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&S)e .farmer' s ittcmtljli) Visitor. 



steps over the daily scenes of his labors. The 

 roof which shelters him, was reared by those to 

 whom he owes his being. Some interesting do- 

 mestic tradition is connected with every enclos- 

 ure. The favorite fruit tree was planted by his 

 father's hand. Me sported in his boyhood, by 

 the side of the brook which winds through his 

 meadow. Through that field, lies the path to 

 the village school of his earliest days. He still 

 hears from his windows, the voice of the Sab- 

 bath bell, which called his father and his fore- 

 fathers to the house of God ; and near at hand is 

 the spot where he laid his parents down to rest, 

 and where he trusts, when his hour is come, he 

 shall be dutifully laid by his children. These 

 are the feelings of the owner of the soil. Words 

 cannot paint them ; gold cannot buy them— they 

 flow out of the deepest fountains of the heart; 

 these are the life-springs of a fresh, healthy, 

 generous national character. — Edward Everett, 



Saxony Sheep. — We have much pleasure in 

 noticing a flock of sheep, twenty in number, that 

 have just arrived on board of the ship "Louisiana" 

 from Bremen. They are imported by D. W. 

 Catlin of this city, and C. B. Smith, Esq., of 

 Litchfield county, Ct., and are intended as an ad- 

 dition to their flocks inTorrington and Harring- 

 ton, Conn. They are from the flock of Maximi- 

 lian Baron De Speck Leitchena, near Leipsie, 

 Saxony, the same gentleman from whom Messrs. 

 Catlin & Smith received a lot last fall, noticed 

 by us at the time. Those first imported have 

 given, we understand, universal satisfaction to 

 all growers of fine wool. Those now noticed 

 are equal in every respect, we should judge, of 

 those first imported. They combine every re- 

 quisite in a fine sheep, fine form, good constitu- 

 tion, compactness and weight of fleece, am! fine- 

 ness of fibre. A shepherd accompanies them, 

 with u well trained shepherd clog, with a view of 

 introducing, as far as practicable, in this country, 

 the system of raising and training sheep, as prac- 

 tised in Germany. — .V. Y. Express. 



Apples as Food. — The importance of apples 

 for fond has not hitherto been sufficiently estima- 

 ted in this country nor understood. Besides con- 

 tributing a large proportion of sugar, mucilage, 

 and other nutritive matter in the form of food, 

 they contain such a fine combination of vegeta- 

 ble acids, extractive substances, anil aromatic 

 principles, with the nutritive matter, as to act 

 powerfully in the capacity of refrigerants, tonics 

 ami antiseptic; and when fieely used at the sea- 

 son of ripeness, by rural laborers and others, 

 they "prevent debility, strengthen digestion, cor- 

 rect the putrefactive tendencies of nitrogenous 

 food, avert scurvy, and probably maintain and 

 Strengthen the powers of productive labor." 



The operators at Cornwell, in England, con- 

 sidered ripe apples nearly as nourishing as 

 bread, and more so than potatoes. In the year 

 1801, a year of scarcity, apples, instead of being 

 converted into cider, were sold to the poor; and 

 the laborers asserted that they could stand their 

 work on baked apples, without meat ; whereas, 

 a potato to diet required either meat or fish. 



The French and Germans use apples exten- 

 sively ; imbed, it is rare that they sit down, in 

 the rural districts, without ihem in some shape 

 or other, even at the best tables. The laborers 

 and mechanics depend upon them, to a very 

 great extent, as an article of food, and frequently 

 dine on sliced apples and bread. Stewed with 

 rice, red cabbage, carrots, or by themselves, with 

 a little sugar and milk, they make both a pleas- 

 ant and nutritious dish. 



A young wife in Cincinnati lately received a 

 draft of s.")00 from her husband who is gold-dig- 

 ging in California, and before night she had 

 spent half the sum in splendid dresses. 



A Specimen of Aroostook Farming. 



