®l)e Iixxums iiloixtijli) llisitov. 



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extended lo a great lens''' f™"' '''," .'"*' '" "'."' 

 jiossessinii, litit tlio iibove is siiffitiriit.— Still 

 j we iniiisiiio Fonic fiiniieis will siiy, (soino Imve 

 ! said so,) thiit tl'e mtm who imis iiiiiiiuie and la- 

 i Ijoi- enuiigli oil an aero lo get lUO Imsliels of 

 ' corn, is a loser. We would ask liow? A man 



■ may ecillivate an acre of corn, and get 130 liiisli- 

 I els an acre, and ho will bo a loser; hot it is 



Kcarcely jio.-silile when the product is 100. Jn 

 etieh a ease, ail over 30 Imsliels may ho consid- 

 ered inofir. In addition lotliis, his acre of land 



■ is placed ilia comlition to produce tixn-e ^^ood 

 i crops, an<l tlio additional oiiiouiit of these is to 

 ; be added to the list of profits. The man who 



bus hrnnght 30 acres of land to such a state that 

 it will produce 100 bushels of coin per acre, is 

 far better oft' than the one who has 100 acres, 

 yieldiiii; only 25 bushels per acre; and of this 

 iiict wc are happy to lind many of our lanners 

 are beginniiii; to be well convinced. It is nime- 

 tessary to say the remarks wo have made le- 

 specitn^' corn, are equally applicable to any oth- 

 er i;iain or grass, and that the grand secret of 

 success is to cultivate no more land than yon can 

 make rich. 



Maxciiestek, N. H.— a census just taken by 

 the selectmen of Manchester shows the popiila- 

 linu of the village to contain '20(J3 males and 

 y!)47 femr.le.s: total 5010. This whole village 

 has grown up within the last five or six years. 

 The' Land and Water I'ower Company whose 

 enterprise has made this great local erealion, 

 liave laid during the past fall and winter the 

 foundation of a great factory 480 feet in length, 

 to he employed in the iiianufaclure of mousliii 

 de laiiies. The body of this immense cdilice is 

 going up at this time under the direction of J. 

 T. I'. Hunt, Esq., an eminent brick mason. The 

 foundation of two other mills have been con- 

 tracted for to be laid by the I St of August. These 

 H\o last mills are intended for the mannfaclure 

 of cotton with 25,000 splndlc.«, and for [iiinting 

 ralieoos and monslin de laines; they are to he 

 built under a charter \v!'ii(-h was granted by the 

 State legislature under the more liberal era of 

 1837, but which has laid dormant under the de- 

 prt-ssion of business originating in the great 

 speculations of that lime. 



The water power at Manchester greatly ex- 

 ceeds that .at Lowell. The Canal, conducting 

 the w.-iter along the bank to positions where it 

 may he used three lime.? over in a fall of more 

 than sixty feet, is said to he the greatest work of 

 the kind ill the country. The workshop of the 

 Company, conducted under the agency of one 

 of the ablest practical artizans, with workmen of 

 great skill, is ready at t!ic moment for the execu- 

 tion of .'ill the modern improved machinery, till- 

 ing up an extensive nianui'actory in a lew months. 

 'I'iie buildings rdready erected hy the Company 

 exceed in durability and beauty all others in the 

 country- They are comfiosed of bricks manu- 

 factured mainly upon the river bank a few miles 

 above, wlio.se belter burning in the naked laying 

 presenis a livid reil, showing them to be |ierma- 

 iieiit and lasting as granite itself. Of these bricks 

 the Company has contracted for the delivery by 

 one gentleman of two niillions a year Icir the 

 three next years. 



At the store of Messrs. Sayles & Meiriam wi; 

 were shown sam|iles of Mou^lin de Laines, 

 which were maile at tlio Ilooksetl Factory .Mills, 

 owned by the Amoskeag Land and Water i'ower 

 Company: specimens of these were sent out by 

 the steamer of the 1st of April, to show the man- 

 ufacturers of Manchester, England, how soon 

 the luanidiicturers of tin; .\meriean Manchester 

 could assist in I'urnishing the mark<Us »\ the uni- 

 versal world with all the line and (hdicale fdiries 

 which minister lo the pride of fishion. 



The Handsome Apple of Vermont. 



Straffunl. Ft. .IprU 17, 1844. 

 Hon. Isaac Hill: Dear Sir — I take the liberty 

 to seiiil J oil herewith of a new vnriely of fruits, 

 which originated in this town, and which, Irom 

 its peculiar beauty, has become known as the 

 Handsome apple, together wiili a few scions for 

 grafliiig, which were cut from the trees to-day. 

 They were taken from the grafted trees and not 

 from the orisinal sto<'k, lliough the original tiee 

 is slill growing, in a remarkable hcallliy condi- 

 tion, on the farm formerly owned by my father in 

 ihc north pait of thif town. 



