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uli)£ jTanucr's iUiniti|(ij "bisitor. 



mspgaa sk-.. ,^»>..^ »*— W L^aaE^ ^ii M fe^» gag=Mr.y:ssr»7a5g3rTaSig^ 



a pan full of boiling pork fat or lard. Tlie grand to their lieari' 

 •^ point is tlien to serve it np before tlie ice has olf, iniresislin; 

 time to melt. What may lie the pceuliar r.ttrac- 

 tion of this dainty dish it woidd he h\rd to .-ay; 

 for, tliotigii frOiCen inside, it bm-ii!- the inoiitli 

 wheiifii' tt ted. AsinaM 'ilateliil costs six lans, 

 (about 3(i<!.) The Chinese viands in general are 

 disagrf .-ciole to a Enropeaii, as tliey do not use 

 salt in their cookery, and do use an iaiinoderate 

 quantity of pork fat, bi-eid^^; ginger and garlic. 

 The roast meats, however, it must bo adn/ittcd, 

 form an honorabis exception, and would be :ic- 

 ceptable even at the table of a Parisian gaslronome. 

 The inifiiense number of taverns (or traiUurs) in 

 Fekin find no want of support, as it is tlic cus- 

 tom to entertain guests there, and not at private 

 houses, to which relationship or very ['articular 

 intimacy alone can ■jive a claim to be invited. 

 A b.mquet at ont cf the -e houses is considered 

 to be a iiecessary coMchisiji. 'o tht' p'easure of n' 

 theatric"! eriteriainmenr, which is generally 0V3r 

 bj' si.t ii; the evcnm<i, beginning at tl3v=>n in tl e 

 forenoon. At these dinii^rs or suppers the hand- 

 som." b'>ys w'.io piay the female jiarts are fre- 

 quent guest;:, and they are allowed to select the 

 dishes. Their choice, as may be supposed, is 

 seldom guided by economy, and indeed it oeca- 

 Fionaliy happens that tliey have an understand- 

 ing with the master of the house. These boys 

 are generally elegantly dressed, polished in their 

 manners, and fluent and even witty in tlieir con- 

 versation. 



The Chinese women are to be seen neither in 

 the temples nor the theatres, nor the taverns, but 

 only in the street," None but the lowest class 

 ever walk on 'oot, others thive in the carioles, 

 tht ladies of the highest rank are borro in litters. 

 They go without veils, with their heads uncover- 

 ed, aim decorated w-th I. 'aiitifid artificial flowers. 

 Indeed, this custom of sticking liowers iu the 

 hair is so prevalent, that 1 have !:nov/n a dirty 

 old cook, ruiming out to buy a little garlic or a 

 cabbage, stop 'o pdorn her grey locks witli a 

 flower. The dress of the Chinese women con- 

 sists cf red or green trowsers, embroidered with 

 colored silks, and a jacket and upper garment, 

 likewise einbroidered, Narrow shoulders and a 

 flat liopom being regarded as hanrlsornp, they 

 hind a broad girdle tight over the breast, by way 

 of improving their figu:es. 



Going out to take a drive is an affair of great 

 ceremony with a Chinese lad^', as she must have 

 one horseman to ride belbre the carriage, one to 

 ride after, a coachman to driv^., and two men on 

 each side to hold up the vehicle lest it should tip 

 over. The entrance is on the front; and the 

 mule which draws it is not harnessed till the 

 lady and her attendant have entered, v\ hich is 

 managed by bringing the carriage in'o the house 

 and resting the poles upon the stairs. Wlicn a 

 gentleman goes out he displayf: his ni'ignificence 

 by the number of his attendants, which often ex- 

 ceeds twenty. Not more than one or two of 

 these fellows ;\re decently diessed, but, however 

 ragged or dirty, pride demands that a numerous 

 troop of those lazy^vagalionds should he main- 

 tained. ' - " 



The movement in the streets of Pskin h.'-gins 

 with break of day — th; t is, in snnuner at fom- 

 o'clock, and in wiruer .it six, and the noise and 

 bustle increases till sevn, when ir isat its h' itrht. 

 By nine or ten o'clock the whole, city is asieeji, 

 the most |irofound still ess rei^s in the desolate 

 streets, and only here and 'he"e is seen the I'aint 

 light of a pC; er lantern fast-ned again.it a post. 



Quarrels in the streets of Pekinseldom occur, 

 as the Chinese are the arrantest cowards in the 

 world, av.d rarely think of fighting if there is a 

 possibility of running away. They can, how- 

 ever, become formidable when rendered despe- 

 rate, but seldom li.3ve recourse on common oc- 

 c^.sions to any other weapon but the tonsrno. 

 Gncc, indeed, ilnring the early part of my stay a'. 

 Pekin, 1 witnessed an atii-ay in which two Chi- 

 nese, armed wi'h thick sticks, attacked with in- 

 describable rage a thiid, who had offended them, 

 and thou'^h, having received .some severe blows 

 on the h-^ar> ibe poor devil fell senseless to rl 



contein, and then carried them 

 , to the ntagistrate. 



