^{)t jTarmcr's Jtlontljlg faigUor. 



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came a worthy memlier of the I. O. of Fat Fel- 

 lows, and attained to their Irifthest degree. His 

 corpulency prevented him from travelling, and 

 although he had never been to roam, (Kome,) he 

 was familiar with the rich stores of ancient and 

 modern Grease. The state of the money markets 

 gave him no concern, he cared little for the rise 

 and fall of stocks— except cornstalks, which he 

 always appeared anxious to get down. He early 

 acquired a disgust for party politics, by observing 

 the greediness with which soiue parlizans have 

 thrust their snouts into the public swill pail. He 

 even thought that some aspiring individuals had 

 much belter hav« a stye in their eye than the 

 White House at VVashinglou. In his political 

 views there seemed to be something like incon- 

 sistency. He was in favor of prolection, and 

 was a ravenous advocate of home consumption. 

 He also favored large corporations, and at the 

 same time was a strong advocate for retrench- 

 ment, and delighted in cutting down cetleries. He 

 never was a candidate for any public station, and 

 It is believed that his modesty wouhl prevent him 

 from accepting the offer of any office, from that 

 of Committee on Swine down to the President 

 of the United Slates. 



Notwithstanding he was ten feet long, from 

 extremity to extremity, the event proved that he 

 was not long for this world, and in his last ex- 

 tremity no friend was found to save him from 

 the hand of the assassin. He was rapidly in- 

 creasing in size until the time of his departure, 

 which was in Novernber last, at the age of two 

 years and six months. At the post examination 

 of his remains, it was foimd that his enormous 

 bulk had reached the weight of more than 1200 

 pounds. What prodigality of fatness was here! 

 What a mass-meeting of pork concentrated in a 

 single individual! The county of Es.'-ex chal- 

 lenges the world to produce his equal. Mr. Alley 

 informed us, with apparent siiwerity, that he sub- 

 sisted maiidy on raw Indian meal and potatoes — 

 but the committee had supposed it more likely 

 that he had lived on green turtle soup and pound 

 cake, with an occasional meal of boiled salmon 

 and canvass hack ducks. 



For the Monthly Visitor. 

 'DO UNTO OTHKKS AS YOU WISH OTHERS TO 

 DO UNTO VOU." 

 My trav'ling friends, shall 1 propose. 

 A question tor one moment's llioujrht 7 

 'Tib from .i source where friendship flows, 

 There's no ill feeling with it frau;,'ht ; 

 Bat frequent thoughts ha.ve raeicompelled, 

 To place these lines wiihmvyour si:;ht j 

 For oft my eyes have things beheld, 

 Which reason says are not just right. 

 The Golden Rule do those now keep, 

 Who hauntthis orchard, take-ils fruit 7 

 If they've a conscience not asleep. 

 They'll think of this without dispute; 

 Where is the man who's toiled with care, 

 To raise a held of corn or grain, 

 Who'll let the irav'ler freely share, 

 Till nothing for him does remain? 

 Do not our laws forbid this thing. 

 To take what is not ours by stealth 7 

 Will not the conscience feel a sting. 

 When wak'd indeed to see itself? 

 If it be theft to rob the field. 

 Of what a iiKin doth there possess, 

 Why not then of an orchard's yield 7 

 The conscience caith, 'tia nothing less. 

 Who's raising fruit to suit and please 

 The many trav'lers who pass by'.' 

 Where is the right of robbing trees, 

 Yet of a field of corn be shy 1 

 When doing this do you believe 

 The Golden Rule is kept hy you 7 

 That what you know yourself would grieve 

 Unto another never do. 



PhiiLos Ac .it (IDS. 



