yiHLY VISITOR. 



CONDUCTED BY ISAAC HIM,. 



' 7'Aose who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, luhose breasts he has made his peculiar deposite for substantial and i 



rtve." — JiFFF.Bt 



VOLUME IV. 



CONCORD, N. H. OCTOBER 31, 1842. 



NUMBER 10. 



THE FAR5IER'S MOXTIILY VISITOR. 



A illONTHI.y NKUSPAFF.R. IS Pl!BLISHEIl EY 



JOHN M. HILL. 



HilVs Brick Block-, Concord, A''. H. 



nF\F|iu7A GENTS, 



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TH. I; > ; ', \Va:hingtonCity,D.C. 



JOH.\ - ■ , :1 ■, !nns.ton St. Boston. 



CHAi;:,: ■- ;, \::';: \. Ihinley Roto, Worcester, Mass. 



A. H. ST1I,I,\V'F.IJ,. Xo.l. Market Square.Prov. R.l. 



L, \V. HALL & Co. Sprinsjield, Mass. 



For the Fairoers Monthly Visitor. 

 Bow Hills. 



The lonn of Bow adjoins Concord on the 

 South and Soi;th-East,and the old meetins-honse, 

 whicli is iitar the centre of the town, is about 

 five miles tVoni tlie !>iate Honse. Tlie Merrimack 

 forms tlie eiislern lioiirjdary, and gives to the 

 town a very line intervale. The land, however, 

 Lie^'ins to rise at not a great distance from the 

 river, and forms some high hills at the centre and 

 western parts. 



Parker's hill, some two miles from the river, is 

 a |)leKsant swell of land, and the prospect from 

 it is very interesting. Pembroke street is seen 

 through iti whole lenirtb ; — a street which cannot 

 be rivalled liy any other in the coutitry. The 

 two Acadciiiy liuiiiliiigs show off finely. There 

 are some neat ianns in that vicinity. On Parker's 

 hill there is very good soil, and the fiirm of Col. 

 Parker, especially, appears to be a profitable one. 

 It is a question yel to be decided, perh.ips, wheth- 

 er the raising ol' hops upon this ridge of land 

 will be of tiltlmate benefit to the soil. Col. P. 

 lias met with qu te a loss the present season, by 

 having his house burnt. The fire occm-red in 

 the evening, and the light of it was seen at quite 



White rock and Meeting-honse hill may be 

 considered as one ; as there is only a slight valley 

 making them rather as one hill 

 This height of land possesses 

 Thcip are several good farms iip- 

 le (itiit and apples and pears, this 

 New Hampshire, 

 id grass, are produ- 



hetween them 



saddle-backed 



excellent soil. 



on it. For sti 



land cannot be e>;celled 



Corn, wheat, oats, potatoes 



reat abund 



The old meeting-house stands upon the 

 northern sninmit of this hill, where the cold 

 winds of winter can give it a :air sweep. It is 

 very singular that many of the towns of this 

 State should select higli bills as places for their 

 houses of worship. But so it was anciently. 

 Notice Deerfield, Candia and some others besides 

 Bow. Perhaps lliey might have had an eye to 

 the ancient temple of the Jews situated on 

 Mount Zion, "whither the tribes went up." 



Wood hill is by some thought to be the high- 

 est point of land in Bow, while others consider 

 Brown's hill the highest. The liberty pole stands 

 on Wood hill, of Some ninety leet in height, and 

 of one stick — white pine. There are many such 

 trees still left in Bow, though the himhering bu- 

 siness has made sad havoc of the forests. The 

 land on Wood hill is very excellent. Though it 

 is so high, overlooking-a wide territory, it is not 

 easily affected by a drought. 



Brown's liill, so oslled from a family of that 



name who settled upon it, is a very beautiful one. 

