^i)c faimcr'5 iHcintl)In bisitor. 



liieiit of .'nailer lliat might be made more inrer- 

 esting to the fiieruls of improved farming. 

 (To be conlinued.) 



The Commissioner of the Patent Office at 

 Washington has done ninch for the difl'nsion of 

 facts connccli-d with ihu agriculinral improve- 

 nicnts of the coiinii-v williin tlie last few years. 

 His annual reporis present eacli year a eolleclion 

 of statistical inlijrnjalion of great valne lo the 

 farmer. We are pleased to tind that his efti>rts 

 meet with general favor tlnonghotit llie connlry. 

 His fnriheoniing report, to he presented to Con- 

 gi-css in the ensidng nionlh of Fehruary, will he 

 an improvement on those which have "preceded 

 it. The e.xperiencu gaijied every year the lietter 

 enahles him to nuuk with acein-acy the lesultsof 

 the year jost passed. ]ji addition to the patented 

 improvements of the country, the Patent Oflice 

 has a correspondence more e,\tensive than any 

 institute or soci,,.ty of the several Stales has the 

 ahifity to combine and gather: it has ready access 

 to every locality which can cxhihit in the" way of 

 improvement some new source of wealth and 

 prosperity. 



In relation to trade, Mr. Ellsworth mentioned 

 to lis a fact of which we were not aware, allhough 

 residing much nearer to the British provinces 

 than he does, that the increase of wheat sent from 

 the United States into Canada during the last 

 year has risen from 50,000 to 400,000 linshels. 

 This wheat, [laying a duty ofS:] cents the hushel, 

 is converted ijito flour and shipped to England 

 as her own production. Tliis is better for our 

 connlry than if the British government admitted 

 wheat and flour duly free; because Handling 

 and the othei- \vheat-ex])oriing ports of Europe 

 would lie heller able to supply the wlioh; de- 

 mand. The Canada markel affords a consump- 

 tion of that sm-plus u hich would greatly reduce 

 the price of wheat and flom- if it had not the 

 means of egress. 



Mr. Ellsworlh bus collected statistics relating 

 to the sale of agricultural products in a direcl 

 trade with the British jiorts. Of these articles, 

 heel, [lork, bog's l.ud, cheese and butter are the 

 rnost interesting to the firmcrs of the Northern 

 States. The duiics upon lliese are not so high 

 as to tbrliiii tlieir introduction at a profit. The 

 best prepared and presei-ved articles will always 

 sell well. How important is it, that for the arii- 

 clesv.e are oliliged to import constantly from the 

 British islands and dependencies, the cotton of 

 the Souti) is not alone to be relied en as the 

 means of payment; that the farmers of the 

 northern and middle St;ites can also there find 

 room for their surplus butter and cheese, [lorU 

 aiid beef.' Keciproc.d trade will always be ben- 

 eficial, where tiie law of mutual exchange is not 

 unequal. 



the globe, could grow out of those new relations 

 which civilization is creating all over the world, 

 how great will be the advantage which the en- 

 terprise and skill of the Americans bevond every 

 other people may seem-e to them. The planters 

 of the S( mil, with such an openinj:, need never 

 fear of producing too mmdi cotlon for the con- 

 smription of the world; nor will the growing 

 capital of the North fear to place new'^invest- 

 ments in cotton mills, those modern striiclures, 

 rnore massive than the palaces of the tilled no- 

 hilily of Europe. 



For the F.irmer's Monthly Visitor. 

 Meteorological Journal kept at Concord 



BY A. CHANDLER. 



will expend as much as the cost of ke<'pii 

 dnnik on rum. We believe excessive smokind" 

 chewing and even snuffing to be about as hail 

 as ban! drinking: it may not make the man in ' 

 mediately drunk, but continued nionih afte 

 month it must undermine the heallh— it likewis(' 

 creates the appetite liar strong drink. Filiy thou" 

 sand cigars weekly, or ibereabonls, are inade a ' 

 one eslablishmeni In New Jpswich. 'i'be tobaccf ' 

 leaf used in this manufacture, for " loni; nines' 

 and the clH'apei- kinds, is raised in Virginia, Ma- 

 ryland or Kenlucky: the better kind are 'madtl 

 trom the Cuba tobacco, the price of which isf 

 much higher thun the leaf tobacco raised in the 

 United States. If the appetite for tobacco sbouldl 

 continue to increase as it has for the last fewi 

 years, those who are engaged in its nianulacturel 

 will accumulate I'ortnnes. Millions of dollarsi 

 are annually ptiffijd away in the fumes of ijija 

 narcoiic weed. 'I'he manufaetme of tobacco 

 after it has been cured by the grower, has made 

 fbrlunes in some of our cities:' .lacob Llorillard 

 who died some years ago in the city of New 

 York, acquired iirobahly more than a million of 

 dollars in the manufacture and sale of snuff and 

 smoking and chewing tobacco. 



