VOl.. XII. NO. 10. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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PURE WATER. 



A writer who dates Cincinnati, lias publish 

 ed in the Daily National Republican the fol- 

 lowing mode of procuring pure water, which 

 he observed was the result of a series of experi- 

 ments instituted at Paris a few years ago for the 

 express purpose of ascertaining the best and most 

 certain mode of procuring pure water. 



" Into a wooden cask, set upright upon a stand, 

 place two faucets, one near the bottom, the other 

 about 6 inches. Fill the cask with water, and 

 add powdered alum in the proportion of not less 

 than half a drachm to the gallon, which is to be 

 stirred into the water, and allowed 24 hours to 

 settle. Should any acidity be perceived, an equal 

 quantity of subcarhonate of soda [common soda of 

 the shops] will neutralize it. For tise, draw the 

 water from the upper faucet; and always be care- 

 ful to wash the barrel well before refilling it. 



" If, as has been conjectured in Europe, the pre- 

 vailing epidemic (Asiatic Cholera) is entirely tel- 

 luric, and created by mepbitic vapors communi- 

 cated to the water (and the conjecture is certainly 

 favored by the deranged condition of the digestive 

 functions which most generally precedes the se- 

 vere attack of cholera), you will see in this, a 

 strong argument for the immediate and general 

 adoption of the means here recommended for free- 

 ing the water used for drink at least, of the animal 

 or vegetable poisons with which it may abound." 



ITEMS OF ECONOMY, ARTS, &c. 



Recipe for Croup. Dr. Godman has recom- 

 mended the following as a certain as well as a 

 simple remedy for a common and often fatal dis- 

 ease among children. He says, " whenever they 

 are threatened with an attack of croup, I direct a 

 plaster covered with dry Scotch snuff, varying in 

 size according to the age of the patient, to be ap- 

 plied directly across the top of the thorax, and 

 retained there till all the symptoms disappear. 

 The remedy is found to be always effectual when 

 applied in the first and second stages of the mal- 

 ady." The plaster is made by greasing a piece of 

 linen, and covering it with snuff. 



Prescription for a Cough. Take 2 table spoonsful 

 of molasses, 2 do. of vinegar, 2 tea spoonsful anti- 

 monial wine, 40 drops of laudanum. Mix them 

 together, and take six tea spoonsful on going to 

 bed ; if a cure is not effected the first night, try it 

 again the succeeding night. — Southern Planter. 



Shade Trees. The tilia, known in Europe by 

 the names of lime and linden, is much spoken of 

 recently in the agricultural and other newspapers, 

 as a superior ornamental tree. We were thinking 

 of sending to Brighton for a few of these beauti- 

 ful trees, when we found out by the Genesee Far- 

 mer that they were nothing more nor less than 

 hasswood. No doubt they make pretty trees when 

 planted in open fields and gardens, for the leaves 

 are large, round and thick, making in the forest 

 where they fall a deep black vegetable mold. — 

 Ken. Jour. 



Horses and Cattlt. An intelligent farmer of this 

 town has communicated to us, what he says, is an 

 effectual remedy against injury to horses and cat- 

 tle, who may have eaten too much grain : It is 

 simply to administer a pint of melted hog's lard as 

 soon as the fact is discovered. He says he has tried 

 the experiment a number of times, and always with 

 success — JVorridgewock Journal. 



jjj" The Newbun/port Horticultural Society 

 will have an exhibition of fruits and flowers on 

 Saturday next, at the rooms over store No. 6, State 

 street, occupied by Mr. Jacob B. Morss. The 

 rooms will be open for the reception of any arti- 

 cles which may be brought for exhibition, between 

 the hoursof 8 and 10 in the morning; and between 

 the hoursof 10 and 12 the doors will be opened 

 for company. The ladies of Newburyport are in- 

 vited to attend, and are particularly requested to 

 send any flower either rare or beautiful. They 

 will receive no injury, and at the close of the ex- 

 hibition, be at the disposal of those who exhibit 

 them. Gentlemen are requested to send speci- 

 mens 6f fine fruit, of apples, pears, peaches, plums, 

 grapes or melons, and indeed sending any thing 

 excellent of their kind. At present, the exhibition 

 is not confined to members of the Society, but la- 

 dies and gentlemen, who feel an interest in the 

 Society, are requested to attend. — Herald. 



Rye. The Haverhill Democratic Republican 

 states, that Mr. Jacob Davis of Bradford, Vt. found 

 the production of one kernel of rye in his field, to 

 be 400 feet of straw, 75 heads and 3270 plump 

 kernels. 



.Apple Peru. The Portsmouth Gazette states, 

 two instances have lately happened of children 

 having eaten the seeds of this plant, to one of whom 

 the poison proved fatal. 



Longevity. A Scotch paper notices an old wo- 

 man living near Glosslough, who is 130 years of 

 age. She never took a doctor's drug in all her 

 life, nor was a lancet ever applied to her frame ; 

 she is perfectly free of affections of the chest, and 

 during the last century of her life she had been a 

 perfect stranger to pain, and her pulse does not 

 exceed seventy. Her grandfather died at the age 

 of 129, and her father died in the 120th year of 

 his age. 



