^l)c jTarmcr's iUoutl)l|) 'biflttor> 



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wish to locate the trees. Sow four pe.ich stones, 

 then ill llie (iill or near the settincr in of llie win- 

 ter ; they will vegetate in the next s|Hinfr. tuiil 

 towards" liill, il" any branches have grown too 

 tniieh, so that the winter will he likely to kill 

 them, lake away a lilllc of the top, slake aioiiiul 

 and keep your cattle from them, and keep your 

 ground poor and in a few years yon may have 

 plenty of fruit. They are li short lived tree, ami 

 you must sow or set out young ones often. 1 

 came home and planted the stones which he gave 

 ine exactly ;is he directed, and in a few years 1 

 had a plenty of peaches. Alter having taken off 

 many to cat and give away, I well remeinher to 

 have'liarvesKMl a'half hushel full from one of 

 the young trees. No care was afterwards taken 

 of tile trees or grounds, 1 having left the premis- 

 es of course ali went to ruin. I name this lo 

 show that there is no difficulty in our raising 

 peaches, which I hope we shall do, as most people 

 like them and may have them if they are lint too 

 lazv. — Maine Farmer. S. WOOD. 



Business. — A gcnlleman called j'esterd.iy morning 

 nl the ci'unting house of one of llic iron merchants ot 

 this cilv, to purchase filly tons of piij iron. In the course 

 of the 'negotiation, the merchant was led to inquire to 

 what purpose the iron was to be applied ? 



" To make weiLdits for Yankee clorkt^.'" 



*' Why, what can you do with so many clocks V 



*' They are siiipped to Engl.ind." 



Think oC that I Jifly tons of iron tor cli'ck weiglits, 

 eacli rhick ruqnirinij, probal ly. less ihan live pounds. — 

 We s«w It stated some time since in an tjighsli paper, 

 that these clucks were being introduced into the manu- 

 facturing districts of (neat Britain, and almost every 

 workman was becoming the ownc^ of one of them. — U. 

 S. Gazette. 



the wonder was how he could do it. To a fiieiid 

 and acquaintance who (piestioiied him, he said 

 ihat it wa.s very simple. " I use money," said he, 

 " lor all that 1 "hiiy, hy which I save time as well 

 as money ; and I make my own purchases, and 

 liy that means 1 gel good weight, good measure, 

 and good articles. These together amount to 

 some twenty-five per cent, or one fourth, which 

 in a few years, saved and put at interest makes a 

 snug little sum." 



Another jiart of his jilan was to anticipate his 

 wants, and not wait until he was out and be con- 

 stantly runniug to the store. Once a month his 

 wife "overliauled the boxes and cannislers and 

 the articles were noted down that would be 

 wanted for the next four weeks. One trip to the 

 store sii|iplied all these, and then that trouble and 

 much lime was saved, f^iippose on an inspection 

 it was found that some seven or eight articles 

 would be wanted in the course of a month. It 

 they had been suffered to remain mili! out, it 

 made seven additional visits to the store which at 

 one mile each way would make fourteen miles 

 travel besides the loss of time. See then how 

 these little things operate ; and this was another 

 savins'. 



Let ns farmers then look to these things. 1 

 adopted lo some extent the practice uf this thriv- 

 ing man as soon as 1 found itoiit,and have found 

 a saving of expense as important as a good crop 

 of farming produce, and from a wish that others 

 may do the same, send it to the Visitor 



A Youm; .Ma.n, just enlcring upon the duties 

 of life, can commit no greater inislake than to 

 consider himself above his business — ihal such 

 branches only as are particularly pleasant are 

 worthy of his consideration, and that in many 

 respects, instead of ser\ iiig himself or his em- 

 ployers, he must he served. Let such an one, if 

 he would win "golden opinions" and tine gold, 

 strive lo be useful, by attending steadily to his 

 business — study order, neatness, economy, so- 

 briety and temperance; discard idleness, tidse 

 pride, hypocrisy, dandyism, and tobacco, and he 

 "every inch a man." 



I 



A FARMER. 



For the Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 

 Cash.and Credit. 



The object of successful cultivation and good 

 crops is that we may obtain a good rciurn for 

 our skill and labor in cash. If this be so, and 

 there is a mode of making the money we may 

 receive go farther, and consequenlly a less sum 

 procure the articles we want, is not this import- 

 ant to the liiriner? Suppose all farmers should 

 adopt the rule? never to purchase until they had 

 the money in hand, would it not U'ake a great 

 difference, for it is well known that those who 

 sell oiv credit add to the price the risk they run, 

 which is always more lliau siuipli; interest, ami if 

 this is saved, u lial can be at once so safe and ■,u[- 

 vaiitageous.' The customer that pays down is 

 always a welcome visilor: he gels ihe best arti- 

 cles at the lowest price beside.-'. In the conise 

 of not a very long life the difference between 

 buying with cash, and on credit, is a little estate; 

 and can a belter or wiser jiolicy he pursued hy 

 farmers to render them entirely iiulependent ? 

