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(iThc Jaimcv's iUnntl]ln bimiox. 



l)Bfn made ii|ioii land llinl have been Ireiiclifil, 

 or tunieil to iIk- iI.>|)IIi ol' bf-tweeii one and iwo 

 leet. Sin:li ctrorls avu ib-erned toi) tbrinidablo 

 and expensive in a connliy wlieip land is plenty 

 and labor nnn-liliiijlier llian in the old eonnlnes 

 abinad. Bnt have we not by our inventions been 

 enabled, and »re we not mm- able to do almost 

 as iinieli with our subsoil plonahs, and at a small 

 expense ? For a rro|> that will lust fur hall a een- 

 inrv, ean we not afford to pre|>ar« the L'ronnd by 

 efforts a liille more than is i-onnnonly reflnin d ? 

 and iloes no! this appear well adapted lor lhose_ 

 near onr towns anil rities, where the means of 

 |",'riiliziiii' and renewinji the soil are at hand, ami 

 whei-e it is so desirable to keep one or two eows? 

 On a mellow .soil deeply ploughed or stirred, ami 

 if the land is already L'o'od, it may be top dressed 

 with wood .ashes, wiiicli is a conjrenial manure 

 to all kinds of clover. Sow this seed at tlie 

 late of twenty five pounds of seed to the acre in 

 the month of .May. I remarked that where ashes 

 had been spread,"the seeil took much belter than 

 where there have been non". It will not make' 

 miicl) ofan appear.ance the fii'sl year, and \\ ill not 

 be fit 10 cut until the second season. 'The first 

 vear it woidd he well to keep down th(T weeds, for 

 it should not aci'ordin^' to custom be sown with 

 anv other crops : hut the weeds need not be 

 looked after tieyond the first summer, for the lu- 

 cerne will start bafiu-e them on the ensuing 

 sjirin::, and conslanllv after keep them under. 

 ' - P. 



(C Th". chirnenphv of <>ur correspondent, '-P." is so 

 cttremelyditiicult to decipher, that the united exertions of 

 b.'lli con);nsit,or and proof-reader have proved ineffectual 

 in making intelligible many parts of his excellent es- 



There are in the liuited S'ales, one hundred 

 thousimd vounix ladie.s, as Sir Ralph Ahercromhie 

 said of those of Scotland, " the pretliest la.ssie.-! 

 in a' the worlil,' who ktiow how- neither to toil or 

 to spin, who are yet clothed like the valleys; 

 who thrum the piano, and a few of the more 

 dainty, llie harp— who walk as the bard say.s, 

 softly— who have read roinaiice.s, and some of 

 them seen the interior of theatres— who have 

 been ailmired at the examination of their hi^li 

 ,.<elii,ol_wlio have wrou:;ht al;;ebraic solutions 

 (Ui the black-board— who iire, ill short, the very 

 roses of the .-(iU-den, llie. otter of life, w lio yet oi;n 

 never expect to be mariied. in' if married, to live 

 without— shall I speak or forbuar?—pnltiii;S their 

 own lilv hands to domestic drn-djrefy. 



GI5N. Jacsso.n and his Tailor. — I'lie South- 

 ern Chronicle tells tlie following irood story : 



"After ihi; termination of the Seminole ('am- 

 pcitru, G.'U. Jackson visited VVashliigton city, and 

 iliiring his stay there having occasion to supply 

 hinself with a nether ;rarment, employed a (iisli- 

 iouahle tailor uiimed Ballard to make it. Ballard, 

 who was a very ponipniis little fellow, and loud 

 of beim; recogiiised by great men who had been 

 his citsloiner.s, a few days after he had finished 

 the numeulioiiahles, seeing the Geiier.d in front 

 of Teniiison's Hotel, in coiiver.satiou with scum: 

 •jcntlemcn, stepped up and spoke to him. Tlie 

 General, thinkinir him some disiiii;;uislicd iiiili- 

 vidual, very cordially ^ave him his hand, hut not 

 remeiiihering him, 'in a whisper inipiired his 

 name, for the purpose of iiitrodiicin:; him to the 

 companv. To which Dillard replied, ''/ »r«rfe 

 your breeches." Tie General, deceived by llii! 

 tound, immediately turned to the company and 

 iiiiroHiiced him as" ^]ajor Breeches— :\. title thai 

 poor Ballard w.is afterwards obliged to wear to 

 the dav of his death." 



