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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



AITGUST 23. Igtr. 



COOKED FOOD 



Whv <H.oUt-il food shoi.ia 1..! sn iniirl| iiinre liM- 



tiltioiis for man or an 



iHials than that which i." nii- 



.'•ooUe.l, has fnrnishea .natter for some n-quiry 

 „,„ong rhe observers of natnre. That it ,s so, 

 ,loes not a.lmit of a .lonbt. Every farmer knows 

 U,is, Ihon^h ,,erhai,s f.w act up to the.r kno.v - 

 ,,,„.; ■„, Ms respeet. Corn ground and n.ade mto 



..ud.iins i« wo.-.i' "««'-iy »* "'"'•'; ."*-'■■;'" ^"' *"'" 



leninn- l-ork, as when fed whole; this the ex|,en- 

 n,enl"of Mr Colman and others prove; and a 

 simUar thonyh perhaps not equal valne ,s g.ven lo 

 potatoes, api-les, or other kinds of food nsnally 

 fell to pips. In the northern eonntries of hnrr.pe 

 where food for both man ami beast is scarce, ami 

 the utmost economy is of course necessary, the 

 practice of maUin^ oats or barley into bread lor 

 Ijorses, is practised to a considerable extent.^ Con 

 siderahle qnanlities are made at a time 



'■ 6th. That though the frasments of these 

 .shells are not nutritive, they are indispensable to 

 dif^c^s. ion, either from their distcndiu',' the stom- 

 ach and bowels or from some other causes not 

 understood, it having been proved by experiment 

 that concentrated nourishment, such as cane su- 

 irar, essence of beef, or osmazoine, cannot long 

 sustain life without some mixture of coarser and 

 less nutritive, food. 



"7th. '! hat the economical preparation of all 

 food containing globules of fecula, consists in per- 

 fectly breaking the shells, and rendering the ker- 

 nel or dextrine contained in them soluble, and t\\- 

 gestihle, while the fragments of the shells are at 

 the same time ren(I<n;d more bulky, so as the 

 more readily to (iil the stomach." — Yankee Far- 

 mer. 



ttle 

 orth 



difficulty is found in the cool climate of the north 

 in preserving them fit for use. It is calculated 



• ^ . . • I ... .1.- ...i.tfrlit nf 



wi}li 

 mil 



CCS of coal, which would otherwise be of no use, 

 will be reduced to as fine a powder as the lima 

 itself. It should, however, be remarked, that in 

 order to obtain this benefit from coal ashes, they 

 should be kept perfectly dry; and when thus pre- 

 pared, they are stilted to improve swampy, moor- 

 ish soils very materially, and in a very short time." 

 — CiiUivalor. 



that the grain this way is equal to the weight of 

 water n.«ed in manufaciuring the biead or cake! 

 which is about one third of the weight of th 

 original flour worked up. Cut hay, mixe. 

 a large proportion of fmely chopped straw, a 

 some^of these oat cakes broken up fne constitutes 

 the food of the horse or ox, and it is one on which 

 they lalior well and th.rive abundantly. The huil 

 or bran of the oat is of course used with the 



flour. 



Some light appears to liave been thrown <m the 

 causes which nMider cooked food so much more 

 valuable than raw, by the researches of Dntrochet, 

 Dumas, and more lately Raspail, who hdsdevoted 

 much lime, aided by the best of microscopical in- 

 struments to the discovery of the original nutritive 

 particles in food, and the changes they undergo in 

 the process of preparing for nutritVon. According 

 to this philosopher the nutritive matter in grain 

 or roots, is composed of, or rather contained in 

 smooth white globules, diflx'ring in size in 

 diffrrent grains or roots. Thus in wheat 

 they are 2.1000 parts of an inch— in the potato 

 double this size — while in buckwheat they are 

 oidy 1-10.1000 part of an inch in diajiieter. Pure 

 flour, or starch would seem to be fm amass of 

 these globules in their natiind state. Raspail as- 

 certained that these niimite globules consist of an 

 envelope and an inclosed kernel, coiistituling ihe 

 nutritive matter. These globules are iu.scdiihle or 

 unalterable in colli water, but at a heal of 122-^ 

 the kernel expaii !s, ai>d the envelope tmrsts, but 

 without being decomposed. It is these floating 

 envelopes that constituK: the starch of the laundry. 

 The investigations of these philosophers seem to 

 hive eslablished the lollowing facts as stated by 

 Raspail : — 



'' 1st. That the globul.^s containing flour, meal, 

 or starch, wlielher contaimrd in grain or roots, are 

 incapable of a lording any nourishment as animal 

 food, till they are hroki'ii 



»-2d. That no inechauical mellioc! of breaking 

 orgtimling is more than partially eflicieiit. 

 ■ 3d. That lli(! most 



I'tiicieiil modes of breaking 



Co.4i, .Ashes as a Manurf:. — From the favor- 

 able result of an e.xperiu'eiit made in Ohio, of em- 

 ploying coal ashes for manuring corn, noticed in 

 another column of this day's Cultivator, we have 

 lieen induced to inquire to what extent and with 

 wiiat eflect, this material has been elsev/here ap- 

 idied and we now communicate to the readerthe 

 result of our inquiries. There are two kinds of 

 fossil coal — bituminous and anthracite. — \\ hether 

 the ashes of the two kinds difler in their fertilizing 

 properties or not, we are unable to say. Kut the 

 facts we are about to state refer to ashes of the 

 bituminous coal, which is the kind principally 

 used in Great i'.riliau, as well as in the valleys of 

 the Ohio and Mississiipi. 



