Vol.VII— No.l3. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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CHESHIRE CATTLE SHOW. 



The annual Cattle Show and Exhibition of the 

 Cheshire Agricultural Society, was holden at 

 Charlestown, on Wednesday the lirst day of Oc- 

 tober insta.it ; and thougli the income of the Soci- 

 ety for this year aftbrded but small premiums, it 

 is believed, that the show of cattle and other 

 .stock has not been on any former amiiversury 

 more extensive and more gratilying to the fann- 

 ers and spectators assembled on the occasion. At 

 1 o'clock, tne Society and citizens were escorted 

 to the meeting house by an excellent band of mu- 

 sic, where after prayer by Rev. Mr. Crosby, and a 

 few appropriate remarks by Hon. H. Hubbard, the 

 report of the awarding committees were read by 

 Gen. William Carey of Lempster. 



The officers of the Society for the ensuing year 

 ure the following. 



Aabo.n- Hodskins of WfJpole, President, 

 Salma Hale of Keene, Vice President, 

 Elijah Bingham of Alstead, Secretary and 



Librarian, 

 Leonard Bisco of Walpole, Treasurer, 

 David Parker of Charlestown, 

 Daniel Robinson of Acworth, 

 Elijah Belding of Swanzey, 

 James Chandler of Alstead, 

 Levi Chamberlain of Fitzwilliam, 

 Alvah Stevens of Claremont, 

 Samuel Tutherly of Unity, 

 William Jennison of Walpole, 



Executive Committee. 



become cold, or in general, when about half an 

 hour is elapsed, it is to be drawn oft'. It will be 

 proper thoii to rinse the corn with cold water, in 

 order to remove any portion of the water which 

 had taken tip the must ; aflcr which, the corn be- 

 ing coni|)letely drained, it is, without loss of time, 

 to be thinly .sj)read on the tloor of a kiln, and 

 thoroughly dried, care being taken to stir and turn 

 it fieipicntly, during this part of the process." 



POTATOS. 



The crop of Potatos, in this vicinity, is below 

 the average, and the quality generally, very iii- 

 diti'creni. It is, therefore, ot some importance 

 that care should be taken to have them well pre- 

 served alter harvesting, sr they will become so 

 poor before spring as to be of little value for cook- 

 ing. The Lancaster Gazette says, " the best 

 method should he resorted to oi' keeping them dry." 

 This, we believe, is a mistake, and trust that no 

 farmer will bo induced to adopt it. Potatos do 

 best when they are kept about tue natural damp- 

 ness of the earth, and excluded entirely from the 

 air. The best mode of preserving them that we 

 Lave ever seen adopted, was to pack them in light 

 loam or sand, in bhis or casks, without Urj mg 

 either the potatos or the earth in which they were 

 packed. When so kept, they cook as well in the 

 spring as when tirst dug. They should be picked 

 as last as they are dug, as it is found that two or 

 three hours' drying, only, essentially injures them. 

 It is well known that potatos which grow in a 

 strong and rather moist loam, are better than those 

 which are raised on a light or dry soil Massa- 

 chusetts Spy. 



To remove the musty Jlavor from wheat which has 

 been damaged. — An English receipt book directs 

 as follows : For evei^ bushel of wheat take two 

 pounds of potash, dissolve it in water with about 

 double the quantity of wheat. Let the wheat be 

 thoroughly washed m the solution, rinsed with 

 pure water, and dried quickly. 



Li a letter to the Right Honorable Sir Joseph 

 Banks, it is observed, "if wheat be musty, it must 

 be put into any convenient vessel, capable of con- 

 taining at least three times the quantity, and the 

 vessel must be subsequently filled with boiluig 

 water ; the grain should then be occasionally stir- 

 red, and the hollow and decayed grains, (which 

 will float) may be reiuoved. When the water has 



Pearl barley as a substitute for rice. — It is cqua 

 ly advantageous to the pubhc to learn the use of 

 a known substance as the discovery of a new one. 

 I am sure the application of barley to another 

 branch of domestic cookery will not be disregard- 

 ed by some of your readers. I can assure them 

 that they will find it an excellent substitute for 

 rice. It has been long used in this country in 

 broth ; and when boiled with milk, sometimes 

 called Scotch rice ; but by far the best way of 

 using it is by pounding it in a mortar. In this 

 form it fairly rivals niannacroop, tapioca or ground 

 rice, and can be easily procured at one twelfth of 

 the price of the first, and one third of the price of 

 the last substance. It was resorted to as a change 

 of food for my children's breakfast ; and the great 

 similarity to niannacroop induced us to try it in a 

 pudding for them, and I can assure you, I think 

 it one of the best of the kind — same management 

 as with either of the others, milk, eggs, &c. iScc. 

 What we call pearl barley is the kind used ; but 



I dare say, any of the kinds would answer fV. 



