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Ql{)t Saxnuxs iUcntljln biciitor. 



Tlie opiiiiofis ami llie fiu'ls (idvanrrd hy Prof. 

 Briiwnill. on ll'e iivfilness of O real JiriUtin for 

 the gruivlh of J'^lne II oo', \i:i\i: luc'ii S'liVy ^•^ioll- 

 li.<liid liy loiifr expel n.'iM:f, .uiil liy flie niiivcr.'iiil 

 fuiliirf 'iC C'Vei'.v iilleiupt lliiit Ims lioen iii.iile to 

 ))io(liJce |>iii« MKi'iiiii 1)1' 8h.\(iii mooI in iluii liinj[- 

 iloni. Iv\|i(iii'n(re, Ii>o, li.i.- dcniONstialt-il llial in 

 no |iart iil tlic woild can lietier oi' finoi' wool lie 

 piovvn llian in tlie UnilSfl Slates; aid every year 

 is adding prools to our vast re.sonrces in tliat re- 

 f|iect, paiiicniaily in lire adainalion ol' the west- 

 ern stales to ili |iiodnmiiii:. 



The 4tli voIuMiB is dividiMl into two parts, and 

 boll I are tilled uiili papers ot'iic-at praetical valne 

 to llie (ariner. One ot' llirse is a descriplion of 

 lie manner of ciiiiivatinf; tlie Peach at llie south, 

 by James Geddes. lie thus notices the nietliod 

 there ndoptfd to avoid ihe atlacks of the peach 

 borer, aiul uhicli woidd doubtless be as efl'ee.iive 

 here as iheie. ' A) prevent these insects from 

 operaliiiij on l!ie soliened bark near liie surlace, 

 a hill of earth about a foot iii^h, is raised around 

 each tree alioiit the tirst of June, and taUcn away 

 nhoiit the first of September. 'J'he insects either 

 find the bark too liard and dry to pleree, or llie 

 takini; uway llie earlh leaves the egjjs uncovered 

 and they perish; the tiict is, that after leii years 

 trial, Mr. Baj iy has found his trees thus com- 

 Jilelely preserved a.aainst the v.orius." 



Mr. Diirkee meniioiis that lie has twice killed 

 patches of the Caii'uln Thistle, liy covering them 

 with sir.ivv to the <leplli of liiiir or five inches. 

 This w.is done in the spring when they were 

 about si,\ inches lii:;h. and care was taken that 

 the straw was not disiiu lipd. We have often de- 

 stroyed siiiall patches of lliem in this way, using 

 \vlieat, pea, or other straw for siiiotheriiifi them, 

 but we have always used it more liberally than 

 is reco/iiinendeil by Mr. Dnikee. Where the 

 thistle has bin jiisi taken roof, perhaps this is as 

 good a meihod of exierii.iiialiii;.' them as can be 

 tried; bin refieated ciitiin;;s, so long as ihey con- 

 tinued to vegetate, has been the most certain 

 remedy wiih us. 



Jni]iiirics are freqiit nily 'iiiaile as to the best 

 nietlioil of geriiiiiialiiii; llie seeds or haws of the 

 Thorn; ilie follou iiiir, enudeiised from a paper 

 by Mr. Tilihits, will we think be salisfacmry. 

 Colled the lliorii berries when ii|ie,and lay ihem 

 in a pile mixed with a small qiiantiiy of rich 

 warm loam, in a place in tlni garden somewhat 

 shaded by a fence or tree. Jii the next summer, 

 turn tlie mass wiili a shovel, ihal the whole may 

 be eqieill) exposed lo air anil frost. In llie .si i-- 

 oiiil spring, «l.eii ihey have been exposed to the 

 frosis of two uiiiieiv, and ihe air of mie sum- 

 mer, and as early as a bed can he made lor their 

 recepiion, spread the seeds with the mixed loam 

 over a bed of rich, warm, clean earth, wiieii the 

 good .--eeds «id soon sprout and grow. Some of 

 the plaiilr will ;;riiw two lei.'l, and may be set in 

 hedges the next spring, while ihe siualler ones 

 itiay stand till the next year before ihey are Irans- 

 planie<l. 



'I'he liilhmiiiy diieciiuus fin- preserving fndi, 

 I'ivHii ill this \o]iinie. are from ihe pen ol ilr. 

