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®l)e laximx's illoutl)Ii) btsitor. 



trees one liundred miles from the sea would now. 

 be worth from one to three liundred dollars eacli_ 

 In the last thirty years the second growth of 

 white pines has grown into great value. The 

 " ever-green pine," iniuiortalized by Sir Walter 

 Seott, is worliiy to he planleil and reared through 

 the whole New England interior. 



BathiD?. 



Nothing tends more to the pre-irvalion of 

 health, us well as cleanliness, than frequent bath- 

 ing. 



We have often called the atlenlion of the pub- 

 lic to the important subject, and now on the 

 opening of Ihe spring, when the functions of the 

 human body undergo a considerable change, es- 

 pecially those of tlfe sUin, we would again advert 

 to it. 



During the winter the pores of the skin have 

 been more locked up than during the summer, 

 when spontaneous perspiration is more free and 

 frequent, and therefore have liecome more dry, 

 hardened and less active. This is the case with 

 all, but more especially with the sedentary, or 

 those not engaged in hard manual labor. 



Health cannot be preserved any length of time 

 unless the inunerous pores npor; the surface of 

 the body be kept clean and free to |)erforin their 

 several important duties. Frequently bilhing 

 the boily nil over in warm or cold water for some 

 thirty or forty minutes will mainly effect this ob- 

 ject. 



Those personsof a temperament whose reaction 

 is speedily produced, and can bear it, would be 

 most benetiUed by the cold baths ; those of a dif- 

 ferent or more delicate temperament, as the ner- 

 vous, bilious, or liiose wiiose lungs or stomach 

 are liable to he easily affected, may u.se the warm 

 baths. 



In fact, using a common bathing tub with soft 

 water a lillle warmer than Ihe blood, a fli^sh liiush 

 and soap, thoroughly, while the body is entirely 

 emersed, for ball' or three quarters of an hour, is 

 the best means to cleanse, open anil aid the ac- 

 tion of the pores of ihe skin, ami thereby equal- 

 ize the circulation of the blood and all liie func- 

 tions — relieve the head — cpiiet the nerves — re- 

 move liiligue — aid digestion, and produce an 

 agreeable and healthful state of both body and 

 mind. 



Not half the people of the world are aware of 

 the material beuelits resulting lioni this process, 

 and none I'an he fully able to apju'eciale it unless 

 they have been iu the constant use of it for some 

 liuu*. 



It should be used, if possible, every day, but at 

 least twice a week, if no iru)re. 



Every village should have a convenient bath- 

 ing house or two. indeed every finiily shouhl 

 have a halhinir apparatus, which could be pro- 

 cured for a trifling sum, ami mayhap would be 

 the means of saving a doctor's fee of live times 

 the amounl, and procuring health and comfort 

 l)evoud the power of calcidalion. 



i?alhingat all seasons isccuulucive to the health 

 of body and luirul, but more especially in the 

 spring. — Dover Gnzelle. 



In the matter of bathing we have been taught 

 by recent experience that cold water iu a warm- 

 ed room is heller than warmed water. 'I'he in- 

 valid applying it will soon find it not to he at all 

 unpleasant, 'i'he drying off cold water with 

 warm towels is more pleasant than the simple 

 use of warm water ; and the chance of escape 

 from taking cold is much better. Indeed we are 

 induced lo believe that the best preventative, if 

 not tt»e best remedy, lor colds is licquent copious 

 iustrutioiis in cold water as:>isted by llie friction 

 of coarse heated towels drying off — Ed. F. M. 

 Vintar. 



SouTiir.RN lyiANUFACTURES. — The largest 

 l)ulldiiig for mannliu'tures in the iSuuth, is luiw 

 l)eing capped with a roof, at 'i'uscidoosa, Ala. — 

 It is 150 iiret long, .'JO feet wide, and I stcuies 

 Idgh above the ba^<lMnellt story. It will be filled 

 with (0,000 spindles, 'i'he machinery is expect- 

 ed soon, and during ihe summer it will he put in 

 operation. The enterpi isi! will doubtless succeed 

 from the word "yo." 



