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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



easiness of draft, excellence of tlie work it per- 

 forms, and its cheapness, $100. For the best 

 plough that sliall lay tiie sod on edge or obliquely, 

 and not Hat, regard tn be had to the (]ualities above, 

 $75. Two ploughs of eacli model to be produced. 



The Siii:iety offers fur the best plantation of 

 white oak trees, not less tlian one acre nor fov.-er 

 than lOUO trees per acre, raisi'd from tlie acorn, not 

 less than three years old, which shall be in the 

 most thriving state, Sept. 1, lS-10, iJ.'iO.— For the 

 best plantation of while as!i, larch and locust trees, 

 in like manner and furai, §'J5. — For tlie best live 

 Hedge, not less than 50 rods, $30.— For the best 

 conimuuicati-JU on the mulberry tree in relation to 

 silk culture, showing by experiments or otherwise 

 how it is best managed, what species is best suited 

 to uur climate, the effect of tlie v.'jnter thereon, 

 and, if injurious, the best remedy therefor, $30. 



The particulars of the Premium listfor le40,are 

 published at length in the New England Farmer of 

 May 20, under the signatures of the following dis- 

 tinguished gentlemen, who take a higli inte-rest in 

 the prosperity of Agriculture, viz: — ftlessrs. John 

 Welles, Peter C. Brooks, Willum Prescott, 

 and Elus Phi.nney. The Commonwealth of 

 Massachusetts is peculiarly fa\tored in the efforts 

 and zeal of such men as these.' Her Agriculture 

 cannot fail, under such auspices, to "go ahead." 



when cutting the clips and after let the point be 

 equally ntar it; let the body turn with the scythe 

 as on u pivot, the heel of the scythe passing witiiin 

 two or three inches of the advanced foot. This 

 will relieve the arms, and so divide the effort, that 

 he will mow with as little fatigue as he can perform 

 liglit work, and soon laugh at the * six footer' who 

 stoops to reach his grass. 



Let the hoy also at lirst ^be instructed to clip 

 only ten or twelve inches of grass, until his erect 

 posture and the horizontal ])Ositiou of iiis scythe 

 become habitual, when his love of ease, his inter- 

 est, and desire to triumph, will require a long 

 scythe, perfect iu temper, yet light, and forming 

 from Ik'cI to point the segment of a circle of about 

 seven feet radii. ' J. W. W. 



The following communication was received more 

 than a year ago ; if now too late for the current year, 

 it will answer for the ne.xt. 



S^^oriha lapioHy^ l>y iJ ]5, 163C*. 

 De.akSir,.\s the season for corn planting is near- 

 ly at hand, I herewith send you a receipt as a pre- 

 ventative against the destruction of corn by crows 

 and black birds. I wish that some of your most 

 experienced and observing farmers will try the ex- 

 periment, and see whether my own will be confir- 

 med. In the Spring of iBoT 1 ploughed apiece of 

 mowing, which 1 wished to bring into abetter con- 

 dition, consisting of about one fourth of an acre, 

 upon which I planted corn, and when up about 

 three to four inches, these marauders came and de- 

 stroj-ed full tv.'cnty five per cent, of it. In the 

 spring of 1638 I planted about three acres — the 

 seed prepared agreeable to the receipt, and it all 

 came up in seven days ; and when at the height of 

 the former, the enemies came, pulled up a spear or 

 two of three or four hills — tasted the flavor of 

 tlie seed, and left them attached to the root of the 

 stalk — which was the first and the last of this visit. 

 1 imputed the effect to the seed being so strongly 

 impregnated with the solution, that it was olfeu- 

 sive to their taste. 



Receipt. — Dissolve two pounds of salt petre iu a 

 pail full of aofl water. In this situation I put three 

 pecks of seed — soaked twenty four hours — rolled 

 it in plaster, planted and covered the same while 

 it was moist. It must not be exposed to the sun, 

 or current of air, as evaporation passes off rapidly. 

 As I remarked, every kernel came up in seven days. 

 I think the alkali must have forced ils germination, 

 and the plaster had an effect to keep it in a state of 

 moisture. 



Very respectfully yours, &c. 



C. C. NICHOLS. 



RE.'iTii.sT. Calves on Milk .i.vD Me.vl. — Messrs. 

 Editors, — In the last number of the Cultivator, you 

 published some remaj-ks of mine on the mode of 

 feeding calves by Mr. Hearsey, by giving skimmed 

 milk with some meal, .fee. 



Mr. Hearsey says that it is necessary to explain 

 the manner of mixing the meal — that if the raw 

 meal is put into the milk it will scour the ,.alf. He 

 makes the meal inte suppauli, heats the milk over 

 steam to the state of its coming from the cow, and 

 then mixes about one poundof the cold suppaun in 

 the milk, and feeds tlie animal in this v/ay three 

 meals a day. -His calves thus fed at the eHd of the 

 year are more than double the size of those calves 

 that suck tlie cow. He now makes 12 lljs. of but- 

 ter a \\eck tVom two cows, and uses six quarts of 

 milk daily from tlie same cows. 



