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iiirge scale, it should by all means be subsoiled. 

 ill is iiselfss to set out cboicf; fruit trees in a poor 

 soil — be liberal in the n:*e of manure, but do not 

 let it come in contact with the roots. 



The trees slioulil not be planted deeper than 

 tliey originally stood in the nursery, nor should 

 they be staked. Jt was our former praelire to 

 put down a stake in each hole, before the tree 

 was planted, and place the body of the tree near 

 it, and aflerwanls fasten it to the stake ; but we 

 found this to be a bad practice, as the action of 

 the vvinil u|jon the tree wmild, in spite of every 

 precaution of tying j'ound matting, &c., cause a 

 constant rubbing against tlie stake, so as often- 

 times to greatly injure the tiee. Since we have 

 nbandoned the practice, we find the tree stands 

 e(]ually seciu'e, if well [jlanted. When the tree 

 is large, it is a good pracnce to make use of 

 hooked pegs, lo fasten down the roots on each 

 side of the tree, which will be an effectual mode 

 of keeping the tree steady. It may be unneces- 

 sary, perhaps, lo caution those who set out trees, 

 to see that they are secured by good fences. We 

 have seen many a fine tree destroyed by cattle, 

 for want of a little |)recaution. 



In the vicinity of our city, and many other sec- 

 lions of our Conimonwealth, there is an increa- 

 ing taste for fruit and ornamenlal trees, and there 

 appears to be a laudable desire among a great 

 majoiity of our landholders, to beautify and en- 

 rich their habitations with trees that are fileasant 

 lo the eye, as well as those which produce the 

 delicious fruits of our climate. We wish il cojld 

 be .Slid willi truth that this taste generally perva- 

 ded the country, and all who are in possession of 

 land, of whatever profession, would give a litlle 

 more attention to selling out fruit and ornamen- 

 t;d trees. VVe have noticed in many places in our 

 travels during the last summer, a great scarcity 

 of choice fruit trees. 



We consider il a duly, we could almost say a 

 religious duty, for every man lo do his part, ac- 

 cording to his means, in increasing the number 

 of fruit, ornamental and shade trees in the gar- 

 den, orchard, and public roail.s, &c. To our lath- 

 ers we are indebted for the magnificent trees that 

 adorn many of otn- streets and .-quares, and for 

 numerous apple and pear trees that are found in 

 * our orchards ; wo i>we them a debt w hich can on- 

 ly be cancelled by a determination on our part 

 10 plant for those who may come after ns ; and 

 ni do tills, we slionld never be wrary of the work, 

 lint year alier year, in the fall and in the spring, 

 we sliould be upon tlie look out to see where a 

 tree may be located, without injury to the crops, 

 and where it vvill beantily the place, or in process 

 of time, yield a profitable crop. 



It appears that the planting of trees is fashion- 

 able in hjngland, at the parting of indiviiluals, to 

 conimeniorate a visit or interview, and this was a 

 pleasant incident in the recent visit of ibe Queen 

 to Scotland. On the estate where the royal liun- 

 ily spent a few days, before parting with the liosi, 

 a tree was |ilaiiled by the Queen and Prince Al- 

 bert, and even the young I'riticess Royal billow- 

 ed the example of her i-iarents, and as her tiny 

 hands and delicate arms were not sufliciei;t m 

 wield tlie spade, they were guided in the work 

 by one of llie gentlemen present, 'i'his was a 

 noble example ol" the Queen to her siibjecis, and 

 we conid wish slie may never set a more- pernic- 

 ious one for them to follow. We should not 

 like to follow the exatn|de of royalty generally, 

 but in this instance we think it sale, and the idea 

 strikes ns very pleasantly. A tree planted on the 

 occasion of a family or nieeling of friends, would 

 be cherished with peculiar care, .and serve as a 

 memorial of the event, and it would, no doubt, 

 jiroduce a happy efiecl upon families and li lends, 

 were the practice generally adopted. 



Remarkable Kmck. — One of the most rpiiiarlntile 

 rocks ui' wtjicli \ve have .iny knowledge, hns l)een lately 

 (liscoverefl in the middle of that great inland sea. Lake 

 Supcrinr. By a i^enllnman wjio lias recently returned to 

 this city IVtiin Copper Harbor, we learn that a shalt of 

 'J'r:ippe rock has lately been discovered, rising in the lalo; 

 iVoiii 150 to 200 iiiiies (Voin land, and ascciuling above the 

 surlace of the water, a distance of not above four feel. 

