id 



principal towns in England and Wales ; Report of 

 the number of Quarters and avt-riige price of corn 

 »nd grain in the several counties in England and 

 Walfs, which governs the duty ; Notices of the 

 Ooimtry grain Markets, the prices and quantities 

 on hand in all the considerable towns in Encr. 

 land, Wales, Scotland and Ireland ; Foreign Gram 

 Markets on the continent and in the United States; 

 another essay "on that most important implement 

 the plough ;■• Notices of the Turf, of horse racinir 

 in the varieus parts of tlie kingdom ; of a run with 

 the Shropshire Hounds; of a Novel Steam Appa- 

 ratus ; of tlie Farmer's Magazine; of the State of 

 Society in England in the Middle Ages; of the 

 Sportsman a inontlily periodical; of improvement 

 in the application of water power ; of the St Hele- 

 naRat; of the Water ofth« Dead Sea; sfEn- 

 gravings of a Fallow Deer and a Ram in the Fann- 

 er « Magazine; of a National Arboretum about to 

 be planted ; of the decline of British commerce 

 and manufactures in tlie last four years ; of two 

 hundred pigs drowned and smothered, and several 

 other articles of miscellaneous intelligence ; Prices 

 of shares in the Railways, mines. roa°ds, joint stock 

 banks, and of other miscellaneous stocks; Minino- 

 intelligence, with prices and sales of copper ores' 

 a City Article, containing a summary of all the 

 news Mceived for the week ; progress of the stocks 

 during the week ; courses of Exchange with for- 

 eign cities; prices of foreign funds; an editorial 

 Mticle recommending life insurance for the benefit 

 ef after widows and children to the tenant farmer- 

 communication on the mode of selectin-r judo-es of 

 stock at the Sinithfield show ; a meotm^ for ar- 

 rangement of the managers of the English A..ri- 

 cultnral Society ; an essay on the use of two Snd 

 four horse ploughs,— another on the breaking up of 

 Rward land, another on turf draining, and nolice of 

 the Rohan Potatoe ; Manufactures of the British 

 cities ; Review of the Foreign Corn trade ; account 

 of corn arrived in London during the week ; a list 

 of the. vessels laden with grain which have passed 

 the Sound and are bound to British ports ; notice 

 of an Agricultural Seminary in Ireland ; Agricul- 

 tural Reports of the crops in the various counties ; 

 comparative statements of tlie imports of grain in- 

 to Liverposl for corresponding weeks the two last 

 years, and other statements of the grain trade in 

 "JV "'y^'. ^'"''^'"S of 'lie Farmers and discussion 

 of Lord Weston's Drill System; two articleson the 

 Weston Tithe Commutation ; Farming in O-xford- 

 shire; Improvements in Agriculture; Treatment 

 of horses; on Draining; Gardening Operations 

 tor the week ; Agricultural Intelligence from vari- 

 ous parts of the country; Country Cattle Markets- 

 Potatoe Markets ; Smithfield (London) Cattle 

 Market; statement and comparison of supplies of 

 fat stock between Nov. 1838 and Nov. 1839; Wool 

 Markets; Quantities of imported wool in London 

 en which duties have been paid ; Provision Mark- 

 ets ; Hop Intelligence and Hop Duty : Tallow- 

 Trade ; Coal Market ; Commercial Markets at Bris- 

 tol and Liverpool, Hull and London; Prices of 

 Metals; of Raw Hides, Sheep and Calfskins; 

 Hay Markets ; Declarations of Insolvency : and a 

 great variety of Advertisements, the most of which 

 on subjects pertaining to Agriculture. 



Of the articles advertised we observe Poitvin's 

 Patent DisinfectedManure and Clarke's Dessicated 

 Compost: these are both prepared from Night Soil 

 the first according to a process used by French ag- 

 ricultural chemists—it is sold at Is. Cd. per bushel 

 (about 38 cents) and twenty bushels are sufficient 

 for an acre. The Dessicated Compost is a prepar- 

 ation of Night Soil and animal matter- and one 

 hogshead of '36 bushels is sufficient for raanurino- 

 two acres ; price three guineas and a half per 

 hogshead. 



William Grounsell advertises a'Drop Drill, ivhich 

 will deposit Manure and Seed at any distance or 

 in any quantity that may he required. ' 



Thomas Bigg, chemist, offers a Slieep Dipping 

 Composition lor curing the Scab, preventing the 

 Fly and destroying tlie Tick and all other insects 

 injurious to the Flock. 



W. Courtney offers Medicines for Animals— As- 

 trmgentBalls tliat cure creatures in scour and loose- 

 ness ; Animal Restorative that cures inward and 

 outward swellings, bruises, hurts, strains of all 

 kinds, Ac— Fly and Vermin Powders, that kill 

 and prevent the injuries of flies, ticks, &.-. ; Mance 

 and Vermin Ointment; Worm powders ; Cholic 

 Drought that cures horses in five minutes, &c. 



