10 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



" The machine is very simple in its construction, and, being made principally of cast-iron, 

 will only require a renewal of the cards occasionally. 



"Atone operation, it cards tiie wool and envelops the cotton-yam in a woolen integu- 

 ment, strongly entwined around it, in larger or smaller quantities, according to the species of 

 goods intended to be ni:ule, at the wish of the operator, preparing the yam for the manufac- 

 ture of a substitute foi- aU woolen goods, from a light Hamiel to a heavy blanket." 



Washington-, February 25th, 1846. 

 " Sir : I have witnessed the operation of Chase's Patent Card-Spinner, for enveloping 

 cotton, hemp, or flax, with wool, and am convinced that the machine will give a thread 

 much stronger than one made with wool in the ordinaiy way, and equally as wann, without 

 showing anything else than the wool. The fabrics I have seen are, I would suppose, stronger 

 than all wool, and as strong as cotton, possessing the warmth of one with the durabihty of 

 the other. 



" I should suppose such a machine could be introduced to great advantage in private fami- 

 lies in the South, and can be operated easily by two very ordinary hands. 



" To the Editor of the American Journal, ^-c." DIXON H. LEWIS. 



We add our recommendation to these testimonials, fully believing our large 

 planters and farmers will find it much to their interest to possess themselves, at a 

 small expense, of a machine which will soon much more than pay for itself by 

 the saving in cost its various products for clothing, carpeting, &:c., which have 

 met with so much approbation from those who are well skilled in the value of 

 such articles. 



Mr. George Law, of Holling-street, Baltimore, is the proprietor, from whom 

 every particular can be ascertained. 



VARIOUS USES TO WHICH CORN AND CORN MEAL ARE APPLIED. 



[Communicated for the Farmers' Library.] 



Fine food, in all its stages, and in any way of preparation, for horses, cattle, 

 hogs, sheep, poultry, &:c. &c. 



Its stalks make fine sugar. 



The grain makes excellent whisky. 



It is a delightful vegetable in its green state, and when used as such is called 

 " roasted ears," or it may be boiled, then trimmed from the cob and mixed with 

 butter, salt, and pepper — and oh, how delicious ! 



It makes a nice pudding. 



When hard, it it is pounded so as to crack the grains and get off the husks, 

 and then boiled, makes hominy. 



If half ground in a mill, it is then delightful as small-hominy. 



Great-hominy may be eaten warm, with butter, or cold with milk or fat ba- 

 con ; or, it can be fried with bacon or lard, and makes a nice dish if properly 

 fried. 



Sma//-hominy, after being boiled, can be made into small cakes and fried, 

 and is vcrv nice. 



Parched corn is good to quiet hunger, and has served often our starving sol- 

 diers, when they gained the liberties of this free land we are now so proud of — • 

 When ground into meal, it is used in every variety of mode, and after every fash- 

 ion : ibr instance — mush, crush, ^/orf^rer, fried-mush, fried-bread, ash-cake, fat- 

 cake, hoe-cake, haker-cake, journey-cake, thin journey-cake, crackling journey- 

 cake, corn-dumpling, crriddle-cake, pone, light-pone, mush-pone, shorl-cake, muf- 

 fin, egg-pone — improves buckwheat cakes — is mixed with rye and wheal flour, 

 and improves both. 



Of the above modes I can furnish recipes if deemed necessary. 



[Pray, good friend, lot us have them all — it can do no harm, " any how." 



Ed. Farm. Lib.'\ 

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