554 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



Let any man for a moment run his eye over the Index of one of these journals 

 (which we offer as premiums) for a single year, and say which is likely to con- 

 duce most to the true welfare and dignity — ay, and if it must be so, to the 

 strong box — of any family — one of these volumes or a one or a two dollar note ! 

 Contrast for a moment the character and promise of the young farmer who 

 would prefer and exert himself to get the book with the motives and impulses 

 of him who would give preference to the tnoney. In regard to which of these 

 two would one augur the best ? Which would a young Franklin go for — the 

 knowledge or the dross ? 



True, it may be said that he who gets the money may buy the book if he 

 chooses. But would it not have a good eflect for a great State Society to pre- 

 sume a preference for knowledge over all things, and even to push it in the way 

 of those who need it, as the wisest of us do ? 



After all, we are far from meaning to undervalue the labors and the patriotic 

 aims of this Society. On the contrary, we sincerely and disinterestedly honor 

 its zeal, its industry, and, if we may without presumption add, its enlightened 

 views. Profound care to do the best is obvious, as is also decided improvement 

 in their regulations. We hope they will go on from year to year aiming rather 

 at the public good than at popular applause ; that they will endeavor more and 

 more to encourage and reward the pursuit and the display of knowledge, rather 

 than success in things that have become " stale as a tale thrice told," and that 

 derive their excellence from the corn-house or the swill-tub, rather than the 

 skill and intellectual ambition of the successful candidate. We trust that their 

 care to secure impartial decisions may be consummated by just awards, and to 

 that end that they may effectually stigmatize and put down all juggling and 

 management, and all indecent importunity of the judges— all collusions and com- 

 binations in the distribution of the offices of the Society, the bounty of the State, 

 and the contributions of individuals. For it is only by such a high-minded 

 course of management that any such association can escape from falling finally 

 into contempt, disfavor and dissolution. 



CREAM-CHEESE— HOW TO MAKE IT. 



We have often incjuired how it is that only in the Philadelphia market do we meet with 

 this agreeable variety of Cheese. Even there, formerly, in good old times, when there was 

 but one place — " Jo Head's" — where the traveler was sure to meet none but gendemen — 

 Cream-Cheese manufacture was the monopoly of one old lady, who sold it low down the 

 market on Wednesday mornings. Now it is there getting to be quite common in more 

 senses than one. 



The foUowuig recipe for making it is to be found m Delgaim's Practice of Cookery, p. 

 467. We do not know whether the proportion of cream may not be too small ; but that 

 may be increased at discretion : 



"One pint of cream bein:; mixed ^^■ilh twelve pints of noonday milk, warm from the cow, a 

 little rennet is added ; and when the curd is come the whey is poured out pcnlly, so ns to break the 

 curd as little as possible. It is then laid on a floth and put into a small sieve ; the cloth is 

 changed every hour during the day, and in twenty-four hours it will be fit for use. It may be 

 served on a breakfast-plate, with vine-leaves under it, and will keep perfectly good only a few 

 days." 



The price in Philadelphia for these Cheeses is 25 cents each ; the size about that of dio 

 bottom of a duiner-plato, and about an inch or a litUe more thick. 



Urine. One Inindred parts of the urine of a healthy man are equal to 1,300 parts of the 



fresh dung of a horse, aud to (JOO parts of die frei*h dung of a cow. 

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