 Knijlii, .he n iefiTilid 15iiij-li lioniciiilni isi : 

 '■riie iiio-f N,iccess!i,. luril.od of preserving 

 pears and app! ,., i%l,:eli 1 Imw- idiheii.i iried, has 

 been piaeii,.. i!,(.i,, j|, j. I.ized eaulieiii pans, eacdi 

 coiilaiiiiiiu alaiii? a galle:., and sii.i oimdiiig each 

 frnil «ilh papii ; hi.i ii is prol'able ihe da, ft ol 

 oats, ii i'ri'f 'roiii moi.-liiie oral \ oil'eiiMve smell, 

 nii,;ht be used with adva'ii.-ige ni.^ieail of paper, 

 and at less expi use oi iroiilije. The.-e ve>sti,. 

 iieiiiff periect cjlimlers, alioin a fijot ea."h hi 

 lieiirhi, st.ii rl very cm.veiiienily on each other, 

 and thus pre.-mi tie! means of preserving mmli 

 fniil in a small room; and if ihe spaces beliveen 

 the top of oi:,i vessel and the Im.^c of i^nother, be 

 filled uilli a cement composed of two parts of 

 the cind of skimmed milk, and one of lime, by 

 which the air will he excluded, the laler kiin..- lif 

 apples and pears \' ill be preserved with lillle 

 change in Iheir a| pearance, from Oi-tolier till 

 March. Dry cool silnalions, are the best lor the 

 |)riservali(ni of linir." 



We have thus made a hasty skelch of some of 

 the papers in these volumes thai record llie la- 

 bors of the first A^Micidlural Society of New- 

 York. The efi'ect of these labrrs we feel at the 

 present day. in ili,^ impulse they gave to aj'iicid- 

 Iiire, and ihespiiir of inquiry and im esiigiiiioii 

 ey piodiir li. ';'!;e leadin:: >|iiiits of lliis asso- 



vioii were men ol powerliil minds, lar-ieucli- 



I ing in their views, and in llieir practice evidvnily 

 in advance of their .-ige. It is eralilyiug lo trace 

 In these vnlnmes llie germ of some of the great 

 improveiiicnis of ilie times; to behold sngiies- 

 lions and iiiipiiries expanding into practice and 

 ((lets; lo see where we in onr hnsliandiy have 

 improved on the old, or introduced new inellinds 

 inciilline; and in particular to olisi'r\e the vast 

 advance there has been made, since liiese vol- 

 umes well! [lublished, in mosl of our agricultu- 

 ral implements. ^ 



Fer llie F.. ruler's Monthly Visitor. 



Messrs. Editoks : — 1 took the inclosed from 

 ail old paper published at Haverhill, Mass., in 

 1803. 1 sent it to the Fatineis' Advocate, Bos- 

 ton. 



It contains a Immoi'ous account of the prepar- 

 ation of u market can, and may amuse some of 

 your readers of both Patriot and Visitor. 1 reail 

 the General's Journal many years ago, and was 

 nnich interesteil. 



Froni the Boston F.irnier's Ailvocalo. 

 WiT.LiAM Heath was a Major General in the 

 army of Ilie I'nited Slates during the Revolu- 

 tion. He was eiilinsti d uilli many impnrlaiit 

 coirmiands: — among others, he hail charge of 

 Biirgoyne's army w hile prisoners near Boston. 

 He was an observing man. and kept a dally jour- 

 nal, which he published as Heath's Memoirs, de- 

 scribiiiir himsell on all occasions as '' Our Gener- 

 al." He li;id heard ihat he resembled the Mar- 

 quis of Granliy, and stated the liict in his i\le- 

 inoirs — it gave rise to a waggish rhyme, as fol- 

 lows: — 



"Oh ! my cliirky, my chicky, my dnnily, 

 iVhat a gip.it lieiieral am 1 — 1 look like the Marquis of 

 Gr.iiiby!" 



General Heath was, in his way, a useful offi- 

 cer, alihoii;:h I am not aware thai he took part in 

 any action dining the war. He died some years 

 ago on his (arm at Roxbmy. He w.is finions for 

 raising early produce tor Boston market. Heath's 

 jonrtial contains much valuable inlbrmaiion. 



V. 



Poetical Paraphrase ot'our deaeral's Jiiurnal. 



In th:it famed town which seiidd to B iston mart. 



