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THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



March, 1842 



to undertake a voyage as I'erilous as one across 

 the Atlantic. What was the value of surplus 

 produce then, should it be necessary to cany it 

 over the country from Connecticut river to Bos- 

 ton .' Good roads over tliat section of country 

 would never have existed, had not llie enterprise 

 of the people of this Slate asked for the privi- 

 lege of constructing turnpike roads where there 

 were not inhabitants able to make the usual town 

 roads. Until turnpikes were erected, the com- 

 mon roads over the rough lands and through the 

 forests were nearly iinpassable. 



We do not anticipate too much wlieri we pre- 

 dict that within one hundred years of the time 

 when Judge Woodward and Capt. Page dragged 

 their mill crank through the woods from Concord 

 to Connecticut river at the imminent peril of 

 their lives, and in a journey of some six or seven 

 days, there will exi.st a railroad passing over or 

 through the same heights of land wliich shall 

 carry thousands of tons in a less number of hours 

 than the days then employed ! 



Are these great and magnificent improvements 

 of no value to the people .' With the addition 

 of such facilities, how must the value of land 

 and other property be improved ! 



Let the Farmer be heard. 



The following preamble and resolutions, ns 

 natural to be passed by farmers as resolutions for 

 the jirotection of commerce and manufactures 

 by those engaged in such pursuits — will serve to 

 add to that pile of proof amounting to demon- 

 stration, that a higher tariff intended for protec- 

 tion than the legitimate wants of the government 

 require fur revenue, injuring all interests in the 

 general scale, can be of little essential benefit to 

 any interest. The resolutions were passed at a 

 meeting of farmers in Massachusetts: — 



Whereas the general liappiness and prosperity of the 

 United States must ever be intimately connected with the 

 condition of our agriculture — and whereas three-fourths of 

 our whole rapidly increasing population must and ever 

 will depend on the products and profits of the farmer for 

 the supply of their physical wants, and the means of moral, 

 religious, ?.nd intellectual improvement: 



And Whereas Congress has given bounties on the 

 fisheries to make them a nursery of seamen, and has given 

 none on agriculture, which is the best nursery of freemen 

 — has appropriated millions .innually toprotectcommerce, 

 and has given nothing to encourage agricultu.-e. the basis 

 of commerce — has protected manufactures wit,'; a heavy 

 tariff, and left agriculture, which consumes their ulbrics, 

 to protect herself: 



Resolved — That it is the duty of the General Govern- 

 ment not to extend protection and encouragement to 

 manufactures and commerce, unless she adopts a like 

 policy towards the great agricultural iiiteresta of the 

 country. 



Kesolved — That the protective system, as at present 

 established, is manifestly unjust to the agriculturalists of 

 the country — imposing upon them thre^-fourths of the 

 tariff duties, as consumers, without afforu?ng them any 

 adequate consideration for the payment of their tariff 



Resolved— Thn if the i 

 tective duty, so should al 



ufacturer i 



I receive s pro 

 i seed-grower 

 wno, in consequence of the importation of foreign seedi 

 into the United States, is obliged to abandon this profit 

 able branch of industry. 



Resolved — That the business of wool-growing has be 

 come unprofitable, and cannot safely be followed by out 

 farmers under the provisions of the present tariff, whici: 

 admits all kinds of wool of less value than eight cents pel 

 pound, at the place from whence it is imported, duty free 

 of such qualities as come in direct competition with oui 

 wool of coarser quality. Therefore, 



Resolved — That it will be the imperative duty of the 

 American farmer to protest against a tariff to protect the 

 manufacturers, if nothing more be done to protect this 

 important business from foreign competition. 



Resolved — That the present tariff is partial and unequal 

 to farmers, wherein it provides that the duties on r.iilroad 

 iron shall be refunded when the rails are actually laid, and 

 does not provide that the duties on the scythe and the 

 sickle shall be refunded to the farmer when he shall have 

 applied them to the grain. 



AsD Whereas large quantities of potatoes, grain, but- 

 ter, cheese, pork, wool, hides, and other articles, are an- 

 nually imported from foreign countries into the United 

 States — therefore, 



Resolved— That it is not the interest or the duty of the 

 farmers to submit to be taxed, to build up commerce and 

 manufactures, unless they also can be protected in the 

 full enjoyment of the home market for all our great agri- 

 cultural staples. 



