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i^\)t Jarmcr's ittontl)lu Visitor. 



The Grare of a Dog. 



Mr. Cli.inillpr, of the U. S. Gazette, in a very 

 toiirhin^ and lieaiililbl article, tlesoribes a visit to 

 the grave of a favorite and fiiithlitl <lo2. It is too 

 lohft for lis, hut we cannot resist mailing the fol- 

 lovvinj: extract: — 



It is not seemly to inonrn for a dofr; hut when 

 for eleven years the animal has followed yonr 

 footsteps — when his clear voice has greeted your 

 return, or when, coiled u]) at yonr feet, day after 

 day, he has lifted his flexible eyebrows and turn- 

 ed his dark eye to see when yon would leave the 

 writins-tahle and ^o forth for his pleasure, as he 

 had tarried for you, you feel as if the death of 

 even a doir ujiglit warrant a melancholy sensa- 

 tion, and be pleaded in excuse fur a recollection 

 at least for his canine virtues. 



Hunter had become a sort of jirecursor of our 

 own comings; and those who would meet ns, as 

 we came to or went from our office, would watch 

 for Hunter that they might find us. A feeling 

 had sprung up between us, and we had learned 

 even to check each other's faults. He undoubt- 

 edly had the most to do, or at least the most to 

 suffer, in that respect, but still he tried, and some- 

 times succeeded. I 

 The poor dog 1 ad become a member of the 

 family when it was small; and the flock that had 

 risen up like olive branches aroimd our table, 

 were afl'ectionately guarded and tenderly fondled 

 by Hunter. 'But he never ronlcsscd the right of 

 mastership in them. He took his ])lace on the 

 hearth-rug before tiiem with \is much indepen- 

 dence as if they had been his offspring instead 

 of ours; and when business or pleasure called 

 us from the city, he look upon hirn.-elf the guar- 

 dianship of the domestic circle, and declined his 

 daily visit to the office, as much as if he had a 

 pecuniary investment in the dwelling, or was 

 morally and legally responsible for the welfare of 

 its inmates. 



Hunter had been in perils. He was bitten, 

 ■with one other canine friend, by a mad dog. His 

 friend died with hydrophobia — kind attention 

 saved'Hunter. He remembered it to the last; 

 and when the sickness cauje bom which he was 

 vroi relieved, the beseecliing look and the particu- 

 lar emphasis of his moan showed that he re- 

 membered with gratitude favors past, and desired 

 a re-application of the remedies. But he asked 

 in vain. He pined anay, and facidly after facul- 

 ty departed, until voice failed, the hearing ceased, 

 the eye was lilted up slowly but dim, and the 

 tail slightly moved, to intimate iiis recognition of 

 him wl'.o had been so long Iiis companion, and 

 his last effort was to lick the delicate hand of a 

 child who had come to take his leave of the Inst 

 one that seemed twined with his earliest tore, 

 and whose name was the first word he had artic- 

 lihited. 



Old Samson tcok the dog in his barrow, and 

 went forth with a measured step to find a place 

 where he triight give him the decency of liinial, 

 without intruding uikiu the repose of human 

 beings who, made ifi a belter image, justly claim 

 a sanctity lor their dust. 



The little procession, as it weul forth, had with 

 it something of a tonchitjg air. The body of 

 Hunter was decently covered, not ostentatiously, 

 lest ridicule should attach to the scene, and Sam- 

 son had put on his best clothes, avowedly le.-s 

 for funeral purposes than that he might appear 

 decently belijre the mistress. Little Willy, tlie 

 only follower of the train, had drawn his cap 

 over his eyes, to hiile a few hasty tears, and "as 

 regulating his stt>p by the solemn and measured 

 movement of Samson. Few felt .m interest to 

 inquire what was hidden beneath the while pall, 

 and the unwonted njelaucholy of ihc boy was 

 suffered to pass without inquiry. 



When the procession hail rejM-bed the place 

 of sepidture the body was lowere<i, not thown, 

 into the grave, and Samson i-einarked that the 

 collar was still about Hunter's neck, ''ril lake it 

 off," said he; "it will do (or another dog." 



Little Willy leaned over and looked down into 

 the grave; and llien, lifting his streaming eye to 

 his sable companion, he said, "No, let it be, Sam- 

 eon, let it be. I don't wan(»!my more dogs; and 

 if I do have one, I don't want to see Hunter's 

 collar on his neck." 