It is admitted on all hands that so far as soil is 

 concerned the valley of the Aroostook is the gar- 

 den of Maine, and the only draw back to its ag- 

 ricultural resources has been thought to be the 

 climate rendering the crops liable to be cut off 

 by early frosts. For the purpose of showing 

 that the fear of the climate is not well founded, 

 we have collected statistics of the operations 

 and results of one farm in that county, situated 

 in Township No. 13, Range 6, at Portage Lake. 



The first clearing was made on this farm in 

 the tall of 1844, and the first crop taken otf in 

 1845, and corn has not failed to ripen every year 

 upon it, and it is believed that it will not fail to 

 ripen in the county general y any year, if the 

 proper kind of seed be selected and the planting 

 done in season. 



The produce for this year is thus stated: — 



70 tons of hay, $15 $1050 00 



1000 bushels of oats, 50c 500 00 



200 " of barley, 75c 150 00 



40 " of beans, $2 25 90 00 



1000 " of potatoes, 50c 500 00 



Several hundred bushels of carrots, tur- 

 nips, and some corn valued at.... 200 00 



$2490 00 

 The above are cash prices at which the lum- 

 bermen buy all the produce in that region they 

 can get. This is the amount and value of the 

 crop which can be spared and sold, besides what 

 the family need for their own consumption. 



There is besides made on the farm all the but- 

 ter used for the house, being a tavern, at which 

 the average of family and travellers are twenty 

 per day. 



The proprietors of this farm not being resi- 

 dents upon it they are enabled to get at, very 

 definitely, the cost of labor upon it. The ex- 

 penditures for the year are thus stated: — 



Wages paid out .'. . .$750 000 



Provisions for workmen and family, ex- 

 clusive of produce of farm 300 00 



$1050 00 



This gives us the sum of one thousand four 

 bundled and forty dollars profit of the farm for 

 one year, while at the same time twenty acres of 

 land have been this year cleared for a crop next 

 season, which is estimated as a permanent im- 

 provement equal to the sum expended by the 

 family for provisions purchased. 



This land was purchased of the State at one 

 dollar per acre, and more may be had at the 

 same price, payable, one-quarter in cash and the 

 balance in work on roads through the town- 

 ship. 



Results such as these cannot be expected from 

 indifferent fanning nor where there is a lack of 

 either faith or works. They are the product of 

 both united. It is but justice to say that the 

 farm to which we have referred, though owned 

 by persons in this city, has been from the com- 

 mencement in charge of Mr. Mathew Stevens, 

 formerly of Athens, in this Stale, and whose 

 skill cannot but be advantageous to the neigh- 

 borhood in which he resides, as well as to his 

 fortunate employers. — Bangor Courier. 



Southern Enterprise. 



The Railway Times, a Boston print, gives the 

 following view of the manufacturing establish- 

 ments and railways in the southern States: 



" We have seen it stated that Delaware has al- 

 ready a greater number of manufacturing estab- 

 lishments, in proportion to her population, than 

 any other State in the Union. Maryland has in- 

 vested over $45,000,000 in railroads, canals, and 

 manufactures, ami is still actively employed in 

 further enlarging her undertakings for internal 

 improvements and industry. She has within her 

 borders six hundred and sixty miles of railroad. 

 Virginia has over forty cotton factories, and has 

 about $60,000,000 invested in railroads, canals, 

 and manufactories; her railroads, either in ope- 

 ration or in different stages of construction, 

 amount to about fifteen hundred miles. North 

 Carolina has over five hundred miles of railroad 

 in construction, and about five cotton factories in 

 operation. In South Carolina there are about 

 forty-five cotton factories in progress, or in suc- 

 cessful operation, and over three hundred miles 



of railroad; the people are looking forward to 

 more extensive railroad operations, and have al- 

 ready some considerable canal accommodation. 

