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""^c 'Jarmcr\q inmithln Visitor. 



From Mrs. Child's " Frugal Housewife." 

 Items of Domestic Economy. 



It }ou liiive a gi-fuier (jtiutility oC citecses in 

 tlie liouse tliaii is lilttly to lie soon u.-ed, cover 

 tliKin fuiol'ull)' uilli |iii|>fi- /iisteneil on wiilj Dour 

 I'uste, so iis lo t.Mlnde llie iiir. Jn lliis way iliey 

 may lie l<e(it IVec lioin insects (or year.---. 'I'ljey 

 should lie Ue|il in a dry cool place. 



Tack svveei, June liiitier in a clean, studded fir- 

 kin, cover ii « iili stroni; lii ine, and spread a cloih 

 idl over llie top, and it will keep good until ilie 

 Jews -el into Grand Ij-le. Jfy,,,, j.appcn to liave 

 a Ijit ol .saltpetre, di.ssolve it v\illi the lirine. XJai- 

 ry Honieil say that hotter conies more readily, 

 nnd has a peculiar hardness and sweetness, if the 

 creani is scaliled and slruined before ii is used. 

 J he cream should stand down cellar aver iiiiiht, 

 alter heing scalded, Ihm it may cool. 



Ahoni the last of May, or (irsl of June, the lit- 

 tle millers winch lay muih-eggs hegin to appear. 

 Ihereliire hiush idl your woolens, and pack them 

 away in a daik place covered uilfi linen. Pep- 

 per, red cedar chips, lodacco— indeed, almost any 

 stionjr spi.-y smell— is jiood lo keep moths out 

 0/ yonr cheats and drawers. JJnt nothing so 

 good as camphor. Spiiiikle your woolens with 

 canijilioraledtpii-iis, and scalier p'ieces of cairi- 

 plior gnni among lliein,an(l you will never he tioii- 

 hled with moths. 



It is thought to be a preventive lo tiie unheaithy 

 niHuence ol encumbers lo cut the slices very thin, 

 anil drop each one into cold Hater as you cut ii! 

 A few iniiintes in the water takes out a'largc por- 

 tion of the slimy matter, so injurious to healili. 

 Ihey should he eaten witli high seasoning. 



Lime pulverized, sifted through cf.arse mnsliii 

 and siirred 'jji tolerably thick in white of egg.--, 

 makes a strong cement for g!:i.ss or china. Plast'^r 

 of Fans is siill better. It should he stirred ui. 

 by the ipoonlul, as it is wauled. 



Honey may be se|)aialed from ihe conili, by 

 placing It in the hot sun, or belbre a fire, with 

 I wo oj- three seivcs, each finer tljaii the other, un- 

 der it. 



In Canada, they cut the skin ofpalaloes all ofi; 

 and put iheni in pans, to be cooked over a stove, 

 by steam. Tliose wlio have eaten iheni, say il.ey 

 are mealy an.! white, looking like large snow- 

 balls when Ill-ought iijiuii the table. Pjlatoes 

 lioiled mashed while hot, are good to u.-e in ma- 

 king sliorl-cakes and puddings; they save f^our, 

 and less shorleniiig is necessary. 



When green peas have becoine old and jellow. 

 Ihey may be made tender and green by sprink- 

 ling in a jiiiich or two of peaila.-l), wiiiie tli;v 

 are boiling. Pearlusli has the same efltcl U|ion 

 all Slimmer vegetable.^, leiideied tough bv hL-iu" 

 1.-J0 old. Jfyonr well waler is vcj-y hard,*it is al"^ 

 wajs an advantage to use a little pearlash in cn.-k- 

 ing. 



Put in no green vegetables until the water boiLs, 

 it you would keep all their sweetness. 



