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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



AUG. 7, 1833. 



T7»e Yankees — the Yankees. Some weeks ago, 

 it was announced in the Boston papers, that a car- 

 go of ice was shipped from Boston to the East In- 

 dies. In the following account from a Quebec, 

 paper, there is another account of the maimer in 

 which the Yankees make money. 



"A new instance of American enterprise and 

 industry occurred here tliis week. A Mr. Baird, 

 of the State of Maine, who has a patent for bee- 

 hives, and who keeps a great number of bees, and 

 of course trades in them, arrived at Quebec with 

 hives, which he sold to the amount of between 

 2 and 300 dollars, cash. He had brought some 

 during the winter, in bis boxes of hives, in a tor- 

 pid state, and found a good sale ; but it seemed 

 more difficult to remove them in the summer sea- 

 son, their busy and active period. — Mr. Baird, trav- 

 elled only during the night and set his bees out du- 

 ring the day to feed and continue their work, which 

 they did with their usual activity and regularity. 

 He was about twelve nights on his journey by the 

 Kennebec road, and brought the whole of his 

 hives to Quebec in good condition without loss." — 

 Portland Advertiser. 



From the National Gazette. 

 TO MAKE THE POSOLE & SACCA OP MEXICO. 



Consulate U. S.JI. Campe.che, 18th May, 1833. 

 Win. P. Dewees, M. D. Philadelphia, 



Dear Sir, — You have long known, from Hum- 

 boldt, that maize is the principal food of the na- 

 tive people and domestic animals of Mexico, and 

 that its alimentary preparations are as numerous 

 and various as those of rice in China and the East 

 Indies ; but you may not yet have reflected that 

 some of the forms in which it is used in this nom- 

 inal republic, are worthy of general adoption iu 

 the United States, from the combined considera- 

 tions of health, pleasure, and economy. 



I therefore recommend through you to our pro- 

 fessional brethren and fellow citizens, both medi- 

 cally and morally, the two fluid preparations of 

 maize called Posolo and Sacca. Both are milky 

 fluids obtained from dry corn, well boiled, reduced 

 to a fine dough by a stone roller, diffused in water, 

 and strained through a fino sieve. The corn to 

 make Posole is boiled with lime, and at least twice 

 as long as the corn in pure water, from which is 

 made the Sacca. The boiled corn for the Sacca, 

 is lit for the roller when its integuments are so sof- 

 tened that in some grains they split open. The 

 corn for the Posolo must be boiled until its integu- 

 ments are nearly consumed, and the eyes separated 

 by the lime. The soft grains of both are conver- 

 ted into dough on a slight concave surface of a 

 stone, having a gradual descent to the table, by 

 means of another stone, long, rounded and taper- 

 ing, analogous to the rolling pin of our bakers. 

 This laborious prooess of the females I do not of 

 course mention for imitation, and as little their ea- 

 sy method of mixing the dough and water with 

 their unaided hands. But be the preparatory steps 

 what they may, when ouce the fine farinaceous 

 particles of this boiled and bruised corn are passed 

 through the strainer in the shape of a white fluid — 

 they become as agreeable to the taste as almonds 

 under the form of Orgeat or Abnendrada ; and 

 when sweetened with sugar or honey, the Sacca 

 may be mistaken for milk drawn from the cow. 

 As in tea, coffee, and chocolate, so in Posole and 

 Sacca, some skill is requisite in the maker ; and I 

 tberofore advise you not to form a decided opinion 

 of their merits on a few trials. When medically 



presented, the physician will, of course, select the 

 limed Posole, or the pure Sacca, according to the 

 state of his patient's system or alimentary canal. 

 A case of protracted intestinal hemorrhage in a la- 

 dy, is now getting well under my care, without 

 any other remedy than lime water and milk, alter- 

 nated with Posole as both food and medicine. 



In introducing the Sacca to American society, 

 it may be presented under the anglicised name of 

 maizeade, by analogy with lemonade. It may be 

 confidently recommended to our citizens as a su- 

 perior substitute for Swaim's Panacea, Chambers' 

 Specific, or Graham's Bread, to remedy the evils 

 for which they are respectively extolled : and I 

 add that the habitual use of this cheap, unirritating 

 nourishment will do more towards checking excess 

 in spirituous liquors than all the temperance soci- 

 eties in the United States. 



I am, sir, very respectfully, your humble and 

 obedient servant, Henry Perrine. 



We are happy in republishing the following im- 

 portant agricultural paper. Answers to the " in- 

 terrogatories" which it contains would be as valua- 

 ble to New England Farmers, as to those to whom 

 they were originally addressed. 



From the Eastern Mil. Gazette. 

 AGRICULTURAL BOARD FOR THE EASTERN 

 SHORE. 



