fertile alluvial grounds contains only trom 

 five to seven per cent, of vegetable matter on a 

 basis little better than pure sand. I he banks of 

 the Nile, the most productive land in tlie world, 

 are made fruitful by less ihan eight per cent, ot the 

 ven-etable quality ; and a constant supply ot the 

 ennching matter brought down at each overflow ol 

 the river°keeps up a perpetual il?rtility. 



There is much pine plain land in New England 

 which has been deemed exceedingly Pp<"---the 

 poorest of all our lands. This pine plain land will 

 Irenerally be found to lie at a pretty uniform eleva- 

 tion above the smaller water courses and longer 

 rivers all the way from the highest point of land to 

 the ocean. It is found in extensive tracks round 

 the bases of the higher mountains and hills : some- 

 times the thin soil rests upon sand many feet m 

 depth-sometimes upon claj- sometimes upon 

 sravel or beds of rock. These pine plains are all 

 Slluvial irrounds, whose level has been made by the 

 overflow of water in some distant age. 1 hey ap- 

 pear to us like worn out land, the more aged pos- 

 sessiuT less of the elements of fertility than the 

 more Recently formed alluvion. The plains upon 

 the Merrimack valley appear much older Umn the 



Durham Short Horn Cattle. 



As yet but few of these Cattle have been intro- 

 duced into New Hampshire. The two Societies of 

 Shakers at Canterbury and Enfield are m advance 

 of most others in relation to agricultural improve- 

 ments of all kinds. At both places they have ele- 

 gant Durham Cattle, some of which quite recent- 

 ly have been brought from Kentucky. Mr David 

 Wilcox of Newport in Sullivan county N. H. m- 

 forms us that he has a two year old Bull of the 

 Durham breed obtained from Enfield, which is 

 more than a match for either of two yokes of live- 

 year old cattle kept upon his farm. T his bull is 

 docile and works readily with the oxen-he is a 

 fine animal of beautiful form and great muscular 

 strength, spotted with white and red colors and 

 smooth hair. Mr. W. also has a yearling Bull from 

 the same cow purchased at Enfield-brindle mix- 

 ed with yellow and white, equally beautiful and 

 promising with the other. He has also been at 

 Irreat trouble and expense to procure five yearling 

 Ileifers, all of the improved breeds, which he ob- 

 tained In part of Isaac Hubbard, Esq. of Chiremont 

 who raised the famous ox Columbus, and Mr. De- 

 lano who resides in the same neighborhood— prom- 

 isino- to have calves tlie ensuing season. Every 

 man who undertakes like Mr. W. to improve his 

 breed of cattle confers a benefit upon the commu- 

 nity where he resides. He is confident that had 

 he possessed these Improved cattle during the thir- 

 ty years he has occupied his farm and reared cat- 

 tle, the gain would have been thousands of dollars 

 to his pocket. 



"Magnificent Agricultnral Trophies." 



Eli is Phinney, Esq., of Lexington, Ms. keeps 

 between one and two hundred hogs. He has much 

 improved his breeds by crossing. The most per- 

 fect hoi's we have ever seen were his cross of the 

 BerkshTre and Mackey breeds. He furnishes ma- 

 ny breeders, which are spreading throughout New 

 Enc^land. His great object in keeping swine is tor 

 then- work as manure makers; and he has so man- 

 aged as to make annually several hundred loads, 

 with which he has converted one of the most stony 

 and hard farms in New England into many aerosol 

 most prolific orchard and garden. 



The last New England Farmer gives an account 

 of ebrhteen hogs raised <m the farm of Mr. Pliin- 

 ney and sold in Boston market during the present 

 moiitli of February. These hogs weighed 78112 

 lbs avcratrino- 438 6-18th lbs. each. One ot them 

 ■20 months old weighed 763— one 15 months, 5111, 

 and five 12 months old weighed 47o, 464, 46i>, 430 

 and 4'30 lbs. 



