44 



^l)c Iavmtv'5 inoittl)hj llisitor. 



and other profits in Massachusetts, admitted that 

 it was nut uiireasonahle to suppose the gains 

 from the whaling hnsiness were twice that of the 

 capital employed in the cod and mackerel fish- 

 ing. 



Tennessee Lands. 



A recent Oostoi, pa|ier contains a notice of the 

 sale nf a rpianiity of Tennessee lan.ls at the sur- 

 pn.sinj;ly low price ol 20 cents an acre, li .<.een,s 

 , stran^'e that the ayents an.l Irieinls of emi^Mants, 

 I parlicniarly Germans, have not lurned their atlen- 

 i lion to these lands, considerahle tracts of whirl, 

 are held m ,i,e Eastern ciiics. These lands are 

 excellent grazing for callle, sheep, horses, &c. 

 and are almost ready made farms, heiim ahout 

 two tnrds covered with prairie glass, which is 

 exce letit grazing, and one-third oak, whitewood 

 and hickory timher, among most of which grass 

 also grows. They lie ahont 1300 feet alwve tide 

 •= water, an elevation that ensures a healthy atmos- 

 ) phere, and are reserted to by Planters on'tlie Mis- 

 t sissippi,,n the sickly season. Tiie winters are 

 I only two months-somild that the streams,which 

 ^ are ahumlant, never freeze over. Potatoes are left 

 i to be taken only as wanted. The cattle range the 

 ( whole winter. It is a fine climate for the silk 

 » culture-the mulberry is sometimes found grow- 

 ing wild Jt is also suitable for the grape, also 

 . ound wild. Much of it is near large stL'ns'nav" 

 ■ igable by steam. It P'-oduces, by tillage, abundant 

 i cops of gram and vegetables, and is of easy cul- 

 lure. It IS mdeed a very paradise for a German, 

 a ."^wiss, or a French population.— ioifeZ/ Courier. 

 The great cause that renders millions of acres 

 : in Western Virginia, North Carolina, Eastern 

 'i'ennessee, &c., of so little value, is their want 

 01 conimon roads and means of trans,,ortin« pro- 

 .^ dnoe to the market. The system pur«ied in sotne, 

 i:if not all those States, seems to be to make no 

 ;S| improvement in roads whatever. The better soil 

 I of the lands, the rich limestone and marly soil- 

 |converted into vegetable mould upon thesurfUce' 

 Ijmnke the worst roads that can be imagined. The 

 M-oads ,n these regions are seldom frozen hard to 

 ^any considerable de,.th : they are always soft and 

 Jjnuiddy m the winter. One great obstacle to that 

 fjjsocial access which so much contributes to New- 

 |England enjoyment, is the inconvenience, if not 

 ^impossibility, of li-erp,ent fauiily visits, resullin- 

 l^rom nearly impassable roads as between exien'- 

 ||led plantations or farms which are much lar-er 

 l^it tlie South ihan in the North. Now there is a 

 [;'ast region extending along ou eiiher side of the 

 |\neghaman mountain ridges over a distance of 

 ,Siom three to five hundred miles east and west- 

 ^Jnuch of it land of the most feasible kind for cul- 

 »|ivalion, wanting no manure for years alter it is 

 ipened-covered with beautiful pines and other 

 ^rees valuable for timher or (or fuel; some por- 

 |ons of a bght and well adapted to Indian com, 

 'j.heat and other grains-other portions adapted 

 ?> grazing, where the cattle and sheei. can we 



Min>.'iut /iiif t-,^ 1.. .1 _ I ■ 



there. One gentleman who has renovated sever- 

 al hundred acres of these worn-out lands, assur- 

 ed us lately that be could do it to a greater profit 

 Ihan he could lake at government prices the best 

 western lands and obtain from them the largest 

 crops: his farm is twenty miles out of the city of 

 Washington. The improvement of lands going 

 on in all the old Atlantic States, within the las'! 

 few years, is great— it will be much greater in 

 years to come. 



Kor the F.innor's Montlily Visitor. 

 Experiments in House Building. 



