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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR 



Ashes.— From the loth May to the first of June 

 in this region there was no rain; and the In- 

 dian corn planted witliin that time, especially 

 that planted with stininlating manure in the hill, 

 failed to come up. A friend living in the interior 

 mentions that he manured his ground with mixed 

 manure taken from his yard, a part of the composi- 

 tion of which was wood ashes. 'His corn planted 

 in the hill with this manure came up readily, while 

 other corn planted with manure but without ashes 

 failed. There is little doubt that common ashes 

 are well adapted to the crops on all light ground. 



Horse Rakes, 



These articles are becoming very common in 

 some parts of the country, and it will not be long 

 ere they %vill be in general use on all farms that 

 have lands smooth enough to be mown. 



They save much labor not only in the busiest 

 month, but particularly in the most critical mo- 

 ment of hay making, when we would hire labor at 

 a dollar an hour, rather than let the hay take a 

 shower. People who have not been used to these 

 rakes, would do well to try them early, before tlie 

 busy season comes on. A very little practice will 

 make perfect. 



D. Prouty &Co. 19 and 20 North Market street 

 Boston, have two kinds. — Boston Cidtirolor. 



We have been saved much labor from the use of 

 the revolving Horse Rake manufactured by Mr. 

 Emery Burgess, Concord West Parish, for the two 

 last years. Either the revolving or the single 

 horse rake may be easily made by any carpenter or 

 wheelwright, er even by the farmer himself who 

 knows how to make a flail or a.x-helve. — Ed. M. 

 Visitor. 



Wash for Trees. 



Our friends must not forget lliat June (or per- 

 haps early July) i.s the best month for washing 

 trees. The young apple tree may be entirely freed 

 from moss and from lice at very little cost. One 

 pound of potash will make half a pail full of lye, 

 and this may be applied to the tree by a brusli or 

 a swab, made by tieing a piece of cloth to a short 

 handle. 



The parent of the borer deposites her eggs at 

 the root of the tree about thi.3 season, and this lye 

 will destroy the egg. Tills is much better than to 

 cut him out of the tree after he has penetrated a 

 foot into the body. Many have practised cutting 

 in this way, but it is very injurious to the tree. By 

 rendering the bark perfectly smooth a thousand 

 harbors for insects that prey upon the tree are de- 

 etroyed. — Boston CuUivatoy. 



Edgefield, C. H.Jij)ril2.—Frost.—A pretty se- 

 Tere frost fell in this District on the 26tli ult. 

 'Great destruction was made in the fruit. Peaches, 

 apples, and plums, are nearly all cut off. 



[A frost in South Carolina in the month of 

 March would probably be equally destructive to 

 vegetation there as it would be full two months la- 

 ter in the season in New England] 



We learn that there was frost seen in dilVerent 

 parts of this county, on Monday morning last, the 

 18th inst; but we are not informed that much in- 

 jury to vegetation has been observed. — Zancsville 

 Gazette. 



[Frost at Zanesville, Ohio, on the ISth May 

 would do equal injury to a frost in New Himpshire 

 on the 18th June.] 



Bnoyant confidence. 



It is related of John Jacob Astor, by Mr. Irving, 

 in his Astoria, that when almost a stranger in the 

 city of New York, and in very narrow circumstan- 

 ces, he passed by where a row of houses had just 

 been erected in Broadway, and which, for the su- 

 perior style of their architecture, were the talk and 

 the boast of the city. " I'll build, one day or oth- 

 er, a greater house than any of these, in this very 

 street," said he to himself, lie accomplished his 

 prediction when he built the Astor House. In ear- 

 ly life, without any resources other than body and 

 mind, Mr. Astor determined to be a ricii man, and 

 he put forth all his energies in that direction. — 

 There is perhaps, not another instance in the union 

 where a man has become immensely rich with so 

 little injustice to others. 



Cabbage riants. 



A sure — but rather troublesome — protection of 

 cabbage plants against the grub worm, is to go out 

 into the woods and take off lots of strips of birch 

 bark from small trees. These will naturally main- 

 tain the shape they sustained on the tree-ground 

 like a wafer box, without top or bottom. They 

 should be about two inches |high or deep. Let 



each strip enclose a plant, and press it gently into 

 the earth. The grub can then neither crawl under 

 nor climb over it. Look he ever so wishful that 

 way, he cannot set his teeth into the dulicious fibres 

 of the young cabbage stalk. — Mc. Cut. 



White Grub Worm. 



The white grub or "dung worm," which infests 

 sward lands, and in some instances does great dam- 

 .age, by eating the roots of grass, is, when it emer- 

 ges from the chrysallis state and becomes a perfect 

 insect, what is commonly known as the May Bug, 

 or cockchaper, which secretes itself by day and 

 rises onl}' by night. A good way to destroy them 

 is to make a fire in the field after dark, by the light 

 of which the swarms that arise from the earth, will 

 be attracted, and by the heat of which they will 

 be destroyed. The perfect insect, as aflyirig bug, 

 is quite harmless ; but the eggs they deposit in the 

 earth before thev die, wmII generate myriads of new 

 grubs which will do essential injury to the grass 

 roots. — ilf. 



