qI1}C Javmer's illoutljln ilisitor. 



lo; 



k:i(ivv I:(nv 1! iiiiiy iitrfc! one in dtiilli, 1«i' J in:vt T 

 irioil il, lull I I/O kiMMV it liid not iiirliii« riio to 

 .«,'<■?/> !il till. Ill lliiiik tliat '•kiiifiti iiiid lilt! fiifiit 

 OIK'S cl' till! p.ulli'' Wfie siiDuzirij: just itn-ii in 

 l!ie iii.i't cimitiirUiblL' itmiiiiiT in rln- wnild. It' I 

 C-li inclini'd in do/.r, llie snn|i|jinir id' the tire, oi- 

 :i .-flf.-dlliy lr(>;ul nl' ;i i'nx nr liedgi-lioj; wonld 

 ^l;M■llt; nii: M|i, itnd llirie stiiod tin' t.ill Irei s in 

 ilio fine li;;iit, ll.iir lin;L'e trniiks liiding nwtiy in 

 lilt- ilii kncsr", liki' 111'- i-.dinnn.-i ol' some olil co- 

 tliedr;d ;il tvvi!ii;!it. (JniT I i-onid liiivi: sworn I 

 saiv M liiMr, and was on llif iMiint ol' slnioiinf', 

 lint finally rondndi'd lo take « fir? Iinind in one 

 liimd and my idle in llie oilier and iio towards il, 

 >i lien lo, it mined om lo In; a blark sluinj). I lei it 

 >!eei» (>n and went liaek to ni\ (ire, Jiol as it wa:^, 

 deli-rmined lo i^ilic a leiji. It «;os nil in vain. 

 Mild yet I had >le|il rionndh in (dares ^\ iiiT*- 1 lelt, 

 a I tin; time, 1 1 a re vMis iidlniii, ly more dan;:er iliaii 

 l.eie--f'or here iheie wiis no ilan;jer. 1 liad Kle|it 

 soundly lashed lo a heneli when ihe, sea was 

 (■■illinir in ilnmd-r on llh- deck of nnr slafjiieriiig 

 >iiili. ) had .-.leil amid 'the Alps anii A|i()eil- 

 iiies," nay, worse, in the raliriidet ol' a Freiieh 

 iiili;;enee heside tlie yelliii:; iMrtJiirffW/'. 1 li-id 

 :<le|it on the liard tloorand heside liiiii<.'and ilead 

 men, hut J <-oidd in.t ^i< <(i hrr. 'l'ln re Has 

 soinethiii!; so iiwrnlly soleiiiii and myslerious in 

 that n!i;iliiy forest — in tin; rnsih- of the liijrhl 

 liree/e thromrh the lo|is of ilie luMidoeks, and 

 I'le fiiiUer, now and then, of a l.iid dislnrited on 

 its peieii, iliat my heart heat -aodlhly ill my 

 hosoir. The <larkoess and llie ;'.looiii were o|i- 

 (iressive, iin:) I wished most dt\oiiily for tie- 

 moriiin;.'. Jiist ilien lliere iranie a ria>h of li^hi- 

 niiljr, foliourd hy the iow i;ryAl of distaiii (Inin- 

 ilei". Tiiis vv IS someihinj; I had not ealcnl iled 

 ii|)Oii, and 1 said to myMdii " \WII, llieiv is a 

 |)ri)s|(eil ot my lryiii;i I'reissniiz's system now, 

 lor there will he eold h.-nhin^ in plenty lieliue 

 moniiii;:. add my diet is spare, enoiiijli, heaven 

 kijotts, liir I havn'i even ,i red sunirrel lo roast 

 tor my snfi|ier. I sliall he thaiikiid if oiie of 

 these heiidoeks does iml have the nihliiiij; of iier 

 down after my Imlli." .lost then the hiasi swept 

 throiijih the iorest like the rrtar of the sea and 

 ail was slili aj^ain. Another dash, and as I live 

 thete stood a man amid the trees; i wailed in 

 hreathless suspense ior a second flash, hot the 

 l;eadofieel prevennd the nei'essily, and the 

 III At inslani ijie liidi.o ia i'i\illzed om ) that I 



■ •ni.'ayed to j;o deer sialki irwilli me, approaihed. 

