VOL. *\i. .\o. a. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



II 



Cot Wohm. — Every fjirnier lias txpcriencefl 

 Berious losses in liis corn crops fi'oni thu ravages 

 of tlie f;riil), or cut worm, and nothing lias liith- 

 crto l)ivn discovered wliicli will elfectiiuily pre- 

 vent or arrest its destructive depredations. A 

 writer in the United States Gazette thinks the 

 following a sovereign remedy. 



"'lake one gallon of conimon fat or slush, ami 

 one quart of spirits of tiirpenliiie, let them he jnit 

 togeiher in a tight harrel, having hut one head, 

 and heiiig well stirred, add half a hushel of iin- 

 slacked lime. In this condition the lime should 

 he ciri'l'iilly slacked, and ultimately mixed with 

 the olIii-T iiigro<lients, and water gradually added 

 until the harrcd is full. As soon as the corn 

 mtikc's its appearance ahove the ground, let a por- 

 tion of the mixture h(^ applied hy means of a cotn- 

 tnoii watering pot, to the amount of ahoiit a tea 

 cup full to each hill of corn, and there is scarce- 

 ly a douht hilt that the wortn will vacate the iden- 

 tical spot from the alihorrence that all kinds of 

 worms and insects have to even the smell of tur- 

 pentine." 'J'lie writer is confident, from analogy, 

 that this simple remedy vvid he found an efFectnal 

 preservative against the attacks of this destructive 

 insect. As it would he attended with trifling lahor 

 .ind expense, it ought to be thoroughly tested hy 

 experiment. 



Fr.iENn Cole, — Wilt thou have the goodness 

 to inseit t'le enidoseil in the Yaikee Farmer, for 

 the bt-nelit of all good housewives. And thou 

 wilt inueh ohiige — thy friend and well wisher, 



Zerline. 



A'nntucket, Aug. 1836. 



- An easy and wholesome method to make pre- 

 serves and jellies without using brass, or tin, or 

 any other poisonous utensil. 



Currants, strawberries, blackberries, raspber- 

 ries, cr.inlierries or damsons, may be preserved in 

 the same way. 



To make Ihe jellij Take a peck of currants on 



the stem or strings, wash them thoroughly and 

 let them set in a large wooden bowl or tray to 

 drain, next day put them on common dinner 

 [ilates and set them in the oven as soon as the 

 flour bread is taken out, — in an hour or two they 

 will he scalded through, take them out and sepa- 

 rate the juice from the skins and seeds by strain- 

 ing through a clean coarse cloth, then return 

 the juice into the plates and set them immediate- 

 ly into the oven to dry away, — liave as many 

 plates as the oven will hold, for the smaller quan- 

 tity of juice on a plate the sooner it will be thick 

 enough to add the sugar; let the juice dry away 

 till it is about as thick as molasses, which per- 

 haps will not be till the oven is cold — when the 

 juice is sifticiently tliick, pour it into a large 

 pitcher, mid add as many pounds of sugar as you 

 had pounds of currant juice before it was dried 

 sway, — then set the pitcher into an iron dinner 

 pot with water enough to reach half way up the 

 pit<dier — cover the pitcher with a saucer, and the 

 pot with the pot lid or cover — put it over the fire 

 and let it boil till the jell}' is thoroughly scalded, 

 — it must be taken oH'the fire two or three times 

 and stirred with a large silver spoon or clean 

 wooden stick ; when thoroughly -scalded, take it 

 off, and when it is cold cover it close and keep it 

 in a cool dry place. 



7'o pre/iare Preserves. Wash the fruit and let 

 it drain dry. Then set it on plates in a pretty 



warm oven, (aftiT the flour bread is drawn it will 

 be about the right heat,) let it set about an hour 

 or two, so as to be scahhid through, take it out 

 an<l pour off the juice and return the juice to the 

 oven to dry away, — when it is as thick as mo- 

 lasses add it to the fruii from which it was tak-m, 

 and I'lit it in a stone or earthen pot,— add as m.'iny 

 pounds of sugar as you had of fruit before it was 

 put in the oven, then place the pot in a kettle of 

 water, cover the jiot with a plate and set the wa- 

 ter a boiling; after they are well scalded, take 

 them olfand set them in a cool dry |ilace. 'J'hey 

 may he made with molasses instead of suirar, only 

 the molasses must first be boil.'d till il is thick as 

 it c.'ui be, or as you would boil it f(M- candy. 



Strawberries make one of the most wholesome 

 preserves, almost equal to the Guava, anil by this 

 method of preserving are entirely safe from the 

 deleterious effects of poisonous metals, as brass 

 and tin kettles. — Y. Fanner. 



LiGHTMNG. — It should be universally known 

 that in very many cases, [lersons who have been 

 struck apparently dead by lightning, may be re- 

 storeil by pouring cold water freely over theni. 

 A remarkable instance of such a resuscitation is 

 related by the N. Y. Gazette, as ocriirring a few 

 years since. About ten in the morning in the 

 middle of July, during a steady rain, wiii;ont the 

 slightest appri'liension of a thunder storm, the 

 lightning descended with such treniendons efl'ect 

 as to strike several houses at a mile's distance 

 from each other. i he concussion of the air was 

 so ^reat as to cause the church hell to ring. 

