&l)c .farmer's iltontljly bisitor. 



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of them rose ns early as four o'clock in the win- 

 ter and summer; and one or t»o of them -as 

 early as three in summer. 



Dr. Franklin. 74; John Wesley, 88; Buffon, 

 the naturalist, 81 : Stanislaus, King of Poland, 

 89; Lord Coke, 85; Fusefi, the painter, 81 J 

 President Chaunccy, of Harvard College, 81 ; 

 Washington, 08 ; MatheW Hale-, 68 ; Dr. Priestly, 

 71; Dr. Samuel Bard, 79; Bishop Burnett, 73 j 

 Jas, Mason, 100; Lewis Carnaro, over 100. 



2. // IS delightful to rise early. — Can any one 

 entertain n doubt on ihis point? None ran 1 

 am sure, who have tried it. All the early risers 

 1 have e\er seen, find early rising agieeable. 

 One author, in treating on this subject, has the 

 following remarkable words: 



"There is no time equal in beauty and fresh- 

 ness to the morning, when Nature has just part- 

 ed with the gloomy mantle which night had dung 

 over her. The forest leaves sparkle with crystal 

 dew; the flowers raise their rejoicing heads to- 

 wards the sun ; the birds pour forth their an- 

 thems of giadness ; and the wide (ace of crea- 

 tion itself seems as if awakened and refreshed 

 from a mighty slumber. 



3. 11 is good for the mental thinking powers to 

 rise early. — Solomon says, " Let us get up early 

 to the vineyard ; let us see if the wine flour tell ; 

 if the tender grape appears ; if the pomegran- 

 ates hud forth." The wise man takes it for 

 granted here that the mind is active at the hour 

 in observation, as it truly is. There is not a lit- 

 tle reason to believe that Solomon devoted this 

 sacred season, as some have called it, to the stu- 

 dy of " the hyssop," " the cedar," and other 

 plants and trees ; and that it was his morning 

 studies that enabled him to become a teacher of 

 all the kings of the then known world. 



4. It is good for the feelings and affections to 

 rise early. — 'See the peasants of Switzerland, for 

 example, going forth to their labors — young and 

 old, male and female — at the dawn of day, sing- 

 ing hymns about the rippling Stream, the tower- 

 ing cliffs, the tall forests, and, ere long, to the 

 rising sun, in strains scarcely exceeded by the 

 most joyous of the feathered tribes; anil then 

 again, see them playing with their babes in all 

 the tenderness of paternal love. If there are 

 hearts joyous, tender and affectionate to be found 

 in the world, it is among these -very peasants of 

 the earth. 



5. // is economical to rise early. — Franklin used 

 to say — 



'• Early to bed, and early to rise, 



Wakes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." 



Exercise of the body, whether in recreation or 

 at labor, is worth a great deal more in the morn- 

 ing th in at any other time of the day. An early 

 walk is much more agreeable, as well as more 

 useful than a later one. The labor of the farmer 

 and the mechanic is also more agreeable in the 

 morning than at any other time, to say nothing 

 of its usefulness. The lesson of the school or of 

 the family is easier Studied, better understood, 

 and more readily retained, than at any other 

 time. Devotion, too, is more spiritual at this 

 hour than at any oilier part of the day. 



6. /( is rationed to rise early. — To lay snoring 

 in the morning after the sun is up, or even after 

 early dawn, not only renders us like brutes, but 

 like brutes of the most stupid sort — the wood- 

 chuck, the bear, the marmot and the swine. 



Population. — A correspondent of the Boston 

 Republican gives the following table of the pop- 

 ulation oj the chief cities and towns of Massa- 

 chusetts : — 



129,746 

 30,625 



21,000 



20,721 



18,370 



37,550 



J 6,852 



16,807 



15,662 



16,365 

 is carefully calculated from the 

 number of children between the ages of four 

 and sixteen, the last presidential vole, and other 

 sources. 



When adversity attends you, exert yourself, 

 and rise above so unpleasant a companion. 



Boston, 

 Lowell, 

 Salem, 



Springfield, 

 New Bedford, 

 Charlestovvn, 

 Worcester, 

 Lynn, 



Cambridge, 

 Rovhury, 

 The above 



Population nnd Property of the United States, 



According to the Patent Olfice Report the 

 population of ihe United Stales is 20,756,000, 

 and the aggregate of personal and real property 

 is estimated at $8,294,560,000. New York is 

 the richest Stale, her property being §1,1 12,000,- 

 000; Pennsylvania next, $850,000,000; then 

 Ohio, §740,000,000; then Virginia, $503,000,000. 

 The remainder of the States rank as follows: 





The Tillers of the Soil. 



BY DAVID OF YORK. 



Whose are the sturdy hands 



That drive the bright ploughshare. 

 And make the barren lands 



Look beautiful and fair? 

 Who are that little band, 



Who labor, sweat and toil 1 

 The bulwark of our land — 



The tillers of the soil ! 



Who makes this barren earth 



A paradise of wealth, 

 And tills each humble hearth 



With plenty, life and health ? 

 Oh ! 1 would have you know, 



They are the men of toil — 

 The men who reap and sow — 



The tillers of the soil ! 



Oh 1 let mc hold the plough 



And drive the bright ploughshare,. 

 And feel that on my brow 



Toil's honest sweat is there ! 

 Oh ! let me sow and reap, 



And learn to bind the coil — 

 The yellow ripened sheaf, 



Like a tiller of the soil. 