Unio}i, Rock Co., (V. 7\ ) 

 ., ^ Feb. Vi, 1847. \ 



MESsns. Editors.-I am unacquainted with 

 you personally, yet being a native of the Granite 

 blate, and knowing that you lake an interest in 

 such matters, I take the liberty to write to you 

 concerning a discovery made by Mr. Joseph 

 Goodrich of Prairie du Lac, Jefferson Co W T 

 about two years ago in the art of house building.' 

 Mr. G. being well aware that heat, in the burn 

 ing of imeslone expels the carhou'c acid gas 

 with wnch It is charged; and that after being 

 slacked and made into mortar it absorbs carbon- 

 ic acul gas again from the atmosphere, thereby 

 rendering ihe mortar as solid as unburnt lime- 

 stone ; he came to the conclusion that lime mor- 

 tar might be employed with advantage as a mate- 

 ria in building Accordingly, amidst the jeers 

 and ndicule of his neighbors, he commenced 

 budding a large hexagonical two story tavern 

 with mortar made from newly burned limestone 

 and coarse gravel (free from loam,) in proportion 

 of one bushel of lime to ten of gravel. It was 

 commenced two years ago last spring and finish- 

 ed the fall ensiling, and it is now as solid and 

 hard as stone itself: Being a very eccentric man, 

 he built his house, as I said before, in the form of 

 a hexagon;— thus 



building, where the cooking and other house 

 work IS caned on. People are budding lime and 

 gravel houses now all through the country, and 

 he time is not far distant when most of the lo- 

 houses which now dot the prairies and opening 

 will be supersede,! by good substantial lime and 

 gravel houses. Lime can be boiigbt alm.jst any 

 where in the territory for from 15 to 18 cents per 

 bushel, and one bushel of lime to ten or twelve 

 bushels of coarse gravel will make a hard, .solid 

 and durable material. The lime n,ust be newly 

 burned, and worked up immediately. Then one 

 oot in height can be Iain in a day-lthe moulders 

 being moved up as it dries. A house ought to be 

 commenced as soon as summer opens in oid-r 

 to let the mortar get so-newhat solid before win- 

 ter, foi- the mortar grows more ami more solid 

 till It absorbs carbonic acid >,'as enough from the 

 atmosphere to render it solid stone throui-hont. 

 Whether bn,lding with this material can ever be 

 employed in the New England States to advan- 

 tage remains to be seen, owing to the price of 

 inie, but that it can be here is already decided 

 beyond a doubt, as lime is cheap. 



If you think this coinnn.nication will be any 

 graiiticalion.to your |)atrons. you are at liberty to 

 publish, and any fmlher information which may 

 be reciuned I am ready to give as to my opinion 

 of the country, &c., &c. 



Your friend, with (nuch respect, 



G. HUTIN. 



one'foVrb?'"'-' '" '"'r'''^"' '"'" ""■'='' ■■"°''-. 



oneloi a bar-room, another for a sitlinsr roo, 

 =">'l 'l'«^ third for a dining room;-tlu,s ' 



jgiLsist out nearly the whole twelve months ;-a 

 j^ngh.y region of connny, frc.ing itself, as the 

 :plored race, like the In.lian race, are gradually 



juvmgol ordisappca,•ing,■,,,m,|„„evilofsla- 

 tp■y wl„..|, the moiher of Slates inherited from 

 ^o British oppressors who supp,es.se,| the |ii„.,. 

 ■«ul '"^'-citizens for the first hnn.lred and fifty 

 ur« ol lis selilemeni, which is ,l,.siine,l to b,." 



me m the next century as fair as any p,„ lion of 

 ! Unit,..,l htaies-the nursery of „ substantial 

 n.imnry which h„s fimght and bled to obtain 

 '• nglils, an.l which will he ever ready to rally 



Iheir security. That region of cnnnlry looks 

 the North for, lie introduciim, of ihose sub- 

 ntlul improvements which have n,a,lo us whal 



are. In the small worn-oni c ,iy of Eaiw;,x 



V-'-SMiia, the example of five labor has bu'l 

 |vheeum,roduccd:s,.ven,l l,ui,d,ed families 

 -" Connecucul ami New Vork have moved hi, 



The upper story he dividcl into six rooms for 



n. nied in tins way,ll,ero were two square cor- 



•iu,. window., in each rooni. The chinn.ey 

 SI the ,.,.,„,„ „l Ihe house, and a win.lim; slaii- 



;■; '" '' ""-• '•'"'•'n.'.v, lea,ls from ,l,eTow,.r 



upper rooms. The roof slauls inwards, 

 I'K.ieby forniinga ivservoir for rainwater which 



Ol pipes. Ihe rool ,s ,•,■!, ,ei,l,-,| 



Mr. G has a small a.hliii,,,, to his house on the 

 buck bide, mid communicating with the main 



From Fessenden's Complete Farmer. 



