190 



^e iarmcr'5 iltontlihj llisttor. 



in.,,iy. I'be pr..,Kire.l r„Ml.er i.l.ove is nnt suffi- 1 

 :cie..l at tl,e.e places: much of the eastward f,..- 

 Iber from Maine is called for to he transported 

 i into the interior; so that higher than the Boston 

 ' prices to the extent of the expense of trans- 

 portation, must continue to he the value of the 

 best U.Md.er far up the valleys and over the 

 mountains of the extren«; interior of this State 

 and Vermont. The value of the pine trees that 

 are growing and yet remain, has hardly at xhis 



time heen counted. 



We obtain good information from practiced 

 men in all parts of the country. The Ameri- 

 can A-ricultural Association, in the city of New 

 York has frequent meetings, at which farmers 

 fro... a distance are invited to attend. A meet- 

 ing on the 1st of Decemhcr, disclosed the follow- 

 ing information in relation to the potato crop of 

 the last season 



Mr S T. Jones i-ead a paper showmg the re- 

 sult of his cultivation of the potato on Staten 

 Island. His early potatoes, planted early m May, 

 in which case he used barn yard .nauure, proved 

 entirely free from disease. They were merce.-s, 

 kidne/and other kinds, and he had them on the 

 table, in fine order, the latter part of July. With 

 his late potatoes, planted about the 15th of June, 

 he was entirely imsuccessful, his crop bemg 

 nearly all destroyed by the disease, \yluch he at- 

 tributes to the eflect produced by an insect, num- 

 bers of which he found about his potato plants, so 

 that less than ten bushels were raise.l where one 

 hundred and eighty b.ishels shouhl have been pro- 

 duced. As in ^he case of early potatoes, barn 

 yard manure was used in the late crop a so. 

 ^ Mr. Pell, of Ulster county, saul that whde the 

 farmers in the counties on the North River had 

 generally a total failure of their ,,otato crop his 

 ve r, he had been entirely sncce.ss lul, as he had 

 been for five year5, never having lost any pota- 

 toes by the disense or rot. Fur both early and 

 Ite potatoes he had used fune as a manure 

 which those who had lost their crops had not 

 done,-so far as he had made in.pMries Ml-. 

 Pell has raised and kept over the season loi the 

 las three years, from 400 to .500 — 1-'^,;;;;^ ' 

 year. He was successful both in raising early and 

 late potatoes. 



The Cheapest JlfrnciMural Paper in the U. Slates 

 THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR, 



POELISUED AT CO.^CORD, N. H. 



Couducted by Isaac Hill. 



"Those who lahor in the earth are the chosen peopls 

 oroTU v:h.,se b.easts h« has made h^^ P^-^'" ^^P-" 

 forsubitantial and genuine Tirtue. —person. 



The Monthly Visitor has been published 



nine years in one hundred and eight successive 



numbers, containing each sixteen pages ol the 



roy 1 cuiarto size, and being of itsell a ibrary o( 



struct ve mat.er, valuable even after .ts tune, to 



e common farmer. During the tern, of its exis- 



ence in all the old thirteen Atlantic S'a'e^of ''- 



Union, there has been an avyakenmg atten M to 



the necessity of agricultural -enovation and i - 



nrovement; and in that time the six New Lng 



ll'd States in many o/ ''-•'-7'"'^'-' "™: <= 



greater agricultural advances than in a he pie- 



^ioul half a century of years. The Visitor has 



had its humble share in arousing thespiiitot m- 



ovement;innone,orvery few "^^^-^^^^'J^^l 



t published those mistaken articles calcu ate o 



mislead; it claims the alone merit of hold ng 



back the Morns Miilticaulis speculation-it has 



recommended no new plan or system of agricu - 



ture where the editor felt any uncertainty abou 



its practicability. Our aim has been to "d^i;! "" 



recommended improvements especially o New 



EuKland and to northern cultivation. 1 hat the 



VisUor has had its influence in many neighboi- 



hoods,is proved to its editor iu repeated acknowl- 



ed.ntients of its readers and patrons in all the 



New Emdand States. Especially has the editor 



been gratified in repeate.l compliments paiti o 



his paper by gentlemen farmers in bairf^ax and 



other contiguous counties in Virginia aiid Mary- 



■land, where the price of lands considered as 



' worn out,' has been doubled within the last six 



vears, and where the production of many larms 



hrou.dit forward mainly by the introdi^tion ol 



f^ree labor, has been inc.-eased four- fold Thesng- 



aestions iu the Monthly Visitor have there led 111 



ret.eated instances to this great improvement; 



and we are proud to have contributed our part 



in the "reat work of renovation. . 