Morse's Electro Magnetic Telegraph. — 

 This wonderful machine is likely, ere long, to be- 

 come a successful rival to all other modes of 

 transmitting business and social. communications 

 from place to place. With a line of the tele- 

 graphic conductors extending from this city to 

 New York, the merchants of either city would 

 no longer send their letteiv^ by mail or ex|.ress, 

 and be subject to a delay of thiity-six horns for 

 tlie answer. They would be oom|)(.'lle.l, by the 

 natural course of events, to tise the telcfiiaphic 

 conveyance, by which means they might get an 

 answer to their communications in from half an 

 hour to an hour and a half, according to the dis- 

 tance their correspondents mi^'ht be from the tel- 

 egraph office. It would require no longer time 

 to communicate with New Orleans, if the tele- 



graphic conductors extended thus far, than it 

 would with New York, or than it does between 

 School street and Court street in this city, where 

 the telegraph is now in operation. '1 he only 

 time consumed is that requisite for striking the 

 characteis, (the electric fluid tiavelllng the cir- 

 cuit of the conductors at a velocity of 180,000 

 miles in a second,) and Professor Morse has 

 made 160 of the characters in a minute, through 

 a long coimnunication, between Washington ami 

 Baltimore. It would, therefore, require but ten 

 tninutes to transmit a conummication of 1000 

 letters, which would ite much longer than the 

 majority of business letters. Prolessor Morse 

 has a system also by which all coiiiiiiunications 

 through the telegraph are made private. The 

 most jnivale business letter, or the most glowing 

 epistle of love may be cunimuuicated through 

 the telegraph, without a word or sentence being 

 intelligible to any body but the writer and his 

 correspondent. — Boston Daily Advertiser. 



Blustard Seed. 



We have recently purchased from J. H. Parm- 

 lee of Ohio, a |)art of his crop of brown mustard 

 sec d, raised, as he informed us, on 27 acres of 

 good rich land, prepared with as much care as is 

 usually bestowed upon wheat land. The crop 

 was Well worked durinj; the season, and when 

 near ripe was cut with sickles, laid on sheets or 

 wagon covers, hauled to the barn in the sheets, 

 and there thrashed out and tanned. 



He has delivered to us as a part of the produce 

 of 37 acres of land, 114 barrels, containing 382 

 bushels 45 lbs. ol' brown mustani seed, weighing 

 52 i lbs. |)er bushel, making20,IOO lbs. for which 

 we paid him 8 cts. per lb., making .$l(j08,00 



and he ha.--', he says, 100 bushels of 

 tailiuL's, which be estimates will clean 

 up 75 bushels, say 50 lbs. per bushel, 

 making 3,750 lbs. at 8 cts. 300,00 



cut and description of it in the last number of 

 the American Agricultiui>t. It is a looihed cyl- 

 inder, six feet long, placed nearly horizontal, over 

 which is placed a concave, the lowest end of 

 which is so -made as to,press more or less tightly 

 upon the cylinder, and the ears of corn are put 

 into the upper end and travel down to the other ' 

 end. It is driven by .a baud w hii:h conuiiuiiicales 

 with a horse power, and be says that it vv,ill shell 

 THREE HUNDRED BUSHELS of Com lu One iajor. 

 Think of that I Who'll rub off his corn in a 

 half bushel, by the single eai', with a cob, after 

 this? — Maine JAirmer. 



THE MARKETS. 



Product of'37 acres of brown ihus- 

 taid seed $1908,00 



or $70,66 per acre. 



The time is not far distant, if not already at 

 b.kud, when the interests oltbe American liirniers 

 will be best promoted by devoting a portion of 

 their time and land to the raising of many crops 

 which are now inqiorled from countries lefusing 

 (except when their own crops liiiljthe surplus of 

 the American ftirn><?, and thus not only raise the 

 piices of their grain crops by diminishing their 

 cjuaiitity, but secui'e to theiijselves a large atuount 

 of juoney which is aniiiially sent out of the coun- 

 try to purchase these crops: mustard seerl is one 

 olihein, which can be i-aised bei'e to a jirofit, and 

 tor which, if the seed is deliveied clean and in 

 good order, the demand will be found very ac- 

 tive and certain. 



