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®I)c .farmer's ittontljln Visitor. 



Written words. — It were well if we thought 

 more of the tremendous significance of written 

 words. They are irrevocable— unchangeable— 

 eternal; no alter penitence can erase, no lemm- 

 ing tenderness soften, no prayer remove them. 

 Once written, they are written forever upon the 

 heart of him who reads litem. Speak harshly to 

 a friend, and it may easily be forgiven, and soon 

 forgotten; the next tone betrays relenting, the 

 merest gesture pleads for reconciliation ; but let 

 cold or bitter or careless words be written, and 

 they remain forever in their full carlessness, bit- 

 terness, or coldness ; ruthless are they, for though 

 you weep as you read, they change not, and your 

 utmost shrinking avails not to make them strike 

 one wound less, or one whit less deeply. One 

 little page has power to change a whole life. 

 Moreover, the spirit which rules them is more 

 powerful for evil than good — at least in matters 

 of feeling. Kind words and gentle thoughts 

 lose half their force and all their charm, when 

 they lack the voice of impress, and the look to 

 sweeten them ; but the written repulse litis ten- 

 fold power to freeze — the written reproach has 

 all the bitterness of unmistakeable reality. No 

 power or self deception can withstand them. 

 Still more awful is it to write one sentence which 

 may tempt to wrong or throw even a moment's 

 difficulty into the path of virtue. If there be a 

 sin in the forgiveness of which it is hard for a 

 dying penitent to believe, though years of re- 

 pentance come between him and its commission, 

 it is this — to have put a weapon into Satan's 

 hand, which may last as long as time itself To 

 the sinner, perchance, it was but the deed of a 

 moment — forgotten as soon as perpetrated ; but 

 many a moment is as a pebble cast into the wa- 

 ters, the circle of whose vibration shall embrace 

 the whole time-ocean. — Portland Transcript. 



Beautiful inscription. — The Uingham Pat- 

 riot says the most beautiful and touching in- 

 scription may be seen on a grave-stone of pure 

 white marble, in the cemetery in that town. 

 The only words are these :— 



"OUR MOTHER 



FELL ASLEEP 



November 12, 1840. 



M. 51. 



When will the morning come?" 



Simple, yet beautiful language! — language 



that shall find a response in every heart made 



sad by the loss of that best and dearest of earthly 



friends— a mother. Many a faltering tongue 



has asked that most significant question — " When 



will the morning come ?" Peace, O sad Hearts — 



that morning will yet dawn, and that sleep shall 



be broken. Yet a while linger ye in patience 



and hope, and the glad fruition of faith shall be 



realized ; and we shall no more ask, " When 



will the morning come?" 



Merrimack County Agricultural Society. 



The twenty-sixth annual Fair and Show of 

 the .Merrimack County Agricultural Society was 

 holden at Contoocookville, on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, Oct. 24th and 25th, 1849. 



On Wednesday, at nine o'clock, A. M , the so- 

 ciety met at the meeting bouse, and filled all va- 

 cancies in the several committees, who imme- 

 diately attended to the duties assigned them in 

 the examination of stock, &c, presented for 

 premiums. Alter the several committees had 

 finished their examinations, the society formed a 

 procession and marched, escorted by the Band, 

 to the hotel of W. A. Blodgett, and partook of 

 an excellent dinner. At two o'clock, P. M., the 

 society again formed and marched to the meet- 

 ing house, where the order of exercises were as 

 follows: 



Voluntary by the Band; prayer, by Rev. E. 

 Worth of Fisherville ; original hymn: address, 

 by Asa P. Cute, Esq., of Northfield ; original 

 hymn; report of committee on Farms, by II. E. 

 Perkins of Contoocookville ; music by the Band ; 

 Anthem. 



Adjourned to meet at this place on Thursday. 

 at nine o'clock, A. M. 



Second Da v. — The society met according to 

 adjournment, when the reports of the several 

 committees were made. The society then re- 

 paired to the ploughing ground, and after wit- 

 nessing a well executed and well contested 



ploughing match, the society again returned to 

 the hotel to dinner. At two o'clock P. M., the 

 society convened at the meeting house, and list- 

 ened to EM excellent Dissertation by Dr. Wm. 

