THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



Every ni,e faiuiliur vvitli iuuiuin lue iiiiisi be 

 sensible tliat mere pei'soiial neatness and order 

 are tliemselves securities of virtue. As we culti- 

 vate these habits, and in respect to our residences 

 and the things and objects around us, malse a 

 study of renderina; them orderly and beautiful, 

 and of adding to "them the highest embellish- 

 nieiits of art, our own self-respect is greatly in- 

 creased. Next to religious principle nothing 

 operates moi-e than selt-respect, as a safeguard 

 of virtue and a stimul nt to excellence. 



" HOME, SWEET HOME." 



The direct tendency of all such endjellish- 

 nients in our grounds and habitations is to mnlti- 

 plv the attractions of home, and to strengthen 

 the domestic ties. It is the glory of New Eng- 

 land, that these jirecions ties are no where strong- 

 er or more sacred. I woidd bind her children, 

 if possible, by chains a thousand tiim s n;oir en- 

 during. In all my journey in,:; s inio ntli.i- I ;n<ls, 

 favored as they may be by the hl-hrst :;iK : )it,!j:f.s 

 of climate and soil, Iconic back tu New Ijijilaud 

 with all the enthusiasm of a first love, .and a fil- 

 ial affection which, if possible, has only gained 

 new strength from absence. Indeed, there is 

 every thing in her to love an<l honor. Let ns 

 seek to render every spot iif her ru.le territory 

 ' beauliliil. 'J'o the emini'iit pioliiresciiieiie^s ol' 

 her iialun.l scenery, :,.l<lii.i;- the iriumph^^ of an 

 industrious, and skillid, and laste.ul cnltivation, 

 every sidistantial want of our nature will be sup- 

 plied, every refined sentiment of the mind grat- 

 ified ; and the true New England heart will ask 

 no other Eden this side of that better counT:y 

 where flowers bloom with a radiance which never 

 fades, and "one unbounded and eternal spring 

 encircles all." 



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Paragraphs from the Albnny Cultivatri'. 

 Useful Recipes. 



TO CURE SCRATCHES IN HORSES. 



Wash the feet, or parts afiticted. with soap suds 

 wipe iliem clean and dry, and then apply white 

 Iciid ground in oil, as thick as can be smoothly 

 and eveidy laid on. Exercise moderately, keep 

 the aniuial dry, and in njost cases, the first appli- 

 cation will cure effectually. Should a second be 

 necessary, wash off the old lead, and apply "ith 

 a brush as at first. Six or eiiiht days shoi 

 tervene between the applications. 



STAGGERS I.V SWINE. 



To cure this disease, De Grauchy recommends 

 cutting a knot in the roof of the month till the 

 animal bleeds liberally, and then ru 

 powdered loam and salt, and giving it a little 

 urine to drink. Pigs have openings on the inside 

 of the fore legs below the knee, from which 

 when in health, a small riisc'iarge is kept up, 

 A stoppage of these orifices, is supposed to he 

 one cause of the staggers; and rubbing them 

 open with a cob or other rough material, will 

 usually effect a cure. 



SORE THROAT I.N SWINE. 



Tin-n animals so affected, into an open pasture 

 where there is fresh feed, and grouml to root. 

 It is a disease resulting generally fiom confine- 

 ment. Pounded charcoal mixed with food, 

 where pasture cannot be had, or room for exei-- 

 cise, is one of the host preventives of disease in 

 swi«e. 



lui of tlie syrup will produce al- 

 relief The Editor of the Far- 



?d, a tea si 

 most immediii 

 ner's Advocate says he has known the onion 

 used for this formidable disease, but prepared 

 differently. "Wra]) the onion in a wet cloth, or 

 cabbage leaf, cover it with hot embers, and roast 

 it slightly which may be done in a few minutes; 

 the juice then pressed out and sweetened with 

 sugar." Prepared in either way, it is pronounced 

 effectual. 



SCOURS IN CALVES. 



When the calf is attacked, it should he put in 

 warm, dry stable, and not be permitted to suck 

 more than lialf the quantity of milk it is wont to 

 do ; but should be put to the cow regularly three 

 times a day. Make a tea of equal jiortions of 

 white oak, beech, dogwood and slipjiery elm 

 bark, and give small doses twice a day, and the 

 calf will soon recover., — .Agriculturist. 



