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^l]C jTarmcr's iUoxitl)ltj bisitor. 



thill it is very true— and it is equally true that 

 I'll try often ;"lCl■ntn|lli^'hes wonller^'. 15ut fiUMiiers 

 ivlio FiitiVr niuuiue to run to uasto — who throw 

 ilieir diHii,' into (he yiud uncovered to 'manure 

 the atrnosphere,' rather than their suflerins; 

 fields— who w;iste or sell their ashes, and have 

 swamps, woodland and niiirU deposits which are 

 never drawn upon for manme — such )iu-iners 

 liave not a shadow of excuse for makiu:; the 

 want of manure a 'lion in the way' ol' renovat- 

 ing their pasture frrounds. We hope and believe 

 that the numluMof such is on the decrease, and 

 that improved liirming will prove so contagious 

 that every New Enjilainl farmer will catch it. 



It is certainly wise jinlicy to forego immediate 

 profit for the saUe of effect'iu'^ a f;reat prospective 

 improvement — an<l w here there is anything liUe 

 correct system pursued in farm mauajreirieut, 

 this course will always he adopted. If breaking 

 up run-out pasture involves an expense whieii 

 even the first two or three croppiugs will not l>e 

 sufficient to repay, still, if by so doing the land, 

 when once well set in grass again, will produce 

 good crops for several years with but little cost, 

 it must be a short-sightsd sagacity that does not 

 see the advantage of the measure, and the wis- 

 dom of doing a little at first, to gain uuich more 

 ultimately. J. H. D. 



" Go forth into the Couutry." 



(Prom Poetical Remains of tlie late Mrs. James Gray, in 

 tftc Dtiblin Vnivemitii Magazine.) 



Go forth into the country, 



From a worlil of care and guile; 

 Go forth to the untainted air, 



And the Kuii&hiuo'a open amile. 

 It shall clear thy clouded Ijrow — 



It shall loose ihe worldly coil 

 That hinds thy heart too closely up, 



Thou man of care and toil ! 



Go forth into the country, 



Where gladsome sights and sounds. 

 Makes the lioart's pulses thnll and leap 



With Ircsher, quicker bouuile. 

 They shall wake trc-h life withiu 



Tiic mind's ouchautoil bower; 

 Go, Eludeut of the midnight lamp, 



And try their magic power! 



Go forth into the country, 



With its songs o! happy birds, 

 Its fertile vales, its grassy fills, 



Alive with flocks and herds. 

 Against the pov.-er of sadness 



Is its inn^ic all arra\e 1 — 

 Go forth, and tireain no idle dreams. 



Oh, visionary maid I 



Go forth into the country, 



Where the nut's rich clusters grow. 

 Where the stravvbtirry nestles 'mid the furze, 



And the hoUy-bernes glow. 

 Each season hath its treastirts. 



Like lh'-(t all free an. I wiWl — 

 Who wfuild Ueep t'lec froui the country, 



Thou happy, artless child ? 



Go forth into llie country. 



It hath many a snleinn grove, 

 And many an altar on Us hilts, 



^.icied to fience and love. 

 And whiht with gra»efu! fervor 



Thine eyes its glories scan, 

 VVorship the God who made it all. 



Oh! holy (.'hrisiiau man! 



PoTA'ro Uligut. — It grieves us to state that 

 the blight which Ciiused such destruction to the 

 potato ciop las! J car, has thus early commenced 

 its ravages the picsent season. We have exam- 

 ined a field bi-loi ging to Gov. Lincoln, which, we 

 are assured, c,\liiiiited a perli;ctly heallhy appear- 

 ance on the ,3d insl. Oii tin; 5lh, portions oi' the 

 vines showed indications ol' disease, and on the 

 7lli, about one half of them were inoie or less 

 shrivelled, many ol'them sin nidi to oni' half their 

 I'oiinc.r (liiiKHislon.--, ami some of the le;iv{'s aliea- 

 dy turned brown and nearly dry. The potatoes 

 were of Ihe red variety, sometimes called the 

 peacli blow.s. '1 he ^eed w:is selected, and in a 

 fine and apparently he.-illhy state. We opened 

 one o( till! hills most all'ected with the disease, 

 and found the seed still sound aiitl apparenlly 

 beulthy. Some of the new set potatoes weie 

 ubont the size of n robin's egg, and looked well. 

 So far as wc have observed, the disease appears 

 to comtnence at the upper part of the vine. 



