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011)0 Iaxmtx'5 iUontl)hj bidtor. 



trunk sent to me this ev.ining :.t the stage office, ns 1 slia 

 SO in the mail that Leaves at Inur ln-n,urrnw morning or 

 Conncclicul." This was .lone and he lelt accorrt.ngly. 

 Ho wt. a lawyer, nn.l in a m<.,nent saw that h,s t.tle was 

 'leliclive for "want of tiM.e from the loss ol the vessel to 

 themarri.ge; hehad only held in abeyanee, »"'' J^'^ 

 ennush seven years is a long t,me for a young w.dow to 



"""Im;. Owen d.d;not censure his wife, and she on he, part 

 d,d not feel that'a fault by her had been cmnm.tled and 

 both Inund cons.dation in the character and respeclabdity 



After the lap°e of a few weeks she wrote the co*nel, 

 byarrquett of her husband, a very pohte and sensible 

 letter a.vlng the history of the loss ol the vessel how 

 bey h^d been preserved, &c. (which letter is now belore 

 u, Lwe wriln. preserve.! Iron, among his papers.) and 

 co'ncudL witi that cold phrase, " Esteemed friend 

 I aura Owen " rnon this the cdonel was satisfied tha 

 L wassilU bachelor, and that there was little h.;pe o. 

 hfschnn.. no his condition, after such a disippnintment. 

 LkeBeppo', he had "merely been comoany," and the 

 Turn ol one or two phrases in the letter, not exac ly new 

 ," him led to the inference, that however unlucluly things 

 h"dcm,e to pass, his company, on the whole had not 

 been disanreeable to the charmin'i writer. 



We will leave to the reader Mr. Owen and his wife, 

 oone Ion- since, and Willum the son, who went to Nan- 

 fucket "nd married one of those Hue women. But we 

 have a few words more for the unlucky colonel who has 

 indeed enlisted ,.ur sympathy. His receplion at his lonely 

 home; vXre was only one man, hired, (Robertson,) and 

 the animals, was somewhat consoling. 



As h^opened the sate in font, his old dog givmg a bark 

 or two, beard the well known voice, '• .lis m-^' <■ =^^';' 

 and came whining and jumpin.. as though he would almost 

 Sevour his old m.aster, -at whose side he had -t^» -"-y 

 a winter evenim;. The old cat too came up white he was 

 waiting at the door, and rubbed herself against his legs 

 backwards and forwards, with tail erect, and purring as it 

 she was glad to sec him ; and among them came along he 

 rooster followed by about a dozen hens, and mounting the 

 horse-block, cowed twice lustily. Aye! said the Colo- 

 „e|_vuu are a happy fellow with your score of wives, 

 and there are no .shipwrecks or drownings to mar your 

 ?or,unes. " Robertson, it is inc." ho s,.id .as the door was 

 opened, " her husband would not stay drowned, and 1 am 

 not married after all." 



The remainder of Colonel Singleton's life was esem- 

 nlary and useful. He always believed that had he iBarriCil 

 the farmer's daughter Jane he should have been happier, 

 and in the public meetings of his neighb.irhood freT'ently 

 „r red upon the farmers to divide their estates with their 

 sons and dauuhlers instead of sending the lormer to go - 

 ie..P to Icarn'more pride than wisdom, and thus to rear up 

 IViT their country, a healthy, industrious, independent and 

 virtuous race of men. ,, 



I'hls last niere of advice may be deemed as applicable 

 to New Hampshire as to Connecticut, as true now as 

 U was then, and ,s thus —-i':^!^;-'^''^^,^!;^^ ^ 

 Dec. 18U. 