The Profits of Fnrmins* 



The subject upon which we have recently pub- 

 lished the di.'hales of several evenings by the 

 legisl.itive agricullnral ineeiings in !\lassaclmselts 

 — and we did so iu order lo make mure public 

 two or three important points considered. One 

 point was, the profit of farming, iu Massachu- 

 setts, parlieiil.irly ; and Ihe other the statements 

 III regard to the success or failure of young men 

 engaging in mercanlile or oilier business, com- 

 pared with the success or failure of such us are 

 engaged in liiriniiig. 



In regard to ibe first topic it was ])retty clearly 

 seltled by the debates that the liuiners of IMas- 

 sachnselts realized a larger profit than do the 

 farmers of the Ifniled Stales generally. And 

 why ? Probably for two reasons which were not 

 parliciilarly slated in the debates. 



1. Because of the home market — the ready 

 market fiir all they produce — and the small ex 

 peiise in the transportation of their productions 

 lo the maiket. in this advantage ue expect the 

 farmers of Vermont will soon pariicipate, to some 

 extent, though not so fully as do the Massachu- 

 seits farmers, on account of distance. Uutlheu, 

 when the railroad lines projected into the State 

 shall be completed, the Vermont farmers will be 

 .able to compete more successfully with the far- 

 mers of Massachusetts. The comparalive cheap- 

 ness (d' their laud will fully make up for their 

 greater distance liom market. 



2. The following statements were made in the 

 meetings: — that young men are rushing lo our 

 cities to make inciicy, and this while it is a fact 

 that of all who come, only three per cent, are suc- 

 cessful: "That every foiulh young man in the 

 stores and counting rooms in the city of Boslon 

 could be spared ; and yet young men from the 

 country are rnsliing into the cily to get rich." 



Now many of these young men go fiom Ver- 

 mont, from farms osvned by their parents, and 

 large enough to make room lor the support of 

 two or three families, proviiled they were prop- 

 erly cultivated. The fllassachnsetls farmers — 

 many of them — have improved the manner of 

 riiliivaiion 30 and 50 per cent. — and here is aii- 

 olher iidvantage ihey have over llie Vermont liir- 

 niers. Their large firms have been more highly 

 cultivated, or have been divided into small liu ins, 

 and made to produce, with less labor, more than 

 do many of our large farms. 



How then can the young men of Vermont be 

 kept at home and insured a safer business than 

 to seek clerkships iu the cities.- Let those who 

 own large farms and have sous, improve their 

 ciillivation, and divide their farms, and in many 

 insiaiires this division, should it be into two or 

 three parts, wih give lo each part, or to each sun 

 a larger profit than is now realized by the lather 

 fiom the whole farm.' 'i'liis can be demonstra- 

 ted by figures. It has been demonstialed in prac- 

 tice a thousand limes. 



Soon our railroads will be ojiened into various 

 seelioiis of the Slate. Improvements like these 

 suggested, and others, might well be entered up- 

 on, in anlieipalion of their completion, — Vermonl 

 Cdtrdoniari. 



'i'he advantage of belter soil through llie whole 

 beautiful valley of the (Connecticut and especial- 

 ly iu Vermont, the Green IMomitaiii region be- 

 tw(?en llie walers of lake Champlaiu and the Cmi- 

 neclicul, is apparent to the observing traveller. 

