THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



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relation to the subject. I will answer them with 

 pleasure. 



We do not publish our process of pi-eparation — 

 but if a farmer desires to prepaie it on his own 

 farm, he can do so by mixing dry ashes or dry 

 loam, or both, with the material, in quantities sut- 

 ficieiit to enable him to spread it in small quanti- 

 ties over the ground. 



The materials used by us in the manufacture, 

 ore good manures ^vllen used separatelj-. 



It can now be had on api)lication, by letter or 

 otherwise, to the " Jlgent of the JVew York Pou- 

 drette Company," at 120 Nassau street, New York. 

 On the receipt of Jive dollars by mail, the agent 

 will put on board of any vessel in New York, 

 three barrels of four bushels each, maiked as di- 

 rected ; and su- barrels for ten dollars, or twelve 

 barrels for laculy (lollars. 



An opinion has been inculcated, by persons en- 

 gaged in ii.-^ iiKinufailnn', that it shoidd not beused 

 in comud'.on icilh ollur /«(!h»/-(S— as it would not 

 act as favor.-ililv, in cnnhcdion witli other manure, 

 as separali'ly, uu vcj>c'taliun. Tliat recommenda- 

 tion was not based on practice or intelligence, as 

 reflection and experience teach. The only rea- 

 son, in my opinion, for keeping them distinct, is 

 that you may see and appreciate their relative 

 values ; and also to avoid planting foul seeds on a 

 part of yom- ground. 



As the subject of Live Stock for the farm was 

 not exhausted, Sheep and Swine not having been 

 at all considered, it was agreed to resume the 

 subject at the next meeting. 



THE OLD FARM GATE. 



Where, where is the gate that once used to divide 



The old shaded lane from the grassy road side ? 



I like not this gate so gay and so bright, 



With its glittering latch and its trellis so white, 



It is pretty, I own, yet oh dearer by far, 



Was the red rusted hinges, and the weather warped bar. 



Here are fashion and form of a modernized date, 



Rut I'd rather have looked on that old farm gate. 



'Twas there, where my sisters wflild gather to play 



In the shadow of twilight, or sunny mid-day. 



How we'd laugh and run ^^■ild T:r>! tli' r !i:i!ncks of sand, 



Where temptations cxisti-d n - ■ - ' ' . . ..:.| . ti, .tnnd ; 



Wasthcutmost of pleasuir, . : ..I, , 



And the car of the victor or ( J I ■; .1 

 Never parried such hearts as the old firm gate. 



Oh fair is the barrier taking its place. 



But it darkens a picture my soul longed to trace. 



I sigh to behold the rough staple and hasp. 



And the rails that my glowing hand scarcely could clasp, 



Oh how strangly the warm spirit grudges to par' 



With the commonest relic once lin' - ' -- " - '^ 



And the brightest of fortune, the kii 



Would not banish my love for the old fa 



linked to the heart ! 



Conunon LaAV relative ttfadjaccnt fruit trees. 



A committee in the Senate of Massachusetts 

 which had under consideration " the riglits of 

 neighboring proprietors, w liere fruit trees grow- 

 ing in the land of the one overhang the land of 

 the other," reports ns the established Common 

 Law on tliat subject, that the properly in the tree 

 and the fruit belongs erchtaively to the person in 

 ichosc land the tree stands. Nevertheless the law 

 concedes to the adjacent proprietor over whose 

 land the tree may extend that the planting and 

 growth of it may be abated as a nuisance or 

 trespass, and that after due notice to tire owner 

 tlie limbs hanging directly over his premises may 

 be cut down. Tlie same doctrine ajiplies to the 

 owners of buildings so situated as to throw wa- 

 ter upon the preini.se.'s, to tlie injury of his neigh- 

 bor. 



Great Yield. — In the Ithaca Chronicle we 

 find the following statement of the amount and 

 value of production from one fourth acre of land 

 in that village, cultivated by Mr. Aaron Curtis, 

 who furni.^lied it for publication. 



l.TO liusliels of onions at 50 cts. .^/O 

 COO heads of cabbages, at 5 cf.s. 30 



50 Inishcls of beets, at 58 cts. 25 



$125 



ISO sugar beet seed produced 125 lbs. of beets, 

 or 29 1-2 bushels, occupying 11-2 rod of ground, 

 yielding nt the rate of 2,400 bushels per acre. 

