m)c farmci-'B iHo ntt)li) bifiitor. 



distiiiliaiices, stidileiily rendered ilieir cultivation 

 universal; and now tliey form so constant an 

 articli: ol' I'uod, llial l.l>3 coininuii piioplo ^eiK'ral- 

 ly lieliuvo tlieiij t>, 1)b aboriginid natives of tlie 



COIIli"..J. 



To OrsTP.OT Wasps' NVcts.— Professor Hens- 

 Iniv has discovered that turpentin.', phiced at the 

 entrance of the nest, uas liital to tliese insects. 

 The hest mode nf a).|il\in2 ii, is to put tlie tiir- 

 ])eiitine in a bottle (as innch as will merely vvct 

 the side of the hoitle is siiffii-iiMit.) anil insert the 

 neck of the hottle in the hole leadinL' to the nest, 

 SMrrmnidinff it with some earth. If applied in 

 the dtisU of the evening', every wasp will be dead 

 by the following morning. 



Anothkr L'SE fob India Rubber. — An Eng- 

 lish paper sa\s that caoiilchonc is an excellent 

 remedy lor toothache. Alter the cavity of the 

 tooth is cleaned, a piece of caontihouc is pnt on 

 a wire, and being soflened in the flame of a can- 

 dle, is pressed while warm into the tooth ; tluis 

 the air is Uept from the nerve, and the cause of 

 toothache removed. 



The ISToNKEv's Tmck. — Lonl Taynham's 

 French cook so trained a moidiey as to make 

 him nselid in plm-kiiiu- his poidlry and winged 

 g!ime lor the spil. The monkey was one day 

 followiiiL' his occupation at the open window of 

 the back kitchen, and had just plucked one of a 

 brace of parlridues, when a hawk pounced iqion 

 it and carried it off! Poor Pug was in a sad 

 fri'.'hi. well knowiiigthe lickingthat awaited him. 

 .\'il ili-.^'pcrandum, however, v\ as his motto. He 

 plucked his courage n[> and the remaining parl- 

 ridire, and hiiil the bird in the window. Tlie 

 hawk, pleased with the it'ast, retiu-ned for an- 

 other tit-bit; when i\lum seized him, and in spite 

 of his fcialching and s(M-eechiug, plucked him 

 alive, and laid him and the iiartridge down he- 

 t'oie the cook, and with a gesture slrimger than 

 language, seemeil tossy: '• It's all right ; there's 

 your brace of birds— a fair exchange is no rob- 

 bery." 



Apple Trees. — Apide trees live to a great age. 

 There is a tree on Peak's Island, Portland llar- 

 bia-, that has been known to bear fruit every sea- 

 son for tnoi-e llum a hundred years. There are 

 a|'|rle trees in Plymouth coimty, Massachusetts, 

 nearly two himd'red years old. They continue 

 to bear good fruit. 



A Railroad from the Atlantic to the Pa- 

 cific— We extract the following from the St. 

 Augustine iNews, of the 23d November:— '• By 

 an arrival at Key West, a few days since, of a 

 vessel fiom the Spanish Main, we learn that the 

 French Government have bec;n actively engaged 

 for the last two mouths in l.iying rails, grading, 

 and otherwise making prejiaraiion for a steam 

 conveyance from Porto Belln to Panama, thus 

 coimecling the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and 

 doing away for the present any intent upon cut- 

 ting a Canal at the Isthmus." 



The OlpestIIorse in the Union.— Mr. Man- 

 ran, ol' 7'2 Wall street. New Vork, owns a horse 

 that is forly-two jearsold ; he drives him to Stiiteu 

 Islunil.aliimst daily, and he can travel a mile in 

 less than four ininuies. If any one has an older 

 one, let him "trot him out." 



Exportation of Indian Corn. — The quantity 

 of Indian corn shipped from New York to Eng- 

 land during the first eight months of 1844, was 

 one hundred find ninety thousand bushels.- 

 Same months in 1843, only thirty-tive thousand 

 bushels. 