Samson sodded up the grave and turned to- 

 wards him. " Will vou rido in the bariow ?" said 

 he to Willy. 



Tim child turned and looked at the carriage 

 with a shudder, and walked onwards. 



When Willy reached home he went and sat 

 down alone beside Hunter's " house" and wept a 

 flood of tears; and it was oidy when the memo- 

 rials of his faithful friend, more than twice his 

 own age, had been removed, that he could dry 

 up his tears. And even now the mention of 

 the dog makes the "clouds return aftei- the rain," 

 and cast a gloom over the sunny spirit of the 

 child. 



For the Farn!e,r's Monthly Visitor. 

 John Smith ou Rose Water. 



Mr. Editor: — I am right glad to see that .'Mr. 

 John Smith is yet alive, and that he has furnish- 

 ed the Visitor with an article on Rose water. I 

 know not whether it is the old manor the young 

 i!:an who writes,'bnt they have both been report- 

 ed as dead. 



In Mr. Smith's article on rose water, he says, 

 "fiom the loses as they blossom daily they must 

 be gathered and the leaves pulled li-oin the stems 

 and salted down in stone jars, or in a keg or 

 bucket-" As I was much employed in this busi- 

 ness when a boy, 1 ctui from experience give a 

 better way siill. 1 used to get up early before 

 the dew was off; and go to the wild rose bushes, 

 which grew in great plenty by the road side near 

 my house, and iiluck the new blown rose, bud 

 and leaves together. These were put into enrth- 

 cm pots {cheaper than stone) as soon as brought 

 home with the dew on. A layer of salt was put 

 on the boitoii', then one of roses, then of salt, 

 and so on. I have filleil several pail pots in a 

 season, all done in the morning before I went to 

 school. A i)ot of buds and leaves together, that 

 is, the whole rose put in, will make more rose 

 water than the leaves alone, and it is done with 

 a qnailer of the work. Wild roses m.ake better 

 rose water than those which are cidtivated, or 

 the double ones. 



1 hope that Mr. Smith's communication will 

 be heeded. There is no better spice for pies and 

 cakes for mv taste than rose water. J. W. P. 



4th. To take advantage in a bargain is virlunl- 

 hj to make money out of another's pocket, who 

 is not aware of it. Worldlings call it 'fair play,' 

 but honest men call it 'cheating and swindling.' 



5th. The only just means of increasing wealth, 

 are constant industry^true economy of time as 

 well as money — well directed labor, and the regu- 

 lar application of a jiorlion of oiu' profits to in- 

 crease our capital. 



Gtli. Never expect your lands to give yon much 

 if you give them litllc ; nor to niake you rich, if 

 you make them ■poor. Therefore, always manure 

 them to the full extent of your means, and they 

 will make you ample returns in rapidly increas- 

 ing productions. 



7th. Economy, not less than humanity, reijiiires 

 yon to keep all your farming stock in a thriving 

 condition, for a working unimal in good order 

 will do much more work, and eiit less than a 

 poor one ; while the rest of yonr stock well kept, 

 will yield more of everything, than double their 

 number, if half starved, as such animals often 

 are. 



8th. To ' save at the spiggot, and let out at the 

 bniiiT,' will soon empty the highest hogshead ; so 

 will economy in smtdl matters, and waste in 

 large ones, speedily squander the largest estate. 



9ili. In all farming operations, never forget 

 that time like money, if once lost or mis-spent, 

 is forever past recovery. 



10th. Constantly arrange, before hand, ihe dai- 

 ly work of yonr farms. Then none of your 

 laborers need ever be idle. 



The Curse OF Ill-Tempeh. — A modern wri- 

 ter thus forcibly depicts the evils of a great in- 

 firmity : 



"Ill-temper! thou tronhled ami liarrassing 

 spirit, sent by the enemy of mankind to blast the 

 happiness of all who yield to thy influence 1 who 

 keepest more than half of the human race with- 

 in thy dark and stormy dominions! What an 

 abode of peace, and joy, and love, would this 

 earth be it ihou wert exterminated. Villains and 

 their crimes only disturl) us at times, as tempests 

 ohscm-e the simimer sky; but n hen Iho'n spreadest 

 thy tlusky wings, the brightness of the daily sun 

 is lost, and lbs flowers that spring up in the 

 thorny path of life are blighted under thy bane- 

 ful shadow." 