Our annual subscription list has vaned ... 

 the last nine years between 2a00 and OUOO : the 



the subscription of the piese.it year bom 2.500 to 

 5000. The payment for that number at the low 

 wholesale prices will barely remunen.te us tor 

 the printing and agency. Coming up to that 

 number, we will promise for the paper the dress 

 of a new type in the course of the year. 



After the next number of the present year, the 

 Visitor will be issued from the Bookstore ot 

 JOHN F. BROWN, to whom all subscrijilions 

 and comiminications(paidor free of postage if 

 possible) may be directed as for the business of 



the new year. „ . , 



Relvin.r on the efforts of our friends to increase 

 the ciicuFatiou of the paper for the new year, we 

 again propose the old 



TERMS. 

 To single subscribers, Fijly Cents. Ten per 

 cent, will be allowed to the person who shall 

 send more than one subscriber. Twelve copies 

 will be sent for the advance payment ol twe 

 Dollars; twenty-five copies for Ten Dollars ; 'oix- 

 ty copies for Twenli) Dollars. The payment in 

 every case to be made iu advance. 



yfr=Money and subscriplioifs bij a re^ulalion of 

 Ihe Post Mtsler General, maj/ in all cases be remit- 

 ted hi the Post Master, free of postage. 



(r7=AII f'entlemen who have heretofore acted 

 as Agents are requested to continue their Agen- 

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(r?= Subscribers' names, as far as ol.tained, 

 maYbe returned to JOHN F. BROWN, Concord, 

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Agents can if they please retain the heading 

 of their subscription for new subscribers. 

 Concord, JV. H., Dec. Alh, 1847 



smaller number will scarcely pay the ordinary ex- 

 ne.ises of publication at the reduced prices.-- 

 The labor of the editor all the time has been ^rahu- 

 tous. ■ The loss in the two first years by the lail- 

 in-e of cur first Boston agent of about isSUU, 

 took from us the |uofits of the work when the 

 price was seventy-five cents: reduce.l to hliv 



Amount of Corn on Two Acres. 



Ma.FuiToa:-I want to notice through the V'^^'^^ ^- ^^^•^^^;'];^-^-;^^^^,^,,,,i\,ev., we 

 S^^M-?'cnwltn':ai:;r';;,:^u Iwotq -;-:l t,:^:\o p.. expenses without 



of" land, the past season, and also the way that 1 

 01 1,11 u, 11. I . ..... ,1,,. on,i, ,,i rtiMiiHiiiber. 



nised il 'List fall about the '-'Oih of ^^cpleu.ber, 

 1 ploughed and subsolled two acres ol rather 

 ,ou.'h,swar,led, gravelly land, and lu the spring 

 1 spread on seventy cartfuls of manure from the 

 baiu cellar, and ploughed it m. Aber cross 

 nlouHiiu-, I harrowed it well, ami Inrro.ved it 



.otliway; three feet and a half apart, and put 

 tweu.y-seveii loads of good comi.ost manure lu 

 the hill ; I planted it the lllb .■ui.l 12ili ol May.- 

 1 hoed iJ svell .ui,-e. This f.ll g^UH-red ,t and 

 hu.sked it out, and had eiioUL'li for 21/ bushels ol 



good corn. Vours truly, 



"' Jo.i.N Dav, Jr. 



fVesl Bitford. Mii: 1317. 



Two hundred and seventeen bushels are not 

 often harvested from two acres ol land, though 

 we somelin.es hear of more. Oi.e quart ol corn 

 from each hill, will give 125 bushels per acre: 

 that i.s when there aie 4000 hills, as there will 

 be when they stand one pace aparl.-.Unss«c/a(- 

 sells Ploughman. ^^^^ 



CnARCOAL.— Powdered charcoal, or the rnfu.se 

 of the heap, should be thickly streweil over ev- 

 ery place where filth is allowed 10 accumulate. 

 It absorbs the bad smell, and makes an excdient 

 manure of what mherwise would not on y be 

 li.seless but ofK^nsive. It ids,, prevenls the Ian.,' 

 of insects from liL^eoming flies or iiiolhs. I igs 

 like to ciil charcoal, .-md .ue thought to fatten on 

 it -and in the course of the summer iiioulhs, I 

 iVeu.iently have a bushel or so at a tune ihr.nvii 

 ovrr the pen. It makes the manure so mueli 

 the m.ire valuable that 1 fiml it worth while to 

 buy it for the purpose. — ihneriean Jlgricultiin.it. 



Iiave been fortunate to i>ay expenses without 

 any remuneration for editorial abors. 