 What renders it more extraordinary is, that it stands alone, 

 and all around it, so far as examinations have been made, 

 no bottom has been reached liy any of the lead lines used 

 on the lake, and the point of the rock itself does ntit ex- 

 ceed an area of more than six or seven feet square, and as 

 far as observations of it have extended, it does not appear 

 to enlarge in size as it descends. It has already, he states, 

 become a source of alarm lo the mariners who navigate 

 llie lake, who lake special care in pas.-ing, to gire it as 



wide a berth as possible. It is too small— too remote and 

 dangerous to admit of a light, and therefore its removal 

 has become a matter of serious importance, and will 

 doubtless pertain to the duty of government. .\ single 

 blast from a liorc of suliicieiit depth would probably do it, 

 but the surface of the rock being so near that of the wa- 

 ter, and the space so narrow as lo forbid any regular lodg- 

 ment for workmen, they would have to be attended con- 

 stantly by a vessel of sufficient size lo resist any sudden 

 storm on the lake, would also have to be kept uiidcr way 

 as no harbor or even bottom lor an anchor is within a 

 day's sail. 



The discoverers relate that the rock appears to be a 

 place of general resort for the Salmon Trout of those 

 lakes, as they found them there in almost incalculable 

 number, having, during their short stay, caught several 

 barrels with no other instrument than a rod of iron, on 

 one end of which they turned a hook. They tried with 

 all their lines on board, for sounding, immediately around 

 thq rock, but without success. .^uch a vast column, 

 cpuld it be exposed to view, would laugh into ridicule 

 Cleopatra's needle, Pompey's pillarthe Colossus of Khodcs 

 or any production oi' ancient or modern art. 



Grinding Coru with the Cob. 



According to Dr. Mease, the practice of grind- 

 ing corn with the cob, is common among the 

 German inhabitants of Pennsylvania. They 

 consider the practice as a great improvement in 

 the feeding of corn, and many of their mills have 

 an apparatus for grinding. i)r. Mease adds, that 

 "corn meal alone is loo nourishing or heating, 

 tmd it is therefore, by those who use it, mixed 

 with a portion of cut straw, and coarsely ground 

 rye or shorts, and in this slate constitutes the 

 daily food of that fine body of draught horses 

 that do so much credit to our carters and dray- 

 men of riiiladelphia, and the industrious far- 

 mers of the State at large." 



Thiit the cob of corn contains considerable 

 nourishment in itself, is very probable; indeed, 

 instances are on record, in which poor people, 

 in limes of a scarcity of lijod iijr animals, have 

 converted ihefn to a good use by pounding tmd 

 boilingr, them, and I'eeding them out with .a small 

 quantity of cut corn leaves or straw. On such 

 food cattle have for sometime subsisted, and even 

 seemed to he in good heart, if not to thrive. 



In the Mass. Agric. Ilejios. for 1823, is a com- 

 mimicalion from Mr. Rice, of Shrewsbury, on the 

 subject of feciling cattle, which conslitiiled a 

 part of his business, in the course of which he 

 gives tin account of one of his experiments in 

 using cob meal. 



"The second year, if I nrislake not, in wliieli 

 I made use of cob meal, I ihouglit 1 would Irv an 

 experiment by feeding one ox with corn ami oats 

 ground, the other wiih corn and cobs, havini; a 

 yoke of oxen so even matched, that no one who 

 viewed them was stitisfied which was best; ac- 

 cordingly I fed them as above. The cob is roin- 

 puted to make a little more than one-third; 

 therefore I mixed the other with one-third oat.s, 

 as was my former mode. 1 gave each ox an 

 equal tpiantity at a time, exce|.'t the one which 

 had corn atid oats sometimes became dainty, and 

 would not eat his allowance, while the oilier 

 kept a regular couise. The allowance of lioth 

 was a little over three pecks per day. When ta- 

 ken to market and killed, they weighed twenty- 

 eight hundred and a hall; the one fed on corn 

 and oats \\eighiiig half ;i hundred the niost, 

 while the one led on corn and cob meal \v;is 

 considered lialfa ilollar per cwt. the best beef. — 

 The one fed on corn and cobs had 163 lbs. of tal- 

 low, the other 162 lbs." 



From thi.s, and other experiments, il would 

 seem that cobs gromid with corn, add to its v.alne 

 for the purposes of feeding, lu.'arly or (juite .as 

 much as would the stmie i[iiantity of oats. Il'siich 

 is the Ciise, there can l>e little room for doubt as 

 to the propriety of making the practice of grind- 

 ing the cob with the corn general, where ihi.s 

 grain is used for feeding. — jY. E. Fiinnei: 



Vitality. — Fish of many kinds contain an abiiiKlaiice 

 of oil which the cold of our climate does iiotatrecl. Ti-sh 

 stiffened by the frost, are frequently, in cold climates, 

 thrown into water and revived. 'I'his is a fact well au- 

 thenticated. I have freriuently seen cases when; the ears 

 of persons have been still with the (rosi. and in :ill tl}e;-e 

 the frost was extracted without injury to the flesh. 



In Russia, during a severe snow storm, immense inrm- 

 bers of insects, nearan inch in length and of a nondescript 

 species, lell with the snow. These insects, when brought 

 near the tire, died. 



