THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



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effects of cold. Rumford declares that notwith- 

 standiug Lis first prejudice iiguiiist stove heat, he 

 found from an exjierince of twelve years' resi- 

 dence in Germany, not only that warm rooms 

 were more comibitable in winter, but certainly 

 tended to the preservation of health. — Journal of 

 Health. 



For tlic Monthly Visitor. 

 Liiu$ addressed to MaJ. Gen. STARK, at the age of 93, 

 then the only surviving ( .imerican) General qf' the 

 Revolutionary Army of the United Utates. 



[First published in a Boston paper in 1821.] 

 Lyre of oIJ times, re-wake thy clieeriny lays, 

 With valor's deeds, which once have swell'd thy song, 

 AVhen in the warrior's halls of other days, 

 Thy chords to triumph's answ'ring notes were strung. 



Last of the mighty race ! who drew the blade. 

 In years long past, to quell th' invading foe ; 

 Stern scourge of royalty ! thy potent aid 

 Ne'er failed thy country, in her weal or woe. 



I'irst in the ranks where warring champions stood. 

 Whose freeborn spirits brook'd no sceptred lord, 

 Thy deeds of fame were writ in Tyrant's blood, 

 .\nd freedom blessed thy ever conquering sword. 



As the proud oak that braves the pelting storm, 

 Lnbroke, unbent, tho' lightnings play sublime, 

 Tho' ninety years have mark'd thy war-worn form, 

 I'hou stand'st alone amid the march of time. 



Where the dark tide of conflict roU'd its wave, 

 And the dread onset gleam'd thro' flame and smoke. 

 Thine was the glorious task to lead the brave, 

 'Tv.'as thine to front the battle's doubtful shock. 



But now. are all those days of fame gone by; 

 The darker scenes they knew are with them gone, 

 ,\nd all their warrior chiefs now slumbering lie. 

 Shrined in their lowly graves save thee alone. 



Peaceful thy sleep in honor's blooming bed, 

 Where fame's undying rays shall gild their ui n ; 

 O'er their green turf, shall after heroes tread, 

 Who fought at deathless Bennington. 



One name is Icit to grace the minstrel's song ; 

 One, still to read his valor's laurcU'd page ; 

 One hoary veteran of the martial throng, 

 Unbowed by storms amid the waste of age.' 



Last of the patriot chiefs vvhi bled of old, 

 (ireen are the b.ays, thy whitened locks that twine ; 

 Thy soul-inspiring deeds shall long be told. 

 When thou hast joined the brave of other times. 



The veteran General was gathered to his fa- 

 thers, we believe in the year 181ii, at the age of 

 ',)4. His remains repose on an elevation a little 

 distance from the east bank of the ilcrrimack, 

 about tifteen miles below Concord, and directly 

 opposite the reclaimed meadow of Col. Farmer, 

 on the left hand side of the travelled road on the 

 west side as you approacli Anioskeag village from 

 the north. A granite moiuunent which may be 

 descried by the" traveller at the distance of a mile 

 over the riser, an obelisk prejsared at tlic State 

 Prison in Coi^cord, was erected many years since 

 by bis sou, Maj. Calkh Stark, who died more 

 than a year ago in the h>tate of Ohio. The man- 

 .sion house of the General, a connnon two story 

 building erected by him soon after the revolu- 

 tionary war, has lately Ix'eu thoroughly repaired 

 and painted : it is the property of a grandson, a 

 thriving fanner of Old Hillsborough. The pos- 

 tcritv of General Stark are nnnierous. 



saved from rtiiu. Though otir merchants give 

 employment to their thousands, there is no class 

 of business which involves so much wear and 

 tear of hmnan life. — How much privation and 

 hardship — how much health, and how many 

 lives must be sacrificed in the accunndation of 

 one great estate in the mercantile svay I They 

 owe it then to the public and their fellow men, 

 to set the first example of munificence in multi- 

 plying and augmenting the public charities ; and 

 in promoting all that tends to the instruction, or- 

 <ler and general welfare and comfort of society. 

 — Salem Obseiiier. 



recommends for cm-ing this complaint, to take 

 three-fourths of a pint of olive oil, and a pint of 

 melted butter or hog's lard,and pour this niixtiue 

 down the throat of the beast ; and if no favora- 

 ble change be produced in a quarter of an lioin', 

 repeat the dose. For sheep, about a gill should 

 in like manner be given, and the dose repeated if 

 necessary. This, he says, will not fail of a cin-e 

 in half an hotn-. To prevent this disort'ier, cattle 

 should not be turned at first with empty stomachs 

 into rich pastures ; nor should they be allowed to 

 feed on potatoes, and some other roots, withotit 

 their first being cut into pieces. 