 They lie down and rise up, free frtun the painful 

 apprehension of not being able to meet demands 

 outstnndingj-instead of turning their ihonghts to 

 meet engagements. They are li-ee to consider 



ing crops. No pursuit perhaps calls for the ex- 

 ercise of sound judgment more than fanuiug, 

 and those who devote theiraUcntion to it succeed 

 the best. If this be so slicnld not every means 

 lie taken lokeep the mind iii'e from oilier con- 

 siderations? 



One of my neighbors who had a small income, 

 and that limited so that there was little variation 

 from year lo year, still «as known to live iii great 

 eomlbrt and independence. Those who visited 

 his house, and happened to be there at the time 

 of a meal always found a good table, but no pro- 

 fusion ; and it became a subjecl of remark that 

 this man who had a family, a[)peared to have 

 more comforl.^ aliout him than others with three 

 or Ibm- limes his means. In the course of years 

 loo, he was found to have surplus money, and I planks' one inch 



TiiK Chops. — The Washington (Ga.) News of thelOtli 

 inst. says—" In all parts of the South, the crops are re- 

 ported 'to be excellent, hi this respect this section does 

 not differ from the others. The crop of Corn, notwith- 

 standing the unfavorable prospect at the commencement 

 ol the season, is better than cranmon, and there will be, 

 unless cut short hy an early frost, or by oilier misfortunes, 

 fully an average c'rop of Cotton. It is said to be boiled, 

 and to be, as yet, entirely free from worm or rot." 



For the Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 

 Bees. 



At this time in the day of knowledge, wlio 

 shall |>re.sume to give any information that will 

 be new upon the subject of bees ? The use ol 

 honey and the care of bees is older than letters, 

 and reaches farther back than history ; for we 

 find that as early as these shadows of the past 

 entered, that this little industrious insect was llie 

 object of loslering care and attenliou. 



The Ahysiniaiis, the Egypiiaus, ihe Grei'ks 

 and Romaii.s, all, each enjoyed the fruits of the 

 labors of the bee, and "hen letters oblaiued their 

 place ill the advancfmeut of sociely, the glean- 

 ings of observation and experience were record- 

 ed" ami poets versified their praises in winning 

 rhymes.' Man has obtained no small share of 

 his knowledge from the insect and animal crea- 

 tion, and even his virtues have received enconr- 

 agemeul from imitation. The affection of the 

 dove, the fidelity of the dog, and the cmining or 

 wariness of the fox, are so many examples that 

 supply our defects and strengthen our purposes; 

 but aniougtliese,the iudustiy, the order, the good 

 govenimeiil and mathematical ex.imple for 

 strength and room, exhibited by this little insect, 

 the bee, have been often noticed, said and sung. 

 it is not sriange then, that the subject of so iniich 

 attention, so long bestowed, should still be view- 

 ed with lively interest; and various and numer- 

 ous have been the contrivances and inventions 

 for their comfort and accommodation. Not a 

 year passes round but the products of bees, in 

 newly contrived hives finds a place in the vari- 

 ous agricultural exhibitions of the' coiiiilry. 'I'lie 

 Patent oflice at Washingtmi swarms with bee 

 hives, with all sorts of gchemes for taking the 

 sweets without destroying the laborer, and for 

 destroying and keeping out their various ene- 

 mies. 



\Vhat then can be expected but to tell us that 

 which we already know, or rather to unlearn our 

 wisdom, but "not to straw reliiru" allhoiigh 

 straw hives are still in Europe extensively used. 

 After some experience, and altenlion lollie com- 

 mended new iiccommodalious for the bee, in 

 garrets, swinging houses, apaitments for working 

 up and down, I have come to the conclusion thai 



the old fashioned simple srpiare hive of co on 



fioards is ihe best, and that no oiher house or 

 shelter is desirable than that the top or cap of 

 the hive should project over some four or the 

 inches on each side. Hives made of boards or 

 thick, free from knot liolrs or 



wind shakes, eighteen or twenty-four inches deep 

 and twelve inches wide in the clear, are the best 

 I have used. Boxes on the tops, aparlmeiils and 

 ilivisions, 1 have found tuure plague lli.-in profit ; 

 they require lime, attention and walching at a 

 season when every thing presses upon a farm. 