 Such rrops as the above, and those produced by 

 the editor of the Maine Cultivator, Mr. Drew, on 

 his acre of land, prove the profit of cultivating 

 but a little laud, and doing it well, in a most for 

 oible manner. — Albany Cull. 



Paragraphs from the Albany Cultivator. 



DESTROY LICE ON ANIMALS. 



It is very probable that about this time some 

 farmers who winter their cattle on straw, and 

 trust for shelter to the leeward side of a fence, 

 will find some of their cattle falling away, par- 

 ticularly the young ones, and it may be well to 

 examine them, to see whether there are not hce 

 about them. If any are lbimd,take some mercu- 

 rial ointment, or unguentum, and parting the hair 

 around the neck, apply the ointment to the skin, 

 o as to completely encircle it with a strip of the 

 pplication. Some pieilr lillinga string with the 

 ointment and tyin,:: ilns .iiounil the neck closely. 

 In using such meieuiial |iiep,irations, they shoidd 

 never be applied in places where cattle can reach 

 them with their own tongues or be liable to be 

 licked ofl' by others. 



PREPARATION OF HOT BEDS. 



Those who have hot beds, or are intending to 

 provide one for themselves, (and we advise every 

 iarmer, or mechanic, who has a garden, to < in- 

 struct one,) should now see that his sashes are 

 made and his frame for their reception provided. 

 Arrangements should also be made for a suffi- 

 cient supply of horse manure for the heating pro- 

 cess. Farmers wlio use abundance of litter in 

 their stables, frequently find it in too great a pro- 

 portion to the droppings to make good beds, as 

 we have found by our own experience ; and it is 

 therefore necessary that the quality of the ma- 

 niu'e intended to be used, should now be seen to. 

 We can assure our friends, that the successive 

 crops of radishes, lettuces, and cucumbers, that 

 may be brought forward iu a forcing bed, long 

 before they can be produced in the open air, will 

 be found must acceptable after our long winters. 



AMERICAN PLOWS ABROAD. 



American plows are becoming celebrated 

 abroad, and if the various trials made at home 

 and abroad of the power reqtured to move them 

 may be relied upon, they are superior in ease of 

 draft and perfection of work to any others. Our 

 plows have found their way to Russia, are creat- 

 ing a new era of agriculture in Tiukey, are to be 

 .■<eeii at tire Agricultural Schools in France, and 

 at the Into meeting of the English Royal Agricid- 

 tiual Society, an American plow was exhibited 

 which elicited the greatest admiration ; and 

 though not allowed to enter into competition with 

 the English plows, was tried by many distinguish- 

 ed and noble persons, and pronounced a most 

 siqierior inq)lcnient. 



WESTERN RESERVE (oHIo) FARMERS. 



It is estimated that the Western Reserve dai- 

 ries sell annually, cheese to the amount of a mil- 

 lion and a half of dollars, besides large quanti- 

 ties of butter, and a great amount of beef and 

 pork. To this must be added a surplus of a 

 million Im.-^liels of x\lieat annnally, and it will be 

 seen that llie l-uniers oi'snelia district can scarce- 

 ly lail of III (iiiiiiiig iiiilriienilent. It must be re- 

 liiemliereil th.a Nuw-Eiigland peopled the Ohio 

 Reserve. 



A cow WORTH HAVING. 



The Syracuse AV'esteru State .Journal says : — 

 "Mr. Storrs Barj'ows, a little west of this village, 

 oil the railroad, is the owner of one of the most 

 valuable cows in this county, if not the very best. 

 She is a mixed breed — Durham and Leopard: 

 and is now about eight years okl. Last suminei 

 she iHodttced over 21 lbs. of butter in one week 

 besides snp])lying the family with what milk wai 

 needed, flir. B. brought us last week one of two 

 lolls of nearly equal size, just made, which we 

 found weighed 7 lbs. 14 oz. — being nearly 16 lbs. 

 per week this winter. He has been offered $150 

 and refuse<l the haiKlsome sum. She is iindoubt 

 edly worth, taking all things into constderation, 

 half a dozen common cows." As there i; 

 such distinct breed as the "Leopard" known, 

 this cow undoubtedly owes her milking proper 

 ties to a fortunate cross of the Durham with some 

 of the many varieties of our common stock.— 

 The celebrated Creampot breed of Col, Jaques 

 had a similar origin. 



EXCELLENT HINTS TO MECHANICS. 