The egg of the measuring worm will withstand the cold 

 of zero without injury.* 



A few days since. I met in my walk a worm moving 

 slowly, as if near the termination of its course. 1 lifted 

 it carelully on a stick and placed it On the house wall, to 

 which it al once fastened itself. The next day I noticed 



its appearance had nuicli changed. 1 detached it gently, 

 and suspended it tiy its own thread and a wafer in a closet, 

 (into which the rays of the morning sun entered,) which 

 I opened regularly, every morning. At the end of two 

 weeks, one morning, on opening tiic closet door, I found, 

 in place of the worm, a splendid and beautiful butterfly. 

 Its wings were tinged with colors of great brightness, and 

 bes[iangled with the richest gold. 1 raised the room win- 

 diiws which open into the garden, and in a few minutes 

 the youthful butterfly plied its wings and sported among 

 the flowers, riding on the wmgs of the gentle breeze with 

 much seeming satisfaction. Two weeks before, it was a 

 crawling, dying worm. 



The aiiple endures the frost of winter and becomes 

 stilfsned by its cold, yet notwithstanding this, the seeds 

 ot that apple will germinate, and in time will produce a 

 tree yielding, in its season, rich blossoms and luscious 

 fruit. 



Various seeds and plants, the natural productions of 

 northern climates, pass the frosty season unharmed. 



.Seeds and roots, which have remained buried in the 

 Catacombs of Egypt tor a period of 2000 years, on being 

 brought II) contact with the rays of the Solar Oib and the 

 influences of its Jiedp mate, that more than mysterious 

 element, water, hav(; gerininatcd\ 



Sleep, Rest, Repose — is not death. Suspension of ani- 

 mation is not extinction of life. 



'J'he drop of water, teeming with its countless millions 

 of moving inhabitants, so small as not lo be visible to the 

 naked eye, passes from a fluid to a solid, frozen state, and 

 .again melts, without destroying this living multitude. 



What we term death is but a change. — Journal of Com- 

 mfircc. 



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COJNCORD, N. H., OCTOBER 



1S44. 



MATTERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL. 



OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS FROM A JOtJR- 

 NEV OF EIGHT DATS I!^ MASSACHUSETTS. 



It is matter of no small regret, that the cause 

 of the Farmer, the interest taken in ihe usual 

 agricultural exhibitions and the progress in the 

 arts and improvements of the industrial produc- 

 ing classes, should have siitt'ered the present year 

 from the deeper interest which the artifices of 

 interested zealots have contrived to work U|) in 

 an excited national election which occurs once 

 in lour years. Politician with an avocation lead- 

 ing especially to a care lor )iolitica.l rcMilts as 

 we have been for the last thirty-five years, the 

 editor of the Visitor recollects no period when 

 he could not find leisure and lurn aside to devote 

 all suitable attention to the duties wdiich he owed 

 society and to those; objects involved in the gen- 

 eral weltiire in which men of all political parties 



could unite. Ti 



back 10 the times of the 



greatest political excitement— to the scenes of 

 the last war with Great Hritain, when thousand.-* 

 of oiir truest patriots with ourselves, "feared and 

 trembled" for anticipated overwhelming results 

 — turning to the times when youth fired lip the 

 strongest, warmest political zeal — we yet remem- 

 berassociations with men, some of whom yet live, 

 neighbors and even friends who were then and 

 always since that time have been opposed lo onr 

 polllical tiiitli and doctrine, where all of ns uni- 

 ted our exeriii.ii.^ in n common ettiirl to advanct; 

 our Slate and imiHediate neighborhood in tlio.su 

 useful improvements which have rapidly carried 

 ihis country forward tow.-irds ils present proiuf 

 (losition. VVe look back with pleasure and pride 

 un the advance which has introduced conilbrt.s- 

 and enjuymeiils to the new generation which I, ai* 

 been born within the last thirty years, :ind tor 

 ^ylnch they are indebted to the spirit and exer- 

 tions of a prior generation, at least a moieiy of 

 whom have now rested from their labors. Wlial- 

 ever luty be the excitement upon parti.-^an and 

 sectariai, opinions, may we noi hope that the 

 good sense of an intelligent people will continue 

 to unite a'J honest hearts in ihe fnrtlierance ol' 

 the great interests .ilioiit which there can he no 

 difference of opinion ? 



We say it is matter of regret that our agricul- 

 tural e'xhibituns should suH'er the present year 

 ill consequence of undue political excileminit in 

 the choice ot Presiilent, which wilf have been 

 decided befon ni.iny of oin- subscribers shall 

 peruse this ai'icle: we would not have known 

 this in our own neighborhood, if the public, pa- 

 pers in other Sates luid not made this as their 

 apology. Onr otvn Stale and neighborhood has. 

 been but little e.\ciled on the Pre.sidontiftl qnea- 



