very near l|,o plant?. Afler a few days these fur- 

 rows uere tiiiiK',! I,acl< towards tlio plants. A 

 few .lays siiljser|,„.,uly to this, furrows wore 

 ajrain lurnp(l/,om l/,e planh, l,„i the ploii-rh .lid 

 not run quite so near then, as at the first lime- 

 Jnciiali,;ra (ewdays the furrows were Inriied 

 hack-and this process of Inrnin- off an.l on, 

 »vas repeated five or six limes. But at each timj 

 o( turning off, the plough was kept a little (Ur- 

 ther from the phmts than liefiire. 



"The consequence of all tliis was, that he ob- 

 tained carrots 8, <), and 10 inches in eireundi..,- 

 Z^:. "'""■'•• I" 'lie common way of enllivalion, 

 he couhl not have ha,l them lar..er ' than a com- 

 mon dipped tallow candle.' An<l ihoud. his 

 perncre'''" ""'' "'""'' ''° "'"''i'"^'' 230 bushels 



"The minute fibrous roots of the carrot extend 

 .. He, ly farther than we are apt to observe. And 

 iMsonya (air supposition that the better Ihe 

 t'^r, "',""', «™'""'. «"■ llie more reeenilv the 

 ^onnd has been siirred before the roots extend 

 11110 II, the belter the crop will grow. The course 

 pursued l,y Mr. Eliot wa.' admu-ably fitted to fm-! 

 nish to the roots a fresh supply" of soil from 



bed n'r,;:'^''^' ^"^ ''''" ^"^ '« >^^^ut..a p,,!;; " 



"The question which his practice and success 



1 Ih ^ case have .M,j;gested, is this: whether we 



or'be rV ," ' ""'' ""'"' "'"■ Voua^,;, and all 



h h. '"', '^' '^°""".'""-i'^^"^^"l.v wiih ploiinh- 



u^' he earn, away from otie side of the row, 



le. ,np be plongi, run very near the plants-say 



01 II, ee days, and then turn it back. After this 



vvasdone„en,i,luplon.baway (Vo.ntheothe;- 

 side, at the proper time turn ibis back. When 

 1 became neeessiuy to ,,loii.d, off a.^aiu, keep 



,^',tT'^,'.1 "'••*""•'"- '''■"'" the plant.' And 

 til .-Yepeat the process as Ions "s was necessary 

 -laNin- care all the t,me to keep the plou-h fal- 

 --..gh from the phmis not to Inlrm nlanyot^ ,h; 



''Atlhe last time of goini; over ibe ground, 

 my be well to use the b^bt ha,Tow and leve 

 ilie wliole surface. 



'■A fart that has some bearing upon this noint 

 M.ny be 1,,-ough, fn„„ ,be p^icfce of so, veil ,e 

 most .successful Scolcli cubivators of tl e p, ,! 

 toe, who alter the plants co,„., up, take of^" tie 

 jnoiild-board from the plough, and hen r,mn i <, 

 -e coulter as ,iear to tne plants as Ihey ca, o'l 

 ll'e share pass d,rectly under the seed and ph mis. 

 TheefJecfs to stir the ground so that the fi,..c 

 roocs w.ll enterjnst as they begin to want fooil.'' 



^l)t jTarm cr^q iilont!)Ii) Visitor. 



91 



Since from old cliiios Ihoii wast toss'd : 

 1 hiiirgh at-u (in atjn |,;ii|, passed ;iw,iy 



Willi all tlioir gLirioiis deeds sublime, 

 With stnni'd urn and column grey— 



Thuu mockest at the march of lime. 



Slern mfir.iiizer or Ihe past ! 



