144 



v^l)C ianncr's illontl)li) Visitor. 



22") 3-4 ll)s., having •iHiiied, upon, the average, 

 more than a puiiriil a day. 



It was of ihe hreod roiiiid in tliis vicinity — a 

 mixtnre, perhaps, of the Berlisliire and oM Hye- 

 fieUl lireeds. It was kept in tiniviiiir condition 

 all Slimmer on llie swill made in tlje lionse; Init 

 for the last few weeks a little meal was adiled to 

 its feed. 



Its nncommoii thrift must ho attrihnled to its 

 {rood family Uaits and the even-handed Mjaiiage- 

 nient of its keeper, Mr. Wm. S. Foster. 

 Yours, &c., 



GEO. CHANDLER. 



Jlsylum, Concord, Sept. 25, 1843. 



Value of I'laster. — In tite ap|dication of a 

 KJngle ton of ground plaster upon a lield of twen- 

 ty acres of rye, the EcKtor of the Visitor lielieves 

 his crop was improved tins year at least fifty 

 bushels i this plaster cost $iJ,.50. All pastin-e 

 and mowins, ;-nd tilled lands, especially of light 

 soil liahle to drought, will he grvatly improved 

 by the application of a bushel of ground plaster 

 to the acre — with plaster and clover, the crops of 

 dry sandy loam may he wonderfully increased. 

 Hundreds of tons should be used where none is 

 used. Ground plaster, we understand, is on sale 

 at the Concord Depot in exchauiie for The farm- 

 er's produce, for from seven to eight dollars the 

 ton: plaster in the stone at five to sis dollars. 



Agriculture in the Empire State. — It is 

 said that the Agricultural E.xliiliitiou of the great 

 State Society of New Y'ork was attended by 50,- 

 000 people: §12,000 were added to the fnn'ds in 

 the payment of new meujhers — 10,000 paid in 

 by old members, by the contribution nf one dol- 

 lar each. Hon. Messrs. Martin Van Burcn and 

 Daniel Webster were among those who travelled 

 hundreds of miles to attend ; we intend to give 

 the speeches of these two gentlemen in a future 

 mimher of the Visitor. 



Abel G. Qci6G, Esq., at Chester lower village, 

 has ibis year procured from one and three 

 foinths of an acre of hind, at two crops, eight 

 tons of good English h.iy. The value of im- 

 proved farming i.s well shown in the fields and 

 orchards near the beimtiful village which has 

 been the ^.eat of two (Governors, a Chief .luslicc. 

 Attorney General and other high oflicers of our 

 State yovernmeut, the most of whom have been 

 gathered to their fathers, but whose examples in 

 the capacity of farmers are not imwortby of im- 

 itation. 



The Cattle Show for the County of Alerriinark 

 will be on Wednesday the 18th day of October 

 next, at Boscawen Plain. 



A Good Daughter. — A Good d.^nghterl — 

 There are other ministers of love more cou- 

 .spicijons than her, lint none in which a gentler, 

 lovelier spirit dwells, and none to which the 

 heart's warm requitals more joyfidly respond. 

 There is no such thing as a comfiarative esti- 

 mate of a parent's love for one or another chilfl. 

 There is little which be needs to co\et, to whom 

 the treasure of a good child has been given. 

 But a son's o<:cupation and pleasures carry hirn 

 .•diroad, aiul be resides more amongst tempta- 

 tions, which hardly permit the affection that is 

 following him, perinips, over half the globe, to 

 be unmijigled «ilh anxiety, until the time when 

 he ctnues to reliutiuish the shelter of his father's 

 roof for one of his own ; while a good daughter 

 is the steady light of her parent's lionse. 