Small PnoDucTivE FAKfi.— I raised, the past 

 vear, from 30 acres of laud, 700 bus lels of pota- 

 toes, 80 bushels of barley, 25 bushels of beets, 

 1,5 bushels of wheat, 10 bushels of beans, 4 Imis 

 of mowed oats, 6 tons of English h.iv. 10 Ions 

 of meadow hay. 40 bushels of <;orii. 'iO bushels 

 of carrots, 7,5 chickens jind tnrkey.s, and a great 

 variety of L-arden sauce. 



J have killed one lioir, wei^ihing .S90 Ihs., made 

 40(J pounds of butter, kept three cov.s, a [lair of 

 oxen, two heifers, two steers, eight sheep and four 

 liOL'S. I liave been on the phice but two years, 

 and have laid acres of land to grass; the laud 

 a clay loam, e.isy to work. I have no conveni- 

 ence for my hogs to graze, neither do I believe it 

 economy, lor the extra ircunire that can be made 

 bv vanlin-.'- them, will pay the extra feed. I mix 



lime with my compost, and plaster my corn, (lo- 

 tatoes and grass. I sort niy potatoes before sale, 

 and by th.al means save half ii peck per bushel, 

 which would be lost to me if not sorted. Fin.illy, 

 I cook everv thing 1 give my hogs, and lied warm 

 nmi keep warm. A. T. PFIIKINS. 



— Ginesse Farmer. 



Pleasures of Jjiaginatio.n. — To think of 

 ice-cream when prostrated beueatli the torture 

 of a raging feviu'. 



To reail an author's description of a character 

 disiingiiishi'il Ijy uialiy excellent points,aiid lamy 

 he has drawn your own portrait. 



To ilreamof fiuiiiiig heaps of gold, not know- 

 ng next morning where to find a breakfast. 



To fiuit^y yourself the particular object of ad- 

 miiation, when you arc walking about withadish- 



% pinned to your coal t.ail. 



When an editor slips out some diabolical tnn- 

 endoahout somebody, to feel convinced at once 

 that he is assailing yoii, and commence a suit of 

 libel against him. 



Toseiifl an old jmetical composition to a news- 

 p:iper,with your own initials attached, influenced 

 by a (les()er.ite resolve to be a poet any how. 



' To start out in the morning with a pocket full 

 of bills to collect, fiincying yon "ill come back 

 at night with a pocket full of bank hills. 



To be assured that a bright eyed beauty is 

 leerhig at you, wdien the young lady is afflicted 

 bv nature with a shocking bail squint. 



' To he the architect of all your own houses, 

 and to avoid paying for land or eml>loying a 

 builder, erect them all in the air. 



To open :i creditor's note, threatening "pro- 

 ceediiigs," fancving it tm invitation to dinner. 



CiriyuiH- ofl'a iiesv silk umbrella, under the 

 iimocent dehisiou that it is your own. 



Flattering yiTiirself wiili the hope of assistance 

 from arich'relation.— JV. O. Picayune. 



For the Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 

 Keeping a Horse too man y. 



