THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



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tious on laml at a coiisideialile distance tioin his 

 domicil, wliicli was too lougli and too sterile per- 

 liai}S to reliuid the exjiense. On tlie ground near 

 his honse in the village he was more snccesslul ; 

 and although lie has been dead some twenty jeuis, 

 the \alue ot' his lahof has this very season been 

 slioivn in the inoduction of some tivc hundred 

 bushels of market apples, excellent winter Unit, 

 from trees which he had planted and nursed. 



The good eifects of the agricultural eflbrts of 

 all the gentlemen we have named are now felt in 

 the increased value of the grotind which they 

 have made many years productive. The culti- 

 vated land in the inniiediate neighborhood of 

 these gentlcnieu's late residence, is valued and 

 will sell (juick at the rate of one hundred dollars 

 the acre, while in every part of the towti and 

 iieighboiliood where no such improvement has 

 been made, equally good lands, if they will sell at 

 all, will not give onc-lburth part of that price. — 

 Mr. French had a held of ten acres, which he 

 has alternately ploughed lor cultivation and sub- 

 sequently stocked down. This field liad been 

 cleared of stones, and year after year pioduced 

 good cro])s of potatoes, corn, wheat, oats, and 

 grass in succession. Two tons of hay to the 

 acre was generally the minumun crop u hen laid 

 down to hay. This land by a board of apprais- 

 ers has been set down as worth lor farming pur- 

 poses merely, one hundred dollars the acre. One 

 of the committee, a good farmer of the town, 

 valued the land at one hmidred and fifty dollars 

 the acre. A gentleman in the immediate vicinity 

 (Mr. Orcntt) has a hay field on which he raises 

 RunuuUy all average of between three and four 

 tons of excellent English hay. Tliis field, sur- 

 rounded by substantial stone wall, fills up in the 

 summer to an even heiglit with the wall the 

 straight standing herdsgrass or timothy : before 

 he comnicnccd its treatment and culti\Htiou the 

 land was like thousands ol acres whifli are con- 

 sidered to be good lor nothing. 



The fiiniiers of the old towns of New Hamp- 

 shire have the examples of these distinguished 

 men to w honi we have just alluded belore them, 

 urging them on to the improvement, without 

 which the Granite Stcte never can expect to ar- 

 rive to that ultimate degree of wealth and jiro.sper- 

 ity which awaits her if she shall be true to her- 

 self. It will avail us little that large maniifiictur- 

 ing to^vns shall grow up at the expense of the 

 abandonment of our farms. Both the farms 

 and the villages may be made mutually to sup- 

 port and foster each other. The nearness to mar- 

 ket and the liighi r piices ceitainly oftVr an in- 

 ducement lor the fininers of New Hampshire to 

 niiike constant eflbrts to raise on the ground not 

 only whatever they consume but a large surplus 

 w I'i which to supply the neighboriug mechanics 

 imd manuluctuieis. 



The Western Rail Road Bridge, now building 

 at Springfield, will be the finest and most sub- 

 stantial structure on Connecticut river, if not the 

 best in New Enahiud. Tire piers are built of 

 hewn granite, and cemented fngether. The cost 

 of the structure is estimated at about SCO,COO dol- 

 lars. 



The harder the times, the harder he must work, 

 and hope Ibr a better state of things. A niaii 

 cannot expect the ]uiblic tosup])ort him iinlos he 

 exerts himself Idleness and a continual cry of 

 hard times are not the way to get along. Indus- 

 try and fiugidity are necessary, and nothing will 

 soften the hurduess of the times so much as la- 

 bor and a strict and faithful attention to business. 

 — Boston Transcript. 



Commerce of the United .States. 



Imports and Exports of each State and Territory dur- 

 ing tfie year endinp Sf-pt. 30th, 1839. 



Vali'E of Impokts. 



THE TIMEvS. 



Never were there such liiues as the pretent : 

 they are so hard : they never were so liar<l lielbre, 

 and never will be again. The Weather is too cold ; 

 the weather is too rainy; the Weather is too dry. 

 There is no business doing. Every thing is going 

 to ruin. Such times were never known within 

 the memory of the oldest inhabitant: (the oldest 

 inhabitant.-;', by the way, are genendly those with 

 the short(;st inemorics.) Such is the theme, t;nd 

 such has been the theme ever since our rccollec- 

 tiun, aiid " uiihin the recollection of the oldest 

 mliabitanl.'' lint slill the world jogs on in the 

 same old «ay, and although each successive year 

 brings round" harder times than the ]ireceding, 

 yet somehow or other, people make out after a 

 fashion to live through them. They don't starve, 

 at least in this country, but the cry must be kept 

 up. With some, one year is harder than any pre- 

 vious one, but with others it is the reverse. Tps 

 and downs we must all expect, but we ha\e come 

 to the conclusion that on a general average, one 

 year is about as hnid !;S another. The cry of 

 hard tinirs will proiiably coiitiiMie to be kept up 

 as long as tlic world lasts: but to continually 

 ptvach hard time:? dot's not afford a rr.un a living. 



