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@t)e ^Farmer's ittontljlu btsitor. 



After it lias been well mixed ami stood for seve- 

 ral days, three tablespounfuls may l>e mixed with 

 the salt necessary to cure an ordinary ham. 



Beef. — The best pieces for corning, are the 

 plates, ribs and briskets. Pack the pieces in 

 casks, giving a very slight sprinkling of salt be- 

 tween each piece. Then cover the meat with a 

 pickle made by boiling together, in four gallons ul 

 water, 8 lbs. salt, 3 lbs. brown sugar, 3 oz. salt- 

 petre, J oz. pea Hash, for one hundred lbs. meat. 

 Keep a heavy rial stone on the meat, that it may 

 be well immersed in the pickle. Beef packed in 

 this manner svill keep a year, and will rather 

 improve than grow worse. 



Another mode recommended by a gentleman 

 of long experience in the packing of beef and 

 pork, is the following: For one hundred pounds 

 beef lake 4 lbs. brown sugar, 4 oz. saltpetre, and 

 4 quarts fine Liverpool salt, mix all intimately 

 together, and in packing, sprinkle il evenly over 

 the meat. Add no pickle, the dissolving of the 

 salt, &c, with the juices of the meat, will he 

 sufficient. Keep the meat closely pressed to- 

 gether by a good weight. We are assured that 

 this is the best mode of packing beef that is in- 

 tended for keeping over the summer, and that 

 the quality of the meat is unexceplionably fine. 

 Clear Pork. — For this we prefer clear salt 

 and water. After having divided the hog, take 

 off the shoulders and bams, and till the lean 

 meat, cut the sides crosswise into strips, four or 

 five inches wide, and after covering the bottom 

 of the cask with salt, pack the strips in layers 

 set edgewise as closely as possible round the 

 cask, with plenty of salt between each layer. 

 When the cask is full and has settled for a day 

 or two, put in cold water enough to fairly cover 

 the pork. There is no clanger of using too much 

 Halt for clear pork — no more will be taken up 

 by the meat than is needed, and the remainder is 

 safely left, and may 1>e used in packing a new 

 parcel, —..Many Cultivator. 



&l)c Visitor. 



CONCORD, N. H., DECEMBER 31, 1848. 



Such a scene of persecution, unwittingly but 

 most unadvisedly undertaken no doubt, as that 

 which has lately been practised under color of 

 legal proceedings at the Slate Capitol in this 

 town, towards an inoffensive and worthy people, 

 whose example has done more good in this State' 

 than that of any other equal number of persons 

 in their profession of any religious belief; — such 

 a persecution we had hoped never again to wit- 

 Bess in the State where religious domination by 

 law had been signally put down by the people in 

 the toleration act of 1819: In a course of pre- 

 tended legal proceedings against him which has 

 been going on lor nearly two years, with which 

 the editor of the Visitor has had in ibis State 

 few sympathizers, because the few who did 

 know of the injustice practised towards a man 

 in bad health, seemed to think the case hardly 

 worthy of inquiry, and we have been careful not 

 to provoke or repel attacks in the newspapers — 

 he was absent, a part of the time confined by 

 sickness, while the late farce in the Legislature 

 was going on. This anil other absences must 

 be our apology for delay in the appearance ol 

 the two last numbers of the Visitor. Wo have 

 continued this paper, as of our own personal ef- 

 forts, \\>r tlie iasi ten years: we will continue it 

 ten years more, if that Almighty Arm which has 

 given us unexpected protection and life for the 

 last five years, shall so give us aid and the coun- 

 tenance of the people lor ten years to come. 



Oy Advertisements relating to Agricultural. 

 Mechanical or Literary subjects will be inserted 

 in the Monthly Victor at the usual prices of lar- 

 gest circulating newspapers. 



F. P. Bi.air, Esq., ol' this county, states, in the 

 Globe, that bis farm now produces eighteen bar- 

 rels or ninety bushels of corn to the acre. A 

 few years ago, Mr. Blair's farm was as unsightly 

 a looking place as could be seen in our county — 

 poor and barren enough. Mr. Blair has just 

 done what many others, owning poor lands in 

 this county, can do, if they will make the effort. 

 It has been ascertained, by actual experiment, 

 which has not in a single instance failed, that our 

 exhausted and worn-out lands can be readily re- 

 claimed, at comparatively a trifling expense. A 

 little capital, with a smart sprinkling of industry 

 and perseverance, is all that is required.— Mont- 

 gomery (Co.) Md. Journal. 



About seven years ago, soon after he purchased 

 it, we visited this farm of Mr. Blair and then 

 suggested to him that the portion of it that was 

 worn down to the smallest production— the na- 

 ked fields mixed with red clay and sand— might 

 be renovated. Six years afterwards (last sum- 

 mer) we again visited the same spot. The face 

 of the ground was so changed that it would 

 scarcely be considered the same spot. We saw 

 the corn in the ear which the ground produces in 

 such additional quantities : the improvement 

 was as great in the quality as in the quantity. 

 Mr. Blair said his worn-out Maryland lands, with 

 no expense for labor and manures that the crops 

 would not richly repay, would produce as much 

 as the best Kentucky lands from which he emi- 

 grated. Mr. B. upon his Silver Spring farm has 

 expended much money for fancy ; but his ex- 

 penditures in wheat and corn crops have been 

 and will evidently continue to be carried on to 

 advantage and profit. 



The Egg business in Maine. — It is believed 

 that more than 2,000,000 dozen of eggs have 

 been sent from Maine to Boston this season, and 

 have been sold for something like $300,000. 

