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TFIE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR, 



Suffolk Brans aiui Mumford Horse Beans; one 

 quart eacli of Sprin<T Tares and Winter Tares ; witli 

 one quart of Italian Rye Gross: together witli pa- 

 pers of New Wiiile Globe Mangel Wurt/.el, New 

 Red Globe dn. VVliite and Red Tankard Turnip, 

 Pomeranian Turnip and Purple Top Hybrid Tur- 

 nip. 



As many of these various seeds as we can con- 

 veniently make trial of the present year we now 

 intend to plant or sdw on our own premises. Oth- 

 ers we will commit to such of oui; friends as may 

 be inclined to make trial of them. 



From Mr. Benja. Fowler of Hill we have receiv- 

 ed one and a half bushels of White Beans : they are 

 of a large size and quick growth — easy to be cook- 

 ed and very ricli after they are cooked. Of these 

 beans Mr. Fowler raised in his field of corn two 

 years ago one hundred and thirteen bushels, which 

 he readily sold from two to three dollars the bushel. 

 The vines do not run and are abundant in pods. 



Mr. Hall ofBoscawen last year presented us with 

 a quantity of large white pole beans, which were 

 planted in our garden. They turned out to be ve- 

 ry fine, although not very early, for summer use 

 while green, and for fall use as shelled beans. The 

 remainder were gathered just before the first frost, 

 and left nearl}' a bushel and a half. At the rate 

 they grew on our premises, they would turn out 

 from fifty to seventy-five bushels to the acre; and 

 if the poles had been extended to double the lengtft, 

 they would have yielded much more. Wherever the 

 vines could find a lodgment, they were covered with 

 clusters of pods. Mr. Hnll called them the Phila- 

 delphia Bean : they are of large size and of a beau- 

 tiful white color. The dry beans conk and eat as 

 well as any other bean. To introduce this kind 

 more extensively, Mr. Whitney on our premises is 

 preparing a tliousand extended poles to set in as 

 many hills of these beans whenever they shall be 

 planted. 



To Jolin W. Proctor, Esq. of Danrers, Mass. are 

 we indebted for copies of the Transactions of the 

 Essex Agricultural Society in Massachusetts from 

 the year ld3I to 1638 inclusive. These publica- 

 tions consist of a well printed octavo pamphlet of 

 from 125 to 150 pages published annually, contain- 

 ing an address with the awards of committees and 

 the results of various agricultural experiments. — 

 They contain much valuable information to be look- 

 ed into and made use of in a periodical journallike 

 ours. Essex county contains as many and as good 

 farmers as any other district of its size in the Unit- 

 ed States. 



To the Rev. Mr. Colman, the Agricultural Com- 

 missioner of Massachusetts, whose labors in the 

 cause of the Farmer are incessant, we are indebted 

 for more agricultural pamphlets than we can here 

 well enumerate. 



David L. Child, Esq. who has visited France for 

 the purpose of obtaining accurate information in 

 relation to the culture of the Sugar Beet and the 

 manufacture of Sugar, will accept our thanks for 

 a copy of his book on tliat subject, with the sample 

 of beet sugar wliich has been manufactured at 

 Northampton, Ms. That part of his book whicli 

 describes the best method of preparing the ground 

 and cultivating the beet, we have perused witli 

 much interest. It is information valuable to be in- 

 corporated into the coliimns of any agricultural 

 publication. 



Action of Lime. 



The Geologist for tlie State of Maryland lays 

 down the following as three important ways in 

 which the carbonate of lime operates upon land, 

 viz : 



1. As a neutralizer of any acidity of the soil, 

 which renders it prone to throw out asccscent 

 growths, sucli as sorrel, pines, briars, *!i.c. interfer- 

 ing with the productions of tlie plants that afibrd 

 farinaceous seeds; in which case it may be sup- 

 posed to give out its carbon to the growing .vege- 

 table. 



2. As an amender of soils — contributing to stif- 

 fen loose soils, and giving body and consistency to 

 a porous and sandy soil. 



3. As a septic or decomposer of the vegetable 

 matters that exist in or may be applied to a soil, re- 

 ducing them into soluble compounds, fitted to the 

 nourishment of vegetable life. 



From ilie Pliilatlelpliin Farmer's Cabinet. 

 The way to Plant Trees, 



Observe nature's plan and imitate her. 