 The lop of a hive should project as I have said 

 Itir enough to keep off a portion of the falling 

 rains and the bniiom or board upon which Ihe 

 hive may be placed should be beviled outside of 

 where the hive extends so as lo coii<lu<-t ibe 

 water out and off. Bees like calm iibont their 

 homes; and a good shelter li'om winds is found 

 in a leiice round the euclosiue, which keeps otl 

 the wind, dog.i and cattle. VVithni, should, if in 

 grass, be kept cut close : if not, free from weeds. 

 Four little pilesof any kind of wood driven in 

 the ground will serve to put the bottom boards 

 upon u Inch the hives are placed, so as to raise 

 them two feet from the ground. I do not think 

 it very imporlant which way the opening or 

 access faces, but prefer the poitit of sonlli east. 

 If wiildii fiflee?) or twenty miles of the sea, no 

 salt is necessary ; hut if at a greater distance some 

 should be placed two or three times in a season 

 upon the edge of each boltom board, where 

 ready access can be had. 



In some of the southern slates a practice exists 

 of driving bees, instead of destroying them for 

 their honey. At ntglit the intended hive is 

 placed bottom up anfl an empty liive of the same 

 size mouth down over it. They then timmp or 

 beat the bottom or full hive with sticks, and even 

 blow in smoke to start the bees up, which when 

 tliey have accomplished sufficiently, the empty 

 hive with the bees is (ilaced where the other 

 was taken, and early the next morning the re- 

 maining bees are smoked out from the full one. 

 This should be done, if at all, suflicienlly early in 

 the f-eason lo enable them to lay in a store licit: 

 will siislaiu ibem during the ensuing winter, and 

 where ihe, stock is short, is a mode of preserving 

 il. 



In Maryland and Virginia, bee hives are seen . 

 about the comiiry house.^, resting upon benches, 

 or piles without any shelter, a flat stone frequent- 

 ly upon the lop of each hive, I suppose lo keep 

 it fi'om being blown over. I saw repeated in- 

 stances of this when I passed through parts of 

 those states some years aao. 



JOHN SMITH. 



Fine Wool Sheef. — The article which appeared un- 

 der this head in our No. of last month, was wrillen with 

 such haste lor the press, thai one im-iorlant 'tini in etli- 

 maling the value that w.inid accrue to the country from 

 adoplnig a Eupeiiir breed of line-wooled i-lietri, was en- 

 tirely furgotlcn. It was pencilled down in nnr notes, but 

 was'unfortunateiy overlooked in writing lliein out at 

 length. It was this: On the same food, the quanlily of 

 wool would be increased at least one pound per head an- 

 nually in adopting an inipioved breed of fine-wooled 

 sheep, so that from the eleven millions of shorn sheep in 

 the United Stiles, U.OCO.OOO Ihs. extra of wool would be 

 obtained, which, reckoned at thirty cents per pound only, 

 (it is actually worth nearer forty cents per (loiind even as 

 low as wool now IS in this market.) would increase the 

 productive wealth of the firiners §3,300,000. Now add 

 to thi< gi.2-'7,0C0 for the iinpmvenient in quality, and 

 we have an annual gain of 55,527.000 to the country 

 from this source alone, which, according lo our estimate, 

 is more than doublin.i llie value of the whole crop of 

 wool now produce. 1 in the [Iniled Slates, we having set 

 it down at present at Sd,]91,ot}0. Adopt an impr.ived 

 breed of slieep generally, and the value of Ihe woid crop 

 would then be ,yl0,724-,6u0. .^nd this is but one among 

 the many benrlfts proposed lo the farmers by adopting an 

 improved stock, and an improved system of husbandry. 

 When will the agricultural ccmimunily of this laud be- 

 come awake lo the importance of a sieady, sytlemitic. 

 and an enlightened practical course in these matters. — i\. 

 y. Asriculturist. 



Professok LiKBiG, the popular writer upon 

 Agricultural Chemistry, when in England, was 

 iiT Yorkshire, attenilitig agricultural meeliiigs, 

 and is said to have displayed every disposition, 

 to communicate iiiformation. lo all who asked. 

 He is quite a young man— 3'2— and has done 

 more than aii'v other person now living, lo 

 •■make two blades of grass grow where only 

 one grew before." Sir" Mimiplirey Davy, before 

 Liebig was bom. lectured on Agi icnitnral Chem- 

 istry. But the G.-rmaii has reduced to il practi- 

 cal system, what was not much more than a the- 

 ory with Davy. -At EdUiburg and Aberdeen, 

 there are now "csiablisiic'd L'niversiiy Professor- 

 ships of Agriculture, as well as at Oxford and 

 Caiuliridge. This shows how completely the 

 public are aware of the importance of ciil- 