2 



125 



1,104 



121 



1 

 1,000 



U.S. 



804 

 2SG,903 



795 

 197,233 

 528,110 



A NOBLE Maple !— Mr. David Harriman of 

 Warner tapped a Sugar Maple of the original 

 growth, measuring two and a half feet in diame- 

 ter, on Thursday the 10th March. This tree in 

 eighteen hours run out eight ten quart pailfiills 

 of sap, which was boiled down and made .^even 

 ind a half pounds of sugar: one pail ftill of this 

 <ap was sufficient to make one pound of drv 

 •igar. 



Statistics of the State of jVeio Hampshire, and of 



the United States, on llie 1st of June, 1840. 



MINES. 



M H. 

 Iro^. Cast Iron — No. of fur- 

 naces, 15 

 Tons produced, 1320 

 Bar Iron, 

 No. ot bloomeries, forges, 



rolling mills. 

 Tons produced. 

 Fuel — Tons of consumed, 

 No. of men employed in- 

 cluding mining opera- 

 tions. 

 Capital invested, £ 



Lead. No. of Smelting hou- 

 ses, counting each 

 fire one. 

 No. of Pounds produced. 

 No. of men employed, 2 



Capital invested, 8,500 



Gold. No. of smelting houses, 

 Value produced. 

 No. of men employed. 

 Capital invested, 

 Otuir Metals. Value pro- 

 duced, 10,300 

 No. of men employed, 11 

 Capital invested, " 9,500 

 Coal. Anthracite, 



Tons raised, (23 bushels each,) 

 No. of men employed. 

 Capital invested. 

 Bituminous — No. of bush- 

 els raised, 

 No. of men employed. 

 Capital invested. 

 Domestic Salt, 

 No. of bushels produced. 

 No. of men employed. 

 Capital invested. 



Granite, Marble, and other stone. 

 Value produced, 16,038 



No. of men employed, 43 



Capital invested, 5,714 



AGRICL'LTURE. 

 Live Stock. Horses and 

 Mules, 

 Neat Cattle, 

 Sheep, 

 Swine, 



Roultry of nil kinds esti 

 iTi.'ited value. 

 Cereal Gbai.ns. 

 No. of but^heli of Wheat, 422,124 

 Bjirlev, 121,899 



Oats," 1,296,114 



" Rye, 308,148 



]i!ickwheat, 105,103 

 •■■ Indian Corn, 1,162,572 377,531,875 

 Various Crop? 



29,920 



,200 



2,500 



43,892 

 275,562 

 617,390 

 121,671 



30,497 

 20,432,131 



120 



31,239,453 



1,017 



1,346,756 



157 



529,605 



1,046 



234,325 



370,614 



728 

 238,980 



86:3,489 



3,043 



4,355,602 



27,603,191 

 3,768 



1,868,862 



6,179.174 



2,365 



6,998,045 



3,6!)5,884 



7,859 



2,540,159 



4,335,669 

 14,971,586 

 19,311,374 

 26,301,293 



107,092 9,344,410 



84,823,272 



4,161,504 



12.3,071,341 



18.645,.567 

 7,291.743 



Pounds of Wo.;.'. 

 Hops. 

 Wax, 



1,260,517 



243,495 



1,345 



6.'i06.fi06 



496,11;."' 



26i 



35,802,114 

 1,238,502 

 628,303i 

 108,298,060 

 10,248,1081 

 65,251} 



Bushels of Potatoes, 

 Tons of Hay, 



" H?mp and Flax, 



Pounds of Tobacco gath 

 ered, 



Rice, 

 Cotton, Sugar, Silk, &c. 



Pounds of Cotton gathered, 790,479,275 



Silk Cocoons, 419 7-8 61,.5.52i 



" Sugar made, 1,162,368 



Cord.<! of Wood sold, 116,266 



Value of the jiroducts of 



the Dairy, 1.638,544 



" Orchard, 229,979 



Gallons of Wine made, 94 



Value of home made or 



family goods, 538,303 



HORTICULTIRE. 



