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NEW KNtiLAND FARMER. 



[Jan. 27, 



cellars good Cider Ciinnot be preserved. Itcan-I SELECTIONS 



not be denied that there U a dift'ereni;e in cellars, From ijles of English papers n-ceivL.l at (he office of the 



and that coUl ones are the best, but the [irin- | ^'ew Kn^'lauii Kann.r. 



cipal, if not the whole reason, why it cannot he 



kept in any common cellar, is because it is not 



put there at first 



I would only remark further, tliat so far as 

 my observations extend, it is a great error in 

 our farmers lo aim at making too mack Cider. — 

 They wdl lake their ap[>les, lo the mill in an 

 unmellowed slate, when the same (juanlity will 

 yield much more juice. And lo mcrease the 

 n'lmber of barrels, Ihey will make a free use ol 

 water about their mills and pre-ses. To ihis, 

 it i.^ acknowledged, tliev h.ive a [loweriul temp- 

 tation iVom ihe low jirice of ihe article in llie 

 market. The purchaser will give but so much 

 for a barrel, perhaps 75 ceuls, and the seller 

 will aim to reduce the quality to the price. — 

 There is need of much relormalioo on this point. 

 Let the seller make Cider of the first quality, 

 and let the buyer give him a correspondent re- 

 miineraiion. It ought to be the aim of every 

 farmer to make as small a quaniily of Culer as 

 he can consistently with saving the whole of 

 his fruit. He should gather his apples into a 

 dry covered place, evposed to a free circulating 

 air, and make it in dry cool wealher, wind north- 

 west, and let Ihe atmosphere have lime to pro- 

 duce its utmost effect in absorbing as much as 

 possible Ihe aqueous mailer ; and liiough by such ' 

 a natural evaporation the quantity will be re- 

 duced, ycl the quality will be more than pro- 

 portiotiably improved, and his purse be belter 

 replenished. 



I fear, gentlemen, I shall exhaust your patience 

 by my prolixity on this subject. Cut knowing 

 your ardent desire to encourage every Jaudiible 



lufallihh Remedy for the Urupsij. — -One of the 

 Paris papers conlains a letter from ftl. Langs- 

 dorf, C- nsul General of ihe Emperor of Russia 

 lo the Br.izils, in which the Consul mentions a 

 very important discovery, viz — an infallible 

 remedy for the dropsy. It is the root nf a kind 

 of endive, called in that country by the name 

 of cauifa. Some pounds of this root it is stated 

 have been sent to Russia, Berlin and England. 

 Dr KorelT, who now enjoys at Paris lae same 

 reputation he possesses in all Germany, but par- 

 ticularly at Berlin his native place, ha^s also re- 

 ceived a gieat quantity cf lliis precious vegeta- 

 ble, sulHcient to divide among several physi- 

 cians and chemists, who will put it to Ihe test 

 of experience, ami establish its efficacy. The 

 cruel disease, vvUich it is hoped ibis plant will 

 cure, is so frequent and so obstinate, in spite of 

 all the means hilherlo employed that such a dis-, '-'''^'"! '"■■ measuring land, oughl lo use copper 



a nomler of Cows which yielded 12 gallons of 

 niilk every day. In his publications on the sub- 

 ject, he observes that cows fed in Ihe winter 

 upon dry siibsiances give less milk than ihose 

 which are kept upon a green die!, and also that 

 their milk loses much of its quality. IJe pub- 

 lished the foUoiving receipt, by the' u.-.e of which 

 bis cows afforded him an equal qnaufily and 

 qiialily of milk during ;he winter as during the 

 summer.— Take a bushel of potatoes, break 

 ihem whilst raw, place Ihem in a barrel stand- 

 ing up, pulling in successively a layer of pota- 

 lues and a layer of bran, and a small quauliiy of 

 ye-a?! ill Ihe miildle of the mass, which is lo be 

 li-lt ihus to ferment during a whole week, and 

 when the iIikjus taste has pervaded the whole 

 miiture it is then given to the cows, who eat it 

 greedily. 



