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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



January, 1842. 



Patro.ns of Agriculture. — If we lurii to 

 modern hislorv, we sliiill see the greatest generals, 

 pliilosopliers, statesiuen and monarchs devoting 

 a large portion of their thoughts, wisdom and 

 power, to the science of agriculture. "Peter the 

 Great." the great civilizer of Russia, was the first 

 to commence the agricultural improvements of 

 those vast dominions. J'^rederick of Prussia, the 

 best general and the wisest monarch of his day, 

 made as many extraordinary improvements in 

 agriculture as he did in war and architecture. 

 Oliver Cromwell was the '• Huntington Farmer," 

 and twenty years of his life were spent in agri- 

 cultural pursuits. Napoleon Bonaparte was the 

 great pratron of agriculture, and established Pro- 

 fessorships of agriculture, formed Agricultural 

 Societies, and created botanical and economical 

 gardens. In our own country, it is a remarkable 

 fact that all of our distinguished men have been 

 farmers and the patrons of agriculture. Dr. 

 Franklin, the wisest and simplest of men, the 

 greatest Philosopher of his day, excelled by none 

 for viitue and patriotism, made many valuable 

 discoveries and useful improvements in the sci- 

 ence of agricultme. He was the first to intro- 

 duce gypsum, or Plaster of Paris, as a manure in 

 the United States. In order to show its virtue, 

 he made one of those simple and convincing 

 illustrations which characterize all his great dis- 

 coveries. In a lucerne field, near Philadelphia, 

 be scattered this manure so as to form tlie letters 

 — "This is sown in Plaster of Paris." Every 

 one who looked at the field, read in the grass, 

 thus manured, the cause of its superior growth. 

 Gen. Washington was a practical farmer and a 

 writer on agriculture. It is well known that far 

 the happiest portion of his illustrious life was 

 spent on his farm at Mount Vernon. IMr. Jeflfer- 

 son was an extensive farmer, and delighted in 

 the retreat which his fields afforded him from the 

 bnsde and turmoil of jioliiics. In one of his 

 letters to Baron Gfismer, he says, "I am so nnich 

 of a savage as to [)refer the wilds and solitude of 

 Monticello, to the wealth, grandeur and splendor 

 of Paris."— Grteni-iV/e Address. 



Acknowledgmeut. 



To the Rev. Henry Colman, late Agricidtural 

 Commissioner for the State of Massachusetts, are 

 we indebted for a volume of 528 pages, being his 

 Fourth Report on the Agriculture of Ma.ssachu- 

 setts, relating to the counties of Berkshire and 

 Middlesex. This hook contains facts collected 

 by their author, highly interesting to the farmer, 

 and demonstrates the grand effects of the efforts 

 which are making to improve Agriculture. We 

 liave made copious extracts for this number of 

 the Visitor. The office of Agricultural Commis- 

 sioner having expired in Massachusetts. Mr. Col- 

 man continues his efforts in the same channel, 

 and has become the sole editor and joint proprie- 

 tor of the New Genessee Farsier, published at 

 Rochester, N. Y., a paper issued once a month at 

 the price of fifty cents a year, and which cannot 

 fail to obtain an" immense circiihilion all over the 

 country. 



The" Albany Cultivator, the best monthly 

 agricultural paper published in the country, be- 

 cause it contains the most original matter and is 

 conducted at the greatest expense, has an almost 

 unbounded run throughout the whole agricul- 

 tin-al part of North America: its price is $1,00 

 per year: yet, as if this was not enough for the 

 enterprise of the great State of New York, we 

 have the first number of the " United States' 

 Farmer and Journal of American Institutes" 

 published monthly in the city of New York at 

 82,00 per annum; and along with it comes the 

 first number o( the "Central New York Farm- 

 er" published at Rome, Oneida County, month- 

 ly, at 50 cents per annum. 



.\i;ricultinal papers are becomiu!; fa.^liionabli' 

 in almost evoi'y state of the Uiiicm. .Mcuiy ol' 

 these are valuable — all of them are ;iiuong the 

 cheapest piililiiMtiims of the <l;iy. Thev contri- 

 biitp to uu'bld the results of the bi-.-^t c\|ierii>iM-i' 

 of faniiiTs ; — and in alniost every dircclioii wr 

 are beginning to sne the I.en.-lirial' etllTis the ex- 

 amiile of those who make the greatest improve- 

 ments is having on the whole face of the countrj'. 