 Nearly opposite to one of the houses which were 

 stricken and rent to pieces, a young gentleman was 

 thrown from his seat in his store, where he re- 

 mained several minutes before he was discovered. 

 ,\ friend, in jiassing, observed Irim lying on his 

 hack ajiparently4>ead. lie immediately went in, 

 removed him to the counting room, stripped his 

 breast and neck, and dashed a bucket of cold wa- 

 ter in his face. He soon showed signs of life, 

 and was taken home and put into b d, where he 

 remained senseless until five in the afternoon. 

 It was several weeks before he recovered. When 

 it was told him what had happened, he was en- 

 tirely ignorant that he had been struck by light- 

 ning, and stated that he was luicimscions of the 

 shock, or the slightest degree of ])ain. His eyes, 

 however, were so severely affei ted that he did 

 not recover the use of them for several months. 

 — Bristol County Democrat. 



Beet Sugar. — The process of inannfTcturing 

 Beet Sugar is 4hns described hy the Vermont 

 (Chronicle. The bent is first prepared by cleans, 

 iiig and scraping. Tiien it is rasped into a line 

 pulp, by being hel(| against a cast iron cylin- 

 der armed with savv teeth, which reduces from 

 SO to 100 lbs. of beet to pulp in a minute. ]t is 

 then put into coarse linen hags 18 inches wide 

 and twice that in length, each hag three quarters 

 full. A numbei«tef them are put in the press with 

 "wicker frames between theni. The juice is re- 

 ceived into a wooden tub lined with copper. Into 

 the juice is thrown sulphuric acid and lime, to 

 precipitate the potash and other foreign substancep 

 contained in the beet. Next the juice is concen- 

 trated by boiling, in which the white of eggs or 

 blood is used. Next it is clarified ; that is, the 

 coloring matter and any other foreign suhsiances 



which still remain in the juice are sep.iraleil, by 

 the use of animal carbon chiefly. Next the juice 

 is filtrateil through a flannel cloth; and then as it 

 cools, it chiystalizes into a fine light colored su- 

 gar, which produces a larger inoporlion of re- 

 fined sugar to the weight than any made from the 

 cane. During the [irocess considerable molasses 

 IS <)l)tained, which is boiled over again and more 

 sngir obtained, and the last residuum is valuable 

 for cattle and other purposes. 



Remedy AGiiNST the Depreoations of A.vts. 

 — In the last No. of the Cnltnrist, p. .31, an in- 

 quiry is made for a remedy " against the depre- 

 dations of black ants." An ounce of prevention 

 which is worth a pound of cure, may perha|)s he 

 found in that ipiantity of gum camphor, placed in 

 their paths, or in small pieces around the shelves, 

 if the odor is not offensive to the silk worm. 

 The tables may be insulated by the feet standing 

 on pieces of camphor, or the feet surrounded with 

 the powder of the camphor ; they have a mortal 

 aversion to camphor, and this substance placed 

 around in places where they frequent, will effec- 

 tually dishxige theni. They arc, however, as 

 ingenious as they are industrious and trouble- 

 some. 1 had a tub, containing a quantity of 

 sugar, in which legions were indidging them- 

 selves every day in riotous living, aiul ardently 

 desired to expel them. For this purpose 1 tried 

 many expedients, waylaying my enemies with 

 water, sweetened in cnps, stojipiug up their holes, 

 and crossing their paths witl'i viscid substances, 

 etc. etc. I surrounded my cask with rings of tar, 

 but after a day or so they were again found tri- 

 umphantly revelling in my sugar. On closely ex- 

 amining the rings of tar, they had made bridges 

 of materials on which they could travel, and thu.s 

 scaled the fort. At last as a dernier resort, I put 

 a piece of camphor of the size of a hickory nut 

 into the cask, which completely routed the wli ile 

 army, and put them to flight. The effects of the 

 war was rather disastrous however to the sugar, 

 for the whole of it, upwards of one hundred 

 weight, imbibed the taste of the camjihor to the 

 bottom of the tub, whicli to m» tastes very disa- 

 greeable and might to others. If, as ] before 

 said, the odour is not iirejndicial to the silk worm, 

 I should think that camphor would he a complete 

 remedy against the depredations of the black ant.'), 

 at all events a small bit in the box wheieiii the 

 eggs of the worm are kept, will preserve them 

 from injury. 



Win. B. I\1l'nson. 

 Brooks Gr< ve, Livingston Co. N. Y. — Sillc Cult. 



Crops in New Jersey. — The Woodbury Her- 

 ald says the crop of hay in that vicinity, this sea- 

 son will be greater than ever was known before ; 

 and il is added, " that the great difficulty will he 

 to get it cut ami safely put away. A fainicr tolj 

 us the other day, that he had in his meadow timo- 

 thy heads from 12 to 13 inches lung. Of wheat 

 and rye, the crop will be double what it was last 



veur they are both filling astonishingly well. 



The >iarvesling it is thought will not commenco 

 till abfrtit the middle of July, twelve days later 

 than nsaat. 



Scatter English turnip seed among your corn 

 and peas. Let every vacant spot be filled, for 

 man and beast will need food next winter. 



