so 



^l)e i?av?!Kv'£:-5 illantfjit) bieator. 



u.;illi, liiis lixeil its oiilv iiitil hist iihoile. It is to 

 tliiii ide.'il ri'gioii, tlmt tlie Gi^niiaii peiisiiiit'ti 

 ijiIik! if ^eiiliy vv.-iliccl ini iIil" uiMs.'" "i' iiicloily, 

 liv tlie soli viiices (iT liis uiTc, (hiii^rlrtcrs iiiiil 

 M)iis, loijcilit' r xviili the slr.-iins ol' iiis ciwii flute 

 111- liMUilioy. Il is MiMsir, in liiet, wliicli, whilt* 

 Freiicliim;!!, Jiiissi.iiis--, ;iii(l Eii^li>liiii(*ii lord it 

 ovi'r Piirlii iiiiil liCiis, li;is ^ivuii lo Gfiiiriins the 

 Uiidispiitud swiiy iit liniiiiiiless iiiiaf;iiiar_v ¥|iace. 



Improving Meadow and Swamp Lands. 



Hun. DAMEL p. Kl>'(i's STATEMENT. 



T'o Ihe Co.-iiinilkv on RedaimiDg .Meadow Lamis, 



/'or the Jissex Countij .'JgricuHwal Socicti/. 



{iE.\TJ.EME-\ — I liavi^ iiiii(li) several fX|)i'iiiiients 

 ill iiii|)ri)viii^' «ul iiii'ailiivv anil prat l.iiids wliu'li 

 1 will, as liiielly as |i(issil)li', stale to _\oii. 



On I. mil wliii-li admits of |il()ii<;liin;;, I have 

 j/l.iiited |ii>t.iti(rs on ru.irse slalile riianine ; alter 

 reiiiiiviii;; Ilie rri)|i, I li.ive siiweil uinter lye and 

 liciils and red tu|) seed, as late as Nuveiiiljer, and 

 tliev liave always irrovvii well and {jiven jjood 

 cioj)3. Alter a tew \ears tlie fjrass will degene- 

 rate, and 1 liave loniiil niiloaclied wood .islies the 

 best apidieatiun to invigorate the soil. 



1 have s|iread gravel and the accumulations un- 

 der an old harn floor on a Wel meadow, and 

 sown grass seed, and the crop has heeii very 

 lieavy. 



In 1831^), I ploughed Tony pules of peat mea- 

 dow, and planted potatoes on coarse stahle ma- 

 liiire. 1 harvested in the lid! sixty hiishels ol'ex- 

 celieiit potatoes. The next spring 1 again ploiigli- 

 ed, aiiil applied a compost of tilteen hnshels of 

 hone maiiiiie and three cart lotids of loam: on 

 this 1 rai.-rd a large crop of sugar lieets iitid ruta 

 haga ; one of the liiririer, weighing with the 

 tops, seventeen pounds, and one ol the latter, 

 twenty five pounds. Tlie ground appeared like 

 a rich lied of compost, and I carted Iroiu it tell 

 cords which I spread upon upland gras.s. In the 

 liill, one cord of horse manure was ploughed in 

 and winter rye and grass seed sovmi. In July, 

 1811, 8 hiishels of rye were reaped, and soon al- 

 ter, a good crop of grass. In August, of the 

 same year, a second crop of grass was cut on 

 this piece. This year, the first crop of hay was 

 flfiy hiindreil to tlii^acre, and the second, twenty. 



i have drained four other pieces which were 

 so miry that oxcii could not travel over them. 

