FIBiEi'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



CONDUCTED BY ISAAC HILt. 



Tliose who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, wliose breanln he has made hiipecuUar dcpositefor substantial and genuine virtue." Jefferson. 



VOLUME III. 



CONCORD, N. H. JULY 31, 184L 



NUMBER 7. 



THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



JOHN M. HILL, 



UiWs Brick Block, Concord, A". //. 



GEIVERAL AGENTS, 



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Tlio Vioitor will be issued on the last day ofcich month 

 TERWS... Tn single siilisrriliprs, Sevcnty-five cents: 

 Three i-" >; ' I' i '''■■!' /■' '!i !>'s ~i\-'., copips for (fix Dol- 

 lars: — 'I'lv. >i : '■ , , , >i Dollars. 



' ■ li.e year 1839. or the 



I !■ rrd as a preniiuin for 



, . t . a and paid for by one 



iness about tljc uw s uiiicli leiiileroil tlio clear im- 

 pression of juiir IM'W An ri'ir almost iiiircatlable 

 I'or a ibw moiiiuni.^. 1 wa.s imicli .struck witli 

 "E. D.'s " |ioctrv ill \<uii- iirst mimber.s, and 

 wondered iif.oii \\ lial ladv, in niv own litllc coun- 

 ty of Sullivan, tlie mantle of the Muses had iall- 

 en, sincu the (le|)art,iie of tlieii- favoiite, Mr.s. S. 

 J. Haxe ; and it was with deep libeling of melan- 

 choly that, after so long a silence, I again read 

 the gemsoflier imagination, contained in your 

 last, connected with the assurance that the 



Washington City— East Capitol st. July 11, 1811. 

 Ho.N. Is.vAC Hill,— Dear AV,— When I sub- 

 scribed for your Monthly Visitor at its com- 

 nienccmcut, 1 hnnostly coullss I did it, not with 

 the (expectation of l.ikim; iniich iutcir t iu the mat- 

 ter il mifiht conlain, hut out ol'ns|ircl to its Edi- 

 tor, whose name «as plcisanlly coiini cteu with 

 my boy hood's associalious, aiul uiili uhoniin my 

 riper years, I li;.',\ e eiiioycd the lii-li satistuction 

 of a personal Irieudshiii — ami hicausc it was the 

 only e.\elusively Af.'ricnltiual publication of my 

 native State. My interest in il.s contents com- 

 menced with the first nuaiher, and from that 

 time to this I have carefully read every nmnber, 

 and have never risen from the perusal without 

 being highly entertained and instructed. 



1 have just finished reading No. 6 of Vnh 3, 

 (the last uund)rr published) and a must adnnr,.- 

 ble niuubcr it is. The arlicle bv mv old fiien.l 

 Col. Carrif;aiii,and vour own r'eni.arks u|^(.n it, 

 carried me back to the time when ■■ liie great anil 

 good Lafayettk " visited New Hampshire. — 

 Although I was not at Concord, I had the idea- 

 sure of taking him by the hand at Deri'y, as he 

 was on his way from i5o.ston to Concord, and never 

 can I forget the immense crowd there assembled 

 to welcome liim. The roar of artillery — the shout- 

 ing innllitude — the patriotic enthusiasm with 

 wliich he was greeted ; — and the good old man 

 himself with his halting gait, his peculiarly ele- 

 vated eye-brows and bis happy smile seem now 

 to be as iMiljiably before me as they were si.xteen 

 years ;-.go when I actually wilne.ssed them. Near 

 the npper village in Derry, at the hospitable 

 mansion of General E. H. Derby, a beautiful col- 

 lation was spread, of which Lafayette, his suite, 

 and the public -partook. It was done in the gen- 

 erous style of the noble hearted man who gave 

 it, and who, long since, has been gathered to bis 

 fathers. The grand display was at the lower 

 village, the streets of which were absolutely 

 crammed by the joyous people all eager to wel- 

 come one who had bled in their cause, and who 

 they so much honored and admired. 



