THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



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1 Dyeing and printing establishment, 

 21,348 Spindles in the cotton mills, 

 400.0C0 Gallons of beer brewed annually, 

 362,000 Pounds of soap made do. 



107,000 Pounds of tallow candles do. 

 4,200 Sides of sole leather tamed annually, 

 11,620 Sides of upper leather tanned do. 

 21,135 Barrels of flour made annually, 

 2,607,78'J Bushels of grain raised do. 

 510,000 is the value of the ships built annually, 

 2 Periodicals in the county, 

 6,184 is the number of newspapers struck off weekly. 



Dress for Farmers. — A faimer should al- 

 ways aim to dress in such a niaiiiicr as not to be 

 withheld from tlic prompt perioriuarice of every 

 duty, however " gross," by the fear of soiling his 

 clothes. 



Although there may be, and doubtless are some 

 who would refuse 



" To gi'e him a friendly hand," 

 while habited in .ouch a guise, no one of common 

 sense will ever, I am confident, solar demean his 

 nature as to think the less worthily of him for 

 dressing in accordance with his work. 



Farming is a vocation in which dress, simply 

 considered, is far (iom being regarded by the dis- 

 criminatina; as a criterion either of worth or 

 wealth ; and the miserable jackanapes who should 

 attempt to make it such other than among be- 

 ings of his own intellectual order and range of 

 thought, 



'* Whose censures are the richest praise," 

 would be deserving of a punishment scarcely less 

 severe than that to which the benevolent founder 

 of the Miilioiiicdan superslition has consigned 

 the hated soid of the accursed and unbelieving 

 Giaour. What indeed should we think of the 

 New England larmer, who should go forth to bis 

 agreslic labors, clad in pur))le and tine raiment, 

 or engage with Dick, Tom, ana Bob, in the labor 

 of evacuating a swinish stereoracy, in hose and 

 slippers worthy oidy of the aristocratic feet of 

 inimactilate Prestor .lohn ? VVoidd not the in- 

 ference be irresistible that the nnforttinate man 

 was mad ? Aye, " mad as Bedlam ;" — and yet 

 not a jot more so, in my estimation, than is the 

 farmer who is too proud to be i^een in the plebeian 

 dishabille of the honest laborei-, or, in the words 

 of the old Cantata, 



'* To don, sans ceremony, 



The broad brim'd hat and blaise." 



There is no reason in the world, certainly, why 

 farmers should not study ' propriety of dress,' as 

 well as other people ; and as their labor is neces- 

 sarily more wearing and destructive to clothes 

 than is that of the merchant or tniinster, they 

 should remember ihat this circiunstance alone is 

 sufficient to sanction them for sujjportinga cheap- 

 er and linndjhr dress. Poor Richard was never 

 more rigid in the incidcation of any ina.xinis, than 

 those relating to the cardinal virtues of economy 

 and frugality. He had always a much higher 

 opinion of the individual who was not ashamed, 

 in his industry, to wear a patched coat — aye, even 

 though it sliould nut-rival, in the multiplicity of 

 its confounded hues, the variegated integnment 

 of liiiM of yore, than for the finical fop, who in 

 the iiilinitude of his antipathy for domestic patch- 

 es exjiosed his hack to the adhesive plasters of 

 the law. — Yankee Fanner. 



Expkriment.ilist. 



this survey ; to instuc these, h is necessary that 

 the survey should be carried out thoroughly and 

 completely in accordance with tlif eidightened 

 and liberal policy of the Legislature with which 

 the plan originated." 



We understand Doct. Jackson has a report that 

 will make about three hundred 8vo pages nearly 

 completed, to be accompanied with several wood 

 cuts and sectional protiles. He has also ]iailly 

 prepared a geological map of the State : to fix the 

 locations of the several places upon this map. Dr. 

 J. has made astronomical observations tor mark- 

 ing the latitude ; and the longitude is to be deter- 

 mined by a large chronometer. 



In the chemical department Dr. Jackson and 

 his assistants have been steadily at work analyz- 

 ing the metalilerous ores, — limestones, marls, 

 &:c. They have analyzed the Haverhill limestone 

 and find 100 parts of the first quality to contain : 

 Mica and Silicious matter, 50 

 Carbonate of lime, H!) 30 



Carbonate of Manganese, 20 



doing good in imrsliing their own pleasures at the 

 same time that they are iminoving the cause of 

 agriculture. It is a pursuit to which one and all 

 of us should wish success. It is one ol those ])ur- 

 suits which is most delightful 10 lollow; it is u 

 pursuit which may be carried <in without time 

 ever hanging heavily ; an occupation interesting 

 in the highest degree, and while the agricultural- 

 ist is promoting his own interest, he also pro- 

 moles the hiterest of every one ol his neighbors. 