One \\ovse well kept, and well treated uill do 

 m-ore work and give the owner a better charac- 

 ter and credit, than two horses badly kept and 

 illv treated. For men of weahii an, I means, it is 

 of'lillle account. They do not iniud the cost of 

 li-edin;; a horse or two, .■mil it is a part of the dis- 

 play tli.it feeds their pride and is perhaps as lillle 

 open to censure as any other ; but we farmers 

 must look closely after the pence tiiid if wc can 

 save the expense of a Horse, and keep only sis 

 many as may be ileeiiieil indispensable it makes 

 some dilTereuce at the end of a year, tind is of 

 suflicient moment to be worth the attention of 

 most persons in the coiirse of thirty years, which 

 is a fjirr esnm.ate of a farmer's life after he gets 

 married. iMaiiy live, as all are aware, much be- 

 yond that period; but it is a limit that will an- 

 swer our purpose. In the course of thirty years 

 then we may estimate that three ^jood horses tire 

 wrirn out ; whic-li, taking them at five years old 

 when we begin to work them, will make each 

 fifteen vears of age, and takin<r the ails ;iiid acci- 

 dents to which horses are liable, he is a foriimate 

 liirmer th.it can make three horses last lor that 

 leuirth of time. We are now upon the extrava- 

 y.airce of extra lior;*es, iiiid take a case fi)r thirty 

 vears when a tiirmer keeps hiit one more than 

 is necesssarv for his purposes, and this extra 

 horse is three times feuewed, which if worth 

 sixty dollars each, is one himdriHl and eighty dol- 

 lars' to bei,'ln Willi. The keeping may with the 

 cxiien.sc of shoeing be estimated ai fitiy dollars 

 per year, which will in.ike in thirty years with 

 the "cost, sixteen hundred and ei:;lity dollars. 

 Alay wo not liiirly estimate ihat this sum if .-av- 

 .ed.'wonli^if placed at interest, be doubled, which 

 will make three thousand three hiiudred anil six- 

 ty dollars, a pretty hanilsome sum for these limes. 

 I have put it down as doubling only; and as it 

 would be a yearly iicciimulation, - this may he 

 suflicient, tdtliou^'h we are all aware Ihat-nioiicy 

 at compoinid interest doubles in abrait eleven 

 years, or a liiile more than one third of the time 

 "meniioned. This calciilaiion is ha.sed upon the 

 most fivorabic view of the case; for when we con- 

 sider the iiomerons diseases, that horses are lia- 

 ble to, an. I the accidents by which they are so 

 often injured or rendered worthless, the estimate 

 iiiav be looked upon as still too favor.ible, ,ind 

 !ha"t the dift'ereiice is greater than §3:360. Hou 

 verv conveiiieut this sum would he when a son 



fir ilaiighter is about leaving us to settle in lile ? 

 Wli.it a start would it not give them, and even if 

 divided among Ihrei; or four of llieni, would it 

 not make them ipiite happy ? And this too, 

 would be gained miilcr circiiiiistances that wonhl 

 convey a blessing and a benefit all along on tlio 

 journey of thirty years ; tor wc should keep the 

 rest of our horses" better, our neighbors would 

 notice their well fed sides, and it is not in human 

 nature Iml we should ti-el proud of their sleek 

 and comniendaltle appearance. 



I have seen my brother farmers fall into the 

 error often of keeping a horse too many, and it 

 often also applies to other portions of their 

 stock; their cows and oxen as well as h(irse.i?. 

 "A word trrthe wise is suflicient," ami the inter- 

 est I take in their welfare h.is induced me to call 

 their attention to the subject, as I take it tor 

 ■■■r.iiiieil that tlM?y are all wise, and is it not desir- 

 able that they should add prudei>ce and economy 

 to their wisdom ? 



1 have another piece of economy to offer for 

 their acceptance and patronage. Not a year 

 passes hilt I gain — who can tell bow much, tbf 

 I cannot— bvt.ikiiig and reading with attention, a 

 work upoiiAgricultnre. It is every way advan- 

 taiieons, and fills up the sp.ire time at home so 

 agreeably, that it cost me three times as much if 

 1 went abroad for the enteriainmeut it offi-rs._ I 

 find good moral.s, good habils, and useful infor- 

 mation all garnered up in the Visilor for fifty 

 cents a year, and my children aaiii information 

 that is caicnialeii to benefit them thro' life. 1 

 have therefore come to the conclusion th.at it is 

 an item of economy, llnit commends itself to us 

 bv every cmisidsration, to take the Visitor. 



