ari)e Javmcr's iHont[)li3 faisitor. 



spoonful of salei-atiis, all well inixea with tlie 

 syiiip jjelore it is sfaldiiij,' hot ; I- tlien make a 

 moderate fire fiiiectly iimler the calilion, until 

 the scum is al! raised, then skim il oft' clean, tak- 

 ing care not to let it hoil so as to rise in the ket- 

 tle^ hetore I have done sUitnin4n!; it; I then snj:ar 

 It off, leaviii'? It sn daoip that it will drain a little. 

 1 let it reniain in the kettle umll it is well fjrann- 

 lated. I then put it into lioxi-s made smallest at 

 the holioin, that will hold li-om 50 to 70 Ihs., hav- 

 ing a thin piece of hoard titled in, two or to in' 

 inclips ahove the hollom, whii-li is hored toll o\' 

 small holes to let the molasses drain through, 

 which I keep drawn off" hy a top ihronah the 

 bottom. 1 put on the top of the sugar in the hox 

 a clean damp cloth, anfl over tliat a hoiii-d well 

 fined in, so as to exclude the air from the sugar. 

 After It has done or nearly done draining, I dis- 

 solve it and sugar it off again, going through 

 with the same process in clarifying and draining 

 as hefore. 



1 do trertify that the ahove is a correct state- 

 ment of IDV mode of niaking maple .sugar. 



JOEL WOO DWORTH. 



worms.' As soon as the dew is off, the young ne- 

 groes drive these gangs of tnrkies regularly over 

 the tohacco field, where each one takes his row, 

 ami it iscmious to see how cpiickly they can spy 

 out the smallest worm, and what numhers tliey 

 will kill. As the heat of the ilay comes on, they 

 are driven into some neighhoriug shade,, and led 

 with a little gi;iiu, lo pieveut the worms Irom mak- 

 ing ihem sick, and lo keep them from heing sur- 

 feited with loo much of a good thing. After the 

 tohacco has lieen housed, the planter allows his 

 leathered auxiliaries to take the run of the corn- 

 fit-ld aiul the hog-pen. In this way tliey soon gel 

 their growth and lieeome liit, when aU e.'ic.ept the 

 hreedmg slock reserved l()r the ne.U year, hecoine 

 the perquisite or pin money of the good house- 

 wife, who sends them to the Washington market, 

 where they average about $1 to the hoarding- 

 house keepers, and are in then- turn devoured hy 

 niemhers of Congress." 



Attempting to Cultivate too much Land. 



The Farmers generally attempt to cultiv:;te loo 

 much land. The disadvantages arising from this 

 cause are many and obvious. Ii is no exaggera- 

 tion to say, that the lands cultivated in the coun- 

 try are callable (wider a high state of cuhivation, 

 of producing twice as much as they now pro- 

 duce. This applies, we will suppose, not to the 

 jiastming, but lo the arable land alone. The 

 farmer, then, in the purchase of his land, might 

 save, say, one sixth of his original oullay in the 

 reduced quantity of his arable land. The sum 

 thus Siived, would enable him, in the first in- 

 slauce, to put his}aud hi such a state of cultiva- 

 tion, as would in a few years, double his crop per 

 aciey Norvvould the annual cost of cultivating 

 nn aere of land in this highly improved state, be 

 materially increased. The cost of ploughing, 

 planting and hoeing an acre of grrumd capable 

 of proihicing liliy bushels of corn, would he no 

 more than ihnugh ihe land were only capable of 

 producing twenly five bushels. » » « 



Take the average of all the upland mov/titg iii 

 the coimtry, and ilie yield- will not probably ex- 

 ceed >5G0 of hayto the acre. And three tbiirths 

 of this land is capable of yielding two tons lo 

 the acre. lief ihe farmers reduce the luaiility of 

 their grass land two thirds, and they will find 

 that, with skilful cultivation, they save one half 

 of the labor, and still obtain their usual quantity 

 of hay. » i * Ln.t jim fin-niers of 

 the country reduce the amount of their cultivated 

 lands, take special care to increase the quantity 

 and qualiiy tsf tlieii- manure, and adopt a wise 

 rotation of crops, and they will soon find that 

 lands whif.h now "mock their scant manuring," 