1 ■ ,1 i;„... c..o,r,« in 1>P tlip lf,t of the ill- I !••< flfPater on the li-rhter or silieinns soils— iIkU 



::::;"::: ":':"' z: " ';:e:!;^e!s^j:!..l i, .s i ..r ii,.,. ■,. „... i.u o„ het,vy ..ive .-.ii. By 



cliisliioii.s I ■'""'• r ,ii-,t nv in- (iiidiii" S"mio t in.* been Hupixwiil that plnster is ni) ex- 



("nee; niiil lliat skill ami |iei-sevBruiict: only nre 

 rcMiii.silf t.) riiaUi;oiiiSlnte,iiiidiiiilKeil the wUolo 

 of New Eiiglaiid, leitiJH, ami sii.<laiii a iio|. illa- 

 tion many folil riiofe iiiinK-roiis lluin tit |iies(Mil. 

 W (1111- lia"|i|iine!^s is |iroiiioie(l Iiv stayiiif,' lU lioiiie ; 

 if there i.s room, ami surely llierc is amjile, why 

 should we leave our heartli.s ami tiresi.les, our 

 narenis tind places ol" worship, and as tine a race 

 of women as the sun ever shone upon, lo spend 

 our davs.dsewhere? Of all the loitene.-, none 

 perhaps has a lar-er nnniher of hlaiiksto a prize 

 than the etniffration lottery that l5owsout ol New 

 Eu'daiid. Perlnips if lia|ipiness he the ohject, it 

 mav he said that all are hlaiiks, for with industry 

 ami fViioality the highest prize would have heeu 

 drawn at home. 



The rpiaiitiiy of hread stuft's annually im- 

 ported into New llanipshire is snrprtsiujr, and 

 oii.'ht lo he viewed hy our farmers as a reproach. 

 Oiu- means to supply all that we require for our 

 own eonsumption are tbumi in our sod; and 

 every acre that we reclaitn and hrm;; mto culti- 

 vation "oes lo diminish the quantity we niqnire 

 (Vom without, while it keeps a lai-er nninher ot 

 om- yonm.' men at home to make hushands for 

 oitr p.\i:ellent vonm; women. There is not per- 

 haps a single farm in our State, large or small, 

 that hiis yet prnduced a tenih ptirt of what it is 

 capahle of, an.l the truth has fairly become es- 

 lahlished that small farms, when well attended 

 to are the mo^t prodnclive and protimble. 



The Koman father gave to a son a third of his 

 farm: from the two-thinls his crop.s were in- 

 creased. To a daii'.ihter, when married, he gave 

 another third, and from the ren)aining third he 

 raised more than he formerly got from the whole. 

 Similar couduct by many of onr farmers and ol 

 others, would, or mi,i:ht, produce similar results. 

 Our m-owii children would not remam like the 

 lialves of scissor.s, useles.s, or go ti-omiis; ami 

 we shonhl all better fill the |>laces ot citizens and 

 Falhers. . 



Science, and e.vperieuce, with the records ol 

 result- tire movim; onward; and it is only torus 

 lo'dr. our parts to'fqitil the -I'^^l'"'''': '''"' 'i"!;!,'^ " 

 wise people. ^OR.'^N 1 1 h. 



For the Tarmer's Monthly Visitor. 

 "This is out- Home, our Native Land," | 

 The feeling of preference and iiltaihment for 

 die |ilace of our nativily and the scenes of our 

 boyhood is common to man all over the glolw;. 

 This seiitimeiu seems to owe its origin to ab- 

 sence, for, he it ambition, desire of gain, or the 

 flpinands of diiiv, it is only when we have left 

 the roof th.it sheltered us in etirly year.*, when 

 we have turne<) our hacks upon onr homes timl 

 amid new scenes ami under <illier skies that the 

 niemorv reverts to this siroiig pa.ssion, and ue 

 <Uv(dl and tell over lo our aching hearts the early 

 impre.s-i<ms so deeply naide there. Pronipied 

 by ihis liMdini.', lh<- musical Savoyard travels liu 

 jiway liirtu his bleak imd sterile inounI;iins_ to 

 •rath'er a little suliicieiicy to spend where he first 

 drew his brealli, add olteii as he plays upon his 

 organ llie air of '-sweet home," though he has 

 pl.ajed it a ihonsaiid times betine, his dark eye 

 gfnitens wilh ii tear, which the association brings, 

 juul the feeling hecoines deeper anil stronger, 

 wearing into ils native i-liaimels by repetilimi. 