 Florida has already invested over $4,000,010 in 

 railroads and manufactures. Georgia has over 

 six hundred miles of railroad, upwards of seven- 

 ty cotton manufactories, and has invested in 

 these matters over $55,000,000. Alabama has 

 sixty-seven miles of railroad, and over twenty . 

 cotton factories. Missouri has invested in inter- 

 nal improvements, mines and manufactures, over 

 .^4,000,000 ; of her railroads we have no ac- 

 count. Kentucky and Tennessee have each a 

 small number of miles of railroad, and they are 

 likewise proceeding rapidly forward in other en- 

 terprises, calculated to develop their real natural 

 resources, and attract to these States the enter- 

 prise and capital of the migrating people of the - 

 North and the East. Other States, which we 

 have not enumerated, are likewise proceeding 

 with spirit in the great work of internal im-, 

 provement, and from what we can now see, we 

 are justified in believing that the next ten years 

 of the history of this country will witness an ex- . 

 trao-dinary revolution with regard to the course 

 of its internal trade." 



Need of Courage in Adversity. 



To see disease and wreck in the present ; and 

 no light in the future ; but only storms, lurid by 

 the contrast of past prosperity, and growing 

 darker as they advance ; to wear a constant ex- 

 pectation of woe like a girdle; to see want at 

 the door, imperiously knocking, while there is 

 strength to repel, or courage to bear its tyranny ; 

 indeed, this is dreadful enough. But there is a. 

 thing more dreadful — if the man is wrecked with 

 his fortune. Can any thing be more poignant im 

 anticipation than one's own self, unnerved, cowed 

 down and slackened to utter pliancy ; and help- 

 lessly drifting and driven down the troubled sea 

 of life ? Of all things on earth, next to his God, 

 a broken man should cling to a courageous inr , 

 dustry. If it brings nothing back, and saves no- 

 thing, it will save him. To be pressed down by 

 adversity has nothing in it of disgrace; but it is 

 disgraceful to lie down under it like a supple 

 dog. Indeed, to stand composedly in the storm' 

 amidst its rage and wildest devastations; to let it 

 beat you over, and leave you undismayed' — this' 

 is to he a man. Adversity is the mint in which 

 God stamps upon us his image and superscrip- 

 tion. In this matter men may learn of insects. 

 The ant will repair his dwelling as long as the 

 mischievous foot crushes it ; the spider will ex- 

 haust hie itself, before he will live without a 

 web; the bee can be decoyed from his labor 

 neither by plenty nor scarcity. If summer be" 

 abundant, it toils none the less ; if it be parsi- 

 monious of flowers, the tiny laborer sweeps a 

 wider circle, and by industry repairs the frugali- 

 ty of the season. Man should be ashamed to he 

 rebuked in vain by the spider, the ant and the • 

 bee. 



" Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he 

 shall stand before kings, he shall not stand he- . 

 fore mean men." — H. Jl'. Beeehcr. 



How to bear illnatured Criticism. 



The main comfort, under injurious comments* 

 of any kind, is to look at them fairly, accept, 

 them as an evil, and calculate the extent of the 

 mischief. These injurious comments seldom 

 blacken all creation lor you. A humorous friend 

 of mine, who suffered some time ago under a 

 severe article in the first newspaper in the world, 

 tells me that it was a very painful sensation for 

 the first day, and that he thought all eyes were 

 upon him, (he being a retired, quiet anil fastidi- 

 ous person :) but, going into his nursery and find-^ 

 ing that his children were the fame to him as 

 usual, and then walking out with his dogs and 

 observing that they frolicked about him as they, 

 were wont to do, he began to discover that there , 

 was happily a public very near and dear to him, 

 on which even the articles in the "Times" could . 

 make no impression. The next day my poor 

 friend, who, by the way, was firmly convinced' 

 that he was right in the matter in controversy,' 

 had become quite himself again. Indeed he . 

 snapped his fingers at the leading articles, and 

 said he wished people would write more of them 

 against him.— friends in Council. 



Tue.iv. is a great amount of philosophy in this 