 The jieat liw fuel fully pays the expense of ditch- 

 ing. The annual cro|i lieforu my iiiiprovemeut 

 was not worth a shilhng per acre : it was buck 

 horn and low hushes. This meadow has heeli 

 ]iired with a topping knife to tha de|ilh ot' three 

 anil fiiur inclics, according to the depth of the 

 wild L'lass and roots, then cm iiilo sijiiares of tif- 

 teen inches and iiivcried. Coarse stahle uiaiiiire 

 has heen wheeled on, polat<ies dropped and cov- 

 ered with llie loosest sods. Ijillle lahor is re- 

 quired in hoi'iiiL'. The r-rops of potatoes li.ive 

 heen ^'ood io qu.iiitity, and excellent in cpialiiy. 

 Till Ihis year, when a (larl of the meadow was 

 flooded hy the heavy rains in June, the erop has 

 been two hundred liushel.s to the acre. Cahliages 

 and beets have also done well. Alter .securing 

 the crop of potalo.-s, I have taken oft' the loose 

 toppings ami used them fiir compost. The quan- 

 tity removed is not Ijir fi-oiii sixty cords to the 

 :ini'. The loiighi-sl and most rooly sods 1 have 

 burned on the iiie.idow, and spread the ashes, but 

 the aslies so appli.-d, have not eipiilled my ex- 

 pectations. Aliei removing the sods, the smfiice 

 was levelled with rakes, and winter rye and 

 grass seed sown. This was on the si.xteeiuli of 

 November. Early in the spriiij;, 1 spread on the 

 ineailovv woolen waste from a carpet fiictory, and 

 on a part of ii, a compost of hen maniiru ami 

 loam. The lainr producd a most Inxuri.int 

 groivth. The ryi.' w.is partly winter killed, lait 

 wliat survived was rank and heavy. .Alter reap- 

 iiiir the rye. more than thirty hundred to the aiue 

 of grass a)id stnhble was mowed, and another 

 crop miL'ht have heen iiKide, hut I preli.-rred to 

 feed it oH\ 



'I he present season I have treated iwo parcels 

 in the same manner except th.it I have sown 

 finvl me.idow- wiili the herds grass mid red top, 

 and 1 have not sown rye,.^t'or I find that ordinarily 

 the gra.ss will he liirwai/d eiKuigh to mow the 

 summer sifter sowing in the tiill. I had doubts 

 of the expediency of sowing so late as Novem- 

 ber, hut my success has eucoiirrged me to repeat 

 the exj-eriiiieiit. 1 have a compost of loam and 



.•stable iiianure, which I intend to spretul on my 

 reclaimed lueailows. 1 consider tlieiii the most 

 profitable l.uid-for grass, and the toppings re- 

 moved afiind a licli contiihiition to the htuii 

 yard, pig pi'U, and compost heap. 



The ([uanlity of laiui on which I have made 

 experiments, exceeds three acre.«. 

 Respectful I v suhmitted, 



D.\.NJEL P. KING. 



Danvers, Nov. ], 184Q. 



.Mo.NUME.NT TO UuR.Ns' FIlGMLA.ND IMaRT. — 



This inoiliimeut has now Ik^cii complt;ted over 

 the irrave of llighl.iuil i\lary,io the West Church- 

 yard, Greenock ; and it will be no longer noticed 

 i%ith regret, as has often been done by strangers, 

 that there was not even a stone to mark the rest- 

 ing place of a uiaideii whose love inspired some 

 of the most iiiipassioiied lyrics which have en- 

 riched our own or any other language. The 

 erection is more of the Koiiiaii than the Grecian 

 style of architecture, is pyramidal in form, and 

 may be said to be divided into two compart- 

 ments, the cornice stones lu'tween which are 

 beatilifnily and elaborately carved. The first or 

 lower coiii|iartiiient contains the inscription tab- 

 let. The sei'ond hears a bas-relief of Burns and 

 .Mary Campbell, representing their p.artirig scene, 

 when they plighted troth and exchanged IJihIes 

 across the "stream around the Castle of Mont- 

 gomery." The artist li.is been peculiarly h.-ippy 

 in depicting the position of the happy pair at 

 this hallowed ptirting ; and few who have seen 

 a correct likeness of the bard can fail to recog- 

 nize it upon the beantifiil Ayrshire stone which 

 has been lised, ahlioii;;li it has been necessary, 

 to be in keeping with llie truth, to impart to the 

 features a more juvenile cast to those in which 

 Robert Bnriis is usually represented. The third 

 coiii|.artiiient (•onttiiiis a figure emblematical of 

 iiriefi bending over ill! nrn with iier arms encir- 

 cled, and oo w hicli is carved the word "Mary." 