Merchants. 



Your merchants of foreign intercourse lU'c the 

 princes of tliis land- Men cf no otiier class 

 have the chances of accunudating so large for- 

 nuies; and, a? a general rule, they amass a very 

 great proportion of all the large and wealtliy es- 

 tates which are I'oimd amovg us. Their iiiler- 

 i-,oursc wilh th'-ii' lellow men is wide tmd variou,s; 

 and is calculated to have an cidarging and liber- 

 alizing elU'et upon the niind. Amongst them, 

 thereibre, vve should look for llu most expanded 

 minds in general inielligencc^ : and the greatest 

 hearts in all that involves^ public spirit lor enter- 

 prise and improvement. A niggardl)', narrow 

 minded merchant is an anomaly,— or ought io be. 

 I'hey do much for the support of the govern- 

 ment, with wliich their busii.ess is often intima- 

 tely connected ; and in the stabilhy and good ad- 

 ministration of which they ordinarily have nnich 

 at Btakc. Yet, perhaps, in the case of a general 

 political wreck, no class, on the whole, would 

 fare so well,— having, as they often do proi)erty 

 abroad, and balances due from foreign agents 

 and nirrchanls, which, from this cause, might be 



From Lathrop's Farmers Library. 

 Neat Cattle. 



Hoof ail. — Cause of the disease is not well 

 known. The feet become diseased, and then 

 they are frozen diu-ing the course of the winter, 

 after which they are of no value except for their 

 skins. Feeding them with plants of rich food, 

 and keeping them well littered in warm stables, 

 is thought to be the most profitable and effectual 

 method of avoiding this disorder. 



Horn distemper, stdijects them to a wasting of 

 the pith of the horn. It is sometimes in one horn 

 only, and sometimes in both. Indications of the 

 disease are coldness of the horn, dullness of the 

 eyes, sluggishness, want of appetite, and a dispo- 

 sition to lie down. Where the brain is affected, 

 the animal will toss its head, groan, and exhibit 

 indications of great ]iain. Cure : bore a hole 

 with a snitdl gimblet in the lower side of the 

 horn, about an inch from the head., and the cor- 

 rupted matter in the horn will run out. If this 

 does not complete the cure iVlr.Dean directs that 

 the horn have a mi.xture of rum, honey, myrrh, 

 and aloes throw n into it with syringe ; aud that 

 this be repeated till a cure be effected. 



Tail sickness. — Cause, generally poor keejiing. 

 The cure is effected by ciuting off a small piece 

 of the tail, which will be attended with a small 

 dischai'ge of blooil ; or when the hollow ])art is 

 near the end, cut a slit in it one or two inches 

 long and this will efl'ect a cure. 



Gripes, or cholic. — When attacked svith it, they 

 lie down and rise up incessantly, and slick their 

 horns against any oliject that ])resents. It is at- 

 tended with either costiveness or scorning. In 

 the former case, they are to be treated with ptn- 

 gatives, and in the latter, with restringents. To 

 stop the purging, give them half a pint of olive 

 oil sweetened with sugar ; or a qii.-u-t of ale, mix- 

 ed with a few drops of laudanum, and two or 

 three ounces of oil of sweet almonds. To pro- 

 mote pm-ging, give them five or six drachms of 

 fine Barbadoes' aloes, and half pint of brandy, 

 mixed with two quarts of ^ater grtiel, in a luke- 

 warm state. In cither case, speedy attention to 

 the bea.st is necessary, in order to prevent an in- 

 flammation of the intestines, which must prove 

 fatal. 



Scouring s;imptoms.—Fici\ucot discharge of sli- 

 mv excrement, loss of appetite, loss of flesh, in- 

 creasing ]ialeness of the eyes, and generally de- 

 bilitv. Cure. — The beast shoidd be immediately 

 housed, and put to dry food and this in tiie early 

 statre of the disease will generally effect a cure. 

 Should this iail, it is directed by the same autbor 

 to boil a pound of mutton suet in three quarts of 

 milk, till the Ibrmer is dissolved, and give it to 

 the beast in a lukewarm state ; or in obstinate 

 cases, boil half a pound of powdered chalk in 

 two quarts of A\ater, till it is reduced to three 

 pints; add four ounces of hartshorn shavings, 

 one of cassia, and stir the whole together ; when 

 cold, add a pint of lime watci- and two drachms 

 of the tincture of oj-nmn ; keep the wliole in a 

 corked bottle, and after shaking it belbrc u.sing, 

 give one or two horns full two or three times a 

 day,as the natm-e of the case may require. Some- 

 times however, this disease proves incurable. 