 would soot! yield a plentiful harvest and richly 

 repay their toil. Let them adoj.: the best system 

 of tiusbaiulry, ami this would prevent the emi- 

 gration of our fiu'mers to the West. They would 

 soon .see ihat the rugged soil of New Knglaiul, 

 under skilful cnliure, is, when taken in connec- 

 tion with New England comfort. New England 

 inslitutions, and a New Enalaud market, to Ite 

 preferred to the more fruitful prairies of the 

 West, where the productivenKS.s of the soil con- 

 trasts so fearfully with the domestic comfort of 

 the inhabitams, and the worlh of their literary 

 and religious iriSiituiions. Who, that reflects 

 upon the subject, would' be willing to exchange 

 the comforts of a New England farm-house, and 

 the refinements of New England society, for the 

 privations of a log-hut in the wilderness .•' Who 

 would not endure iliesummerV heat and Winter's 

 cold, common to our clitnate, rather than the 

 burn and chill of the ague fever? — Hudson's Ad- 

 dress. 



From the Boston Post. 



Commerce and Navigation of the United 



States. 



From the annual statement prepared at the 

 treasury department, in confiirmity with the act 

 of February 10, J820, of the commerce, naviga- 

 tion, &c., of the United States, we learn that the 

 expei-ts (d' ihe countrv ilurh)!i the year 1S42 

 amounted to $104,691,534 ; of which ©92,969,996 

 weje of domestic, and $1 1,721,538 of foreign ar- 

 tiides. The iuqauty' during the same period 

 amounted to $100,162,087. Excess of exports, 

 $4,529,447. Excess of imports over exjiorls of 

 American p. reduce, $7,192,091. Of domestic ar- 

 ticles, $71,467,(134 wt'i'e csported in American 

 vessels, and $21,502,362 in foreign vessel.'^ i of 

 the foreign articles $8,425,.389 were exported in 

 American vessels, and .53,296,149 in foreign ves- 

 sels. Total exports in American vessels, $78,- 

 893,023-; tontl m foreign vessels, $24,798,51 1. Of 

 the fcreigi> articles exported, $4,196,438 in value 

 wer3 entilled to drawback. The value of the 

 imports in American vessels was .$88,724,280 ; in 

 foreign vessels, $11,437,807. The following ta- 

 ble shows the amouni of our imports from the 

 different countries of the world, with the amount 

 which they fall short of or exceed the value of 

 the exports of American proiluce to the same 

 countries. The reader can ascertain Ihe value 

 of our exports to each country by merely sub- 

 tracting the excess of imports or adding the ex- 

 cess of exports : — 



Excess of Kxcess of 

 Nations. rmports. Imports. F.Sports. 



BfiMiii :ind Ireland g31-,204,i49 g4,0.50,262 



eluding $318,1.197 for sperm candles,) $2,092,094. 

 Total, 2,823,010. 



The Fo«est.— Skins and furs, $598,487 ; gin- 

 seng, $63,702 ; product of wood, §4,856,073. To- 

 tal, $5,518,262. 



Agricultdke.— Product of animals, $4;568,- 

 772 ; vegetable Ibod, $11,903,652; tobacco, $9,- 

 640,755 ; cotton, $47,593,464 ; all other agricul- 

 tural products, $81,470. Total, $73,688,113. 