The Maine Farmer mentions with approbation 

 the plan contrived by Mr. Daniel Savage, of Au- 

 gusta, for taking a horse that is hard to catch. It 

 is simply to attach a common trace chain to a strap, 

 which is buckled around the neck of the animal 

 This is no incumbrance, except when he begins to 

 run. He will then invariably step upon it and stop 

 himself. The Dr. says it is no use to try speed 

 with a truant horse ; for |if he cannot run faster 

 than your.self, lie is not worth catching. 



Fruiii 111? Xcw England farmer. 

 I'atal disease in Calves. 



Mr. Editor — A farmer in North Andover selec- 

 ted from ten calves, three for breed, a bull and two 

 heifers — two born in March, the other in April. — 

 They grew finely, and were in form and size a 

 more perfect specimen of kine than is usually to 

 be found. Tlieir principal food was skimmed milk. 

 They were kept in a large pen in the barn until a- 

 bonttwo weeks before their death, when they were 

 put into the enclosure about the dwelling house. 

 On Monday evening last they ate but about, half 

 their usual quantity of milk, but as they appeared 

 in perfect health, no notice was taken of it. On 

 Tuesday morniii^^r the bull was found derd ; on 

 Wednesday morning the other two went to the cel- 

 lar door, which opened on the outside of the house, 

 where their milk was preparing, and both appeared 

 impatient to get to it; and when the person was 

 about to give it them, one turned its head aside 

 and commenced running round furiously in a cir- 

 cle, bellowing ns if in great distress. It was short- 

 ly seized and with great difficulty held by two men 

 and in fifteen or twenty minutes it fell and expir- 

 ed. The sweat in the mean time on the skin be- 

 came a perfect foam — it was literally in its gravy. 

 A post mortem examination was held in all its 

 parts, and not the slightest appearance of poison or 

 disease could be discovered in the entrails or head, 

 unless the entrails had an uncommon degree of 

 warmth. The remaining calf being removed to 

 the barn was copiously bled in the neck, and dur- 

 ing the day showed no particular signs of disease : 

 at evening it took but about half the quantity of 

 milk offered to it, its usual allowance: at midnight 

 a distressing bellowing was heard : the men repair- 

 ed to the barn and found the calf running in a cir- 

 cle in the stable, exhibiting all the symptoms of the 

 last dead ; in about half an hour it fell, and utter- 

 ing two or three bellows, expired. 



This case was more aggravating, as the calves, 

 for their superiority as perfect and well grown ani- 

 mals, attracted mucli attention, and hid excited, in 

 no small degree, the honest ambition and pride of 

 the farmer. 



Ae this casualty is unknown to the farmers ill 

 the vicinity, it may be conferring a favor if any of 

 your numerous readers can throw some light upon 

 it, and if a dis_-ase, point out a remedy. A. 



RE.MARKS.^We should be glad to have an an- 

 swer to the above communication from some of our 

 experienced stock raisers, as we are jint able at the 

 present momenl to give any satisfactory informa- 

 tion relative to tlie nature of the di,sease which 

 terminated so fatally. — Mr. Colman is now absent 

 on a journey to the west, and will not return for a 

 few weeks: we trust therefore that we shall re- 

 ceive an answer from some other quarter for the 

 gratification and benefit of the sufferer, and the 

 public at large. JOSEPH BRECK. 



ry simple in its construction and we presume will 

 be furnished by the Shakers at Canterbury, N. H. 

 at a cheap rate. It will cut the curd for a cheese 

 weighing from twenty to thirty pounds in a very 

 few minutes, saving much time and labor from the 

 common method of doing the work by hand. It 

 is said to be much better than the machine without 

 knives which breaks and mangles the curd, caus- 

 in;5 the "white whey" to runout, not only making 

 the cheese dry and hard, bat diminishing its rich- 

 ness of fl.ivor. 



THE MARKETS. 



From tite J^Tew Ytirk Juarnal vf Commerce of .lune^b. 



COTTON (tiilTt^red a decline <if \ ct per pound on llie arri- 

 val of lllr (jrrat VVe?trrn frnin Fntilnnd. Sales nl" I h*; previ- 

 ous week at New Vtirk, were .^:^50 hnlea, viz: — 4fi.^0 ba'cs 

 t'pland and Florida at ( J m 'i^ eta ; t!50 Mubile al 7 to II; 

 :W) New Oilealis at 7 lii'lOl. 



Ttie wliole export of cnlton from I'le United States since 

 llie first of O'-toljer I.Tst, is I,'1S4.7H9 hnles ; last year in the 

 afline ppnce of time, 882,741; ; ye;tr befiire, I,302,^i»5. 



