64 



$l)c Jfarmcr'0 jBotttl)h) bisitor. 



ber, (if lliere is not much snow 

 pasture is generally short. About an acre should 

 be (fenced off to commence with, after four or 

 five days add about one-fourth of an acre every 

 other day. At first the sheep will not appear to 

 like the turnips, but after three or four days will 

 eat them rapidly. A boy should be placed with 

 the sheep for two or three hours each day, to 

 chop up the shell— the sheep will fall back and 

 eat them up clean. 



" While the sheep are on the turnips, it is an 

 advantage to give them a little hay in troughs- 

 say about three bushels per day for one hundred 

 and fifty sheep. 



" Let any man try this plan, and if his land is 

 in good heart, he will not only find his sheep get 

 redly fat, but they will leave the land in fine 

 condition for a spring crop. It must be observed 

 the more attention that is paid to keeping down 

 the weeds, the better the crops pay cost!"— Alba- 

 ny Cultivator. 



Great Profvts.— The Genesee Farmer for 

 January has a letter from Richard J. Hand of 

 Mendon, New York, giving the product for twen 

 ty-three apple trees, standing on one acre of 

 land, as follows: 

 100 bbls. Roxbury Russet at $1 00. ... . .$100 00 



100 bbls. Northern Spy, 2 75 275 00 



10 bbls. " " 3 50 35 00 



30 bbls. " "2dqltyl00 30 00 



t a time when I equal if not superior to plank roads. In powder 

 it is the best thing to clean knives. It is a useful 

 application for putrid sores; and ought to be 

 tried in all cases of putrid diseases. 



Prater for Sleep.— In a beautiful hymn 

 composed by Sir Thomas Brown, as a half adieu 

 for each night to the world, are these striking 

 lines : — 



" Sleep is a death ; O make me try, 

 By sleeping, what it is to die ; 

 And as I gently lay my head 

 On my grave as now my bed ; 

 How'er 1 rest, great God, let me 

 Awake again, at last, with thee. 

 And thus assured, behold 1 lie 

 Securely — or to wake or die. 

 These are my drowsy days ; in vain 

 1 do now wake to sleep again. 

 O come that hour, when 1 shall never 

 Sleep again, but wake forever." 



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In the language of an eminent critic, "in its Definitions 



the object for which nine-tenths of our references to 



such a work are made — it stands without a rival in ihe 

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 I out abridgement or condensation, are only given in this, 

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Southern Crops. — The storm and cold at the 

 South (says the Boston Post,) have injured the 

 cotton and other crops so much that prices are 

 already affected. The accounts are disastrous, 

 and unless informants were unnecessarily alarm- 

 ed, cotton and even grain will fall largely short 

 of an average in parts of Alabama, Georgiu and 

 South Carolina, unless the re-planting shall be 

 sufficient to bring them up in quantity. 



$440 00 

 The Northern Spy apples were mostly sold to 

 J. H. Watts, of Rocheste 

 ket. 



for the Eastern mar- 



Immense Cargo.— The fine steamer Sultana, 

 Captain Yore, hound from Quincy to New Or- 

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 Sultana has on board the largest cargo believed 

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 on one boat. To her obliging clerks we are in- 

 debted for the following list of her freight: 



Total 



weight. 



1,309,440 



1340 tcs. 



May ward's TCew MampsMa*e. 



A GAZETTEER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, con- 

 taining descriptions of all the counties, towns, and 

 districts in the State. Also, of its principal mountains, 

 rivers, waterfalls, harbors, islands, and fashionable resorts, 

 to which is added statistical accounts ol its agriculture, 

 commerce, and manufactures; with a great variety of 

 useful information, by John Hayward, author of the "The 

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 With three fine engravings. This morning published and 

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JOHN P. J EWETT, 33 Cornhill. 

 This is the second volume of Hayward's Gazetteer of 

 tfew England, and is for sale only at the store of the pub- 

 lisher, and his travelling Agents in the Stale of New 

 Hampshire. 



Number of 



packages. 

 39G8 bbls. 



Description. 