Incorrectness oj'Iron .Measuring Chaiitt. — Land 

 surveyors and others, who have occasion to use 



iploy 



covery ivill be of the gieatesi imporlance lo liu- 

 maiuty. — London Farmers'' Journal. 



Something in a name. — Turnerelli, the, cele- 

 brated sculptor was an Irishman by birth, anil 

 his patronymic name Turner, under which hum- 

 ble appellation, though his genius was great, be 



■vire for the purpiise; as 1 have proved that H 

 chain of sixty feet long, made of iron wire, 

 lengthened fbnrleen inches from its being oxi- 

 tlized. Copper docs not yield lo the oxide as 

 iron does. A. B.\NAT. Lund. Meek. .Mu<r. 



O 



Gallopii'g Mutch. — The race for a thousand 



found himself without palronage. By Ihe ad '' ^^'fS^^^ '" .f"'''" '""^,^''^'^ '""!' place on 

 vice of a friend he added elli to hisna,fe,whioilJf^'V"'^^'y %" ''^, our miles sweep IroovFrond- 

 somuch was Ihe rage to employ /o„,;.,;arti^s, *^'*"^'" '° ^;f!","-'''»s,'^;;:'' >^'"een Ihe Ber 



soon obt<iined hiai the success to which beJol'e 

 his merits claimed him in vain. — Ibid. 'i 



Preserving Man'^cl Wurt^el. — \ writer forWe 

 Farmers' Journal observes that he has practis- 

 ed with success the following mode of proser 



alleuqit at agricultural itii,7rovemei4, and being 1 i„g i|,at valuable root. '• I 



myself persuaded that ifie fVuils of oi;r orchards , l,e1,lj«, about seven feet wide 



are susceplible of sucli improvement as fo rival I i,pgi„ by forming the oo'tsides with roots not 



Ihe productions of the vineyards of France or 'i,qq„,d of Ibeir lops ; tops outwards- the in- 



Ilaly, I irusf you will excu.'c every effort, how-! lernal parts to be tille.l with roots 'wilhoul 



ever feeble, to awaken the attention of our rp-Mp^yes ; conlinue one I 



,, ,. ,. , ,, I - -■•- l«yer over another, until 



speclable agnculluialisls lo this most valuable I, he heap is about six feet hi-h, an,l aboi<l hvo 

 and comfortable iiroduclion of their farm-. And j feet broad at lop, which ma/ be cover, d with 

 *vere not Ihe remark capable of a disadvaula- | s(,.;,,v j,„,) i,;,rC 



train mare, Ph»be, and Diadem, considered by 

 iheir owners, Mr. V^se and Captain Douglas-, 

 the lies! hunters in Ihe kingdom. 'l"he start w : 

 half an lionr'.s gallop, rode by Ihe owners, an.; 

 lo clear a si,x feet leaji at Ihe end of Ihe liiird 

 mile. Diadem led and cut out the ivork at fu!l 

 '• I pacJt it in. iMil'l"'*''" "'*^ '"■"*^ keeping close at her haunchc- 

 le at Ihe boiti-m- ] j '^'•l <'e>red the leap without difTicully, and a 

 severe lacfi followed. After twenly-fivc min- 

 ifies tlie mare got a-head^in a neck trial, and she 

 lion Ihe match by sevcrai lengths, performin" 

 ^ipven miles and a few yard= in llie half hour. 



geous construction, and too presuming. I would jde 

 say Ihal you could do much towards so ilesira- 

 ble a result by increasino; the amount of your 

 annual premium. I pretend not to have discov- 

 ered Ihe best possible melhoil of making and 

 preserving Cider— but such, as above described, 

 arc '' the kind and quidily of the apples" from 

 ivhichihe barrel I now offer lo your examination 

 and use was made ; and such " tliP process of 

 making and preserving it." To my knowledge, 

 there is no other foreign mixture, no colouring, 

 ,ur siveeteniug, than the adililion of the Iwo 

 quarts ol spirits tibove menlinued. In my opin- 

 ion all such mixtures are hurtful, unless .such as 

 are barely necessary to picserve it from an uu- 

 :imely aciility. There is no belter Cider than 

 the pure juice of the apple. 