There is a most admirable full length portrait 

 of Lafayette, in the Hall of the House of Repre- 

 entatives of the United States on the left hand of 

 the Speaker's chair, v/hich represents him just as 

 he appeared while here in 1825. Opposite to it, 

 on tlie right of the chair, is a life portrait of 

 Washington. 



• But to return to the Visitor. The article npon 

 the Death of Mrs. Daniels, and the two touch- 

 ing little efl'nsions from her pen, gave iiie Jt mis! 



\\oild. It IS, hapi'ily, iiuc (j1 tlic atlDluilcs oi the 

 gonniue poet that, though the voici' may be hush- 

 ed in the silence of the toirib, the sculiiuent re- 

 mains; ami il is the consolation ol' .■illliction to 

 know that line genius is iminortal, and as far as 

 any tiling Heaven born, which has an earthly 

 piobalion, can be, is undying even among man- 

 kind. For to use the beautiful figure of Moore: 

 " Little the vase in which roses have once been distilled. 

 You may break, you may ruin the v,ase il" you will. 

 But the scent of the roses will hang round it slill ! " 



She, who wrote so well, must have wiitten 

 more than has met the public eye; and if her un- 

 published effusions are as creditable to her mem- 

 ory as are those which have appeared in your 

 Visitor, 1 hope her friends will place them iu 

 your possession. 



You will notice of course, that my Jirsl love 

 towards the Visitor is for its literary matter; but, 

 though I have been charmed with that ])ait of i?, 

 1 a.sstire you the Agricnltiu-al portion has inte- 

 rested me much uiore than I ever expected to be 

 interested, in, what in my boyhood I actually 

 toerf. Agriculture. I am really getting a taste for 

 it, at least hi theory, and while performing the du- 

 ties of mv vocntwn — I miiiht almost siiy vocifera- 

 tion— al tiie Clerk's table in the Hall of the House 

 of Representatives, A\itb a July snn burning 

 above me sufficiently hot to raise tlie luerrmy to 

 V-'^ (leg. in the shade, « Idle the House is doing 

 l.iisiuess under a full head of steam— as, for in- 

 slaiici', on till- dav of the passage of the land 

 distiibiiiicin hill, when the session lasted con- 

 tiuiKMisly llnm JO, A. M. to h past 11, P. M., and 

 the ^(■asallll iM\s \m-ic taken some fifteen ortwen 

 ti'na's, 1 conii.ss I dosiih ibr the iircen hills 

 l\cu llanipsliirc, and think that a liirmer's lilt- 

 by no means the linrdest that a man can follow, 

 and wish that I hiid 



" A little farm well tilled " 

 upon some of the swelling lands of my native 

 State . 



jNIy lot is, however, cast, and here I am, and, iu 

 all (.robability, if nty life is continued, and it so 

 pleaseth the jiowerslhat be, here I shall remain 

 for many and many a moon to come. 



Your own Congressional experience has taught 

 you, that it is lasliioimble, upon reading a speech 

 upo:i any particular subject, for the speaker to 

 allude to that subject iu his closing remarks, 

 though he may not have done it before, and in 

 com[iliance with this/asAi'oit, as I am writing to 

 the conductor of an almost exchisively Jlgi-ixuiiu- 

 rrt? journal, I will wind up this, perhaps already 

 tedious, epistle, by a touch at the out oi' door 

 appearance of things in this vicinity. 



Vegetation, here, has been exceedingly luxuri- 

 ant for the two months past. There has been 

 an abundance of rain, perhaps too much for 

 some things, but, at all events, enough for every 

 thing. I have a small kitclien garden, wherein 

 graweth, corn, cabbages, Vieaus, beetsj, tomatoes, 

 potatoes, onions, cucumbers, squashes, &c. &e. 