 Pork and beef, 

 Pickled beef, 

 hams, shoulders 

 Lard, 483 tcs. 



Lard, 10(i3 bbls. 



Flour, 2275 bbls. 



Pork taken on 

 Cin., Illinois, 



Average 



weight. 



330 



440 590,600 



lt 570 bbls. 



370 

 270 

 220 



330 



178,810 

 287.000 

 720,500 



188,100 



DELANO'S 



Horse 



Lafee, 



3,193,350 



Total amount of tonnage, 1400 tone, 1783 lbs. 



At this place she takes on hoard 250 head of 



beef cattle, which will swell her enormous 



freight to nearly sixteen hundred tons. — St. 



Louis Republican, X^ilh instant. 



Improvement. — The editor of the Genesee 

 Farmer says he has seen a girl in a couon mill 

 tend si.x power moms, weavingone thousand two 

 hundred and sixty yards in a week, for which 

 she was paid five dollars. In India, where labor- 

 Baying machinery is not introduced, a woman 

 must labor twenty weeks to produce an equal 

 amount of goods, and will receive four cents a 

 day, or twenty-four cents a week, for her ser- 

 vices. 



Pulverized Charcoal. — In many places it 

 would doubtless pay well if farmers would de- 

 vote portions of their superfluous forests to char- 

 coal for manure, grinding it in a hone or hark 

 mill. It absorbs ammonia from the air and the 

 muck heap, and gives it out to plains. It should 

 always he mixed with stable and liquid manure. 

 It helps amazingly the rooting of transplanted 

 trees and shrubs. It gives unexampled vigor to 

 wheat and corn. 



Charcoal. — Many are its uses. It is the sur- 

 est disinfectant that is known. It makes roads 



THE undersigned hereby certify that we have used 

 Delano's Independent Horse Rake the past haying 

 season, and have lound it decidedly preferable to any 

 other rake now in use. It is much easier tended than the 

 revolver or spring tooth, and its work preferable to either, 

 particularly on ground of uneven surface, it being so con- 

 structed that the hay is removed from knolls and hollows 

 with the same ease and certainty as from even ground, lt 

 is tended by a man or boy who rides and drives the horse. 

 By placing his foot upon a lever attached to the axeltree, 

 the hay is discharged in winrows. It is perfectly adapted 

 to the purpose for which it was invented, therefore we 

 cheerfully recommend it, as a very useful implement to 



all concerned in cu-rin 



May hew Chase, 



F. F. Haines, 



L B. Young, 



Charles Page, 



H. L. Morrison 



hay. 



Tristram Tilton, 

 W. B. Small, 

 Francis Morrill. 

 Elishii Peiiingill, 



Leonard Farrui<Uon, 



and 

 of East Livermore ; 

 P. F. Pike, Samuel Hersev, 



Richard Hubbard, S. N. Watson, 



F. A. Chase, Reuben Crane, i and 



Jos. Martin, of Fayette ; 

 James Wing, of VVaync ; 

 Isaac Boothbay, David Wheeler, and 



D. S Loring, of Leeds; 

 Abijah Upham, of Head field; 

 S. \V Chase, of Mont Vernon ; 

 William Wyman, Orin Haskell, 



of JNorlh Livermoro ; 

 T. Croswell. Jr., J. A, Hamuli n, 



D. C. Morrill. Benjamin Butler, 



Hiram Russ, of Farminglon ; 

 J. W. Morrill, B. F. Morrill, 



of Cheslcrville ; 

 Samuel S. Wood, of Wilton ; 

 Ephrami Swan, F. M. Swan, 



Frederick Swan, of New Sharon ; 

 Charles Farrand, S. D. Greenleaf, 



of Starks. 



The ondersignecTj hating received his letters patent for 

 his improvement in the Horse Rake, is prepared to dis- 

 pose of said improvement by Counties or Slates. All in- 

 fringemenis will Ire legally prosecuted. 



The above Rakes are manufactured at Farminglon 

 Falls and at Livermo-rc, and will he kept for sale by the 

 patentee at his residence in Fast Laverinore, Maine. 



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