 I was nevermore filad In sec my liilher (iian liim. 

 lie had seen the liiihtof my fire ahove llie trees, 

 and snppo>in;r J was lost, eame after nie. !le 

 did'ot lose any ihinu; hy il. I was inn two miles 



■ rem the settler's house f'nmi wliieli 1 had set 

 out. We reaelied it ahoiit 9 o'eloek, ui\i\ I slept 

 on my straw lied that iii;;hl without lldnkin;; of 

 "the "real ones of' the eaiih." 



j opinions, am! no doiiht ever will he. Some who 



'aie advoeati.'s for il upon i;<iod land are not upon 



! had. It is a general say inj: ainoiiij farmers, thai 



I if you ploii^ii Mieli and surh land deep, it will 



I prndiiru noihin;; hot wei'ds. 'J'hat is the very 



j tliilii; wanted; for if land will produce liealthfn! 



I Weeds, my opinion i^, ii may he maJe lo prodnee 



I smiielliin.!; heller. I nmfiir /ihui'liinu: deep in ever:/ 



case bill where todis preveiU il. 1 may he wion^'. 



hill what praeliee I have had, and what 1 have 



seen, say i am 1101. 'I'here is a f'urin ahont ten 



miles froiii liere, which is a co-iiplete refutation 



to every ai'gnmeiil whicli 1 tiave yet seen advan- 



ped aijainsl it. When the farmer commenced liis 



operafion.s, it was the general opinion he was 



mining his tiirin; il wnipoor, iliiii of soil, and n 



liail snh-oil, hill is now one- ol llie hest farms in 



llie lieigldiorhooil.'' 



This waswrilieii nearly twenty-five years ago, 

 and il is as Iriie now as it was llieii. Where 

 liiere is no more manure put upon the ground 

 liian expends itself in a single year, where the 

 ciillivaliuii is siiperticial and had, deep ploughing 

 will innire or do no good to the ground fiir the 

 present. With manure .spread for llie henefit id 

 the ground as well as llie present rro|i, and with 

 ihe line care in eradicating weeds, d«ep plough- 

 ing is valu.'ihle on all lands: in a stiff clayey soil, 

 as well as ill a flowing sand, in seasons hoih dry 

 and wet, fleep ploughiii:; will always lie favorahly 

 fell. Shiiidiiig water should le; drained off: at'- 

 ler this is away and ihe lam! is deep jiloniiheil, 

 we need iiol lear either the liaking dtoiighl ur llie 

 long rains in injury lo !he.?rop. .\sdeep as ihe 

 phiugli goes, so inmdi will he increase,) or dimin- 

 ished the faculty ol' the earlli to produce. 



Ill relation to the covering of weeds and other 

 refuse vegetahles, one of llie first lessons we ever 

 received was to cover j^reen polaloe vines dug 

 earJy in the year si* they imght tiecompose under 

 a crop of turnips in the .same season. Long af'ier 

 this lime, however, we have seen one of the liest 

 West Camhridge fiirmers who could consent lo 

 work only in a clean fiidd, treating the refuse corn 

 holts upon his gromid as a huriieii. For years 

 he said il was llie piacii<'e of him and his iieigh- 

 hors to gather and hurn them ; if they wen; car- 

 ried lo the iiiaiime yard they were as much in 

 ihe way as if they had heen lid't on the. fields. — 

 .As a last resoii, and as an e.vperiment, he took 

 iheni to a ledge upon the lop of a ;;ravelly knoll ; 

 and he had already found ll.e good eli'eels ol 

 wash Irimi them upon ihe gi'as.i helo«. i\o\ 

 there can he no more valiiahle manure for ground 

 ihaii the deep covering up of' tiie roots and rem- 

 iiaiils left in u cornfield. Any rotten or rolling 

 slump kept under groni!d will always benefit it 

 eidliialed field. — KJ. f isihr. 



This, my dear girl.-', j on cannot deny ; fiw how ol- 

 teii 1 have had a glimpse of your di parliny figure, 

 as y oil was fly ing inlo the cellar, hed-iooni, or 

 stair.-'. How heanlilid ! — palpahly ahsiiid ! — Now 

 |.'erfec!ly ridiculous I Do yon ihink me deslilule 

 of ordinary sense that you do this .' Do \ on sup- 

 pose that it v\ill give mi; a greater esiiiimie of 



jyonr value/ Jt cannot he. (Tonlrast y<iurs with 

 the practice of yonr sex in Ihe days of our aiii-es- 

 lois — ''ihe time that tried men's souls," and lor 

 many years nfierllie revohilion. Mrs. Washi.no- 

 •ro.v, the Willi of the Fatlier of our coimlry, at 

 the lime her hnshaiid ^^as occn|iy ing the Prcri- 

 deiilial chair, and in the enjoymenl of ihe );ie:ii- 

 est honor America could he>tow, was in llie dailv 

 liahit of doing all kinds of ihmiesiic work — wash- 

 ing, liaking, kniiiiiig. and, in short, discharging 

 all her hou.-eliold ilniies. In the house of such a 

 woman there ;u'e real and snhsianiial comfiuts— 

 hut in the house of one who is always readv t" 

