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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



FEBRUARY 13, 1834. 



SUGAR FROM BEETS. 



A writer iii Goodsell's Fanner, who lias been 

 engaged in constructing machinery for tlie manu- 

 facture of this sugar in Europe, proposes to com- 

 mence business at Rochester. He makes the fol- 

 lowing calculation : 



Cost of producing an acre, $20 00 

 Cost of manufacturing do., 40 00 



60 00 



Amount of sugar produced, 151 20 

 Value of pulp remaining, 6 00 



157 20 



Nett profit per acre, 



$97 20 



RECIPES IN DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Baked Beefsteak Pudding. — Make a batter of 

 milk, two eggs, and flour, or which is much bet- 

 ter, of potatoes boiled and rubbed through a colan- 

 der. Lay a little of the batter at the bottom ot the 

 dish, have the beef cut in thin slices and divided 

 in pieces three inches long and well fried in butter, 

 and seasoned to your taste ; place them in the dish, 

 and pour the remainder of the batter over them, 

 and bake in an oven. 



Padovies. — Shred rare done cold beef, with a 

 little fat; season with pepper, salt, and if preferred 

 a little onion. Make a plain paste of flour, roll it 

 thin, and cut in shape of an apple puff; fill it with 

 the shred beef, pinch the edges and fry brown. 

 The paste should be made with a small quantity of 

 butter, eggs and milk. 



Beef Cakes. — Make fine some beef that is rare 

 done, with a little fat bacon ; season with pepper 

 and salt, and otherwise as preferred ; mix well and 

 make into small cakes three inches long, and half 

 as wide and thick, and fry them a light brown, 

 and serve with gravy. — Northern Farmer. 



Dressing Meats. — " Wash all meats before you 

 dress ; if for boiling, the color will be better for 

 soaking; if for roasting, dry it. Boiling in a well 

 flavored cloth, will improve much the appearance. 

 The pot should be skimmed the moment it boils, 

 otherwise the meat will have a foul appearance. 



" The boiler and all utensils should be kept deli- 

 cately clean ; they will otherwise communicate a 

 bad flavor to the meat. 



" Meat should be boiled slow, or it will be hard ; 

 weigh the joint, and allow a quarter of an hour to 

 each pound, and about twenty minutes over." 



If you have a greater quantity of cheeses in the 

 house than is likely to be soon used, cover them 

 carefully with paper, fastened on with flour paste, 

 so as to exclude the air. In this way they may be 

 kept from insects for years. They should be kept 

 . in a dry cool place. 



Woollens should be washed in very hot suds 

 and hot rinsed. Luke-warm water shrinks them. 



Suet and lard keep better in tin than in earthen 

 vessels. 



Suet keeps good all the year round if chopped 

 and packed down in a stone jar, covered with mo- 

 lasses. 



See that the beef and pork are always under 

 brine ; and that the brine is sweet and clean. — 

 Gen. Farmer. 



and hacked her own fire-wood if the men were not 

 at home." 



AN OLD LADY. 



The Troy press, giving the account of the age 

 ■ of a Dutch lady in that city, who is now one hun- 

 dred and two years of age, and who walked four- 

 teen miles last summer in less than nine hours, 

 says, "her chief diet through life has been sour- 

 krout, Dutch pop and brown bread. She chopped 



From the Farmer's Register. 

 LUCERN. 



Mr experience with Lucern has been very sat- 

 isfactory. I have cultivated it six years, and con- 

 sider it one of the most valuable grasses known : 

 its yield is immense, and is preferred by stock to 

 almost any other green, or in the form of hay. I 

 cut it five times a year, and get as much from each 

 cutting as if it were repeated but twice or three 

 times : for soiling therefore, it is invaluable. I 

 usually sow it in drills three feet apart : this ena- 

 bles me to cultivate a cleansing crop between them, 

 so that in working one I work the other, which is 

 absolutely necessary, as without it the Lucern is 

 soon overrun, and destroyed by the native grass. 

 This appears almost a paradox in vegetable physi- 

 ology, considering the great depth (5 or 10 feet) 

 to which the tap root of the Lucern has been 

 traced in pursuit of water. I this year raised a 

 crop of mangel wurtzel between my rows, with as 

 little inconvenience as I could have cultivated 

 either separately. 



The Lucern is a very hardy plant, and resists 

 heat and cold better than any other grass with 

 which I am acquainted. It grows luxuriantly at 

 this place in the sand fertilized with stable manure, 

 without the addition of a particle of clay or veg- 

 etable mould. It will also grow on a stiff soil, 

 hut a light loam is best adapted to it. In Februa- 

 ry 1832, the weather mild and open, 1 drilled a 

 small lot of rather stiff, shelly land with Lucern; 

 it came up beautifully in eight or ten days. Every 

 body here recollects the extreme cold weather we 

 had the March following: — I gave up my Lucern 

 as lost ; but I don't believe I lost a single plant. 

