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&l)e Jarmcr'0 ittontljhi Visitor. 



Cultivate Fruit. 



On this point we are disposed to give Our 

 readers line upon line, and precept upon pre- 

 cept, and to insist upon attention thereto. The 

 real value of these products for home consump- 

 tion, and the increasing demand for them, as 

 well as the high price they bring in the market, 

 all would seem to justify the increased attention 

 their cultivation is requiring from year to year, 

 and a far greater increase of that attention. We 

 stated a few weeks since that in our be'ief fruit 

 constitutes the most profitable production of the 

 farm or garden. We find in the last Granite 

 State Whig, an article read before a conference 

 of farmers at Hanover, March 14th, by J. Pin- 

 neo, of that place, who is extensively engaged in 

 the raisins of fruit trees, from which we select 

 a few facts: 



"There are several appletrees in the United 

 States that are over two hundred years old, 

 whose trunks measure from nine to twelve feet 

 in circumference, producing from seventy-five 

 to one hundred bushels of fair fruit in a year. 



"There is a Baldwin tree in the vicinity of 

 Boston, that has borne twenty-five barrels in one 

 year; twenty-three barrels of which sold for 

 $2 50 per barrel, and the other two for $2 25, 

 making the sung little sum of sixty dollars, (the 

 interest of $1000,) for the produce of one tree, 

 standing in the coiner of the garden, 



" The average income of this tree, I am told is 

 about fifty-four dollars a year, making the tree 

 worth four hundred dollars. 



" Large size Baldwin trees, generally, in the 

 vicinity of Boston, pay the interest of one hun- 

 dred dollars, and of course are worth that to the 

 owner, as long as they live. There are some 

 pear and plum trees also, in the vicinity of Bos- 

 ton, that yield from twenty to fifty dollars' worth 

 of fruit a year. 



"Thereare hundreds of farmers in Massachu- 

 setts and elsewhere, with whom it is their main 

 item and source of profit, selling from $500 to 

 $2500 worth a year, of their own raising." 



Many among us are deterred from engaging in 

 this department of farm labor, from the fear that 

 it will be overdone. To such we commend the 

 following facts stated by Mr. P.: 



"Thousands of barrels are now annually 

 exported to foreign countries in vessels 

 freighted with ice. One man from New York 

 has taken out twenty thousand barrels to 

 England the present year, and a demand 

 sufficient to swallow up all our surplus fruit 

 may be safely relied on for years. Since 1 com- 

 menced this business I have set not far from 

 400,000 grafts, and sold from 10,000 to 12,000 

 trees, in New Hampshire and Vermont, most of 

 which are now in a bearing state. 



"Thousands of grafts have been set and trees 

 sold by other individuals in this region, ami an 

 increasing interest has been taken in the cultiva- 

 tion of good fruit— still the increased supply has 

 fell far short of the increased demand. So that 

 after all, instead of being obliged to send our 

 apples otf for want of a market at home ; there 

 has been not less than six thousand barrels of 

 fruit, the produce of Massachusetts, New York, 

 and New Jersey, brought in on the railroads, 

 and sold in New Hampshire anil Vermont, this 

 present season, at the probable expense of about 

 $15,000. Over three hundred barrels of foreign 

 fruit have been sold in Hanover." 



In view of such facts we hope no one will he 

 deterred from setting out trees. — Amherst Cabinet. 



do." " Well," said the man, " he owes me about 

 thirty-nine dollars, and I can't get it. I don't 

 think he's good." We looked secretly at his ac- 

 count and lound him all paid up. We then re- 

 plied to the enquirer, that man is good ; your 

 debt is safe; he may have forgotten it, or some- 

 thing else may have prevented his pacing; but 

 be is good. The man's eyes brightened. Said 

 he, "1 have been to several printers, and could 

 not find where he took a paper. I thought of 

 you, and said I would come here." Said he 

 again, after a pause, "This is the way we find 

 out whether people are good. We ascertain what 

 paper they take, and contrive some way to peep 

 into their account. Men who are good are sure 

 to pay for their newspapers ; and if they do not 



A sew fact disclosed. — We were not aware, 

 until recently, that the books of newspaper pub- 

 lishers are consulted to quite a large extent, by 

 people in business, to ascertain the pecuniary 

 standing of persons. Debts for newspapers 

 come due once a year; and persons who pay up 

 regularly for these papers are regarded as 

 prompt men, and worthy of co"fi(leiire. We 

 iiad a person come into our office a few weeks 

 since, and ask, "JJo you send the Trumpet now 

 to — ?" We replied, " Yes, we certainly 



pay for these, we think them not good." We 

 were forcibly struck by such an idea. " Well," 



