Qri)c Jartncv'5 ittQnt!)hj iHgitor. 



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to the prepriraiion of our 

 well done iii twice done 



twice as tuofitalile. For if we get fifty liiislicis 

 of coin wlieie we would have had hiit twenty- 

 five, do we lint sain tlie value of twenty-five 

 bushels, and llie interest upon our money for tin- 

 i-eniainiler of our lives, upon each acre ; and this 

 enoniions ^'.liii nrisiiiff from a lilllc additional 

 oari! in llie pruparation of the soil, which, if rc- 

 p''ale(l every year increases in a coinpound ratio, 

 ontslrippinf; altogether the sordid ifrowtli of 

 money interest. 



'J'lie land llmt is well prepared is easier tilled 

 or worked while the crop is jjrowinf; than that 

 which was liut half done. It costs us less for 

 hired lahor, as we can do more ourselves, and 

 have occasion to work less laud. The price of 

 lahor ill this country is the great weight that 

 sinks down and prostrates the man with a large 

 farm. All our young men are, or should Ix-, de- 

 sirous of working I'or themselves upon their own 

 land, and the less they pay for the aid of others, 

 the larger the nett gain at the end of the year. 

 This aftords another proof of the national ad- 

 vantage hlended with individual happiness found 

 in our favored land. It is hard to compute the 

 production that perli'ct tillage would produce in 

 New Hampshire, and still more difficult to luim- 

 lier the population that our soil is capahle of sus- 

 taining. If we cannot cultivate all our laud as it 

 should he done, hail we not helter sell the over- 

 (ilus at half price, or give it to our growing hoys 

 .Ts soon as they are marriagcahle on condition 

 that lliey will lake some one of the many fine 

 girls ill the neighliorliood of all of lis, and 

 make us happy iy becoming our neighbors. 



laud— that " what is I daily, each, of SwediMli turnipf!. The ages, weight, 

 for it is more than &.C.", as well as results, are given in the table," 

 (which we here omit.) 



Mr. Ftevcnson remarks that those horses wliieli 

 were thd on bruised oats were evidently less eii- 

 ergeliv; than the others. Two of them (Nos. 1 

 anil '•)) performed less work, were dull iu the 

 yoke, and their coats looked unhealthy. Those 

 on raw uii';ed grain were the most energetic. 

 Variety of food seems to have a beneficial elfeet 

 — an opinion corroborated by the observations of 

 Liidiigaiiil others. Those on boiled food, wlietlii;r 

 tinnip or otherwise, showed a healthy, glossy 

 coat. Their perspiration did not seem more 

 abundant than usual, with the exception, perhap.'f, 

 of those fed on boiled turnips. Those on boiled 

 turnips eousuiiied more straw ; they scarcely ever 

 tasted water. Thi^y are also said to have had a 

 (inicker step, and performed mine lahor. 



In regard to cost, he says the results are in 

 favor of boiled turnips with one feed of bruised 

 grain. 



Colman's JF.ouAy Attachment. — Most of our 

 readers have undoubtedly heard of the wonder- 

 fid iniprovement made in the piano forte by a 

 yomi^' man named Colman, who formerly resided 

 in I'hiladelphia, hut is a native of Saratoga, we 

 believe. He proceeded to Europe with his in- 

 vention, for the purpose of taking out patents iu 

 England, France, &c. He returned to his coun- 

 try in the Hilwrnia on Wednesday, having been 

 eminently successful in the object of bis visit, and 

 and is at present iu Boston. VVe learn from good 

 authority that Messrs. T. Gilbert & Co., the cele- 

 liialed piano manufacturers of Boston, have pur- 

 chased of him the exclusive right of makiiig the 

 iustriimenis with this attachment for the United 

 Stales, paying for it the eiiormons sum of one 

 liundred and twenty thousand dollars. We are 

 also infornieil on the same authority that he re- 

 ceived more pounds in England than he did dol- 

 lars here. This is the most remarkable iiistance 

 of amassing an immense fortune in a short time 

 (hat has ever come to our knowledge. — Salem 

 Advertiser. 



For the Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 

 The Spring. 

