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will judge of his own market and relative prices, and if 

 his hogs are not so good as mine, make greater allowance 

 for loss and offal. 



Will someone who keeps a pork barrel, make a similar 

 statement, and publish for the benefit of your readers? 



Solon Robinson. 



Lake C. H. (noiv called Crown Point), ^ 

 Ind., May 15, 1846. 



Review of the September No. of the Agriculturist. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 5:374-79; Dec, 1846] 



[September ?, 1846] 



French Mode of Making Apple Butter. — Now, with all 

 due deference to French cooking, I do not believe that this 

 French dish is a better condiment than the old-fashioned 

 Yankee apple sauce, when composed of three-fourths rich, 

 sweet apples, and one-fourth quinces, thoroughly cooked 

 in good sweet cider, after boiling five gallons into one. 

 [Neither do we, and we wish we knew where we could get 

 a half barrel of it for our winter supplies.] I am sure the 

 domestic is the best, but let those who can, try both. Who 

 will tell how the western or southern apple butter is 

 made? In a journey we once made from Massachusetts, 

 through those states, we found this article good and 

 cheap. [We hope some of our readers will answer our 

 correspondent in the matter of apple butter.'] 



Preservation of Apples. — Strike out from the direc- 

 tions for packing all the articles but the sand, and be sure 

 it is very clean, very dry, and that it fills all the inter- 

 stices so that no two apples touch. Any warm upper room 

 is better to keep the cask in than a cellar, unless it is a 

 very cool one, and unusually dry. It will take a very hard 

 frost to injure fruit so packed. All kinds of vegetables 

 may be preserved a long time fresh in the same way. I 



' The post-office designation was not changed from Lake C. H. to 

 Ci'own Point until June 26, 1845, although the new name had been 

 used locally since late in 1840. 