H<'r ide.-i is indissolubly coiiiected with that 

 of his happy fireside. She is his morning sun- 

 light and liis evening star. The giace, vivacity 

 and tenderness of her sex have tiieir jilace in 

 the mighty .sway which she holds oyer his 

 spirit. The lessons of recoided wisdom which 

 he reads with her eyes, come to bis mind with 

 a new charm as blended with the beloved 

 melody of her voice. lie scarcely knows weari- 

 ness which her song does not make bini for- 

 got, or gloom wbi('h is proof against the young 

 brightness of her smile. She is the pride and 

 ornament of his hospitality, the gentle imrse of 

 bis sickness, and the constant agent in those 

 nameless, numberless acts of kindness which 

 one chiefly cares to have rendered because they 

 are unpretending but expressive proofs of love. 

 .\nd then what a cluserful sharer she is, and 



what an able lightener of her mother's cares! 

 What an ever present delight and triumph to a 

 mother's .aft'ection I 



Oh, how little do tho.se daughters know of the 

 power which God has committed to them, and 

 the happiness God would have tliem enjoy, who 

 do not, every time that a parent's eye rests upon 

 them, bring rapture to a parent's heart. A true 

 love will almost certainly always greet their 

 approaching footsteps, that they will hardly ali- 

 enate. But their ambition should be, not to 

 iiave it a love merely which feelings implanted 

 by tiaiure excite, but one made ijitense and 

 overfiowing by approbation of wortliy conduct, 

 and she is strangely blind to her own happiness, 

 as well as nndutiful to them to whom she owes 

 the most, in whom the perpetual appeals of pa- 

 rental disinterestedness do not call forth the 

 prompt and full echo of filial devotion. — Dr. 

 Palfrey. 



Great Principles and Small Duties. — 

 What thousand services are rendered, ay, and by 

 delicate hands, around the bed of sickness, which, 

 else considered mean, become at once holy and 

 quite inalienable rights! To smooth the pillow, 

 tc) |)roti'er the di'aught, to soothe, or to obey the 

 fancies of the delirious will, to sit for hours as 

 the mere sentinel of the feverish sleep ; these 

 things are suddenly erected, by their relation to 

 hope and life, into sacred privileges. And expe- 

 rience is peipetnally bringing occasions, similar 

 in kind, though of less persuasive poignancy, 

 when a Hue eye and a lovely heart will quickly 

 see the relations of things tiirown into a new po- 

 sition, and calling for a sacrifice of conventional 

 order to the higher laws of the afiections, and a- 

 like without condescension, and without ostenta- 

 tion, will noiselessly take the |iost of gentle ser- 

 vice, !ind do the kindly deed. Thus it is that the 

 lesser graces display themselves most richly, like 

 the leaves and flowers of life, where there is the 

 deepest and the widest root of love; not like the 

 staring and artificial blossoms of dry custom, that 

 winter or sunnner cannot change; but living pe- 

 tals woven in nature's workshop, and fohled by 

 her teiuler skill, opening and shutting, morning 

 and night, irlancing luid trembling, in tlie sim- 

 shine and the breeze. This easy capacity of 

 great affections for small duties is the peculiar 

 triumph of the highest spirit of love. — Endeav- 

 ours after the Christian Life, by Rev. James Mailin- 

 cau. 



Agricultural Survey OF New YoiiK.^We 

 learn from the Albany Cultivator that Dr. Em- 

 mons, who has hcretofoie been engaged in the 

 geological survey of New York, is now employed 

 by the Governor, under the act of last winter, in 

 making an agricultural stn-vey. He proposes, 

 if possible, visiting each county before the close 

 of the season, fiir the pirrpose of makins such 

 observations in this department of the sm-vey as 

 shall serve to pioniote the great object of tigri- 

 cullnre. Tlie collection of soils forms ii part of 

 bis duties. Observations on draining ; the in- 

 fluence of slope and exposine on late and early 

 vtigetation ; the extent of drift; the distribution 

 of the irdnerul manm-es, as peat, marl, limestone, 

 &c., aiiH the extent of the diffeient agricidtural 

 divisions or regions, are prominent objects of 

 the survey. — Boston .Mcr. Jour. 