He adds a pint of boiling water to a pan of milk 

 whun set, holding six quarts, and the next day the 

 cream will all be floating on the lop, and skimmed 

 off and churned. 



DAVID TOMLINSON. 



Schenectady, March 10,'1840. 



Alhany Cultivator. 



Effects ok habit on the i.sf.vnt mind. — "1 

 trust every thing to habit; habit, upon which, in all 

 ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has 

 mainly placed his reliance; habit, which makes ev- 

 ry thing easy, and easts all difliculties upon the de- 

 viation from the wonted course. Make sobriety a 

 habit, and intemperance will be hateful and hard ; 

 make prudence a. habit, and reckless profligacy' will 

 be as contrary to the nature of the child grown an 

 adult, as the most atrocious crimes are to any of 

 vour lordships. Give a child the habit of sacredly 

 regarding the truth — of carefully respecting the 

 property of others — of scrupulously abstaining from 

 all acts of improvidence which can involve him in 

 distress, and he will just as likely think of rushing 

 into an element in which he cannot breathe, as of 

 l}iiig, or cheating, or stealing." 



Lord Brougltam. " 



Mr. Thomas J. Doe, of South Newbury, Ver- 

 mont, informs us that he has manufactured success- 

 fully for four years past the agricultural implement 

 called the Ci'ltiv.\tor, and that his article has 

 given satisfaction to tliose persons who have used 

 it. The farmers in Ortbrd, N. H. use them for 

 ploughing between corn and potatoes, for harrow- 

 ing in peas and winter rye, and preparing broken 

 up ground I'or oats, corn, &c. 



Mr. Doe is building two bundled Cultivators the 

 present season under the latest and best improve- 

 ment, and says he will furnish one of these for the 

 Editor of the Visitor who will be glad to use it 

 himself and lend it to his neighbors who may be 

 pleased to try it. 



TIIE MAKKETS. 



For ihe Faitnfi's . Monthly Visitor. 

 Instructions to young Mowers. 



Every f^irmer, who has employed many mowers, 

 has '>ad occasion to pity the manner in which some 

 of them "dragged thei;' slow swarlhs along," while 

 he was delighted with the ease, the vapidity, and 

 smoothness with which others, of far less strength, 

 would pass over the field. 



The instruction..? of a kind and indulgent father 

 on this subject are not only fresh in my memory, 

 but iiave made first Vate mowers of many-' young 

 men, and perhaps may be useful to some of these 

 who may mow for the first time hereafter. 1 say 

 for the first time, because very fev/ change a bad 

 habit (of mowing particularly) after it is once ac- 

 quired. "As the twig is bent", the tree is inclined;" 

 so with those who use the scythe. Therefore let 

 the boy of fourteen mow one or two hours in each 

 day, during the haying season for two or three 

 yeara, when, by the following directions he may be 

 able to successfully compete with the strong but 

 illy instructed. ' Let his snathe and scythe be very 

 light, and the scythe of razor-like edge, and so 

 hung, that when suspended on the finger by the 

 lower neb, the pointand heel of the scythe maybe 

 at equal distances from the ground. When at" the 

 edge of the grass, let an old and good mower, (who 

 is to walk near him half an hour) instruct him to 

 stand nearly erect,the hips being further advanced 

 than the shoulders, and under ho circumstances to 

 stoop, and when inserting hie scythe into the grass 

 be sure to keep the heel nigh, t'le ground ; and 



Self Cheese Presses. 



All who are in want of a Cheese Press are invi- 

 ted to try the Self Press of which we have given 

 some account in one of our former numbers. Hon. 

 James Wilson, of Keene, in a letter dated May 

 15, 1840, commending these presses, says: — 



" I have one or two of the Self Presses on Iiand 

 which you sent me. I use one myself at home, 

 and I have two in use on my farms, besides one or 

 two in use by my friends, to whom [ recoiinnended 

 them. They are universally approved by every 

 person who has tried thein ; .and I do not doubt they 

 might be very generally introduced in this section 

 of country, with a very little exertion. The press 

 is cheap, durable, very handy and easy to be appli- 

 ed, and withal does the work in a most thorough 

 manner. It is clearly the very perfection of a 

 Cheese Press. No one who has used it would do 

 without for any consideration. I cannot speak too 

 highly of it."" 



These Presses are made and for sale by the Sha- 

 kers at Canterbury and Enfield, N. H. who will en- 

 deavor to supply the demand for them. 



dur- 

 suin. 



The product of a single Cow. 



"The annual product of a good daify cow. 

 ing several months after calving, and either in 

 iner or winter, if duly fed and kept iu the latter 

 season, will be an average of seven pounds oC but- 

 ter i>er week, from three to five gallons of milk per 

 day. Afterv/ards, a weekly average of three or 

 four pounds of butter from barely half the quanti- 

 of milk. It depends on the constitution of the cow, 

 how nearly she may be milked In the time of her 

 calvinnN some giving good milk until within a week 

 or two of that period, others requiring to be dried 

 eight or nine weeks, previously. 1 have heard (says 

 Mr. Lawrence) of twenty lbs. of butter, and even 

 twenty-two lbs. made fro.m the milk of one long- 

 horned cow in seven days : but 1 have never been 

 fortunate enough to obtain one tliat would produce 

 more than twelve lbs. per >week, although I have 

 had a Yorkshire cow which milked seven gallons 

 per day, yet never made 5 lbs. of butter in oni5 

 week. On the average, three gallons of good milk 

 will make one pound of buiter." 