 As the season for planting fruit trees is now near 

 at hand, it would be well for all to recollect to dig 

 the holes very wide ; yea, much wider than the 

 roots extend for the time being ; remember that 

 during the season ihejfcwill be expected to jo in 



search of prov^ender for the nourishment of the 

 branches ; and if tiie soil contiguous to the tender 

 fibres of the roots be lei't firm and hard, tliey will 

 not be able to travel very rapidly, and of course 

 will glean but little nourishment, and will possibly 

 become starvelings^ or die before winter. Also be 

 careful not to plant your trees deeper in the ground 

 than old mother nature would do, iJ she performed 

 the operation herself: siie lias been engaged in this 

 kind of work ever since the days of Adam, and no 

 d(rtibt by this time has learned how to do it proper- 

 ly ; imitate her example, look at some of her plant- 

 ing, and observe how deep she puts the roots in the 

 ground. She don't go to work as if she was mak- 

 ing post and rail fence, lean assure you, for I have 

 watclied her operations often. She knows the 

 ground is hard and cold, and often wet down below 

 there a foot or two, and she keeps among the veg- 

 etable mould, nearer the surface, v/here sunshine, 

 and the warm rains of summer help to prepare food 

 adapted to the tender absorbing roots. Many a 

 prime fruit tree has been lost by too deep planting ; 

 the roots die by degrees and communicate gan- 

 grene to the iree, which neyerenjoj^spcrfccthealth 

 and vigor, but gradually declines and dies prema- 

 turely, never producing perfectly developed fruit. 



Wew Papers. 



We have received the three first numbers of the 

 New Genesee Farmer, published at Rochester, N. 

 Y.,and intended to supply for that country the place 

 the old Genesee Farmer, whose pubhsher has re- 

 moved to Albany, and united that witli the Culti- 

 votor. The editors of the I>ew Farmer are Messrs. 

 Thomas and Bateman, the latter the proprietor of 

 a very extensive seed store : the paper is conducted 

 with great industry and talent. Its proprietors, we 

 think, will not stand beyond the term of one year 

 the price of fifty cents to subscribers. Mr. Tuck- 

 er, who published his monthly paper at that price, 

 has found it expedient to raise his price to one dol- 

 lar. Probably a majority of the subscribers of the 

 Visitor would rather pay us tor our labors one-fourth 

 of a dollar more each, than that we should get dis- 

 couraged in the pursuit of our labors by the small- 

 ness of compensation at the end of our second 

 year. 



The two first numbers of the Farmer's Compan- 

 ion, published in Philadelphia, asheet of thirty-two 

 large octavo-shape pages almost in exact i.niitation 

 of tliat valuable paper the Farmer's Cabinet of the 

 same city from which we have made numerous ex- 

 tracts, have been received. The indefntigable ed- 

 itor of the Cabinet, Francis Wiggin.'^, Esq. in de- 

 clining health having left the latter paper, com- 

 menced as editor of the Companion ; but before the 

 publication of the second number he was number- 

 ed with the dead, leaving a wife and. children who 

 had been entirely dependent on his labors as a wri- 

 ter. • 



Among the new agricultural publications which 

 are continually coming to us, we notice as now up- 

 on our table the Carolina Plnnlr.r^ published by A. 

 S. Johnston, and edited by R. W. Gibbe.s, M. D. at 

 Columbia, S. C, with this significant motto from 

 Doct. Franklin : ''What signifies wishing and hop- 

 ing for better times.'' We can make llie times bet- 

 ter if we bestir ourselves." The price ^2 50, and 

 the paper weekly. Also the Tennessee Farmer^ 

 eight pages folio size, published monthly at Knox- 

 ville. Ten. and conducted by L. F. Clark, A. M. 

 Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in East 

 Tennessee Qpllege — at $1 50 per ann. 



Our attention has also been called to a very neat 

 paper of four folio pages published in B'liston by an 

 association of gentlemen, entitled Maslrid Visitor^ 

 detotnl to Instrumental nnd Vocal Music: adapted 

 to adult and juvenile readers^ and published semi- 

 monthly at 31 per ann. Select pieces of music are 

 printed in each number; the matter of the paper is 

 of a serious cast; and from the specimen wo are 

 inclined to the opinion that the paper my be worth 

 more than it will cost, either in the capacity of a 

 moral or musical instructor. 



Improved Berkshire IIo^s, 



The Shakers at Canterbury and Enfield, N. H. 

 have recently much improved on tlieir breed of 

 Berkshire Swine by tlie introduction from New 

 York of two beautiful males, which are the off- 

 spring of the latest imported Berkshire Swine from 

 England. We are informed that they will be able 

 to supply, at fair prices, full blood, three fourths 

 and half bloods from six weeks to three months old, 

 during the season. Wg have in preparation and 

 wilt publisli in a future number of the Visitor an 

 article setting forth more particularly the value of 

 these improved Hogs. 



The absence of tlie editor of the Visitor and his 

 avocations during the last month, and tlic state of 

 his health during most of the portion of time he was 

 at home, prevented him from payingthat attention 

 to all the suggestions and communications of his 

 many correspondents that he considers to iiavc 

 been their due. Any omission in the published 

 matter of the present number will hereafter^ be 

 made up. ■ 



The continued exertions of those friends who 

 kindly volunteered to extend our circulation last 

 year, with the efforts of others continually coming 

 to our aid, must secure to the Visitor a patronage 

 which will place its continuance beyond contin- 

 gency. To the end that the paper may continue 

 to deserve the good opinion which has been ex- 

 pressed of it in many and different directions, the 

 editor will continue personally to bestow not less 

 than his wonted labor on future numbers. 



THE MARKETS. 



