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<JI)c Jariner's illciutl)li) bisitor. ^ 



Cheese Iilukin?. 



The first tliiiif; to he looked alter in a cheese 

 dairy, is lo |>roviile a iloztii or more good cows, 

 and these with a lidl and le^iilar supply ol"niilri- 

 tious food. — Upland pastines, or herbage that 

 grows on dry land, yields more cheese per gal- 

 lon of niilU, as well us more per week horn the 

 same cows, than grass which };iowa on wet, sour 

 soils. Having secured a sullicieiit quaiilily of 

 njilk daily to make a good cheese, the next stop 

 is to separate all the curd from the whey and re- 

 tain as much of the hntter or cream in the for- 

 mer as |jruclicahle. If this is skilfully done, and 

 the chnese properly sailed wilh pure salt, press- 

 ed and cured, a Uiu t valuable product rewards 

 the lahor of ihc dairyman. J)ltf'erer]t persons 

 liave very unlike inetnods for saving rennets, and 

 preparing them for use. We have nothing new 

 or vvorihy of note to offer on this point. A word 

 of cutilion, however, to the dairy-woman, not to 

 let incipient deconiposition in the prepared cn- 

 Irail he such as to impart an ofTeiisive taste or 

 oder to the cheese at any time. A defective ren- 

 net will spoil an otherwise most valuable curd, 

 which no after treatment can remedy. 



Wlien the gastric juice, or animal substance is 

 just what it sliouid be, the use of too much ren- 

 net is a very couimon error. Accordijig to Mr. 

 Colman, the ride in the best English dairies is to 

 ))(it into the milk no more rennet than will suffice 

 to coagulate the same, or separate the curd in 

 fifty minutes. — Dairy women are apt to be in a 

 hurry to get on with their work, and in their im- 

 patience throw in and in(;orporate wilh the curd 

 too much gastric mutter. — Jf the milk is at a. 

 proper temperature, a very little will answer the 

 purpose. i\Ir. Colman says, " the temperatiue of 

 the milk, when the rennet is applied, should be 

 from 80 to 8-1 degrees Fahrenheit." He also re- 

 marks that " the dairy-women in some parts of 

 England, who njake a very good cheese, make 

 their cheeses cold, that is, coagulate at a very 

 low teinpi;ralure. This cheese is said always lo 

 meet a ipiick demand. They likewise salt them 

 but lightly." We regard these suggestions as of 

 much practical value ; jbr we have studied with 

 some care theari as well as the science of cheese 

 making. 



Various contrivances are in use for cutting or 

 l)reaking the curd into fine pieces when it is 

 lidly solidified. The operation should be per- 

 formed with care and by an experienced hand. 

 It is easy to rob a cheese of much of its richness 

 before it goes lo press. 



The quantity of salt to be used is one pound 

 to 42 of cheese. The sail should he of the pur- 

 est kinil. The lever press is preferable lo the 

 screw, because it follows down ibe compression 

 of the curd with an unilbrm weight, and a screw 

 does not. — Genesee Funmr. 



Importaucc of Deep Tillage. 



However skilfully and philosophically we may 

 carry on our .saving and application of manures; 

 however "ell we may select our seed, and choose 

 our seed time, withoiil dee|i lillage we can by no 

 means recc:ive the maxinmni result. Drained 

 laud deeply slirred, and thoroughly pulveri/ed, 

 becomes a kinil of regulator of llie weather for 

 iltelf ; it is not soon soakeil in wet, and it forms 

 a storehouse of moistuie in dry weather. It is 

 n bad conductor of beat, and is iherefore not eas- 

 ily over heated ; but on the olher hand it is not 

 soon cooled, and so keeps up an ((jual tempera- 

 lure by night and by day, in cloud and in sunshine 

 in the higliest degree favorable to the healthy 

 development of plants. — Farmers' Herald. 



A LIVE YA.NKEK. — A Vera Cnw. correspondent 

 of the l!u^ton Alias, writes that " passing ihiough 

 one of lh(! sireels of the city he observed a sign 

 which read thus:— " 6'. ./7. COOft.'—/ee /or .s«/c." 

