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AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL, 



115 



Milk Strainers. — Much of the ease, facility, 

 oleaiiliness, aiul con.seqiieiitly profits of the dairy 

 fli'piMul ii()()ii the iiiipleiiiejits usicd in condiicliii;,' 

 it; and a!l ■.vill ailipiit, that without a good strain- 

 er, neatness cannot be e.\-|)ecled in its prodncis of 

 «hi>ese and hiiiter. \Vc can remend)er vyiien a 

 strip of thin linen idoth clo.'icly held oyer the rini 

 of ihe pail, while the latter was litteil in that awk- 

 ward |)c)silion hy main streniflh, served as a strain- 

 er to a dairy, and the iilea that an improvement 

 coul.l have been made .«iceiTis not to have been 

 suspected. " |}y and by, the fortnnaie genius of 

 some yankee tinman hit upon the tin strainer with 

 its linen cloth and hoop, and the hearts of dairy 

 maids were made glad by this decided imjirove- 

 fnent on the old mode of separating impurities 

 from milk. These liad their day, and then, better 

 still, came the strainer mounted on a rim wilh a 

 piece of wire gauze neatly soldered to the bjttoni, 

 and dispensing with much of the labor required 

 by either of the former processes. All these, 

 however, have been thrown into the shade, by a 

 combination of the pail and strainer, which ap- 

 pears to be the ne plus ultra of neatness and con- 

 venience ; at least such seems to be the opinion 

 jf those who have adopted the new article. The 

 ;op of the pail is partially covered, wilh a disc of 

 ;iu, below. whii'b in the side of the pail is a piece 

 )f fine wire gauze soldered over an opening, and 

 I broad l)iit shallow spout, rising to the same 

 leight as the pail, and outside the strainer, con- 

 lucts the milk into the vessel required. We are 

 dvvays pleased to notice any improvement that 

 :onduces to the ease of the la'iorer, and this dairy 

 vessel is, we think, clearly one of that class. 



Genesee Farmer. 



chants and mauufactuers, I'liiladelpliia, whose 

 improvements in hardware (particularly the patent 

 hay fork) are so well known throughout the coun- 

 ti'y — Journal of t lie American. Instilule. 



0\ Olympus. — 'I'he Claremont ox, Olympus, 

 raised by Isaac llubhai'd, Esq., of this place, we 

 understand has been purcliased of that gentleman, 

 and in the coin-se of the next or the following 

 week will go to New York city, where agricullnr- 

 ists and others will hav ■ an opportunity of exam- 

 ining him, and perhaps gratifying their palates 

 with a "taste of his quality." The Olynjpus is 

 unquestionably the largest and the noblest animal 

 of the kind ever raised in this country. He was 

 five years old last January, and now weighs three 

 thousand five hundred jmunds. He is well propor- 

 tioned, anil u'eighs eight hundred more than the 

 great ox Colnmbiis, though nearly three years 

 younger than the latter when last weighed and 

 exhibited in Boston. He is in fact a mountain of 

 beef, as his name would seem to indicate, and is 

 well described by the poei — 



, — ** He stond 

 Fair in his limbs, and, like Olympus, huge 

 And v.ist from side to side — ." 



He will be ship|>ed down the river next week, give 

 the Hartford people a call between the 15th and 

 2t)th, and take the safest conveyance to the city ol 

 e|>ii'nres. Easy — easy! good King Olympus! 



it in. He also [i,-issed the harrow over the place 

 in which the wheat had been ploughed, so that 

 the whole of the land was used alike. He put 

 ashes to the amriiint of ten bushels to the acre 

 upon the whole piece. The result at harvest was, 

 a good crop on the whole land, but a decided nd- 

 vanlage in the piece where the wheat was covered 

 by the |)loiigli. It yielded more per acre than the 

 wheat covered by the harrow Maine Farmer. 



"This side up with care." 



Goodyear's Improvements in Gum Elastic. — 

 specimens of this article may now be seen at the 

 \merican Institute, No. 187 liroadway, or at 42 

 J aver street, which cannot be di.ssolved, so as to 

 !)e adhesive by the solvents of the gum. It is but a 

 lew years since the gum elastic was, to much ex- 

 ent, manufactured. After its introduction it soon 

 lecanie a subject of much interest, and strong ex- 

 lectations were Ibrined of its successful ap|ilica- 

 ion to a great variety of uses. The failure of the 

 um to answer the purposes anticipated, and the 

 Iniost entire abandonment of the manufacture, 

 lave become a subject of general notoriety, vvith- 

 ut such cause of the failure being generally 

 nown. It has not been owing, as was believed, 

 ifholly to the imperfect state of the manufacture; 

 ut because the gum, in its native and best state, 

 JStead of being insoluble and inilestructible, as it 

 k'as once supposed to be, is (particularly when in 



thin form) quite the reverse, and is dissolved 

 asily, when brought in contact with any oil, as it 

 i not only made very adhesive by acids, the sun, 

 nd other causes, but is naturally so, as is shown 

 esl by its readily joining after being cut. These 

 bstacles have been contended with by chemists 

 nd manufacturers, and were finally admitted to 

 e insurmountable, because they were inherent 

 ualities of the gum. 