OJ^'The valuable number of Mr. Gilman ou 

 Farm House Architeitiuo has been delayed thus 

 long in consequence of the diiigrauis having ;ii 

 leu'^th been returned from the |)eison we had em- 

 ploj-ed to cngi-a>-e former nuiuUerg with the in- 



formation that he could not now do ll — too late 

 to procure it engraved elsewhere fort his number. 



THE MARKETS. 



NEW VORK MARKET. 

 From the Journal ol' Commerce, J.in. "'. 



ASHE:?.— Pots are held at $1 with tew sales, and 

 Pearls at g6, by the principal holders, though sales were 

 made by other parties at So 75 a »a 88. 



BEESWAX— Sales ol' yellow at Wh cts. 



COFFEE.— The market remains (]uite inactive. There 

 are quite moderate sales of Brazil at 8| a 93 cts ; Angos. 

 tura at Sj cts ; Maracaibo, at 9S ; Sumatra at 9i ; St. Do- 

 mingo at 7| a S cts. &e. 



COTTOiS.— The sales of the week were as follows— 

 aWO bales Upland and Florida, 7 a 9i cts. 



700 do. .Vfobile, 7^ a fO do. 



500 do. New Orleans, 7| a 10 do. 



The stock is about 12,000 bales. 



CORN E.KCHANGE.— Some sales of Genesee Flour 

 were made earlv in the week for shipmsnt at go flS. It 

 can be had, liowerer. of good brands at JJJ5 94 a $f>. Troy 

 sold at $h 81 a 5 84. Georgetown at g6 a S6 12. Rye 

 Flour is worth ,5t p»r bbl. Cornmeal sold at S3 a. 3 25 

 for barrels and a(U .50 a j;i5forpuncheons. 5000 bushels 

 Uliuois wueat were taken for shipment at 1241 cts. bu.'shel. 

 being the only lot in market, but thesamo price could noi 

 be salely calculated on for another lot. Corn iB cliiefly 

 in demand for exportation. Southern is worth GO els. and 

 Northern 63 cts. 56 lbs. Oats continue without alteration 

 — Jersey 45 cents bushel ; 2500 bushels Southerri sold at 

 46 cents bushel j 2100 bushels Northern Barley at 74^i 

 cents. Small white Beans sold at gU cask. 



HEMP.— Moderate sales are made of clean at ^232 50 

 ton; Manilla is held at 5165 ton. 



HIDES. — Prices are low — Buenos Ayres command but 

 I2ial3c. lb; 1600 Montevideo sold at Hi cts; 700 La- 

 guavra at 10 cts ; 500 Cur.acoa, 23 lbs. at 12^ cts. 



HOPS.— Small sales are raakinj by retail .at 13a 16 cts. 

 150 bales have been sold for export at a considerable low- 

 er price. The demand is fair. 



MOLASSES.— I'he sales of new crop New Orleans 

 reach 600 barrels and SO tierces at 25 cts. early in the 

 week, and 24 cts. later ; 50 hhds. new crop Matanzos sold 

 at 17i cts. 



METALS —Sales were made of English Bar Iron, by 

 invoice, nT <*n7 vi :i ■^o\ ton; Pig Lead at 4 cts. and of 

 TmPlatf- . , '. 



OILS — I ,,kin-800bbl8.crude Sporm Oil 



were snlil ,i: _ i ■, and for dirk 85 cts. Sum- 



mer Straiin 1 - . .:. ,- . 'iiii-at90cts. and Winter at 100 

 cU.. as the top pruo.-. Palm Oil is G.J cts. lb. American 

 Lmseed Oilie sold at 90 cts. cash, and English at the 

 same price. There is not much demand for Olive. 300 

 b.asketa Marseilles Sallad sold at about gj. 



PROVISIONS.— There is very little demand for eithor 

 mess or prime Beef, and prices remain much the sarais. 