NEW yOUIC CATTLE MAIiKET, Monday, Miiy 18. 

 Tlie Ueef market wa.q (full, ami llie supply bRing larger 

 than the demand, a [eduction of 75 cents per littiidicd- front 

 forinei prn-es took pl.tce. 5;'>1) Iteud of fat Iteef rattle— aver- 

 ase price f J cenls. Of niili lis cows :>7 ."old at Bo, :J5 to $40 

 each. Sheep sold at 2, 3 and § 1— lambs at 2 to $'i. 



BRIGHTON CATTLE iMAltKET, Monday, Way I.t. 

 Deef C.nttle, ll.O at taaikel. Sales of first quality, $7 SO ; 

 seeitnd, t;7o; third, t; 0:t. Cows nnd curves dull— pt ires (foiii 

 :?i-3-3 lo 4'3. Slu-ep sold at -i to St 2.") earli. Shoals— lots to 

 peddle, sows at 6, and barrows at 7 cents. 



PEIi;KS at NRW Y"">KK, (journal of Coininerco) Jlay 

 Ifi— ColTee, West Inilni,9a ll;Java. I3J. Colton. S ID 10. 

 Raisins, bo.\, 1,'J5. Lemons, 1,25. Sicily Ur:in|;etf, 1 ,7."^. Itlo 

 lasses, Porto Rico, palloii,2? a3I; WatntiZas, 2y. Linseed 

 Oil, CO, Whaie, do. 32; Crude Sperm, ijci. Buiter leduied to 

 15 and Cheese to fi ceiits perlh. Rice $'i per Inindred. Salt, 

 Turks Island, 32 cts bushel, Liverpool hi..'s 1,25 eitch. Sil- 

 par, P*ito Itlcn, 6 a 7 cents; St. Crot.t,!); New Orltians, Ij. 

 'I'eas of the various kinds from 40 to 1,2 cents Floor, Gene 

 sn,- Sl75bbl. Indiiiii Corn, 50 cts bushel. Itve, 57 cenls. 

 Oats, "lO. 



Exchanges remain much as they were one month since. 

 The Journal of Coniniercosaye, " Jloney becomes more and 

 more abundant." 



rRtCF,.? AT BOi-TI),N,(lioJti.n M. Po^t,) Mav 10.- Cof- 

 fee, W. 1. 10 a II; J.lva. M. Cotton, 7 a 10. Cod I'lsh, 2.25 

 pc quintal; Markerel, No. 1, 1 1.50 per blil. Flour, 5 a ^5 25. 

 Barley, 75. Corn, flit, 55. (.lats, 40. Hops, 46 ris. Iron, 

 liussin,. Ion, ijloi; Swedis. 80; iinclish liar and bolt, ,e75. 

 Leather, I'hi-.-idelphia, 24 cts. Lime, 85 cents per Tas.",-. 

 .Mi.las.-es, 2J to 27 els gall. Nai's, 5a5J Ih. Liiiseeil Oil, 

 S-aclegall. lied Lead, 7 a 8 CIS lb. Plaster of Paris, 2,75 

 per ton. Boston hums, 10 cts. Itlre, S3 liiind. Sugar, tirown, 

 5.0 8 cis; Loaf, hesr, 14 ' ts. Strel, I3a 15 els. ball, Liver- 

 ptHiIjbap, 1.75. Teas, 33 a 75 eta lb. 



Durham Shorthorned Cattle. 



We are requested to say, that Stupiien M. 

 Wekks of Greenland, N. H. has for sale two Cows 

 with calves — also for sale or to let, a Bull two years 

 old. These cattle .are of the breed which was 

 carefully selected and 'imported for Messrs. M. &. 

 J. PiF.Kcii,and are considered by Agriculturists to 

 be superior to any bred in the United Slates. 



FHKXOMEXON FOR SALE. 



PHElXOMF.NOiN' is a yomiir Short Horned Durham 

 Bull, sired by Geoi-.'^e the Third, an imported bull, who 

 took tiio .State and County preiliiuins at llie Worcester 

 Cattle Sfiow. in Oct. last. His Dam is Lady Lilly, also 

 imported. Both arc of the best possible blood, t-jemay 

 now be put to cows ; would answer for a herd of thirty. 

 tie is very large and of uucuininoidy fine symmetry. 



For further information, apply at the Visitor office, 

 Concord, N. H. or to CHARLKS WlLl.ARri, 'Jd, Har- 

 vard, Still River Village, Mass. 

 . Harvard, Mass. April -2'2, 1810. 



THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR, 



A mo.NTHLV NfnvSPAPER, IS FbBLISHED BV 



JOHN M. HILL, Hiirs Brick Block, 



Concord, J\'. II. 



JAMES BURNS, 3, Water s(., Boston, Ms. 



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