 This season of hope is at hand, and the indus- 

 trious farmer looks upon the prospect with the 

 same kind of feelings, hlended with less of un- 

 certainty, that the merchant does upon the .sail- 

 ing of bis freighted vessel. If we have not yet 

 put all onr tools in good order, let us look to 

 them without delay, for the season will not wait 

 for us while we are gone to the blacksmith or 

 the pliiugli-maker for repairs, and as lost time 

 is rarely made up, and never overtaken, should 

 we not have him by his forelocks. Our harness 

 and carts or wagons require overlianliug to see 

 that they are in a good state of preservation and 

 every bolt and staple secure. These little things 

 are of considerable importance; by and by the 

 planting season is with us — we have our hired 

 labor on pay, and if we do not look to it in season, 

 we shall have to pay them for doing little or no- 

 thing, while we are preparing the tools and im- 

 plements. The enterprising farmer — and we 

 soon hope to see none other in our Granite 

 State — has the same advantages as the enterpris- 

 ing general, and is much more advantageously 

 engaged for the benefit of bis fellow man: the 

 one appears to reap glory in proportion to the 

 number of persons he kills — the other makes 

 abundant crops wliicli he reaps for their comfort 

 anil happiness. I have felt a sort of wounded 

 pride and mortification ever since I read in your 

 paper the startling account of the bread stuffs 

 we have been annually importing, and for one I 

 am determined to have my implements in good 

 order, that the ipianlity may be diminished, an<l 

 if we all do the same, and make good use of 

 them, no doubt we can effect it. S. 



Feed for Horses. 



In the account given by Mr. Stevenson, in the 

 Quarterly Journal of .iXgriculture, of his experi- 

 ments respl'Cling the feeding of farm horses, on 

 ivbicb he received a premium of ten sovereigns 

 from the Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland, we fnuJ the following statements: 



'■As to the modes of feeding while the inquiry 

 was going on: 1. The fodder during the winter 

 was wheat straw. 2. During spring, bean straw ; 

 none of whicli was chopped or cut, as the lalwr 

 was thoncht to counterbalance the advantage. 

 He place.s bay first, as the best fodder for the 

 liorse; next, bean straw., when well got in, but it 

 is dangerous vvlieu given damp; next, wheat 

 straw; then, oat straw. The grain fed out to the 

 horses was as follows: 



"1. Three horses fed on bruised oats, (15 lbs. 

 flaily,) with 43 lbs. of Swedish turnip.s, also 

 daily. 



"2- Two horses fed oti a misture of bruised 

 grain, of which two parts were oats, one partbar- 

 !ey, and one part beans ; also, Swedish turnips 4"3 

 !bs. daily- 



_,"3. Three horses fed on the same mixture; 

 two feeds given raw and one feed boiled — the 

 hoiled portioii unbruised; also, 42 Hit. Swedish 

 curiiips daily. 



" 4. Two horses more on the saiiie mixture, 

 all iHiiled, and 42 lbs. Swedish turnips xiaily, 



" 5. Two horses t«i on hoiied Swedish turnips, 

 with one feed of 5 lbs. of the bruised mixture 

 daily. These horses congiimed about 130 lbs. 



A little Farm well tilled. 



The greatest obstacle to the improvement of 

 agriculture in New England, is the propensity of 

 the fiirmer, the mania I might call it, to own more 

 land than he can till to advantage. And it is thus 

 that we see scattered over the country, large 

 tracts of sterile, unproiUiclive land, svhich under 

 good cultivation would yield bountiful and valua- 

 ble crops. Not only the dictates of sound phi- 

 losophy, but tiiimerous facts, drawn from expe- 

 rience, are constantly and loudly calling upon the 

 farmer, from every quarter, occipv a small 



FARM AND CULTIVATE IT WELL. I wisll that 



this admonition could be thundered into the ears 

 of the agricultural population of Hew England, 

 until a coinplete revolution should he produced 

 in the fanning system. 



This great truth isalreaily beginning to l>e un- 

 derstood in other couiiviies, and is attended with 

 corresponding advantages. The densest popu- 

 lation in Europe may tbtind in Flanders and 

 Lomliardy, where the land is divided into small 

 farms, and, being thoroughly tilled, produces 

 abundant (iiod I'ov the inhabitants. And the ck- 

 perieiice of a quarter of a ceiitury iti France, 

 proves, that by the occupation of the country 

 under small working f/aruiers, (he land is pro- 

 ducijig one-third more food, aiuj sniiportiog a 

 population oije-third greater, than when it was 

 poBsested in large masses. 



