<^l)c larmcr'g illontl)!!) Visitor. 



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The New Wills at Newburtport — The 

 new mills (if ilio Olulie and Oce;ui coiiiiiMiiy, ai'c 

 now lecciviiii; llieii- inacljiinry, ami will "coiii- 

 iiieiice Ilie inaiiuluiniire ol'clotli In llit; course oC 

 tlie siitiiiiier and adiiiiiiii. Il«ill if{|iiiie, liow- 

 evci-, several iiionilis of (lilij;ciil a|i|iliL-alion to 

 place tliein in full and coniplcti' o|i(inlion. Tlie 

 Glulie Will, wlien in Inll :ind ^■■l,>lenlalized opera- 

 tinn, will inaniilacliiie neaily" four and a half 

 millions of \,iids a yoai', of iieavy drillin.irs and 

 jeans, No.--. 14 and 20, two and lliree yards to llie 

 ponnd, and llie Orean Will will make nearly two 

 million yards of priniin^f goods. No. 35, si.x yards 

 to the pound. 



The eapilal of ihe ni„|.p Alills is $200,000, and 

 that ot' the Oeeaii §100,000 ; to place ihem in full 

 operation an increase of the former to .*;;}00,000 

 will he required, and of the lalter to )<150.000. 

 The sloeU of these mills is diffojied very widely 

 in oin- coinmuniiy, and much depends upon their 

 success. To show the interest the commnnilv 

 liave in the dividejids on eapilal in these mami- 

 (iictories, as well as in (he wajres of lahor, we 

 mention (he fact thai the $70,000 of the piesent 

 capital of the Ocean lAIill company, (.j:i0.000 he- 

 iii?,' owned hy one or two frenllenlen in Boston,) 

 owned in this lomi, is divideil amojij; 7.5 stock- 

 holders, heins an averaire of less than §1000 lo 

 each. Tht^ Glohe Will stock, we helieve, is dis- 

 irihnted much in the same wny.—.Vcwiuniport 

 Ihralcl. •" 



For many years tlie town of Newhm-yport had 

 been marked as one of the most dull of the de- 

 clining seaboard towns w hose business was grad- 

 ually swallowed up hy the tendency of commerce 

 and trade to coneentrule at Boston. Within the 

 last five years, however, a new (iice has been put 

 upon that town hy the investment of capital in 

 steam Ijictories. It is demonstrated liere, as it 

 had been before al Newport and Providence, R. I., 

 that steam factories in the cotton and wool man- 

 ufactures may come in competition with water 

 power, especially under ihe constant cheapening 

 of fuel hy the lessened expense of procuring coal 

 from railway facilities to Ihe mines of the interior. 

 Coal is brought the distance of one himdred 

 miles over tiie Reading railroad to the navigable 

 waters of the Delaware for little more than a dol- 

 lar per ton. Its price will become less as thede- 

 mnnd for its consimipiion increases. 



Steam factories are extending from the sea- 

 board to the interior of Was.sai:husett.«. The Low- 

 ell water [lOwer used np, steam power is begin- 

 ning there to supply its place. Worcester, further 

 in the interior, has increased its various iiianu- 

 factures four fold since its first railroad opened 

 Ihe trade to the seaboard. Wany kinds of nia- 

 chinery, agricultural implements— any thing tliat 

 may be m-ide of the useful metals as well as of 

 wood— are there manufactured and made on the 

 wholesale an<l labor-saving princi|)Ie,and lundier 

 for building, board.s, plank, shingles, clapboards, 

 &c. bear even a higlier price at the heart of the 

 Conunonwealth than at Boston. The farmers' 

 prt.duce of the interior is hardly sufficient for the 

 interior consumption. Prices are made equal by 

 the lessening of lime and expense in carrying 

 longer or shorter distances. 



For a cenli ,il comiiry business Concord is more 

 fiuorably situated than Worcester. From the 

 position of the surrounding country this town in 

 the Merrimack valley stands in the position of a 

 neck to a double tunnel. Within her limits, but 

 at some distance on either hand, there is an un- 

 employed water power, uiion the Contoocook 

 and in two falls below of the Werrimark, equal 

 perhaps to the whole great water power at Man- 

 chester: this water power operates on the larger 

 scale while steam power will be usefully em- 

 ployed in this village for all the variety of mechan- 

 ical operations conducted by individuals. The 

 business of one ojierative who turns out $500, 



$1000 and $1500 In a yetu-, the larger part of 

 svhich is improvement from the use of the law ma- 

 terial, midics less show, hut is really making more 

 wealth for a city or village than merchandize imd 

 traffic of many thousands. We want at this 

 place steam engines and labor-saving machines 

 to bring in the increase of industrious and inge- 

 nious mechanics. These will bring to us the 

 trade and productions of the surrounding coun- 

 try : these will soon give to one trade Ihe ability 

 to support other trades, and i>eo|;le of all ranks 

 10 take that stand w hich shjill make every honest 

 calling equally respectable. 



Do you own a Horse Kake T 



The recent rains will insure you a l'ooiI crop 

 of grass, and if you have not a horse rake to as- 

 sist your labors in haying, by all me.ins olitain 

 one. It is one of the greatest labor saving ma- 

 chines that you can introduce into your field. 

 With one of these, a man, a hoy, and an old 

 horse, will rake up more hay than "five can with 

 the common hand rake. Try one, and our word 

 lor it you would not like to do without one after- 

 wards. — jVaine Farmer. 