COFl-'EK— Sales Ilrazil 9 lo 10^ cts. old government J.Tva 

 13 to \^^\. 



FISH— Pry Cod declined aJi cts. Salcsnt 1,88 to 2,00 per 

 quintal. Mackerel 1 1 to 1 1 2,i. 



H|;M:S— Hunt' dried Cliill lildes IIIJ cts. 



HOPi—Crnp of I83S, 10 cts. Crop of 1839 extremely 

 scarce— pa'PF al .'id cts. 



LE.A'I'HIiR— Ttie demand for Sole Lenllier has somewliat. 

 advanced the price. Oak Ql to :J7. Hemlock l.S to 19 cis. 



MOI,.\SSES— Sales of Porto Kico26la 271. New Otteana 

 24^ cts Ballon. 



OILS— Linseed 62 lo 65 certs per callon. Wliale oil for 

 e.iportaiion 30', cts. Olive oil 1 dollar p.-ilUin. 



PKOVtSIO.SS- Very lillle clianse in price. Pfet me«3 

 l.T, 7.T to I4,5.^ lihl. Pork mess 14.75 lo 15,00. Hams lb 9 to 

 II. Smoked beef 10 10 lO.;. Lard 9 to I0.|. BulterlOlolS 

 cts. I'heese 3 lo ti cts. 



SALT — A cargo ol Turks Island sold al 30 cts 'he bushel. 

 Ashti-n's Liverpool sacks at I 55 cts. 



K ICE— $3,37 per hundred. 



TEAS — Sales of a cargo al 7 months credit: Voiing Hy- 

 son 45 lo Co els ; Hyson Skin 40 to 47 ; llyson 57 ; Twonkay 

 40 to 47 ; Gunpowder 51 to C8 ; Imperial 54 to71 ; Pontliong 

 46 cents, &c. 



VVOnL— American Pax.,ny 40 to 43. Merino 30 to :f.i. 

 Pulled No. I. 23 to 30. Do. No. 2, 2U In 52. Smyrna 8 lo 12. 

 Bnenns Avres 8 lo 16. 



CORN EXCHANOE— The receipts of flour downlhe Hud- 

 son for the last week, 80,01111 barrels. Prices drooped a little. 

 Genesee 4,62. Michigan, 4,25. Rye 52 cts for 56 lbs. Nort h 

 river corn 55 cts. Souilier corn 51 els. Oats 34 cts. 



SUGAR.-*- S.iles Neiv Orleans, 4,7510 5,374 per hundred. 

 Pnrlo Rico6 lo7.t cents : St Croix 8 lo 9. Ma'vana wliite 10 

 to 10,75. 



Exchange on Philadelphia 4^ per cent, on London rdull; G 

 to 7. 



$100,000 in specie arrived at New Orleans from Mexico on 

 the 13tli June. 



BRIGHTON CATTLE JIARKET, June 22, 1640. 

 At market 200 beef cattle, 15 pairs workinc; o\eii, 46 cows 

 and calvtis. LiOi) slie-^p and 230 s.vine. Prici-s of beef rattle 

 commanded n small advance on the previous week ; evtra 

 soil al 6,75 ; first rpiality 6,25 lo 6,='0 . second qiialily 6 lo 

 6,25 ; third quality 5,25 lo 5,75. (^^owsand calves, sates HI 

 S'lO lo 4-:!. Slieep, lots at §1,55, 1,43, 1,75,2,35,2 70,2,06,2, 

 75, «;3,0ii. No siles of vvorkin^oven or swine noticed. 



NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET, June 22, 1840. 

 .\t market 881 head of berf cattle, 212 milch cows, 2J7.5 

 -heep and lamba. 'Phe beef market was dull. Sales of 

 631 head al7 lo8, averacmir S7S lo Uie ion lbs. Milch rows 

 sold al 35, 35, 40 and $4-^ each, sheep and Iambs wern in 

 f.iir demand. 2115 sold nt §1 ,50, 3 and 4 to 156 for very good. 

 Lambs al 1,25 lo 3,,50 each. 



Improved Card Cutters. 



Dea. Winkley has sent to the publishing office 

 of the Visitor for e.xhibition to farmers the improv- 

 ed machine for cutting curd. This machine is ve- 



I'llKN'O.MEXOX FOR. SALE. 



PHE?\'OMF,IVOX is a young Short Horned Durham 

 Bull, sired by George the Third, an imported bull, who 

 took the State and County premimns at the Worcester 

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

 imported. Both are of the best possible blood. He may 

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

 He is very large and of imcominonly ti:ic .svmmctry. 



For further intor.Tiation, apply at tile Vi-sitor office, 

 Concord, N. H. or to CHARLES WILLARD, at. Har- 

 vaid. Still River Village. Mass. 



Harvard. Mass. April 22, 18-10. 



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