SOBER TRUTH. 



" Establish the principle that what we fairly 

 acquire, is not our own, we shall have as great 

 inducement to be industrious and active as the 

 slave has, and no greater. Vou may reduce all 

 to a common level, but this will not secure all 

 aijainstw^iut. That eoniuiuuitv v.ill not be so 

 lilicly to starve uhcre some have wealth, as that 

 in which none possess iL" — Buckminster. 



HOGS. 



" Long hogs are every thing with some people ; 

 but a long back is as had a point in a hog as a 

 hor.se, and a hollow back is the worst of all 

 points. It indicates a had constitution, and an 

 enormous gormandizer." — Pranklin Farmer. 



HORN 



A '-Praclical Farmer" in the Boston Cultiva- 

 tor, while he admits that the application of spir- 

 its of turpentine is good, asserts the use of hot 

 brimstone is still better, for the cure of the horn 

 ail. lie turns one spoonful boiling hot into the 

 ca\ ily just between the horns. 



SCOURS IN ANIMALS. 



A writer in the Maine Farnier, recommends for 

 this disease, finely pulverized bone. We have 

 never seen it tried, but liom the nature of the 

 substances that constitute, lion-, such as lime to 

 correct too great acidity, av.A gelatine to smooth 

 the irritated surfaces, it is i)robablc its employ- 

 ment woidd be useful. 



CROUP, OR HIVES IN CHILDREN. 



Cut onions into thin slices, between and over 

 them, ptit brown sugar. Whe^l the sugar is dis 



CABBAGE WORMS. 



A wriler in the Southern Cultivator, says he 

 'had a square of very fine cabbages in his 

 den, upon which the worms had conmienced 

 making great ravages. Penny-royal was gather 

 ed and scattered over the cabbage heads plenti 

 fully, and the work of destrucfion ceased." The 

 writer did not know whether the discoveiy was a 

 new one, bi:t it seems to have been a very easy 

 and eftectual one, and well worth atrial. 



USE OF THE MULLEIN. 



We have noticed in the foreign Journals that 

 the common mullein, Feriascum <Aa;;ws, is exten- 

 sively used in the German states to prevent the 

 depredations of mice in granaries. The plant is 

 gathered, and the leaves and stems placed in 

 considerable quantities in barns and deposito- 

 ries of grain, and is said toeft'ect a speedy expul- 

 sion of mice from the premises. Where trouble 

 from this source existed, the measure, though 

 simple in itself, might be worth a trial. 



SALT FOB POULTRY. 



The Franklin Farmer contains a notice of a 

 farmer's wife in that vicinity who killed her flock 

 of thirty young turkeys, by giving them a pint 

 of meal uet uj) wiiha large spoonful of salt. A 

 few years since, a friend of ours killed about 50 

 cliickens by allowing them to eat a cpiantity of 

 meal in wiiich salt iiad been liberally put and 

 wet up for his horse. Salt may be safely mixed 

 with food given to geese or goslings but is fatal 

 to turkeys or chickens. 



THE ENDICOTT PEAR TREE. 



The oldest ti-uit tree in the United States, is 

 probably the pear tree known by the abovename, 

 and growing at Danvers in Massachusetts. Two 

 hundred and ten years since, this tree was 

 brought, with many others, from England by 

 Governor Endicott. All the others have perish- 

 ed, but this ia still vigorous, and has this year 

 borne a large crop of i'ruit. This is valued more 

 as lieing the p.roduetion of a tree dating from 

 the days of the pilgrims, than from any peculiax 

 excellence, it being, when compared with s 

 of the modern fnfits, only of inferior quality 



GREAT YIELD OF PUMPKINS. 



Mr. E. H. Derby of Boston, has communicated 

 to the C'ouiier the result of an experiment in rais- 

 ing pumpkins. He planted 70 rods of ground 

 about the middleof May, in hills 9 feel apart and 

 well manured. 7'hc whole spot wks soon cov- 



1 with vines, and some of the pumpkins 

 ghed 112 lbs. The whole yield ascertained 

 by weight, was 29,320 lbs. or it the rate of 50,788 

 lbs. per acre. It is of the kind called Harrison 

 or Tippecanoe ; is rich ai;d solid in the flesh, 

 and Mr. D. generously offers to furnish seeds to 

 such as may desire them. 