When the Board of Agricultural Trustees for 

 the Eastern Shore was first instituted in 1S22 at a 

 general Meeting of the Farmers of Maryland, 

 in the city of Baltimore, it was intended that they 

 should be in some degree, a public body, to get up 

 Fairs and Cattle SIiowb and such public exhibi- 

 tions as would tend to promote the welfare of Agri- 

 culture and Household Arts — and that they should 

 give an especial portion of their time to the consid- 

 eration of agricultural subjects. In pursuance of 

 this intention, Maryland Cattle Shows and Fairs 

 were alternately held in Baltimore and in Easton 

 for several years, under the direction of the two 

 boards, one fof the Western, the other for the 

 Eastern Shore, where were exhibited the various 

 kinds of stock, horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, mules ; 

 to which was added, a show of a great variety of do- 

 mestic fabrics, consisting of coarse and line cloth- 

 ing useful and ornamental ; of carpetings, hearth- 

 rugs, table linen, towelling and sheeting; specimens 

 of various fine products, and among others butter, 

 cider, cordials and even wines, were also presen- 

 ted — and the proprietors of articles adjudged to be 

 best were rewarded with honorable testimonials of 

 different kinds of plate. 



Notwithstanding it was obvious to all that these 

 Cattle Shows and Fairs, and the means taken to 

 to get them up and carry them through, were 

 greatly instrumental in promoting a taste for rural 

 pursuits — in rousing the dormant energies of our 

 Farmers — in exciting a spirit of competition — in 

 expanding the sphere of action, and in giving to 

 agriculture an elevation and a rank among the pro- 

 fessions in life which it had not in former years — 

 the Board have been unable, after several attempts, 

 to continue them, for the want of subscriptions to 

 bear the necessary attendant expenses. During the 

 years that the Cattle Shows were held, the twelve 

 Trustees of this Board at that time were always, 

 to a man, upon the schedule of subscribers of the 

 highest rate, and there was no instance after the first 

 year when a Cattle Show was held on this shore, 

 that the members of this board had not to pdy in 



addition to their voluntary subscription, from eight 

 to twelve dollars a piece to make up the deficien- 

 cies of subscription to defray the necessary cost 

 and charges. Having failed in after attempts to 

 procurn subscriptions adequate to cover the abso- 

 lutely essential expenditures, the board felt the re- 

 sponsibility of getting up shows and fairs taken 

 from them, and however reluctantly yielded to 

 a necessity that they could not avert. The 

 board neither saw nor felt the justice or pro- 

 priety of their individually paying from eight to 

 twelve dollars a year more than all other persons 

 for a public exhibition, in which they were no 

 more interested than others. They considered, that 

 if their subscriptions were equal to the highest paid 

 by any other person, they would still be in advance 

 in contribution, in consequence of time and trouble 

 which they must necessarily give up, to arrange 

 and manage the whole affair. 



- Thus foiled, for want of public patronage, in an- 

 swering theseobjectsoftheinstitution, theassocia- 

 tion however has been kept up by its members to be 

 ready to act, when a feeling more propitious to the 

 cause of agriculture shall be testified, by a disposition 

 to contribute the necessary means for itspromotion. 

 During this time the board has held its regular 

 monthly meetings in rotation at the houses of its 

 members, where they have enjoyed the hospitality 

 of each other, where the subjects of farming, the 

 household arts, domestic economy, and rural con- 

 cerns generally, almost exclusively engrossed their 

 attention, derived from practical exhibitions where- 

 they were, or from books, papers, or views pre- 

 sented through members. 



Among other things, the board have been oc- 

 cupied with a number of interrogatories submitted 

 by a member for consideration and answer, which 

 embrace many of the important branches of agri- 

 culture and domestic concerns, and which they 

 have resolved to make public, under a hope that 

 they may arrest the attention of pactical Far- 

 mers, and induce them to favor the board 

 with their experience and views ; which, if 

 not positively forbidden by their authors, the 

 board will feel itself at liberty to make public for 

 the purpose of contributing to the general infor- 

 mation and improvement. 



The Board designs also to publish, in fu- 

 ture numbers, papers which have been read 

 before it, by its members, at various times, 

 touching the interest of agriculture and rural 

 economy — and such others as may from time to 

 time be laid before it by its members or other 

 persons. Disappointed though not dispirited at the 

 failure of the co-operation so essential to effect 

 the original intention in founding this Board, they 

 arc still desirous to subserve the great cause of the 

 public and private interests in Agriculture by what- 

 ever means they may possess, and they invite free 

 and frequent communications from all who pursue 

 the culture of the earth or the rearing of Stock as a 

 profession, or who regard the various employments 

 of rural life among the most delightful of the in- 

 dustrious duties that we owe to society or to our 

 country. 



The following interrogatories have been for some 

 time before the Trustees of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture for the Eastern Shore, presented by one of its 

 members, for Af consideration of the Board, for 

 the purpose of obtaining such answers as the ex- 

 perience of the members might afford, and with a 

 view of giving them to the world, to draw the at- 

 tention of Agriculturists to them. 