 — Earl Spencer. 



Geological Survey of New Hampshire. 



[From tiov. Page's Message to the Legislature.] 

 "The Geological Survey of the State under the 

 diiection of Dr. Jackson, the State Geologist, 

 assisted by Messrs. Williams, Whitney and Ba- 

 ker his stiidents, has been in progress during the 

 past season. It will not be ex]iected that much 

 more than a general outline of s ch a survey can 

 have been perfected in one sca.son. It is believ- 

 ed however that a mass of interesting informa- 

 tion has been collected, and iriany valuable dis- 

 coveries of ores and minends made. A large 

 niunber of specimens has been collected and 

 deposited in the State Cabinet, and other speci- 

 mens and soils are now undergoing the test of 

 aualyzation and assay in the Laboratorj. Next 

 season it is projiosed to take up the survey of 

 all the towns in regular and due order, complete 

 the outlines, .?,nd explore all that is important so 

 fT R3 time will permit. 1 am informed by the 

 Geologist that he will be able to make his first 

 f.iuiiial Report dining the coining w inter. Inter- 

 esting and valuable residts are exi)e<;te<i from 



100 00 



The first quality of Haverhill limestone makes 

 a very white and pure lime when burnt. The se- 

 cond quality, which contains manganese and iron, 

 also makes good strong mortar. 



Tin ores have also been found in Jackson, sit- 

 uated at the easterly toot of the White Mountains 

 in Coos county. Dr. J. says these tin ores turn 

 out to be much more rich than he hod anticipa- 

 ted, yielding from .10 to 50 per cent in the pure 

 washed ore. " This is something new (he con- 

 tinues) tor the United States ; (or although it is 

 said that single clirystals of oxide ol tin have 

 been found in Connecticut, nothing like a w orka- 

 ble tin ore has before been discovered in this 

 country. The district is worthy of a mo.st mi- 

 nute exploration, tor no person but a Geologist 

 would be likely to detect a tin ore, since it has 

 not the least metallic appearance. It is a very 

 rich ore, and if a large quantity of it can be ob- 

 tained, tin works will soon be set up, for tin is a 

 metal second only in value to silver. 



" The iron mines of Jackson, copper of War- 

 ivn, zinc and lead, (and silver in the lead) of Ea- 

 ton, are all worthy of being wrought." 



Dr. J. has as yet collected but lew .specimens 

 of soils, it being not so interesting to analyze 

 soils unless the peculiar soil shall be accompani- 

 ed with a statistical account of its crops and me- 

 thod of treatment. Wherever this- information 

 could be obtained, he has taken specimens. The 

 marked differences between the Connecticut and 

 Merrimack river soils will be noted among his 

 researches. 



We shoidd have acknowledged in a former 

 nuniher, the receipt from Dr. Jackson of his Ge- 

 ological Report on the State of Rhode Island. 

 We intend hereafter to take further notice of his 

 Agricultural Statistics, Analysis of soils, and Farm 

 Reports contained in that volume. 



Agricultural Pursuits. 



