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$l)e .farmer's ittcmtl)Iij Visitor. 



Triumph of American Industry. — During the 

 past week we have had our attention calle'l to 

 another triumph of American manufacture, that 

 of producing French harages. For the entire 

 season our auction rooms have heen crowded 

 with these goods. All thought that the French- 

 nan had catered wonderfully in designs, peculi- 

 arly suited to the American taste, as well as to 

 the prevailing whims, until one of our johhers 

 called upon an importer of whom he had pur- 

 chased a case of harages, " to arrive ;" his design 

 was to inform hi in if not delivered soon he 

 would withdraw from the purchase. The im- 

 porter was out, and the salesman, who was not 

 60 »ell posted as to the importation, informed the 

 jobber that they would soon he forthcoming, as 

 his employer was then absent at the print works, 

 urging up the work. Here then, was the secret 

 of the whole business exposed ; the tissues were 

 imported in the grey, and with the tissues came 

 a workingman accoustomed to the preparation 

 of colors lor this kind of work. A bargain was 

 immediately struck with the celebrated printers, 

 Messrs. Dunnell & Co., and all the harages 

 which have paid a profit to the producer are 

 Yankee printing on imported cloths. 



The above is from the .Yew York Dry Goods 

 Reporter. 



A fact far farmers. — Farmers may rely on this 

 fact, that most of their luxuriant cultivated crops 

 are produced by the presence, or application of 

 line proportions of potash, (as wood ashes, leaf 

 mould, green-sand marl, decomposed felspar, 

 saltpetre, larm-\aid dung, Si.c.,) phosphoric arid, 

 (as bones, crushed, burnt, or dissolved, guano, 

 farm-yard dung, ovster-shell lime, shell fish, co- 

 prolites, and super phosphate of lime.) and nitro- 

 gen, {a* sulphate and muriate of ammonia, urine, 

 guano, and animal manures generally,) combined 

 with small quantities of lime, salt, magnesia, &c. 



Shoe business in Lynn. — The «hoe business is 

 the life of Lynn. Only women's, misses' and 

 children's siloes are made here. Engaged in 

 this business there are of manufacturers, or men 

 who "carry on" the business, 78 ; of cutters, or 

 men who "cut out" the shoes, 175; of men and 

 boys employed in making shoes, 2458; of men 

 and boys so employed but living out of town, 

 900; of women and girls employed in binding 

 shoes, 4925; of the same so employed but living 

 out of town, 1600; making of employees an ag- 

 gregate of 10,058. The number of men and 

 boys employed in making shoes is more than 

 seventy per cent, larger now than it was in 1842. 

 The increase of the number of women anil girls 

 employed in binding shoes has, we presume, 

 been correspondingly great. But it should be 

 stated that the shoe business in 1842 was unusu- 

 ally depressed ; that much less of it was done 

 during the last than will probably be done dur- 

 ing the present year. The number of pairs of 

 shoes made during the last year was 3,190,000 ; 

 the number purchased from other towns was 

 &50,000; making in all 3,540,000 pairs. The 

 cost of the material of these was §1,435.545; 

 that of making them $957,030; making the cost 

 of the 3,540,000 pairs of shoes to have been 

 $2,392,575. The cost of making shoes now is 

 about one-sixth less than it was a dozen years 

 ago. — Lynn Pioneer. 



A wealthy Californian. — The Journal of Com- 

 merce says that Air. Larkin, United States Gov- 

 ernment agent at Monterey, is now the wealth- 

 iest man in California. Valuing his real estate 

 at San Francisco at what it was worth there at 

 the last advices, he would doubtless bs the rich- 

 est man in North America. 



Cotton consumption in the United .Stales. — In 

 1842 the consumption of cotton in the United 

 Slates was 300,000 bales, and in 1848, 600,000 

 bales. Eighty-three years since there was not a 

 spindle on the continent of America — whereas 

 there are now in five of the New England Stales, 

 not less than two millions of spindles. Vast as 

 the number is in the country, they promise to 

 increase in full proportion to its growth. The 

 ottoti crop of 1848 was 988,099,0a3 pounds; 

 supposing six cents per pound, which is liberal, 

 to be returned to the planter, the sum realized 

 from the crops is in round numbers, 360,000,000. 

 The capital required to grow this cotton, includ- 

 ing the cost ol laud, negroes, horses, mules, gins, 

 etc., would at least be $300,000,000. 



From the N. y. Mercury. 

 The Wolf and the Lamb. 



BY W. k. KENTISH. 



The reason of the strongest party's bestj 

 Which in the following Fable's manifest. 



On the green hanks of a pure stream, 

 A lamb, most innocently drinking, stood. 



Just at the time, as it would seem, 

 A wolf, half famished, left the wood, 



Eagerly in quest of prey ; 



And thither, by accident, he bent his way. 



'■ How dar'st thou," said the wolf, in rage, 



" Disturb the stream, where I my thirst assuage?" 



" Thai cannot be," 



Replied the lamb ; 

 11 Because your Majesty must see, 



That wheie I am, 

 Some twenty paces, here below, 

 The stream must come to me, from you !" 