 and tUey all flourish bravely ; and, ;dl about my 

 house, the "Women folks" have iilanted all .sorts 

 of vinery, sw,h as cyjiress, morning glories, flow 

 ering beans, &c„ which appear to emulate the 

 rising glories of that most asjiiring plant, that 

 Hsed to be the admiration of my nursery days 

 the boan of " .Ttick the giani kifler." I cati from 



■here I sit at this moment, look out upon corn 

 f my own, \\ liich has not yet lasselled, and 

 (hicli, as it stands without stretching up the 

 leaves, is seven feel high. I hardly believe any 

 ran boast of taller corn in New Hampshire; 

 it is the tallest I hiive .seen in this city, but is of a 

 different kind from the common corn even of 

 this climate. My servant who procured the seed, 

 ■ " me she should think, from the description 

 she receivi d v\ here she got it, that one ear would 

 c il dinner for a whole Jiimily. If their 

 Ik equals her anticipations, you shall certainly 

 an ear as a curiosity! My garden is also 

 ed by sundry immense sunflowers of spon- 

 taneous growth. These I slioidd not have notic- 

 ed here, but, that, from my own observation, I 

 nay correct a difference of opinion between the 

 Irish poet and Mr. Senator (late Secretary) For- 

 th. Wliile Mr. F. was in the Senate, some 

 Senator apjdied the quotation, in some illustra- 

 tion which he was making: 



hen he sets 

 le rose ! " 



Mr. Forsyth, in reply, accepted the comparri- 

 son, but denied that the sunflower ever did turn 

 with the snn. Now, with all due deference To 

 the hon. gentleman, I assert that my sunflowers 

 do turn their broad and beautful leaves, and bend 

 their graceful heads toward ihe snn as lie per- 

 forms his circuit. In the morning I always find 

 tl'iem bending toward the east, and at evening 

 toward the west. 



The crops here look well. The farmers are 

 now harvesting their wheat. I am told the crops 

 come iu bettei than has been anticipated. 

 Very tridy, and with high respect. 



Your friend, 

 B. B. FRENCH. 



To the Editor of the Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 

 British Farming. 



Ifest Tishury, July, 1841. 



Dear Sir : — I think that the superiority to be 

 observed in British and Flemish Agriculture over 

 ours, is to be attriliiited to the nice adaptation of 

 crops, the iierfect system that prevails in every de 

 jiartnient, ihc free outlay for jftcnure* to invigorate 

 the soil, the patience that never tires in the com- 

 pletion of a task once undertaken, and the indus- 

 try that in no kind of weather, at no season of 

 the year, fails to remember and perform its tasks 

 and duties. An English, and in a still greater 

 degree, a Flemish husbandman, minds rain just 

 as mitcli as a Jack tar does — in weather when an 

 .American farmer would know it rained only by 

 its patter on the window, he of Europe would he 

 ploughing without a thought of seeking sh«her, 

 orsomuchasa glance at the sky. Tho author 

 of a Treatise on Rural Aflfaiis remarks, that in 

 two years he lost only thirteen days by had tveathcr. 



It is not necessary for me to say to you, sir, that 

 England is remaikable for confining to certain 

 districts the )>ioductioiis which flourish best in 

 those sails. Thus the light sands of Norfolk are 

 best adapted to turnips fed off, and followed by 

 barley and clover ; therefore in that country the 

 rotation of turnips, hartey and clover, prevails. It 

 was by this course that Mr. Coke* (Earl of Lei- 

 cester) reclaimed from perfect barrenness hi.<> 

 splendid estr.te of Holkhain. Warwickshire is 

 famous for beans as a first course, followed by 

 wheat. Lancashire for potatoes as a first crop, 



* It has been for some years a sou re© of much merriment 

 to me to see the pride with ivhich cur countrymen biindy 

 from one to another the name of " Old Mr. Coke of Hol'i- 

 ham," and his famous motion on the American wr.r. He 

 was in the opposition at that time, and may, in the sight of 

 Heaven, tike just as mrich praise for his advocacy of our 

 catise, as Earl Grey miy for his pushing through the re- 

 form Bill ; Si'.is same Charles Grey of Faliowdcn House, 

 Northumberland, being the greatest aristocrat thai Eng- 

 land has produced since the time of " the Proud Duke of 

 Somerset." And so of Mr. Coke — be married at length 

 into a noble family, and got the dormant peerage reviv^il 

 for him, aincc which Lady Leicester is the peer. 