Whai Ihougliis uiinumhe/cd crowdini; throudi 

 J he iniud, m lurreiils dtep and vasl, 



Bring back .igain in solemn view 

 Ihe lanes or old; where power and might 



Displayed upon the balllc field, 

 In lyrant cause or Ireedom's (i'dit, 



Their deeds, vviih buckle trun.p'nnd shield. 



or all the jarring scenes of earlh, 



Sceilre mere in ihy high reUcat— 

 Ol quesiions or n)..iiieiitous birlh 



That oil III sinle the claims compete — 

 Ul proud y<,uug Liberty's career, 



And w.in oppression's galling chain ;— 

 Ul all earth s joys and smiles and leur 



Ihou hasla proud spcclaijr been. 



nut prouder or our own dear land, 



Than mitred deeds or ancient li'me ■ 

 V\ here Libei-ly, will, soil command, ' 



Asserts her godlike swav sublime 

 I'nstamed wilh vile oppression's red 



'}'"* !''■•'<■ '■'■""I l.vraiUs' smile or lio'wn— 

 U here thoinands worship none but Uod ■ 



1 ro,n Ihy high courts thou lookest down. 



TInlfhmous tri-topp'd mount* of old 



l-.mbalined in song by tabled Ivro ' 

 l\ ilh magic influence coiilroli'd ' 



The oeslinies o| Cirecian Kre : 

 But here that H ime burns more intense 



And lorlli Its riuhest olPrings bring : ' 

 1' or deep and deathless eloquencct 



Are nourished 'nejih thy coven wing. 



The red son of the forest wild, 



Untamed, and like the eanle'frce 

 As nature's fiir and learleis^chiid, ' 



Paid his devotions true to thee • 

 And ever let tliat spirit he 



Deep kindled in our breasts the while 

 As long, like the still summer sea ' 



Siiall glow the lani'd Great Spirit's smilo.{ 



If rreedoin from her callant throne 



shall to oblivion be hurled, 

 And. struggling in her dying groan, 



Al last shall leave ihis wcslorn world— 

 Around thee slill, her beacon fires 



Will glow H nil splendor unconsumed, 

 J III th memories of our patriot sirca 



l-'ngratelully shall be entombed. 



Sutlon, X. II. 



B. E. P. 



Kor the farmer's Monlldy Visitor. 



Kcitisargc, 



No mountain in iVew England wears an aspect 



ol "lore snbhmegi-andenr than Kearsame S? 



Mated nearly cential in \ew Hampshire, and 



eanng hs evclasiing pilh,,, ,„ ,|,o c loud.s, it pre 



s.,.s,othe„avelleron any of our g.ea; tho - 



O'lgl'taies, a d,sl,ngu,slied point of ai„-action.- 



A view l,on, its .summit, in a calm and serene 



be niy ,r'''A^ '"''"""'•' ^"■""'•'' I'i^-""---'l"e ami 

 ueaiiiiinl A roinaiiiic succession of hills, moiin- 

 t-...is,,pla,ns vallies, hike.s an.l woodlands, rom 



\ on.idnock and lolly Ascntney on the west, to 

 'lie dun oullmes of the Atlauli,r on the east, wiib 



VvIT ,v„"""' *"' ""-• •-' l*^l"'i't''l J-Toup of the 

 White Hdls on the north, coi„l,i,res ,1 p,ealer 

 Bceneof inte,est and beantv. to the eye of the 

 ners'e'd '"^''°'^'*^'-' "'"" i-^ '^eltlom or ever wit-' 



* OlymiHiM. 



tDajiiel Wehsler. Ichabod Barllell and .Toel Eastman 

 rnen ol distinguished eminence and renown or Uie present 

 day 0! the bar and natives or Salisburv. N. H., a town 

 situaled immediately at the eastern base of Ivearsarre 



X Lake Winnipissiogee, which was loruierly calfed bv 

 Ihe aborigines •'the smile or the Clr.Mt Spiril." Iviiig bu't 

 a lew miles to the norlh east ol' tiearsarge, is Lee'n in lull 

 and diEUncl view Irom ile summit 



Like some lone giant sentinel 



■That long hast braved the •storm's career 

 Whose sleepless eye hath guarded well ' 



In gltmmy doubt and wassail cheer ' 

 ihou hllest high thy lollv head, 



Begirt in adamanline rock 



ihcrloldjto meet in whirlwind shock. 



