&l)c .farmer's iltontljln biefadr. 



169 



black inodorous mass, forming one of the rich- 

 est and most valuable composts known. Ten 

 thousand of tlietn composted in this way, at n 

 cost of ten dollars, "ill produce a rotation of 

 crops without any other manure — say Ironi one 

 to two hundred bushels of potatoes, or fifty hu- 

 shels of corn, thirty hushels of rye, and two or 

 three crops of grass. This compost spread up- 

 on old crass lands, has u most surprising ef- 

 fect. — Albany Cultivator. 



Note. — Every kind of rich material for strong 

 manure will he best preserved in the compost 

 heap: nil stable manures will be made more val- 

 uable by mixing with earth. The effect, without 

 being materially lessened the first year, will bet- 

 ter continue through after years by composting. 

 Indeed any altered soil making up the compost 

 heap, be it even sterile sand upon a clayey black 

 mould, will help to enrich the ground where it is 

 applied. Fish, composted as above suggested, 

 will probably be worth four for one as when 

 used by simply spreading over the land under a 

 hot sun. 



To cure sickly Plum Trees. 

 Salt freely applied to the surface of the ground 

 around the tree, over an area as wide as the ex- 

 lent of its branches — strong brine applied as a 

 wash to the trunk and limbs, and pulverized salt 

 introduced into the body of the tree by boring 

 into the centre, and then plugging it up — all or 

 either of then] are said to be certain means of 

 restoring plum trees t: at are in a sickly or en- 

 feebled state — trees that are troubled with the 

 curculio bug — or trees that have that evidence of 

 diseased sap, black icarls — into a healthy and lux- 

 uriant condition. The plum is naturally a ma- 

 rine tree, and it is surprising how much salt it 

 will assimilate and thrive upon. Try it. — Cor- 

 respondent of Pennsylvania Cultivator. 



We have no doubt but small quantities of salt 

 may be safely and usefully applied to plum trees, 

 but we think caution in its application is neces- 

 sary. A gentleman of New Hampshire informed 

 us a short time since, that last year he killed sev- 

 eral fine plum trees by too lavish a dose of salt 

 about the roots of his trees. — Boston Cultivator. 



Produce raised on ninety and one-fourth 



HODS OF LAND IN EdFN, COUNTY OF IIaNCOCK, 



Maine, by Nicholas Thomas, Esq. aged sixty- 

 eight years. — Thirty hushels onions — 1!)£ do. 

 Emrlish turnips — 27 do. rula ha gas — 5 do. beets 

 — 3A do. carrots — 2j do. parsnips— 1 do. pota- 

 toes — 3 do. oats — 1 rod in cucumbers — 150 cab- 

 bages — 200 lbs. hay, together with green peas, 

 beans, and sailed for the use of eight persons 

 About one-halt" the laud was broke up from 

 green sward in April blot. 

 Kden, Maine, October, ma. 



YVe think our friend Thomas will not be in a 

 hurry to remove to the " Far West," with the 

 expectation of rinding more productive land than 

 that he already cultivates. Such examples we 

 trust will not be lost on I lie fanners of Maine 

 It proves what the soil ill that State is capable ol 

 yielding under skilful and judicious culliva 

 tion. — Boston Cultivator. 



From the Albany Cultivator. 

 Exhibitions of Agricultural Societies. 

 Worcester County, Mass. — The meeting of 

 this Society, held on the 27lh September, is call- 

 ed by the Ploughman, "a glorious meeting," em- 

 bracing "greater numbers than ever assembled 

 there he lb re on a like occasion." The cattle 

 were numerous, ami "all looked well." The 

 horticultural department, as usual, full and ex- 

 cellent. Ex-Governor Lincoln gave an inter- 

 esting statement in rcg. nil to the origin and pro- 

 gress of the society. It is now thirty years since 

 its commencement, "lie said a lew patriotic 

 gentlemen of Worcester, six or seven in Hum 

 her, held a meeting, and immediately suhi.cribed 

 the sum of three thousand dollars. This sum 

 entitled the society to receive from the Slate lite 



highest sum granted ; that is, six hundred dol- 

 lars per annum. This three thousand was sub- 

 scribed with the understanding that as the stock 

 of the company, at five dollars for each sub- 

 scription, should be paid in, the money should 

 be applied to the cancelling of the notes given 

 for the three thousand dollars; ami In 1 stated 

 that within one year subscriptions enough were 

 found to pay up the whole. So much for the 

 agricultural spirit and liberality of the farmers 

 of Worcester county." 



Oneida County, N. Y. — The exhibition took 

 place at Clinton, on the 27th and 28th of Sept., 

 and is spoken of as superior to any former one. 

 The number of people in attendance is rated 

 from eight to ten thousand. Every department 

 was filled — the competition being unusually ex- 

 tensive. The county of Oneida is becoming 

 distinguished for its enterprise and improve- 

 ments, not only in agriculture, hut in horticul- 

 ture, manufactories, and in all objects which 

 tend to develope the internal resources and 

 wealth of the county. 



Essex County, Mass. — This old sociely held 

 its show for this year at Lynn, on the 28th Sept. 

 The number of people in attendance was said 

 to have been greater than at any former show. 

 " A vast concourse of people," (says the Plough- 

 man,) '• honored the festival here. It has become 

 a holiday for all classes of people, from the la- 

 borer by the day to the laborer by the season — 

 from the manufacturer of shoes to the maker of 

 laws." Several distinguished gentlemen, legis- 

 lators and others, were present, among whom 

 were Mr. Webster, who made a stirring speech 

 on the general subject of agriculture and its as 

 sociated arts. The show is represented to have 

 been excellent in every department. There 

 were twenty-nine competitors at the ploughing 

 match, and the work was done "in the best style, 

 nothing could excel it." 



