14 



<j;i)c iTarmci-'s iHontl)li) biGilor. 



nionlli.s and fiftucii ilnys old, whose dimensions 

 iuid woiglit were iis (bllovvs: 



Girt roinul llic lieart, G fett. 

 Width ficiosM slioiildeis, 21 inclies. 



Do. do. hips, 20 do. 

 Fioiii end of nose to root of tail, 5 ft. 8 incli. 

 VVei^lit alive, C22 pounds. 



623 



WM. MOORE, 



Female FAnjiEits. — In olden time, when men 

 were searce, anil there was not so iriiieh cooking 

 and washing of di.-lies in the kitchen — when one 

 plate apiece was all that a man vvanted for din- 

 ner, nnles.s he nnlucUily hroke it — in olden time, 

 the fiirls took rakes (we do not mean for hn.<- 

 halids) and helped lo gather the hay and slow it 

 away forwinler. Oh, how gracefully they woiihl 

 manage the rake I Conlil they learn to niaiiinie 

 hnshands us well, wliat a heaven we ,-houul have 

 upon earlh ! 



Now, irirls, we don't want yon to help ns in ihe 

 fl'dd — we can do all the out door work : hut we 

 will just tell yon what Hatters and pleases us ex- 

 reedingly. When we come to Ihe house, tired 

 and e.xhansted, we want yon to commend us a 

 little, and prepare ns Bome drink and other re- 

 freshments. — Mass. Ploughman. 



For tlie F.irtner's IMoiUliiy Visitor. 

 Lime. 

 Some donhtsseem to he indulged as to tlic hene- 

 fiis of lime upon our New England soils. Man- 

 kind in general are slow in their changes: prac- 

 tice, early impressions; ihe liahits formed are 

 sinhhorn, fortunately sliihhorn : hence we keep 

 iipini safe ground — which serveil our fathers, and 

 suffices IIS when well prosecuted. It took 

 nearly half a century for lime lo gain its repute 

 in the Slate of Peimsylvani.i. The pios[>erity of 

 those who used it, aliundant crojis wliere none 

 We're before raised, and occular demonstration 

 of fields of fertility and poverty side hy side had 

 to come in to ov(M(!oin;; the oj>inions hefore the 

 liinmi'h was complete. But all this ii there now 

 over; the lands destitute of lime once unproduc- 

 tive, have heconie, aye and have since remained 

 pcnn-jnenllij fertile ; and in this last advantage lirni 

 has no fellow in the mannre.s. Where it has once 

 hi.'come incorporated with the soil, grass a.nil 

 clover will grow, and all other manures without 

 lime ;ire made complete tiir vegelation hy this 

 ingredient. It may he compared to s.ilt in the 

 tdiinents of man : all the vegetahle creation seem 

 to require it, and even the animals cannot grow 

 wiihont it. 



l/iine is inilispens ihle in the form.ition of the 

 hones; the eggs of the hen would he without 

 shells hilt for lime ; and chickens fed upon rice, 

 ns we are told hy the captains of vessels that sail 

 to the East Indies, grow without bones tosnslain 

 iliein. Wo mix lime with our cojiipost manures 

 ill some cases, and in some we omit it, and watch- 

 ing the effects n|)on the cnjp.s do not see any 

 advantage. In such cases Ihe lime rather ahates 

 for the first season the aclion of the manure; — 

 hilt if any of our liirmers are disposed lo try lime 

 fail ly, let them next season when their corn is 

 ready to' hoe the first lime, get one cask, slack it, 

 and the Same dt^y while it i.s caustic, throw a lit- 

 lli; handful like ashes to each lull as far as it may 

 go; and if it fails to fiay fi<r the lime, lahor and 

 KM) years suhscription lo the Visitor, ihen set 

 down one of ils I'orresptmdenls as a visonary. 



If there .should he any who are willing to go a 

 little furlher than one cask of lime, put on fiftv 

 or sixty hnshels lo the acre of land sown with 

 liarley or rye, wiili grass seed when the rye or 

 harley is harvested, and leave the next acre with- 

 out it. Then let the growth of grass he watch- 

 ed ; see which will stand the winter liest, in ih v 

 weather in summer, and let lis ,'ill know if the 

 limed land ever alter hecomes poor. 



