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&l)c .farmer's iHcmiljlt) bisitor. 



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fully three tons of hay to the acre— the crop of 



this year was about two tons, hut hay of an ex- 



)0 cellent quality. Something must he done to this 



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beautiful lot for the next year's crop if we shal 



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have the ability to do it. Our intention is, not to 

 turn over the turf for planting.; the wild oats or 

 mel witch grass which has been introduced all along 

 ' our intervales up and down the liver make hoe- 

 ' ing and cultivating extremely difficult : the hoe- 

 ^ er ing is not, however, half the labor upon the 

 la subsoiled as upon the land stirred only at the 

 common depth of the plough — the sharp shire 

 of the under plough cuts the pervading roots of 

 this troublesome grass so that the hoe and the 

 cultivator do a more effective work at a single 

 turn, than the same process done over three 

 limes in common lands. With the sharpened 

 coulter, we will, in the course of the present fall, 

 tin the subsoil plough, drawn by a strong team 

 again as deep as it will go without turning over 

 ( '" the turf. Next spring we will apply compost 

 made of yard manure, lime or ashes as an alkali 

 '- tempering four-tilths of the entire body taken 

 1 ""from the washings of the hill and the inexhaus- 

 I "°iit>lc ikli muck bed near the ground; sow and 

 c tlo harrow in clover and herdsgrass. In this pro- 

 u ,s cess, not to be repeated oftener than every three or 

 ' le four years, it is our belief that three tons of a 

 8C 'first growth, and one ton of a second growth of 

 ••"the best hay may he taken every year. We 

 nr would go twenty inches deep with the subsoil 

 ,n plough, if we could. This ground, like all the 

 '" lower intervale is without pan: if it had a pan, 

 ,r we would believe the subsoiling in proportion to 

 p l the depth would be still better. 

 ' Our present impression is that the cultivated 

 c crops, the potatoes, corn and small grains, laid 

 down to clover once in two or three years to re- 

 ' main in grass or pasture at most not over two 

 ( years, will be procured at best advantage from 

 1 the highest lands — from the pine plains tliat have 

 been considered as without value; and that onr 

 richer intervales and low lands of hard pan re- 

 taining moisture may be best kept in that exeel- 

 1 lent pasturage and grass which make the States 

 ! of New England the most desirable in the Union 

 1 for dairying and grazing — turning out excellent 

 a ^cheese and butler, fat beeves and mutton, and 

 T1 s 'horses unsurpassed in beautv and strength. 

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L c Egg Cream. — Take the yolk of an egg, with a 



Pvdessert-spoonful of cream or new milk, and, if 



, convenient, add two drops of oil of cinnamon : 



. this will form a mixture sufficient to serve three 



u 'people to mix with tea; for cream being chiefly 



o B the oil of the milk, and the yolk the most nutri- 



j tltive part of the egg, they are both lubricating 



g and nourishing. The oil of cinnamon is cordial 



s ' and tonic. 



A kindly Spirit. 



y. How pleasant ? lis to see 

 Friends and brethren agree " 



The Indiana candidates for Governor, of op- 

 posite politics, seem to progress very lovingly 

 together, as they travel cheek by jowl, stumping 

 the Slate, in favor of their own claims to office. 

 The following paragraph from the Brookville 

 (Indiana) American, exhibits how gentle courte- 

 sy, mutual esteem, and an observance of the 

 amenities which are recognizable among gentle- 

 men, may tend to soften xhe acerbities of party 

 warfare : 



'•Matson and Wright are canvassing the State 

 very pleasantly together. They ride, eat and 

 sleep together, nothing personal or unpleasant 

 occurring to mar their kind feelings for each 

 other. They are both professors of religion, and 

 members of the same church. This is the first 

 instance ill the history of our State, when both 

 candidates travel and speed together. It is much 

 better for the people, for truth, and for their own 

 characters. Their arrangements are for each to 

 speak one hour, then to close with a half hour's 

 speech from each — making in all three hours. 

 This makes reasonahle hours for the people, 

 and reasonable hours for the speakers." 



Growth of Ifisconsin. — Over two thousand pas- 

 gSengers disembarked at Milwaukie in eight days, 

 closing on the 4lh insf. — 890 cabin, 1272 steer- 

 age. The positive increase thereby of the pop- 

 ulation of Wisconsin can hardly fall short of 

 ififieen hundred. Probably one thousand more 

 jlanded during the same period at other points. 

 The Tribune thinks the population of the State, 

 'from its natural increase, and from immigration, 

 must swell to one hundred thousand per year. 



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A good wife. — Oh, it is beautiful to live blame- 

 less under the poisoned glance of the world ; 

 poisoned whether it be praise or blame; beauii- 

 ful not to be polluted by its observation, hut 

 4 e nore beautiful to be intimately known to one, to 

 possess one gentle and honest friend, and that 

 friend a wife. Beautiful to he able to purify the 

 soul as in a mirror, and to be aware, therefore, 

 ' Df every blot of one's own soul, and to be able 

 • to purify it against the day of the great trial. 



Tin' Husbandman. 



Ye pamper'd great, who proudly ride 

 In gilded coaches, as je glide 



Among the vulgar crew- ; 

 Scorn not the man who tills the fields., 

 Who reaps the fruits which autumn yields — 



That man 's as good as you. 