Emblesiatiu properties of Flowers. — The 

 fair lily is an image of holy innocence; the pur- 

 pled rose a figure (d" healthlid love: faith is rep- 

 resented to us in llie blue pa.ssion flower; hope 

 beams forth from the immortelle ; Ihe caresses 

 of life are rcpiesented by rosemaiy ; the victory 

 of the spirit by the blue, fiagraiit viidct; com- 

 passion by the p(!ouy ; friendship by the ivy ; ten- 

 derness by the myrtle; afTectiouate reniiiuscenoe 

 by the forget-me-not ;— German honesty and fidel- 

 ity by the oak-leaf; miassundngness by ihecorn- 

 flowei, (the cayemie,) and the auriculas, "how 

 li-ieiully they look upmi us u itii their child-like 

 ejes." Even the dis|)Osilions of the hmiian soul 

 are exjiressed by flowers. Thus, silent griel is 

 poitrayed by the weeping willow ; sadnc.-s by 

 the angelica ; sbiuldering by the aspen; melan- 

 cholly by the cypress; desirous of meeting again 

 by the starwort ; the night svvelfmg rocket is a 

 figure of life, ;is it stands on the fi-oniiers between 

 light and daikuess. Thus, nature, by tliese 

 flowers seems to betoken her sym|iathv with ns : 



and whom hath she not often more consoled 

 than heartless and voiceless men were able to 

 do? 



Hope. — Hope is like a poplar beside a river — 

 underndned by that which feeds it— or, like a fox 

 chase, of which the pleasure is the pursuit — or, 

 like revenge, which is genep-ally converted into 

 disappointment or remorse as soon as it is ac-', 

 complishcd — or, like a will-o'-the-wisp, running 

 after which, through pools and puddles, you, 

 are not likely to catch anything— but a cold. " 



THE MARKETS. 



B OSTON MARKET — Sept. 27, 1843. 



[Reported for tlie i\ew England Farmer.] 

 SEED.'?.— Herds Grass. §2 50 per bushel. Red Top 45 

 to aO cents. Clover— Northern, ]2c.— Southern 9c — 

 ^'1';d''I>'?'m^^'''' P" "'• ^™^'y Seed, S225. per bushel. 



(jKAIN — The market continues in the same dull sta'c 

 with a further reduction in prices. 



CORJV.— Northern, old, bushel 56— Southern, round 

 yellow, old, 55— .Southern flat yellow new 53.— Rye 

 Northern, 63 a G5— do. Southern, 60 a 62.— (3ats Southern' 



28 a 29— Northern do. 30 to 31— Beans, per bushel 1 Oo\ 

 a 1 62.— Shorts, per double bush. 22 a 36.— Bran. 18 a 20. 



FLOUR. — The news from England by the Caledonia of 

 a lavorable prospect for a good and abundant harvest in 

 that country, has dispelled all expectation of a demand 

 for the English market, and prices here are consequently 

 more depressed. 



Pliiladelphia do. 4 mos. «;4,65!. Fredericksburg, low I'd 

 4 mns. 4,62 a 4,7.5, Genesee, common, cash. 4^56 a 4 62 

 do, fancy brands, 4,75 -a 5.00. Rye, ,g3,00 a 3>25 . Indian 

 Meat in bbis ,52,75 a 0,00, 



PROV ISlOiN'S, — The market is without any material 

 alteration since the last report ; sales have been restrict- 

 ed to a limned demand from the trade and for vessels' use 



Beef— .Mess, 4 mo. new bbl, S8.50 a 0.00. Navy ff7 00 

 fJrLr.^^-'^-'^^^ ■■' 0,00, Pork-Estra Cleai", 4 mo. ' 

 e, i ^n ''f, ll* °°-''"- '^''^■■""- S'2,.50 a 13,00. do, mess. 

