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Stale bread is more wholesome than that which is newly baked, as 

 the latter contains a large proportion of indigestible paste; which 

 may, however, be rendered less hurtful, by toasting-. 



To make bread with salt. Take as much of this article as is ne- 

 cessary for the quantity o bread to be made ; dissolve the salt in a 

 quantity of warm water sufficient to mix the flour intended to be 

 baked; mix some flour in this water, and set it in a pot near the fire; 

 but not so near as to burn the flour: A yellow water will soon rise 

 on the top, which is to be taken oft', and the rising 1 will begin; then 

 mix the contents of the pot with he flour, add more warm water, if 

 necessary, and in less than an hour the mass will be ready for baking; 

 and when baked will be found as well raised ami tasted HS bread 

 raised with yeast. From three to four hours are requisite in this 

 process, from the time of first preparing the suit and water. 



BURNET-GttASS. Mr. Deane, in speaking of this grass, says, 

 *I have had a bed of this grass tor two years past on a hungry sand. 

 It has grown luxuriantly, the stems rising to the height of three feet; 

 and the seeds ripened the year it was sown, though it was not sown 

 till the end of May. The second year the seeds ripened, I think, in 

 June. The severity of our Winter-frost neither killed any of it, nor 

 so much as altered the verdure of the stems or leaves. Some of it 

 \vas rut up and given to cattle, as soon as the snow was off, which 

 the; r.te very greedily. 



* I think this plant bids fair to be a profitable grass in this Country, 

 where frost occasions the confining our stocks to dry fodder for six 

 or seven months. For, on a pasture of this grass, Cattle, Horses, and 

 Sheep may feed till the ground is covered with snow ; and again in 

 the Spring, as soon as the ground is bare. It is also excelent for soil- 

 ing, or to give green to cattle in racks; and when it is made into hay, 

 the leaves are not apt to crumble, or any part of the hay to be wasted. 



They who wish to propagate this grass may be assured, that there 

 is not the least difficulty in doing it; for it is not only a most hardy 

 plant, but I have not found it to be at all liable to be hurt by any 

 kind of insects. The English Farmers recommend keeping it'clear 

 of weeds during the first Summer, or till it is so large as to cover the 

 ground. This may be clone partly by harrowing ; for, as it is a strong- 

 tap-rooted plant, the teeth of the harrow will not injure the roots.* 



CABBAGE, Mr. Peters, of Pennsylvania, plants his cabbages in 

 September, when he intends them for an early supply for the next 

 year; and in this way be 'brings them earlier forward, than those 

 raised in hotbeds. He drills in the seed, on ridges raised for the 

 purpose, and lets the plants stand exposed to the Winter. Some of 

 these are killed by the frost; but as they stand pretty thickly, as they 

 are left in the Fall, a sufficiency of them survive the Winter, to be 

 thined out the next Spring for growing at proper distances. 



CAMEL. There are four different species of this animal, the 

 P-actrian Camel, the Dromedary, the Laina, and the Camclcofiard. 

 The three, former, having long been domesticated, are eminently 

 serviceable for carrying burdens, and for traveling with great speed. 

 The latter has never been subjected to the dominion of Man. 



The Bactrian is the largest, and can conveniently carry about half 

 a ton at a time, with which he will easily travel thirty miles in a day. 

 The Chinese have a variety of this species, which they call ;' 

 A'vo Fo, or Camels with feet of the wind; one of which will carry 

 its llidcr one hundred and fifty miles a day. The common kind of 