J regret that the tipples accompanying the 

 scions liave been somewhat chilled during the 

 late severe winter, and therefore are not probably 

 as good flavored tis they might otherwise have 

 been. They are usually mellow and good for 

 eating by Dc:cemhcr or January, though they will 

 keep till [March o[- April. No apples make a bet- 

 ter pie during the fall and winter. If yon should 

 wish more of' the scions, you can have them by 

 "riling-. If you should think proper to iiolice 

 this iii'W variety of fruit in your paper, please 

 send me the iiiiiiiber containing such notice. 



The IvevH are all lemarkahly hardy .-.nd tlirifty, 

 bearing a large dink green leatj and have never 

 been known to winter kill though they grow very 

 rapidly till frost conie.s 



Yours very respcctfullv, 



PELEG MOREY. 



(C/^ With the box conlaining the above were 

 received the scions and tlio sample of apples. 

 They are heanliful as the Handsome faces of the 

 fair insiids upon and among the Green Mount- 

 sins : the clear skin and the b.ithfnl crimson 

 tinge of the youthful human cheek of .a New Eng- 

 land I'eauty bear an apt similitude to the native 

 Ilandsoine apple of Vermont. Onr intention is 

 to incorporale these scions in oiie]or more trees 

 near the Handsome village iit the seat of the New 

 Hampshire government : we wish we could say 

 the fur anil Handsome thing of the young people 

 here in lel.ition to their treatment of apple <n- 

 cliaids after the fruit begins to grow. With their 

 accustmiied practices there is little encourage- 

 ment to attempt to raise melons or fruits of ;my 

 kind. 



Ahhough we have published nothing probablv 

 that has been of much benefit to the "larmcrs oV 

 itye— by showing our admiration of their cxaiii- 

 I le— by preseniing them to other lariners of u" 

 different cast — by infusing into others willing to 

 read and learn, and pay filly cenis for an (igri- 

 cnltuial newspaper, the spirit of the liuiiiers' of 

 the " pattern town," we are quite sure that we 

 are mider no mistake. If unr fellow citizens of 

 Rye I'ould feel at the same liberty and as much 

 giatily their taste by reading our'Visilor as they 

 do in that con.'^tant labor which improves their 

 lands .■md has made them so independent, we 

 should in a single week's lime ;idd a bundled of 

 them to our subseripiion list.— J3;/. Visitor. 



The Messrs. IMoorcs at the north end of Con- 

 cord Main Street, have a breeil ofbog.'=, a mix- 

 ture of the Ijcrksliire and Mocha with the best 

 improved native breeds, so handsome that they 

 readily sell Ibr breeding at §2, ,S2,50 and §3,00 

 when four weeks old. W'ithin the last year they 

 have had litters timoiinting to somelhiiig nmre 

 than one himdred of these' line pigs. The appre- 

 hension of a .Miinchester p:i|'er that the niihoad 

 will destroy the inducement to raise hogs in New 

 Hampshire seems not to be rc:dized in their 

 case. 



From the "Pattern Farming Town."' 



Post Office, n^je. A". //., M.irch 9, 1344. 



Mr-ssas. I. Hill & Sons: — 'I'he enclosed is 

 [iny fjr tlie V'i>iior for this year, (1844.) It was 

 due thelirst of January, bin I have delayed send- 

 ing it, hoping iliat I should get some more sub- 

 scribers: as yet I have not succeeded. In the 

 last Visitor joii |iraise our town very highly by 

 calling it the " pattern town" for liirming in this 

 State. This m;iy be the fact; but it is the next 

 thing lo an impossibilily to get our farmers to 

 suliscribe liir an agricullmal p.iper. I do not 

 know (being a liousewright myselt) but what our 

 firmers might improve a great deal in farming 

 if they would be willing to re.-ul and practice 

 some of the new methods of fiirming. If you 

 "ill take the trouble to visit this town about the 

 midille of July, you co^iM then see the crops of 

 heavy grain :iud other kinds of produce that the 

 land i.s c.ipable of bearing. This is a be;iuliful 

 season of the year, and we have a great many 

 visitors at the Beaches, more parlicnlarly at the 

 South, or Long Beach. All that we need to 

 make it a very desirable place iiir a summer re- 

 treat is a suitable public house, to entertain visi- 

 lors. There is a farm <d' (ifty acres on Locke's 

 Neck (so called) for sale: price i?i3.500, where 

 such a house should be located. The land is 

 first rate, and in one lot, iind lies along close lo 

 the beach. Any person wanting such a siliialion 

 would do well to come iiiid vieiv the premises. 