 Can it be doiihl<-d that this preference, this hmd- 

 liess iias been giv<Mi us lor wise pnrpn,se,aiid lliat 

 our own happiness and that of our parents and 

 rclalions is obeyed ami consnItiMl by Yielding to 

 il.s pr<impiiii:is? Jn our country ihe desire of 

 "ain, united with that civliilily cumiiion to yonlli 

 hi believins the ndes of interesled per^olls, car- 

 ries ofT nmnhers of our young men, leaving the 

 true iinil besl means of happiness behind. 



It is ;i irralifyiiiL' circtimstanee to know lliat the 

 iiinsuils td' the farmer are becoming heller a|i- 

 irecialed, admiiied as it is mi all hands tlml it is 

 (he voctilion of most rational hiippiness. Is it 

 bealih so important to enjoyment <d' life ; what 

 o.-cnpation equals it.' Is it independence? The 

 (iio.-t perfect approach to that state is the man 

 who looks lo his own efl'orts and to the soil lor 

 tbnl blessing. Fiiiii time .-mil harvol comes — 

 the body is heallhjiil, Ihe iniml is liainpiil. 

 '•Neither poverty or riches," but that desired and 



Poftsmovllu Jimnunj 13, 1845. 

 To THK Editor of the Visitor:— Observing 

 in your ptiper some interesting accounts troin 

 farmers of their success in raising large crops, 1 

 ihoii"lit an account of some of my lanning e.\- 

 periments might beofu.se or interest to the read- 

 ers of vota- paper. 



1 bon-hi four acres of land in this town, some 

 time in die month of .Inne, 184'2. It being late 

 ! did not plough up only about two acres, which 

 1 planted wilh corn and |)otaloes, without ma- 

 nure The crop was middling, all things con- 

 sidered. The same fall I dug- out the bushes and 

 rocks and balded ihem otF, and ploughed up 

 what i diti not plon-h in June. In the spring lol- 

 lowiii", I ploughed over what I ploughed the 

 June before. 1 then hauled on ami spread lOt) 

 loads of barn maimre— about onn-hall horse am 

 tlie other half cow inaiiure— well n.i.\fd and 

 n.oKilv worked over hv hogs. ! tlien.conimenced 

 harrowing it over, and kept on mini it was very 

 smooihaiid level and the manme well worked 

 in I then soweil it wilh a fair proporiion ot 

 herd.s-grass and clover, with about four bushels 

 (d' oats. The oats came up well; but when ii 

 was about time for them to head the nist struck 

 I them and rendered ihem nnlil I'm- any lliing, ex- 

 cept lo bed m\ horses with. 



'I'he "i-ass came up well ; and I coinmeiiced 

 mowing if the ".itith of June. The lir.-t crop cmi- 

 sisied of 12 ions (d" good clover .-lud English hay. 

 I mowed it again the I'jlh of September, when 

 Ibe crop consisted of 51 tons of good hay-mak- 

 ing, in all, 17.', tons of hay in one season. 



1 think that our tiirmers would do heller not to 

 ,,ul any manure on their laud niitil it is ploughed ; 

 Ihen pnl on iloir manme and harrow it well m. 

 yoiir.s, &C., 



D.\N1EL il. SPINNEV. 



the longer plaster is applied die more valuabit 

 will the land become. Within a few days, we 

 have learned, from the monilis of persons who 

 have si;eii land cultivated with the aid of plaster 

 without other manure, liicis which amount to 

 demonstration in our mind tinit worn-out lands 

 may be resuscitated by a process simple and 

 easy. 