 Prescott of Concord, on Geology as connected 

 with Agriculture. After which the reports of 

 the committees on Ploughing Match were made, 

 and in connection with those previously made, 

 the following premiums were awarded: 



Asa L. Pervier, Franklin, best Farm, S 4 00 



Charles Li. Putney, Boscawen, 3d best Farm, 3 00 



P. VV. Coffin, " 2d " 2 00 



Abraham Drown, Northricld, best »en. crops. 3 U0 



Benj. Whipple, Dunbanon, 2d ••J " 2 00 



Tlios. Elliott, Boscawen, 3d " " 150 



James Gill, •{ best Corn, 3 00 



E. Coffin, " 3d " 1 50 

 h. M.Chadwick, " 3d " 1 00 

 L. H. lib. ulwick, " best Wheat, 2 00 

 Jos. Pilisbury, " best Garden, 2 00 

 Abraham Burbank, Boscawen, best Ploughing 



with oxen, 2 00 



John Ivilburn, Boscawen, 2d best Ploughing 



wit h ,i\i n, 1 50 



Leonard A'oyes. Ilopkinton, 3d best Ploughing 



with oxen, i 00 



F. W. Coffin, Boscawen, best Ploughman, 1 00 

 Abial Rolfr, Eisherville, 2d " 50 

 John P. Farmer, Boscawen, best Driver, 1 00 

 John Kilburn, " 2d '• 50 

 Charles Farnum, Concord, if funds sufficient, 50 

 K. P. Gernsli, Boscawen, bsst Ploughing with 



horses, 2 00 



G. \V. Brown, Concord, 2d best ploughing with 

 horses, 1 00 



A. P. Butbank, Boscawen, best Ploughman, 1 00 

 Wm. Burpee, " 2d " 50 



A. P. Burbank, " best Driver, 100 

 E. B. Gitchel, " Sd " 50 

 Amos Currier, Ilopkinton, best Working Oxen, 2 50 

 Nahum Elanchard, Canterbury, 2d *' 2 00 

 Abraham Burbank, Boscawen, : j d 1 50 

 Ephrahn Little, " 4th " I 00 

 Asa L.. Pervier, Franklin, best 4 vr. old Steers, S 00 

 Enoch Coffin, Boscawen, 2d " " 100 

 M. A.Pillsburv, Boscawen, best 3 yr. old Steers, 2 00 

 Benj. Farnum, Concord, best 2 yr. old Steers, 1 00 

 M. C. Sanborn, Boscawen, 2d " " 50 

 Joseph Pillsbury, Boscawen, best Heifer, 1 00 

 Abraham Burbank, " 2d " 50 

 Benjamin Farnum, Concord, best Bull, 2 00 

 Thomas Elliott, Boscawen, 2d " I 00 

 H. E. Perkins, Contoocookville, best Milch 



Cows, 2 00 



Be.ij. Farnum, Concord, 2d best Milch Cows, 1 00 



Jos Ptllsbury, Boscawen, 3d, " 50 

 John P. Farmer, Boscawen, nest Mare and Colt, 1 50 



Nahum Hlanchard, Canterbury, 2d " " 100 



li. W. Brown, Concord, best Colt, 1 50 



Reynold Way, Bradford, Sd " 100 



Enoch Coffin, Boscawen, best Merino Buck, I 50 



I. N. Sawyer, Sali,-h!ii> , Sd " 100 

 Joseph Barnard, Ho, kinton, best Saxony Buck, 1 50 



I. N. Sawyer, Salisbury, 2d " 100 



I. N. Sawyer, Salisbury, best Saxony Ewes, 1 50 



I. N. Sawyer, Salisbury, best Merino Ewes, 1 50 

 Nahum Rfanchafa, Canterbury, best Boar, 1 50 

 Nahum Blauchaid, Canterbury, best Sow and 



Pigs, 1 50 



Joseph Pillsbuy, Boscawen, best Butter, 2 00 



B nj. Walk •!,' " 2d " 1 50 



Eiiuch Lit tb . " 3d ' 1 00 



Benj Walker, " best Cheese, 1 00 



John SSHUhuru, " 2d 110 



Abial Gcrii.-ii, " 3d " 60 



Almond Harris, Fisherville, In st Oasstmeiek, 1 00 



Miss i;. Brown, Concord, best Needlework, 1 00 



B. F. li II. Holden, Concord, best Flannel, 1 U0 

 Mrs. Iiidilb 13. Coffin, Boscawen, best [lose, 1 00 

 Miss Sarah Com li) " 2u " 50 

 Miss R. A. Kimball. " 3.1 " 25 

 Jain;! Marsh, Fisherville, best Leather, Boots 



and shoes, 1 "0 



I, if Speiial Fmprpvemcnt', 



Currier, Doe & Co., Concord, best Plough, 1 50 



J. L. Robinson, '• 2d " 1 00 



Ames, Gerrish Ac Co. , Fisherville, foi oneSlove, 1 no 



II. li. Arnsden & Co, " " " 1 00 

 P.. u Gitchel, for one Thread Stand, 50 



Voted to proceed to the choice of officers for 

 the ensuing year. Accordingly, the following 

 persons were chosen : 



II. E. PERKINS, Contoocookville, President. 



Asa P. Cate, Northfield, Vice President. 



Abial Rolfe, Fisherville, Secretaty. 