 Very respectfullv. your <ihd't serv't, 



J. i'. WALKEU, P. M. 



(X/^ We have bef^ire nolicefl that ni;my of onr 

 best liirmers weie those w ho helon:.'ed to no agri- 

 cultural society and were not subscribers to ag- 

 ricultural )i.;|ier.s. This is really the case with 

 the industrious farmers of Itye. They ha\e 

 louiiil Slid; eminent success in ilieir own plain 

 way of improving their lands, they are so much 

 encouraged to exert ihemselves in the way in 

 wbii'h they ;iresosiire to succeed, that thev prob- 

 ably do not find time to read an agrieuliurai pa- 

 per. It is not to beiudit lhe.se .■ind such as these 

 that Hgiiculliirnl iicwspiqitrs should be circulated. 



Todd's Patent Seed Planter. 



The editor of the Visitor is indebted lo Mr. 

 Bela A. Phelps, the agent of Mr. Henry Todd 

 of Orford, I'ne of the most ingenious mechan- 

 ic invcnt<n-s of the Granite Slate, for the gener- 

 ous present of his newly invented Seed Planter, 

 a m:ichine for pluming Corn, Beaius, Rota Baga, 

 &c. It excels :ill the Corn Planters we have ev- 

 er seen, and in any well prepared field will do 

 the work of many liamlsin pl.inliiig with a certain- 

 ty and rcgulariiy which cannot be mistaken. The 

 agent oilers the right lo any farmer I'orlhe 

 amount he will gain in a single year: maehine.s 

 will be furnished to those who purchase the ri'dit 

 at from three to eiulit dollars each on wrilin;' to 

 Mr. B. A. Phelps of Hill, N. II. The maciiino 

 is so constructed as to remove stones, tiirfs, 

 lumps of earth, &c. and shows the regul;irily 

 of dropping ihe required number of seeds by 

 the ringing of a bell ; it o|ieiis the ground, drops 

 the seed, covers tind rolls it down, all at the same 

 operalion. It is etisily moved by one liorse, and 

 is etpially well adapted Ibr alnlost all kind.s of 

 seed, which it drops in hills at any regular di<i- 

 tance froni drills at any prcqiosed" depih, at the 

 pleasure of the operator. .\ machine may ho 

 seen on the premises of the Editor of the Vis- 

 itor. 



Ila-.tshorn's Seed Sov.'er. 



Mr. Joihaui Hartsliorn of .\mherst, N. H., has 

 shown us a Seed Sower for Carrots, Parsnip.-, 

 Beets, Rula Baga, 'i'nrnips, &c., wdiicli i.s an im- 

 provement upon all that we have yet sciti. He 

 has not until ihe lasl I'aw Weeks ottered ihe nia- 

 cliine for general sale and use; hut ^within that 

 time the extensive agrieuliurai rst.-iblishment of 

 Rnggles, Nourse& Mason at Qiiincy Hall, Bo.s- 

 ton, has sohl more of Mr. Hartshorn's kind than 

 of .-ill olhers. This machine is liir hand and not 

 liir. horse use. li is very simple in its cmistrnc- 

 tion. It consists of a wheel fourteen inches in 

 diauieler of iioii, cast in four pieces and put to- 

 gether: this wheel serves at ihe same time :is a 

 roller to [irepiire the ground and a plough lo form 

 the furrow. A hopper containing the seed is in 

 rear of the wheel, and is made lo drop the seed 

 ,-it any suitable ilislance : a small box cmilainsthe 

 dies fur the various kinds. -11111 sizes of seeds, from 

 that of English turnips to thai of common beans 

 and peas. Those who raise the various kinds of 

 roots are aware that laud must be well pulverized 

 and prep;u-ed to jirofluce a good crop: no garden 

 sower can b.e of use on land not well prepared. 

 .A single machine used by Mr. Hartshorn l;ist year 

 sowed the seed raising several ihonsand hiL-ihels 

 of various roots, !iy himself and neighbors: tin) 

 appearance of this machine very rnncli recom- 

 mends if. It m.iy l«; seen at the store <jf Allison 

 & Gault, opposite our publishing office in this 



tow II. 



The Editor of the Visitor acknowledges the 

 gift of a dozen Water Proof Rifles (not (i.r tlio 

 duel,) hut liir the scythe, manufiictured by Mr 

 WilJiam B. Walker, of Bennington, a new- town 

 u|ion till.' Conlooi 00k in Hillsborough County, 

 N. H. 'I'het^e will come well lo the aid of llie 

 woikmen upon our hay fields when the scythes 

 from Wayne, in the .^tate of Maine, shall t'o over 

 them in July. The ing.Miiiiry of N,:w I^lnglaiid 

 luruishes iitj tin; best IJirmioL' nlcnsils of all 

 kinds; and the Editor of the Visitor comes in for 

 at least as much «s he deserves of their gifts. 



Punch's Almanac advises the farmers to sow 

 their P's, keep iheir U's warm, hive their iJ's, 

 shoot their J's, fef'd ihcir 'N's, look iit'ter thsir 

 |iolatoeb I's, and then take their E's. 



