&l)c jTarmcr's iitcmtljlij bimior. 



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them. This additional demand was of die most 

 signal service to the manufacturers of Great 

 Britain, as it came at a time when the demand 

 from almost all other sources was falling oil', and 

 enabled ihem to keep their mills more activi |y 

 employed than would otherwise have been the 

 case. The demand lor British goods from these 

 countries suffering from a deficiency in the sup- 

 ply of rood, was, through 18-hi and part of 1847, 

 limited, as Mill be seen by the above table. The 

 returns lor 1843 will show a very great reduction 

 in the shipments of cotton manufactures from 

 Great Britain to the United Stales; and we attri- 

 bute the falling off in the consumption and in the 

 demand, to the restrictions placed upon our mo- 

 ney markets by ihe steady drain of bullion, for 

 shipment to Great Briiain, since the beginning of 

 la.- 1 November. This drain has, i l is I rue, only Inn 

 about twenty-five cent uf the importation in the 

 previous twelve months; hut it is the influence 

 a foreign demand for specie has upon our mo- 

 neyed institutions, and ihe effect upon public 

 confidence, that produces all the mischief, and 

 checks, for a time, the activity in trade which, 

 shortly before, was so general. — .V. Y. Heralil. 



Time of Planting Potatoes«-.\n Experiment. 



Mr. Editor, — As the season for planting po- 

 tatoes is at hand, I think it will not be amiss lo 

 ;;ive all the information we can on the subject. 

 Though a shoe-maker, I do a little in the farm- 

 ing line, so as not to buy my potatoes these hard 



lillll'S. 



Last year i had what I call a pretty fine expe- 

 riment on raising potatoes. I have a piece of 

 light land near Oak hill in this town, and my 

 neighbor (Mr. Collins) purchased three acres of 

 me, joining my field. 



He ploughed and planted as early as the mid- 

 dle of May, 01 the increase of the moon, (pota- 

 toes from my cellar, exactly like mine,) which in 

 August were literally (lead with rust. 



Having heard it said that the potato yielded a 

 creater crop when planted on the decrease of the 

 moon, I thought 1 would try the experiment. 

 The consequence was a good crop without rust 

 or rot, and so they remain to this day, although 

 planted by the side of my neighbor's field, which 

 yielded so disastrously. My potatoes were 

 planted the very last of .May nr first of June. 



Now if some of your readers will try the ex- 

 periment this coming season and publish the re- 

 sult, the public may be benefited by the same. 

 For myself, I shall not plant until the decline of 

 the moon, if it is not till the middle of June ; for 

 I want to raise a few to spare, in order that I may 

 he able to pay for my Visitor. 



It may be asked what kind of potatoes I plant- 

 ed : I answer — they were mostly a bard, round, 

 yellow potato, three of which were given me by 

 u friend, five years ago, and which have never 

 had any rot or disease in them. 



Yours, fee, J. T. F. 

 . JVorthfield, April 24th, 1848. 



Georgia and Tennessee. — Manufactures 

 at THE South. — To whatever cause it is to be 

 ascribed, it is evident that the spirit of manufac- 

 turing enterprise is fully awakened in some of 

 our southern and south-western Stales, while in 

 the others, a Considerable class increasing in 

 numbers, tire turning a deep attention to a sub- 

 ject so intimately connected with State pro- 

 sperity. The Milledgeviile, Ga. Journal has the 

 following : — 



" Georgia and Tennessee are destined to he- 

 roine ihe great manufacturing States of the 

 Sooth, if not of the Union, because they have 

 not only the greater resources in proportion to 

 their population, hut, being traversed in ever] 

 direction by railroad and rivers, and having a 

 double outlet both to the Gulf and Atlantic, they 

 will possess unparalleled advantages in regard to 

 both the foreign and domestic markets. If our 



people would display one half of the energy and 

 enterprise of the Yankees, in a quarter Of a cen- 

 tury from the present time we could surpass the 

 "bole of New England in wealth and popula- 

 tion — indeed all that we now lack lo develop 

 that enterprise and energy, is the establishment 

 of manufactories and the more general introduc- 

 tion of machinery. 



" Let us compare (bra moment the agl icultural 

 Wealth of the two Stales named, with that of 

 New England. Georgia and Tennessee have to- 

 gether a population of 1,(194,000 — the States of 

 Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ver- 

 mont, Connecticut .and Rhode Island have 

 2,422,000 souls. Now let us see the relative pro- 

 duels of the two sections, as developed by the 

 census of 1840, and by more recent statistics : 



JN'ew England. Tennessee and Georgia. 

 Bushels. Bushels. 



Corn, 11,943,000 83,585,000 



Wheat, 2,898,000 9.911,000 



Hotatoes, 20,584,0C0 3.782,000 



Bye, 2,582,000 448,000 



Oats, 11,247,000 9,548,000 



Buckwheat, 1,097,001) none. 



50,:M8,000 107,194,000 



"In addition to this, Georgia and Tennessee 

 produce annually about fifteen millions pounds 

 of lice, and probably three millions bushels of 

 sweet potatoes, none of which are raised in New 

 England. They also have, according to the cen- 

 sus of 1840, 1,90(5,851 neat cattle, and 4.484,392 

 swine, whereas the six New England States 

 have but 1,545,273 neat cattle and only 748,608 

 swine." 



Kitchen Song. 



Hn, ho, HUM ! hnw I wish 



That ench kettle and dish 

 Could be cleansed by s<nne Yankee machine ; 



It would save such a sight 



Of work, morn and nii'lit. 

 To have one that would scour, wash and clean. 