Cultivation of the Pea. 



The pea is a hardy annual, a native of the 



south of Europe, cultivated in Great Britain from 



time immemorial, and in this country from its 



nrst settlement. 



Times of Soimng.— " The dwarfs are generally 

 employed in hotbed culture, which, however, suc- 

 ceeds badly, and is neither worth preservin-r nor 

 describing, and the less so as earlier crop.s^nay 

 be more certainly had by sowing in ihe fall, iii 

 sheltered situations, and covering during the 

 winter with a layer of leaves, and another of 

 oug stable-lilter, loo.sely applied, to keep the 

 leaves m their places. After the earth takes a 

 temperature favorable to vegetation, your pea- 

 sowings should be made once a fortnight, U) keep 

 lip a regular and successive su]^,\y. "—Armslrons. 

 quantity oj Seed.—" Of the small, early kiml's 

 one pint will sow a row of twenty yards ;" fbr the 

 larger sorts, for main crops, the .same measure 

 will sow a row of thirty-three yards." 



Process hi &!c»ig-.—" For early sorts, make the 

 drills one mch a, id a half deep ; and let parallel 

 drills be two feet an.l a half, three, or four fi;et 

 asunder. Peas that are to grow without slicks 

 require the least room. For summer crops and 

 large sorts, make the ilrills two inches ileep, and 

 f.nir, rixf, or six feet asunder. As to the distances 

 along the drill, dislrihute the peas ao-or.ling to 

 their size ami the season ; the frame, three m iho 

 space of an inch ; the Charltous, llotspu,-, and 

 ilwarf marrowfiit, two in an inch ; the Prussian 

 blue anil middlesized sons, three in two ini-hes ; 

 the large marrowfiit and Knight's, a full inch 

 ajiart ; the morallo, rouncivals, and most lar-'er 

 sorts, an inch and a half apart ; and ihe Patago- 

 niai), two inches." 



Soil and Situation.— "Tlie. soil shonl.l be mod- 

 erately rich, anil the deeper an.l sironger for the 

 lolly growers. Peus are not assisie.l, but hurt, 

 by unre.lnce.l .lung receiilly lurne.l in. A fresh^ 

 sanily loam, or road slufi; aiid a little decomposed' 

 vegetable mailer, is the best manure. The soil 

 tiir the early crops should be very .by, and ren- 

 .h-re.l so, where the groim.l is inoisi, by miving 

 sail. I with Ihe earib of ihe drills."--/>oH(/on. 



Armstrong says, " A loose an.l «arm soil ia 

 most fi.v.irable l.> this v..gelabl,-, which, by the 

 way, is ueuhi'r iinprov<Ml in qnaliiy nor quiiniily 

 by slnbl,- inanniv. The soil of C'ilchy, an.l .Jf 

 I oini d.' J,.ur.l,'s<"„l,,iiibc,&i-., in Ihe "iieiuhbor- 

 booil ol I'.-u is, is a pur,' san.l, oriiicipallv .levoWil 

 I.) jx-a crops, an.l yi.l.ling these iii.isi abiimlantly 

 wilbouflb,' a|,pli,'aii.m of new .Iuul' or ol.l." 



SuLscquent Cii/lwr.—" ,U tU,! plants rise fiom 

 halt an inch high to two or three inches. bci.in lo 

 draw earlb lo the stems, .loing this whei. the 

 ground IS in a dry stale, and earthing gradually 

 hiuher as ihe stem ascends. At ihe same time, 

 will, ihe hoe, loosen the groun.l between ihe 

 young phmiR, mid cut .lown rising wee.ls. Early 

 crops should be protected during hard frosts by 