 After making a wager with three or Ibm" officers 

 that he was a yankee, from New Hampshir<^, we 

 went i|iio his store, luul learned that bo haih;d 

 from Wakefield, N. H. and was making u linluno 

 by selling Fresh I'ond Ice for three cents a 

 pound. 



A parchment maimfuctory has been tslahlished 

 in iN'i.-w Vork, which supplies the laml ofiice and 

 other di'parlmenis of go\erum(Mit wilh a superior 

 article — the demand for which, it has ibus (iu' 

 bi.cn diffi.nilt lo supply, owing to the scarcity of 

 Au};'rican sheep skin.-'. 



A valuable Table. 



The following table, compiled from the cnlcii- 

 lations of Jas. M. Garnet, Esq, of Virginia, will 

 he finind exceedingly valuable >to many of our 

 mechanical readers: 



A bo.\ 24 inches by 16 inches square and 22 

 inches deep will contain a barrel, or 10,852 cu- 

 bic inches. 



\ box 24 inches by IG inches square and 11 

 inches deep, will contain /in^ « iarre/, or 5,47G 

 cubic inchss. 



A box 16 inches by 10.8 inches square and 8 

 inches deep, will contain one bushel, or 2,150.4 

 cubic inches. 



A box 12 inches by 11.2 inches square, an<l 8 

 inches deep, will contain half a bushel, or 8,075 

 cubic inches. 



A box 8 inches by 8.4 inches square and 6 in- 

 ches deep, will contain one peck, or 537.1 cubic 

 inches. 



A box 8 inches by 8 inches square ami 4.2 in- 

 ches deep, will contain one half peck, or 268.8 cu- 

 bic inches. 



A box 7 inches by four inches square and 4.8 

 inches deep, will contain a half a gallon, or 131. 

 4 cubic inches. 



A box 4 inches by 4 inches square, and 4.2 in- 

 ches deep, will contain one quart, or G7.2 cubic 

 inches. 



The measures come within a small fraction of 

 a cubic inch, of being perfectly accurate, as near 

 indeed as any measures of capacity have ever 

 yet been made for common use. 



Statistics of Providence, R. I. — Among the 

 manufacturers of this eiuerprisnig city, says the 

 Journal, are calico and calandering works bleach- 

 ing 108 tons of cGtlon cloth, and [irinting 390,000 

 yards of calico weekly; cotton n)ills of 34,000 spin- 

 dles — woolen mills, which weave 375,000 yards 

 of jeans and satinets yearly — these employ 1,800 

 hamls. There are also Hvo wood-sciuw faotorics, 

 using annually 700 tons of iron; fourteen furnaces, 

 using 5,000 tons of pig iron for machinery, and al- 

 so making 5,000 plows and 14,000 stoves; 3 steam 

 engine building shops; a rolling nfdl, making ]0,- 

 000 tons of railroad iron and wire each year; 3 in- 

 dia-rubber shoe factories; one shoe tie and stay 

 lacing <Io. : one edge tool do., and 8 engraving 

 shops. These employ 1,647 hands. Cotton and 

 woolen machinery-making 6ho(is employ 1,200 

 men. SI00,000 are paid yearly for labor alone, 

 in manufacturing jewelry. 



water, which will increase its specific gravity, 

 old imperfect grains, and barley*and oats will 

 rise to the surface. Then it will be well lo steep 

 the seed a day or two in salt and water : after 

 which add half a peck of fresh slacked lime to n 

 bushel of grain, mix thoroughly, that every ker- 

 nel may become coated wilh lime. Let it re- 

 main half a day, or night, after liming, and then 

 sow. — Ex. Paper. 



The Strawberry Market. — The Goshen 

 Whig states that the dwellers along the line of 

 the Erie railway have received S'20,000 for straw- 

 berries sent this season to New York. The 

 whole number of baskets of this fruit. ^ent to New 

 Vork over this road is 602,640, being an increase 

 of 212,223 baskets over last season, or about 54 

 per-cent. The value, on an average, is 3i cents 

 a basket ; the quantity 6,277 bushels ; the weigh 

 260 tons. 



COXCOUD -VVHOr.ESAL.E 



CASH PRICES CURRENT. 