 This sounds like a large story, but those who 

 are engaged in the trade will fully sustain it. 

 There are, also, more than forty men who are as 

 busily engaged in the same business. — Maine 

 Farmer. 



Hens may be raised as well in New Hamp- 

 shire as in Maine : the facilities of transport 

 over railroads within the next five years will en- 

 able farmers through the whole length and 

 breadth of our State to encourage all the minor 

 members of their families to rear fowls, turkies, 

 ducks, geese and chickens, sending both fresh 

 eggs and poultry to all the large market towns 

 as a source of profit. 



Marsh Mud. — A subscriber states that he has 

 ample sources of marsh mud, woods' mould, &c, 

 to fertilize his soil, but thai, as he has hut a 

 small stock of cattle, being a young farmer, he 

 is at a loss how to manage his mud so as to 

 bring its meliorating properties into action. If 

 he hail sufficient stock to justify his hauling these 

 stlbstai ces into his couyard, that would probably 

 be the best means of infusing life into them. 

 That being out of the question, let him mix his 

 stable manure with them as far as that will go in 

 the proportion of one-fourth stable manure and 

 three-fourths marsh mud and woods' mould. If 

 he has lime, mix a bushel of lime with every cart 

 load of il, put it into a pile and occasionally turn 

 it over with the shovel. If be has not lime, ashes 

 will answer. And if he have no fermenting ma- 

 terial, let him put his marsh mud and woods' 

 mould into heaps of a few cart loads each, where 

 it will be exposed to the winter's frosts, and il 

 will be lit lor use next .-pring, though the mate- 

 rials named by him would be greatly improved 

 l>\ being treated with the leavening principles 

 we ha\e spoken of — American Fanner. 



We have an inexhaustible muck bed, not of 

 s alt marsh or common meadow peat, hut of the 

 washing down of ages from the dry pine plains, 

 mixed with the calcareous ingredients underlay- 

 ing the high level grounds near to the river 



bank: it is made from the mineral manures act- 

 ed upon by vegetable growth and atmospheric 

 influences— it is much like the matter which the 

 excavation of rock in the Northern railroad dis- 

 covered as a source of annoyance at the summit 

 in Orange, near the foot of the Cardigan moun- 

 tain. Our muck is so rich in its bed that after it 

 is moved the nitre upon its surface covers it like 

 the loaf-sugar frosting upon plum cake. We 

 know this material to be rich because we have 

 seen the effects of it upon a dry pasture in the 

 richer growth of feed eight and ten years after 

 the muck heaps have been spread over it. Our 

 method is to carry our yard manures to this — to 

 carry aud mix with il lime, ashes, plaster, salt, 

 every kind of vegetable matter. Four hundred 

 stout loads of the muck carried upon the plant- 

 ing fields, mixed with the other ingredients, will 

 make us between five and six hundred ox-cart 

 loads of manure for a potato field of tweuly 

 acres, to be spread over the ground broadcast 

 and harrowed in. With this manure laid over 

 ground stirred with the plough to the depth of 

 sixteen inches, we will assure ourselves, under 

 the blessing of the Providence which wisely or- 

 ders the seasons, as certain a crop as we can ex- 

 pect of any production. None of the famed fer- 

 tile lands of the far West will give a greater pro- 

 fit than may be taken from those pine plains 

 along the banks of the Merrimack that have 

 been counted as without value for cultivation 

 from their supposed sterility. 



Immigrants. — Mien Commissioner's Qffire, Jan- 

 uary 1, 1849.— Arrived at the port of Boston 

 from January 1, 1848, to January 1, 1849, nine 

 hundred and twenty-one vessels with alien pas- 

 sengers on board, the total number of which is 

 twenty five thousand five hundred and twenty- 

 seven ; and said passengers have been permitted 

 to land, as follows : 



25002 ucre. at Ihe time of inspection, believed 

 not likely to become a public charge, and 

 were permitted fo land, alter the proper 

 agents paid g2 00 per head. 

 And for 523 thai were not competent (from in- 

 finally) to tnkp care of ihemselves, honds 

 have been taken. 

 Of the number that arrived, were from Liver- 

 pool, 11.357 



From ('ork. Dublin, Limerick and Galway, 4581) 



from various ports in the English provinces, 7,272 



From all olher ports, 2,289 



Total, 25,527 



There have also arrived in company with the 

 aforesaid passengers, persons, who were 

 either by birib Americans, or who had 

 been in this State before, ... 3141 



Making the whole number that h^.ve Leen in- 

 spected, 2S GG8 



J. B. MUNUOE, Superintendent. 



Amusements. — More important truths are sel- 

 dom compressed into equal space, than the Rev. 

 If. Ward Beecher expressed in thcfollowing, in 

 a lecture in Boston, on amusements: — 



" Amusements were indispensable to sound 

 morals. If the young were not provided with 

 harmless and virtuous amusements, they would 

 have vicious aud corrupting amusements. Some 

 parents are so much afraid that their children 

 would do wrong, that they would not let them 

 do any thing. But when they obtained their lib- 

 erty, with none to control their pleasures — never 

 haling learned to act aright, they are quite sure 

 to revel in self-indulgence." 



If equal quantities of laudanum, tincture of 

 rhubarb and tincture of camphor are mixed to- 

 gether, and eighteen drops mixed with water bo 

 taken every two hours, it is said to be the best 

 antidote to cholera ever discovered. 



We are assured by those who have tried it, 

 that laudanum mixed with camphor is much 

 better than when taken alone. 