Davy says, that coal, on distillation, gives car- 

 bonate and acetate ofiimmonia, which are said to 

 be very good manure; and that soot, derived 

 from the burning of coal, and known to impart 

 fertility to a soil, owes a part of its eflicacy to the 

 ammonial salts which it contains.— p. 35. 



" The ashes of coals and cinders," we are ad- 

 vi.-;e(l in British Husbandry, "have the very per- 

 ceptible effect of loosening, as well as stimulating 

 those soils, [clays and heavy tenacious loams,] 

 and when ihey can be procured in siifliciemly 

 large quantities, in the neigfiborhood of great 

 towns and manufactories, they are ploughed in 

 with great advantage, to the extent of fifty or six- 

 ty bushels, or even more, to the acre. 'I he ashes 

 of coal, wood and turf, when used for domestic 

 purfioses, are, in almost a I country places, mixed 

 up by the consumers wiih the dunghill, and un- 

 less they form an lulu^u.■d proportion of the heap, 

 occasion but liltle sensible dift"erence in the prop- 

 eriies of the manure ; but when a. plied alone, as 

 top dressings upon grass, they hoih sirengthen 

 the hirbage, improve its quality, and encourage 

 the growth of white cl .ver ; they are also used 

 for many other crops, both of corn and artificial 



gras.ses.''— p. 332. 



•' Coal ashes," says the Cmplete Grazier, p. 

 .565, " when properly preserved, supply an excel- 

 lent top dressing for clover, on dry, chalky soils, 

 in the quantity of fifty or sixty bushels th' a-re, 

 scattered in Alarch an.l ,'Vpril ; and are equally 

 beneficial on grass lands, on which they are spread 



Hints to Mechanics Asn Workmen. — If you 

 would avoid the diseases vvhieli your jiarticular 

 trades and wcu'k are liable to produce, attend to 

 the following hints. 



Keep, if possible, regular hoiir.s. Never sup- 

 pose that you have done extra work, when you 

 sit up till midnight, and do not rise till eight or 

 nine in the morning. 



Abstain from ardent spirits, cordials and malt 

 liquors. Let your drink be, like that of Franklin, 

 when he was a printer — pure water. 



Never use tobacco in any form. By chewing, 

 smoking, or snufiing, you spend money which 

 would help to clothe you, or would enable you, if 

 single to make a useful present to an aged moth- 

 er or dependent sister; or if married, to buy youfi, 

 wife a frock, or get books, for your children. Yoiii 

 also, by any of these filthy practices, injure youi 

 health, bringing on head-ache, gnawing at the 

 stomach, low spirits, trembling of the limbs, and 

 at times sleeplessness. 



He particular in preserving your skin clean, h) 

 regularly washing of your hands and face ant 

 mouth, before each meal, and your whole body a 

 least once a week ; an;! by combing and brushing 

 the hair daily. 



Aiwa 

 you work 



Tak 

 and always in the evening or towards sundown 

 for placing your body in a natural posture, b; 

 standing erect, and exercising your chest am 

 limbs by a walk where the air is the purest. 



If confined in doors, let your food consist, ii 

 large proportion, of milk and bread, and well boil 

 ed vegetables. Bleat and fish ought to be usei 

 sparingly, and only at dinner. You are bette 

 without coflee, tea, or chocolate. If you use an; 

 of them, it ought not to be more than once in thi 

 day. 



liiir daily. 



Iways have fresh air in the room in whicW 

 work, but so that you shall not be in a drafl 

 ake a short time in the morning, if possiblj 



the globules, are by heat, by fermeniaiion, or by either during the winter, or 



thecbemical ajeiicy of acids or a.kaliet. 



»4th. Thai the dextrine [ihe milrilieiit part] 

 which is the kernel as it were of c-acli ;;h(biile, is 

 alone solidilc!, and llierefore alone imtrllive. 



"5th. That the envelope or shells of the glob- 

 ules \\ hen reduced to fragments by nn'chamcism or 

 heat, are insoliihle, and therefore not niitiilive. 



in tlie course of the 

 spring. riie quality of coal ashes may 

 improved, by covering up, in every cart 



lollowm 



be mud , . 



load of ashe.s, one bushel of lime, in its hottest 



Slate, for about ten or twelve hours, when the 



liine'wil he intircly fallen. The whole is now to 



be>vellmix(d together, and turned over two or 



three times, when '.he cinders, or half burnt pie- 



Woon-SAWTERS Look out!— We heard a tei 



rible buzzing in our streets one day laBt week 



and on going to learn the cause, found it to pro 



ceed from a kind of portable or travelling sa« 



mill, propelled by two horses, and which was on 



gaged in cutting up a neighbor's wood pile at 



rate that was a "caution" to all wood-sawyeil 



The principal part of the concern was a tlirast 



i„g machine, but it being om of w. rk in that lip 



just at present, the owner, real yankee Ilk; 



determined to make it earn its living in anotlu 



sphere, and had, therefore, in a small bench 



platform, rigged a buzz saw, which being attacj 



ed to the machine by a strap was propelled w^ 



astonishing velocity. We are not apprised of wH 



it is capable of effecting in the woud-sawing lil| 



' but we perceived that it took two men to 



wood to ihe one that applied it to the saw ; 



ten cords per hour is but an ordinary task fo4 



For our own part we could not help thinkmj; 



when we turned wood-sawyer it would be 



the thing we should want. — Fredonia Censor. 