We invite the particidar !itli?nlion of farmci's 

 to this subject. Wc hope that such careful and 

 accurate ob.servatious of the coinmencemetit and 

 j)rogre£s of tho disease, the present season, may 



be made and recorded, by men of judgment, as 

 will lead to some more conclusive imiications 

 than have been heretofore obtained, of its origin 

 and causes, and that they may result in the dis- 

 covery of some ellicient and adequate remedy for 

 the appalling evil — an evil that threatens the de- 

 struction of a ci'op which afiords one of our most 

 alimidaul and most wholesome articles of Ibod. 

 — fforcesttr Spy. 



Immortalit}'. 



Who knows wbeiher the best man be known, 

 or whether there be not more remarkable |)er- 

 sons forgot than any that stand remembered 

 in the known account of time.^ Without 

 the favor of the everlasting register tlie first 

 man had been as tmknown as the last, and Me- 

 thuselah's long life had this only chronicle. Ob- 

 livion is not to be hired. The greatest part 

 must he content to be as though they liad not 

 to be Ibuud in the register of God, not in the re- 

 cords of men. Twenty-seven names make up 

 the first history bcfoi'e the flood ; and the re- 

 corded names ever since, contain not one living 

 ceiituiy. The nimiher of the dead long excee- 

 deth all that shall live. The night of time far 

 sin-|.asseth the day, and who knows when was 

 the equinox ? Every hour adds unto the current 

 arithmetic, which stands one moment. And 

 since death must he the Lncina of life, and even 

 Pagans could doubt whether thus to live were 

 to die — since our longest sun sets at right des- 

 cension, and makes but winter arches, and there- 

 fore it cannot be long before we lie down in 

 darktiess and have our light in ashes — since the 

 brother of detitli daily liannts us with dying 

 mentions, and time, that grows old in itself", bids 

 lis hope no longer duration — dintnrnity is a 

 dream, and folly of expectation. Darkness and 

 light divide oin' course of time, and oblivion 

 shares with memory a great part even of our 

 living beings — we slightly remember our felicit- 

 ies, and the smartest sliokes of affliction leave but 

 short smarts upon us. Sense endureth no ex- 

 tremities, and sorrow destroy us or themselves. 

 To weep into stones and f"able.«. Afflictions in- 

 duce collosities — miseries are slippei-y, or fiill 

 like snow u[)ou us, which notwithstainli-ng, is no 

 unhappy stupidity. To the ignorant of evils to 

 come, and fingellnl of evils past is a merciful 

 provision of nature, whereby we digest the ini.x- 

 ture of a few and evil ilays, and onr delivered 

 senses not relapsing into cutting remenihiance 

 our sori-ous aie not kept raw by the edge of rep- 

 etitions. A great part of antiquity conleiided 

 llieir hopes of subsistency, with a transniigra- 

 tioii (if their souls — a good way to continue 

 their UMMiiories, while having the advantage of 

 phir.il successions, they could not but act some- 

 thing remarkable in sncli variety of beings, and 

 etijoying the lame of their passed selves, make 

 accumulation of glory into their last durjition. 

 Others rather lliaii he lost in the uncomfortable 

 night of nothing', were content to lecede into 

 the conmioii being, and tnako the piddic soul of 

 all things, which was no more Ihau to return in- 

 lo their tmknown and divine original again. 

 Egyptian ingenuity was more tins.-iiisfied, con- 

 triving their bodies in sweet consistencies to 

 attend the relnrn of their souls. But all was 

 vanity, feeding the wind, fully. The Egyptian 

 miniile.'^, which C'ampses or time hath spared, 

 avarice now consnmeth. Muminy is heroine 

 miMchaiidize. Miziiam cures wounds, and Pha- 

 raoh is sold lor balsams. 



There is nothing strictly imminlal but iminor- 

 taliiy. Whatever bath no beginning may be 

 coiilident of no end, which is the peculiar of 

 that necessary essence that cannot destroy itself, 

 and the highest strain oinnipoK'iicy to be so 

 powerfully couslitnted as not to suffer even Irom 

 the powi.'r of it-elf — all others li;iv<' a ilependaiit 

 being, and within the reach of destruction, lint 

 the .'lUtiiciency of ClirisliiUi iinmortalily frus- 

 trates all earthly glory, and Ihe qu.diiy ot' either 

 slate idler de.ilhs make a folly of poslhunwious 

 memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, 

 anil hath assured our resurrection, either of our 

 bodies or our names, hath directly promised no 

 duration. Wherein there is so much of chance; 

 that the boldest ('xpectants have I'oiind unhappy 

 I'rnslratiou, and to bold linig substances seems 

 escape into oblivion. I!nt ni.-m is a noble animal, 

 splendid in ashes, and pom|>ous in the grave, 

 solemnizing nativities and death with equal 



lustre, nor oinitting ceremonies- of bravery iu 

 the infamy of bis nature. — Sir Thomas Brounn:. 



