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cter, and taper thorn off, by adding forkfulls to the 

 apex, which may be four or five feet from the 

 ground. Leave tlieni undisturbed at least 43 lioura 

 and until you arc pretty certain of sun or a drying 

 wind ; then open tlie cocks, and if once turned, the 

 curing will be completed in three or four hours, 

 scarcely a leaf will be wasted, and the hay will be 

 bright, fragrant, and will keep well. 



Cut small gntm hefure it bccovies dead rijic, for 

 the following reasons : — 1. If omitted, bad weath- 

 er may intervene and delay the harvest too long. 

 2. Dead ripe grain wastes much in harvesting. .{. 

 Early cut grain makes the best flour. 4. When 

 any portion of the culm or straw is ripened, or be- 

 comes diy, there is no further supply of nourish- 

 ment from the soil ; and the grain then gets as 

 much food from the cut as it could get from the 

 standing straw. Hence, when the straw turns yel- 

 low under the ear, however green the rest part of 

 it may be, the grain should be cut. And when the 

 straw becomes badly affected with rust or mildew, 

 the sooner it is cut the better. 



Do not put the plough into the corn, if you have 

 as you may have for a trifle, a cultivator or horse 

 hoe. it severs the' roots, which are the mouths of 

 the plants, turns up and wastes the manure, which 

 should always be applied to this crop, and deprives 

 the plants of more than half their pasture. Hill 

 your corn but sliffhtly. Hilling renders it jnore lia- 

 ble to suffer from drought, and induces it to throw 

 out a new set of roots, the old ones being in a man- 

 ner useless, by being buried too deep, and beyond 

 the reach of the influence of heat and air, the in- 

 dispensable agents of nutrition and vegetable 

 growth. — The Cultivator. 



Batchelder's Corn Planter. 



Matthew Carey and his wife. 



It would be well, if young men starting in busi- 

 ness, would take heed to the good advice conveyed 

 by the example of Mr. Carey and his wife, as dis- 

 played in the biographical notice contained in a 

 late number of the Merchant's Magazine. It ap- 

 pears from this, that Mr. Carey married Miss Fla- 

 haven, the daughter of a highly respectable citizen 

 of Pliiladelphia, who, like thousands of others, was 

 mined by his devotion to tlie cause of the principles 

 of the Revolution. She had no dowry but that 

 of intelligence and industry, and these are far rich- 

 er than any other that can be bestowed. She had 

 united herself to a man, whose whole fortune con- 

 sisted of a few liundred dollars worth of furniture, 

 and some back numbers of his magazine, compara- 

 tively valueless, as soon as the ivork was abandon- 

 ed. But what of that ? Both husband and wife 

 had minds filled with good common sense. They 

 had no false pride to retard their efforts. They 

 were persevering and economical, and together 

 they resolved to make their way in the world. 

 " We early," says the husband, "formed a deter- 

 mination to indulge in no unnecessary expense, 

 and to mount the ladder so slowly, as to run no 

 risk of having to descend " What a salutary ex- 

 ample is here written in one sentence, for the young 

 of our day. How altered is the mode of beginning 

 the marriage life now-a-days ! Large rents, ex- 

 pensive establishments, unlimited debts, " routs 

 and rounds of fashion," are at once launched into; 

 and the young couple live on, so long as petty 

 shifts, contrivances and deceptions will sustain 

 them, and then sink into hopeless misery, from 

 which, perchance, they never recover. " Daugh- 

 ters tenderly reared, and who have brought hand- 

 some fortunes to their husbands, are often obliged 

 to return home to their aged parents, who have to 

 maintain them, their husbands and their children — 

 a deplorable fate for old age. Fathers have the un- 

 speakable misery of beholding their sons, in whom 

 tlie hopes of after years were centered, broken 

 down, indolent, reckless, dissipated — hanging on 

 society as pests and nuisances, instead of becom- 

 ing ornaments and examples of it." — Praridcnce 

 Journal. 



(Fig. 17.) 



The above is a correct delineation of a macliine for planting corn and other seeds, patented by Lo- 

 renzo Batchelder, Esq. and brother, of Hampstcad, N. H. We have lately seen one of these ma- 

 chines in operation. It drops the seeds from a hopper in just such quantity as the operator pleases, 

 through a tube, leaving them at precisely the depth under the surface that may be desired. The same 

 operation strikes the furrow, covers the seed, and completes the planting. The machinej)perates well 

 in rough as in smooth land, in wet and heavy ground as well as in that dry and light, 

 is more perfect than any other seed sower we have ever seen. 



Chandler's Improved Double Harrow. 



This machine 



Important rules in keeping Swine. 



I am decidedly opposed l^. high feeding for any 

 breeding slock. I have found it highly pernicious 

 and in many cases fatal : the constitution will soon 

 yield under it. It is quite too much practised on 

 3'oung pigs for the laudable purpose of bringing 

 them forward rapidly : when discontinued, the pig 

 is spoiled. It is not the way to produce or improve 

 the breed. My advice is to feed light and change 

 the dish often. A little pounded cliarcoal is an ex- 

 cellent tonic. The sun and water are considera- 

 tions indispensable to a piggery. Swine should 

 be fed as separately as convenience will admit; 

 for they will be all that their name implies. 



JOHN LOSSING. 



Albany, N. Y, April, laiO. 



CHANDLER'S IMPROVED DOUBLE HARROW. 



fFig. 18.) 

 This Harrow is so constructed as to be in two parts, and joined together by hinges on the two straight 

 center pins, so that one part can be raised and swung over on the other half as occasion requires. 

 Its advantage over the common harrows is, that it is less liable to be stopped, as one side may be ele- 

 vated or turned to a perpendicular position, while the other proceeds horizontally; it may thus be 

 drawn nearer to rocks, trees, &c It will likewise better adapt itself to ridges, hollows and uneven 

 land. It may be had of Joseph Brock, & Co., North Market street, Boston 



Philadelphia, June, 13, 1840. 



Dear sir— I send you by this day's mail, the three last numbers of the Cabinet, with my respectful 

 consideration and esteem. 1 should be obliged if you would send me, as soon as you can make it con- 

 venient, the numbers of the Visitor for the two months before the last, as they have been mislaid, or 

 more probably abstracted; and at this I am not surprised, for while many of our exch.ange papers are 

 very safe in this particular, the Visitor is often paying visits amongst our friends, to whom it is always 

 a welcome visitor indeed. , ,. . . <• 



I contrratulate the agricultural community of your part of the country on the establishment ot a 

 publication of such practical utility among them ; I am free to confess that 1 know of none that 1 

 think so highly of, and I should be pleased with an opportunity of becoming more intimately acqu.'in- 

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 where it Would "ive ine much happiness to meet you. It is my desire to render the Cabinet worthy 

 aeneral regard, and hope by future arrangements to procure for it a wide circulation and character for 

 usefulness- the present volume is complete in one more number, when it is the intention of the 1 ro- 

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' I am, sir, with esteem and respect. 



Editor Farmer's Monthly Visitor. ''"•^AMeVpEd'dER, Ed. Cal. 



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