ill the iniddli^ .s^iates, so fiir as lime lias heen 

 used iipnii lands, some twenty, thirty, or forty 

 vears ago, their lands since wiili<nit further lim- 

 ing have iieen rich lands, until at last tlu^ living 

 generation seem to li)rget, or never to h;ive know n 

 that they were <mee sterile and unproductive.— 

 Lime slowly dissolves in water: it takes not 



days merely, but months, years, generations of 

 man, and this slow process imp.irts lo vegetation 

 ils necessary portion of lini'.' : and we hud that 

 this land is what is called productive ; all the ma- 

 nures act well, the grasses grow readily, and 

 when they grow, the stock of cattle are sustain- 

 ed ; they make the crops; the farmer is prosper- 

 ous, and jolly, and his wilii good natured ; his 

 children plenty, chubby, and ruddy; and all per- 

 haps from his graudliither having applied lime to 

 the land. Let us then do our parts: liy science 

 anil skill we can make our soil produce far more 

 than heretofore, and keep our children at home, 

 or in our neighhurhoods where we can see tlnun 

 ill Ihe twilight of our days of existence to cheer 

 and comfort ns. .All our soil is good; it only 

 wants some ingredient to make it fertile. Lei 

 us try if lime is not one of the things wanted. 



G. 

 Jan. IC, 1845. 



For the Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 

 Our Cattle. 



It is gratifving to learn fioni the Decendier 

 number of the Visitor that sound practical infor- 

 mation is steadily gaining groninl in relation to 

 our cattle. One oi'tiie many advantages resulting 

 ti'iun Agricultural societies, ineeliiigs and jour- 

 nals, is found in the dissemination of facts from 

 whicii come to he known and followed nmch 

 sooner than formerly, or than in those countries 

 where social intercourse and reading are less 

 common than with us. The efforts made here- 

 tofore, or those that may hereafter take place in 

 the im|)Oilaiion of animals deserve commenda- 

 tion ; they flow from that full tide of feeling that 

 animates ns all to do smnethiugor any thing thai 

 may benefit our country and our pco[>le ; and 

 there can be little donlit that great advantages 

 have resulted from these generous e.wriions; if 

 nuthing else resulted than the spirit of rivalry 

 between the owners of the imported and our ac- 

 climated cattle, improving in the sirile the latter 

 — this we believe would he an ample return. It 

 cannot be doubted that ihe most pleasing advan- 

 tages have thus heen gained ; hut hy the papers 

 formerly piiiilislied hy <>olouel Pickering here, 

 and Ml'. Powell of Philadelpliia, upon the Oj>po- 

 site sides of this question, and the results of' ex- 

 perience since, we are inclined to i:elieve that 

 cninhining the qualities lor labor, beefj iniiking, 

 and feeding kindly with adaptation lo our climate, 

 our nalive stock are fully ecpi.d if not superior. 



Among the many excellent gi'azing regions 

 found in our country may h.e mentioned the head 

 waters of the river Potomac in the Slates of 

 Maryl.md and \'irgiiii;i ; and after descending 

 some of the steeps of ilio Allegany Mountains. 

 Oil the liaiiks of the tributaries of that river is 

 found rich bottom lands, fijrming long eslablisli- 

 ed grazing pastures. tsnme of the finest beef 

 lininil in the markels of Pliiladelphi.i, I'ahimore, 

 and WashingKin (^ily, is reared .and fattened here, 

 and the owners of these farms are fbnnil lo pos- 

 sess great knowledgt', iiinch of it no doubt he- 

 reditary, iqion the subject of cattle. It is more 

 than a year ago that 1 met one of thej:e men 

 standing in the Washington market, and sharing 

 in the hajipiness of the praises bestowed upon 

 some of the beef exhibited on sale there of his 

 own raising and feeding. Belter or fatter is 

 rarely .seen any where; and he had the Natimial 

 flag hung above it as I'lnhlcmatical of ils being 

 of the native breed. I fell into coiiversaliou with 

 him : he had heen a grazier from his boyhood, 

 and his fiilher and giandllilher before him. lie 

 pointed out lo me the mixed ipialily of the heei', 

 the fill and lean, oi' wh.it is sometimes called 

 inonlded, mingled togellier, and which gladdens 

 tliii eye of the epicure. I obsinved thai this was, 

 I supposed acrideiital, and could not he known 

 until the animal had been slaughtered ; but he 

 informed me ojherwise. " We ki^ep our cows," 

 said he, "many years; iind when we observe ii 

 sleer crealme whose beef is well inixeil with fill 

 ;ind lean, and know jiis sire, we saved iiom that 

 stock for breeders. And do yon perceive," he 

 remark(d pointing losoine dozen (planers of the 

 beef he had raised, '' it is all id' it mixed, and 

 lio'v look at some of llu! other he 't" in Ihe mar- 

 kel." This was a new point to me, iiiid seemed 

 worthy of notice. I aUo learned that helhoiighl 

 that 'his beef' ilid not tallow so well as fat ea'tle 

 where the fat and lean were more distinct. 