The storm cloud rests upon Ihv brow. 



And rolls his deep-toned thunder there ; 

 I he red-winged lightning stooping low 



J o kiss the earlh, Irom npoer air 

 F'resages wralh and ruin below. 



As onward, Irom the roarlul west 

 I he tempr St comes like feathery snow 



Obedient lo thy high behest. 



Though olt descends the fire and flood. 

 In summer's heat, and winter's frost' 

 Thy firm frmndatinn's stones h»ve olood 



From Harris' Treatise on Insects injurious to Vegetation. 

 The Wheat-Worm. 

 Oiir agrieiilinral papeis toniaiu .'■onie accounts 

 ol an iiLsect or of insects mnei, larger than the 

 inaggots of the wheat-fly, glowing t„ the length 

 of ibree-eighlhs of an inch or nioie, and devour- 

 il.g' Ibe grain in the ear after it is haivesled 

 Ibe in.secls In which ] allude, have received the 

 names ol wheat-uonn.s, gj-ay worms, and brown 

 weevils; and, aliiioiigb lhe.se difieieiit names 

 niiy pos.sibly lefer lo two o,- more ilislinet spe- 

 cies, I am inclined lo think that all of them are 

 intended for only one kind of insect. Soine- 

 liines Ihis has also been called ibe giain-wortn: 

 whereby it becomes .'^o,i,ewliat diflicull lo sepa- 

 raie the accounts of its history and ilepiedalions 

 Iron, those of ihe Ctciilomyiu, or wheat-insect. 

 It may, liowever, veiy salely be asserted, ihat the' 

 wheat-worm of the We.-teru pari of New Yoik 

 unil of Ihe northern jiart of IVnnsvlvania, is en- 

 lirely ili.-tinct from the maggots of our wheat- 

 fly, and that it does not belong" to the san,e order 

 of insects. F,o,n ibe de.scriplion of it published 

 ,11 the si.vih volume of " T),,; Ciillivalo,," by M,-. 

 Willis Gaylo,-il, this- tieprrd.ito,- appeals lo be a 

 ealerpilla,-, or span-worm, being prov ideil with 

 twelve leel, six of which a,e siiiialed near each 

 extitwnily of its body. Like oilier span-worms, 

 or Geo,neters, it has the power oi' spinnin"aud 

 suspending itself by a thread. iMr. (_;,u lord says 

 it is of n yellowish brown or bultcniil coloV; 

 that il not only feeds on ihe kernel in the milky 

 stale, but also devours ibe germinating end of 

 the ripened grain, without, however, luiryini' it- 

 self within the hull ; and ihat it is found i"n "Teat 



liumbeis in ihe chaff, when the grain is threshed 

 He sajs, moieove,-, that it has lieeii known for 

 yeais m the western part of New York ; am! that 

 It IS not so much the new appearnnce ol ibis in- 

 sect, as lis increase, which has caused the lucs- 

 eiit alarm lesptciing it. 



The transliirmalions and the appearance of 

 this i,isect in iis perlecied slate, lia\e not yet 

 been descrihed. Mr. iXath'l Sill, of Warren, 

 I'eniis^hauia, lia.s given a somewhat diHl;ient 

 (lesciipiion of it. On tbiesbing' bis wiiiter- 

 wbeal,ininiedialely alter liai vest, be Ibniid among 

 the screenings a vast ai inv of lids new eiiem". 

 Hesa^slhat il was a caterpillar, about three- 

 eig iihs ol an inch in leiiL'ih, when fully grown, 

 and appaieiilly of a straw color; but, viien seen 

 Ihiough a magnifier was found lo be striped 

 leiiL'ibwise will, mange mid cream color. Its 

 head was dark brown. It was providetl with 

 legs, could suspend itself by a ibiead, and re- 

 sembled a calcpillar in all ils niolions. 



It appeai-s bi-hly probable lliat .Mr. Gaylord's 

 and I'Mr. h-dl's wbeat-caterpilhns aielbe'same, 

 nolwiihstanding i|,e difference in their color. 

