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then: I'd re discontinue their culture, because they 

 may be perverted to a baa use ? We confess we 

 are fond of good cider, and think apples among 

 the greatest luxuries of life, and their use, in vari- 

 ous ways, highly conducive to health. Some emi- 

 nent moralist has compared men to a barrel of tin- 

 fermented cider, which, if stopped at the vent, is 

 apt to leak at some other point ; or, in other words, 

 that a too rigid restraint upon innocent indulgence 

 may lead to greater evils. We hope the example 

 of Mr. Titus, which we have stated, may staj the 

 the hand of the destroyer; and induce those who 

 deprecate alcohol, to convert the products of their 

 orchards into pork and heel'. 13. 



tbev will find it very wholesome and palatable 

 bread. Yours, respectfully, 



T. Bridgema*. 

 New-York, Nov. 21, 1S31. 



From lii'' New York Famur. 

 PUMPKIN BREAD. 



As you have in some of your former numbers 

 furnished us with directions for making Rice 

 Bread, Corn Pudding, Sec. I presume you will not 

 take it amiss if I call the attention of your readers 

 to the value of the Pumpkin. I presume there is 

 not a vegetable on the face of the earth, more easi- 

 ly raised, or that is more productive; when it is 

 considered that they will grow among corn, pota- 

 toes, or on any waste ground, and that the seed of 

 one pumpkin will produce eart loads of fruit. 



In the fall of 1829 I obtained the seed of a very 

 superior pumpkin, part of which I planted the lat- 

 ter of June following, on the ground that I had 

 raised two early crops of vegetables front, ami 

 comparatively of little value to me at that season 

 of the year. I began to gather some of the fruit 

 in October; it being extraordinary fine, I was anx- 

 ious to save every grain of the seed, but the diffi- 

 culty was how to dispose of the flesh or fruit. — 

 The common niethed of making it up into pics, 

 would have been troublesome and expensive, and 

 I thought them too good to feed swine with. 1 

 first gave some to my friends, on condition that 

 they would save the seed, but they did not use 

 them up fast enough ; at length my wife tried ex- 

 periments to work them up into Bread, Cakes, 

 Pies, Puddings, &c. and it was not long before we 

 discovered that they could be used so as to answer 

 every purpose of Indian Meal, and that our family 

 and friends considered it preferable to any thing 

 of the kind made in the ordinary way. 



The pumpkin is first deprived of the rind, and 

 afterwards out up in slices and boiled ; when soft 

 enough it is strained in a colander, and mashed 

 up very fine ; in this state it may be used up into 

 pies, or mixed with flour for pudding, cake, &c. 

 If it be intended for bread, it may be made up 

 with wheateu flour in the proportion of one third 

 to half. The spunge must be first set in the ordi- 

 nary way with yeast in the flour, and the pumpkin 

 worked in as it begins to rise. My wife's rule is 

 to use as much pumpkin as will bring the dough 

 to a proper degree of stiffness without water. Care 

 should be taken that the pumpkin is not too hot 

 to scald the leaven. It requires more baking than 

 bread made entirely of wheat. I am aware that 

 pumpkin bread is nothing new, but I am informed 

 that farmers in the country use Indian meal with 

 their pumpkin instead of wheaten flour, which 

 makes it more like pudding than bread. Those 

 farmers that are in the habit of making their bread 

 with wheat and Indian, may find a market for 

 their meal more easily than for pumpkins, and if 

 they use these up into bread precisely in the same 

 manner as they do their meal, I am persuaded 



From tlw New York Farmer. 

 SUPERIOR COMPOSITION FOR TREES. 



Extract of a Letter from Hon. J. K. Guernsey, of 

 Pittsford, to Wm. Prince &,■ Sons. 



I avail myself of this opportunity to send you 

 the following statement, respecting the Composi- 

 tion for Trees. 



Many inoculated trees are greatly injured, and 

 finally lost, in consequence of the length of time 

 necessary to heal over the stock, where it is cut 

 off, when no means are used to secure it from ex- 

 posure to the air and wet. 



The wood dies down to some distance, and al- 

 though, after a time, bark and new wood may 

 ffrovv over, it finally rots and destroys the tree. 

 The same is true of large limbs cut off, and of 

 bark knocked off by accident. To prevent this, 

 the following cheap and easily applied composition 

 is the best remedy I have found. I have used it 

 for more than 20 years, with almost uniform and 

 perfect success. 



Recipe. — One part, say one quart, common tar. 

 Two parts, say two quarts, chalk, finely pulveriz- 

 ed, and sifted. Put the tar into an iron kettle; 

 heat it, and whilst hot, stir in the. chalk. Care 

 should be taken not to boil it too much, either 

 when first made or when using it, as that will 

 make it too hard and brittle. Should it by acci- 

 dent become so, add tar, till sufficiently soft. 