said he, " 1 will send up my bill to , by 



express." [These expresses, by the way, are one 

 of the best inventions of modern times.] In a 

 few days, the person came ill again. Says he, 

 "I sent up my bill." "Well, did he pay you?" 

 "Yes, sir-ee,"(said he) and opened his hand and 

 shewed a roll of bills. "There," said he, "give 

 me a printer's books after all to tell whether a 

 man's good — they're a complete thermometer, 

 sir, a credit thermometer; we always know a 

 man to be bad if he don't pay the printer." He 

 then made a polite bow, and retired.— Trumpet. 



Passing Away. 



Was it the chime of a tiny belt 



That came so sweet lo my dreaming ear, 

 Like the silvery tones of a fairy's shell, 



That he winds on lite lieach so mellow and clear; 

 When the winds and the waves lie together n?lccp, 

 And the moon and ihe fairy are walcliing Ihe deep- 

 She dispensin" her silvery light, 

 And he his notes as silvery quite, 

 W T hile the boatman listens and ships his oar 

 To catch Ihe music that comes from the shore. 

 Hark! the notes on my ear that play, 

 Are set to wolds : as they float, they say 

 '• Passing away ! Passing away." 



But no! It is not a fairy's shell, 



Blown on the beach, so mellow End clear, 

 Nor was it the tongue of a silver bell 



Striking the hours ihat fell on tny ear 

 As I 1 iy in my dream ; yet was it a chime 

 That ti-ld oft 'C flow ol the stieam of lime. 

 For a beautiful clock ffotn the ceiling hung, 

 And a plump little girl lor a pendulum swung; 

 ( Asyou've sometimes seen in a little ring 

 That hangs in his cage, a Canary bird swing ;) 

 And she held to her bosom a budding bouquet, 

 And as she enjoyed it, she seemed to say, 

 " Passing away ! Passingaway !" 



O ! how bright were the wheels, that told 



Of ihe lapse of lime, as ibey moved round stow ! 

 And the hands as they swept o'er the dial of gold, 



Seemed to point to the girl below. 

 And lo ! she had changed ; in a few short hours 

 Her bouquet had become a garland of flowers 

 That she held in her outstretched hands, and flung 

 This way and that, as she dancing swung 

 In the fulness and grace of womanly pride, 

 That told me she soon was to be a bride — 



Yet then, when expecting her happiest day, 

 In the same sweet voice I heard her say, 

 "Passingaway! Passingaway!" 



While I gazed on lhal fair one's cheek, a shade 



Of thought, or care, stole softly over, 

 Like that by a cloud in a summer's day made, 



Looking down on a field of blossoming clover. 

 The rose yet lay on her cheek, hilt its titi^h 

 Had souielhin2 lost of its brilliant blush; 



And the light in hereye,and the light on the wheels 

 That matched so calmly round above her, 



Was a till le dimmed -as when evening steals 

 Upon noon's hot (ace : Yet otiecould'nt hu' love her ; 

 For she looked like a mother whose hist habe lay 

 Hocked on her breast, as she swung all day ; 

 And she seemed in the same silver lone to say, 

 ''Passingaway! Passingaway!" 



While yet I looked, what a change there came ! 



Her eye was quenched and her cheek was wan ; 

 Stooping and staffed was her withered frame, 



Yet just as busily swung she on. 

 The garland beneath her had fallen to dust ; 

 The wheels above her were eaten with rust ; 

 The hands that over the dial swept, 

 Grew crooked and tatni.hed, hut on Ibey kepi ; 

 And still there came that silver lone, 

 From the shrivelled lips of Ihe toothless crone, — 

 (Let me never forget to my dying day, 

 The lone or the burden of that lay.) 

 " Passing away ! Passing away !" 