Four or five years ago the successful raising of 

 Indian com upon pine plain laud in Northampiou, 

 Massachusetts, was noticed in the agiicnitiiral 

 papers. We have quite recently seen and con- 

 versed with William Clark, Esq., of that town, 

 who informs us that he has imt so high an esti- 

 mate upon the exhausted pine plain land wliieh_ 

 prevails to the west of the heantilid village of 

 Northampton, that he sold his river intervale 

 meadows at from sixty to an liumhed dollars tha 

 acre, and purchased ii|) some hnndreds of acre^ 

 of pine plain, which he obtained at from five tn 

 ten dollars the acre. Some of this was so naked 

 ami sterile that it had become a general opinion 

 the grasses could not be made to grow upon it 

 the better parts of it had been ploughed for s 

 rye crop once in four or five years and then pro- 

 duced lioin five to eight bushels to the acre, re- 

 tiirniii" in some cases hardly double the qilantitj 

 of seed put in. Mr. Clark has pinsned [liej;eiio 

 valion of these plain lamls for the hist six o 

 eight years; and he says he fears not the failure 

 ot'profitable crops upon any of these plains,evei 

 upon the loose gravelly knolls, where he cat 

 make a .single clover root spring u|i. His prac- 

 tice i.s, fir.st to jiloiigh dee)! and sow with rye ii' 

 September: early in the ensuing spring slrew ii 

 ti-om five to eight pounds of chiver seeil, p:issm| 

 over it with a ligbl harrow or biush and smoolh 

 ing down with a heavy roller. Plaster is the^ 

 stPewii over the ground to the aiiioimt of ball t 

 bushel to the at^re. On taking oft" the cru|> a 

 rye the clover begins to appear: this is siiHerei 

 to grow ihrongh that and the succeeding whoU 

 season wilhont feeding olT. li seeds and is leli 

 lostnnd through the ensuing spring. Thegromul 

 is ploughed, the entire crop of clov.-r bem^ 

 turned under, and planted with liulnin corn, \y\\\ 

 a spoonful of ground pla.ster applied to each hili. 

 The com is liiken otl" early, as soon ;is it becomes 

 glazed, being stacked in the field, and winter rye 

 fs again put in, pursuing the same course as at 

 first? Thus two crops in three years, with the 

 one year's clover lefi on, are prodKce.lcontiiimd- 

 ly ; and the land .all the time growing better. .Mi-. 

 Clark, without manure oiher than pliister and 

 clover, has bronghl his land up to' the pnaluction 

 of fifieeii and twenty bushels of rye and fifty 

 bushels of corn to the acre. He has leased these 

 lamls for a crop of Indian corn at the halves; 

 and without putiing his hand lo h, has obtained 

 a clear profit as high as fifteen dollars to the acte 



in a year. 



Siiice conversing with -^fr. Clark we have seen 

 another genlh-man at Washington city, who iii- 

 Ihrmed ns ihai Mr. Kicbard H.vpkins ol Calvert 

 comity ill Ihe Stale of Mar^lainl, last year had a 

 fi.hl o'aboiu fiflv-five acres of Indian corn winch 

 was cah-ulaled "lo produce from fitly to sixty 

 bushels to the acre. This corn hind hail been 

 previon.slv prepared wilh clover Imiied in nftcr 

 ilisier "The soil was sandy and light, and no 

 innnm-e used; plaster was ihiste.l over the hills 

 of "rowing corn. 



Plaster ami I.ime. 



The eflecl of plaster and lime is very far from 

 being yet dul.y estimated. The iictioii of plaster 



Fur the Farmer's .Monthly Visitor. 

 How to make 'em good-iii>tarcd. 



It is the every day eyent.s, the lillle things tlittl 



lotich die temper w iih a s oih or a rough hand 



wluch principally fills lip the measure ol hie, and 

 makeiische.ifnl, smiling and happy, or cro.ss 

 snappish and irritable, if we tiirmers would 

 reap the best of haryesl.-*, we should .sow the 



s Is of good ntitnre. In vain we plough ami 



mibooil, in vain fiir ihe main obj.ct do onr lields 

 nrow yellow and our abundant corn bang ihwvn 

 wilh weight its heavy head, if, when we gather 

 „,„|er our roof at night, the wife is dislic;|rien.d, 

 the evening meal yet lo be prepared,aml the neat, 

 tidy dress which is so more than becoming, is 

 slil'l in the draw. " .\ half an hour lost in the 



