March, 1842. 



THE FARMER'S MONTHLY VISITOR. 



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but not — oh no ! — no room 



The spirit freed would claim — 

 Earth has no power to doom 



To dust the immortal frame. 

 Soaring to worlds above, 



She scorns the things of earth- 

 Dying to time, to prove 



The bliss of heavenly birth. 



Sure, then, that noble part, 



"Touch'd to tine issues," 

 That spirit, and that heart, 



Joy still receives and gives 

 Brother 1 thy memory green 



Shall in our souls abide. 

 Despite Time's scyth 



Or his effacing tide 



keen 



What though no kindred near 



Wa|f h'd o'er thy parting sleep — 

 Thot^ few by nature dear 



Are cali'd to '* wake and weep" — 

 Thy country was the world. 



Thy countrymen mankind — 

 . Thy fame, so wide unfurl'd, 



Like thy heart, unconfind. 



A chord responsive wakes 



In many a throbbing breast — 

 On our rapt vision breaks 



That song — " <hir Nation's Guest. 

 Nor shall it be his fate 



To pass unsung away. 

 Who gave our " Granite Stite" 



A name to live for aye ! 



The following meterological notices have been 

 furnished for pubhcation by tlie Hon. D. L. Mor- 

 RiL, embracing a period of one fomlh of a cen- 

 tury. The personal daily attention of an individ- 

 tlfis subject in a continued series of 



1822, In Concord, N. H, 

 Jan, i, 11 below 



■' II, 11 



" U, 14 



'• 17, 13 



• 1823. In Concord, N. H, 

 Jan, U, at zero 



Feb. 17, 9 below 



Uoffistown, 

 Jan. 7, I 



In Portsmouth, Jan, 7, the 

 mercury sunk to 8 deg, 

 low zero ; in Saco, to 2c 

 Keene, to 26 ; in Hanover, 

 to 28; in Montreal, to 

 at Bellows Falls, to 20, 



1824, I 

 Feb. a, 

 Goflstown, 

 Feb. 2, 



Goffstown, 26 b 



Dover, N.H. 21 

 Bath, " 27 



Brunswick, Me. 29 



Concord, " 

 Epsom, " 

 Haverhill, " 

 Keene, 



Londonderry, " 

 iVew Ipswich, ' 



1825, In Goffstown, 

 Jan, 4, 5 below 

 Feb. 3, 9 



Dec. 13, 10 

 " 23, 8 



1826, In Goffstown, 

 Jan, 27, II below 



•' 31, 14 



m 1, 182G, 



Deg. 

 Pembroke, N, H, 16 belo« 

 Warner, " 23 

 Boston, Mass, 14 

 Chelmsford," 17 

 Dorchester, " 17 

 Danvers, " 16 

 Wiscasset " 24 

 Bellows Falls,Vt,29 

 Brattleboro', ■' 27 

 Weathersfield, " 24 

 Montpelier, " 33 



4KY 18, 1827, 



ses below ; great snow. 



1840, Jan. 1, 



1841, Jan. 3, 



any bridges. 



3 belowBetween the 17th 



10 below and 21, 48 deg. 



22 below difference, 



12 below Feb, 2 



26 above 6 



11 balow 



7 below Feb, 25,atMadi. 



9 below eon, Wiscon- 



19 below sin. 30 belov^ 



=t Feb, 14, 6 below 



»y ^ 25, 6 below 



Dec, moderate. 



1842, Jan. 6, 8 below Feb, 3, 60 above 



21, 45 above 4, 51 above 



29, 36 above 



EXTREME COLD DAYS. 



Cold Friday, January 19, 1810, 



Cold Tuesday, January 21, 1815. 



Cold Friday, lebruary 14, 1817. 



Cold Wednesday, January 24, 1821. 



Cold Tuesday, December 13, 1825. 



Cold Tuesd.iy, January 31, 1826. 



Cold Wednesday, February I, 1826, 



Cold Saturday, January 19, 1832, 



Cold Monday, March 4, 1833, 



Cold Wednesday, I'ebruary 8, 22 deg, below lero, 



Cold Sunday, January 4, 35 deg, below zero, 1835, 



Jan, 5, 25 deg, below; Jan, 6. 50 above ; Jan. 7, 12 be- 

 low ; Jan, 8, 14 below ; Jan, 10, 14 below, 1835, 



Cold Wednesday, January 4, 32 deg, below zero, 1837. 



Cold Friday, December 28, 32 deg. below zero, 1838. 



Cold Tuesday, January 1, 19 deg, below zero, 1839, 



Cold Tuesdiiy, January 21, 26 deg, below zero, 1840. 



Cold Tuesday, January 5, 19 deg, below zero, 1841. 



Coldest day this year, was Thursday, January 6, mer- 

 cury 8 deg. below zero, 1842. 



Fences. 



VVe find in the "Union Agriculturist" the fol- 

 lowing notice of a suust^itial embankment and 

 ditch, which, should it succeed, may dispense 

 with the post and rail. Sucfi a mound would he 

 a capital place to commence a hedge; and if 

 made of .some hardy American plant, such as 

 the honey locust, buckthorn, wild mulberry, or 

 perhaps some of our thorns, would soon make a 

 most impervious fence. 



" Jason Marsh, Esq., of Rockford, informs us 

 he has been enclosing his land by an embank- 

 ment 8i feet in diatneler at the base, and 2 at the 

 top, and about 4 feet high. On either side is a 

 ditch 2i feet across. He has made a mile and 

 three quarters of this kind of fencing at an ex- 

 pense of sixty-nine cents per rod. This we 

 should suppose large enough to be permanent, 

 and resist drought. It could he turled over by 

 sowing grass seed upon it. (the Kentucky blue 

 frrass, or the orchnid grass, would probably he 

 the best ;) and ttien, on the top, a hedge row 

 could be planted that would he out of the reach 

 of cattle. How heauiifid would our prairies be, 

 divided by such fences." 



Although the Atlantic states are as a whole 

 much better provided with fencing malerials, 

 both wood and stone, than the West, still there 

 are large districts where farmers and land own- 

 ers will ere long, if they do not already, experi- 

 ence serious inconveniences in making good fen- 

 ces. There are thousands of farms in all parts 

 of the country that have been so denuded of their 

 original timber, while none has grown to supply 

 its place, that there is not upon them timber suffi- 

 cient for rails to enclose lliem. The old worn 

 fences aie rapidly decaying. Twenty years may 

 be stated as the duration of a fence made from 

 any of the common kinds of timber used ; and 

 still, very few farmers have asked themselves 

 where the materials for their ne.\t fences are to 

 come from, or taken any measures to remedy the 

 approaching evil. Those who have slone on their 

 " rms neeil have no apprehensions ; those who 

 have not, should by embankments, by hedging, 

 or by nurseries of forest trees, endeavor to se- 

 cure the requisite material for the preservation 

 of their crops. 



Few are aware of the cost of fencing a farm, 

 after the fences have once been allowed to go to 

 lecny. Mr. Sliurtlefl!'of Ma.ssachusetts, an enter- 

 prising farmer, gives from his own experience 

 lie cost of several of the most common kinds of, 

 fence in the eastern states. 



White cedar or cvjiress fence, made of posts 

 and rails, five rails in height, three lengths to two 

 ods nearly, cost 91 cents jier rod. 



White pine rails sawed two inches by eij;ht 

 and chrsnut posts, four rails high, three "lengths 



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