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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



SEPT. 80. 19'r. 



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(From the Mercantile Journal.) 

 RECEIPT FOll MAKING CAKES. 



TERSIFIEO BY S. A. A. 



If there's a lady in this learned land, 

 Upon her tea-board wishes something grand- 

 Let her take this advice: 

 Here is a cake, whose flavor, past dispute— 

 The most fuslidious palate needs must suit ; 

 Try it — 'tis very nice. 



Two pounds of flour from freshly gathered wheat. 

 One half a pound of butter that is sweet, 



White sugar of the same weight, — 

 A pint of milk, three eggs, a little yeast- 

 Such as is fresh, 'tis said, is always best 



A relish to create. 



Part of the flour and milk and yeast mix well, 

 And let it stand till it doth plainly tell 



'T is as the oilier— light ; 

 The butter then, the eggs and sugar stir 

 Together nicely— as you would prefer 



Pound cake on bridal night. 



This last along with balance of your flour, 

 To the first mixture you should gently pour, 



And let them onee more stand. 

 That the grand compound may become so light, 

 The merest glance assures you it is right, 



Then put it in the pan. 



To rise your cakes fit for a courtier's table, 

 Requires, 1 judge, as near as I am able — 



Five hours or thereabout; 

 Then you will have, or I'm no judge, I ween — 

 As wholesome comfits as were ever seen, 



Fur levee or for rout. 



P. S. A lady at my elbow hints. 



That as a stitch improves a rent in chintz. 



Salt makes the dough less tough. 

 Use it or not; I deem it little matter, 

 Since capes like capons, never need be better, 

 ■When they are good enovgh. 



Important to Fakmfrs. — in the winter of 

 1S19, a disense prevailed amongst tlie cuttle to an 

 alarming extent; some farmers lost more than one 

 half. I have at this time nineteen head of cattle 

 on my farm, whicli were kept confined to the bnrn 

 yard ; they were watered at a trough standmg 

 near a log house. I watched closely those that 

 were affected with the <lisorder and observed that 

 they would very often after they had drank, turn 

 to the old log house, and endeavor to eat the clay 

 from between the logs, that is when the ground 

 was hard frozen and covered with snow. Know- 

 ing that all animals are governed by instinct, and 

 seldom ever eat that which is not beneficial, 1 de- 

 termined to try the e.\lieriinent— accordingly, I 

 procured a quantity of clay, and offetvd it to them 

 in pieces of a proper size, which they greedily ate 

 from my hcnd ; they were afterwards fed with 

 clay twice ti week until the snow disappeared, and 

 never were cattle healthier, or in better condition 

 wlien the spring opened — since then to the i)re- 

 sent time, 183\ My horses, cattle, calves and 

 sheep, when the snow and frost has prevented 

 them from obtaining earth or clay for tliemselves, 

 have been supplied. I have fed it to calves in 

 the spring and summer and it has never failed to 

 restore tlieni to their appetites, when they refuse 

 to eat, correcting all acidities of the stomach, and 

 stopping all scourings, as magnesia does in child- 

 ren. As to calves I have never lost one in win- 

 ter, and of sheep not two in a hundred, since I 

 coi'nmenced feeding on clay, and out of 140 sheep, 

 during the last winter, I lost not one and most of 

 them were good mutton. During the last winter 

 the sheep of Dr Butler, an extensive wool grow- 

 er, were taken with the scours and many died, 

 before he was aware of it ; he immediately had 

 clay dug up and thawed, and fed to them, after 

 which he lost not another sheep. I am perfectly 

 satisfied that it is as necessary that cattle and 

 horses should have clay given them in winter, 

 when the ground is covered with snow, as it is 

 that they should have salt in summer, and as to 

 sheep and calves I would rather mine should do 

 without salt than without clay. — Cull. 



or near the place where the remains were found, 

 and more may yet he discovered. Geologists as- 

 sign a remote origin te these and similar remains, 

 supposing them to have been buried in their pres- 

 ent situations by the universal deluge, at which 

 time the animals themselves are supposed to have 

 become extinct. 



Matrimoniai- Cukrenct.— 'Ihe enterprising 

 colonies being generally destitute of families, Sir 

 Edward Sandy's, the Treasurer, propose.! to tlie 

 "Virginia Comjiany to send over a freight of young 

 wotnen to become wives for the planters. The 

 proposal was applauded, and ninety girls, young 

 and tincorrupt, were sent over in the ships that 

 arrived this year, (1620,) and the year following, 

 sixty mort;, handsome and well reconunended to , 

 the company, for their virtuous education and de- 

 meanor. The price of a wife at the first was one 

 hundred pounds of tobacco, hut as the number be- 

 came scarce, the price was increased to one hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds ; the value of which in mon- 

 ey, was three shillings per pound. This debt for 

 wives it was ordered, should have the i)recedeiicy 

 of all other debts, and be first recoverable. The 

 Rev. Mr Weems, a Viiginian writer, intimated 

 that it wouhl have done a man's heart good to see 

 the gallant young Virginians hastening to the wa- 

 ter-side when a vessel arrived from London each 

 carrying a bundle of the best tobacco under hi-' 

 arm atul taking back with him a beautiful and 

 virtuous young wife. — Gilbert's Banking in Amer- 

 ica. 