1 ought to have menlion-d iu its place, Ihal 

 !he Cid«r I now o!T.t to you, when lakeu from 

 Ihe pres^j^was leached ihrough about six inches 

 of clean coarse sand. But I am not apfirised 

 Ihat it is either better or worse on that account. 



The above is submitled lo y^ur in-jJection 

 and disposal, by your huniblo -ervant. 



JCSEPil GOFFE. 



MUlbury. Oct. 12, 1825. 



the emis of the heap should 

 secured in the same way ; the lea\est"oim 

 in elficitnt covering against rain or fio>t."' 



'lorting Ma:c':. — On Wodne.-day, a marc, i\\ 

 yeirs old, and under lil'lcen h.inds, was backn 

 fotja Ka^er of liO,'. to Irnl sixly mile.s in six h>mr,-. 

 lolind fro, between the Angel Inn, 0:d-brid?i\ 

 B:ijh, and Salford turnpike-gale ! She carried 

 Di^ferevt Effects nf A'nturul and .];-.';/;c«;/j "'"^ *'*'"''i ■'"•' accomplished llie la^k 2:) min 

 Lii^ht on t'lunls.— The following rxtierinicnt /''"-r ■''"'' *'^'^""''' **'''''^^ ''■ne. Bcls lo a large 



tpi 

 was madi! a lew dxys since by Mr Henry Phil- 

 lips lo show the diriereul elTects of natural and 

 arlilicial ligiil on idanl.s. He S(decled plants of 

 Ihe iniinnsa elcgans nova and rfeewrrc/ii, whilst 

 their penui.led leaves ivere fully expanded. — 

 On placing Ihem in a dark room, the leaves im- 

 mediately collapsed like Ihe sticks of a fan, or 

 as the feathers of a bird's wing fold over each 

 othe.r. The sirongest arlilicial light Ihat could 

 now be thrown on them bail no eiloct on the 

 autiiniatic motion of ihe [ilants, and (he foliage 

 remained in a collapsed stiit'^, until they were 



mount were pending. 



i SUGAil FROM CCET.'^. 



The bulletin of Ibe society in France for en- 

 coii-aging national industry for July lasl, con- 

 laiit llie lollovving interesting :nlelli"-cnce. The 

 perteverance of M. Chaptal, the President, in 

 his tfForls lo encourage the manufacture of su- 

 gar loin bei'ls, has com|)le!eiy succeeded, and 

 it is (xpected thai France will soon be able lo 



_ _ ^ produce sulliciint of this article for her own 



removed inio Ihe paloral li>/ht nf il'iv"! when l'^""""""!^''""- '"« "'^^C'-'ed In the most posili; e 



their seiisilive properties immedialelv bee ime 

 perceptible, and ihi' whcde of Ihe leaflets were 

 st'cn moving towards their natur.il and eleganl 

 direction wiih as much regularity .is a re<;iment 

 of soldiers lile olf al the word of command. 



JSiighlon Oazitle, (A'ng.) 



Winter food for Co:3!s. ~M. Charhert, Ihe di- 



miiiiter, thai sugar from beets and sugar from 

 c.iies, are | recisely the same substances. It is 

 acknowledged thai Ihe cnltivalion of beets is 

 very beneticial to land in preparing it lijp a wheat 

 cmp, and after Ihe s.iccharme m, liter is exlrac-« 

 Ie8, Ibe root is excellent food for callle. Be- 

 sn'es the produce of sugar, Ihe manufacturer 

 olfains also molasses, which gives a considera- 



rector of the vetetinary school of Alforl, had blu quauUly of brandy— and lu the uianulacluro 