1 should think that they might, 

 With their noddles 60 bright, 



Add much to our comfort and ease, 

 And a dish-washer make, 

 That would beat Ihe horse-rake, 



Or the things to make butler and cheese. 



They've machines to cut glass, 

 And machines to cut gra>s, 



And machines to fnifil all their wishes, 

 But Ihey never once think, 

 While llieir own healths they drink, 



Of poor women who have to wash dishes. 



It must have a strong hand 



Thai will nut sh"W' the brand 

 Ot the stove-door or I'rying-pan hot j 



And never once flinch, 



But with resolute clinch, 

 Lay right hold of each keltic and pot. 



And when 'lis completed, 

 The inventor 'II lie greeted 

 Willi praises from all that lack wealth — 

 And everv good lass 

 Will fill up a glass 

 01 bright water, lo drink in his health ! 



Packing 1'ork. — In our last paper we en 

 from the Philadelphia Post several valuable 

 cipes for curing the different kinds of meat. 

 friend who is familiar with the business of p 

 ing, says that icater should i ever In: poured 

 a pork barrel — brine should be used, lie 

 often known pork to he spoiled by filling 

 cask with water, even though there was 

 enough and more than enough to preserve 

 meat. 



We think our friend is correct, and we can 

 farmers against turning fresh water into t 

 pork barrels in case the pork is not to be t 

 immediately. Open barrels from which poi 

 taken daily are not so liable to be injure; 

 fresh water. — Massachusetts Ploughman. 



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Amount paid for Dutch Bctter by Eng- 

 land. — England pays to Holland, Belgium, and 

 Ilolstein about $3,500,000 per annum for butter. 



Amount ok Grain raised in France. — France 

 produces annually 231,000,000 bushels of wheat, 

 and 369,t300,000 bushels of inferior grains. 



Beef Law in Massachusetts. 



A friend of ours, who sometimes sends cattle 

 to Brighton, made some inquiries of us, in regard 

 to the rules of the butchers in that State, re- 

 specting the dressing and weighing of beef cat- 

 tle. The following is an extract from a law in 

 that State, in regard to it, which will answer his 

 queries: — 



"All beef cattle, except hulls, sold in market 

 by weight, shall, when slaughtered, be prepared 

 for weighing in the following manner : the legs 

 shall be taken oil at the knee and gambrel Joint, 

 the skin shall be taken from all other parts of the 

 animal ; the head shall be taken oil' at the second 



joint of the neck ; the entrails lake t, and all 



the fit of the same he taken off" and weighed as 

 rough tallow, and every other part of the animal, 

 excepting the hide and rough tallow, (the udder 

 of cows excepted,) shall he weighed. 



"All heel" shall be weighed upon the first week 

 day succeeding that on which il may be slaugh- 

 tered. — Maine Farmer. 



Monarchical Debts and Taxation. — The 

 debt of France, at this lime, amounts to about 

 £2,000,000,000, equal to nine times the aggregate 

 indebtedness of every State in Ibis Union and 

 the General Government. With ,i population of 

 about fifty per cent, greater than thai of this 

 country, the taxes merely for the payment of in- 

 terest on the public debt tire about five times as 

 large. The revenue and expenditures of the re- 

 cent government of Franco were immense. — 

 Taxes, amounting to more than two hundred 

 millions of dollars per annum, were levied, most 

 of which was paid by the middling and lower 

 classes. It is an historical fact, that ihe 200,(100 

 electors did not pay taxes for over 54,000,000 

 francs, or about the twentieth part of the whole 

 amount Collected. Most of these 200,000 elec- 

 tors are office-holders, drawing large salaries 

 from the government. The debts of t lie nations 

 of Europe amount to about $ 12,000,000,000.— N. 

 Y. Mail. 



Correction. 



Maiichesler, Vt., April 16, 1848. 

 Sir, — 1 notice in the last Farmer's Monthly 

 Visitor, that in my communication on the Care of 

 Sheep, 1 said (if published as I wrote) thai my 

 wool for the last ten years averaged in price 48 

 cents per pound. It should have been 43 cents. 

 I wish the error might he corrected — I will en- 

 deavor in future to be more careful. 



JOHN S._ PETTI BONE. 

 Editor of tiif. Visitor. 



Ohio Wool.— The Licking Herald, published 

 at Newark, says the Ohio Statesman, has an edi- 

 torial article in relation to the wool business in 

 that county, from which il appears that Licking 

 is among ihe foremost wool-growing counties in 

 Ohio, notwithstanding she has hitherto made lit- 

 tle or no pretensions in that way. In 1840, the 

 number of sheep owned in the county, was 

 53,-189, in 1847, it had swelled to 93,008, "an in- 

 crease in seven years, of about 40,000. The ex- 

 port of wool, from Ohio, in the year 1847, con- 

 siderably exceeded three millions pounds; and 

 Ibis addition lo a very large amount exported, af- 

 ter having been manufactured into cloth, &c. 



Potatoes. — The Village (Pa.) Record says: — 

 " Lasl year, iii this county, persons, in most cases, 

 who had their potatoes taken out of the ground 

 before the heavy rains in August and September, 

 were not troubled with the rot. We notice this 

 spring, a general disposition prevails among our 

 farmers for early planting — experience demon- 

 strating that this is the best plan. 



Ice in Michigan.— Mr. E. R. Scott, who has 

 hern called the ice king of Cincinnati, and ('apt. 

 uohb, long and favorably known at the South 

 and West as an extensive dealer in the article, 

 have built a mammoth ice-house some distance 

 above Detroit. They collected in a short time 

 about six thousand tons of the article, which is 



said to he clear, solid and good. It is to be ship- 

 ped to Toledo, thence, by canal, to Cincinnati, or 

 to Sandusky, and thence by railroad. 