In vending the cigars, paste and liquid shoe 

 and leather blacking, writing ink and locofoeo 

 matches made at the lilile village of New Ips- '. 

 wich, Hillsborough county, N. H.', some forty or 

 fifty horses and half as many r'flhir's vehicles ' 

 are employe<l, furnishing the articles in all parts 

 of New England. 



TABLE, 



SAowm^tlie Maximum, Minimum, and Ranirc of the Tlunwmttir 

 and Barometer-alsa, Mean of T!icrmomcicr, for each moidh 

 during the year 1844. 



Thermometer. tSarnnieter. 



The Phiniers and Farmers, a.s well as the Man- 

 nlacturers of the United Stales, must look to a 

 foreign market as the most certain and secure 

 proieciicu to their steady prosperily. Willi a 

 trade to foreign countries always sufficient to 

 swallow up the siirfilus left on "our hands after 

 sujiplymg the demands of home consumnlion— 

 if Ihat trade he siuqily an exchan;:e of produels 

 it will he all the better, because by it our naviiia- 

 tioii derives a profit both ways— we si'all avoid 

 those revulsions and cliamxes from one lo the 

 otber.extreme which arc always di.sastrous in the 

 end. 



We rejoice in tlic prospects ojiening for o^r 

 nianulactures in the irealy lately negociated wiib 

 the mighly Eui|iire of China. Persons better 

 informed than we are of that great [leople, are of 

 o[iimon that the demand fbr coium fabrics in 

 China, such as may be furnished by the most 

 common factory establishments in New England 

 will consume any surplus that the domesti'mar-' 

 ket may leave on band. The low price of coiion 

 liivors the cheap prorluclion of these fabrics here 

 Mr. Ciishing, who has secured to himself ihe 

 ineed of high afiplause by his ready ne-oiiation 

 of a most favorable treaty will, Cbi"na, is of liie 

 opinion that the merchants of this country mi'dil 

 make fortunes hy the immediate purchase imd ' 

 shipment of raw cotton to China at the present 

 prices. Our cotton, from its superior qualilv, he 

 informs us, has a decided preference in that mar- 

 ket over all cotton produced in the East. If a 

 market for r.ivv collons in China and other k 



.liuiiiary, 



Fobniai-y, 



.^'I.ircii, 



Ajiril, 



May, 



June, 



July, 



Aijiiust, 



September, 



October, 



November, 



DeceinhL-r, 



1.33 



.77 

 I.OI 

 1.03 

 .85 

 .01 

 .56 

 .62 

 1.13 

 1.06 

 .86 

 1.45 



.Msan temperature of the year, .15 04 de 



Mean tciiiperafire of last year, 4:i.e8 



jtaiise of lOe llieniiuiiieter iliirini; Ihe rear, 103 

 Eaiigeol tile thcnnooi-ier diiri.ii! Ia.-t year, 1)1 



Ulule the intervale lands at Norihauipton, 

 Mass.-icliiisetts, on ^Connecticut river, «Jevoted to 

 Ihe Indian corn and other grains, witli ihe jjras.-es 

 for hay, bear only an average price of somewhat 

 less Ihan one hundred dollars ihe acre, the same 

 kmd of lands in Hadley, near by. which fbr years 

 liave been employed in raiNing bronni corii, sell 

 for three hundred dnjlars the .acre. Lower down 

 upon ti:e river, in S|irin-f,ehl, Ma.«.-acliu.«etts, in 

 Suffiehi and pjifield in Conncciii-nt, tobacco is 

 becoming an extensive article |br cidiivaiion. It 

 IS said that lund in Sprinatield t!ie last year pro- 

 duced a clear profit of one hundred dollars ihe 

 acre In the prodticiioii of tobacco, S.oanish and 

 Havana cigars are manufaciured in ihose pans 

 of Ma,ssachusett,s and Connecticut, where the 

 business has been imrsueil lo great advaniage. 