I, has been our own fault that the eirculatiou of 

 the Visitor has not been double what it now is: 

 the i.aper has all the time been published as 

 secondary and subsidiary to another uewspapei 

 of more 'importance in a pecuniary point ol 

 vievvto its 'proprietors. The proper atteii ion 

 has not been paid to its regularity of publi...- 

 tion and delivery. At the commencement of 

 the new year «e propose to make it a suiisian- 

 tive publiVation standing on its own bottom-to 

 liave it come out as regularly as may be on he 

 last day of every mouth, that every subscribei 

 niay look li.r certainty the time of its arrival.- 

 Tl,-,. editor cannot reproach hiuisell wilh any 

 wautof attenlinn in the last nine years in con- 

 ,l„c-tiug the Visitor: coushlering what '""' ''"■'' 

 the .-tale of his lieallb a portion of the last live 

 year.-, he is not ashamed of his written hiborjj as 

 a novice iu a-riculture. He is conf.aeu. ol h,^ 

 capacity 10 do more good iu the snc-eed.ug Uy, 



' .*'. .1 „i,..l tl.nii in Ihii lust 



High Cdltivation.-Iu the Hudson river, just 

 below Albany, is Van Rensselaer's island, con- 

 taining about It^O acres, which lor loO years has 

 been cultivated mostly as a kitchen garden. 1 

 is at present occupied by eight tenants, most ol 

 whom reside here in summer, but generally re- 

 move iu the fall or fore part of winter, ill order 

 to avoid the freshets which in spring lay the 

 island under water to the depth of from lour to 

 ten feet. In consequence of the liability to in- 

 „ndatioii,uo buildings are erected here but those 

 of a cheap and temporary character. It is lie- 

 Quently late in the season before the ""'^'f ^;'';- 

 .ide sufficiently to admit cultivation, but fioru 

 the fertililV of the soil and its favorable exposure, 

 the "routii of vegetation is very rapid, and most 

 artides are obtained here earlier than any where 

 clseiu the vicinity, if grown without artificial 



"^This island rents for ten to eighteen dollars 

 acre, some parts being considered more 



ie'ii-s, if not utterly prostrnled, than in tl 



niiiii 



hered with the days beyond the 



live now 



"wiiile our paper is the cheapest in the coun- 

 try for Ihe quantity and value of its matter, it l^ 

 «i,cli a publication as interferes with t le ciicula- 

 tiou of none of the other useful l"'''''^-"""'.';" 

 the ilay. It has no controversy wAh any of iIr 

 religions or political dogmas of sects or pailies 

 -it%is presented no matter calculated topio- 

 voke the hostility of the mendacious, to awaken 

 olKStinate prejudice, or to raise a '' "^1' "l-ou the 

 ,l,eek of iiiodesiy-it is fi.Ieil lor the r^^f^^J'l 

 l„„l, the pa,-loraud the kitchen. "We shall tl), 

 ami we hope all our tVieiuls will aid us, to raise 



ner acre, sumo |ju. ..-. ■.^■■■,-, -- — . 



Valuable than others. Its products ai'e wo tli 

 from nvelve to fifteen thousand dollars (annually. 

 Home instances of cultivation show' a product 

 uhich if equalled on the whole island, would 

 "ive a much greater aggregate. 



Mr. C. Bates has occupied eighteen acres 01 

 fourteen years, and his products have amounted 

 to $2,500 to 3,000 per year. Some ot his crop.s 

 are very heavy. C.bbages, for i»«tauce, are set 

 about 'ii by 2 feet apart, which P«;.';"'t» ^' '; 

 niants per acre. Au average price of the a tic e 

 nay be co.isidercd three cents per liea.l, wlm , 

 if the ground was fully occupied, would gno 

 «o,;i 8G per acre. Mr. 15. once sold a ball acie 

 ^Fiaiibageonthe ground, for $145. He has 

 this se.ison about four acres in cabbage. It .^ 

 ricult ,0 tell what is the average yield pe.- ac e 

 of diirerent articles, as many ol then, are taken 

 .while they are growii,., and »t first wbilo 

 „ lite small. Mr. B. however, is couhdcu that 

 ,; ts w II average from 800 to ICOO bushels per 

 ,cre ami carrots, he thinks, will average I,_.00 

 h IS he . He measured one .season, the product 

 of seve.-al rods which yielde.l at the rate ol l.bOC 

 tXu per acre. I le Vaises carrots, not on .v foi 

 ;;;;Uet,lutlbrfi.edii,ghishor..s. nsc« 



„v in re-ard to their value for this puiposr 

 \Cs with that of most others who have triee 



them. A peck to a h.ilf hnsi.el per .hiy, lo, eaci 

 oV e pro.' uces an excellent effect, ecpeciall. 



,„.,ard's ti.e latter part '"'•"■''^'-'^"■''•^"; ', "^ 

 1 to start the coat of the animal.-.'/W."'.'/ < "' 



Otto of roses is the oil which swims on lop i 

 the distillation of rose water. 