Ye are a nation's stay, 



Ye men of worthy strife — 

 The stars that light the way 



To happiness and life. 

 Then still the plough caress, 



Still be your watch-word, Ton. I 

 And may God over bless 



The tillers of Ihe soil ! 



Agricultural Societies* 



Agriculture is beginning to attract the interest 

 it deserves. It has not been fostered, nor has so 

 much attention been bestowed upon it as it mer- 

 its in this State particularly. It is our greatest 

 interest: more capital and labor are devoted to 

 it, than to any branch of industry. It is, there- 

 fore, entitled to the earnest attention of our best 

 minds. The Agricultural Societies which have 

 been and are now forming, are excellent con- 

 duits, through which the knowledge and experi- 

 ence of our best farmers may be disseminated 

 through the community. By the instrumentality 

 of these societies the practical experience of the 

 fanner is treasured up for the benefit of the 

 farming community. Agricultural book learn- 

 ing is nut of much use to the practical farmer. 

 Such knowledge is mostly derived from men, 

 who indulge in theory and are the best farmers 

 upon paper. " It is not a science," says a cele- 

 brated German agriculturist, " which can be 

 found perfectly in the writings of learned men, 

 and the advances cannot he judged by the list of 

 new publications, bid it fees in the minds of all 

 agriculturists, who busy themselves with due consid- 

 eration in turning vegetable emd animal life to their 

 objects. Agricultural science is of so peculiar a 

 kind, that it must be studied according to partic- 



ular rules. It cannot he learned from books and 

 lectures alone, but there belongs to it, also, the ac- 

 tive participation in agricultural occupations, and 

 careful observation in the great laboratory of 

 nature." 



At these societies our best farmers give the 

 results of their experience and observation. 

 They give none of the fanciful theories of ama- 

 teur farmers to lead astray into useless labor and 

 expense. The views they utter will be found to 

 be true, because they are based upon wide ex- 

 perience and observation. Such societies we 

 deem to be of great importance, because they 

 will serve to embody the views of a large num- 

 ber of minds as to the best methods of farming. 

 They serve to collect together, as it were into a 

 focus, all the floating and scattered experiences 

 of men, who have devoted a whole life-time to 

 this one pursuit. Without their instrumentality 

 all this valuable knowledge will remain conceal- 

 ed from the light like gold ore in an unworked 

 mine, and will continue a dead loss to the world. 

 — Nashua Gaxelte. 



Wheeling Bridge. 



On Saturday las', we passed over the Ohio 

 river, on foot, dry shod, a feat of which we feel 

 justly proud. The suspension bridge bad just 

 been made passable that morning, and we were 

 consequently among the first to witness this 

 great triumph of human genius and skill. The 

 span is one thousand and ten feet in length— the 

 longest in the world. The entire structure is 

 suspended upon twelve wire cables, (six to a side) 

 of four or five inches in diameter. These cables 

 rest at each bank on immense towers — the ends 

 fastened jn huge piles of masonry, under ground. 

 ft is the most wonderful production of human 

 skill we ever saw. Mr. Ellet, the engineer, 

 passed over first, in his buggy, followed by hun- 

 dreds of pedestrians. Shortly after, the court 

 equipage of the Lilliputian monarch, Gen. Tom 

 Thumb, with postillions, outriders, fcc, passed 

 over in state, escorted by a long train of admir- 

 ing spectators. These were followed by the 

 Sons of Temperance in badges and insignia. 



We fear, however, that our Wheeling neigh- 

 bors have committed an unfortunate error, in 

 building their bridge too low. It could easily 

 have been elevated twenty or thirty feet higher, 

 which would have effectually removed the ob- 

 struction to navigation, which, to us, seems now 

 inevitable. It is to be feared that jealousy of 

 Pittsburg has led them into an error, which may- 

 result in dissipating all their dreams of prosperi- 

 ty and advantage flowing from their wonderful 

 and magnificent enterprise.— Meigs Co. Telegraph. 



Riches. — An Arab, wandering in the deserts, 

 and having eaten nothing (or two days, was ready 

 to expire with hunger. As he passed by one of 

 those wells used by the caravans to water their 

 camels, be perceived on the sand a little leathern 

 bag. He took it up, and fee'iug something with- 

 in, "Thanks be to Allah," said t.e, "these are, I 

 doubt not, either dates or nuts." Elated with 

 this expectation he hastened to open his bag, but 

 as soon as be saw what it really contained, 

 "Alas!" said he, in an agony of distress, "here 

 are only pearls." 



The Lowell Manufactories. — The factories 

 extend in a continuous line on the Merrimack 

 river, from Pawtucket Falls to the junction of the 

 Merrimack and Concord rivers, — a mile in length 

 of mills nnd machinery. On the opposite side 

 of the city are twelve other mills. 



Merrimack Manufacturing Co. employs 2050 

 bands, producing 345,000 yards of cotton cloth 

 weekly ; Hamilton Co. 1200 hands, 180,000 yards 

 prims, flannels and sheetings ; Appleion Co. 250 

 hands, 130,000 yards of sheeting and shirting; 

 Lowell Co. 800 hands, manufacturing 6,500 yds. 

 carpeting, and 95,000 yards cotton cloth weekly ; 

 Middlesex Co. 1750 hands, 18,967 yards eassi- 

 inere and 2,334 yards broadcloth ; Suffolk mills, 



