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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



riTLT'S PATENT HORSE POWER AND 

 THRASHING MACHINE. 



AVe insert above, a cut of this machine, one 

 of wliieli lias l)een successfully used on the pre- 

 mises of the editor of the Visitor, during the pro- 

 sent season. The Horse Power can be applied 

 to other purposes besides thrhshins grain, and 

 makes a great saving in the salving of wood, &c. 

 We had intended to have given a more detailed 

 description of it in this number of the Visitor, bat 

 are, unavoidably, obliged to defer our remarks to 

 some liiture time. Applications for the use of 

 the Horse Power, may be made to Robert East- 

 man of this town, or William Whitman North 

 Haverhill, N. H. by whom they are constructed. 

 The patent is now owiu'd by Mr. Oliver Her- 

 RiCK, of Lcwiston, Me. to whom applications can 

 also be made. 



To make Wives love their Homes. 



A great deal has hfen said, here and elsewhere, 

 about tlic stay at home duty of wives ; and the 

 obligation under which they live, to make home 

 pleasant and comfortable, attractive and all that. | 

 The inference from this one sided preachiripnt| 

 and caution is, that men have nothing to do in 

 the matter; and that nothing depends upon: 

 them in relation to the comforts of what is in- 

 tended to be the pleasant place upon earth. — 

 Women are soundly rated for gadding, as if they 

 had no right to be seen out of doors; while men 

 may treat their hoiises as mere cook-shojis, and 

 places where lodgings are provided for them — 

 coming in only to their food and to their beds, and 

 no body questions either their right thus to neg- 

 lect their families, or the propriety and polic}- of 

 such neglect. 



WHien a man thus contemptuously treats his 

 home, and evinces in every action his preference 

 for any place except his own fireside, v.'Iiat are 

 we to expect of the rest of "the folks" hut that 

 they should emulate the father of the family, and 

 despise home too? If they make it comforlable, 

 it must l>c from selfish considerations ; for nobodv 



cares any thing about it more than an hour at a 

 time. AH the eftbrts of the wife to call attention 

 to improvements and alterations in the house- 

 hold being lost, or, at mosi, responded to in the 

 language and tone of indifference, she becomes 

 dispirited; and naturally learns to put a small 

 estimate upon what receives but small considera- 

 tion from others. Of course she must " gad" or 

 be miserable. 



Waives and religion are treated much alike in 

 this world. Both, to use an Hibernicism, are 

 conceded the one thing needful — and both 

 are neglected. To both a great deal of li|i wor- 

 ship is paid — and towards both, to do human na- 

 ture justice, there is a great deal of wnrnith of 

 heart. Jt is however but an abstract feeling — a 

 sentiment by fits and starts, which comes 

 Oier one when he is melted by adversity, 

 or cheered by extraordinary good fortune. It 

 comes out upon great occaion.s, but in the daily 

 walks of life, where its infiuence should be seen 

 and felt, it is a hidden thing. If a man is dying 

 himself, he calls upon his Maker with as much 

 fervency as if he had never forgotten Ilim; and 

 if his wife is at the pointof death, he makes him- 

 self as busy and anxious as if he had never ibr- 

 gotten her. The same feeling, equalized through 

 his life, would prevent a man's terrible anxiety 

 at the hour of death; and proper and attentive 

 care of his wife, at all times, and under all cir- 

 cumstances, would leave him no necessity to be 

 over anxious to atone for usual remissness when 

 she is in danger or distress. 



Every married man who does not know that 

 his wife's whole soul is in her house, ought to 

 learn it. — If such be not her disposition he will 

 stand a fair chance to be unhappy, unless, indeed, 

 he can find some means to alter her tastes, or to 

 conform his household and his )]ursuits to her 

 peculiar mental conformation — Waiving such 

 as extraordinary cases, and taking women as we 

 usually find them, the married man should con- 



sider his house as his wife's empire ; and if he 

 would obtain and keep a hold ujion her sincere 

 affections, he must learn to feel an interest in all 

 she does within her proper sjjhere. The veriest 

 trifle that takes place at home by her direction, 

 is conducted with a view to his comfort and wish- 

 es. Men do not think of this sufficiently. 