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a greater distance. If the colt still shy.--, let tl,,; 

 dislance be farther iiicioased, until he takes no 

 notice of the object. 'I'hen he may be gradually 

 brought nearer lo ii, and this wilTbe usually ef- 

 fected wilhoni the slighu-st difficnlly; whereas, 

 had tliei-e been an attempt to force him close to 

 II in the first instance, ilie remeinlirance of the 

 coniest would have been associated with every 

 appearance of the object and llie h.-.bit ofshyiii" 

 would have been eslablislied.— /'rainV Farmer. " 



('ai'T. Daniel Chandler, Siipei intcndeni of 

 the House of Industry, S..nth Roomn, died last 

 week ol the ship fever. For a number of years 

 he had tlie <-are of ihat inslilnliou, ami was" dis- 

 tinguished for W\iifalhtrhj Uiiubiess over nfainihi 

 of some liiindred.-- of unf.ii tuiuiie pcr.sons. As 

 a practical fanner and gardener, he was amou" 

 the most iiHelligeiit and skilliil. He possessed 

 great energy, bni loo much was incumbent on 

 hull for one nun to perform. The siiperiiilend- 

 encc of the farm and garden, with the poorest 

 of help, and the care td" 8 or 900 persons, 200 

 of H bom were sick. lie cmitemiilated lea'vin.r 

 that siliialion to eiijoy the (ileasni-HS of rural re"- 

 tiremeni, and was bnildiii!.' a splendid and beau- 

 tiful house in Le,\:ngtoii, which we lately noticed 

 was far advanced towards a stale of coiii|letioii. 

 Bui everything on earlh is imcertaiii, and the best 

 laid (dans of men are scattered as njioii the u iiids. 

 — Boston Cultivator. 



TREATMt.NT OF Colts.— Mr. Yonalt, in his 

 (reali-e on ilie horse, gives some e.\cellpnt direc- 

 lions for the ireulment ofjoimg liorses duriiM>- 

 the process ol' their education. He inainlams 

 that I oils are seldom or never vicious. In naime, 

 lo any such degree thai lliey may not be eniirelv 

 Biibdned and rendered li-aciable by kindness, ami, 

 \u the snl>se']uent parts of breaking, firmness.— 

 The greater miinber of horses, wliicli have lie- 

 come unfit fin- use by reason of tlieir iinmaiia"e- 

 ableness either in th." bariKjss or saddle, have be't'ii 

 iimde so by injudicious trealmenl. 



Young horses are often very [lerverse, bin iheir 

 pei-verseiiess will be generally overcome by per- 

 severing kindness. Ji may be neces-^ary to lire 

 cori-eciion ; liul ii should alwajs be deferred till 

 the er.i liesi processes of educ-ation are completeil, 

 so that the animal may undeistand cleaily wliat 

 it is required to do. 



The breaking of a colrshonld cominence from 

 ihe lime of weaning; for if delayed any consid- 

 erable lime, bis streiiglh and obstinacy will be 

 (iir more diiricnll to overcome. Tfie n"siial mode 

 of accustoming the animal to the halter, the bit 

 and Ihe saddle, are well enough understood. 



The colt may now be laken into the street, in 

 be gradually accustomed to the objects amon" 

 which his services will be required. Here, from 

 I'ear or playfiilness, a considerable dc'irei; of start- 

 ing and shying may be exhibited. .-\s little no- 

 tice as po.s.sihie slioiihl be taken of it. The same 

 or a .■•imilai- o'ljept slinnld be ()a.ssed again, but at 



Bkitism Hop Trade.— The number of acrcK 

 of land, says the Washington {inion, in Gieal 

 liriiam under the ciillivaiion of ho|iri, in th.-yepi 

 I8if), amounted to 51,9J8. The doty on lu^.f 

 of th'j year J84G, amounted to £443,057. 'liie 

 quantity of British hops exjiorteil fiomGreal Hrll- 

 ani lo various foreign couiili ies, in 1840, was 448,- 

 '^^^ ''if:, ''''"' <1"'<"'>'y of '"oi-eign hops exported 

 was .57/ cwt., and tlie quantity imporled 3,283 

 cwt. almost exclusively from the Unii-d Siales 

 of America. Thetotal number of pounds weidil 

 of hops charged with the duty in the several col- 

 lections ofthe United Kingdom, in 1840, ainounl- 

 ed to 50,704,02.5. 