The ^lidin^ Inm-piiim and the raltliiiiz cart; 



Which 8lai VPS ilsell". lo wp.dlhier p ililps [lie ise ; 



Witd evprv hiinb acd i;:iilii*st liutsimr peas, 



Wliicli hohls ill laifket sliJIs an envied iiaiiio ; 



For liuirh'r giirv, vPGri-lable fame. , 



ill tfinl I'liaud town whose wealthy I'armers sow 



A field 111 radish, and a grass plat mow ; 



Whose early harvest is a sieve ot greens. 



Whose laller harvest is a m -ss of beans ; 



O'er wh'tse scant I'ajms no sturdy oxen eo, 



Bat a l.iii!i :donjliboy tackled to i hoe. " 



ill that l.jm ■ I low II. -.vheiicc mother Oriper rides. 



With panii.ers bMiiiHliu^'froni her nnres Link sides ; 



l.adeii \Mth b;rcii birk b ixes. Iierries l.irt. 



With >ueel I'osewater, iiid lehiip snnit; 



While tlirough the stieels. ihe shnli longued widow 



sere I1II..1. 

 Her neck b'-pf .-ausa^e. and hef tou:;h stiin^r beins. 

 in Itiit I'liiicd r.ovvii. wiipucp comes the falsest beef, 

 'I'be pliiiuppsl I imb. nml ve.il. aiifl pii; and Healh, 

 Our Geiier ■! rose — and rose l.erore the snn 

 Had oVr Hie rocky town bis race beirnii. 

 For 't\v;is tlie hour when [irUiienl rarmers start, 

 From hoinpspnn bed to l.itje Ine mirkel cart. 

 .Ground him all llie y.aiinglinjr HiNiths [iiep.ire, 

 'I" obey Uie precept.^ '■! p.iti'i-nal can — 

 Some pick the yreen eired corn w.th ta.'^seled siJk, 

 Some i-l.an toe old. some water the now milk ; 

 Some villi disleinipil cheek inflalellie laiyb, 

 S"ine wilh llic flishclout pltiin,i the kidneys cram ; 

 .Some 'veii and cnniips wash . i the clear stream, 

 Some \ t loii.'-L'athpied jieas to rnake ihem «jreen ; 

 Last aiilnmirs butter some work o'er anew, 

 With j'jlce ol' ca-r-ts tinge tile ifoldeoi hue J 

 'I'he rioicid l.iyers ayouthlul (i>rm nssuine, 

 The siglitly box displays the lumps of June. 



Our Gen'ral rose and thus addressed the drove, 

 Of yoiin<i!iiiL,' Heaths; Sprouts of your lather's love, 

 shoots of my glory, scions of my name, 

 Tvvij^s of my hope, and suckers ^i' my fame, 

 Vour labors ipiit ; suspend thif huckster's art, 

 Unhorse the panniers, and unload the cart ; 

 Let Boston bellies erumble one wnole d.ay, 

 Whilst t the boners of your sire display ; 

 For know il 1 am denied this publication, 

 My (aols must surely suffer mutilation ; 

 For why do you see when ace in print am 1, 

 I'm always sure to tell the self-same lie, 

 'Tis for posteiitv I write 'lis true. 

 But then i jiublish to aiiv:intai»e yi'u ; 



Willi liowers ol Greece and Uome I'd sorn he flustered, 

 1 lovp no flo-.vprs but li e flower of mustard, 

 -And thai 1 love because Uye proverb cries. 

 That laustard makes a very weak man wise ; 



I But the stern Toe to rpyal tyrant gu..e, 



I must adopt Tor pun^i the royal style. — 

 Know Ihe'.i Will He, nil, our Major Cienonl, 

 Was born near Boston, and that is not all ; 

 O wondrous stranire, and past profane belief, 

 I-'ive generations of the name of Heath, 



i-ived in one house, which stood on the same lot, 

 .And du;^ poi.ttocs froiiv the self-same spot ; 

 And what is more strange, our (ieneral so big, 

 On this same spot does still potatoes dig I 



The poetry furnished by out' correspondent is 

 of as rou;;h a c;ist as the poet would make the 

 character of his lii'io or of the town in which he 

 re.-^ided fifty or sixty years ago. There still lives 

 in the town of Rovliury a market firmer contem- 

 porary with Gen. Heath as the yomnj; man is lo 

 the ehler of his neighliorhood, the Hon. Kbene- 

 ZER Seaver, who as a member of Congress 

 from old Norfolk voled for the Dee'aiaiion of 

 War in 1S1',J. Gen. Heath, previous to thai lime, 

 had been an misuccesslid candidate for Lieut. 