Corn Soup. Cut the corn from the cob, and 

 boil it in water until it is sufficiently done : then 

 pour in new milk, with salt, pepper and one or 

 two eggs ; continue the boiling, and stir in flour 

 in order to thicken it a little. This will be supe- 

 rior to the best turtle soup. — Winchester Rep. 



Pruning the fine. Well, neighbor, how does 

 your Isabella promise this season ? • Not a single 

 grape. Ah ! how is that ? We sent for Mr. M. 

 last fall, and he pruned it so closely that the two 

 branches looked like naked sticks, and now we 

 shall not have a grape to gratify our palate. 



Close pruning is too common in this country. 

 In summer only the unproductive shoots should 

 be taken out, and not these unless they produce 

 too much shade. — JVeie York Farmer. 



New Invention. A gum elastic cloak, lined with 

 silk, has been invented in Baltimore. It is intend- 

 ed to be thrown over the shoulders in wet weather, 

 and'will effectually shield the person and clothes 

 of the wearer. When not wanted, it can be fold- 

 ed up into a very small bulk, and on this account 

 must be found very useful and convenient. We 

 mean to have one ordered on for our own use, so 

 as to be ready for the next fall elections. — Cin. Rep. 



Rule in planting Corn. — A correspondent was 

 pleased the other day with the reply of a farmer to 

 the question how many kernels he put in a hill : 



One for the black-bird, 



One for the crow, 

 One for Ihe cut-worm, 



And two to grow. 



We have been presented with a singular ear of 

 Corn, brought originally from the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and raised in a garden in this town. Each 

 grain of corn is enclosed in a shock, so as to be 

 capable of standing considerable severity of weath- 

 er without injury. The grains are fine and large. 

 — Alexandria Gaz. 



Men of the Revolution. We last week saw in 

 this town six brothers, the youngest over 60 years 

 old. They had not been all together before since the 

 Revolutionary war. Four of them were out in the 

 American service in that war. Four of them live 

 in this county, and are well known here ; the oth- 

 ers in Massachusetts. They are all worthy and 

 respected, hale and vigorous, enjoying a 'green 

 old age,' the fruit of a temperate life and a clear 

 conscience. Their names are Craig, — Moses, Ell- 

 as, Elijah, Jesse, Enoch, and David, and they have 

 a sister in this town, widow of the late Lewis 

 Hamlen, also over CO. 



These men of the Revolution are an iron race, 

 unlike the pale dyspeptics and chicken-fisted dan- 

 dies of the present day. — Ken. Jour. 



Patent Tinned Lead Pipes. An article under 

 this name is mentioned in the London papers, 

 which seems likely to supersede the use of all other 

 metals which hitherto have been employed for 

 conduits. To lead alone, in pipes, cisterns, &c. it 

 is well known that the most serious objections ex- 

 ist. For instance, the action of air on lead pro- 

 duces oxide, 'which water dissolves, and thus water 

 becomes poisonous. Similar deleterious effects are 

 caused by leaden pipes in beer engines. It was to 

 remedy these evils that the new process of tinning 

 lead pipes was brought to perfection, and Messrs. 

 J. & R. Warner, the patentees, affirm that the addi- 

 tional cost for the improved article is very trifling. 



Best method of destroying Couch or Quitch-grass. 

 I have a small piece of land where it grew in great 

 abundance. Last season I ploughed it no deeper 

 than the roots penetrate ; let it lay about three days 

 to dry ; then harrowed it thoroughly ; then with a 

 fork and rake gathered the sods and piled them in 

 the form of cones, where I let them remain till the 

 commencement of the present season, when I 

 found they had rotted completely, and no roots re- 

 mained in the piles, though some grass remained 

 in the ground. At the usual time of ploughing 

 this season I performed a like operation, and now 

 find the grass so much decreased that 1 think 

 another year will totally destroy it. I planted 

 corn on the ground both years. 



The grass will spring from the piles the first 

 part of the season, but they should be made not 

 more than three or four feet in diameter at the 

 base, so that for want of proper moisture what 

 springs out will shortly die and become rotten. — 

 Kennebec Jour. 



Indian Cure for Fever and Ague. David Ford, 

 a respectable citizen of Ogdensburg, New York, 

 where this disease prevails to a considerable ex- 

 tent, recommends the following as a certain cure : 

 Take equal quantities of inside bark of Fir Balsam 

 and Yellow Birch — boil them down to a very 

 strong decoction or tea. Give to a grown person 

 two spoonfuls in the same quantity of wine, just 

 before eating, three times a day; young persons in 

 proportion — say to a child five years old, 3-4ths of 

 a table spoonful, with as much wine. It will pro- 

 bably at first produce sickness at the stomach and 

 vomiting. Such are its effects sometimes, but it 

 will cure. — Ohio Repository. 



