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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



rii-cunistance of the healthiiil efiecta of a tomato 

 diet, during the prevalence of miasmatic diseases, 

 which afl'ect th(! biharv organs in a greater or 

 less degree— these being the class of diseases ni 

 which nhysiciaus most generally resort to the 

 employment of calomel. But there can be no 

 mistake as to the tonic effects of the vegetable 

 under notice; and we feel justified, on the word 

 of a medical friend, in recomineudiug its use to 

 those debilitated from the ravages of diseases pe- 

 culiar to the warm months — we mean those af- 

 fecting the bowels. It strikes us that if tomatos, 

 prepared with large quantities of stale bread and 

 the liberal use ofsalt,in the ordinary stewingmode, 

 were adopted as the food of cliikhen laboring un- 

 der, or recovering from "sinumer disease," the 

 result would be highly gratifying. The experi- 

 ment is well worth the testuig. Of course unie- 

 Btrained indulgence in their use must not be al- 

 lowed by their parents." 



'' Mischievoiis Birds."— What are called luis- 

 chievous birds will often be found most useful ; 

 the woodpecker, which was supposed to muti- 

 late the trees, saves it from the ravages of nu- 

 merous worms iu the bark. The robin, wliicli 

 attacks the cherries, also picks up thousunds of 

 the worms which devastate whole fields. The 

 crow pulls \i\> the corn for a few days only of the 

 season, while he is constantly employeil many 

 other days m destroying noxious destriiolive ver- 

 min. Our three crow s'^ of last year, escapuig a- 

 droitly the discharges of the fowler, have multi- 

 plied to something'over half a dozen. There are 

 millions of grass-hoppers in the fields, some 

 much more numerous than others. There is a 

 wide difference in the numbers of these ou the 

 two sides of Merrimack river in Concord — the 

 east side carries the palm five, and even ten !i)r 

 one. Our rye reapers on the east side were a- 

 niused witluhe family of crows preying u])on the 

 grass-hoppers. One wise head took his |)lace as 

 a watch upon the dry limbs of a tree, wiule the 

 rest of the flock alighted in the field and went to 

 work like so many turkies, jjicking up and swal- 

 lowing hundreds of the devourers ol' grass, and 

 cveiT useful green thing. 



Forwarding the Crop of Corn. 



Monmouth. Maine, Jidij 23, 10 10. 



Ho.N. I. Hill.— Dear Sir: The State of Maine 

 has been thought by many not well calculated ll:)r 

 Indian coin. It is true that we have heretofore 

 had some jH-etty severe seasons which destroyed 

 the crop, but it also cut oft' the same crop more or 

 less in all of the New England States, as well as 

 in New York. 



Notwithstanding these cold seasons, I have 

 always succeeded in having a good crop, by se- 

 lectmg and preserving an early variety. I tliis 

 year plucked good full ears from my field on the 

 95 of this month, (July) a dozen of ^vliioli I sent to 

 the Editor of the Maine Fanner, and wliieh wevc 

 noticed by him in that ]>aper. 



I find it very easy to iuue a good crop of Indian 

 corn every year; and most of our farmers can do 

 the same if they would only work it right. 

 Respectfiillv Yours, 



EI.IPilALET FOLSOM. 



We calculate that the proper stimulating ma- 

 nure will forward Indian coi'ii at least one week ; 

 and a selection of fi"st ripened ears will make tlie 

 difference of another week — so tliat the same 

 kind of coni can be jint forward one Ibitnight 

 with ease. — Ed. Visitor. 



Cheshire Coimty Agricultural Association. 



We are requested by B. Cooke, Es([. Secieta- 

 ry, to say that the Cheshire County Agricultural 

 Association will liold tlieir annual meeting at 

 Keene on the last Wednesday in Sejitember, be- 

 ing the thirtieth day of the month. The address 

 on that occasion isto be by IIENKY COLMAN, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture in Massachusetts. 

 More particular notices of this meeting will be 

 given in the Keene newspapers. 