 Governor in Massachusetts, rminiii;; on Ihe same 

 licket with Gerry and Sullivan: he officiated for 

 several years as Judge of Probate tor his own 

 Ccimiy. He was by no means an inferior man 

 — both himsell'and his neiohbor Seaver were of- 

 ten caricatured and laughed at on account of 

 iheir politics. Onr masier in the printing busi- 

 ness, Joseph Cnshing, Esq., formerly of Amherst, 

 now of Baltimore, served his lime nith the ven- 

 erable Wiliiam Aiaiiiiing in Boston, who novy 

 claims to he the great-.iirandliither of printers in 

 New England: wliih; all apprenlice lie (iVlr. 

 Cnshing) set the t\ pes and read the proofs of 

 Gen. Heath's '^lemoirs, visiling the old gentleman 

 at hisdomii'il in Koxbmyas the successive sheets 

 went to press; from him we had derived the im- 

 pression thai Gen. II. was much like other vete- 

 rans we remember ot' onr own Slate. His edu- 

 cation was a little hetler than that of some of onr 

 eminent men — nearly as good as that of either of 

 the late Governors Langdon and Gilman, and 

 perlaqis better than that of either Gen. Stark of 

 Gen. Pierce. Perhaps the Mas.sachn.selts man 

 was a little more vain than either of those men- 

 tioned, and this vanity tolerated for the time the 

 satire of the critics. 



The description of the "scant farms" of old 

 RoxlKiry and of iheir stinted eaily harvest <if a 

 "seive of gieens" and Jater harvest of a " me.ss 

 of beans" — the forced and diminniive products 

 of this " riieky town" — coiitr.ist well with iis pre- 

 sent condiliim. It is only a few weeks since we 

 rode over a priiK'ipal road of the town of Rox- 

 biiry ; and if ever the e\e could luxuriate on the 

 productions of onr mother earih, the successive 

 fields of this town presented ihe scene rich from 

 Ihe liaiiil of Nature. Jt is ill the im]irovenieut .if 

 this riiuged groiiinl, the nearest to liosinn which 

 is cnllivaled, thai ihe weallli of llie city has been 

 throw n ag.iinsl the best eflbils of the thriving 

 orij;iual ov\uers of ihe soil, like Heath and Sea- 

 ver, and their descendant..*. E F— — , Esq., 



whose father ftill at the heail of a regiment at 

 HiibliaMliKii, uho has by his mercantile skill 

 and fiiijincial enn.'i'prise, made of himself a "niil- 

 li^||laile" ainoiio llie men of Health, has ,'i lieanli- 

 liil iiirin or ''place" wiihin ihe coiitines of Rox- 

 hmy: keeiiiiig up the "Id fashion of farmer.s he 

 infill nieil llie edilor of llie Visilnr that he aiiiiu- 

 ally raised his crop of h inter rye, and that the 

 city had };iown to thai extent that his laid been 

 for >everal veal's the neaiesl rye lield to Bo-ion. 



Among Ihe niimlHceii! Jiatrons i<{ a^'i ii'nltnre, 

 w hose naiiie^ 'lughl to be lin'ever res, ecled Iiy 

 all lovers of improvement, were the late Joh.n 

 Pri.vce and Be.'vjami.n Bussey, who boih were 

 resident in Roxhury. The annual income from 

 the cultivated lands in Roxhury at this time 

 would probably well compare w ili the entire 

 commercial gains of the ciiy of Bo^^lon fifty years 

 ago. To a country farmer, the prnlits of fiirming 

 in Roxlini'v woul.l . 'em to be almost incredible, 



I I is much to the credit of such men as Heath and 

 Sevier, not only thai ihey have labored efficiently 

 as public men, aiding lo procure our Independ- 

 ence and lo sustain the operaiions ol' a free gov- 

 ermrieiit, but also laboring personally as pioneer 

 market fanners, a highly respected class of our 

 citizens. — Ed. F. M. Vis. 



Takixg the Veil. — The imposin.ff ceremony 

 of takiinilhe while veil was yesterday pel fbi ni- 

 ed at the Carmeliie Nminery on Aisqniih sirect, 

 in t!ie chapel all.iclied to the instiinlioii, which 

 was witnessed by a large concourse -of spectac 