 Insects oi the same size as these caterpillars, 

 and ol a brownisli color, have been fo 1 in va- 

 rious parLs of Alaine, wbeie lliev have done 

 much nijiiiy to the grain. Unlike "the maggots 

 ol Ihe wheal-fjy, wilh which they have been con- 

 fonnded, iliey remain depredaiing upon ihe ears 

 of the grain until alter the lime of harvest. Im- 

 mense mmibeis of ihein have been seen upon 

 barnfloor.s, where the giain has been ibreshed, 

 O'Jl they soon crawl away, and conceal them- 

 selves „, cevice.s, where lliey probably undergo 

 their iransforinalions. Mr. Elijah Wood, of 

 \Vinihro|>, Maine, says that ll,e chry.salis l,as 

 been observed in ibe chaff late in ihe fall. A 

 genileman, li-om the sonlhern pail of Pciobscot 

 coimiv, i,ilbrnis me ihat he winnowed out nearly 

 a bushel of these insecls from bis wheal, in the 

 anlumii of J840; and becoiirir,,is the statements 

 ol olhers, that tlie.>-e woinis devour the srain 

 when ill the milk, iiml also alter it has become 

 bard. 



These wheat-worms, or uheat-caterpillars. a.s 

 they ought to be called, if the foregoing uecounis 

 eally refer to the san,e ki,id of i,,sect, are sup- 

 posed by some persons to be ideniii'al wilh the 

 clover-wor,i,s, which have been lin.nd in clover, 

 in various pans of Ibe conntiy, and have o'.u ,', 

 bee,, seen sjiinning down froin lolls and m... s 

 where clover has been stowed away. A strikii.;; 

 similarily between them has bi:en noticed bv ;i 

 writer in the "Genesee rarmer." Stephen fi'ib- 

 ley, L'.si(., iidi.rms ,,,etl,;it be observed Ihe clover- 

 worms, in Hopkinton, New-Hampshire. n,any 

 years ago, suspended in sui-h numbers liy their 

 threads from a newly galhciid clover mow, and 

 boo, the linibeisol ih'e bnihiing, as to be very 

 iroiiblesome and offensive to persons passing 

 ihioiigb Ihe barn. He also slates, that if be rec'- 

 ollecis lightly, these insects were of a brown 

 color, .'iiid about half an inch lung. J urn sorry 

 to leave the hisloiy of these wheal-Wdrnis niifin"- 

 ishfcfl ; but bf.pe that the foregoing sialemeiits, 

 W'liich have been carefully collecledliom various 

 sonrees, will tend to reinove some of Ihe diffi- 

 culties w berewiih the subject has been berelolbie 

 involved. The coniradiclory slaleinents and iin- 

 salisfaclory discussions, that have appeared in 

 some of our papers, i-especling the ravages cf 

 ihese worms and the maggols of the vvheat-f,v, 

 might have been avoided, if' the writers on these 

 insecls bad always been careful lo give a correct 

 and full description of ihe insecls in qnesiion. 

 Hail this been done, a crawling worm or cater- 

 pillar, of a browtiisli color, tbree-eighihs or half 

 id' an inch i,i h'ligth, proliahly provided uiib 

 legs, and cajiable of siispendiiig ilself by a silken 

 thread of iis own spinning, would never have 

 been mistaken for a wrilbing maggot, of a deep 

 yellow coloi-, only one-tenth of an inch long, 

 desiitule of legs, and unable to spin a thread. 

 When ihc transfbrmalions of ibe fbinier are 

 known, anil the insect is obtained In its winged 

 or perfected stale, it will nndonbtcdly imn out to 

 be a w.i-y different cre.-iinie from ihe'iiny, orange 

 colored wheat-fly. Uiiiil its Iraiisformaiions are 

 ascerlaineif. it will be of lillle use 10 speculate on 

 ilie means to be used agaiiisl iis ravages. 



Cutting Gkain Early.- We are satisfied 

 that grain is very ofien left too long standing 

 iinciit ill Ilie field. The risk of injury froiii 