Tho' fortune adverse, for his home, 

 Has raised in slate no splendid dome, 



Ps'or spread upon his board 

 Delicious dainties — and his name, 

 linblazun'd in the rolls of fame, 



Ib last among the crowd ; 



Yet calm content, around his head, 

 Will slill her genial influence shed ; 



He envies nut your lot! 

 When day declining, night returns, 

 And on his hearlh one faggot burns, 



He hastens lo his col. 



His infante, sportive, round the fire, 

 In lisping accents greet their sire, 



'{While each ahke*s Ins care) 

 With wanton gambolings strive to please, 

 And eager climb his honor'd knees, 



The envied kiss lo share. 



The greeting o'er, to rest he goes ; 

 Ambition breiks nut his repose, 



JNor rob- his snul of rest ; 

 For envy, hate, corroding care, 

 The dire effects of fell despair, 



Are strangers lo his breast. 



Can all your wealth — can all your power — 

 (Those gliti'ring playthings of an hour) 



Bring happiness like Ihis ? 

 Can pompous titles and estates, 

 The fleeting gilts of blinded tales, 



Be reckon'd equal bliss ? 



I\o !— .hence, ye vain delusive toys ! 

 Ye poor, fantastic, shorl-liv'd joys! 



Give me a conscience pure : 

 Give me a mind conlent-~serene-r- 

 ISo cloud of guilt to intervene, 



My joy6 will still endure. 



There's not a heath, however rude, 



But hath some little flower 

 To brighten up its solitude, 



And scent the evening hour. 

 There's not a heart, however cast 



By grief and sorrow down, 

 But hath some memory of Ihe past 



To love and call its own. 



Utilitt of Nettles. — It is a singular fact, 

 that steel dipped in the juice of the nettle be- 

 comes flexible. Dr. Thornton, who has made 

 the medicinal properties of our wild plants his 

 peculiar study, states that lint dipped in nettle 

 juice, and put up the nostril, has been known to 

 slay the bleeding of the nose, when all other 

 remedies have tailed — and adds, that fourteen or 

 fifteen of the seeds ground into powder, and 

 taken daily, will cure the swelling in the neck, 

 known by the name of goitre, without in any 

 way injuring the general habit, — Medical Times. 



Eliot, Me., July 23, 1849. 

 Friend Hill; — I send you the names and ad- 

 vance pay of a few subscribers to your valuable 

 and interesting paper, the "Farmers Monthly 

 Visitor;" it is indeed a visitor that should find 

 its way in the residence of every New England 

 farmer, and adorn his library or centre-table, of 

 useful and entertaining knowledge : yet there 

 appears to be a strong prejudice existing amongst 

 farmers in general, against what they term 

 "book farming." Many disdain the idea of sub- 

 scribing or even reading an agricultural journal. 

 I am inclined to believe that the prejudice exist- 

 ing in the minds of those superstitious individu- 

 als is in many respects owing to their fathers 

 and grandfathers never having availed themselves 

 of such a source of useful information. Thus 

 such farmers remind me of the ancient custom 

 of carrying a grist of corn or other grain to mill, 

 putting the grain in one end of the bag, and 

 putting rocks in the other end to balance the 

 grist. "A man was once told to take those 

 stones out of his bag and divide his grist, and 

 his horse would have to carry only one-half of 

 the weight that he then did. He refused to 

 comply with the request, and replied that his 

 father did so, and so must I." 



Such fanners as the above circumstance seems 

 to apply to seem determined to keep on the old 

 track, without ever enlightening their minds 

 with the improvements of the day, and with a 

 store of useful information that would be most 

 beneficial to themselves and their posterity. 

 They appear lo entertain a strong aversion to all 

 improvements that would tend to the advance- 

 ment of the agricultural community, which is 

 the most ancient occupation that was allotted to 

 man by our Creator, who instructed Adam in 

 paradise, " to dress and keep it," — to work and 

 till the ground, let in the influence of heaven, 

 prune the trees, cherish the plants, preserve the 

 fruits from the beasts of the field and the fowls 

 of heaven, and to keep all his abode and the do- 

 main around it in good order. Thus we find 

 the Jewish farmer, however higljy favored, was 

 obliged to follow the rule which Virgil prescrib- 

 ed to Ids countrymen, to saturate the parched 

 soil with rich dung, anil scatter sordid ashes up- 

 on the exhausted lands, and the reward was the 

 most picturesque scenery and the richest pro- 

 ducts of the earth, and thus it will he the reward 

 of all who improve and perpetuate the fertility 

 of the soil, in every season to come, until the 

 end of time, for we have the promise of perpet- 

 ual seed-time and harvest to crown the labors of 



the husbandman. 



Yours, &c, 

 A FARMER. 



Horned Frogs. — Messrs. Copeland and Prince 

 have brought home several living specimens of 

 the horned frog of Texas, a very curious animal 

 and well worth the inspection of naturalists. 

 They have several characteristics of the chame- 

 leon, and are perfectly harmless and inoffensive ) 

 uniting Ugliness and beauty in such a singular 

 combination that it is hard to tell which prepon- 

 derates. They are great curiosities to stay-at- 

 home people.— Salem Register. 



Secrets. — The reply of Charles II., when im- 

 portuned to communicate something of a private 

 nature, deserves to be engraven in the heart of 

 every man : — 



"Can you keep a secret?" asked the suhtl : 

 monarch. 



"Most faithfully," returned the nobleman. 



"So can I," was the laconic and severe answer 

 of Charles, 