Fur West India Goods & Groceries, Flour, Grai.n, Pro- 

 duce, Iron & Steel, Plaster, Salt, Lime, &lc. &c. 



Corrected for the Farmer's Monthly Visitor by GIL- 

 iMORF. ^ CL.\PP. at the Depol Store, Concord. 



Aug. 30,1847. 



Flax and Flax Seed. — The Eaton (O.) Reg- 

 ister says that Preble county is the greatest flax 

 growing county in tb.it state or the Union. This 

 year the crop exceeds any previous one, in the 

 quamity sown; and tlie yield of seed will be 

 above an average. It is computed that 100,000 

 bushels of seed will be raisiul this year ; of this 

 quantity one-tenth vvill he required for home con- 

 sinnplion, leaving 90,000 biisliids for market. 

 This, at the price at which seed now rales, ,55 

 cents, will bring into tlie comity the neat sum of 

 .$47,500. The fiax (U'op, if some means of pre- 

 paring the bat could he devised, woidd be very 

 profitable'. Lint, just as it comes from the brake, 

 is worth $25 per ton. 



(/EKT.-fica'ie op Presidents of the United 

 States. — IJeing satisfied from observation and 

 experience, as well as from medii'al tesliaiony, 

 ibat ardiMit spirit, as a drink is not only needless, 

 but hurtful ; and that tin; entire disuse of it 

 would tend lo promote the health, the virtue ami 

 tli(^ happiness of the coiiimuuily — we hereby ex- 

 press our conviction, that should the citizens of 

 the United States, and especially all young^men, 

 discoiuitenance entirely the use of it, they would 

 not mily promote their own personal bimefit, hut 

 the good of oiu- comitry ami the world. 



.SigncMl, .Iameu Madison, 



.John Quincv Adams, 



October, 1834. A.mirkw Jackso.n. 



Prkfaration or Seed Wheat. — By selves of 

 suitirble size, the largest and best grains may be 

 seperatcd. I5y washing in water, light seeds of 

 various kinds, and the lightest grain, will swim, 

 and may he skimmed oft". Hy adding salt to the 



ASHES, Pots, 51 



Pc-arls : 6 



ALUM, 4 



BIll.MSTONE, Roll 3 



Sulplmr, 4 



CAMPHon. Kofined, SO 



CANDLES, Mould, 12 



Sperm, 32 



COFFEE, St. Domingo, 6 



Porto Rico, 9 



Porto Cabello, 9 



Old GovernmentJava,... tl 



COPPERAS, 2 



FISH, Dank, }> quintal, ..3,50 



Pollocii, 2,75 



Bay, 4,00 



Old Dun, .'i.OO 



No. 1 Salmon, ^bbl, 14,00 



No. I Shad, p-bbl, 12,00 



Tun's t Sounds, ^ bbl, 0,00 



H.n.Fins,f>bbl, 12,00 



FLOU It, Genrsee 6,50 



Fancy brand, 7,00 



Ohio, Akron, 8,00 



Spauliling, extra, 8,00 



J. It Beach, 8,00 



FRUIT. Figs, 10 



Raisins, blue mark, 6,50 



Black mark, 6,00 



Box, bunch, 2,00 



FUSTIUK, Cuba, l/Hon, 30,00 



Tampico, 22,0i) 



Ground, )p; hund 1,75 



GLUE, Russian best, 17 



American II 



GRALN. Gilts, 43 cents 1(> bu 



Corn, 1,00 do bu 



Rye, 87.iCts. dobu 



Beana, 75®I,50 



Peas, 50® 75 



GRIXIISTO.XES, 1st qual- 

 ity, IlMis!u^d,|f> hund. 2,25 

 Do. do. unfinished, 1,50 



Hi;i;uiXG,|j*hox, No. 1,. .50 

 .ScahMl, 75 



INDIGO, Bengal,.!, lord) 1,75 

 :qranish float,... 1,00 ra) 1,50 

 Manilla 75f(i)l,25 



tROX, Old Sable, 5 



KuKlish, 4 



Banks, relined, 4.\ 



English, sheet, li 



Russia, do 12(fi)I3 



Old Sable nail rods, 5^ 



Noiiveyian do t> 



riuninun do 4, J 



Enslisli hoop, 5 



American do 4 



Silioe Shape?, .^m 45 



Swedi^s, shoe shapes, 43 



LE.VrilER. New York 

 Sole Leather, Light, 17 (a) 