From the New Mirror.^ 

 ROSEATE SUMMER IS HERE. 



Softsliowers, gev.tly descellili;;g, 



Wake enrth's lovliest dyes ; 

 Pure dews, silently trembling. 



Roll from nigbf s elittering eyes. 



Jo.v— jo.^'— py— joy ! 



Roseate suunnei is here 1 



Lo, when even's hist hour, 



Star-winged, flyeth the iriorn, 

 Grove, wood, mountain and flower 

 Sparkle with riory new-born. 

 Joy— joy— joy— joy ! 

 Roseate summer is here ! 



Clear streams, purling and cushing. 



Sweet birds carrolling gay ; 

 Fruit, flov.er, fraizrant and blushing, 

 Blend with the brightness of day. 

 .toy — joy — joy — joy ! 

 Roseate sucimer is here 1 



Now siau's tenderly la uish. 



Smile, blnsh, tipiiible andsi^l: ; 

 Thou. Love, rapturous ansuisi, ! 

 Wilt thou not -vhisfjer them, v.'hy ' 

 Joy — joy — ^joy — joy I 

 Roseate t^umn.^r is here ! 



For tlie Farmer's Monthly Visiter. 

 Cookiug Food for Stock. 



There is no doubt of tlie advantage in one 

 ]>oiut of view of the cooking of food for some 

 animals : ibis point is that the same quantity of 

 fjod atTords when cuoked a larger |)ortion of 

 nutrition. But is there not still a doubt as to the 

 advantages of a general adoption of the cooked 

 mode of feeding? What is true and advan- 

 tageous on a large scale will not always answer 

 on a small oi.e: a dinner for one man each day 

 will scarce jiay for fuel and the wages of the 

 cook, but when an hundred instead of one sit 

 t'own to dinner, it is a very different affair, and 

 the tavern keeper who woulu go behind-hand in 

 the one case could afford to ride in his chaise in 

 the other. Will not a similar rule apply well in 

 cooking food ibr domestic animals •• Most tenijit- 

 i:ig accounts have ajipeared from time to time in 

 the agricnitinal journals of proiitable under- 

 takings in feeding large nuuibtrs of swine upon 

 cooked food, but I have never met with much in 

 a small way upon a limited scale that seemed 

 worthy oi' imitating. 



Ssvine is ti.eiitloned because it is rather doubt- 

 ful if much or any advantage i> derived in co.i^k- 

 ing for neat cattle, miich cows, or for hor.~es. 

 Perhaps th.T e.\;;eri'nents have tended to leave 

 the ?nhject in gr.;at doubt as regards all animals 

 that chew tne cud. The most decisive advali- 

 tage is believed to have been funnii in swine and 

 if it Mould answer here, except for a large nuin- 

 b^r, why is it that our fiirmers have not more 

 gf^nerally adopted it. Is it not IVmu the cause 

 already adverted lo which applies here a.s iu oth- 

 er cases, that e.\p>rusive and perfect n.-acliinery 

 will l)b [rue economy where a great deal of work 

 is to be accomplished lait wili not answer fo, a 

 sinj'Jecase — the stage proprietor who employs 

 s.'ime one .ir two himdred hor.ses erects a s'mp 

 and hires a smith to shoe thein, but «ou!d Ihi.-i 

 answer for one or two horses ()i:i_\. Aimusl tuiy 

 farmer can boil his small potatoes, and t:io meal 

 also to fatten his hogs at the beginningof winter, 

 he fan antl doe.s do this ^vilh tiie utensils in con- 

 stant use all the year round in his family, but be- 

 yond this is it not questionable, whether it is in 

 econoiry or iirudence to uo. liid here it occurs 

 to the mind v hat should not be loriBWen, never 

 to mi.x the meal or use tlie watft" iii^Iiich pota- 

 toes have hern boiled for the food of swine; fur 

 it is 'til known to be iiijui ious and to act as a 

 medicine to scotn- as it is termed. When ihere.- 

 fbre we see so olien s..ch laudable expe.rimeiiis 

 and results in the cooking of food and urget' ibr 

 adoption, does not the old adage occur that we 

 mav he more nice than wise. P. 



ground, they continued :o work away at him 

 withoi "eiiig prevented by the bystanders. Bv- 

 and-by the police appeared ; but deterred. ap[ia"r- 

 ently, by the flashing eyf-s rnd stout cudgels of 

 the bellitrp'-nnls from inlerferi«<; in Mielr div^r- 



Ainong the foreign psipers furnished us by Col. 