Mr Goodyear's entire success in overcoming 

 lese objections, as well as adding such variety and 

 eauty to his fabrics, has been the result of three 

 ears' constant experiments ; and the new uses to 

 Anch this material becomes applicable, such as 

 ia()S, charts, carjietiug, &,p. folio iv in conse- 

 iience. We understand that Mr Goodyear is one 

 f the firm of Goodyeai & Sons, hardware mer- 



Notice, or Alakm Gong. — A very ingenious 

 instrument, of which we have seen a model, has 

 been invented by Captain George Smith, R. N., 

 intended to give warning of the approach, and to 

 announce the course a steamer is sailing on in a 

 fog. It consists of a gong on which a hammer is 

 made to strike every ten seconds a certain number 

 of blows, by very sim[ple machinery, according to 

 the course the steamer is sailing on. For exam- 

 ple, if she be going north, the goiig is struck once ; 

 if east, twice ; if south, thrice ; if west, four times, 

 every ten seconds. I5y this systematic ineth id, 

 the position, of course, anri proximity of a steam- 

 er will be clearly amioiinced to any other vessel. 

 In rivers Captain Smith projioses the gong to emit 

 single sounds every ten seconds, which would be 

 enough to give warning. He also proposes to 

 a|pply the instrument to railway trains, by the 

 blowing of a trnrapet. The peculiar merit of the 

 invention appears to us to lie in the equability of 

 the intervals, and of intensity of sound, which 

 cannot be equalled by any human means. — Rail- 

 way Magazine. 



Plouohing in Wheat. — We have long been 

 of the opinion that the farmers of Maine did not 

 work or stir their land enough. Mr. L. Whitinan. 

 of Winthrop, has related to ns an experiment 

 which goes to prove the importance of using the 

 plough more, and of covering wheat when sown 

 more etiectually than it is done by the harrow. 

 Last year he ploughed up a pieire of sward land, 

 that had become bound out, as it is called, and 

 sowed upon it peas and oats. He had a liiir crop. 

 Late in the fall he ploughed it once more and 

 harrowed over; he then put the plough through 

 it again, making three times in all. When he 

 had ploughed a part of the land the last time, he 

 concluded to sow wheat on the remainder "ami 

 plough it in. 'i'liis he diil ; and afterwards sowed 

 wheat upon the first ploughed piece and harrowed 



General Washington's Church. — The Bishop 

 of Virgini.i, during a recent visitation of his dio- 

 cese, "gives an account of the present condition of 

 the church in which the father of his country 

 worshipjied the God ol his fathers : 



It was still raining when the Bishoi) approach- 

 ed the church alone and found no one there. Tlie 

 wide open doors invited him to enter, as they do 

 invite night and day through the year, not even 

 the passing travell-r, but the beast of the field and 

 the fovvl of the air. These latter, however, seem 

 to have reverenced the house of God, as few marks 

 of their pollnlion are to be seen throimhout if. 

 The interior of tlie house having been well built, 

 is still good. The altar communion table is still 

 there, and in good order. But the roof is decay- 

 ing, and at the time mentioned tlie rain was drop- 

 iiig from above on those sacred places and on 

 other pirts of the house. 'I'he location of it is to 

 be ascribed to the youthful Wash.ington, who, at 

 a very early age, being an active member of the 

 vestry, when it was in dispute where it should be 

 built, carefully surveyed the whole parish, and 

 drawing a handsome map of it, showed where 

 the claims of justice and the interests of religion 

 required it to be placed. It was to this church 

 that Washington, for a^ long series of years regu- 

 hirly re[)aired, at the distance of six or seven 

 miles, never permitting any company to interfere 

 with the regular observance of the Lord's day. 

 And shall it be [permitted to sink into ruin (ur the 

 want of a few hundred dollars to arrest the decay 

 already begun .' Were not this a monument wor- 

 thy not to be erected but to be preserved, to the 

 memory of Washington, by the patriots of our 

 land ? 



Harvard University. — By the recent cata- 

 logue of this institution, it appears that the num- 

 ber of students connected with it is as follows, 

 viz : Theological students, 22 ; Law students, 63 ; 

 Medical students, 87 ; resilient graduate, 1 ; under 

 graduates, 219. The whole number is 392. Of 

 these, 21 are from New Hampshire, 10 from 

 iMaine, 8 from Louisiana, 6 from Rhode island, 

 8 from South Carolina, 5 from Maryland, 3 from 

 Virginia, 3 from Connecticut, 2 from Georgia, and 

 2 from Tennessee. Tlie College Faculty con- 

 sists, at present, of eleven, of whom four are tu- 

 tors, 'j'here are four professorships vacant. 

 Connected with the Theological, Law and .^Jedi- 

 cal departments, there are eleven professors. 



A solemn service was hehl a few days since at 

 iNlaltapoisett, for the loss of the Cadiiceus whale 

 brig, vvliich sailed thence with a crew of fifteen 

 young men, (11 belonging to Rochester,) "fflio left 

 there A|Mil 28, 1836, and have never since been 

 heard of. Most of the relatives of the youths 

 wen; present, and dee|ily affected by the sermon. 

 JV. Y. paper. 