Wool. — Four thousand pounds of wool from 

 Chicago were sold at Bntfalo, hist month, for 

 twenty-five cents per pound. The increase of 

 wool in the West is about twenty-five per cent, a 

 year. 



under good man.igement, causes it to improve 

 and increase in value from year to year. In man- 

 nnicturiii!;, tiie interest on the capital may be re- 

 ceived within six or twelve months. In farming- 

 it may not be so, but it will be sure to give its 

 return in a series of jears. Another item which 

 has been luucli negfected by farmers, is that of 

 puieliasing good implements lo cany on their 

 firming operations. In this country, where man- 

 ual labor is high, a fin'mer should obtain as many 

 labor-saviuir iinplemeuts as can be used to ad- 

 vantage. Gel tlie best imploioents to be had, 

 even if you have to go out of the Stale for them, 

 and you will tlius be enabled to pi-rlbrm more 

 work in a betier tiianuer. beside saving much la- 

 bor, a-d preventing a great- deal of /reHin^ and 

 ill temper. Try it ami see." 



filSj.KlllM> 



CONCORD, N. H., JAjMUAKY 31. 1843. 



Farmi.-ig Capital. — From a commnnication of 

 L. Dmand, we make (says the Albany Cultivator) 

 the following extracts: — 



"I think it correct to say, that a liberal expen- 

 diture of capital in farmin!!, will untimatcdy pay 

 better than when laid out in any other business. 

 The ditierence between capital laid out in farm- 

 inif, and that laid out in iiiannfacluring, is, thai 

 all which is expended in the laller beyond the 

 !iclual profit of the goods manufactured, is a dead 

 loss, while Ihnt wliich is laid vM on the farm, 



,......,...,. .,C5 upon the other sid 



The Editor of the Visitor from Home. 



The editor of the Visitor very pleasantly spent 

 the last week of the year 1844, on his way by 

 railroad from Boston lo .\lbany, including three 

 week-days and the Sabbath, at and near the an-_ 

 cient Dulch town, now the capital and seat ol 

 ihe L^-^islature of the Empire Slate, and on Ins 

 way iVoin thence by llarlliird "i Connecticut, 

 waking up at early dawn on the first dav of the 

 new year at 'the wharf in the city of New York. 

 It is neillierwilh a political or military eye that 

 we scan the country through which we pass in 

 travellins to the several points.— Agiiciilture — 

 especially since we have conducted the humble 

 journal which is less noticed in the world than 

 'those who profess to instruct the statesman and 

 guide the politician, but more highly valued, we 

 will avouch, by those who have steadily patron- 

 ized and perused us, than the best of their mere- 

 ly political newspapers;— Agriculture, its ad- 

 vancement and tiie improvements which present 

 to the farmer the sure means of pecuniary inde- 

 pendence and a happy fireside; these are the in- 

 teresting topics which most interest us when 

 ranging abro id, either within or beyond the limits 

 of our own State. 



The whole distance described above of nearly 

 five hundred miles, is now travelled at the rate 

 of twenty miles an hour; and so much better 

 and safer is a siood railroad than all other rnodes 

 of travel, that" in passing from the seat of gov- 

 ernment of the Ein|iire Slate in the interior to 

 the commercial c;ipital of the same Slate, an 

 hundred miles at a right angle out of the direct 

 point are retiai-cd wiih the lleetness of the wind, 

 to put us in the \\i\y for the most lajiid termina- 

 tion to the journey. 



The facilities to business, we may say not the 

 least to the fiirmers' business, by the railroails in 

 the cc.mmonweallh of Massacliusells. and espe- 

 cially of the great railroad passing through the 

 heart of the commonweallh and the Berkshire 

 mountains to the line of the State of New York, 

 begin as yet to be scarcely appreciated by the 

 people of other States, 'i'he expanded limits 

 and the rapid strides to wealth of the city o( 

 Boston are but an indication of the growing 

 prosperity of nearly every interior town of old 

 Massachusetts. Manulaclnres spring up in al- 

 most every considerable town ; and the operatives 

 of these •■(■ncrally present a ready market for all 

 the surplus iiroducis of the fiiriner in such town. 

 These manufactures not only use u|i the power 

 of every waterfill, but they give employment to 

 the spaie labor of men, women ami cliildrcu, in- 

 deiiendent of both water and steam power.— As 

 one instance, a single firm in the city of Boston 

 employ sixiv persons in the town of Shrewsbury 

 in the manu'facture of one kind of shoes. These 

 are made wiih great imilbrinity and care, and 

 supplied in giviMi qnaiitilies each week. The 

 leather of vvliich they are made is so assorted as 

 to be aiqiropriate toil's peculiar class. The boxes, 

 containing the various sizes of one kin;l, are 

 made and marked so as to indicate the iinality of 

 each by the number. Without oiiening them, 

 they are sold as fast as they are received, lo irad 



good and perfect article is continued to the safe 

 customers who first gave their order for better 

 kinds. The quantity of le.ilher and other ma- 

 terials consumed in tlie imiking >)f boots n'ld 

 shoes in .Massachusetts would bo considered nl- 

 inosl incredible. The transport of the article is 

 no inconsiderable item. A r.iilroad is considered 

 of so much consequence to ihe village where 

 hundreds are engaged in the manntlictures, of 

 which leather is the principal nciterial, that many 

 of these villages have petitioned the Legislature 

 for railroad grants. 