 We lave seen no where in the United Slates land 

 so fav(Mable for raising many products ami "much 

 cattle" as iu the norlherly connlies of Vermont, 

 lj(u-<lering upon Canada. Tin; county of C;de- 

 donia is said lo produce more than any county of 

 its size in the I'nioii : in several of ils towns, as 

 i'eaeham, Danville and St. Jcdinshury, acre for 

 acre, the summer growth will sustain two for 

 one of the common pasturage wilhin forty miles 

 of Ihe s< a in Massachusells, iSevv Hampshire and 

 itla'wie. Hut the heavier kiiiils of farm produce 

 in all ihat fim^ region are too cheap for the inosi 

 profitable ciillivation. While hay at ConconI 

 reiuial in New Hampshire, is worth ten, twelve 

 and liliecn dollars the tun, at Haverhill on ihe 

 Connecticut river it is worth only six or eight 

 dotlurs. I'otutoea here through the last winter 



and spring have been worth fifty cents the l)ush 

 el: at Haverhill they would not be worth over 

 twenty-five ceiil.s. Oats ami other grains raised 

 in quantities for sale are of a price less the 

 amount of expense of transport. Six cents a 

 bushel are paid for carrying potatoes from Con- 

 cord lo Boston by railroad : we paid fifty cents 

 the bushel for bringing seed potatoes from Ha- 

 verhill the present spring. But the lime is com- 

 ing when potatoes will he carried from Concord 

 lo the sea (cir shipping as low as four cents the 

 hnsliel, and from Caledonia county in Verinout 

 for eight cents. 



The benefiis of railway coinmunicatioh to the 

 State of Vermont extending to the fine fertile 

 lands of the Lower Canada townships are scarce- 

 ly yet to be realized by the people of" that region. 

 Every thing they have there as the firoduct of 

 the soil will become valuable, because the open- 

 ing business of the seaboard and opening com- 

 merce with all parts of the world will take and 

 consume till. From this place through Vermont 

 on the way to the West and to theCanadas there 

 may he three routes that need not be rivals hut 

 may be made to ussist each other. First we have 

 the Central road by the capital of Vermont up 

 the White river after it passes the Conneclicnl: 

 then both up and down the Connecticut from 

 Lebanon to Bradford and by the valley of the 

 rassuinsic 10 lalte Memplnemagog; or perhaps 

 a branch from Canaan to Drford by the Goose 

 pond route, for which nature has left a chasm: 

 then again a branch from this Norlhern road 

 reaches from Franklin lo Bristol, and at some fu- 

 ture lime may cut off the distance a few miles 

 of the Montreal road by Meredith and lake Win- 

 nipisseogee, which will always l>e abund.iut iu 

 ils local business. Once more, the Montreal 

 road slriking through the Oliviuian valley before 

 crossing the Connecticut may take the valley of 

 ihe .\mmo1100sucl4 towards Mount Washington, 

 and thence find ils way through the Nulhegan 

 valley to Derby in ils route to Montreal. All 

 these roads, judging from the rapid advances now 

 making, may and |>rohal>ly will be completed 

 wilhin ihe next leu years. 



To norlhern New England farmers,discouraged 

 by the prospects of the past, thtre is now every 

 inducement for the future to hold on and improve 

 their lands. 



Eggs and Poi'LTav. — Among all nations, and 

 ihroughoui all grades of society, eggs have been 

 u favorite food. But iu our cities, and parliciilar- 

 ly iu winter, ihey are sold at such prices ihalfi^w 

 families coiihl afford to use them at all, and even 

 those iu easy circumstances consider them to be 

 expensive lor common use. 'I'liere is no need 

 of this. Eviuy lainUy, or nearly every fumtly, 

 can, wilh very livile trouble, have eggs in pleniy 

 during ihc year, and of all the animals domcsti- 

 c:ilet| I'ur ihe use of uiaii, ihe conimoii dung-hill 

 fowl is capable of yi»:hliug the yrealcsl profit to 

 llie owner, iu the moulh of November, I put 

 apart eleven hens and a cock, gave lliem a sniult 

 chamber iu the wood-house, defended from 

 sun ins, with an opening lo the south. I'beii 

 food, water and lime were placed on shelves cou- 

 veniiMit for them, wilh nests and. chalk nest-eggs 

 in plenty. These lM.-ii.-i contiiiued to lay eggs 

 through the winter. From these hens I received 

 an average of six eggs daily dining winter; and 

 whenever any one of lliem was disposed to sit, 

 namely, as soon as she began lo clui-k, she was 

 s(-paraled from llie others by a graled parlilion, 

 .mil her apartment darkeueil. 'I'hcse cluckers 

 were well .iiu-ndeil uiul well fed. They could 

 si'e anil partly associate ibrotigh the grates wilh 

 ihe other fowls, and as soon as any one of theso 

 [uisouers began to sing, she was liberuled, and 

 would very soon lay egL's. It is a pleasjuit thing 

 lo feed and tend a bi-vy of laying hens. They 

 may be trained so us to follow ihe children, and 