 Above her head, aiirl almost lit the apex of the 

 pyramid, a star wiili rays is cut, in lemembrance 

 of' the beautiful invocation of" Mary in lle.iveii." 

 The inscription on the inonuiuent is simply 

 couched tis tiillows: — "Sacred to Genius and 

 Love— to Burns and Hii;hl,-iiid Mary." The 

 inonument stands about J7 fi^et high, was erected 

 at the cost of £100, and is by fiir the most iiiipo- 

 siiig object 111 this old cliurcjiyard. 



More Intellisrence Necessary. 



All Ohio coriespoiideiil ot the Genesee Far- 

 mer makes some observations which may prove 

 valuable to tlio.se wlio choose to heed them. He 

 says : — 



" Whatever may he regarded as the remote 

 C.mses of embarrassiuent, it is certain that it is 

 none toe less real ; nor is il easy to prescribe the 

 mode, or predict the period, of recovery. One 

 thing, liov\ever, has sini<-k me as a titvor.-ilile 

 omen, that is, the liirmeis tliron^houl the whole 

 coimlry are beginning to inquire into the causes 

 and condition ot' the present state of things, and 

 are arousing thems.-lves to aclion on the subject. 

 Many of them begin to suspect that lliey have 

 been blinded and misled by designing men, and 

 that much of the <•» il might h.ive been avoided, 

 if Ihe :;reat laboriiux ami producing class had 

 been rightly inliiruied and on tlieir ;i:uard, so as 

 to have checked the %\ild scheuie.s of aiiiliiiioiis 

 politicians. This leads them In see the absolute 

 iii'cessity tlieie is that tiirmers in this country 

 should be men of more general intelligence — 

 should have more know ledge of the principles of 

 political eccuiouiy, and read and believe some- 

 thing besides what is foniid in their own one- 

 sided parly newspaper. 1 have never observed 

 ■imoug fai luers such a breaking up of party preju- 

 dices, and such a disposition to inquire alter 

 knowledge, as at present." 



Book Farmi.vg. — Show me a thrifty, practical 

 and expeiiii.emal liirmer, and I vvill show you a 

 mall who reails works on ALuiciihure. or who 

 borrows bis hints from a neighbor who takes 

 Agricultural papers. 



Show me a tinnier whose fences are going to 

 decay — whose h.df starved cattle are strolling 

 over !i brush field — and I will slioi+ you a man 

 who, if be is not on the relrogade track, takes 

 too lilile interest in agriculture to patronize an 

 agricultural pa|ier. — !■'. Cabinet. 



New Arm ok the iMilitarv.— \Ve fiiiil ih<; 

 fiillowiug extracts t'roiri ihevoliiiue of the British 

 Natiiralisi's I.ilirary, conceriiing Ijr.ES, i:i a late 

 iiuuiher of the Louihin Quarterly. They con- 

 tain the only !i;i|ilic.uioii of the auger of bees to 

 useliil purposes, which we have ever seen re- 

 corded : 



" .\ small privateer with forty or fifty men, 

 lu;ving on bo.iril some hives made of earthen 

 ware, full of bees, was pursued hy a Turkish gal- 

 ley inaiined by .500 seaiiien and soldiers. As 

 .soon as the latter came alou:;side, the crew of 

 the privateer motiiiled the ringing with their 

 hives, anil hurled them down ou Ibe deck of llie 

 galley . The Turks, astoiiishe<l at this tioveJ 

 method of warfare, and mi.ible to del'end lliem- 

 .selves from the stiiigs of the enraged lii'es, be- 

 came so terrified that ihey llioii.;lit of nolhiiu; 

 but how' to escape their li.ry : while the crew of 

 the small vessel, defeiidi d by masks and gloves, 

 flew upon the eii-my sword in hand and captur- 

 ed the galley almost without resistance." 