Hoven. — Occasioned by eating too nnich when 

 tiu-ned into rich )->astnres,by swallowing potatoes, 

 or otlier roots without sufficient chewing, and to 

 other causes. The stomach of the animal be- 

 comes distended \vith wind, and if a vent Ibr 

 this cannot be aflbrdcd the beast must die. 

 A'oHfrfy.— Open a hole with a sharp pointed 

 knife, "with a blade three or four inches long, 

 between the bin and short ribs, where the swell- 

 ing rises highest, and in.sert a small tube in the 

 orifice, till the wind ceases to be troublesome. 

 The wound will soon heal up again. Mr. Young 



Flowers. 



" Flowers, of all created things, the most hnio- 

 eently simple, the most superbly complex ! play- 

 things for childhood, ornaments of the grave, and 

 companions of the cold corpse ! Flowers, belo- 

 ved by the idiot, and studied by the thinking man 

 of science ! Flow ers, that unceasingly expand 

 to heaven their grateful, and to iimn their cheerful 

 looks — partners of human joys ; soothers of hu- 

 man sorrow ; fit endjlems of the victor's tri- 

 umphs, and the young bride's blushes! Wel- 

 come to the crowded hall, and graceful upon the 

 solitary grave ! Flow ers are, in the volume of 

 nature, what the expression " God is love" is in 

 the volume of revelation ! What a desolate place 

 would be a world without a flower! it woidd bo 

 a face without a smile — a feast without a wel- 

 come. Are not flowers the stars of the earth ? 

 and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? One 

 cainiot look closely at the structure of a flower 

 without loving it ; they are the emblems and man- 

 ifestations of God's love to the creation, andthoy 

 are the means and ministrations of man's love to 

 his fellow-creatures, lor ihey first awaken in hia 

 mind a sense of the beautiful and good. The 

 very inutility of flowers is their excellent and 

 great beauty, for Ihey lead us to thoughts of gen- 

 erosity and moral beauty, detached from, and su- 

 perior to all selfishness, so that they are sweet 

 lessons in nature's book of instruction, touching 

 man that he liveth not by bread alone, but that 

 he hath another than animal life." — Zion's .Advo- 

 cate. 



" Good maxims lose nothing by being oft repeated." 

 Poor Ricliar«l's Alniauac. 

 The winj to icecdth, as ckarhj shown in the Preface 

 of an old Pcmisyiuania Almanac, emitted Poor 

 Ricliard Improved.* 



Courteous Reader: — I have heard that noth- 

 ing gives an author so great pleasure as to find 

 his works respectfully quoted by other.s. Judge, 

 then, how much I must have been gratified by 

 an incident 1 am going to relate to you. I stopped 

 my horst; lately, where a great number of people 

 were collected at an auction of merehant'ci goods. 

 The hour of sale not being come, they were con- 

 versing on the badness of the times ; and one of 

 the company called to a plahi clean old man, 

 with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what 

 think you of the times ? Will not tlicic heavy 

 taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever 

 be able to pay tlieni ? What would you advise 

 t;s 10 do?" Father Abnduun stood up, and re- 

 plied, '' If you would have my advice, I will give 

 it to you in sliort, • for a w ord to the w ise is 

 enough,' as Poor Richard says." They joined 

 in desiring iiim to speak his mind, and gathering 

 round hhn, he proceeded as follows: — 



" Friends," says he, '■ the taxes are indeed very 

 heavy, and, if those laid on by the Govcrmnent 

 were the oidy ones we had to jKiy, vve might more 

 eusiiy discharge them ; but we have many others, 

 and nuich more grievous to some of ns. Wo 

 arc taxed twice as u;ucli by our idlencs.s three 

 times as miich by oiu' jiride, and four times as 

 much by our fidly ; aud from these ta.xes tho 

 conniiissioners carjnot ease or deliver us, by al- 

 lowing an abatement. However, let us hearken 

 to good advice, ami something may be done for 

 us: ' God helps those who help themselves,' as 

 Poor Richard says. 



■ Dr. Franklin for mai]y years published the I'oiinsvlva- 

 nia Almaiuic, called Poor Richard, [!<aunders.] .nn<l fur- 

 ni.'ihcd it with various sentences and proverbs, whicli Ijad 

 principal relation to the topics cf " industry, attenlioii to 

 one's cv.n business, and frugality." Tho whole or chief 

 of these sentences and proverbs'hc at last collected and 

 digested in tho above general preface, which were read 

 with much avidity and profit; .ind perhap.s tended more to 

 the formation of a mtiounl character in Amcricn, tha.i Rny 

 r-thcc rau-^o. 