Manufact-ures.— Cotton, $2,970,690 ; gold and 

 silver, and gohl leaf, $1,170,754; liouslujld fur- 

 uiiiu-e, $290,997 ; Utather, hoots, and shoes, $168,- 

 925; soap and tallow candles, $485,128; snutf 

 and tobacco, $52,5,490; lead, $.523,428 ; wax, $ 103,- 

 626, iron, $1, 10!i.,522;spiiiis, beer, ale, porter, 

 and cider, $353,127; refincil sugar, $291,499; 

 gunpowder, $161,292; medicinal drugs, $139,313; 

 copper and brass, $97,021 ; all other aiiicles, $2,- 

 549,799, Total, $10,940,611. 



Imports and exports of the United Stales from 1330 to 

 1342, inclusive. 

 Value of Imports. Valve of Exports. 



Year 

 1830... 



1831 i03,iyj,l5i4 



1832 101,0iy.'i60 



1833 108,193,311 



1834 126,521,322 



1835 149,895,742 



1836 189,980,034 



1837 140,989 217 



1838 113,717,404 



1839 162.092,132 



1840 1&7,141.519 



1341 12r7 ,945,488 



1842........ 100,162,0.37 



Uom. produce 

 570,876.920 S5y.*6ff^r9 



61,277,057 

 63,137,470 

 70,317,698 

 81,024,162 

 106,189,082 

 101,916,680 

 95,564,414 

 96,033,821 

 103,533.391 

 118,895,634 

 105.382,722 

 92,969,996, 



For'ii mdee. 



g 14,387,479 

 20.033,526 

 24,039,473 

 19,822,7.35 

 23.312,811 

 20,504,495 

 21,746,360 

 21 ,854,962 

 12,452,795 

 17,494.525 

 18,1903,12 

 15,469,081 

 11,721,538 



Use or Tdrkies at the South.— .T. S. Skin- 

 ner, Esq., in a communication in the -Albany 

 Culiivalor, says : 



" .Many object to rearing tiirkies, as being very 

 mischievous and desituctive lo vegetables and 

 grain ; hut in the tohacco region they are consid- 

 ered indispensable for their agency ill destroying 

 the worm which destroys the plant in the bed. In 

 Maryland, ilie large planters, besides rearing all 

 the turkies they can, send round and buy up largo 

 • gangs' of young tmkics, at from 37 1-2 to 50 cis. 

 each, exprcs.sly to assist in ' keeping (!ov\n ihe 



Bill ish colonies 4.403,794 



France....-..- 16,974,053 



French colonies 249,33.2 



Spain 1,145,375 



Spanl^ll colonies .11,031".213 



Purtu;;al . . . .• 142,.537 



PortU'Tuese colonies 205,097 



Russi.-i 1,350,106 



Prustii 18.192' 



DunrD.irk 



■Swedish West Indies 23,242 



Sweden 890.934 



Dinish West Indies 534,321 



Holland 1,067,138 



Dutch colonies 1,147,082 



Btlgium 619,588 



Hansc towns 2,274,019 



Sicily ......639,419 



Italy....- 987,523 



Sardinia 



Austria 413,210 



Ionian Islands 14^294 



Turkey .370,248 



Morocco, &.C, 4,779 



Hayii 1.266,997 



Teias 480,892 



Mexico 1 ,995.696 



Central America 24,994 



Brazil 5,948,814 



Slates of South Amarica 5.173,906 



Chin.i...... 4.934,6-15 



A.sia generally 979,689 



Africa generally 559. 158 



West Indies generally. . .. 

 Europe (countries notepe- 



citied) 



South Ocas.. 41,747 



Uncertain places 10,1 14 



6,120,2.36 

 41,240 

 293,959 



In 1842, 1,510,111 tons of American and 732,- 

 775 tons of foreiiin shipping entered, and 1,536,- 

 451 tons Americ-an and 740,497 tons foreign 

 shipping cleare.l in the United States. The 

 whole number of vessels that entered was 11,- 

 474, of which 6,939 were American, employing 

 69,597 men and 2,913 boys, and 4,.535 foreign, 

 employing 42,474 men and 377 boys. Ot the 

 foreiiin vessel.-, 4,052 were British ; 56 French; 