Good Pay.— In Aberdeen the streets are sweiit 

 every day, at an animal cost of £1400, and the 

 refuse brrngs in £2CC0 a year. In Perth the scav 

 cnging costs £1300 per aimnm, and the manure 

 .sells for £1730. Here, then, is a gain of sterlim' 

 go.d— a premium for saving immortal life. 



fc-LBOU.NG THE lUviNGS OF JnSA.MTV BV 



ETnKR.-A celebi-alcd French physician in Ihe 

 Heparlmeniot llicl.nwcr P.»i-enees ni France, 

 has been very succes.sf'ul in apphing ,-ulphuric 

 ether m cases ol lunacy. At a fimalic as> h.m in 



nuniHi.CaX.nove, the head surgeon, was the 



^™' '" '">■ " seofcihernpona niad gdrl. The 



.young creamre -h,„l h'.f>n unable to obTaii, sleep 

 for hve mourh.-. .'^be -.uis made to inliale eiher, 

 and hri-agrtHtioii soon ceased. After live iiihala- 

 ions -he fell 111,,, a complete .s-tale of insen.sibil- 

 ily, which laMcd iweniy-iivc miimics, ami at the 



end .If tlian.me Hie mrpor ceased, and no symp. 

 loms of disorder .-emain.-d. This ether {., indee.l 

 .. great discovery ! What a pity t|,at it should 

 not be iiseil lo sodeii tlie excitement of a liiol, 

 temper, as well us in insl.-;nces of insanity. U(i- 

 curbeil temper is near allied to adiial insanity. 



Crops of the L'.mted State.';.— The Wash- 

 ington ti-a contains an estimate taken from the 

 letter "' 'I"-- SVrieiary of the Treasury, of De- 

 eemberlO, Ifc4b, of the qiiantiiv of each of the 

 lollowmg staples, raise.l in the l.'iiiie.l Slates du- 

 ring Hie year 1840, will, the value of each pro- 

 ductioii acconling ,o ,l,e price il,ey bore in the 

 ^ew \ork market on the 1st of December last 



Cotl<,ii, 700.000,000 lbs, 

 Oat.--, 17a528,800 bush. 

 Rice, 97,74 I, .500 lb..*. 

 Barley, 5,(i7(j,000 bnsi, 

 R\e, 20,892.500 

 VVheai, 117,202,800 " 

 Corn. 4,59,000,900 " 



worili 



$73,150,000 



09,.507,4I0 



378e,4s3 



3,434,343 



23,405,013 



1^1,011,891 



314,871. i-r^O 



li!E GoLDE.N Nail— An Alchemical A.nfc- 

 bote.— Thuriiis Sero-s a man of infinite whim 

 and n,aili,e5.s, was the amhor of some work-- 

 which snliicienlly prove that his natural lemper 

 was not much to be relied on. '4'he story of Ids 

 golden nail is curious. Having worked away hi-- 

 foituue inalchymy,and finding hi.s schemes 'vain, 

 he liad a mind al once to get into the .service of' 

 a certain prince, and to establish a character of 

 hiin.«elf lo all the world, as if po.sse.'^scil of the 

 grand alchemical secret. To this purpose he ile- 

 clar<Ml that he had found out a liquor w bii-h would 

 immediately convert all metals (tlun^'ed into it 

 into gold. The prince, tlie nobility ofthe place, 

 and all the liler.iti, were invited to see the experi- 

 ment ; and the chemi-t bavins prepared ;i l.ir.>e 

 nail, the half of which was iron, and the other 

 half gold, well joined together, coated over ll,e 

 gold part with a lliin crust of iron, which he join- 

 ed so nicely to Ihe rest of the iron, that no eve 

 cnuhl discover the fallacy. Havii:g this ready, 

 he placed his vessel of liquoron the table, whii-'h 

 w,is no other than common aqwi fortis. Then 

 .-ending lo a sh( p for some nails of the same kind, 

 he by an e.-u-^y kind of leger<lemaiii, when he .had' - 

 d.-,-ii-ed 111.- company to examioe them, ami see 

 lout liny were real nails, look out his own, and 

 alier tiiriiiug it aboul before ihe comj,-,ny, plung- 

 ed it half way into the liquor; a hi.-.-iiig and b>,b- 

 bling noise aros.-. and ibe aqua forth iinm.-diate- 

 lydissobed, ami waslied off the ii-oii coat, and 

 the gold appeai-eil. The n.iil was handed i-oniul 

 lo li.e whole company, and finally delivered lo 

 die prince, in whose cabinet it ,,ovv i-emaiii.<«.— 

 The gohf maker was desired to dip more iiaiN- 

 -mil oilier tilings; lint ha immediately threw away 

 the hquor, leliing them lli,-y had seen eiiomdl. 

