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want them. Then cook them, or eat them raw 

 with vinerrar, pepper and sah. 



A cheap and excellent dish — Take colil cooke ' 

 iiit^al ot" atiy kind, chop it fine, season wiih salt, 

 pepper, and a little builer and s[)ice if you like. 

 Then take stale hread, eay one-third to two of 

 meat, soak it in milk or water, takiiiij care not lo 

 make it too vvci; ilien take lour or six lar<re ripe 

 tomatoes, skin them, chop them fine, put tliem with 

 the meat and hread, mix them well totjeiher, put 

 in a deep dish,, and bake it in a slow oven on a 

 stove, for one hour; eat willi ijravy or not as you like. 



Another. — Take cold cooked meat, chop fine, 

 season with pepper, salt, and butter, (if the meat 

 is not fit); boil some poiaioe;^, mnsli them, put 

 one-third to two of the meat, mix well toirether, 

 put in a deep dish, bake slow three-quarters of an 

 hour. 



In your larjre cities there is a frreat deal of pro- 

 vision thrown away by cooks thaf might be made 

 into wholesome and palatable dishes. All the 

 above dishes 1 have made. II" our housewives 

 would look more into iheir larders, they might 

 save their liiisbands some dollars in the course of 

 the year. As this hint comes from an old lady, 

 I hope my lair countrywomen will not take it 

 amiss, but profit thereby; and to make u] , I will 

 give another recipe. 



To preserve tomotops in sugar, fake them when 

 ripe, but not too soft, skin and cut them in two, 

 taking oui tlic seeds; lake, for one pound of toma- 

 toes, three-quarters of a pound of sugar, loaf or 

 brown; loaf is best to Iceep tht^m. First take two 

 fresh lemons, cut them in thin slices, put them in 

 one quart of vva'er, boil them until soft, strain the 

 t=eeds out, add the sugar, let it boil lor half an liour 

 slowly, then put in as many tomatoes as not to 

 croivd them. Let them boil until clear, then take 

 them out caiefully with a skimmer, lay them on a 

 large dish, then put more in. and boil them the same; 

 do "so until all are done. When cold, put them in 

 glass jars. If there is not syrup enough to cover 

 them, make a little more. When all is cold, dip 

 white writing paper in brandy, cover them with it, 

 put double paper over them, tie them tight, and 

 keep them in a cool dry place. 



I ho|)e that your young housewives will en- 

 deavor to be the mothers of invention, and have 

 the credit of making their own recipes and cookery. 



If you think the above recipes worthy a corner 

 in the Ladies' Department of your useful and val- 

 uable periodical, by so placinii them you will oblige 

 E. M. P. Darby.' 



For the Farmers' Register. 

 QN THE MANURING OF ARABLE I.ANDS BY 

 TH F.IR OWN VEGETABLE GROWTH. — ROTA- 

 TIONS OF CROPS. 



No. I. 



On green manuring, and the advantages of the sys- 

 tem in cleansing land of weeds, and destroying 

 insects. 



The ploughing in of green crops of annuals, to 

 rnanure the land on which they grow, has long 

 been recommended by agricultural writers, and has 

 often been practiced to small e.xtent, and under 

 particular circumstances. 1 am not aware that 

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any experiments liavc ever been made sufliciently 

 accurate to test the absolute or comparative value 

 of this mode of manuring; and, even without ex- 

 periment, it has never been made a regular and 

 continuous practice any wl'iere. This neiilect of 

 the practice seems to otier a strong indicaiioii of its 

 want of utility, or cconcmiy. But on the oilier 

 hand, it should be observed that there were strung 

 obje'.'tions to ilie system in England, on the score 

 of expense in rent, and in this country, of expense 

 in labor; and in the absence of all certain and rm- 

 qu?slionahle results ol experiment and practice, 

 tiiese certain and heavy expenses were to be ex- 

 pected toout-weiizh the prospective and conjectu- 

 ral profits. Clover, only, has been turned in to 

 great extent, in its green state — or common weeds, 

 in the absence of clover ; but this was done not so 

 much lo gain the manure, as to prepare the land 

 for wheat. And great as has been the profit of 

 this manuring by green clover, the particular 

 share of benefit to the next crop, and to the soil, 

 due to that cause alone, has never been estimated, 

 much less ascertained by [iroper experiments. 



Col. John Tayior was the first who, both by 

 precept and example, established the practice of 

 manurii!g the fields by their own cover of artificial 

 grass or of natural weeds. This recommendation 

 was most opportune to the then circumstances of 

 the agriculture of Virginia, and that, still more than 

 the reasoning and exanqile of the distinguished 

 author, caused early and extended applications of 

 his "inclosing." or non-grazing system, for im- 

 provement. The inducing citcuuisiances were 

 several. Most of the old lands in lower Viririnia, 

 were then cultivated in what was called the "three- 

 shiit" system — or corn, vvlieat, and a year of rest, 

 (if rest it could be called,) under close grazing; 

 and nothing was needed but lo forbid all grazing 

 of a particular field, or of all the fields of a liirm, to 

 establish at once the "inclosing sj'stem.'" Then, 

 the amount of the rubbish natural growth on poor 

 fields was worth so little to the live-stock, that 

 the loss on that score could not be much; and the 

 urgent wants of the poor land lor some help, and 

 the hopelessness of ever supplying that want by 

 manure from the barn-yard and stock-pens, served 

 to present the other as the only resource, lor gen- 

 eral or extensive benefit. Again, there was some- 

 thing very inviting in the idea of manuring the 

 largest fields by merely letting them alone for one 

 year, or for two years under the author's extend- 

 ed and approved rotation. Those who belore had 

 not manured five acres a year, by means of all 

 01 her vegetable materials used, might then manure 

 100 or 200 acres; and if the effects of the manure, 

 should be worth but little, its cost would be still 

 less. 



But the vegetable manure thus applied and re- 

 commended by Col. Taylor, was not green, but 

 dry ; and he used at least plausible and ingenious 

 arijuments to sustain his novel jjosition, that vege- 

 tables in their dry state were better lor manure 

 than if ploughed under when green. Thisopi 

 nion, and the circumstances of his and the other 

 usual rotations of the country, served to withdraw 

 all his followers from the class of applyers oC green 

 crops as manure; though Taylor, notwithstanding 

 this limitation imposed by hiinselt, still must stand, 

 from the extent of his practice and influence, at 

 the head of the school of natural manuring by the 

 vegetable growth of the land. 