 ,?I1,00 a 11.50— do. prime. glO.dOa 10,50. Butter store 

 uninspected. 7 a 9— do, dairy, 10 cts, a 14— Lard ^o l' 

 South and Western, 5,J a 6^- Hams, Boston, fi'a 6.i— 

 Southern and Western, 5i a 6^- Cheese, shipping and 4 

 raeal, 4 a 4 1-2— do, new milk, 5 a G. ^ 



WOOL, Duty — the value whereof at the place of ex- 

 portation shall lint e.^ceeri 7 rts, per pound. 5 per cent, ad 

 val. All whereof the value e.xceeds 7 cts. per lb. 30 per 

 i;t,^ ad val, and 3 cts. per lb. 



There is more inquiry for Fleeces,^and sales to a mod- 

 erate extent have been made at prices which fully sustain 

 our quotations. 



Prime or Saxony Fleeces, washed, lb, 37 a 40 r —Am- 

 erican full blood do. 30 a 35— Do, 34 do 32 a 00— Do ^ do 



29 a 30 — ; and common do 25 a 27 — Smyrna Sheep 

 washed, 20 a 23— Do, unwashed, 9 a 12— Bengasi do 6 a 

 f>— Sasoiiy, clean, 00— Buenos A( res unpicked. 7 a 10— 

 do, do, pirkeri, 12 al6— Superfin'pNnrthern pulled lamb 

 2S a 32— No, I do, do. do, 25 a 27-No. 2 do, do, do 19 a 

 22— No, 3 do do. do, 12 a 15, 



HOPS. Duty 20 per cent. 



There have heen no M.assacliusetts Hops of the new 

 crop inspected. 



Tst sort Mass IS 42, lb, 6 a S, 



HAY, 14 to '.6 per ton — Eastern Screwed S9 to II 



EGC;s, I2al4. 



Besttm Sept. 29,— FLOUR- A rather better feeling has 

 been manifested Mi the market, and the views of most 

 holders are not below 4,68.^, and c insiderable sales have 

 been made at that price. The principle tr:insactions in- 

 Soulheni have been for Georgetown at ^5, cash, and 

 extra do 5.75, for foreign ship. 



CiR AIN — The niarket continues in a very inactive state, 

 particularly for the season of the year. Sales of yellow 

 flat Corn 52 a 54n ; prime white 30c per bush. In Oats, 

 sales of Nothern 30 a 32.;, and Southern 29 a 30c. 



BRIGHTON MARKET— -MoNr.AV, Sept. 25, 1843. 

 [Reported lor the B<jston D.iily .\dvertiser,] 



At Market 1250 Beef Cattle, 700 Stores, 3.300 Sheep, 

 and 1125 Swine, From five to eight hundred Beef Cattle 

 and several hundred Stores also remain unsold, 



Pkices — BetfCiitilt — The market is completely ''glut- ' 

 ted," and prices are probably lower than they have been 

 lor many years We quote e.vtra at 1.25 ; first quality, 3.75 ; 

 a g 4 ; second quality, 3 50 a 3 75 ; tliird quality, 5- ^0 

 a 3,25. 



S(oi-cs.— Two year old go a 13 ; three vear old ^^II a 

 17, 



Sfiee-p — Small lots were sold from 50c to 1,50, Wethers 

 1,25,1.88. 



Swhie — Shoats to peddle at 4^c a i^c for Sows, and 5^ 

 a 5^0 for Barrows ; old Barrows ■D.c. At retail from 3 to 

 6,^. 



NEW YORK MARKET — Sept. 25, 1843. 



At market, 1000 Beef Cattle, (350 from the South.) and 

 3300 Sheep and Lambs, 



Pr.lCEs — Jlccf C'atllf — Have not varied since last 

 week. We quote to correspond, viz : g4 toJj;5 624the 

 100 lbs,, with sales of extra a little better; 35 taken for 

 Bermuda. ,300 left over. 



.S/ifcp mid Lam6s.— Sales at SI to S2 for Lambs, and 

 .*?1 50to ,«3 00for Sheep, All sold. 