ToiWATo Pickles. — Take tomatoes when two- 

 thirds ripe — prii'k Ihem full of holes with a fiirk; 

 then make a strong brine, boil it ami skim it. — 

 Vi hen cool put \onr tomatoes in; let them re- 

 main eight days, and then take out and put ihem 

 in weak vinegar. Let tiiein remain tueniy-fonr 

 hours; then lake them nut and lay a laying ol 

 tomatoes, then a lliiu laying of oinons, uilh a 

 leaspnonful each of cimiamou, cloves and pep- 

 per, and a lablespoonful of mustard; then pour 

 ou sharp vinegar. You may put them in jars, if 

 vou like. — Mich'san Farmer. 



Maxims and Precepts for yonug Farmers. 



1st. Love not money for its own sake ; still less 

 for the power it gives you to gratify selfish and 

 sinlul passions. But (ail not to regard it as ihe 

 most efficient means to accomplish all benevolent 

 purposes. You will tliuj make it a blessing in- 

 stead of a curse, both lo yourselves and others. 



2d. True economy consists not so much in 

 savhig money, as in spenduifr it when niatle, solely 

 and jtw'iciouslij for purposes really useful. This 

 annually increases your profits, instead of dimin- 

 ishing or keeping them stationary. 



3d. ,'\void debt as vou would a peslilence, i\ir 

 it humbles, debases, and degrades a man in his 

 own eyes; subjects him to insults and persecu- 

 tions from others; but still worse, it is a perpet- 

 ual temp-tation, however anxiously resisted, to 

 fraud, falsehood, nnd thell — nay, not unfreipient 

 ly, to despair and self murder. 



0;^ We copy the two following communica- 

 tions on the sidiject of harvesting and securing 

 grain, from the Michigan Farmer of July ]5. — 

 A person of om- acquaintance, who has resided 

 some three years in a wheat growing setlion of 

 New York, informs ns that the farmers of that 

 region, after cutting their grain, secure it in the 

 " Dutch shocks," or " stooks" as they are there 

 called, with the most complete success. Their 

 stooks are formed prcck-iely as mentioned in the=e 

 conmmnications, and during the three seasons 

 he resided there, he never knew or heard of any 

 grain being injured by bad weatlwir while m 

 stoaks. 



From the Michigan Farmer. 

 To Professional and Practical Farmers. 



1I.\R VESTING. 



As in ethics, so in Farming, we should prove 

 all things, and hold fast that which is good. For 

 your present number, 1 feel disposed to offer you 

 a few remarks on the time, mode and manner of 

 harvesting. 



I have not time, if disposed, to enter into a 

 long disquisition ujion any of the topics ctmnec- 

 ted with the securing of crops, but would simply 

 offer a few of the results deduced from the ex- 

 periments of some of our most experienced and 

 sci^^ntific farniers — foi there are many such, (Gi.'d 

 bless them!) and they are doing more towards 

 promotinjf the prosperity and hap[>iness of iheir 

 fellow.s, than any oilier class of scieniific men. 

 He who exjilores the broad expanse of heaven, 

 and follnvvj^the planets in their couise, is not 

 doing halfso much praclieallyfcto benefit_the 

 world, as he who delves the ground and follows 

 the plough in its course. , 



Wheat should be cut much jireener th.nn most, 

 of our I'ariuers are in the practice of doing. — 

 Experiments have shown that it not only makes 

 ivhiter una belter flour, but more of it — two very 

 great desideratums. It should be cut before the 

 berry becomes hard, and he who has n large 

 harvest should begin whilst it is quite green. — 

 Wheal that is left standing till llie berry is hard 

 and quite ripe, not only loses mneli by shelling, 

 but the flour is of an inferior quality and much 

 hroivner. Let some of our farmers who are 

 faithless and unbelieving, try the the experiment. 

 It will cost but a trifle, and they will then be 

 satisfied that an acre, cut green, will produce 

 more bushels and of a better quality, than whan 

 suffered to stand and ripen thoroughly in the 

 field. . , " 



Many of our Michigan farmers are too .sloven- 

 ly in their mode of harvesting. This manner 

 has been partly induced by the low price of 

 wheat, and partly by the scarcity of labor, but 

 more from the ruinous practice of sowing more 

 ground than they can sow well and reap trell, ac 

 cording to their means. Surely, if itisprofitabi 