The Farmer's Win'ilhly Visitor has used a 

 wooden revolving horse rake on his plain in- 

 tervale ground for the last seven or eight years 

 to good advantage; and the old one is not yet 

 worn out. But of all the rakes he has yet seen 

 or heard of, his preference is 



"Dewn/s Patent Spring Tooth Horse Rake" manu- 

 factured by Duncan ,§,• Paddteford, Lyman, A'". H. 



ixtet| 



torn of the teeth will stand back farther than 

 when you use it „„|, „ ,„|| |,„,..^ |„,„^,^ ,|,^ 



rake will operate dittcrently with these diirei-LUt 

 liorses, 



"if the thills are too low, the t.,ihwil| stand 

 hack too far at the ground, and will pass over the, 

 hay somewhat ; hence it will not rake clean To 

 ohviale this deled, raise the thills hy the |u.r 

 straps until it rakes clean, l,y p,„,,cr holding", 

 which will require more or less pressure dow°i 

 upon the hatidlew, .according to the hurden of hay 

 Ihe unevenness of the .surtace of the ground, and 

 Ihe st(mes, hushes, or other oh:,lrnctions to he 

 raked over. 



"if it requires Ihe thills raised loo high fo,- 

 convenience, place your r.iko with the teeth upon 

 a pol(! al the turn, and bend ihem forward lo the 

 proper pl.ice, hut not ciil.irgiiig ihc coil. 

 _ " When you approach a stone or other ohslrnc- 

 tion that the rake hemi will u,, „vrr. press down 

 upon Ihe handles su(lii-iently to kiep all the teeth 

 upon Ihe groniiil, except those that come in con- 

 tact with Ihe ohsiriiclion. 



"On very uneven, unplou-hed ground, where 

 Ihe cavitiesaredeep, it will rcipiirc more pressure 

 upon the handles than a smoother snrlaite, and if 

 very rough, the horse «ill he required to vary to 

 the riiiht and left occasionally, so the rake can he 

 accoMiuiod.ited to the gromul. 



•' When you turn the horse and rake the side 

 of the hay to rake hack, or at any other short 

 turn, always raise by ihe handle tiie end of the 

 head iIkiI is presseil hack hy turning. 



"After you have carted your grain from the 

 field you may find it advanta:;pous to rake the 

 ground over, carry the heads into the barii and 

 thre.-h them, (or some have been happily sur- 

 prised hy the quantity gleaned in this way. 



"You will find as all others do, the more you 

 hold the rake, the easier you can hold it, and it 

 will do the work better. 



"if the rake does not r.ake clean, it is because 

 the teeth do not stand forward cnou-li at the 

 bottom." 



This rake may be used in rough, rocky, stuin|iy 

 ground with nearly equal facility as in smooth. 

 We shall have one of them in operation during 

 the present summer's haying. With only a horse 

 and man, one of these rakes will gather clean 

 into cocks as much as si.x men would rake in the 

 same time, in a summer of catching showers, 

 the spiral rake ndght pay Ibr itself in the saving 

 of a single day. 



As with every new instrument i(([uiriiig pre- 

 cise preparation, persons at the first trial and 

 handling may be di.scouiaged in the use of the 

 spiral rake from want of experience in its use. 

 To all such it may be well to mark the following 

 Directions. 

 "In putting the rake together, put the thills 

 upon the under side of the rake head, the cross- 

 bar upon the to|j of the thills, the handles upon 

 the tup of the head and crossbar. The braces 

 are put one end on lop of the thill, Ihe other un- 

 der the head. The holts are all to he put up 

 through, and ihe nuts on top, except the two that 

 fasten the braces to the thills. 



"When the horse is to be harnessed to the 

 rake, rai.se the thills nearly erect, so that the rake 

 will rest upon the teeth and handles; [dace the 

 horse forward of it, and hring the Hulls down 

 each side of him. 



"The teeth are designed to he setalike in each 

 rake,— therefore it will readily be perceived that 

 when you use the rake with a low borse, tlie bot- 



(E?° A railroad in the more direct course from 

 Bosinn to Montreal up Bak<;rs river and down 

 the Oliverian valley passes near and over an in- 

 exhaustible bed of lime-stone tit tln^ west (bot of 

 Moosehillock near the lines of Havejhill and Cov- 

 entry, from which the best kind of lime may be 

 made and furnished to the towns and cities all 

 Ihe way towards Boston at a less price than the 

 Thomaston lime iij now purchased. The biirn- 

 ingand mannfactnre of this lime wiatld bring into 

 use !ind value thousands of cords of wood which 

 has hitherto been of no value, and would give an 

 iuiptius lo t!ie laborers who have been beretofbre 

 en, ployed in the heavy business of annihilating 

 all kinds of trees as the obstacle most in the way. 

 There are fine sugar maple orchards on the hills 

 roundabout and upon the sides of old Moosehil- 

 lock it.solf. liranches of roads may he made in 

 other directions: our opinion is that no efTorts 

 can prevent the completion wiihin five years of 

 this most northerly aid most eaty route to the 

 sources of Connecticut river, and most direct to 

 the capital of Cannda. 



F.\-Gov. Page, besides his own fine farm in ihe 

 Connecticut river meadows, has two out-farms 

 near the limestone foimation of the .Moosehillock. 

 lie was ill town a day or two since the sitting of 

 the legislature. As one of the most profitable 

 products of his out-farms he informs a friend that 

 he has the increase in his flock of sheep of ihree 

 hundred healthy Merino lambs the present spring. 



Enlargement of the Lowell Mills. 



The Lowell Maiiiifaciuring Company intend 

 to greatly increase their works. The Carpet 

 Power Looms have been so very successful, that 

 234 new looms will he set in operation. The 

 following statement will show the amount and 

 character of ilie new iiiiprovemtnts which are 

 contemplated hy this company : A new Caipet 

 mill, fi>r 224 Pow er Carpet Looms. 272 feel long, 

 136 wide, two stories high, with a flat roof; liglit- 

 ed tiirough tlie roof hy 160 windows in the form 



