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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



A GHEAT "WHEAT CKOP. 



"A writer in the Oenesee Farmer says that he 

 has tried the cultivation of wheat in hills, like 

 corn, having the hills two feet apart each way ; 

 and two or three plants to the hill ; and he re- 

 ports obtaining from a small plat of ground, 'a 

 crop so large as to be equal to two hundred bush- 

 els to the acre.' The soil is kept stirred and cul- 

 tivated during the growth of the crop." 



Remarks. — This seems to us impossible — we 

 believe the "writer in the Genesee Farmei''" must 

 be mistaken. When we look at a field of wheat 

 that produces thirty, or thirty-five bushels per 

 acre, we are puzzled to find room to place the 

 plants to bring ten bushels more. It is the pub- 

 lication of such improbable events, such wild as- 

 sertions, that throws discredit on the agricultural 

 press. 



BOYS' DEPARTMENT. 



SIB ISAAC NEWTON'S TASTE 

 FARMING. 



FOB 



— it has no parent ; it is its own master — it is 

 peevish, forward, headstrong, blind — born to a 

 double portion of trouble and sorrow above what 

 fallen man is heir to ; not only miserable itself, 

 but worthless, and a plague to all who in future 

 will be connected with it. 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



DOMESTIC EECEIPTS. 



Pickled Eggs. — Boil the eggs until very 

 hard ; when cold, shell them, and cut them in 

 halves lengthways. Lay them carefully in large- 

 mouthed jars, and pour over them scalding vine- 

 gar, well seasoned with whole pepper, allspice, a 

 few pieces of ginger, and a few cloves of garlic. 

 When cold, tie up closely, and let them stand a 

 month. They are then fit for use. With cold 

 meat, they are a most delicious and delicate 

 pickle. 



Hoe Cake. — This cake, so popular in the 

 South, as a breakfast and tea cake, is made in 

 the following way : Scald a quart of Indian meal 

 with a pint of water ; stir in two teaspoonsful of 

 salt, and a little butter melted; put it, when 

 properly mixed, into a well-greased tin, and bake 

 it half an hour. 



To Restore Sour Milk or Cream. — Milk 

 or cream, when it has turned sour, may be re- 

 stored to its original sweetness by means of a 

 small quantity of carbonate of magnesia. When 

 the acidity is slight, half a teaspoonful of the 

 powder to a pint of milk. 



Stale Bread. — It is not generally known that 

 stale bread, when immersed in cold water for a 

 moment or two, and re-baked for about an hour, 



When Newton had reached his fifteenth year, 

 he was called from the school at Grantham, to 

 take charge of his mother's farm. He was thus 

 frequently sent to Grantham market, says Timbs, 

 to dispose of grain and other agricultural pro- 

 duce, Avhich, however, he generally left to an old 

 farm servant who accompanied him, and New- 

 ton made his way to the garret of the house in 

 which he had lived, to amuse himself with a par- 

 cel of old books left there ; and afterwards he 

 would entrench himself on the wayside between 



Woolsthorpe and Grantham, devourina; some fa-i- • , i . i u i i v i 



.. A ..„ 1 . ' . , ? , 'IS m every respect equal to newly-baked bread, 



vorite author till his companion s return from j if i j 



market. And when his mother sent him into the RiCE AND Apple Pudding. — Boil half a pound 

 fields to watch the sheep and cattle, he would 'of "ce in half a pint of milk till it is soft, then 

 perch himself under a tree, with a book in his [fill the dish half full of apples which have been 

 hand, or shape models with his knife, or watch] pared and cored ; sweeten with sugar or molas- 

 the movements of an undershot water-wheel, ses ; put the rice over the fruit as a crust, and 

 One of the earliest scientific experiments which 

 Newton made was in IGoS, on the day of the 

 great storm, when Cromwell died, and when he 

 himself had just entered his sixteenth year. 

 Newton's mother was now convinced that her 

 son was not destined to be a farmer ; and this, 

 with his uncle finding him under a hedge, occu- 

 pied in the solution of a mathematical problem, 

 led to his being again sent to Grantham, and 

 then to Trinity College, Cambridge, which thence 

 became the real birth-place of Newton's genius. 

 — Scientific American. 



An Obedient Child. — No object is more 

 pleasing than a meek and obedient child. It re- 

 flects honor upon its parents for their M-ise man- 

 agement. It enjoys much ease and pleasure to 

 the utmost limit of what is fit. It promises ex- 

 cellence and usefulness, to be, when age has ma- 

 tured the human understanding, a willing subject 

 in all things to the government of God. No ob- 

 ject, on the contrary, is more shocking than a 

 child under no management. We pity orphans 

 who have neither father nor mother to care for 

 them ; but a child indulged is more to be pitied 



bake one hour. 



Cottage Pudding. — Mix about two pounds 

 of pared, boiled and mashed potatoes with one 

 pint of milk, three eggs well beaten, and two 

 ounces of sugar. Bake three-quarters of an hour. 



Potato Apple Dumplings. — Boil any quan 

 tity of white, mealy potatoes ; pare them and 

 mash them with a rolling-pin ; then dredge in 

 flour enough to form a dough ; roll it out to 

 about th^ thickness of pie crust, and make up 

 the dumplings by putting an apple pared, cored 

 and quartered to each. Boil them one hour. 



Baked Apple Pudding. — Boil one pound and 

 a half of good apples Avith a gill of water, and 

 half a pound of brown sugar, till reduced to a 

 smooth pulp ; stir in one gill of sweet cream, a 

 table spoonful of flour or fine bread crumbs ; 

 flavor with a little lemon juice, or grated lemon, 

 and bake forty minutes. 



Rice Custard. — Boil two ounces of ground 

 rice in a pint and a half of new milk ; add four 

 ounces of sugar, an ounce of grated cocoa-nut, 

 four ounces of sweet cream, and bake in a slow 

 oven. 