H. P. Geriusii, Boscawen, Treasurer. 



David Morrill, Canterbury, Benj. Whipple, 

 Dunb.-irlon, J. Kimball, Fishei ville, C. E. Putney, 

 BosCltwen, C. O. Coffin, Boscawen, C. Woodman, 

 Sanbomton, Directors. 



Voted I hat the thanks of the society be ex- 

 tended to Hon. Asa P. Cate, of Northfield, for 

 his eloquent address; also to Dr. Wm. Prescott, 

 of Concord, for his able dissertation on the pre- 

 sent occasion. 



Voted that Walter Harrimnn of Warner be 

 requested lo give a dissertation on agriculture, at 

 the next annual meeting. 



Voted that the thanks of the society be ex- 

 tended lo the Band, also to the Choir, for their 

 services on the present occasion. 



Voted to dissolve. 



Thirty-seven new members were added to the 

 society. 



ABIAL ROLFE. Secretary. 



Fisherville, Oct. 28, 1849. 



Farming in Aroostook. 



We give below a short account of what has 

 been done, and may be done again, in farming, 

 in this seclion of the world, by those who un- 

 derstand the business, and go into it right. It 

 was furnished us by a gentleman who takes 

 much interest in such matters, in the hope that 

 it might in some degree serve to allay the Wis- 

 consin and California fever, which is raging so 

 violently at this lime. It shows conclusively 

 that any person who is desirous, or expects to 

 get his living by farming, need not go to Wis- 

 consin, or any other part of the world, for soil or 

 climate— and many who are going to California 

 in the fond hope of realizing a fortune, and of . 

 course, happiness, might find it nearer home if 

 they were to seek it in the way prescribed by 

 the good Book : 



"As I was passing through the town of Hodg- 

 don, county of Aroostook, a few days since, I 

 called on Mr. Walton, who took me over his 

 farm, and showed me 21,000 apple trees of vari- 

 ous ages, from one year old to trees bearing fruit. 

 The seed from which these trees are growing 

 was procured in Massachusetts, and a large pro- 

 portion of them were grafted from trees bearing 

 the choicest fruit. He finds a market for large 

 numbers of ihem in the western part of ibis 

 State and Massachusetts, and round that region. 

 He has almost every variety of ihe plum tree. 

 He has also crab apples, peach trees, walnut, 

 trees, butternut trees, cherry trees, ehesnut trees, 

 grape vines and white oaks. 



" Last spring he had ten hives of bees. He • 

 has now twenty, containing nearly one ton of 

 excellent honey, besides having taken off COO 

 pounds of box honey. On this article he has tak- 

 en the premium for several years past. He sells, 

 it at 1GJ cents per pound, at which rale the honey 

 alone is worth StiOO. His hives he values a! 

 $10 apiece. He made last spring 400 lbs. of 

 maple sugar, part of which was refined, and • 

 was equal to loaf sugar in whiteness and sweet- 

 ness. This year he has raised 200 bushels of 

 buckwheat, and from two to three years' bread- 

 stuff. Mr. W. is a very industrious and intelli- 

 gent man, and his wife is an intelligent and lady- 

 like woman, and it most excellent housekeeper. 



"The inside of the house will compare favor- 

 ably with the orderand neatness of the husband's 

 nursery and garden, which far exceeds any thing 

 of the kind to be found in this eastern country. 

 Mrs. \V. made during the past summer thirty-six. 

 cheeses of excellent quality, and a large quantity 

 of excellent butter. On the 4th of July last she. 

 hived, with her own hands, four hives of bees, 

 her husband being absent. She does all her 

 o.vn work with her own hands, keeping no hired 

 help. Her husband follows her example in this 

 respect, as he carries on his farm without hired 

 help. I am told he killed last winter five fine 

 moose." 



Who will go to Wisconsin to get a living by 

 farming when it can be done so near home ? 

 And the money it lakes to land a man and his- 

 family in Wisconsin, would almost, if not quite, 

 purchase laud enough to make a farm of in 

 Aroostook county, and help to stock it. — Calais 

 Advertiser. 



Plf.asurf. of reading. — Of till the amuse- 

 ments that can possibly be imagined for all in- 

 dustrious man, after his daily toils or in the inter- 

 vals, there is nothing like reading a newspaper. 

 It calls for no bodily exertion, of which he has 

 already had enough, perhaps too much. It re- 

 lieves his home of its dullness and sameness.'-. 

 Nay, it accompanies him to his next day's work, 

 and giVes him something to think of besides the-. 

 mechanical drudgery of his every day occupa- 

 tion : something he can enjoy while absent, and 

 look forward to with pleasure. If I were to 

 pray for a taste which should stand by me under !'_ 

 every variety of circumstances, and be a source ' 

 of happiness and cheerfulness to" me through 

 life, and a shield against all its ills, however 

 things might go atriiss, and the world frown up- 

 on me, it would be a taste for reading. 



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