 rnnaiid liirsake her accusiomed l.ihor at the ap- 

 proach of a stranger, real happiiie.-is cannot he 

 found. Olt-limes I have entered ihe fiirmei's 

 house, and fiiund the girl out, well siiiisfied that 

 ihe moment hefore 1 entered, the d.iiighler was 

 engaged in moppiii;.', scrn!ihiiii;,washiug, or doing 



, some similar husiiies.<, when, in a fi;w moirieni.- 

 aiU she comes with a genleel dres.s, and a buslim; 



j hustle; Ihe sight of w Inch wonld, lo say the 



] Ip.isl, distnrh any ."ensihle man's ei{uaniiiiily. 



The principle oljcct id' ihi.-i'oiimiimicailon i-t 

 to sii'iinc you out of Ihe ahslird, hut common prac- 

 tice of leaving your laisiness at the approach of 

 a stranger, or more particularly young men. — 

 For myself I c;m say thai I inver would kiss, 

 much less marry a l.idy whom I could not catch 

 Ml any domestic hnsiness. .Ami, lo tell the truth, 

 and expose my self, the only girl I ever tovnd, I 

 hived best w hen J saw her dressed in her hliie cal- 

 ico frock and check apron, into the suds np to her 

 e|h<iw.«. 



When I I'ommeiired, I ihouglit I would men- 

 tion some other had iiraclici;s of our girls, one of 

 which is novel reading; hiii Mrs. I'^isler, in the 

 iiist liumher of llie Farmer, li'eali;d lliesuhject so 

 admiraiily that I saw it emirely unnecessary to say 

 any thing ahoul it. Ediicalion, haliii, &ci:, I should 

 like lo dwell upon al leiigih, hill 1 cannot think 

 of' taxing llie (i.ititiice and politeness of Mr. 

 .Moore any fiirilier this time — iherefin'e, 1 will 

 i\fl'fr ihem nil another lime. D. L. [i. 



I'oniiac, May, 1844. 



Deep Plou;;liiu^. 



Hkst t'SK Fyii Wfi-iDS — Wdliam Rothwell a 

 IJrilisli farmer (in a Itller extr.u'led hy the Amer- 

 ican Farriierof lo20') advances ihe i'ollow ing doc- 

 Crines : 



" 1 iiui going to advance something « liicii I am 

 hIiiiosI afraid to do, as 1 know the opinion of the 

 gemrali!} (d' farmers is against uie ; hut 1 am de- 

 lerniiiied lo do it lioidiy. It is a :;eiieial priiciiee 

 liT fanners to collect weeds and liiirn them on 

 the land, or carl them off juid make a compost of 

 them, which I should jireli-rlo limning .(hem, I 

 do neither; I have never coifected a weed since 

 1 commenced fin iniug, as, however full liie laud 

 was of them, and whatever kind llii-y were of 

 1 shoiddjiist as "oon think of selling fire to my 

 dimghill ascoliecling weeds aiul hnrning ihem. 

 «ine half of my tin in, when I hegao liirmin:.', was 

 almost lis full of weeds a-' il pos.-ihly could he, and 

 ot" nearly all sorts, and now I ihink il as clean as 

 most farms ari' ; at leasl j am not ashamed of it 

 oil lli:it head. ( have sown one field uitli o;ils 

 ihis year, which, wiien I lie^-m faruiini.', was 

 nearly a furrow tlii,k of couch gra.s.s, h, siiles 

 other weed.-s, and now there is scarce one lo li» 

 seen in it; and you must leniemlier il is the hu-t 

 crop in the mlalion, <hat is, it is lo lie tiiriiips 

 next year; and ihisfield has never had a weed 

 gathered from it ^ince I heiran. .As I have said 

 ill a fiirmer conimiiiiicaiioii, when land is once 

 clean, it ought lo he kept so, and i-^ easy to keep 

 so. I never yet knew a weedy crop iiirii out a 

 prodiiciive one." 



.\gaiii : "Oil deep ploiigliinj', there are various 



From the Michi;»an Firmer. 