Passing through the commonwealth of Mas.sa- 

 chusetts one can scarcely I'lil to observe the iin- 

 provemcnts which are lakiuL' place in her agri- 

 cnltiire. The time of our journey — the usual 

 mid-winter — was not the mosi propitious for re- 

 alizing the beauties of well cultivated fields; but 

 the usual fleecy covering had not yet come to 

 shin out a view' of the open fields, although the 

 eonlinued frosts had done their customary work 

 of nipping ihe green vegetation, and the chill 

 winds of November had denuded the trees of 

 their summer foliage. The work of the fanner 

 in the march ol' improvement was, however, dis- 

 cernible upon the face of his fields. The prepa- 

 rations of manure, that one thing neeilful, are 

 apparent both in the fields and by the road side. 

 The reclamalion of cold swamp i.mds is becom- 

 ing more and more general. These tiirnish the 

 materials for manure in what may be spared 

 when taken from the ditches necessary for per- 

 fect drainage. It is truly gratifying to the eye 

 when cast over the many acres of f(>ns and bogs 

 converted into productive fiehls by artificial means 

 and the hand of man. 



As an instance of the value of railroads to a 

 conniry town, the farmers of SYesi borough, some 

 forty miles out of Worcester, unite to kee(> up a 

 dep'ot in the city of Boston for supplying rnany 

 milk customns' in the city. The milk is sent 

 daily, fresh from the cow, a'i a distance which, in 

 a two days ride over hilly roads in the vehicles, 

 thirty years ago, would churn the whole, before 

 its arrival, into sourness and billtermilk. On the 

 railroad this milk i* furnisheil with equal fresh- 

 ness and liicility as that of the milk farmer less 

 than half a dozen miles out ol' Boston. 



It has been the prevailing opinion that the rail- 

 road passing tlirongh a town would carry away 

 its business and iis'euterprisc. The fact that the 

 noble old town of Worcester has more than 

 donliled its trade and its various manufactures in 

 consequence of the facilities which the first up- 

 hill enterprize of constructing a railroad from 

 Boston to the heart of the commonwealth has 

 furnished to that town, which may now well be 

 denoniinated a city of the interior, will standout 

 as a denial of this doctrine, siinre she has not only 

 one but two railioads carrying off her business 

 in different directions, but has a prospect of a 

 third to Providence in a ditfereut direction to the 

 seaboard, and a fourth, connecting her internally 

 in New Hampshire with the Merrimack river 

 valley, and shortening the way with the whole 

 westerly and northerly part of ihe Granite State 

 by the distance of some fifty miles. 



If the town of Worcesier iiiiled us on this 

 point, shall we not find the proof in Springfield, 

 fifty miles west on Connecticut river, which 

 within the last four years has raised her popula- 

 tion from 10,000 to 16,000 inhabitants; and the 

 incre.-ise mainly employed in producing and send- 

 ing fiulh those'manufactures which return wealth 

 to their owners in a continued stream, and which 

 contribute to the wealth and comfort of the thou- 

 sands of operatives who fill up the measure of 

 the prosperity of this beautiful town. Spring- 

 field is indeed a splendid town I Near the elder 

 village we have the United States Arinory and its 

 appendages. A constant stream, having itssouf- 

 ces only a few miles bark in the town of Wil- 

 brahnm, comes down the rapid bank as it ap- 

 proaches the Connecticut river. On this stream 

 are successive water powers doing the work of 

 many hands in the manufacture of the United 

 Stales arms. Here gun-stocks ui one iilace, gun- 

 barrels and gun-locks in another, made to pat- 

 tern, are mannfiictnred. The .sairie stream and 

 the same water is also the power wliich for many 

 years in the establishment of the Messrs. Ames 

 has fiirnished beautiful writing and letter papers 

 for all parts of the United States. Overlooking 

 this stream and tlie. line old town which has 



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