Farming in Ohio.— The West and the East. 



A writer in the last number of the Albany Cul- 

 tivator gives an interesting account of the soil 

 and cultivation of the State of Ohio. That 

 State, now the second in the Union for poi)ula- 

 tion has been peopled and settled almost entirely 

 within the recollection of persons that have 

 just passed the middle age: we can remember 

 svhen the first settlements were made in Ohio 

 near Marietta on the Muskingum, aud along the 

 shores of the river whose name this State bears. 

 As long ago as tlie year 1793 to 1795 emigration 

 of young men of the holder and more gallant 

 sort from New England commenced ; the song 

 with the Chorus 



" We'll settle on the banks of the pleasant Ohio," 

 was then sung as the air of Yankee Doo- 

 dle was played with the drum and fife to induce 

 the young men to enlist as a volunteer in the an- 

 ticipation of being called out to fight the foes 

 of our coutry. The first settlers in Ohio, were 

 mainly from New England ; they connnenced in 

 that part of the State highest up the Ohio river; 

 and it is several years since the lands on the 

 Muskingum have "been considered of too inferior 

 quality to be recommended lo the enterprising* 

 New JEngland emigrant. We are inclined to be 

 lieve that the bottoms upon the Sciotaor the Mi- 

 ami were superior to almost any other land of 

 the famed west. The writer in the Cidtivator 

 tims describes the most fertile region of Ohio. 



" Perhaps one of the most beautiful and fertile 

 regions to be found upon the face of the globe, 

 istheSciOTA Valley, stretching from north lo 

 south about two-thirds the distance across this 

 great and most nigldy favored state, presenting 

 in its whole length^ varied and picturesque views 

 of limestone precipices, boH gravelly or argilla- 

 ceous bluffs, and deep alluvial banks, spreading 

 out into wide rich bottoms, and boundetl by roll- 

 ing uplands of (he most desirable and eligible 

 kind. As described to me by those who first 

 saw it in its pristine glory, of dense lofty forest, 

 imbrageous parks, tall waving grass and flowery 

 )rairie, .studded by high mound's and wide ruina 

 of ancient fortifications, it must have been a sort 

 of aboriginal paradise, that one might almost 

 deplore was ever fated to be marred by the hand 

 of civilized man ; judging from appearances too, 

 this Valley must have been densely populated by 

 barbarous tribes, thousands of years ago, who 

 had their hapi)y days as we have now ; and even 

 vrhen first discovered by the white man, it wai 

 the favoiite residence of numerous and proba- 

 bly more savage bands than the inhabitants of 

 the first epoch, the wide-spread aud powerful 

 Shawnee stock, and so great was their love for 

 this delightful region, that they fought for and 

 clung to it till the last, w ith the convulsive grasp 

 of the child to its mother's bosom, that a hated 

 and superior power would feign force away. 

 Poor hapless race ! Here from time immemorial, 

 they gave chase to the wild deer, the shaggy bear, 

 and huge buffalo; cultivated the golden maze, 

 feasted on its roasted ears, boiled succatash, and 

 liounded hominy ; spouted their eloquence and 

 made their wars, sung their songs, and danced 

 to the music of the bowstring, the tom-tom and 

 chichicon, and smoked to the Great Spirit of alK 



".lust above Columbus, the Sciota is joined by 

 its largest branch the Whetstone, or according to 

 its more euphonious Indian name, the Olentangy, 

 where in fact commences the great corn region 

 and Valley of the Sciota par excellence. Here a 

 decided geological change takes place ; the deep 

 limestone quarries crop out a mile or two below, 

 aud are no longer found in the whole course of 

 the Valley to the Ohio; the hills recede and the 

 bottoms at once quadruple their width and be- 

 come of the richest vegetable mould, of a depth 

 from three to ten feet, resting on a l>ed of light 

 yellowish clay, close sand or limestone gravel. 

 The waters, also, become more sluggish, and 

 with the exception of now^ aud then a short shal- 

 low ripple, making a convenient ford, they 

 wheel lazily along to their final minghng witli 

 those of the Ohio. 