Mansfield Coal. — The editor of the Uoston 

 Mercantile Journal has recently published an ac- 

 <iount of his visit to the Coal Mines in Mansfield. 

 The mines have been jienetrated to the depth of 

 sixty-four feet, ami at that depth the vein of coal 

 oxceeJs five feet in tliicki.'css. A horizontal gang- 

 Wl\y has been cxravatod, Wi'iich extends one hun- 

 dred and fifty feet each way. Tj>e Massachusetts 

 Company employ twenty men, who, with the aid 

 of a steam engine, get out! about .'wenty tons per 

 Jay. The miners are all «0)d water" Bien— no in- 

 ,ox'.ea<mg liquors being alhvwed-and arc remark- 

 ably strong and healthy.. Tbe riuant.ty of coal m 

 ,lie ditrerent veins explored, is believed to be in- 

 exhaustible: and, in regard to the quality the ed- 

 itor 9 lys • " We saw it burning in the lurn.Hce of 

 the steam engine, and throwing out a great feat 

 we have : Iso beard l)r Jackson state its chemical 

 „ro|.erlics, from which one would suppo.se that it 

 would compare favorably with the best atUhracUe 

 coal iti the l'nit.Ml Statcs-an.l we have been as- 

 sured by Mr Hriggs of the Mechanic's News Uoorn, 

 and others who have tried it, that it ignites read- 

 ily, aiwl makes a very hot fire." Two other com- 

 panics are said to be forming for ii.ining coal in 

 fhc Siimc vicinity. — Bristol Co. Dem. 



Wonderful Discovery. — The excavations for 

 the Genesee Canal in this city, have unveiled 

 some interesting animal lemains, respecting which 

 a friend has handed us the following memoran- 

 dum : 



Remains of t lie Masladon have been discovered 

 in digging the Rochester and Olean Canal, in this 

 city, at the intersection of Canal and Caledonia 

 streets, about four feet below the surface of the 

 ground— imbedded in a well-defined deposit of 

 diluvion, impregnated with iron. The only re- 

 mains preserved, are two of the short ribs, about 

 four feet long; a bone, supposed to be one of the 

 lower bones of a fore-leg ; and fragments of an 

 immense tusk. The workmen describe the tusk 

 to have been as large as a man's body, and some 

 10 or 12 feet long — it was mistaken by them for 

 a log, and broken to pieces — only 12 or 14 inches 

 of the |ioint escaped fracture — the rest was bro 

 ken into pieces, and most of it, together with oth 

 er parts of the skeleton, were thrown out and bu 

 ricd ill the earth excavated from the canal. Tin 

 pieces of the trunk preserved, exhibit the texture 

 of ivory as distinctly as an ivory comb, and retain 

 their original whiteness. The ribs ni-e in a state 

 of perfect preservation. 



Probably Uie entire skeleton wasMeposited in 



Patent L,amp Appai-olus for Hentlug Water, 

 CookFUg, «&c. 



This appa-atus has l.eeii louiid veiy usefulin small fam- 

 ilies, and lor such persons as may wish to prepare lea or 

 coffee-driuk, cook oysters, &c.. ui ihcir own apartments wi HI 

 oul die trouble of a wood or coal fie. ll is very convenicll- 

 in public houses, coflce-liouses, and oihcr place.s where it H 

 wished to keep any hot liquid consianlly on hand. Bcsidei 

 answering all the purposes of what is called ihe nursi lampll 

 niav be niade to boil Irom one pint to a gallon ol water, hy« 

 meihod, which in many cases will be found llie most econom- 

 ical and expeditious, which can I e devised. 



This apparatus has been much used and highly recnm. 

 mended in wriling by all, or nearly all the druggists in Los- 

 Ion, whose cerlificaies of approbation may be socn at Ite 

 olBccof the New England farmer No. S2 ^or^h Riarkcl 

 Street, where the apparatus is for sale, ll may also he 

 boughtof William Spade, No. 26 Union iMreel. Handbill! 

 or pamphlets wi I always I.e delivered wuh Ihe apparatus, 

 when sold, co.aaining an rxplaiiaiion of Us principles and 

 particular directions lor us '..se, &!.c. 



June 14. 



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