 To Farmei's' Daughters. 



Dear fi/W.« .-—Believe rue when I say that I love 

 you — (not hecaiise I want to in.irry you iiiyselli 

 Inn liccause I want those wli ) nrirry you lo gel 

 '■a i'orluiie") that Ij'ee! inlerested in yonr welliire 

 — ill your falure (irosperiiy and hapiiiiics.s Cer- 

 tainly, when I consider lliat the safely imd pros- 

 perily of onr heloved coimtry isresiing upon the 

 stiouiders of your se.\* — that the palrioiism and 

 peace of all classes of our eiiizens are at your 

 dispo.-'al, how can I hut feel an inteiesl, aye, a 

 lively inlere.-l, in the course yonr iiiexpei ienced 

 minds, or erring footsteps may lake.' i am well 

 aware tli.it you do not realize llie extent of your 

 responsihiiiiy as livers in .Amerii-.i — that you do 

 not consider the many ioti)^/i^/ d.iliesyou arec.il- 

 led upon and hound to discharge -that the iiislru- 

 iiienls yon can wield are ever effectual in Ihe ov- 

 erthrow and extermination of that which destroy s 

 the pilli of doiiieslic and national happiness. 



Willi sorrow 1 conlt'ss, and am fiiiced to ac- 

 knowledge iliat you have gone _/ar astray from 

 your original nsefiiliiess — thai you have uhiiosl 

 eniirelv di'|iai'li'd from your liiriiier worlh — and 

 now an; grovi lliiig heneaih yonr once iisciiln d 

 dignity, 1 vi.-it your homes ami rind you ilespi- 

 .sers of your ihunesiic duties. Is this indeed 

 true? Ill what respect? For several iiionilis I 

 have heen iiiu.hle to catch a young lady over the 

 vvash-liih. Is it becausu washing has lieeii dis- 

 peiiKeii with? Certainly not ; tint it is hecaii.-ie 

 f.niiei'R' diiughlers have got above their business. 



'' Thp author holiia tfiat w.ancn decide tlie fate cif so- 

 c'i»ty. nations, and pv*-rvtliinj ni the -Moral and Political 

 W.jihl. 



Amou.nt OF S.ii.Ti.v THE OcKA.v. — IJakewell 

 estimates the average amoum ol's.dt in the ocean 

 !it two and a half |ier cent. From conipnlatiiirii 

 liaseil upon ihe amniint of the tides, il is highly 

 proh;.hle that the .Ailaiilic and Pacific oceans ate 

 in their central p.iils, not less ili.it nine or leii 

 miles in deplli. Were we lo place the averiiEe 

 depth of the ocean al five miles, it wonld donlii- 

 less be a tiioderate estimalp. in superficial exient 

 it covers full three fifths of llie eiirih's siirliice. 

 .Assuming then five miles as the average defUli of 

 the ocenn, and tv\o and a half per cent, as the 

 average amount of .sail contained in it, were ihe 

 waters eniiioly evaporated, the saline residue 

 would fiirm a siraliim of' salt more than five 

 hundred feet in thickness, covyriiiL' Iin ee-fil'lhs »>f 

 the snrfiice of the globe. If tl.i ii this iiuiss of 

 .salt were evenly spread over the errlh's snrfiice, 

 it would cover it to the de|iili of Ti'iO feet. But 

 MO more than one filth of the earlh's snrfiice is 

 habitable. Were then ihe salt coiii:uned in the 

 ocean spread over all the habitable parts of the 

 glohi", it would cover tlieiii to the depth of 1.500 

 feet, or souiethiiig more than a qiiarler of a 

 mile. 



.A Si.vGLiLAii I'hk.vomk.vo.n. — .All at once, on 

 Wednesday aflernooii last, a well on the preini- 

 Ros of Mr. Jacob Sleveiis, in Lyme in ihiscouti- 

 ty, commenced oviitlow ing and still continues 

 wilh niMlimiiiished force. Il is e-limaled that ihe 

 disch.irge is at least sixty hogsheads per iiiiiinte. 

 The water is cold and very clear. We learn that 

 the w,'ll has been dug and used fiir iii;iuv vears. 

 To enable our readers to judge someihing of the 

 projeciile fiirce of the vvaler, it is said that good 

 sized stones, thrown into the well are q.iickly 

 ejected. The redundancy of water overflowiiij^ 

 the adjoining land, is doing iiincli daiiiage to the 

 crop.s in the vicinity, — JVorwalk (O,) Expositor, 



Jiibi n. 