A better and more intelligent class of farmers 

 cannot be found in the United States tlian tliose 

 of Cheshire County. From "Hough's Concord 

 Herald" of Scptend'jcr 8, 179'2, (almost half a cen- 

 tury ago) under the head of " A description of 

 New Hampshire" we find the foUowiiiE: 



" New Hampshire may properly be said to consist of 

 two (iivisions. The East and West, formed l)y the chain 

 of hills east ol" the Connecticut river. Tlie past divi'^ion 



copies those parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire 

 which border on the sea. Although the settlements are 

 much more new iu the west, }xt they are much higher 

 ultivatcd, and more improicd, than in the cast division. 

 The whole country, from Ihu south to the north line of 

 the State, ou and near the banks of the Connecticut river, 

 is one continued, unintferrupted tract of fertile country, 

 well watered from the heights by brooks and arlilicial con- 

 veyances. The farms are well cultivated — the houses 

 commodious and well built— the barns extensive and well 

 Clled — the fences in good order — the stocks of cattle 

 large — and provision of every kind most abundant. 

 Wheat, cattle, potashes and lumber are the staple com- 

 modities of that division of the State ■. rye, peas, oats, bar- 

 ley, Indian corn, pork, butter, and cheese are also plenty. 

 Winter wheat is rarely cultivated east of the mountains ; 

 and the home manufactures of woolen and linen (except in 

 Loudondern) are inferior iu quality to the western. 'I'his 

 IS the case in all other productions. Ortbrd, and some 

 other places, make good cheese. 



" The College, in the middle of the western division, 

 (at Hanover) dftfuses a thirst for knowledge, and improves 

 society in its neighborhood ; thereby exhibiting it as an 

 ornament and blessing to the State. 



" .\cademies are erecting in the eastesn division, but 

 have not yet extended their benefits very far. A rustici- 

 ty prevails in the yeomanry, and a hauteur in the gentry 

 or more wealthy, in .the cast division, which checks in 

 part the whole advantage that ought to be derived from 

 the ricii and poor being beneficial to each other. 



" Much of the land in the interior part of the country is 

 owned by the inhabitants of Port3mi>nth, but has not pro- 

 duced that profit or incre.-Lse in its value that might have 

 been. Very little attention has been paid to the improv- 

 ing of the breed of horses, cattle and sheep. The horses 

 in^general are bad j the few which exceed were brought 

 from Vermont and the Southern States." 



In this manner some writer (we think Dr. Bel- 

 knap the historian) converses of New Hampshire 

 almost half a lumdred yeais ago. The causes 

 which then existed for the superiority of the 

 Connecticut river towns over those to the east- 

 ward, have operated from that day to this. " Al- 

 though the settlements are much more new in 

 the west, yet they are much higher cultivated, 

 and improved, than in the eastern division." Is 

 it not true tliat this higher improvement and 

 cultivation are discernible down to the present 

 day ? 



The farmers along the river towns of old 

 Ciieshirc and Grafton may well be proud of 

 their advance over the other farmers of New 

 Hamiishire. AVith the proper efforts, they might 

 make such a display in Clicshire «ith the crojis 

 oftlie present year, as would he a terror to all in- 

 dolent men and slovens, and a praise to those 

 who cultivated the ground well. Mr. Colman, 

 who is to be the mouth for our Cheshire friends 

 on their anniversary festival, is a man of great ar- 

 dor in our cause, and his zeal is hardly outstrip- 

 ])ed by his ability. All lie sees he treasures up, 

 and the only fault to lie fbiuid with him is, that 

 he is a little too credidous in all that he heats, 

 and readily believes what he wishes to be true. 

 His discourse to the farmers of Chesiiirc will, 

 without question, be a rich and a varied intellec- 

 tiial treat, which will well pay for traveling ten, 

 fifteen, twenty or more miles to hear him. We 

 should be glad to go fifty miles to witness as 

 many, if no more farmers' faces than we saw at 

 KcPiie at the Farmer's Holiday last September. 