A new impulse has been given to the oTdest 

 village m New Ipswich, formerly tlie residence 

 of the Farrar.s-, the Barreit.s, Appreions and Pre.s- 

 tons, by the monulaciure of cigars. Since the 

 use of alcohol has h.-en banished from most oi 

 our interior lown.--, smoking has become a sub- 

 stitute, Ihe e.vcess of which, it may be feared 

 will be hardly less deleterious in ibe course of 

 whole liflj than the 



man s whole life than the msc of strong drink 

 The man who smokes ten ci::ars in twentv-four 



..oms .,d principalit.s-.q:;;n^h;';;He;;ide1?! Slng^a^lh^'ilr^/of t t^^lt.^LZ^^^i 



Second Agricultural Meeting at the Capitol. 



Agreeably to the adjournment of ihe meetin"- 

 an acoiint of which was given in the Deceniber 

 number of the Visitor, a second mcetin<r of ihe 

 members of the N. H. Legislature, and other "en- 

 tlemen friendly to ihe interests of A^rieiiluire 

 convened at the Reprcseniatives' Hall in ihe! 

 State House on Tliursday cvenin:: Dec 19 1844 



l',"';i,;'^*v"i''^''''. i'y '^''°"-'^i".ir Hon. 'ELIJAH 

 BLaISDELL, of Lebanon, (;bairnian; and K. 

 B. Baker, Esq., ot Concord, Secretar\'. 



No stated subject having been desu'iiated fbr 

 discussion, the remarks of the gentlemen who 

 addres.sed the meeling were consequently of a 

 somewhat imscellaiicous cbaracier. The pro- 

 ceedings, however, were not on this account the 

 less mieresting; and the audience continued un- 

 til a late hour listening to the various speakers— 

 evidently Willi much satislaciion. 



Profiissor Haddick, of Darimouth Colleoe 

 having been called upon, opene.l ibe discussion' 

 by oftermg some general remarks in relation to 

 the kcieiice of J<rricullure. What is it ' Thi* 

 it had occurred lo him was an important nue.--' 

 tioii to fiirmers, and one which all should under- 

 stand. The common opinion is that science 

 cannot be applied to the agricultural profb.ssion— 

 that It will do no good. Science is simply a knowl- 

 edge otfids; inlercnces and conjectures eon.sti- 

 tute no part of it. ]f \g „ knowled-e of facts 

 pertaining to agriculiure as well as to olher pur- 

 suits C.-,n ihere he any harm in knowing too 

 much of such tiicts .= We cannot live unless «,. 

 consult the laws wliieli Ibe Creator has nlaeed en 

 mnller. In rearing an animal, hou do we i.roceed 

 unless It IS by conforming to the laws of ihe ani- 

 mal tthich we have in band.= ]u raisin.r wheat 

 corn, or any of the various kinds of'crops, how 

 do we procecrl except it is by conforming lo the 

 aws by which they are perfected .' We need to 

 know what corn or wheat are made of— whai a 

 stalk or head is composed of.' .-Vnd for this re-i 

 son we sludy the mailer of which manures are . 

 comiiosed, the proper mode of application, the 

 various kinds of soil from which our crops are 

 lo be raised, &>•. &e. A knovvh:dge of the laws 

 on all ot Ibese, and other suhjpcl.s, are necessary 

 to be a|)plied in agriculture-and they mav b;< 

 soappi.lied as in navig.-uion or ihe oper.-uio'n of 

 t le steam engine. From such an.l various other 

 Illustrations (which we have but imperfcetly 

 sketched) Mr. Hadduck deduced that the .science 

 of Agriciilture was of equal, if not greater, i,,.- 

 Iiortance with any other science. It briii-s i„- 

 Kelher,am! reduces to a system,y;./t7s drau n from 

 the experience of difierent agriculiurisl.s_i|,e 

 knowledge of what vegetable life requires, from 

 the time Ihat the seed is first deposited in tb.- 

 earth uiild the plant arrives at malnrilv— u l,;,t 

 the plant IS composed of, and what it'rcqnir. s 

 tor Its nourishment and Lrrowib Ur. ' ■ 