•^ JOHN SMITH. 



\ffecting iNcinr.piT.— During the visit of President 

 Tyler and tlic He.ld3 of Departments to tlie city of- Bos- 

 ton, an incident occurred of so affectins,' a character, 

 and in conne.tion with personages so distm^uislied, indi- 

 cating so much of character, portraying so much snHer- 

 mt-, a""! to make a deep and I isting impression u^mn every 

 on'e .\ ho witnessed it: but it lias never yet been pub- 

 lished, it must have been ere this related lo hundreds, 

 and it must have pr iduced upon hunUreds by the recital 

 such effects as it did upon those who witnessed the scene. 

 We do not see that any harm can come from the recital, 

 none to the public certainlv — none, we believe, to the 

 parties more nearly connected with the subject. The 

 Sabbath followin,' the celebration of the monument, was 

 a beautiful dav, and tf.e president and most of his suite^ 

 attended chu'rch in the inorninjr, at srverll pi ice.s of 

 worship in which seali were tendered' by lurepualile citi- 

 zens. In the ewning it was proposed to visit Mount 

 Auburn^ th« cemetery upon whose deconition so iiuteh 

 taste and wealth h:is been lavished, and where repose the 

 ashes of so ui my mat were beloved liy their friends and 

 honored by mankind. The president, indisposed from the 

 exlraordinarv fatigue of Ins journey, reception and cele- 

 bration, was" not "^of the party, but the secretaries of the 

 tre isurv, navy and v.'ar departments, ihe post master gen- 

 eral, chiefs of bureaus, and nearly all the ladies and gen- 

 tlemen, attended by the commissioner to China, his sec- 

 ret irv of legation,' &c., went rn carriages to the burial 

 place, where they were admitted by ftlr. Buckingham, 

 and conducted Ihrouih winding paths to every beautiful, 

 romantic or celebrated spot which the cemetery con- 

 tiins. It was natu.-.d that iMr Uuckinghain should, among 

 other places, wi.-^h to show his own lamily bon.il place, a 

 site of great beautv. .■Vdvancing at the head of the party 

 witii Mr. Secretary Spencer, ho came to the enclosure. 

 Ill the centre was a lastel'ul monument of marble, erected 

 til tlio memory of his talented and beloved sm, Ed-.vin._ 

 Mr. .Spcncr remembered him. and the circumstances of 

 his early and lamented death ;— how in his youth, lull of 

 'Tenius. giving the briLjhtest promise of fnlurc renown, he 

 tiad goni; oa a vovagc to the West indies, died and was 

 buriTd at sea..an'd ivhcn he read the inscripiion, -The 

 sea his body liolds; his spirit, heaven," he fell , cpiick as 

 if the lightning had gone through his heart, ghastly and 

 senseless to the enrth, and was liorne from the ground by 

 Mr. Wicklifl'e. 'I'he cause — the coincidence — the con- . 

 trast, was loo appirent to every one. A deeper gloorh 

 lell over the party than ttiat caused by the solemn place 

 in which they stood, and tears of pity fell from those who 

 could sympathise with parentil distresses, wdiich even the 

 lapse oi' time could not soften. Surely, if ui^n knew the 

 ■agonies which even liie circumstance like this renewed, 

 though they liked not the politician, they would spare IhO; 

 latli-jr. — X. y. Sun. . ... 



Peaches. 



Messks. F.DtTous : — I wis once in conversa- 

 lion with Dr. Waterhouse, Cambrid.i-e, Mass. at 

 hi.^ house, when he g.ive me some very good 

 peachestoe.it. I observed to him that we cotild 

 have no such luxury in .Maine where I lived. He_ 

 said that it was our ignorance of the manner of 

 raising the trees. Said he, "your winters are 

 cold aiiil \onr siinimers hot, your peach trcef? 

 irrow so fiisi in summer that your severe frosts 

 ill winter kill them. You iiave only to take 

 awav the soil wholly down to the pan where you 