 We sliall, however, he denied that pleasure; for 

 if we are able to attend any where, it will be our 

 wish to comjily with the nivitation of the Execu- 

 tive Officers and Committee of Arrangements of 

 the Vermont 



C.A.LE.nO.NIA AGRIcni.TLR.iL SoCIETY, 



Whose annual meeting will be on tlie same thir 

 tieth day of Sei>tember. The editor of the \is 

 itor h.as been invited to meet the tiirmers of 

 that County on the 30lh at Lyndon Corner, and 

 next day to attend a meeting at Peachani. We 

 will go, if indispensable business or other casu- 

 alty shall not prevent; and we already anticijiate 

 much greater instruction from the farmers and 

 farmers' fields in that bcaulifiil northern region 

 of the United States, than all that we can impart 

 to them. 



Tomatoes. — The Editor of tlie Pittsburgh In- 

 telligencer in sjieaking of the large supply of 

 fruit iuid vegetables fiir that market, says, " that 

 there is ready for the market within a circle of 

 ten miles around the city, upw.irds of fifty thou- 

 sand bushels of tomatoes. One gardener lias 

 about four acres of this delicious vegetable. The 

 retail price is from 20 to .SO cents per bushels, the 

 same as potatoes." 



The Farmer's Monthly A'isitor is this month 

 presented to its readers in an entire new dross. 

 It is hoped its readers \\\\\ pardon the delay in 

 the appearance of the paper a few days : we 

 were unceremoniously and without notice, depri- 

 ved of the types on which it hatl been printed. 



flJ^JAMES BURNS of Boston is no longer 

 Agent for the Farmer's Monthly Visitor. The 

 Agency has been transfered to Mr. JOHN 

 MARSH, Bookseller Washington Street, nearly 

 opposite the Post Office, to whom all persons who 

 had subscribed and paid the former Agent may 

 apply and receive the muiibers after and inclu- 

 ding the Jidy number of the present year. 



THE MARKETS. 



Counterfeiters, — TJie Ncw-Allxmy (I}idiana) Ga- 

 zette says that, " for some time past, an extensive 

 combination of coitnteiTeiters and coiners have 

 infested a large portion of Michigan. Among 

 them are shcriiis, magistrates, lawyers, doctors, 

 colonels, majors, landlords, and other dignitaries : 

 their princi|)ul field of lalior being the connries 

 of \\\ayne, IMacomb, Oakland, St. Clair, Washte- 

 naw and Jack.son. The wife of one of tliem has 

 now made disclosures which will probably lead 

 to the arrest and convioiion of many of them, 

 and tli^ di.«perBion of the remainder.'" 



NEW YORK MARKET, AUGUST':^. 

 Tot and Pearl Aslies sell freely at ^i 8S for the former 

 and $^) 50 for the lattec — Sales of INewcastle Coal at ,§7 

 50, G mos. Coffee is firm — sales of Brazil at 10 a 11^ cts 

 — Cuba 9\ a 10^ cts — L:i<f'.iayra 10J[ a 11 rts — Government 

 Java 13 cts, all 4 mos — Brazil at *)b and St. Domingo at 

 8.J aO^ cts, cash. Moderate sales ot new sheathing cop- 

 per at 21-1 els, G mos — old do at IG^ rts, 4 mos. The stock 

 of Cotton is low, and sales moderate at 8 .* 10 for Upland 

 and Florida — U^all cts for Mobile, 81 a 11 cts fci- fair 

 quality of New Orleans, and some fuie at 12 a 13 cts. 

 Sales of Ginseng at 35 cts — Oil I'eppermint ^2 ."7i\, 

 both cash. Refined Camphor J?! — Turi^ry Opium ^2 "/S 

 — Ombre Madder 11 a 13 cts. Sm.dl Bank Codfish have 

 sold at %'1?j1^ a 2 JOpci- till— No. 1 Mackerel at .§14— No. 

 2 at U. Sales, new S^Jmon at ^'ZO 51) per bl)l. Small 

 sales of Bunch Raisins, at 5I 35 a 1 dll — half boxes, do. 

 at G5 cts, 4 mos. Clean Russian Hemp in small lots at 

 .§235 a 237 50, C mos— Riga Rhine, at ,^240. C>racca3 

 Indiijo in demand, and sales at.^l 20, G mos. 



