yll)c iTavmcc's illouil)liJ bisitov. 



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price was §18. In 18-15 he cm on G5 rods 2C93 

 pounds at the first crop, luid 1388 pounds nt the 

 second crop, and he was otTcrcd lor the hay 

 $l,l"2.i cents per Innidred, which was $44,(j8 for 

 the produce of GO rods. He rows secil tliicU, 

 and the ^'rass is stout and fine. For 20 years lie 

 had not known a farmer to fail who paid atten- 

 tion to his husiness. 



Tlie same subject is continued for tlie ne.xt 

 meeting. 



Tlic conversation next evening, on "Tlie 

 Profits of Fanning," was continued. Mr. Cal- 

 houn in the Chair. 



Mr. Clary, the Representative from Conway, 

 Elated that tiio inlialiitaiits of his town had, some 

 years ago, formed an Agricultural Society, and 

 had oftcred premiums lor corn crops. A Com- 

 mittee of the Society, w ho had been appointed 

 to measure small portions of an acre, in order to 

 make a fair estimate of the whole crop on each 

 acre, had made their report. They had nieasur- 

 eil oft' two rods of each of the ten lots ofl'ercd 

 for iiremiimi, and had made their estimate from 

 Buch a specimen, that the acre No. 1 produced 

 132 bushels ; No. 2, 132 ; No. 3, 1 13 ; No. 4, 1 1 1 ; 

 No. 5, 1 10 ; No ,6, 95 ; No. 7, 92 ; No. 8, 00 ; No. 

 9, 6G: No. 10, 76. 



IMr. C. said No. 9 was his own field (86 busli- 

 els.) lie helieved'the Cotnmittee measured fair- 

 ly. The corn was shelled in October, and no 

 doubt would shrink. He was asked how the 

 two rods of ground were measured ; whether 

 the line ran close to the outside rows, or whether 

 a half space was left outside of each exterior 

 row, because tJie difterence must be very great 

 when only two of the IGO rods were actually 

 measured. 



fllr. Clary said he could not tell how the spec- 

 imen of two rods was measured. He tlioufjht it 

 would be unfair to run the line close to a row of 

 corn, lie said sheep manure was used in the 

 lulls, and coarse manure, IVoni cattle, was spread 

 on and ploughed in ; in all from 30 to 40 cart 

 loads to the acre- — he ihought their carts would 

 hold 30 bushels. In adilition to this mamire, 

 ashes were used in the hill. The land on w hicli 

 these crops were, grown, was not particularly 

 productive, but was well improved. 



IMajor B. Wheeler, of Framinghani, .'aid a 

 townsman of his, Mr. Edmaiuls, had very recent- 

 ly stated to him that 7 years ago, lie bought a 

 larm of 74 acres for §2,250. He sold off 10 

 acres and a lot of standing wood for ij 1-000, 

 leaving his purchase at .'?],250. From ihese G4 

 acres he sold produce la^t year to the amount of 

 $700, and he hired biit eight days' labor. His 

 own labor therefore amounted to more than 

 $G00, after paying labor hireil and the interest of 

 Jiis capital. 



A. G. Sheldon, Esq., of Wilmington, infjuired 

 of Mr. Clary what was the general estimate 

 of profits of farming in his neighborhood, or in 

 Conway ? Mr. Clary said a man is thought to be 

 doing pretty well if he lays up one hundred dol- 

 lars a year besides supporting a famil). 



Kev. Mr. Leonard, of Mai shfield, thought there 

 was a too general inclination among country 

 lads to (juit farming. Money is not the chief ob- 

 ject. Health is more imporlanl. Farmers live 

 longer than other people. They average G4 

 years to the merchant's or the mechanii-'s 52 

 years. They generally enjoy more happines.s, 

 having less anxiety of mind. 



Mr. Sheldon said, it h.-u! been staled at a for- 

 mer meeting, that teaming is not farming, but he 

 thought teaming a branch of liirniing. When a 

 man is carrying his wood or timber to market, 

 he is doing farm work. A tarmei's children can 

 lielp him and they often do it. He had known 

 instances where females had assisted to pick po- 

 tatoes, &.C., 'and they had aftersvards taught 

 schools. 