There is so much truth, wholesome advice, and 

 good PC n,se in the followinff, which we extract 



from an exchange paper, that we cannot avoid 

 giving it a place in our columns. " Avoid giving 

 long credits, even to your best customers. A man 

 who can pay easilyjwill not thank you for the de- 

 lay, and a slack doubtful paymaster is not too val- 

 uable as a customer to dun sharply and seasonably. 

 A fish may as well attempt 1o live without water, 

 or a man without air, as a mechanic without 

 punctuality and promptness in collecting and 

 paying his debts. It is a mistaken and ruinous 

 policy to attempt to keep on and get business by 

 delaying collections. When you lose a slack 

 paymaster from your books, you only lose the 

 chance of losing your money — and there is no 

 man who pays more money to lawyers than he 

 who is least prompt in collecting for himself" 



NUMBER or INHABITANTS TO THE SQUARE MILE. 



The United States furnishes a population of 14 

 to every square mile for the inhabited portions of 

 the country, and 7 to a square mile for the whole 

 territory embraced within the limits of the fed- 

 eral jurisdiction. Contrast this present occupa- 

 tion of the soil with the population of the most 

 thickly peopleti portions of Europe, and it will 

 be seen that there is ample room for us to increase 

 our numerical strength, and not be crowded eith- 

 er. Belgium has 323 inhabitants to the square 

 mile ; Holland 254, and Great Britain and L-e- 

 land 200. Russia has but 28 to the square mile, 

 and Sweden and Norway only 13. France has 

 158; Italy 172; Germany 147; Austria 127, and 

 Switzerland 133. 



From the New England Fiirnier. 

 Hay Seed among Corn. 



We saw an article in one of the southern pa- 

 pers a few weeks since, mentioning that some 

 one, we think in the middle states, had sown clo- 

 ver seed among his corn ; and the inquiry was 

 added, " whether tiny one at the north or east 

 had tried it ?" In reply, we would inform the 

 inquirer that Hon. Wm. Clark, of Northampton, 

 Mass. has for many years been accustomed to lay 

 down his light lands to grass in this way. His 

 communication upon the subject led to the trial 

 of this process upon the farm w here we have 

 earned our bread. And we are disposed to rec- 

 ommend a trial of this method. Our belief, 

 founded upon the observation of results in four 

 different seasons, is that the seed will be less 

 likely to fail in this way than when sowed among 

 grain ; that the fiist crop i.s nii'.eli more free from 

 weeds ; is entirely fi-ee from dend grain stalks; 

 IS easier to mow ; is equally abundant ; and bet- 

 ter in quality. We think also that grass lay thus 

 made holds out better than others. By this pro- 

 cess the young grasses are exempted from the 

 baneful influences of the ovcr.*hadovYing grains, 

 and from the w ithering lieiit to which they arc ex- 

 posed when the grains arc removed. They are 

 saved from the stinting to \vlii,''h they arc usually 

 subjected. 



The process. — Spread all the manure ; make 

 no hill ; and at the last time of hoeing, say the 

 middle of July, sow the grass seed among the 

 corn ; pass through with the horse-harrow or cul- 

 tivator, (simple harrow teeth are best,) then hoe, 

 making all suiootli, and the work is done. At 

 the proper time cut the corn as near the ground as 

 can conveniently be done. Should the grass do 

 well, the stubs would probably soften so much 

 as to offer very little obstruction to the scathe. 

 But if one bo fearful that it might he otherwise, 

 he may take, as is our cusloni, an old adze or a 

 strong and heavy hoc, and go over the field while 

 the ground is frozen and bj^a single blow at each 

 hill pare all smooth. An acre may be gone over 

 by an active boy in three or four lioins. After 

 the frost is out, let the groimd be rolled. In the 

 early part of the season, appearances will be liii- 

 promising for a crop ; but about the middle of 

 June it will come forward raj)idly, and about the 

 10th or loth of July will he fit to cut. Land, we 

 suppose, can be laid dov.n as smooth in this way 

 as any other ; though we have not heretofore been 

 very par.icular in this respect, antl our grounds, 

 though even enough to work upon without incon- 

 venience, are not made quite ns level as m hen a 

 grain crop is put on. 



The last season we took up grass land in the 

 spring; planted to corn, and it! .luly seeded down 

 to grass. 



We do not Hdvi.<:e any beginners to make pxteii- 