 He was made happy (or the rest of his life : bm 

 all the entreaties in the world coidd never gel i. in, 

 to make any more srold. 



From Ibis estimate it would appear ihal'ilie 

 entire grain crop alone of m,r counlrv, fi.r the ' 

 as_t year, was worth the eiiormoiis snm'of ,«536- 

 l3/,o59. ' 



Scraps of Information.— The number of 

 !>l.-mts III the worhl has been variously estimated 

 at from .30,000 to 100,000. ^^s'lmaied 



The largest tree in ihe world is in Africa : sev- 

 eral negro (ainilies resiile inside the irni'k 



The Ne(innlliu.s of India fiirnishes water in its 

 leaves, which not only have puckers, but covers 

 toihein. 



The pear leaf has .24,000 pore., to the square 

 inch, cm the under side. The pink has aboiu ,33 - 

 5U0. borne plains liave a-5 many as 100 COO ' 



A sinale barleycorn, in Pari.«,;,i-oduced 45 col- 

 umns, containing 18,000 < orn.s of barley. 



Kay, the ceU-biated boi.inist, coimied 32,900 

 seeds m the head of a poppy. 



There are 3.50,000 seeds in tl,c capsule of a to- 

 bn.-i-o jilaiit. 



Haller .-ays that a single licuse fly will, in ono 

 season, produce 20,080,210 flies. " 



Polish Honey.- Poland is perlia|,8 the -leat- 

 est honey iirodin-ing c.-iuiury in Eui-.,|,f.. jT, the 

 provinces of Po.hilia, Ukraine, and Vollnnia, in 

 r-ai-ticnlar, llie cultivation of the honey bee has 

 Ions formed an object of national im'portance • 

 ami lliese bee gardens are not only very numer- 

 ous and exieia-ive, hot the;, are al.so commoi. in, - 

 olhcr parlsof the Kingdon:. There are .-otia-p.s" 

 m PolamI, wiih very small poriions of 1,-md "i-t: '" 

 lacne.l to iheni, on ulm-haie lo be seen as many"''! 

 as buy hive..; while lliere are farmers and land.-d 

 pn.pi-ietors "ho are in po.ssession of fr.ni, iCO to 

 ,0,000 hives! i I, ere are some Carmers w ho co'- 

 le.-t aimnally more than 200 barrels of fine hoiiev 

 .'.ach ban-el weighing frmii 400 to 500 lbs., exclu- 

 sive of the wa.x. A tenant is often in this wav 

 enabled lo pay his i-miI and taxes, to ,h fray oth.-'r 



ilomesl a- expenses, ami often to a. -cumulate han.l- 

 sonie dowries lor his .hi,,;; liters. 



Ao VouNG ME.v.-There is no nmu.i el.ject ,.„ 

 •K-antiful to me as a ,-ons,-eiilious vonng man ' I 

 watch 4iim as I do a star in the iK^avens; clouds 

 may be beh„-e hi , , b,„ we know thai his liM.t 

 IS behind them, ami will beamaiiain; the blaze 

 of oihei s prosperity may omsbme him. but we 

 kno>v, that thmigli mi.-ecn, he illumines his own 

 ■splieie. 



Plants, like living animals, leqiiire certain de- 

 .s,-riptioiisoffi,o,l to biingilieni to a nntural stale 

 of |.er,ecti-jn, ami ihe iiulividiial whoslmlies N-.. 

 lore's law-., in lb,- mam:gement of his .-rops, m'.d 

 attends rigidly to iheir le.piiremenis, can scarpt- 

 ly fail in being a Miccp.«-lu! cnliivator. 