If I might be allowed to express my own opi- 

 nions, I should say that the pursuit of agricidture, 

 the cultivation of the land, and the inqirovenient 

 of the fertility of the soil, is one of the most de- 

 lightful and most instructive, and most honorable 

 pmsuits in which a man can be engaged, and not 

 only leads him to contemplate the wonders ot 

 creation, and the works of nature, and of nature's 

 God, but it aleo enables him, by the aid of suc- 

 cessful industry, and by the application of .science, 

 to effect imjirovements which, under the bless- 

 ings of Divine Providence, cannot fail to be ad- 

 vantageous both to the age in which he lives, and 

 and the generations yet to come. — tf\ Diincombe, 

 M. Parlimnent. 



You are well aware that in the course of my 

 life — now not a very short one — I have apjilied 

 myself to many and various pursuits: but I have 

 at last come to that which I believe to bo niy na- 

 tural one — I mean the improvement of agricul- 

 ture — the promoting of agriculture by my own 

 endeavors, and by assisting the endeavors of oth- 

 ers. Mr. Duncombe told you, it was a pursuit 

 worthy of being (bllowed ; I tell those who are 

 entering upon life that they find no imrsuit which 

 gives more satisfaction. — I w ill say they will find 

 no pursiiit which will give so just an occupation 

 nf their time with less annoyance, and less dis- 

 tiirliance to tlieir tempers. No other in which 



Boston and St. Louis. — The western people 

 generally, are not probably aware that the great 

 enterprise of comiecting St. Louis with Boston, 

 by a chain of rail roads, is going lorward with 

 prospects of speedy accomplishment. The whole 

 line of the road is already chartered. The dis- 

 tance from St. Louis to Boston, is about twelve 

 hundred and seventy-five miles. Of this will be 

 completed next year from Boston to Buffalo, five 

 hundred and thirty-five miles — In Ohio, on the 

 shore of Lake Erie, sixty-three miles — in Michi- 

 gan, near the south line, sixty-five miles. — total, 

 six hundred and sixty-three miles — more than 

 half the whole distance, and embracing two- 

 thirds of the whole expense. The works in the 

 west are for the present susjiended for the want 

 of funds, but it is expected that operations will be 

 resumed at an early date. Here is enterprise ex- 

 hibited on as grand a scale as the w ildest fancy 

 could have imagined. Ten years ago, a plan to 

 connect Boston with St. Louis, would have been 

 regarded as visionary as a scheme to liridge the 

 Atlantic ocean. But a few years w ill witness the 

 accomjdishment of the project, and the extension 

 of the road, perhaps, many miles >vestward. — 

 H heeling Gaz. 



Reverses of Fortune. — The United States 

 Blarshal who has just completed the census of 

 Cincinnati, menlions these incidents: I met a 

 man who has mined himself liy intemperance, 

 and was subsisting on charity, that I knew in 

 Pittsburg in the year 1815 owner of a fine prop- 

 erty and stoie worth $.50,000 at that time. The 

 property alone, I have no doubt, would since 

 have brought $150,000. I founil in the person 

 of a day laborer in one of our ibundries, a man 

 w ho had once owned a large iron establishment 

 in Scotland, on the Canon side. He had be- 

 come involved with others, and rendered there- 

 by poor. Yet far from the simple dignity which 

 Ibrbore repining or complaint, the family mani- 

 fested in the case. I found also the widow of a 

 distinguished professor in an Ea.stern college, 

 who was at the time eating her humble supper 

 with her daughter, under such chcunistances of 

 penury, that their veiy tiible was formed of a 

 board laid across an old barrel ! I found in the 

 city two cases of disparity of age between the 

 oldest and youngest brother. In one instance 

 the oldest I irother was CM, the youngest 35. In 

 the other, when the fatlier was living, and aged 

 73 years, one brotlier was 40 and the other 2. 



M.iiiiNG Butter. — Every farmer who makes 

 his own butter, will be glad to learn how to make 

 the most from milk, and at the sanie time jiroduces 

 an article of gooil quality. Pulling a pint of cold 

 water during the sununer months into each pan 

 of milk when strained from the cow, will mate- 

 rially aid tliese desirable olijects. The milk will not 

 sour as quick, and the cream will rise nioic per- 

 fectly. The reason why butter made in summer 

 becomes rancid so soon, is ow iiig to the imperfect 

 manner in which the milk, rnquciilly soured be- 

 fore churning, is separated fhuii the butter. Re- 

 tarding the souring of the nillk by the aiJ]ilication 

 of cold water, obviates this difficulty. — Ueuesee 

 Fanner. 



lUit lew of our readers, we imagine, have any 

 adeip;ate idea of the anioiuit ol fiour alone sent 

 out of the United Slates. Dining tlie year 1839, 

 ending last September, 923,151 barrels of flour, 

 estimated at $6,9S5,170, were ex]'ortfd from this 

 country. From official sources, we leain that 

 more or less was sent to every yon in Europe. 

 Russia, China, British East Indii s, Cape of Good 

 Hope, and many other remote jiortions of the 

 world received bread-stiifis (Voni the United 

 Sl.itcs. Over 150,000 barrels uere sent to Eng- 

 land, about the san\e luimlier to the British West 

 they will fL-el such lull gatiefaction that they aref Indies, 80,000 to Cuba, and 177,000 to Br;.ziJ. 