We do husiness at less cost now ihan we have 

 done. Formerly a long team and many hands 

 were necessary to plough an acre. Now one 

 man and one yoke of oxen are suflicient. An 

 idle chap once said to him, "This farming is the 

 most miserable business in the world." I told 

 him 1 agreed that farming fed the most misera- 

 ble beings. I ask the gentleman from Conway 

 what kind of corn was planted there.' {Mr. C. 

 answered, the Dutton — 'hat they had not used a 

 subsoil plough — that the corn stood 3 to 3 1-2 

 feet apart in hills. 



Wm. Parker, Esq., a former President of the 

 iMiddlesex Agricultural Society, said, when he 

 was a boy he thought liirming was not good 

 enough for him, .■ind he engaged in tr.idc. He 

 lost his health in this business, and he I'nught a 

 poor fiirni, because it was in his way. He gave 

 .*2,000 for it. The former owner had cut but 

 two tons of hay on il, and this made the cattle 

 shed tears to eat it. Now he cuts 40 tons, be- 

 sides the grain and other jiroduce. It may be 

 made to cut 100 tons. The land cost 17 dollars 

 per acre; a iiumbur of the acres would now 

 bring 100 dollars each. 



Mr. P. said farmers don't work so haid as me- 

 chanics anil manuliictiirers. I\lany are negligent 

 and idle half the time. Some delay lo cm up 

 lire wood till July, and are then obliged lo (piit 

 haying to make the pot boil. Money may bo 

 made by liirming when iiirmeare attended to. 



Mr. Brooks, of Princeton, was glad to hear 

 IVoni Mr. Parker, an old acipiaintance. He con- 

 firms my own statements which are not all be- 

 lieved out doors. He had not been truly njpoit- 

 ed in some of the papers. He had said, however, 

 that 15 or Iti per cent, may be made of capital 

 invested in a stock farm, and he still contends 

 that 10 to 15 per cent, may be maile by any 

 branch of farming, provided the proper skill and 

 industry are applied. IMy own experience 

 proves this. 1 keep upwards of thirty head of 

 cattle where the former occupant kept but six. 



Mr. Parker again spoke; he had cut otf wood 

 and timber enough in two years to pay for his 

 pnrcha.se. He now cuts 200 cords of peat each 

 year — the cost one dollar a cord to cut and dry 

 for fuel. He made his purchase 12 or 13 years 

 ago. 



Major Wheeler spoke at some length on the 

 propriety of bringing up more young men to 

 learn the art of larming. The rich would find 

 their account in giving their sons a chance to 

 acquire agricultural iniormation. He repeated 

 that he had engaged long in other kinds ol' busi- 

 ness ; he bad been in trade, and lliough he had 

 never an opportunity of going to school much, 

 he had not felt the want of education so sensibly 

 in any branch of husiness as in farming. Here 

 he found be needed the aid of science. — Mass. 

 Ploughman. 



A rompliment. 



If any ihing could llatler the editor of the Vis- 

 itor for his nine years' labor in the agricultural 

 cause, such compliments as the following would 

 make him ample compensation I'm- all he has 

 done. With belter health in tho last four years 

 he might have done more. But when the best 

 judges of an agriculliiral paper, in a hundred in- 

 stances, tell him they read bis paper w itii a bet- 

 ter relish than they do the fancy crack agricultu- 

 ral periodicals, charged some of them as high as 

 five dollars, we are contented with the efieet of 

 our labors, 



Mr. Van Buren presents his conqdimcnts to 

 the Editors of the "Farmer's !\Iomlily Visilor," 

 and sends them five dollars which he wishes lo 

 have placeil lo bis credit. 



Mr. V. B. has not the means for ascertaining 

 the precise amount due, orlhat would have been 

 sent. He takes pleasure in saying, thiit of the 

 numerous agricultural journals wbieh he receives, 

 there is not one v.liich lie takes \\\> with more 

 salisfiiclion than the Visilor. 



Liiidcnwald, March 12, '47. 



I'rofits from a Native Cow. 



Mr. Horace Noyes of Franklin |)nrcliai-ed a 

 cow of common native hrec<i in .lime, 1842 — 

 she was seven years old at lbs time xif purchase — 

 for fifteen ilollm's, ami sol/1 her after four years for 

 aljoiit tlie same [irice. Mr. Noyes living in the 

 vicinity of Hon. D. Webster's fiirrn took this cow, 

 with the exception of the first calf which was a 

 short horned Durham, to his Ayrshire bull wbicii 

 has been kept there for the last three years. — 

 The cow gave milk the whole lime wiili the ex- 

 ception of about one fortnight. She averaged 

 through the year in milk besides that fed to the 

 calves, from eight to ten quarts per day, giving 



in the summer often as high ns eighteen quarts. 