 It continued green the whole time, and I cut three 

 crops from it the first year. 



I have made but one experiment in sowing Lu- 

 cern broad cast : it did not succeed, and may have 

 proceeded from the imperfect preparation of the 

 land : but I rather think the drill system wdl be 

 found to be the best in the end. 



Roeert Archer. 



CLOVER HAY FOR STOCK. 



Friend Goodsell — Believing that most of the 

 subscribers to the Genesee Farmer keep milch 

 cows, and also have their particular mode of feed- 

 ing them, I wish to state a few facts, that have 

 come under my observation. Most farmers that I 

 have conversed with on the subject, give a prefer- 

 ence to low land hay, with a considerable mixture 

 of red top, for their stock, to clover and timothy. 

 In the course of the past fall and present winter, 

 I have fed my cow on the two different sorts of 

 hay, with a peck of bran night and morning. 

 While feeding the low land hay, which was cut in 

 season, the quantity of milk per day was four 

 quarts. Having occasion to get a further supply, 

 I have fed my cow on this hay for eight days, giv- 

 ing her the same quantity of bran as before, and 

 now get five quarts per day, of an improved qual- 

 ity and flavor. Amos Deaw. 



Rochester, 2 mo. 12, 1833. 



Note — The above communication is well worth 

 a careful perusal by every farmer. We have 

 ever contended that timothy was altogether the best 

 grass to cultivate for stock upon lands sufficiently 

 dry to produce it. There will several inquiries 

 spring from the above. Was it the clover which 



caused the increase ? or was it the timothy ? or was 

 it in consequence of both having been salted when 

 put up ? It is not difficult to combine all these 

 together, if their several valuable qualities are in- 

 creased. — Ed. Genesee Farmer. 



From the Maine Farmer. 

 BURNT TONGUE. 



This disease which we mentioned in our last, 

 and for which we gave recipes, has become very 

 prevalent in this and some other sections of th« 

 State. It is undoubtedly an epidemic, as it attacks 

 those which have not been near or exposed to those 

 suffering with it. Hogs, horses, and cows, all have 



At first it appears like a blister upon the tongue 

 or in black patches upon the lips. The animals 

 appear sluggish, drool and eat hay with difficulty ; 

 sometimes they refuse all nourishment, and seem 

 averse to drinking. Water, whether cold or warm 

 when drank, brings on an ague fit, and they trem- 

 ble, and shiver exceedingly. Some of the horses 

 have been attacked in the feet. A swelling and 

 eruption commences at the top of the hoof, accom- 

 panied with evident pain and soreness. 



We have treated one case of this kind success- 

 fully by washing the feet with warm soap suds — 

 then by a weak solution of chloride of lime, and a 

 bandage soaked in pigs' foot oil. A very weak 

 solution of oil of vitriol, used as a wash, has been 

 successful in those cases where it has been tried. 

 Physic of some nature should be freely used. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 

 SIMPLE REMEDY FOR A CATARRH OR COLD. 



I have at various times within the last seven 

 years been suddenly relieved from catarrh in its 

 incipient stages, by drinking early in the morning, 

 or at bed-time, a pint or more of cold water. Dur- 

 ing periods of three or four days, the symptoms, — 

 such as increased sensibility to cold, lassitude, and 

 defluxions from the nose, — have in various in- 

 stances recurred in the mornings and evenings, 

 but on taking the draught I have generally found 

 myself better ; and sometimes two or three draughts 

 have been sufficient to effect a cure. Four days 

 ago, a catarrh commenced ; only simple cold water 

 was employed as a remedy ; I went out in the 

 wind as usual; and last evening, finding myself 

 free from disease, I discontinued the medicine. 



To drink a large cup of cold water, when we 

 are not prompted by thirst, is not very pleasant ; 

 but like other physic, it may be readily taken. I 

 have found it invariably to increase the perspiration. 

 With regard to its use in the latter stages of ca- 

 tarrh, I have no testimony to offer. Veritas. 



CHILBLAINS. 



These troublesome attendants of the winter sea- 

 son sometimes assume the appearance of a danger- 

 ous and painful disease, especially when the skin 

 breaks, and ulceration ensues, a state in which it is 

 not easily curable. The MedicalJournal however 

 remarks, that " a very large proportion of the cases 

 of" chilblain attract sufficient notice at an earlier pe- 

 riod of their progress, and when the skin is yet 

 unbroken. All these cases require is a covering of 

 gold beaters' skin, and- a loose shoe. After soaking 

 the feet in warm water, let the heels or other parts 

 affected be well covered with the article, and in a 

 few days the irritation will subside, in a vast pro- 

 portion of cases, if not all. Simple as the remedy 

 is, it will be found more effectual than all the plas- 

 ters and washes of the pharmacopoeia." 