 When to he used, heat it over either an earthen 

 or iron portable furnace, or fire made on the 

 ground on or near the place where wanted, so as 

 to boil, or to be sufficiently soft, which a little ex- 

 perience will show, and apply it with a small iron 

 or wooden spatula, covering the wood entirely with 

 a thin coat, and leaving no place for the water to 

 get under the composition. It will remain on for 

 years, but may be taken ofF whenever the bark 

 shall have grown over the wood. It will be found 

 upon examination that there is no dead wood un- 

 der it. Any one who delights iir seeing fine 

 healthy trees, after having once fairly tried the ex- 

 periment, will never abandon its use. It is par- 

 ticularly valuable for covering the stumps when 

 old trees are headed down. This composition 

 was invented, and an account of it published, by 

 some gentleman either of England or Scotland, 1 

 think Sir Arthur St. Clair, soon after Forsyth first 

 published the account of bis composition for heal- 

 ing wounds in fruit trees, which is very trouble- 

 some to make, and still more so to use. It is, 

 probably, known to many horticulturists, but ought 

 to be known to all who cultivate fruit trees ; and 

 if you think the publication of these remarks will 

 be useful, they are at your service. 



DISEASE OF POULTRY. 



From a series of observations made on the dis- 

 eases of domestic poultry, Mr. Flourens makes the 

 following conclusions: 



1. In these animals, cold exercises a constant 

 and determinate action on the lungs. 



2. The effect of this action is the more rapid 

 and more severe, the younger the animal is. 



3. When cold does not cause acute and speedi- 

 ly fatal inflammation of the lungs, it produces a 

 chronic inflammation, which is pulmonary con- 

 sumption itself. 



4. Heat always prevents the attack of pulmo- 

 nary, consumption ; when the latter has taken 

 place, beat suspends its progress, and even some- 

 times arrests it entirely and effects a complete 

 cure. 



5. Pulmonary consumption is never, in any 

 stage, contagious; fowls affected with that disease 

 were not only all day long with the healthy fowls, 

 but at night roosted in the same places, without 

 communicating their disease to them. — GoodscWs 

 Fanner. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 

 BLACK TONGUE. 



The celebrated Veterinary Surgeon Richard 

 Mason of Virginia, forcibly recommends the fol- 

 lowing treatment of this dreadful disease, that is 

 among us, and daily carrying oft' some of our most 

 valuable Horses. 



lie recommends the constant use of Gum assa- 

 foedita, as a preventive of this as well as other con- 

 tagious diseases, and says that he owes his success 

 in preventing and curing this disease to the con- 

 stant use of this drug. 



He observes that the value of assafcetida as a 

 medicine for Horses is hut little known, but where 

 it shall have been once used its remarkable effects 

 will prove his observations correct. It acts as a 

 stimulant, antispasmodic, expectorant, emenagogue, 

 and anthelmentic, and its action is quiet and pene- 

 trating. 



Where a small piece of assafcetida has been 

 placed in the manger of a horse which was in 

 health, I have known him to occupy a stable for 

 months adjoining one in which was a horse affect- 

 ed with a contagious disease, without being in the 

 least injured, or any ill consequences resulting 

 from it. 



Preventive. — Take one ounce of assafcetida, 

 divide it in two parts, wrap them in clean linen 

 rags and nail one part in the bottom of the manger 

 where the horse is fed, the other in the bottom of 

 the bucket in which it is watered. These will last 

 for three months. A small piece, confined to the 

 bridle bit when the horse goes from home, will 

 also act as a preventive. 



Cure when the Disease has commenced. — Take 

 one pint of Castor Oil, two ounces Balsam Copaiva, 

 two ounces sweet spirits of nitre, let these ingre- 

 dients be well mixed in a bottle and given. 



A wash for the Mouth. — Take one pint of vine- 

 gar, four ounces of Alum, a piece of verdigrise as 

 large as a common sized bean, and a handful of 

 sage. Let the sage be decocted in a pint of water, 

 and the alum and verdigrise dissolved in it ; use 

 this as a wash for the mouth two or three times 

 each day until the disease abates. S. 



CAPERS. 



The pickle in common use under the name of 

 capers, is made of the young flower buds of a 

 beautiful shrub found in the Levant and the south 

 of Europe, where it grows wild among rocks and 

 rubbish, and is as common as the bramble is with 

 us. 



AN EXCELLENT CURE FOR A SPRAIN. 



Take two pieces of red flannel, soak one of 

 them' with beef or pork pickle, (beef is best,) and 

 place it on the wrist or ancle sprained, wrap the 

 other piece over it, and the pain will subside in 

 a very short time. — American Farmer. 