Tlie reviewer well rem irks tliat "it must 

 strike the reader bow well furuisheil this vessel 

 must have heen to afford at the moinent ' masks 

 and gloves' fiir forty ineu." 



The other extract contains an a|iplication of 

 the same military arm to the pur|iose of pre- 

 serviiiir the peace : 



"During the confiisiiui occasioned by a time 

 of war in 1.52.5, a nest of peasants assemblini; in 

 llolmsiein, in Tliiirin^ia, attempted to pillage 

 the ho;;se of the miui.sier of Eleiide, w ho, hav- 

 ing ill vain employed all his elojiieiice to dis- 

 suade them from their desiifii, ordered his do- 

 meslics to fetch bis bee hives, and throw them 

 in the middle of this flirions mob. The eft'ect 

 was what luiglit be expected: the peasants were 

 immediately put to flight, and those were laijipy 

 who escaped imstmig." 



Rules worth beiu? observed by Farmers. 



1. Porlorm every operation in the proper sea- 

 son. 



2. Perform every operation in the best man- 

 ner. 



3. Alw.iys keep your implements and tools in 

 the best order. 



4. Finish one job before you begin iiutither. 



5. .After fiiiishiiii: a job always return your 

 tools to their proper places. 



(5. Don't put in a crop too large to cultivate 

 well. 



7. Personally attend to every operation, and 

 see that it be effectiiallv doiie;— Baft. Farmer. 



White Carrots. — This is a new species of 



that valuable root, and from its nncoimuon pro- 

 diiciiveiiess niiisi be an iiiipoitalit acqitisilioii in 

 field root culture. i''or milcli cows and any other 

 stock, if is a citeap and lii-li fiioil. From our 

 own experience we are enabled to sav, its growth 



excels tlie con n oraniie I'arrot in its yield. 



I'nlike oihers, it projrcls several inches out of 

 the ground, like the sugar beet, or long turnips. 

 In rich soil with deep tilth, the prodiiciion is 

 enormous. Twenty-two tons are said, hy the 

 Ainericaii .Agricniiiirist, to have been raiseil per 

 acre this year in Massachusetts. — Farmf/'s Vaii- 

 inet. 



Relic or Burns. — A detemiiiied bookworm of 



t!ie aniiquari.iu sclic:ol, and a native of Ayrshire, 

 entered some time ago, ibe liouse, or rather hovel 

 of a Kilmarnock vender of odds .•mil enil.s. His 

 errand at the time w.as to pick up a liivorite classic 

 volume ; and, while engaged in inspecting wares 

 nearly as iiiiisty as the catacombs of Egypt, his 

 eye at length rested on a veteran volume, en- 

 titled " Grammaire Angloise Francois," which he 

 purchased more fiir its antiquity than appaii lit 

 utility. The lioards were completely torn a«ay, 

 and covers appended, first of irray paper, next 

 jiart of a manuscript which seemed a letter, and 

 above alia coarse snip of leather. On reuioviiig, 

 1. 1st week, one of the pieces of paper, he recog- 

 nised in it a tide paye. from which he learnt that 

 the book had been impriuleil in 177'J. .Anxious 

 to see more of the literary skeleton, he removed 

 the other rude covering.s, and In his joy, discover- 

 ed on one of the leaves an antograpli dear to his 

 heart — " Robin Burns." Thus stimulated. In; 

 proceeded to nnrol liirlher what to liiui was a 

 greater prize than an Egyptian inuiiiiny, and at 