New York Cattle Market, March 23. Deinand ("or beef 

 brisk with a siPiall advance : nearly all in market taken from 

 $7 to S9J— average S^J ri>r IWO lbs. exclusive of oHal. iMilch 

 coH's sold from 525 to SUS. Sheep sold brisk fmm $2i to $G 

 ench. Sales of hay at from 50 to IJ9 cents per 100 lbs.' 



PHtLA-DELAHiA, M,*rcn 19. Salf s of beeve? nl ^G to $7 50 

 per 100. Cowa and Calves S23 to $30. Sheep from $2 50 to 

 $5. Live Hogs at §5 75 to $6- 



Baltimoke, March 20. Beef Catile sold at §i} for inferi- 

 or, $3 for supeiiui anti prime. Live Hogs at $5 50 to gG per 

 c \v I . 



IIiiiGHTON Mi^KET, Mabch 23. Pales quicker than here- 

 tofore at about ine panic prices. Extra beef cattle ,$7 ; first 

 quality, $6 75 ; secuuds, SIJ25 toft G50 ; thiid quality, $5 50 to 

 $(>. Working o.\en, n large number sold : prices $72, 80, 81, 

 90, 100, two pairs $1 12, 11.^, and 120. Cows and Calves $35, 

 30, 37, $-12. iSwint- — ^lots at 4| to 5 cents : retail price G cts. 

 for sows, 7 cents for barrous. t^lietp sold the week previ- 

 ous ai $3 25 to $5: a few fine cosset wethers at Sl*^* 



New York, March 21. Prices : Cotton %\ toO^ cts. Cof- 

 feo 9i to IJi cents. Cud fish per quintal $2 .^0— .Mackerel 

 per bbl. SIO to 10 2.5. Hops, growth of 1839, 40 to 45 cents 

 perlb. : stock unusually light in the market. Molasses 23^ 

 to30 cents per pallon. American Linseed Oil, 70 cents per 

 gallon. Rice, $3 12 per 100 lbs. Sugars, contmon 6 lo 7^ 

 c^nts : white prime llj tis. Tea?, Hyson 57 cents, Young 

 Ilvson 60, Hvson skin 35 to 37. Flour, Genesee §5 50 to 5 62. 

 Wheat, bushel, 108 to 115 cents. Kye 55 to 56 cents. Corn, 

 85 cents. Oats 33 cents. 



Boston, March 25. Genesee Flour, small sales, $6 per bbl. 

 SdUtliern corn 50 to 35 cts. per bushel Oats, Southern, 35 

 els. Hides, dried, II to 14 cts. per lb. Hay, pressed, de- 

 clining, glO per tfin. Molasses, stock large, 23 to 28 cts. gal. 

 Lime, Thnmaston, plenty at K'S to 90 cts. per cask. Seeds. 

 Hutch while clover 12-^ ; red 13 per lb. Herds grnss§2lo2 

 25 per buslisl. Wool, a muderate demand — prices unsettled. 



Monet. The New York Journal of Commerce says $100,- 

 000 was recently loaned in that city at 6 per cent, on bond 

 and morttiai-e lur ten ye;irs, ami that persons of unduubled 

 credit are oflered money at 5 per rent, payable on demand. 



BtsiNEss. The Journal of CoiiKuerce says more than 

 twenty tliou.^and barrels of flour have been shipped from 

 Philadelphia within the last fnur weeks : so large a business 

 in that deparimeui was never done in that port before in the 

 same time. There is a irrcat demand for freight ships. Thu 

 J, of Cum. says live eighths nf the ship Tallcot were sold by 

 auction at the rale of $45,700 for the ship, being $.3000 more 

 than It cost to build her two years ago. The Mobile Chioni- 

 cle says the ship Encland lately cleared irvm that port lor 

 Liverpool witli 30n3^l-ales of cotlnn. The amount of her 

 freight, at the rales now paid, will exceed S4l),')i)0. 



New England Agricultural Warehouse 



A N D 



SEED STORE, 

 JOSEPH BKECK & Co. 



Xos. 51 and 52 JS'orih Market Street, Boston. 



For sale at this Establishment, the greatest xaiieiy ofGar- 

 den, Field and Flower .'■(ciis, iI(llla^^uus Pliiuis, Bulbous 

 Kouis, Green House Plaiiis, Fruit and Urnamenral Trees, 

 &c to be found in the counirj'. 



Air^o, Agricultural and liditiLultur.Tl Implements and 

 Tools i.f every description, w hole^ale and retail. 



A gfneral assorlmeiil i>t Cnrdiii Seeds, embrarin!: many 

 new varieties, neatly hibelled with directions for their cnl- 

 ture, at 6^, I9\ atid 2£ cents per paper. 



Bi'Xes of Seeds assorted for lamilies at §1 and i^i each. 



floxfs of assoiicd ^ee.'s for retailers, from $8 to^SO, irom 

 which a liberal discontit will he made, for cash. 



Seeds by ilic pound or bushel will be furnished to dealers 

 at the lowest prices. 



TIIE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR? 



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JOHN M. HILL, Hiirs Brick Block, 



Concord, J\\ II. 



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