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experience, and with means to impart it to pth- [ ten hour 

 ere, may continue, to its very termination, to 

 Mess tlie world ; and hence, in the retrospect, to 

 yield to those who do it the purest delights. 

 And, by the increased mental and physical ver- 

 dure acquired amidst rural avocations, they may 

 add a large percentage to the nn nber of their 

 own years, as well B3 to their joys ; thus making 

 human existence I'nll to its very brim in useful 

 labor and fruition, as God designed it s'lould he. 

 He staled that, in round numbers, the labor 

 bestowed on his farm this year costs about seven 

 hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to the use 

 of his teams, which, if h ; hired them, might be 

 two hundred and fifty dollars; making, in all, 

 one thousand dollars. His expenditure for ma- 

 nure was not given ; but we hope that on the 

 termination of the harvests, he will give a full 

 and authentic account of his farming operations. 

 Such accounts are of immense value to the com- 

 munity. By them others will be stimulated to 

 make similar efforts. Our time was too short to 

 avail ourselves of the statistics necessary for 

 such an account. Our aim, on the present oc- 

 casion, is only to call attention to the subject, 

 and to show in what manner persons making a 

 trip to the White Mountains or elsewhere, for 

 health or pleasure, may collect and then dissem- 

 inate agricultural knowledge. For ourselves we 

 believe that observations similar to those here 

 given, are among the most rational and useful 

 means to promote the aim of the summer tour- 

 ist ; and surely they may he made subservient to 

 the best interests of the country. 



One word more. In the time of Queen Eliz- 

 abeth, men of rank, to ornament their heads, 

 wore heavy wigs, and to ornament their wrists 

 and hands, they wore wide ruffles. Many of our 

 eld-school farmers, as if in imitation of that 

 fashion, have allowed around their cultivated 

 fields broad margins of brush wood and shrubs, 

 doubtless for ornament; unless it be in kind 

 charily to furnish a comfortable shelter for 

 snakes, and skunks, and rabbits. In this matter, 

 Governor Hill is an ulna radical. Instead of 

 permitting such an ornament even on this sand 

 land, about his potatoes, all is grubbed up ; and, 

 instead (hereof, is a row of summer and autumn 

 squash vines, which have furnished about fifty 

 barrels of excellent fruit lor Quincy Market. 



FLEMING GROVE. 



s to accomplish the same journey ! 



According to "the good old way," a press which 

 could strike oh* a thousand newspapers in a 

 night was viewed in a light hut little remofed 

 from the marvellous ; now, ; , press in the same 

 lime hurls from ils great iron bands fifty thou- 

 sand sheets! Jly " the good old way," nice old 

 ladies, who happened io he blessed with ugliaess 

 and black cats, were hung up or drowned as 

 witches; now, our nice old ladies are honored 

 only less than our handsome young ladies! B\ 

 "the good old way," monarchs were clad, by 

 even Americans, in the light of divinity ; and 

 now, the Yankee 



" Would slnke hnnils with the kin;; upon his throne. 

 And Hunk it kindness to his majesty." 



By " the good old way," Columbus would slum- 

 ber an unknown man in an unknown grave. 

 But the spirit of progress pointed his ardent 

 eyes to another world, baptized by another sea, 

 in the far-off Hespei ides; and that race which 

 is the crown of humanity, now swarm oh the 

 lertile soil of lh.it new earth, to chain matter to 

 the car of civilization, illumine mankind with 

 the beams of liberty, and send hoary errors 

 crumbling away in the awful shadow of reform. 

 \\ hen you can hind the wing of the eagle with 

 a cob-web, when you can stop the world in its 

 motion by a priestiy dictum, then attempt to ar- 

 rest the giant of progress in his majestic career. 

 He who does attempt it before these labors have 

 been accomplished, must only he crushed him- 

 self beneath his mighty feet.— Selected. 



from a marked tree— two out of three thus being 

 left for their use, if desired, renders the selected 

 tree free from the chance of being used. The 

 amount of fertilizing materials c inually wast- 

 ed upon roads would be rendered available by 

 such a practice, and nothing but extreme selfish- 

 ness will prevent the use of these materials for 

 public benefit. Many of the larger sorts of fruit 

 trees aro highly Ornamental and afford fine 

 shade, while the use of fruit trees alone for 

 shade, like the display of costly mansions, only 

 excite the poor to envy, without adding mate- 

 rially to their comfort or health.— Hoiking Far- 



To dry a Cow ok her iwit-K. — Circumstances 

 render it necessary to stop the lactescent action 

 in cows; and when this occurs, all that is abso- 

 lutely required is to make a liquor by pouring 

 into a fresh rennet bag two quarts of pure well, 

 spring, or rain water; reduce the quantity of the 

 liquid, by boiling briskly, to about one quart, and 

 Strain it. Then let it cool to a lukewarm tempe- 

 rature, and give it as a drink to the cow. In 

 fony-eiglit hours she will be dry. For some 

 days, her food should be dry and unsucculent, 

 no water being allowed. — Selected. 



The Patriot's Prayer in Battle. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OK TBIO. KORNER 



Father, I call on Ihee ! 

 Wild roars the thunder, ihe cannon pours forth. 

 Vivid the lightning 'twixt heaven and earth. 



Umpire of battles! 1 call on Thee! 

 Father, oh ! guide thou me ! 



Father, oh ! guide thou rae ! 