 Tlie prospect lioin it is very fine. In a clear day, 

 something like twelve or fifteen meeting-houses 

 are seen in the neighboring towns. A part of 

 Shaker village in Canterhsii y is aho seen as uell 

 as the Jecorway ridge, and the While monnlains 

 beyond. Old, Kearsarge looms up very ma- 

 jestically here. There are several good fiirms 

 upon and around this hill. The late John Brown, 

 Esq. had a beautiful farm here of some two 

 hundred acres, with his house and two barns 

 standing oti the very highest i)oint. Dining the 

 speculating fever in Eastern lands, he iinrortii- 

 nalely col drawn in, and not only lost this liirm, 

 but others also. 



There is another hill, or long swell of land up- 

 on the Branch turnpike, below "the Boi;-'M. (•.•.li- 

 ed, the name of which is not known to liie writer. 

 There are good fiirms on that hill also. 



The hills of Bow, as nninviting as they may 

 ap|ieartoa stranger from below, ar(> far stipi.'rior 

 to the level lands in the vicinilv of Boslon and 

 Salem. Give them the care Ijfstowed on the soil 

 near the city, and they would excel it in produce. 

 I know not that 1 sliould harulv exi-liaiiire them 

 for the rich bottom latids of the West. There is 

 no min.sina about tttese hills, to give one the ague 

 and fever fur one half, or three quarters of the 

 year. Peisons of constiniptive habits comin;.' 

 from the sea-board to Bow, are most generally 

 recruited, and tret firm health. 



1 firmly beheve that the high hills of New 

 Hampshire will one day be considered as the best 

 parts of the State. They are not, probably, quite 

 equal to the Green Mountain swells in Vermont, 

 " nt they are next to them. Not only is good pas- 

 turage found upon these hills — the very best in 

 the Union — but they are als-,> good for various 

 kinds of fruit, and the several grains. 



Then these bills, many of them, abound in 



liiable minerals. In the East part of Duiibar- 

 ton, about three miles from the old meeting-house 

 in Bow, and in a rough, ledgy hill, there is a val- 

 uable vein of Arsenic ore, which Dr. Jackson 

 pronounces to be worth at Boston, $40 ]ier ton 



■ 8 crude state. On that rough jiiece, contain- 

 ing eight acres, Stejihen Wheeler, the owner, 

 raised one hundred and one busliels of beautiful 

 rye the present season. 



In Unity and Merrimack, Titanium ore has 

 been discovered, uorlh one rfoWsr per ounce. Let 

 no one despise the hills of Ne'iV Hampshire. 



J. W. P. 



Bow. Sept. 1842. 



Communicated tor the Visitor as received from the Sha- 

 kers in New York. 

 Directions for using Clover for manuring land. 

 If your soil is poor and wants enriching for 

 tillage land, seed well with clover and timothy, 

 when sown with wheat, barley or oats, and give 

 it a good dressing of plaster. 



After harvest becarefid not to have it pastured 

 till the following summer. In July turn in any 

 kind of stock you please, and pasture it ihe re- 

 inder of the season. The next spring, plaster 

 gain, and turn in your cattle as you do into 

 other pastures. In the fall, say the first of Octo- 

 ber, turn over the land for another crop. The 

 spring following, harrow first, length-ways the 

 furrow; then sow your wheat, barley or oats and 

 harrow twice crossing the furrow. Before the 

 latit harrowing, sow yom- grass seed. Then fol- 

 low the same process as before, another two sea- 

 sons; after which, it is presumed your land will 

 be strong enough to bear taking off two or three 

 crops before it is again seeded. And by contin- 

 uing a rotation of crops, say corn, oats, wheat or 

 rye — then cloveras beti)re — it will rather improve 

 than otherwise, provided plaster will produce 

 clover on your land as it does on some lands 

 in the State of New York. 



From four to six quarts of clover seed per acre 

 and four quarts of timothy, do well iu tliU case ; 



but in seeding lor mowing we shoulil vary the 

 |)roporlion. 



From one and a half to two busliels of plaster 

 is about right for an acre. 