The faw is universal — it applies to every cotui- 

 try — that the secret of success in agricuilure 

 cousists ill the thorough cultivation of a smaij 



worked, yields up its treasures in prodigal pro- 

 fusion. In almost every part of New England, 

 one capital error runs through the whole system 

 of farming. .'1 great deal of mnnty is invested in 

 laud, and a tier,'/ little money is employed in its ctdli- 

 vation. And it is sad to see the owner of u larga 

 farm pride himself on the luimber of acres 

 which ho possesses, and undertake to cultivate 

 the soil without sufficient means. Such a man 

 has been happily compared to a merchant, who 

 expends all his capital in building for his own 

 use a large and roomy store, and is afterwards 

 seen gazing with complacency on his bare walls 

 and empty shelves. 



He has chalked out to himself a hard lot, and 

 voluntarily enters on a slate of servitude, worse 

 than Egyptian bondage. His work is never ac- 

 complished, lie toils at all hours and yetisnev- 

 e.i ahead of his work, and his work is never half 

 done. He has not time to accomplish anything 

 thoroughly. His house is out of repair, his barn 

 dilapidated, his cattle poor, his fences in ruins, 

 his pastures overrun with bushes, and acres ot 

 land, which under proper cultivation, might be 

 made to yield a rich harvest, are but little remov- 

 ed from barrenness, perhaps dotted with mullcn, 

 burdocks, thistles, or filled with sorrel, white 

 weed, and other noxious plants, which root out 

 the grass, and eat up the lifii of the soil, without 

 affording nourishment to man or beast. 



What a harrassed, unhappy being must be the 

 owner of such a farm ! He has no time for rec- 

 reation or mental imjirovement. He is doomed 

 to the treadmill for life ; with his spirils dep.ress- 

 ed — dcsponilency stamped upon his haggard 

 lineaments, and the worm of discontent gnawing 

 at his heart; with him there is no pleasant asso- 

 ciations with the past, the present is full of anxie- 

 ty, care, and hartl labor — and a dark cloud rests 

 upon tiie future. He reminds me of Hood's 

 touching "Song of the Shirt"— and it may he 

 well said or sung of him. 



Work — work — work '. 

 From weaiy chime to chimp, 



Work — work — work ! 

 As prisoners work for crime-^ 



Plough, and harrow, and hoe ! 



Hoe, and harrow, and plough '. 

 Till the heart is sick, and the arm fjcnarab'd — 



And misery etamp'd on the hrov/. 

 Such a man has little reason to pride himself 

 on his extensive possessions: and paradoxical as 

 it may appear, he would in nine cases out often, 

 add to his riches as well as his enjoyment, by 

 giving away one lialf of them at leasL He is in 

 the true sense of the word, miserably poor, in 

 fact a slave ; and when his eyes are opened in 

 his real condition, it is no wonder that he is glad 

 to emancipate himself, by sciliug his farm (or 

 what he can get, and escape, post h.aste, to Tex- 

 as or Iowa. — From an Agricxdiural address by John 

 S. Sleeper, Esq. of Boston. 



Influence of heat in fattening Animals. 

 Tlie degree of warmth in which the anitnal is 

 kept, or the temperature of the atmosphere in 

 which it lives, affects the quantity of food which 

 th'i animal requires to eat. The heat of the ani- 

 mal is inseparably conuecied with its respiration. 

 The more frequently it breathes, (he warmer it 

 becomes, and the more carlion it tlirows off from 

 its lungs. It is lielieved, indeed, liy many, that 

 the main purpose of respiration is to keep up 

 the heat of the body, and that this heat is pro- 

 dnced very much iu the satne way as in a com» 

 mon Sre, by a slow combustion of that carbon 

 which escajies in the form of carbonic acid from 

 the Iungi3. I'lace a mat! in a cold situation, and 

 he will either starve, or he will adopt some means 

 of warming himself. He will proliaWy take ex- 

 ercise, and by this means cause himself to 

 breathe quicker. But to lia this for a length of 

 time, he must f»e Bupjilied ivith nioie food; for 

 not only does lie give off more carbon from his 

 lungs, but the eierciss he takes causes a greater 

 nauiral waste also of tlie substance of his body. 

 So it is with al! anim^ils. The greater the dif- 

 fidence lietween ths teui{)eratme of tlje body and 

 that of the atmosphere in which they live, the 

 iiiGie food they require to " feed the latiiji of life" 

 — to keeji tlieui warn:, tfiat is, atid to supply tha 

 uauiral waste. Hence tiie imjioitaiice of (iianta» 

 lions as a shelter liom cold witjds to grazing 

 beds, to protect fattening stock 



etocU; of open elj , 



from the iiigiuly de wb and ooids ; and even of 

 j)iece ol' ground, which, well manured, mid well I cjoifer covering to quiet and geoiie iueMe of f»fc- 