Dutchess County, N. Y. — Annual Show and 

 Fair held in the town of Washington, October 

 5th. The unfavorable weather for several days 

 previous, tended to keep many people at home ; 

 lint the show was, notwithstanding, a good one. 

 The Journal and Eagle says it was the "best, 

 with the exception of implements and plough- 

 ers, ever held in the county. The display of 

 stock was splendid, horses especially, and so 

 large was the number of fine sheep that an ex- 

 tra committee was found necessary to examine 

 into their merits. In agricultural productions, 

 fruits, and domestic manufactures, there were 

 fine collections, and a vast concourse of people, 

 including a great many ladies, attended." 



The Tea Plant in the United States. — The 

 planters and farmers of the southern States "ill 

 be gratified to learn that seven cases of black 

 and green tea plants, Chinese stock, have just 

 arrived from Loudon in the ship American Ea- 

 gle, shipped by Dr. Junius Smith, during his late 

 visit to that city. There are five hundred plants 

 of from five to seven years' growth : — all tire de- 

 signed by the Doctor lor seed plants. A small 

 quantity of tea seed was brought by him in the 

 steamship Britannia, which was received in Lon- 

 don overland from the north-west provinces of 

 India. We understand the Doctor designs to 

 proceed soon to the South, with a view of form- 

 ing a plantation. — Exchange paper. 



Importation of Woolen Goods. — Some ol 

 our readers are probably aware that great quan- 

 tities of European woolen goods have lately 

 been thrown into our markets. A correspondent 

 who appears to be familiar with the subject, in- 

 forms us that the French and Belgian govern- 

 ments are allowing bounties of twelve to four- 

 teen per cent, on the exportation of such cloths. 

 The duties at our custom houses are charged at 

 the short price. The case is thus illustrated : — 

 "An article is bought of a French manufacturer 



at $100: on shipment at Havre a bounty of $12 is 

 allowed, which reduces the article to $88; the 

 duty in this country, thirty per cem*. is $2G 40, 

 bringing the article into our markets at $114 40, 

 whereas it should he $130." 



It is remarked that every yard of foreign 

 broadcloth occupies the space of one fleece of 

 American wool, and that under the complete 

 surfeit of goods imported under the above sys- 

 tem, the low price of wool here, and the general 

 stagnation of I be trade, is unavoidable. We 

 would suggest the inquiry whether this state of 

 things was contemplated when the tariff of 184G 

 was framed ?— Albany Cultivator. 



Dudley Leavitt's Farmers Almanack, 



Decidedly the best Almanack for Xew Hampshire 

 Farmers this year published. 

 The old gentleman who has furnished at each 

 annual return for more than half a hundred years 

 the work which has been more read than any 

 other New Hampshire author, yet lives and writes 

 out as legible as print bis thoughts anil reflec- 

 tions for the benefit of the people. Long a 

 printer and school master as well as author, the 

 octogenarian writes so plain that he who runs 

 may read him and his manuscript. Some have 

 doubted that Mr. Leavitt was yet alive: of this 

 there can be no doubt, for we have but now read 

 a letter in his well-recognized hand. With an 

 eye as lively and brilliant as the youth of twenty 

 years, with a face as expressive as that of the 

 Old Alan of the Mountain, the veteran brings the 

 year about with no apparent decay of intellect. 

 Mr. Brown pays him an annual hundred dollars 

 for the Almanack which must he prepared, no- 

 lens volens, whether published or not ; and thir- 

 ty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand copies 

 go to the people year after year with no diminu- 

 tion of interest. Leavitl's Almanack, with al- 

 ways something of novelty, contains many grains 

 of essential knowledge just such as is derived 

 from practical observation and experience — just 

 that common sense which is wanted from t lie 

 mouths of the aged for the benefit of youth- 

 With a man so exactly mathematical as Dudley 

 Leavitt, who could suppose he would be like- 

 wise a poet? Yet his calendar pages have each 

 a verse illustrative of the time and season ; and 

 the short advice to the Farmer which fills up 

 some vacant spot of the page is worthy of being 

 repeated in the Visitor. We "ill begin from his 

 next year's Almanack " itb December, the mouth 

 of the " pelting storm " and " bow ling \\ inds": 



Dudley Leavitt's Advice for December. 

 Stern winter conies again in sullen form 

 With icy w hiskera and with pelting storm : 

 The howling winds against the windows blow. 

 And many roads aie till'd with drilling snow. 



The first of this month is the season in which 

 town schools licipieiiily commence, and if you 

 have a good teacher, good school books, a conve- 

 nient school bouse, and studious a. id well dis- 

 posed scholars, you will have a profitable and 

 pleasant school. iStit do not he too whimsical 

 in following or requiring new modes of teach- 

 ing, unless it is certain they are belter than the 

 old. A- great many new school books, ivhichat first 

 inn extolled to the highest pitch, tire now thrown 

 out rf school, mid many more aught to be thrown af- 

 ter Hum. 



Those who have produce to carry to market 

 will employ the first good sleighing lor that pur- 

 pose. 



I low does the end of the year compare with 

 the beginning ? — [An important question.] 



Ice Factory. — A company in Cincinnati are 

 about to set up an ice lactoi v. By a recent che- 

 mical discovery, they can make the purest crystal 

 ice in the warmest weather, and "ill furnish it 

 at the low [nice of one dollar per ton. — Ex.. paper. 