The plaster may be sown when the land is first 

 seeded with clover, or it may be omitted till the 

 following spring; hut as it is a protection to the 

 you. g clover aiiainst (lroiif;ht, it is generally sowu 

 then, and the following spring too. 



Which is prelerable, to pasture or plough in 

 the clover our experience does not enable us to 

 decide. 



The highest Premium Plough, made hy Proutjr 

 and Mears. 



This ploutrh took a premium of a gold meilal, 

 at the American Institute Ploughing Match, at 

 Harlaeiii, fur p. riorming the best work, with the 

 least draft. AUo a premium of $100 at the 

 Worcester Ploughing Match, as the best plough 

 that will turn the sod over, laying it flat; regard 

 being had to the strength ot' tlie plough, easiness 

 of diafi. excellence of work, and its cheap~ness. 



With ir> lbs. draft it turned a furrow of 27i 

 inches. We venture to say that the gain in draft 

 and execution of work in this plough, is nearly, 

 or quite 50 per cent, over that of a great propor- 

 tion of the ploughs used throughout our country. 

 We have neither seen or heard of any which 

 has pqnalK'd il, llion^h several have approached 

 it in excellence. Suppose tlie advantage it has 

 over other [ilonghs is on an average 25 percent., 

 (of which there can be but little doubt,) what an 

 immense annual saving to the farmers of the 

 country would it produce, if generally adopted. — 

 Far)ner''s Ga::cllc. 



Experiments with Salt as a Manure for Wheat. 



in Johnstoirs Agiieullural Chimistry, already 

 mentioned, are contained some highly important 

 ex|)erimenis on wheat fields, by William Flening. 

 iMr. F. gives the result of eight difierent kinds of 

 iiianuie !m ilie 8tii of a Scotch acre of wheat. 

 The two. iiiost important are Nitrate of Soda, 80 

 lbs., with tjiipe Dust, 5 cwt. to the acre, which 

 produced '^40 lbs. of wheat, weighing 62i lbs. 

 per bushel, on one-eighth of an acre. 



Cominoii ■.'^ali, IGO lbs. to the acre, produced 



249 Ihs. of i^ la at, weighing C2 lbs. to the bushel, 



the siiiii.- quantity of" grouiid. While the 



me iiie;!, tire oi land', without any manure, pro- 



ced oiii> flO lbs. of wheat, weiL'hii.g 61 lbs. to 



3 bushel, 'ill.' salt is iheiefore the mopt econ- 

 omical and prodneiive nianure used by Mr. F. in 

 his course of exi'i'iiiia iHs. 



Five bushels of Liverpool salt to the acre is 

 said to produce great eftect on any crops, either 

 of grass, grain or roots. More than six have 

 been found to be injurious in some instances. 

 The use of salt as a manure, was early known by 

 ihe Romans, and other nations of antiquity, but 

 has been little understood, or practised, in mod- 

 ern times. It is somewhat extraordinary, that 

 this important item in the cultivation of the earth 

 should have gone into disuse on the sea-coast es- 

 pecially, where the inexhaustible fountains of the 

 great deep are continually dashing their briny 

 billows at the feet of the cultivator. But mod- 

 ern experience has demonstrated its usefulneaff, 

 wherever it has been tried. 



It is also destructive to insects, the greatest 

 enemies of the vegetable kingdom ; and if it had 

 no power as a manure, this alone mtikes it more 

 valuable to the world, than all the preventives 

 which the ingenuity of man has been able to 

 discover against the innumerable hosts of these 

 depredators, with which the earth is infested. 



A thin sprinkling of green sea-weed, salt hay, 

 sedge, or any other marine vegetable, on pasture, 

 ohlliieadows, or ploughed land, contains suffici- 

 ent salt, to produce most suri)rising effects, if 

 spread so sparse, as to let the grass grow freely 

 u'u-ough it, and to admit the rays of Uie Biin to 