 Sale of 100 barrels old prime Beef, good, at 53 25. Me is 

 and Prime Pork are excessively dull, a sale of 100 barrels 

 new mess State Pork, city inspection, at 5« 88 ; prinye 

 do. is held at 57. Old Ohio mess and prime have been 

 offered at less than 58 and ,56 without saies. Lard — city 

 rendered 7 to 7.^ cts ; State do. 6 to 6^ ; Ohio do. new, 6 

 cts; old, 5cti. and dull. Cheese in ly be quoted i ct. 

 higher. .\ large salo was maiip on S.ilunln at M^ cts. lb. 



RICE.— There is a good deinui,! Inr .x;..;!! jtiuii. The 

 sales reach .500 tierces at $2 7;. a .S: i ->.. |„ r liio lbs. 



SALT.— A cargo of iO.OOO buih. Is Iripiiii w.as sold, 

 and is retailing at 23 cts. bu. ; 1000 .sacks Liverpool weri^ 

 received from New Orleans. The price of sacks is con- 

 siderably reduced. 



SEEDS.— Flaxseed is dull at 512 for rough, and gI3 

 for clean. Clover Seed is lower ; several sales were 

 made at 11 cts. for ordinary to 1 1^ for prime. 



SUGAR— The market is quite inactive, and prices low ; 

 shipments from the West Indies realize just about the 

 charges, Iftving nothing for the cost. Sales 80 hhds. St. 

 Croix at 6j a 7"cts. lb ; 100 do. Porto Rico at 5^ a 6 cts ; 

 50 barrels White Brazil at 7j cts. 



GRAIN— Sales of yellow flat have been made at 61 a 

 62i-, and white, which is very sf:arce, 58c— old yell'iw, 65 

 a 66 per bushel — Delaware oats: 47c do do. Considerable 

 supplies of Corn are expected from New Orleans. 



PROVISIONS— The demand for Beef and Pork has 

 been chiefly for vessels' use. The public and private tran- 

 sactions in 'Lard embrace 2500 kegs at from b\ to Gc per 

 lb. 4mo3 cr— 100 bbis Western Prime Pork common, 

 g+l per bbl. 



SUGAR— The sales have been very considerable the 

 past week and comprise 7 to 800 boxes Cuba brown, part 

 for exportation at 5 a 5-Jc, and to the trade at 51 a .Wc per 

 lb— .300 boxes do white, ordinary to good, 7J a 8c per lb. 

 By auction. 4 to 500 boxes Cuba brown in lots from 4J to 

 6^c per lb 4 mos. 



, many 



BKIGHTON MARKET— Mo.vDAV, Jan. 24. 

 [Reported for the Boston Patriot.] 



.At market 300 Beef Cattle, and 1475 Sheep, and 140 

 Swine. 



Prices. Beef Cattle — We quote to correspond with last 

 week, viz :— First quality gS 50 to 55 75 ; second quality 

 5 1 75 a 55 25 ; third quality iJ3 50 a 4 WJ 



S/iffp— Sales dull ; two lots were sold by live weight, 

 one at 3.1 and one at 1, both stall fed ; lots were sold from 

 51 50 to 4.50. 



Sieinc— Two lots were sold, one for less and one lot for 

 a fraction more than 4c, more than half Bano-.vs. Very 

 few were sold at retail. 



REVIEW OF BOSTON .MARKET. Jan. 2C. 



[Ki-i m the Boston iMorning Post.] 

 COAL— No 1 ,te arrivals, and biit litile sf consequence 



■ loiii'. Sales In v"o been made ol Sydney at 57,50 cash, 



:ind ,>.7.7,-ip,>r chal.4mo3.cr. 

 ( 't'ii'i'KF. — Tlio transactions of the week embrace about 



,;iin 111 -s St Domin'Jo f -r ■hipment and to the trade, at 8 a 



; ; c iir r lb. ; 1511 1, i^s J,.v ,. Hi a 1 Uc ; 250 do Rio, 9 a 9^0 ; 



:m,|.. i'.irt.. Cabell", '.'i a lOc per lb. 

 COT rUX— The sales "f the week eiibrace about 80O 



bales of the various descri;itions. v:z :— Uplands 9 a 9^0 ; 



Florida 9 a 9^ and New Orleans 8] a lOc per lb. Our fast 



ibreign advices per Steamer Unminia represent a slight 



vein"iit for the : 



lij-ed by the adv 



PROSPECTUS 



OE THE FOURTH VOLUME Of 



THE FARMERS' MONTHLY VISITOR, 



Published at Vmicotd, N. H. by Joh.n M. Hill, oji tl 

 last daii of every month. 