 65 Spanish ; 139 Hanseatic ; 6 Russian ; 4 Prussi- 

 an ; 1 Austrian ; 15 Belgian;! Ka7ioverian ; 65 

 Swedish ; 13 Norwegian ; 30 Danish ; 19 Dutch ; 

 3 Portuguese ; 17 Sicilian : 2 Neapolitan ; 6 Sar- 

 dinian ; 1 Haytieii ; 10 Texan ; 2 Mexican ; 4 Col- 

 umbian ; 22 Venezuelan ; '/ Sew Granadian, and 

 1 Brazilian. The clearance, of conrse, nearly 

 correspond with the c-nrtieg. 



Commerce of each State and TcrrHory. from October I, 

 1841, to September 30. IS'^S. 



Value of Imports. Do. of Exports. Vessfh enter'd. 



,~ Amer. For'n. 



TO!5,799 



214.723 

 471,951 



14.294 



244,727 



4.779 



422,545 



201,914 



1-^26,325 



73,345 



3,723.243 



2,731,645 



4,197,1.36 



696,322 



66,6f7 



10,1 -14 



814,150 



10,208 

 834,969 



205,913 



19,290 

 87,109 



Our 

 ;ad3. 



,«;iOO, 162,087 g7, 192,091 

 are classed under the foliowing 

 agriciil- 

 lead are 



exptui 

 Products of the ,sea, the forest, 

 lure, and tnnnufiicturo.s, and under each 

 valued as Ibllnws : — 



The Sea.— Cod fishery, .f,567,782 : tnackcrel 

 and river fisheries, !|.I62,a24 ; whale fishery, fin 



Slates. 



Maine ...g606,861 



New Hampshii-e.. 60,481 

 VermoMl,.. ,.-... 209,863 

 Massachus'ts. 17,986,433. 

 Rhode Island.. -.323,692 

 Connecticut.... 3;15.707 

 New Yorli.... 57 ,375,604 



New Jersey. ii 145 



Pennsylvania. .7,385,8.58 



Drdaware Sfiol 



Maryland 4,417,070 



D, of Columbia.. 29,056 



Virginia ,316,705 



North Carolina.. 187 ,104 

 South Carolina 1 ,3.09.165 



Georgia 341,764 



Alabama: 363,S71 



Louisiana 8,033,.590 



Ohio ......13,051 



Kentuckey- 17,306 



Tenne-'isee 5.687 



Micliigan 80,781 



Missouri 31,137 



Florida 176.980 



100,102,087 



,g 1,050 ,523 



28.547 



557,609 



9,807.110 



343,696 



532,392 



27,576,778 



70,907 



3,770,727 



55,665 



4.904,706 



'501 ,675 



3,760.386 



341.650 



7,525,723 



k300,257 



9.965,075 



23,404.149 



■399,786 



262,229 

 33,384 



221 

 16 



1,225 

 89 

 95 



3,092 



365 



6 



314 



18 

 96 



209 



ni 



45 



81 



664 



198 



isa 



104,691,534 6,939 



800 

 79 



983 



S 



40 



1,733 



102 

 5 

 94 

 17 

 25 

 21 



101 

 67 



222 



107 



27 

 4,535 



Butter from Scaldep Milk.— We have seen 

 various accounts of butter made in winter from 

 scalded milk, but we have never put any of them 

 to an experimental test. 



On Mondav we called on .Mr. Patten Johnson, 

 of Framingham, and ate some of his butter. He 

 has been feeding his .-atlle for some time with 

 hay, ill part, ,-lnd this is very apt to give an un- 

 pleasant taste to the butler. 



Mr J. scalded bis milk as soon as it was drawn 

 from the cow, and then set it away in the usual 

 manner. His butter now tastes as well and ap- 

 pears as yellow and solid as any made in June. 

 Mr.". Johnson tells us the churning is performed 

 now as soon as in September, and she cannot 

 perceive that this is interior to any butter which 

 she has made this season. 