Webster's Manganese Ink, "limpid a's water 

 and flowing from the pen with the utmost freedom '' 

 which (like Currier & Hall's with which we are 

 now writing) causes the writing to become Maclccr 

 by age instead of turning riistj/. 



Crosskill's Patent Clod-Crushor Roller ; and a 



lJ[gJlARAlEjrS^MONTHLY VISITOR. 



Four Horse Thrashing Machine, whch will thrash 



40 quarters (320 bushels) per day. 



The Farmers' and General Fire and Life Assur- 

 r.n?'" 7i-nZV."'^ Annuity Institution, with acap. 

 ital of £cOO,nOO, IS advertised, One tenth of the 

 prohts of this institution to be appropriated to air- 

 ncultural objects-one tenth to be reserved as a 

 Rest to add to the capital stock, and the other four 

 hlths to be annually divided among the share hold- 

 ers. It ,s also proposed out of the capital stock of 

 the institution to advance loans, either temporary 

 or permanent, to farmers upon the security of their 

 policies. Life insurance is also done in this compa- 

 ny, by which the man who marries and goes into 

 business at the age of twenty-seven years, on the 

 payment of twenty pounds per annum, secures a 

 thousand pounds for his family at his decease As 

 most of the farmers of Great Britain do not own 

 but rent their farms, and as the surviving widows 

 are seldom able to continue the occupation, insur- 

 ance on lives (which is only another name for 

 gambling)is there considered to be the better policy 

 Adopt this principle on any other ground than a mu^ 

 tual assurance for the v/hole community, and it will 

 be found to be a severe taxation for the benefit of 

 the tew owners of the stock. 



Tuxford's Patent Reeing Machines are advertis- 

 ed : by which sprouted, mouldy and perished grains, 

 smut balls or bladders (without breakin..)^ oats 

 shells, worms, weevils, garlic, rat and mice dirt, arj 

 separated from the good o-rain. 



The Yester Patent Brick and Tile Machines, in- 

 vented by "the most noble, the Marquess of Twee- 

 r^u V'/" """""^ """ 'Advertised improvements. 

 [1 he Marquess ofTweedale commanded a re criment 

 in Canada, during the war with Great Britain 

 which was brought in immediate contact with the 

 American regiment commanded by the brave Mai 

 (now Gen )M Neil at the battle of Chippewa near 

 the falls of Niagara.] 



There is, in short, scarcely any subject or matter 

 connected with production and agriculture that is 

 not noticed in the sheet entitled "The Mark Lane 

 Lxpress:" it is a sheet of statistics which preserv- 

 ed a hundred years hence would afford materials for 

 an accurate history of the growth and progress of 

 the British isles. It proves that country, althonah 

 doomed to encounter an extravagant government 

 a profligate race of non-producers living upon the' 

 labors ot the poor, low wages and high prices for 

 everything sustaining life-the burden of a na- 

 tional debt consuming a large portion of the whole 

 income of labor ;— this agricultural newspaper 

 proves the British islands to be far in advance of 

 the United States in improved cultivation anil pro- 

 ductimi oj the ground. Our farmers should be 

 taught a useful lesson from this fact The United 

 States are blessed with many privileges of which 

 the laboring classes of Great Britain are deprived 

 Nmety-mne of every hundred of those farmers 

 here wlio labor in the soil own the ground which 

 they cultivate, and through this ownership reap 

 all the benefits of their permanent improvements - 

 of course they have much stronger inducements to 

 enter upon the new system of husbandry, the con- 

 slant improvement and renovation of lands which 

 IS so successfully practised in England and Scot- 

 and. The ta.xation and rent of the soil in Eng- 

 land would swallow up the whole proceeds of the 

 agriculture of th»common farmers of New Eno-. 