Respectfully, 



C. J. Fell & Brother, 



Mustard Manufactui-ers, 64 S. Fi-ont Street, 

 Farmers' Cabinet.'] Philadelphia. 



iCranberries. — Mr. William Hall, who resides 

 in the north |)art of this town, sent us, a box of 

 Cranberries, as large and fine as we ever saw. 

 We miderstand that they grew on a little patch 

 of boggy land, uhicli bore only weeds and iiish- 

 es — and lliat a few years since, lAIr. Hall having 

 some Cranberries wliicli were brought from the 

 westward, sowed thcni in the spring, upon the 

 snow and ice. The seed look well, anil has en- 

 tirely rooted oiitihe wcimIs, ami last year he gath- 

 ered about six bushels of Cranberries from a 

 patch of land about ihiee I'ods sipiaie, which a 

 lew ye.irs sitice w.-is entirely piofiiles.-:. 



The Mas.-iachusetts Ploughman states that a 

 man in that State has sold the Criinbetiies on a 

 piece of laiMl not exceeding one eighth of an a- 

 cre, for fifty dollars, the purchaser to gather the 

 fruit. 



Wc have long beien av\ar(-' that this berry was 

 easy to cultivate, as well as profitable; but have 

 never before known an in,>lauce of ibeir bavin;; 

 been raised by sowing in the iiiantier pursued by 

 Mr. Ibill — and we iiconiineiul to .-ill who have 

 such palches of ground to make trial of it. The 

 expense of it is little or nothing if it fiiils — the 

 profit great if it succeed.-'. — J^orwmj Advertiser. 



Great CoriN-sheller. — A corn-sheller has 

 been invented by a Mr. Smith, of New York. 

 He has obtained a patent for it, and has given a 



DOMESTIC MARKETS. 



BOSTON WHLOl-'.SALE PRICES CURRENT. 

 Corrected witli great care, weekly, Jar the A'. E. Farmer, 



SEEDS.— Herds Grass, $\ ,37 a 1 50 per bushel. Red 

 Top 50 to 60 cents. Clover — NUrthern, 9 to 1 Ic. — South- 

 ern, 7 a 9c. Flax Seed, J^l 50 per bushel. Lucerne. 3i3c. 

 per lb. Canary Seed, J^l 37 a 1 75 per bushel. 



.FLOUR. — The Ir.insacliuns of the week, as usual, just 

 before Thanksgiving, h.-vve, been large, both for city and 

 country trade — mostly confined to the l)eitcr qualities of 

 Genesee. 



Baltimore. Howard Street 4 75 — fl-*ltiladelphia d(».4nios. 

 Jg4. G~ a 4 75 — Fredericksburg, low land new ^4 b2 — 



Georgetown, J5f4 G8 a 4 75 Genesee, /:omin"ii, casll, 



$i 94 a 5 00— do. fancy br.inds ^b I'iJ a 5 25— Rye, 3 25 

 — Indian Meal in barrels, ,§2 62 a 2 75. 



PROVISIONS. — I-'or new Beef there is some improve- 

 ment in prices on account of short supplies, the quantity 

 brought forward being much less than e.xpectalioii. Con- 

 siderable doing in Lard, both lor stiippiiig and liome trade. 

 Tlie English market at the last advices was more Lvora- 

 ble for shippers,; the article .was in good demand, and 

 prices gradually inipruvmg. 



Beef— Mess 4 mo. new bbl. g7 50 a 7 23— Navy g6 50 

 a 7 00.— No. 1, g5 50 a G 00— do. Prime $i 50 a 4 75— 

 Pork, Clear, glO 00 a 10 50— do. ftless, ;^9 00 a 9 50— do. 

 Prune ^7 00 a 7 50— Butter, store, uninspected, 10 a 12 — 

 do. dairy. 20cts.a 22 — Lard, No. 1., South and Wc.-ilern, 

 5} a 6i — Hams, Boston, g7 00 a 00 — Southern and West- 

 ern, 5 a 6 — Cheese, shipping and 4 meal, 3 a 4^ — do, new 

 milk, 4 a 5^. 