 Their cares and intercourse are divided on so 

 inany different points and among so many differ- 

 ent people, that they cannot, without schooling 

 their minds to the subject, comprehend a wo- 

 man's single attachment to one jierson, and care 

 for him. He cannot realize that it is his duty to 

 meet this by a corresponding feeling, to be shown 

 always at home. Engrossed in the weighty'cares 

 of business, he forgets that what appear but tri- 

 fles to him, employ as much the attention of his 

 wife, as his negociations upon 'change, or his 

 business transactions or affairs occupy him. 

 He would feel sadly annoyed, if what he 

 chooses to tell his wife of his business, did not 

 interest her, or if she made no inquiries relative 

 to his business and prospects. 



On the same ground, lie should reflect that his 

 wife has a right ito be nettled and vexed, and may 

 naturally become habitually despondent, -if he 

 passes the budget of domestic news without the 

 expression of any interest. He ought to seethe 

 w-hole advantages of any removal of the furni- 

 ture, any change of the carpet, or indeed any 

 moveinent within doors which she may have re- 

 solved upon in her cabinet councils. He may 

 even assume a right to a voice in these discuss- 

 ions, and she will like it all the better, if he do not 

 attempt too often the exercise of the veto power. 

 She is queen of the realm ; he should be, in a 

 manner, a Prince Albert — a sort of a subject 

 consort; never disputing her authority, but mak- 

 ing suggestions, as Prince Albert most certainly 

 will. Ho may be sure that if he attempts to dic- 

 tation, and merely expresses wishes, and 

 'acJsnowledges gratification, that the bare express- 

 ion ofinterest in household matters will put him 

 in the attitude of a "power behind the throne, 

 greater than 'the throne itself" 



This participation of the husband in affairs 

 at home, will necessarily keep him more in the 

 house. He will never fihd a chance to complain 

 of his wife's gadding, because, having no induce- 

 ment to seek sympathy and society abroad, she 

 will become domestic from choice and habit. 

 The participant in all her plans and pursuits, he 

 will know better tlian to be in a pet at her trips 

 abroad, because he will understand her motive 

 and her reason for all such excursions. In a 

 woi-d, being a reasonable husband, he can but have 

 a reasonable wife, (or there are few, if any, faults 

 of husband and ivives, that are not mutual. — X. 

 Y. Dispatch. 



Social Kcoiiomy of a Bee Hive. 



.\ hive consists of the queen, or mother beo, 

 the workers, vnrving in numbers from 10,000 to 

 20,000, or 30,000, .-iiid the males or drones from 

 700 to double that number. 



The qneen is the parent of the hive ; and her 

 sole province and occupation consists in laying 

 the eggs, fi'om which originate those prodigious 

 multitudes that people a hive, and emigrate Vrom 

 it in the course of one summer. In the height of 

 the season her fertility is truly astonishing, as she 

 lays not fewer than 200 eggs pei- day, and even 

 more jvhen the season is particularlv warm and 

 genial, and flowers are abundant : and this laying 

 continues, though at a gradually- diminishing rate, 

 till the approacli of cold weather in October. 



An opinion has been entertained that the queen 

 is followed in her progress through the hive by a 

 nurnlier of her subjects formetl in a circle gar- 

 round her, and these, of course, have been re- 

 ded as the queen's bodyguards. The truth i.s, 

 however, that her bee majesty has no attendants, 

 strictly speaking : but wherever she moves, the 

 workers whom she encounters in her progress in- 

 stantly and Inirriedly clear the way before her, 

 and all tm-niug their lieads toward their approach- 

 ing sovereign, lavish their carresses upon her 

 with miiclr apparant aflection, and touch her soft- 

 ly with their antenna? ; and these circumstances, 

 which may be ohser\-cd ei-ery hour in the day, 

 have given rise to the idea of guards. On oiie 

 occasion we gave her subjects an op|)ortunitv of 

 testilying their courage in her defence, as well as 

 their aflection and zeal. Observing her laving 

 eggs in the comb next to the glass of the hive, 