M. Argyleshire. 



It gives us pain to record, that the wheat crops 

 throughout this district, notwithstanding their flat- 

 tciiug aiipearance some weeks ago, have proved a 

 general failure ; — the only parcels which remain 

 unhurt by the rust, are such as were early sown, 

 and the winter generally. We observe also that 

 in New Brunswick the winter wheat has yielded 

 an excellent harvest, while the common wheat 



Hardening of Steel by a Current of compressed 

 Air. — From the observation of travellers, that the 

 manufacture of Damascus blades was carried on 

 oidy during the time when tiorth winds occurred, 

 fll. Anozotf made experiments on the hardening 

 of steel instruments, by putting them, when heat- 

 ed, into a powerful current of air, instead of 

 quenching them in water. From the e.vperiments 

 already made, he exjiects ultimate success. He 

 liuds that, for very sharp edged instruiiieiits, this 

 method is much better than the ordinary one ; 

 that the colder the air and the more rapid its 

 stream, the greater is the efi'eet. The efl'ect va- 

 ries with the thickness of the mass to be harden- 

 ed. The method succeeds well with case har- 

 dened goods. 



Apoplexy from white lead — On the inquest in 

 the case of a man who died at a white lead estab- 

 lishment in London, a surgeon testified that with- 

 in the last two years five of the hands employed 

 by that company had been suddenly attacked, and 

 tliree of them died. The verdict was apoplexy, 

 and the cause was stated to be a neglect of clean- 

 liness and keeping themselves free from the head- 

 ore floating about in ])owder among the workmen. 



Protecting the stems of fruit trees. — A writer for 

 the Gardener's Magazine says, "last April, just as 

 the blossom was about to exjiand, 1 had the trunk 

 and larger branches of an apple tree in my gar- 

 den, (Wyker pippin) enveloped with buy bands, 

 lea\ing two other trees of the pippin kind, within 

 a few yards of the one on which the experiment 

 was tried to take their chance without protection. 

 The nights of the latter parts of April, and of the 

 first ten days of Jlay were remarkably colil ; a 

 self-registering tliermameter, indicating, on the 

 night of April the 30th, a temperature IS'' below 

 lieezing. This degree of cold proved fatal to the 

 whole of the blossoms of one of the unprotected 

 trees, and nearly so to the other — about a dozen 

 apples being the total of its produce. But the 



has sufiered as with us. Farmers ought to [irofit protected tree seemed to be proof against the ef- 



by this information, and either sow their wheat 

 earlier than in years past, or sow winter wheat in 

 the Fall— Pictou, (JV. S.) Sept. 10. 



To prevent Horses from being teased with Fiics 



Take two or three small handfuls of walnut 

 leaves, upon which pour two or three pints of soft 

 and cold water — let it infuse one night, and let it 

 boil lor a c|uarter of an hour — when cold it will 

 be fit for use. No more is required than to moist- 



feet of the frost ; and I do not exaggerate when I 

 say that the crop was beyond all tormer preced- 

 ent, and was the admiration of all who saw it 



many of the branches being hterally loaded hke 

 ropes of onions." 



WORCESTER CATTLE SHOW. 



The annual Cattle Show, Ploughing Match, and 

 Exhibition of Manufactures, was held in this town 

 911 Wednesday last. The day was unusually 

 en a sponge, and before the horse goes out of the | pleasant— Ahe concourse of people greater than 

 ; stable, let those parts which are most irritable be j ever — the nuniher of animals much larger than 



smeared over witli the liiiuor, viz : between and 

 upon the ears, the flank, &c. — Belvidere Apollo. 



' Recovery of drowned persons. — M. L. De Etoile 

 states in a letter to the French Academy of Medi- 

 cine, that he has succeeded invariably in recover- 

 ing drowned animals, by the following galvanic 

 application : A short and fine needle is inserted 

 into the sides of the body, between the eighth and 

 ninth ribs, so as to come in contact with the at- 

 tachment of the diaphragm, and then a current of 



heretofore — and the interest excited by the occa- 

 sion, manifestly greater than that of any former 

 year. Delegations were present from the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Society, fiom the Windham 

 County (Conn.) Agricultural Society, and we be- 

 lieve, from other Societies. 



At an early hour the gathering round the pens 

 had commenced, and very soon a dense crowd 

 covered the spacious common where they were 

 located, which seemed not to be sensibly dimin- 

 ished, during the day, by the departure of those 



electricity, from twenty-five or tJiirty pairs of inch who attended the services at the meeting-house 

 plates is passed through them. The diaphragm or of those who dined with the Society, 

 then immediately contracts, and an inspiration is The Ploughing Match was at nine o'clock. At 

 effected. On breaking the communication and ton a procession was formed and proceeded to the 

 again completing it, a second inspiration is occa- South Meeting-IIouse, where, after prayer by the 

 sioned, and by continuing these means, a regular Rev. Mr. Searles, of Grafton, a very interesting 

 respiration is ultimately eflacted. [ Address was dehvered by W. S. Hastiug^s Esq. of 