Slides Missouri rig Lead at 5 ct-:. Porto Rico Molas- 

 ses has sold freely at 32 a 32^ cts 4 mos. Sales North 

 county Turpeutino at ^'2 35 cash. Wliale Oil at 3Cc cash; 

 crude Sperm at 95 a 9bcts ; Winter strained do at ^\ 09 a 

 1 10; Olive do. at ^1 05. G mos. Prime Butter is more 

 plenty, and sells at 15 a 17 cts ; Cheese in boxes 7 a TActs. 

 Rice brings jj leash. Sales Turks Island Salt at 31 cts 

 per bushel, 4 mos. Sumatra Pepper 7 cts G mos. Steady 

 sales of domestic Whiskey, in drudije casks at 27 cts anil 

 sales State prison bbls at 23 cts. Porto Rico Suijar has 

 sold at^.J; a 8 cts ; New Orleans at G.^ a 7^ cts ; Brown Ha- 

 vanna. 7|- a 8 cts ; St. Croix, 8^ a H.i ; Cuba Mu^ravado 7 

 a 7^ ; white Havana 10 a 11 cts, all usual credits. Sales 

 Kentucky Tobacco at 6 to 9.^ els time. 



Cotton quiet. Flour steady, (^orn is better. Sales 

 Jersey to-day at 59 cts wt. Rye 62^ cts. 



BOSTON MARKET, AUG. 29. 



FLOUR — The market is quiet, with moderate sales at a 

 little fdlini^ off in prices for some descriptions. Sales of 

 Genesee common brands, ,^'525; Ohio, via New York, 

 ^5 12 cash. Southern — last sales of Howard street, §5 

 G2, cash ; sales of several hundred bbls Rye Flour, for ex- 

 port, ^3 25 pr bbl casli. 



FISH — For new Codrisli there is a good demand, with 

 sales of new Grand Bank Ccd at %'l 25 ; Shore Cod, ^2 20 

 a 2 25 ; Hake and Haddork. .^1 a 1 33 pr qtl, cash. 



GR.MN — The demand fi r torn has increased, which has 

 criused an advance, and the market clo&es bare — sales <-f 

 yellow fi..t, Gl cts; and white, 59 ett per bush ; Oats con- 

 tinue cxceedin^dy dull, and unsaleable. Last sales cf 

 Southern about 25 cts per buEh. Rye.ncthintjdoint;. 



PKOYISIONS— Tlicre i.> soj.ie stir in t!ie market fur 

 Pork, and Mess in particular has advanced. There are 

 purchasers at ^15, but no sales. Lard has improved, will* 

 considerable sale3 for export, at II cts per lb. 4 mos. and 

 cisli. The stock of Lard is much reduced, and small. 

 Beef is in moderate request at quoted price?. 



BRIGHTON MARKET— .1/onda?/, Aug. 24, ICJO. 



Prices — Beef Cattle — First quality, 55 75a G; second 

 quality, , "^5 a 5 25; tiiird quality, J^3 75 a'4 7i\ 



Stores — Sales were not brisk ; purchasers arc hardly 

 v/illinfT to pay the cost of the cattle in the country. Wp 

 noticed sales of tv/o yeai" old at C14, 15^ and 13: and three 

 year old at $U, 25, 27, and 29. - 



i^hecp—lJiiU. Lots sold for «1 25, 1 33, 1 42, 1 50, 1 67,' 

 183, 2, and 2 25. ' - . 



Suuju'— -Dull. Lots to peddle at 3A a 3^ for sows, and 

 4^ a 4| cts for Barrow.s. 'At retail, 4i~a G. 



NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET, Au^^.^k 

 At market, lOCO head of Beef Cattle, including 150 lef\ 



over last week — and 3500 Sheep and lambs. 



The Beef market was dull at last week's prices. Sales 



of 800 head at ^5 a 8, averaging $G 75 per 100 lbs. 



Sheep and Lambs were in less demaijd. Sales of 3200 



Sheep at ,?1 50, 3, and ^'^ ; Limb? at 1 , 2, and g3 each^ 