Garde.ns. Value of produce 



of market Gardens, 18,085 



Value of produce of Nur- 

 series and Florists, 

 Nurseries. No. of men em- 

 ployed, 21 

 Capital invested, 1,460 



COiMMEKCE. 

 No. of Commercial Houses 



in foreign tiade, 18 



No. of Commission Houses, 6 

 Cariml invested. 1,330,600 



115 219.163,31 

 80,841,422 



155,110,809 

 5,088,891 



33,787,008 



7,256,904 



124,734 



29,023,380 



Retail dry goods, groce- 

 ries and other stores, 1,075 75,505 

 Capital invested, 2,602,422 350,301,799 



Liuiiher yards and tratle, 



Capital invested, 29,000 



No. of men employed, 626 



Internal transportation. No. 

 of men employed, 1 17 



Butchers, packers. No. of 



men employed, 38 



Capital invested, .54,120 



FISHERIES. 



No. of Quintals smoked 



or dried Fish, 28,257 



No. of barrels pickled 



Fish, l,714i 



No. of gallons Spermaceti 

 Oil, 



Whale and 

 other Fish Oil, 1.5,234 



Value of Whalebone and 

 other productions of the 

 fisheries, 



No. of men employed, 399 



Capital invested, 59,680 



PRODUCTS OF THE FOREST. 



Value of Lumber pro- 

 duced, 433,217 



Barrels of tar, pitch, tur- 

 pentine, and rosin, 



Tons of pot and jiearl 

 ashes, 113i 



Skins and Furs — value pro- 

 duced, 2,230 



Ginseng and all other i)ro- 

 ductions of the forest — 

 value, 1,929 



No. of men employed, 553 



35 



2,601,196 

 593,534 



8,.5.53 

 2,945,774 



1,408 



2,881 



119,295,367 



1.793 



9,848,307 

 35,963 



4,808 

 11,526,950 



773,947 

 472,359i 

 4,764,708 

 7,.536,778 



1,153,234 



36.584 

 16,429,620 



12,943,507 

 619,106 

 15,935i 



1,065,869 



526,580 

 22,043 



Stalistic3 of the State of JVew Hampshire and of 



the United Stales, on the ls< of June, 1840. 

 MANUFACTURES. 



M H. U. S. 



Machinery. 

 Value of machinery manu- 

 factured. 

 No. of men employed, 



Hardware, Cutlery, Sfc 

 Value of manufactured. 

 No. of men employed, 

 No. of cannon cast, 

 No. of small arms made, 



Precioiui Metals. 

 Value manufactured. 

 No. of men employed, 



Various Metals. 

 Value manufactured. 

 No. of men employed. 



Granite, Marble, S(C. 

 Value manufactured. 

 No. of men employed. 



Bricks and Lime. 

 Value manufactured, 

 No. of men employed, 

 Capital investetl in preceding 

 manufactures, 166,003 20,620,869 



ffool. 

 No. of Fulling Mills, 153 2,585 



No. of Woollen Manufactures, 66 1,420 



Value of manufactured goods, 795,784 20,696,£ 



iployed, 



740,345 



IVo. ot persons ei 

 Cajiital .-.'ivested, 



Cotton. 

 No. of Cotton Ma.-.-ufuctoiie.s, ^)8 

 No. of Spindles. 19o,l/3 



Dying and Print Establij^h- 4 



mciit.^, 

 Value of manufactured ar- 

 ticles, 4,142,30.,' 

 No. of per.sons employed, (i,991 

 Capital invested, " 5,523,200 



Silk. 

 No. of pounds reeled, thrown, 



or otherwise made, 82 7-8 



Value of the same, 924 



No. of nudes employed, 5 



No. of females and children 



employed, 26 



Capital invested, 865 



Flax. 

 Value of manufactures of flax 50 

 No. of persons employed, 1 



Capital invested. 



Mixed Manufactures. 

 Value of Produce, 46,800 



21,343 

 15,765,124 



1.240 



2,284.631 



129 



46,350,453 



72,119 



51,; 02,359 



15,7454 



119,814 



246 



521 

 274,374 



322,205 



1,628 

 208,087 