Wool. — Duty. 'I'he .value whereof at the place of ex- 

 portation shall not exceed 7 cents per pound, 5 per cent, 

 ad. val. All v\ hereof the .value exceeds 7 cts. per pound, 

 40 per ct. ad. val. and 3 cts, per pound. 



Prime «>r Saxony flei'ces, washed, lb ib a 50c. — Amer- 

 ican lull blood do. 40 a 42— Do. | do. 37 a 38— Do. J do, 

 ^ib a 36.| and common do. 30 a 32 — Smyrna Sheep, wash- 

 ed, 20 a 24 — Do. unwashtd, 10 a 16— Bengasi do. 6 a 12 — 

 Buenos .'\yres unpicked, 7 a ,10 — do. do. picked, 10 a M — 

 Sufierfine Northern pulled lamb -.10 41 — No, ,1 do. do. do, 

 35 a 37— No, 2 do, do. do. 23 a 30— No. 3 do, do. do. 14 a 

 lU. 



H \V,— gl5 to 16 per ton — Eastern, Screwed, SHOO 

 to 11 50. 



EGGS.— 15 to 20. 



American lupORrrs. — Wilnier's (Liverpool) News 

 Letter states that the farmers in the cheese manuliicturing 

 ditttricls are in a stale of the greatest alarm at the recent 

 immensely iiicre.ised importation of American produce, 

 but more particularly of that staple, 'i'uo h.ay sent hith- 

 er during the last season was not of that prime quality to 

 command an extensive and prulilabie sale, though at one 

 period there was a scarcity of the article in consequence 

 of the long drought, which \vas, however, corrected by a 

 plentiful altermalh. The pork would ho well received in 

 England, if the English mode of cutting and packing were 

 adopted. But m cheese, wjtii an improved method of 

 churning and iliaking, an immense deal may be done, il't 

 has already superseded nearly all the quantities of tfiat ar- 

 ticle formerly imported from Holland, and the efforts of 

 the American population engaged .iu its production, should 

 now be diiected lo a cc.nipetition with Cl.efiri — the seat 

 of England's finest sample ot' the article. The land ow- 

 ners and tbrmeis of the adjacent counties have taken the 

 alarm, aud met to discuss the subject; but they are satis- 

 fied that there is iiotithe slightest chances of their get- 

 ting any additional duty imposed on Aiiierican produce hy 

 the government, and their tmly hope of excluding it from 

 the British market, is on the score <-i its inferiority ; and 

 in the circumstance that the factors have already begun I© 

 complain of its quality. We should recommend that 

 more time should be taken in tlie mannfacture of cheese, 

 in America, that a greater pressure shnnhi he applied lo it, 

 ithat they should he made ot'grealer depth aiidJes.s hr<-a(ltb 

 than at present, that thr-y should be packed in casks, sepe- 

 ratod by thin ure.ised boards, and th.il the factors should 

 he allowed 120 lbs. to the cv/l , the Cheshire. manufacLurerB 

 being about lo give only 112 lbs. 



BRIGHTON MAIIKET- Mo,M)AV. Nov. 25, 1344. 

 [Reported for the Dailv .Advertiser and PaUiid,} 



At Market 750 Beef Cattle, 275 Stores, ICOO Sheep., ani! 

 675 Sv\iiie. 



Prices — Beef Catltc — A small advance was cflected 

 generally on Ox Beef We quote extra 4.75 a 55; first 

 quality 4,25 a 4,.'J0 ; second 3,50 a 3,75 ; third, 2.,75 a 3,-25. 



Barreltitig Cattle — A very small number oaky were pur- 

 chased hy the barreliers at about last week's prices. 



Sfieef — ^Sales from 1,23 to 2. 



"Swine — Lots to peddle. 3e. for Sows; 4e. for Barrowg. 

 Two selected lots very small Shoals, 3^ a 4^ c, .\t cetaii, 

 fr,.m 3jJ>to44c. 