 Her keeping sunmier and winter was not better 

 than that of common cows. Her first calf, a 

 steer, sold nt the age of two years for thirty-sev- 

 en dollure; her next, u half Ayrshire heifer, sold 

 at two years of age for fifty dollars; her third 

 calf, a half Ayrshire bull, sold at the taking off 

 from the cow, for fifteen dollar.s. Her fourih and 

 last calf, an Ayrshire heifer, was uccidcmally kil- 

 led. The net profit from tliis cow Mr. Noyes be- 

 lieves equal at letist to the aggregate amount 

 for which he sold the three calves. Tho three 

 year old heifer was a beauty, and is now upon 

 the farm of Mr. Webster at IMarslifiehl, Mass. 



Procure Good Seed. — Spare no pains in ob- 

 taining the best seed. It is better to pay twice 

 the usual price for im extra article, lhan to plant 

 or sow that which is bad. If your corn or wheat 

 is obviously degeiicialing, or ffoin any atmosphe- 

 rical conlingency, operating upon the crop, is but 

 imperfectly developed, or iulected with the dis- 

 ease, do not think of using it as seed. Such a 

 course would be to insure inevitable jicrplexity 

 and ultimate loss. 



Whenever your wheat or grain of aiiy kind be- j 

 comes nufccund on soils which shoulil ensure n j 

 good yield, the only course is to exchange it, or . 

 substitute Ji belter. This is to be accomplished • 

 by purchase generally, and when facilities afford, j 

 oi' seed raised at a distance. — Jinonymous. ■ 



The editor of the Visitor has for sale two hull-! 

 dred bushels of the heaviest oats, he believes,;] 

 raised in Merrimack coniily the last year. They!J 

 were grown upon a field subsoiled three ycars<j 

 previous, and yiehled at the rate of more Ihanj,' 

 Bcvcnty-five'tinshels to the acre. These oats stood-l 

 up strong in the straw, although the latter was' 

 almost as heavy as the straw upon the highestj' 

 stimulated grounds with stable manure, wberej 

 the straw breaking down, leaves tlie oats « ithoutl 

 full ernwth anil filling. Our oats for seed, cleart 

 of all yellow or turnip weed or other annpymgl 

 [ilants, are worth at least twenty-five cents a bnsli-j 

 el above the common store oats. At that price 

 we will sell tb<!m. 



The editor has also for sale a (pvj bushels o< 

 the early rusty-coat |ioia;o, which ripens early it 

 .Inly. Price $1 per bushel. 



We are informed, and assured that the informit 

 tion is correct, that the whale-ships which are exi 

 peeled this year, and « liicli cost with their outlil^ 

 .S<!00,000, will, when they arrive, be uorlh «il| 

 their cargoes, at the present [nice of oil, SI,200.' 

 000 — that is twice what they s.ailed for, smd lliij 

 the value of the importation of oil Ibis jear wij 

 be greater than that of any former one. We rd 

 joice that the fleet of 1847 bids liiir lo pay i^ 

 great a profit; we congratulate ship-owners an 

 all concerned, on so cheering a prospect. — JVar 

 Ivckel Inquirer. 



The city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 

 s.iid to possess one-third of the capital employe 

 in the w haling business of the United Stales : tl- 

 whole ca[iilal is said to he lv\eMty millions of do 

 lars — all owned by comparaiivciy few towrs 

 ihc Northern States. This is four times as mm 

 as all owned in the worhl beside.s. The pro 

 from this capital to the owners at home is beliq 

 ed to he greater than that of the best maiiiifi( 

 luring establishmeiits. Three aiixl four years 

 distant seas is the term of an ordinary whali. 

 voyage. Twenty and thirty thousand miles d 

 tani from their families, wives and children, m 

 are engaged contesting the pointnf life and del 

 in a fragile open boat floating upon imfrcquent 

 seas, wilh the mighty leviathans of the <!eep 

 What liar upon ihis globe can be put up that al; 

 shut out Yankee enterprise ? A rich New 151 

 furd owner of whale ships, on our inqnl 

 prompted by the late rettu'iis of manufaclnr 