Tctal, 5103,533,891 ^17,494,525 .%-I21, 028,416 



Total amount of Imports, ^162,092,132 



Exports, 121,028,416 



Excess of Imports over FIxports, 



g-l 1,063, 116 



HixTS TO Farmeus. — It is much to be wished 

 that our farmers were more desirous to possess 

 eood fertile, productive farms, than Icirs^e farms. 

 If farmers in our counir\, instead of increasing 

 the ninnber of their acres, would bestow more 

 care and expense in the best ]iossible manner, on 

 every acre they already possess, they would 

 live easiei-, and become richer and lia|ipiej-. It 

 has often been remarked, especially by those who 

 have travelled abroad, that llie great fault of our 

 American f;irmers lies in their eagr^-r desire to 

 add field to which often impoverishes them, 

 ke'jis them in, debt, and renders them una- 

 ble to bring any of their laiul into the highest and 

 most profitable sl.ite of cultivati<iii. 



The advice of Oeaii Swift should lie ti'casured 

 uji by every good farmer. This distinguished 

 man said, ''Whoever (an make two ears of corn 

 or two blades of grass grow upon a spot ol 

 ground where only one grew before, does more 

 essential service to his country, than the whole 

 race of politicians put together." — Mcrcantih 

 Journal. 



Mr. Edward Earle this ye.-ir raised on one half 

 an acre of ground five hundred bushels of sugar 

 beets. Mr. Earle's premises are those which 

 were rorinerly the residence of the lute Eialicis 

 Blake, Esq. of Worcester, Mas?;ichusetls. They 

 raise crops in Worcester equal to those of any 

 part of the country. 



CoMMERciAi. Statistics or the Umted Sta- 

 tes. — Exports of domestic pioduce lor the year 

 ending September 30, 1839:— 



The sea, $1,917,060 



The forest, 5,704,559 



Agriculture, 84,923,834 



Manufactures, J0,9'27,529 



5-103,.533,8!il 

 Exports of foreign produce, 17,494,5'^5 



Siy],C'-;8,4]5 



Total imports for the year ending Sept. 

 39,1839. $109,092,132 



American tonnage entered the United 



States for the same time, tons 1,491,579 



American tonnage cleared from the U. 

 States for the same time, 1,477,928 



Foreig^n tonnage entered the United 



States for the same time, 024,814 



Foreign tonnage cleared from the Uni- 

 ted Slates for the same time, 611,839 



Total United States tonnage in 1839, 2,096,479 



The Rising Generation.— The wife of a re- 

 spectable farmer in Limerick, Maine, has presen- 

 ted her husband with eight children at three 

 births: the eldest about six years old — the young- 

 est, one year. They are all living, and are intel- 

 ligent and active. The parents are young, indus- 

 trious, and healthy, with a liiir pros|iect of a large 

 family, should they continue to be blessed. Tlie 

 eight they now have form an interesting group, 

 without essential diflerence as to size. 



Correspondent. 



How to CATCH A Horse. — The Maine Farmer 

 mentions with apjirobation, the plan contrived by 

 Mr. Daniel Savage, of Augusta, Ibr t;ikinga horse 

 that is hard to catch. It is sinq)ly to attach a 

 common trace chain to a stra|i, w hich is buckled 

 around the neck of the animal. This is no iii- 

 cnmbrance, except when he begins to inn. He 

 will then invariably step upon it and stop himself 

 The Dr. says it is no use to try speed with a tru- 

 ant horse ; for if he cannot run faster than your- 

 self, he is not worth catching. 



Doctor MoRRiso.N has kindly furnished us 

 with a copy of "a Lecture on Geology delivered 

 befbn? the Bath Lyceum, Oct. SI, 1840," which 

 was receivcil after the matter was |ircpared for 

 lliis ninnlier. This lecture, which throws great 

 light on that highly interesting suliject, the earth 

 and its several formations, a knowledge of whicli 

 is more beneiiciai to farmers than to any other 

 class of people will be published in the next 

 number of the Visilor. The lecture in itself will 

 contain inforn.ation worth the price ol a year's 

 subscription. 



A Thanksgiving Family. — In one family in 

 Connecticut, on the day of the late annual Thanks- 

 giving, tlieie were present at dimicr tiro children, 

 their mother, grandmother, great-graiidiuothcr, a 

 step grandmother, and greal-great-grandmother ; 

 making five generations. The great-great-grand- 

 niother, is the mother of fomian children, of 

 whom ten are living: and her olhcr descendants 

 amount to 150. — Com. 



Tilr. Lewis Page of this tow n, sl.-uightercd a 

 pi'4 vestei-dav, eight n:-jnlhs and two davs old 

 vvLieh weighed 348 1-2 lbs. The pig was half 

 blood Berkshire. — R'ecne Republican. 



Scratching Hens. — Wc never allow our hens 

 to run in the garden, and they are taught from the 

 egg, that the dinner pot would be :is .«ale a place 

 lor scratching operations as the garden. But if 

 hens ifill scratch, a down-cast fanner says the 

 way to prevent it, is to tie the tw o outside toes of 

 one foot togelhcr, over the middle oi:e. This so 

 narrows her understanding, that .■^cialchiiig is iin- 

 ]>oseible. 