Thorough Cultivation. 



Thorough cultivation is .ahsolutely necessary 

 to the production of good crops. The hind should 

 be kept loose, and finely pulverized to a consid- 

 erable depth, that the roots may easily penetrate 

 the soil in every direelion. Under such manage- 

 ment the rain will rim down, instead of running 

 off, as is the case when the ground becomes dry, 

 hard, and baked. 



The water that descends in a well-u anaged 

 soil, will in part rise by evaporation and supply 

 the deficiency in time of drought, it is frequent- 

 ly the case that so far i'roin thorough cultivation, 

 the manure is only coarsely mixed with the soil, 

 and it remains undisturbed through the season, 

 the weeds being cut down and the earth barely 

 stirred a little at the surface. The consequence 

 is light crops. 



When the soil is very light and dry there is a 

 g''eat advantage in stirring it quite deep. By deep 

 ploughing among corn on sandy soil, the efjects 

 of droiiglit liave been avoided in a very dry sea- 

 son. 



Agricnitnral Improvemeut in England. 



Though agriculture has been improved in Eiig 

 land fur hundreds ofyears, yet it advances far moro 

 rapidly the |)iesent century than at any forinei 

 periotl. And this is owing in a great measure to 

 the application of science. Agricultural chemis 

 try has taught the cultivator what elements enter 

 into his crops, and of course of what the soil i.s 

 exhausted, and how to siqrply the ileficieiiey. 

 It has also taught him the saving and economical 

 application of manures. So rapid has been the 

 improvement of various kinds in the present 

 century, that during the first Ibrty years, the in- 

 crease of population in the kingdom was 10 mill- 

 ions, aud the increase of production was iu pro- 

 portion. 



Courting an Old Maid in Disguise. 



A young gentleman of our city, (says the Nan- 

 tucket Inquirer) w ho bad exiiausled bis wits in 

 playing tricks, and bad tdmost become a terror 

 to his I'amily and relations, who are of the iiigh- 

 est order of society iu point of wealth, some 

 weeks ago struck upon a new mode of having 

 sport, lie had noticed an old maid who was in- 

 timate with his mother, and who, we learn, had 

 never been made so happy as to have a beau. — 

 Her age was fill} ; lier native l.iiid England. Our 

 youngster determined that he would court this 

 old maid, and for this purpose procured a suit 

 of English breeches, a v\ ig, and other lliings to 

 suit a disguise of a youns- bachelor of fifty. 



Tims metamorphosed into a spruce old man, 

 he approached the old maid, and by his suavity 

 of maimer, and changed but wintdng voice, com- 

 pletely succeeded in making love to Inr, without 

 the least suspicion of his family. She returned 

 his kisses and caresses in a most perlect frenzy 

 of delight. Never before in all her born Hays 

 had she lidt the electric fire of u lover's kiss. — 

 Her virgin bosom forgot its age and revelled in 

 the glowing passion of lii-r spring time of life ; 

 the warm but hilherlo undisturbed blood of six- 

 leen w as now, for the first lime, beating and throb- 

 bing iu a heart of fifty. 



This was a most exciting scene for the young 

 scamp; it was so fmmy he could not keep it to 

 himself; so he let bis mother know it, and she, 

 as tpiick as thought, deterinined to [.unish her 

 son liir the imposition he had practised upon her 

 old and respectable maidiMi friend. She, there- 

 fore, feigned not to bidieve him, staling that it 

 was impossible he could so change his in.inner, 

 voice and dress, as to impose upon the old maid. 

 The son proposed that be would demoiistiate the 

 liicl, by his mother happening in when he and 

 his ilauie were logether. In the meanlime the 

 mollier visited her old friend, and they became 

 satislied of the perfidy of the young man, and 

 boih resolveil on revenge. 



When the day came for the next visit, the inolli- 

 cr happeni'd insure enough, lint a very few min- 

 utes saiislieil tho imposing parly he hail got into 

 H very bad t]\. 'I'he doors were immediately 

 locked, when the mother and the old maid each 

 pulled out a w hip from under their apron.s, and 

 the way the young man with an old look and 

 courting luopensitics got thrashed, was a caution 