Greene of the Boston New Exchange, by the last 



arrival, was the '-Inverness Herald and Genera] 



Advertiser for the Highlai:ds and Islands of Scot- 



:;nd." (nvernesshire is the most extensive coun- 



sion, waited till they had belabored their victim I ty of Scotland, and includes .seveiai of the islands 



I of Hebrides: independent of the islands the 



county is 80 miles by 50. and is divided in nearly 

 cijual parts b; ti.cC.ledonia canal. It hasseveral 

 lakjs. [iart;:ularly those of Ness,'Oii-h, Lccliy 

 and Liiinke; and the extensive plains which sur- 

 i-ciMicl tliese lakes are fertile. 'I'iie highlands feed 

 many shesji and beeves. The mftuntains and 

 forests contains immense numbers of re3 and 

 roe-deer. The borough of Inverness, iiie shire 

 of the county at which [iluce the Herald is print- 

 ed. i.-( situated on both sides o'" the Nesy river, 

 and has ;i cjiiimodious liarboi. At this place is 

 a salmon fishery. To show tlic attention paid to 

 Agriv^ilture and Rural Economy in Scotland we 

 extract tli6 Ibllowins articles from the Herald : 



0THK.1 VALOABLF. PROPERTIES OF GYPSCM. 



Bi.. . to the reniaikably fertilising powers of 

 prepared Gypsum, niay be added others of a 

 liigly va'jalilc character. Drilleil in \vitli turtiip- 

 seed, i' causes so s)i(!cdy a vegetalion, that, even 

 in the hottest droiigh'.s, there is no danger of 

 lo.-hig tlie first season — a loss which has so fre- 

 quently been fulluwed by thai of the crop itsell". 

 TliC young plant, thus ra|)idiy and viooroitsly 

 grown, IS rarely attaji^ked by the fly — a:,d, even 

 where that destruc've enemy is alrer.dy in tho 

 field, it cannot fii'l under more certain conquest 

 than a top dressing" f?f Gypsum, applied when 

 the plant is wet. Nor is this all: — ibr, even 

 where the fly lias commenced its ravages, cot 

 only has it been thus at once annihilated, but the 

 Gypsum has S|'eedily pushed the injured plants 

 into beautiful ainl healthy growth. 



Alike destructive is the Gypsnin, similarly ap- 

 plied, to the shig, and several other foes, which, 

 by thus themselves becoming a manure, as con- 

 verted into friends. 



Upon precisely the same principle, as regards 

 the potatoe, of stimulating immediate vegetation 

 — in conjunction Viiith the proteciion to the cut 

 side, by its being coated with finely powdered 

 Gypsum, it is s'rongly hoped (a hope encouraged 

 by an experienced potato grower) that the Gyp- 

 sum will act as a preventive of that dread disease 

 — the dry ret — a disease by which, in peculiar 

 seasons, some hundreds of acres are los*. 



Again, with rolerence lo wheat. As regard? 

 tJie immense injury to whic'.i — paiticularly in all 

 light soiis' — this crop is subject, liom being thrown ■ 

 out of the itround, by the action ol((fepring-frosts, 

 &c., r,nd by which a lo.^is of 50 |)er cent, is fre- 

 quently sustained — the fine Gypsum, drilled in 

 with the grain, has jiroved itself, by numerous 

 experiments, a jierfect p;eveiit;ilive. The Gyp- 

 sumed portion has always grown strong, healthy, 

 and jirofluctive, in straw and ear, while a large 

 [lart of the nngypsiu'ied portion has becnihrown 

 out of the ground, and, of course, rendered 

 worthless. In this important application of Gyp- 

 sum, no failure has been known. 



Another valuable quality of (iypsnin is that of 

 its durability in the land ; for, unlike the nitrate 

 of soda, guano, rape-diist, soot, &c., whose bene- 

 fii.? arc limited lo n single crop — the Gypstim, 

 fioniihe slowness of its solution, must much ex- 

 iiUfi its fertilising powers to three or luur cn.p.s 

 in sin cess'on. 



This article is also exceedingly valuable, when 

 spn!diieri in stabUs, beast-sheds, pig-stic.'^, ])onl- 

 iry houses, iiigcon-cotes, and on dnng-hills — pro- 

 n..ii!i;g greatly the l•^■a!tll of animals, riid pre- 

 v:-nii:ig tbe escape of the amniotii:i, that very 

 s|>irit of manure, which would otherwise be car- 

 ried off in vap'.r, an,l rob the manure, according 

 to cheniical calculation, of full half its strength. 

 But the Gy;isutn is, perhaps, here best applied 

 wet; and the occasionally watering the ii:annre- 

 he;ips wiil, in this resjiect, greatly promote the 

 opt ation of the Gypsum. Such is the powerfiil 

 iecommer.d;.tion of Liebig, .•^nil several oilier 

 inolessors of .•■gricnliure. It is also another of 

 Liebig's recommendations, th<-,t fine Gypsum be 

 sown upon turi.ip-layers, immediately, end suc- 

 ccssivly, rf'ter beiny eaten off with sheep, whose 

 dropings are stronuly impregnated with ammo- 

 nia, which the Gypsum iixe.s. 



DIRECTIONS FOR USE. 



The Gypsum — which shonhl be as fine as 

 wheat-flour — may be sown alornr with the sepd ; 

 or — wliich is greatly preferable — applied as a 

 top-dressing, to spring-crons, in .April, or the early 

 part of May, and when the plants are wet. The 

 qnan'ity, goucrally sown, per icre, need not ex' 

 leed from .5 to 10 bushels — fc an ordinary drill? 

 sowing, alone, say, 8 : for top-dressing, 5 or 6; 