 Do. Heavy, 15 f,r) 



LIME, Thoniaston, hist 



qiialitv, 1,95 



Camden, do 1,00 



LOGWOOD, St. Doniin- 



Bo,tt» Ion 22,00 



Campeac hy , . .^ 27 ,00 



Gritiirid, j,'- bund 1,75 



MACKEREL, No. 1, ^ 



bbl 11,00 



No. 2 8,.'i0 



No. 3, (1,50 



MOLASSES, Havana 27 



Surinam, , SB 



Trinidad 30 



Porio Rico, :n 



Suiar House, 50 



N.MI.S. Ooslim Iron Co'> 



liriMil 4S 



old Cidony do 4i 



Wevnunith Iron C'o 41 



Mahteu, 4j 



Pt,'\STHR, ||> Con t;,00 



Do. wrriunil 10,00 



PROVISIO.NS. Pork F.x- 



tra clear t(>^ bhl, 2r.,00 



Couiin<.ndo 2J,00 



Extra Mess 21,00 



Comnion do 1 9,00 



Butter,^ lb, 10f(i20 



Cheese, new n)i!ch,...7(a8 



Four meal, 5® 6 



Dried apple, best, 5 



Lard, northern II 



Do. southern, 10 



Turkeys & Chickens, best ,9 



Gnslins, best, 4 



Round Hogs, 8 



REDWOOD, ground, ^ 



hund 2,75 



Nicaragua, ^ ton,. ...35,00 



RICE.IC hund. best, 6,00 



ROSIN, \* bhl 2,50 



SAL/ERATUS,firstquality,7i 

 SALT, St. Ubes, V> hhd. 4,00 



Cadiz 3,50 



Biinaires 4,00 



Turks Island 4,00 



Liverpool, 3.50 



Do. fine, tVorthingston 



brand, frV hag, 2,00 



Do. other brands, 1,75 



SALTPETRE, crude 8 



Do. refined, 9 



SEED. Clover, norlliern,. 10 



Do. southern 9 



Herds grass, ^bu 2,75 



SHEETINGS, prime 1?-yd ..8 

 SHINGLES, first quality, 



No. I, piMe,ip> M 3,50 



do. do. do. spruce 2,2.~» 



SHIKTLN'GS, Vjard, 6t 



SHOT, assorted, oi 



SHOVELS, cast steel, |^ 



doz 10,00 



Steel pointed do 9,00 



Iron do. best 8,00 



Do. ccunnlon, 6,5U 



SOAP, Caslile, 10 



White- Soap, best 8 



Brown, No. I, 4 



Family, 5 



Extra 6 



SPICES. Cassia, in mats, 20 



Do. ground, 14 



Cloves 30 



Ginger, pure, 9 



Mace,lt> lb, 1,00 



NutU'egs, best, 1,50 



Pimento, whole 12 



Do. ground, 14 



Pepper, whole, 9 



Do. ground, 10 



STEEL, Swedes, best 74 



Sanderson, Brothers & 



Co. cast steel, 16j 



Jessupfc Son, do 17 



Geriimn, oest, 12^ 



Do. comaton ^ 



Coach spring, best, TSJ 



SUGARS. Brown Hava- 

 na, verj* best 8 



Do. do. prime, 7^ 



Do. do. lair, 7 



Double refin. East B. loaf,! I 



Do. do. crushed, II 



Do. do. powdered, Hi 



t^onimon loaf, 10 



Porto Rico, besl, 8^ 



Purified Muscovado do . . .e| 



TAR, lr> bbl 3,S0 



TE.\S. Gunpowder, best 



quality, 11* lb, 75 



lliiperiai, do 80 



llvson.do 00 



Hyson Skin, do 30 



Voiing Hyson, common, .35 



Do. do. lair, 40 



I)o. do. good, 45 



1)0. do. best, 55 



TOBACCO, common ke|;,..li 



Good do 10 



Cnninlon box, S 



Good do I2J 



Honey Dew, do. belt IS 



Cavendish, 95 37 