 land : yet by introducing and pursuing the hi-rh^r 

 and more systematic cultivation, improvino-''tlie 

 ground constantly, the English tenant is not°only 

 able to pay enormous taxes and rents to his owner 

 but m his turn, with the practice of economy, and 

 with good calculations, becomes himself a rich 



economists that they will find the means of livini, 

 ■T/liir"*^ earning property where others would 

 hardly hve. The first will turn to good account 

 every kind of pursuit they take hold of: the last 

 will make but little headway when every thinj 

 seems to be in the way of encoura..ement ^ ^ 

 Mr. 1 ETF.R Stone, a farmer of West Boscawen, 



on thrfi'rTV 'V'^ '-" ''"; ^vooled sheep and lambs 

 on the first of January of this year he had 100 hay- 



His 100 sheep which remain are an improvement 



Tr M »or'-^"'""^ ''"^ '^"-i^^^J for sheep and 

 wool sold $26o in cash. ^ 



About eight years ago Mr. Stone purchased six 

 acres of swamp land, not overflowed, but with 

 standing water near the surface, filled with flags 

 and water bushes; the price paid for the whole 

 was twenty-five dollars. There was a hard gravel 

 bar at the outlet: with two hands besides IiTmself 

 n three days a dram was cut through this bar to 

 let off the water. A ditch was cut through the 

 centre, and another ditch near the edge round the 

 swamp, all meeting near the outlet. The bushes 

 were cut down ,n June in August the drains were 

 comple ed ; and in September the surface was so 

 dry that the fire swept over the whole. Four acres 

 ot the meadow was soil or peat of the depth of two 

 to hree feet-the remaining two acres was more 

 shallow. The ground was cleared by further ex- 

 trac ing and burning up the nols and" rubbish : the 

 whole expense of clearing, if all the work had been 

 hired, might have been twenty dollars the acre 

 No manure was put upon the ground ; but herds 

 grass and foul-meadow grass were sown upon it. 

 1 he first year s pi-oduce was five tons of hay— the 

 second year was more ; and the meadow yielded 

 last year at least seven tons of good hay. 



Such natural reclaimed swamp land as the fore- 

 going IS of great value to the farmer, who has up- 

 land which he wishes constantly to improve be- 

 cause, without an outlay of manure m the first in^ 

 stance it furnishes the means of generally enrich- 

 ing all the arable land upon the farm to which it U 

 attached, by turning out several loads of manure for 

 every ton of hay. We are however of opinion that 

 the swamp may be made still more profitable bv 

 suitable cultivation. Let the ditches be cut ove'r 

 and cleared out as often as once in five or sixyears 

 and their contents be spread over the surface of 

 the ground. This will keep the meadow drained 

 so It may be cultivated by breaking up the sward 

 and planting with potatoes or perhaps corn Then 

 spread oyer the ground a dozen loads of warming 

 manure to the acre, and stock down to grass with 

 a crop of oats or peas. Land treated in this way 

 ot the peat swamp kind, or whose soil is composed 

 of decayed leaves and other vegetable matters, will 

 hardly fail to produce two and three tons of the best 

 English hay to the acre. 



While we avoid her expensive government, the 

 ambition of her rulers which has imposed an enor- 

 mous burden upon posterity— while we avoid those 

 aristocratic distinctions of royalty which enable one 

 family to make serfs and slaves of others— while we 

 avoid that ostentation which spends millions in the 

 mere gew-gaws and frippery of some raree .Imw of 

 titled, worthless royalty; let the Farmers of tlie 

 United States so far adopt the improved system and 

 good calculations of British Fanners as make in 

 many successive seasons "two spears of orass and 

 two blades of corn grow where but one -rrew be- 

 ore. jlnd this almost every man in the euuutrv 

 has only to leitl, to bring it about. 



For llie rar'ier'B Monliilj- Visilor. 

 Tl,e difference between Can and Can't. 



Cont. I do not know a word in the vocabulary 

 of language that sounds so forbiddino-, and so stasr- 

 nant in Its effects, as the word Cal't. It seeins 

 irreconcilable to every thing in morals cr philoso- 

 phy. It checks the current of life, and brino-s all 

 the active energies of body and mind to a "dead 

 stand : It makes the present a cold winter's waste 

 and a desert of despair; the future, an inextrica- 

 ble wilderness, the entrance of which is but the 

 commencement of an interminable labyrinth of 

 darkness and wo. 



(-'ait- Faith shines upon it with the brio-htnes. 

 of the diffusive and benign rays of a meridi°an sun. 

 It wakens and cheers every thing into active life 

 and energy : it removes mountains, crosses track- 

 less oceans, makes the desert smile with teem- 

 ing life and beauty: it turns the current of mighty 

 streams, opens canals and rail roads, crosses conti- 

 nents into unexplored regions, builds states and 

 empires, and erects temples whose spires point to 

 the immortal future, in the paradise of God 

 Can /.stands fixn-d like a mountain of ice ; while 

 Can, , sever progressing in tlie cheerinn-s rays of 

 the light of truth. These are the two great moral 

 and physical, repulsive anu propelling powers of 

 life. Young man, choose ye this day which yri -ill 

 ^"'"'- C. N. C." 



An example of farming in Boscawen. 



As the great value of an agricultural newspaper 

 s, that It presents the results of the bust common 

 e.tper.eiice of many, thus enabling the farmer to 

 derive advantage from the practice of others as 

 well as from his own individual practice, so it may 

 be proper to introduce familiar cases in a familiar 

 %vay. There are many men so good managers and 



For ihe F.umer's Morillily Visitor. 



On preparing Potatoes for seed and table 

 use. 



Ill the year 1837, potatoes were scarce. I cut off 

 the seed end to plant, and saved the but or stem 

 end for table use ; which is the best method I know 

 of to preserve potatoes for summer. The cut worm 

 having destroyed my corn, I planted with pota- 

 toes, and being short of seed, I planted one bushel 