CoSnutTKIl BY I.s AAC HiLL. 



FROM thence.-, I, ,b-. ,i. - ,,i tin- Editor at the se; 



son of obtaiiii i_ ', , i ..:- mic year; 



subscribers of the pr- > I'liondedto 



till.- pafn-r ti'ver rt I' J I In I'.i 1 1 tor ins the best of 



t.- i.o t- :' ' '. V , I i.or< 111 tills monthly jour- 



I! ,■ ' • : iiobiihoii ■, and il' he niay be- 



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tioii III Imn.lrcfs to improve the face of the soil ; and that 

 thereby protluction has been and will be increased. If 

 the publication should give us little remuneration in a pe- 

 cuniary point of view, its good influence and effects would 

 encourage us to renewed efforts for its continnahoc. We 

 only .ask" those who think our cheap publication will aid 

 the cause of Agricultun;, that they may show soiiicwhat 

 the same enthusiaam to increase our subscription among 

 their neighbors and friends, that we feel to see the waste 

 places adorned with the beauty of vegetable, sustaining 

 animal production. There is as much of mind lays bar- 

 ren to the truth in relation to Agriculture, as there ia of 

 soil that wants no unnatural or forced effort to make it of 

 the highest value to its owner. Those who believe that 

 .'Agriculture is every thing to the country, and that with- 

 out a prosperous AgriciTlture all other enterprises must 

 flag, cannot do better in a small matter than lend us their 

 aid to the circulation of the Fsriner's Monthly Visitor. 



Three volumes x)f the Visitor have already been pub- 

 lished. The b,ack volumes, to those who have not already 

 read them, will be quite as interesting as the new nnm- 

 bers. To those volumes we have devoted many hours, 

 presenting the results of observation and inquiry in vari- 

 ous parts of the country. We have had much valuable 

 original aid from others ; and we have embodied into our 

 work many excellent extracts from the nnost able heads 

 and pens of this country and of Europe. One thousand 

 sets of the three volumes remain to be disposed of; and 

 to subscrioers for the Visitor we offer complete sets from 

 the commencement, including the subscription for the 

 year 1312. for the price of two dollars. 



Other persons at different and distant points of the coun- 

 try have put a gratifying estimate upon the value of our 

 monthly work. While writing we receive by mail from a 

 gentleman ,at the city of Washington the following flat- 



'■ All with whom I have conversed express the opinion 

 that yours is the most v.aluable and interesting agricultu- 

 ral paper they have seen. And useful a9 I believe all your 

 previous life to have been (and I have been no casual ob- ' 

 server of it for twenty years) both as a citizen and as a 

 public man, I cauno't'but think you are subserving the 

 great interests of manhin:' in this noble cause as much as 

 you could in the Senate or in presiding over the interests 

 of the intelligent people of your adopted State." 



We had rather the writer had placed us on equal ground, 

 than that he should say ours was more valtiable than the 

 fOther agricultural papers ; for in practical knowlcd'.'e and 

 experience, in powers of analysis and description, we 

 kr^ow there are agricultural writers, the latchet of whose 

 shoes we are unworthy to unloose. Take the Cultivator 

 while under Buel or Gaylord — the American Farmer of 

 Skinner— the Farmer's Register of Ruffin— the New Eng- 

 land Farmer with Fessenden, Colman and Putnam— or ei- 

 ther the Maine Farmer of Dr. Holmes, or the Maine Cul- 

 tivate r with the good Mr. Drew ; and the Editor of the 

 \'isitC'r at once confesses the superiority of one and all; 

 some upon all points, and each perhaps in someone point. 

 We p,-ofcss to be a mere gatherer — a gatherer possibly of 

 many common facts which others think unworthy of note, 

 and which have little more to recommend them than their 

 novelty. We however take courage from such assurances 

 as the foregoing, extravagant as the authors must confess 

 them to be ; and ' ve ask of all gentlemen who may thiiiK 

 us entitled to aid to hein us in carrying forward our work. 



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