" Thou dost," replied the wolf most stern ; 



" 1 further tell thee loo, 1 hear, 

 Thai thou hast done me many an ill turn, 



Aye ! grossly slandered roe, last year." 



'• Vou are mistaken," said the lamb forlorn, 



'' For last year, sire, I wasn't born ! 



It must, indeed, have been some other." 



*' Then," said Ihe wolf, " it was Ihy brother." 



•' Brother, your Majesty, I've none." 



" Then I've no doubt, 'Iwas a relation. 



For I am never spared. 1 know, 



By you, your dogs and shepherds too. 

 This I have often heard, and so, 



Villain, I'll be revenged on you!" 

 On this he bore him bleating to the wood, 

 And without mercy, shed his blood ! 



Profits of farming. — The July number of the 

 (Baltimore) American Farmer contains a highly 

 interesting communication on the above uaineTN 

 subject, front Edmund Ruftin, Esq., of Virginia, 

 author of a well known and highly esteemed 

 work on " Calcareous Manures," and one of the 

 most distinguished practical fanners in the An- 

 cient Dominion. Successful in all his own ef- 

 forts in ihe renovation of old exhausted lands, 

 Mr. R's experience is the more authoritative, as 

 well as interesting; and his account is a very 

 encouraging one of the profit that may be actu- 

 ally realized in the intelligent pursuit of those 

 rural occupations, which, in other respects, are 

 known to yield such goodly returns of health, 

 independence and happiness. Mr. Itutliti gives 

 the results of his farming operations for five 

 years, the profit and loss account of which is as 

 follows: for the first year, there was it small loss 

 of 27- lOOths of 1 per cent.; second year, a net 

 profit of 8 16 per cent. ; third year, a profit of 

 12.81 per cent., fourth year, a profit of 22.86 per 

 cent. ; fifth year, a profit of 20.10 per cent. The 

 average profit for the whole five years was near- 

 ly 13 per cent. ; for the last three years nearly 

 20 per cent.; and all this exclusive of the en- 

 hanced value of the property from improvement 

 of soil, &c, &c. We suppose it is not every 

 farmer who can do so well as this ; but industry, 

 intelligence and business habits and principles 

 always commaud success in town or country. — 

 Philadelphia JVorth American. 



Importance of cookery. — It is a curious fact, that 

 during the war in Spain, some forty years since, 

 when the French and English armies were alike 

 suffering from the scantiness of provisions, the 

 French soldiers kept up their strength much 

 better than the English, solely because they put 

 such (bod as they could get to much lieiler ac- 

 count. The English soldier would take the 

 lump of meat, and broil it on the coals till a 

 good part ol it was burned almost to a cinder, 

 though even then part of the remainder was 

 probably raw. The Trench soldiers, on the con- 

 trary, would club two or three together, and 

 stew their bits of meat with bread, and such 

 herbs and vegetables as they could collect, into 

 a savory and wholesome dish. So great was the 

 difference between these two ways, in their ef- 

 fect on the strength anil health of the soldiers, 

 that it was remarked that a French army would 

 live in a country in which an English army 

 would starve. — Family Economist. 



Enjoyment. — If we would enjoy ourselves, we 

 must lake the world as it is — mix up a thousand 

 spots of sunshine — a cloud here and there — a 

 bright sky — the chill piercing winds of autumn, 

 and th» bland reviving airs of summer. 



The frsl saw mill. — The old practice, in mak- 

 ing boards, was to split up the logs with wedges ; 

 anil inconvenient as the practice was. it was no 

 easy matter to persuade the world that the thing 

 could be done in any better way. Saw-mills 

 were first invented in Europe in the fifteenth 

 century; but so lately as 1555, an English em- 

 bassador, having seen a saw-mill in France, 

 thought it a novelty which deserved a particular 

 description. It is amusing to see how the aver- 

 sion to labor-saving machinery has always agita- 

 ted England. The first saw-mill was established 

 by a Dutchman, in 1663, but the public outcry 

 against the new (angled machine was so violent, 

 that the proprietor was forced to decamp with, 

 more expedition than ever did a Dutchman be- 

 fore. The evil was thus kept out ol England 

 for several years, or rather generations ; but in 

 1758, an unlucky timber merchant, hoping that 

 after so long a time the public would be less 

 watchful of its own interests, made a rash at- 

 tempt to construct another mill. 'Ihe guardians 

 of the public welfare, however, were on the 

 alert, and a conscientious mob at once collected 

 and pulled the mill to pieces. Such patriotic 

 spirit could not always last; and now, though 

 we have not seen the fact distinctly stated, there 

 is reason to believe that saw-mills are used in 

 England. — Exchange paper. 



Grapes at all seasons.— Mr. J. F. Allen, of Sa- 

 lem, Mass., is said lo be the greatest producer of 

 grapes by artificial heat lit the United Slates, 

 haying tune graperies. — Some of his hot-houses 

 are over one hundred leet in length, and ripe 

 grapes of the choicest varieties are banging on 

 ihe vines every month in the year. His produce 

 this }ear will be about five thousand pounds, 

 and his arrangements promise to double the 

 yield — for market of course. Peach trees and 

 apricots are cultivated in the same way. 



Two hard things. — First, to talk of yourself 

 without being vain. Second, to talk of' others 

 without slander. 