ICnnwing that the snhject of our own, and iho 



improved imported stock of eatlle had Iweii a mat- 

 ter of coulroversy, I made inquiry upon this snb- 

 jec:t. lie ex|)res.sed his opinion very iinqindifiedly 

 in liivor of American cattle, as he called them. " 1 

 have tried them," he remarked, •■and they grow 

 lean where our own thrive. The newly import- 

 ed ones would die in our pastures d-sring the 

 winter, where our own grow and do well." •' But 

 are iioi the points of the forei:.'n cattle i>etter, i 

 asked; is there not less oft'al .^" "As to that," 

 lie said, " those cattle are finely formed, but not 

 better than some of ours; and whatever they 

 may ''o in time, 1 can make more beef otTliand 

 out of our own stock." 



So much then for this grazier's views. Some 

 of them, one at least, were novel lo me, and it 

 must be remembered that his object is the rear- 

 ing of cattle ahme for beef, whicli from their 

 color (red) and forms, I take lo be generally of 

 the Devon race. • 



Our neat cattle are much sinaller than the im- 

 proved English breeds generally ; but instances 

 arc not uncommon among us of oven surpassing 

 in size any iliat I ever read of in Europe. This 

 shows that on- climate and soil is equal, and ta- 

 king it altogether, we think it superior lo that 

 country. Many have remarked that our cattle 

 are more docile and less ferocious. It is not 

 often .safe to go into the pastures wliere a bull is 

 in either England, France, or S|iain, while here 

 it is rather rare for one of these animals to be 

 dangerous. 



Let us improve our stock, ihen, and by that 

 means we may confer a greater blessing and 

 more wealth too, than in working a gold mine. 



P. 



An acre of land contains — 



4 roods, (or quarters) each containin:; 

 40 poles or |)erclies or rods. 

 IGO rods; liJi feel each way. 

 4,840 square yards of 'J feet eacli. 

 43,oiJ0 square fi;el, of 144 inches each. 

 174,240 squares of C inches each, each con- 

 taining 30 inches. 

 0,872,640 inches, or squares of one inch each. 



Relief of Asthma. — Get .some blotting paper 

 and soak it well in a strong solution of saltpetre. 

 Take it out and diy it. On going to bed light it, 

 and lay it mi a plate in y(nir hed-nioni. This 

 may enable persons badly afflicted loslee[) well. 



The Horse Abattoirs of Paris. 



Few things are more prodnetive of inelanclioly 

 than ihe condition and line of horses in the lat- 

 ter days of' their career. No inatter how useful 

 they may have been, what years of toil they may 

 have endured, we find them at last dismissed 

 without ri?gret, and sidd for a few shillings, or 

 what their mere skin, flesh, hones, and other 

 parts are worth. Thn.s, iu London, and also in 

 Paris, there aro large eslablishmenls forming the 

 al'attoirs of horses — places, of conr.-e, w here all 

 sentiments of pity are b.-mished, and where the 

 once sleek and beloved aniinuls are deprived of 

 existein'C, in the midst of scenes wliiuli reflect 

 litlle credit uii hiimaiiily.. 



Fevv men have any idea of the vast exient of 

 the horse ahaltiiirsat .'Montfaiicon, in Paris. To 

 this place all horses past service are conducted. 

 Worn usually lo skin and bone, they come In 

 strings of twelve or twenty, are huddled into u 

 stable where ihcy cannot stir, or are left in the 

 open air, lied lo the carcasses of lliose that have 

 just met their fate. A great number of hmses, 

 living and dead, are brought to Monllinicon an- 

 nuiilly; the winter season, when the pooi cannot 

 keep them, being most productive iu this respect. 

 By a calculaiiou made lor 182/, it wjis found that 

 thirty-live came to the slaujrhter-hoiise daily, 

 making a yearly whole of 12,763. Throe fourihs 

 of them cauii; iu life. As, iu Ihe same year, the 

 total number of horses in i'uiis amounted to 

 about 20,o(j0, not less than five-eighths seem thus 

 to perish annually. A ilediieiion must he made, 

 however, li)r the liorses bought in the districts 

 around the city. In any case, Ihe nnmlier of 

 viclims is imnanise. 



Four dilVereut melhoils aro used at Monlfancon 

 for killing llie horses. One is by injeeling air 

 into an open vein, a leilinus and little used, though 

 chaiily process; a second is by piercing the 

 spinal marrow in the neck ; n third way is to full 

 the auiiu;il ( li the head, as is done willi oxen : 



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