 Guide me to victory, guide me to death ; 

 Lord, 1 delight in the law of thy breath. 



Lord, as thou wilt, so guide thou me ; 

 God, 1 delight in thee! 



Cod, 1 delight in thee ! 

 Thine eye beholdelh the leaf red and sear, 

 Thy helping arm in battle is near. 



Fount of all grace, I rejoice in thee ! 

 Father, oh ! bless thou me ! 



Father, oh ! bless thou me ! 

 Into thy hands my life 1 commend ; 

 With thee, who didst give it, with thee is the end. 



To live and to die, oh ! bless thou me. 

 Father, praise be to thee ! 



Father, praise be to thee ! 

 Thou knowest we war not for wealth of this life, 

 Thine own cause to defend, we follow the strife. 



Thus falling or conquering praise be to thee 

 Mercy, God, unto me ! 



Mercy, God, unto me ! 

 When I sholl listen to death's thundering greeting, 

 When my last pulse shall end my heart's beating, 



Then, God, show mercy to me ; 

 Father, 1 call on Thee ! 



The Spiiit of Progress. 



Large as are the strides, and splendid as are 

 the triumphs of the spirit of progress in the 

 nineteenth century, she still numbers her ene- 

 mies by thousands. Chinese walls and Chinese 

 hatred to improvement .-lill hold some swav 

 among many of our people. They love anil 

 would foster "the good old way !" Why, in the 

 meridian time of "the good old way," ships re- 

 quired months to perform a voyage Ironi Liver- 

 pool to New York ; now, the winds and tides, 

 held in vassalage by llie spirit of progress, waft 

 the vessel from world to world in a single fort- 



;llt ! By '• the good old way," a bark was poll- 



ed and coaxed from New York to Albany in 



twenty days; now, the superb vessel asks but | stage-driver to' regale his passengers with fruit 



Fruit Trees by the roadside. 



The practice of setting out fruit trees by the 

 roadside cannot be too highly recommended. In 

 many parts of Europe this practice is general, 

 and the fatigued traveller acknowledges the well- 

 timed hospitality thus afforded him. The ex- 

 cuse is often made that the fruit will be stolen ; 

 but if the practice were general, the amount of 

 fruit taken by wayfarers would only be what 

 common ho'spitulity would freely grant ; and in 

 Germany every third tree, by custom, may be 

 tabooed, (the owner of the adjoining farm ties a 

 piece of rag to one of the lower limbs of the 

 iree,) and no traveller will touch it. Travellers 

 inform us that no reward will tempt a German 



Ainericau Butter. 



Considerable shipments of butter, mostly of 

 inferior quality, have been made this season from 

 this port, and also from New York, to England. 

 In referring to a public sale of some of this but- 

 ter, the London Commercial Journal of March 

 27th says : — 



"At a public sale of American butter at Liv- 

 erpool, it fetched for best sorts, [one hundred 

 and twelve pounds,! eighty-four shillings; sec- 

 onds, seventy-two to seventy-four shillings, duty 

 paid; while inferior only sold at forty-three shil- 

 lings to forty-four shillings in bond, of which 

 the parcel chiefly consisted. The quantity ar- 

 rived at the London market shows the same re- 

 sults, the principal part being sold for grease 

 purposes. The American makets of butter are 

 very fur behind the Irish, English, or Dutch : 

 from the first operation to the last, all seems to 

 be done without system or care; the same mate- 

 rials would, if managed by experienced hands, 

 fetch in this market twenty-five shillings or thirty 

 shillings more money: there is no attention paid 

 to the making, salting, putting, or packing. 



F,xtract from a letter. 



" As it is probable that American butter and 

 lard will in future seek a market in Great Britain 

 for the surplus product, it may he well that the 

 farmers and others should know that their inter- 

 est will be to take more care in making these ar- 

 ticles. Nothing can he superior to the rich flavor 

 of the Ohio and other western butter, fed on 

 prairie and other rich soils in the autumn, but 

 even a moderately short voyage, or the approach 

 of spring, changes the character of it into a 

 white and rancid grease; the evil seems to be, 

 that the butter-milk is not worked out, neither is 

 it properly salted. The best American butter, 

 imported this year, has sold not higher than 

 eighty-five shillings, while the best from the con- 

 tinent has fetched one hundred and ten to one 

 hundred and fifteen shillings. The latter will 

 keep (or years."— JY. Y. Ship, and Con. List. 



Hills against level lands.— A correspon- 

 dent of the Gardeners' Chaonicle says : ' In a 

 lecture on land surveying by a French professor 

 on Mathematics, at the colllege of Blois, the lec- 

 turer informed his audience that in the purchase 

 of hilly or uneven land, its extent is estimated 

 or measured, not according to the area of the 

 surface, but according to the area of its horizon- 

 tal base ; because, he added, ' it is a well known 

 fact in agriculture, that no more can grow on a 

 lull or slope than on a horizontal piece of land 

 equal to its base.' Now, as this ' well known 

 fact' is not only not well known, but even 

 strongly, though in my opinion absurdly disputed 

 amongst many of our Yorkshire farmers, per- 

 haps you will be kind enough to give it publicity 

 in your next number. Perhaps of moss and 

 other low or creeping plants, a greater crop may 

 be grown on a slope than on a horizontal piece 

 of land equal to its base; but with regard to ver- 

 tically growing plants, such as hay-grass, corn, 

 or trees, it appears to me that the French pro- 

 fessor was perfectly correct." 