— Pierpont. 



selves with the idea that your situations are par- 

 adises compared with some others. When you 

 have enough lo eat to satisfy hunger— enough to 

 drink to quench thirst — enough to wear to keep 

 you decent and comfortable— just enough of 

 what is vulgarly called "tin" to procure you u 

 lew luxuries: when you owe no one, and no one 

 owes you, "not even a grudge — then if you are 

 not happy, all ihe gold in the universe can never 

 make you so. — A man much wiser than 1, once 

 said, "Give me neither poverty nor riches"; and 

 1 look upon him as the greatest philosopher that 

 the world ever produced. All lie wanted was a 

 contented mind, sufficient bread and cheese, and 

 a clean shirt. Take a pattern after him, O ye 

 discontented mortals who vainly imagine that 

 bliss alone is to be found in palaces of wealth 

 ami opulence. — .Dote, Jr. 



Agricultural School. 



From the report of the committee on Agricul- 

 ture, in the New York Legislature, we take the 

 following extract. After speaking of the impor- 

 tance of an Agricultural school, and what should 

 be regarded in it, the committee say : — 



"The coming generation of farmers, through 

 the influence resulting from such an institution, 

 would be an intelligent, a reading and thrifty 

 class of men. Agriculture would then cease to 

 be a mere calling, but would most appropriately 

 be denominated a profession. Men educated at 

 such an institution would not only be initialed 

 in the arts, mysteries and beauties of their pro- 

 fession, but would be well fined to lake position 

 in all the active, useful and public stations of life 

 by the side of those coming from our high semi- 

 naries of learning, and from the learned proles- 

 sions. From the labor of the farm, and from 

 his consumption of merchandise, are now deriv- 

 ed more than three-fourths of the canal lolls, 

 amounting to three millions annually; of the 

 town and county taxes levied anil paid in ibis 

 State exclusive of the cities, more than three- 

 fourlhs are paid by the farmer. It would seem 

 that a nor i ion of our citizens contributing thus 

 largely to our resources, should he entitled to 

 draw something for the education of their class 

 from the State Kinds; and we doubt not that 

 this subject will receive all that attentive consid- 

 eration which its importance demands." 



Milwaukie — Progress. — In the fall of 1835, a 

 passenger on boartl of a schooner, freighted 

 with lumber, we lauded at Milwaukie. Il was a 

 beautiful spot of earth, bin its name was then 

 " unwritten " upon maps. With the exception 

 of Indians, Solomon Juneau was the only per- 

 manent resident of the place. He was an Indian 

 trader — an enterprising, benevolent anil most 

 hospitable man, and has since been mayor and 

 postmaster of the city which he planned. 



There were two or three log-cabins, the coun- 

 try around wild yet lovely, and in company with 

 sixteen others, we slept under some loose boards 

 in the first, (then unfinished) frame-building in 

 Milwaukie. 



This spot then fir beyond the borders of civi- 

 lization, is now a flourishing city of some 16,000 

 people — the territory of Wisconsin, then of re- 

 cent geographical existence, is now a Slate, with 

 ils Senators and Representatives in Congress. 

 This personal reminiscence was suggested by 

 the notice of the erection of a splendid hotel in 

 that young city, the dimensions of which will he 

 120 feet square, five stories high, Ihe dining 

 room to be 65 by 35 feel ; to contain 327 apart- 

 ments, everyone of which will be provided with 

 one or more ventilation flues, and in ibis respect 

 will he superior lo any public house in the 

 United Slates. — Cincinnati (Ohio) Gazette. 



My dear friends — I will tell how to enjoy 

 as much bliss as heaven can a fiord humans. Be 

 contented with what you have, no matter how 

 poor it is, till you have an opportunity to get 

 something better. Be thankful for every crumb 

 that falls from the table of Providence, and live 

 in the constant expectation of having the luck 

 to pitch upon a whole loaf. Have patience lo 

 put up with present trouble?, and console your- 



Facts in Building. 



One fact is, that a square form secures more 

 room with a given cost for outside walls, than 

 any other rectangular figure. Great length ami 

 little width may afford convenient rooms, but at 

 an increased expense. 



Another fact is, that ventilation is an essential 

 in a human dwelling. No other consideration 

 should exclude this. The halls, windows, and 

 doors should be so situated with regard to each 

 other, that a full draught of air can be secured, 



