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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MARCH 26, 183*. 



M I S C E L L A N Y . 



MIXING OP FLOUR. AND SUGAR, MILK AND 



BUTTER, &c. 



The following in taken from the Southern Plan- 

 ter, and, as the writer says, involves much science 

 in connexion with the explanation: 



Mr. Editor, A gentleman came to my house to 

 spend a night with me. I put a spoon-full 'of 

 wheat flour and a spoon-full of inferior brown 

 sugar in my marble mortar and stirred them well 

 together, and next morning desired his opinion 

 what it was ; he examined it and pronounced it 

 sugar of a superior quality. When informed that 

 it was half flour, he could scarcely believe it, bul 

 wanted to know if a better judge would he de- 

 ceived in the same way : another spoon-full of each 

 was prepared in the same way, and carried twenty 

 odd miles to a man whom he supposed would be 

 a very good judge. I knew myself that he was 

 raised a merchant and accustomed to deal in the 

 article: he also pronounced it very superior sugar. 

 Such is the fact, that one spoon-full of fiour and 

 one of sugar, thus prepared, will taste and look 

 exactly like sugar ; and that if the sugar was rather 

 dark colored, it will improve the looks; not. only 

 so, it will sweeten as much coffee as two spoons- 

 full of sugar; in fact, it will be two spoons-full of 

 sugar. 



It' one cup have the sugar put in it first, then 

 the coffee and then the milk, and in another cup 

 one-third less sugar be put, then the milk, and 

 then he well rubbed together with a little pestle, 

 and then the coffee be added, the last will be 

 found as sweet as the first, although it lias one- 

 third less sugar. If the sugar is put in first, then 

 the milk, and then be well stirred with a spoon 

 before the coffee is added, it will require a third 

 less sugar, and the taste will be much superior to 

 coffee made by adding the milk after the coffee is 

 poured on the sugar. 



If a pint of fresh rich milk is made blood warm, 

 and a pint of butter be put in it, and then be stir- 

 red well until cold, a quart of butter will be made, 

 that will look as well and butter as many biscuits 

 as a quart of butter. This butter thus prepared 

 has one defect — it will not keep : but it has one 

 quality that should balance this defect : when our 

 butter is quite salt, by preparing it in this way, it 

 is one half less salt, arid much more palatable. 



When butter is to be made, if a little old butter 

 be put in the cream, the butter will come from 

 much less churning. When soap is to be made, if 

 a little old soap be put in the ley and grease, the 

 soap will be made by considerably less boiling. 



The conversion of molasses and water is made 

 quickly into beer by adding a little old beer to it. 

 A little yeast being added to flour makes it all fer- 

 ment, and if a little of this fermented mass be 

 added to more flour, it makes it ferment also, and 

 then a little yeast by proper management would 

 in time convert all the flour of the earth into its 

 own nature. 



howl and add a table spoonful of cream (with a 

 little lump of butter for those who desire it,) and 

 season it with salt. — .hner. Farmer. 



CLEANLINESS OF THE DUTCH. 



As to cleanliness every dwelling-house is a mod- 

 el and a pattern ; they seem to vie with each other in 

 this point. The cow house is pure and clean, not 

 a particle of tilth being to be seen in it ; the cows 

 are as clean as if'they were in a dining room ; the 

 milk and cheese houses, and in short every part of 

 the house, are free from dust and dirt of any 

 kind ; the manure is placed at a convenient dis- 

 tance from the cow-house, behind the house, and 

 every particle is carefully collected together. The 

 whole apartments, even the byre and hay house, 

 are generally under one roof; and the cleanly sys- 

 tem, and the admirable arrangement, give that 

 comfort and pleasure which are too often wanting 

 in this country. 



HOW TO GET INTO PRACTICE. 



A recent number of the Charivari, Parisian 

 Journal, contains a striking lithographed portrait 

 of the late eminent Doctor Portal, and makes a 

 brief reference to the mode by which he at first 

 attained celebrity, as recounted we understand, by 

 himself It appears that one of the principal ex- 

 pedients resorted to for that object by the Doctor 

 was to hire a certain number of equipages, cabrio- 

 lets, fiacres, &c. which arrived in constant succes- 

 sion at the door of bis bouse throughout the day. 

 Another branch of the mystification consisted in 

 his employing men to repair to his bouse after 

 midnight, and to knock with such haste, violence, 

 and loudness, as to alarm the neighbors. That 

 point attained, the Doctor appeared himself at the 

 window to demand the cause of the disturbance, 

 when the agent below would suddenly reply, 'Sir, 

 it is the Prince A. the Dutchess of B. the Marquis 

 of C. or the Countess of D. who requires your im- 

 mediate attendance.' So constant and annoying 

 was this System found in the neighborhood, that 

 the Doctor was not allowed to remain lodging in 

 the same house for more than six months; but 

 contemptible as was the trick, it answered the end 

 of its contriver, for Dr. Portal 'became ultimately 

 physician to Louis XVIII. and Charles the X. and 

 their courts respectively. 



by thirty-six thousand men, would raise the same 

 quantity of materials to the same height in eigh- 

 teen hours. 



lRICE porridge. 



The following method of cooking rice, more 

 especially for the sick who may be confined to a 

 vegetable diet, has been found very useful, and 

 less likely to cloy the appetite than some other 

 preparations. We believe it has not yet found its 

 way into any book on cookery. 



Take a wine-glass of rice well picked and wash- 

 ed, and put it into a sauce pan with a pint of cold 

 water. l?oil it one hour or more. Pour it into a 



A SPEED OF FORTY MILES X!i HOUR 



— With a light load, has been obtained upon the 

 Manchester railway : and Mr. G. Stephenson, the 

 engineer, has stated his opinion that an engine 

 might be constructed to run 100 miles within the 

 hour, although he acknowledges that "at that 

 rapidity of motion the resistance of the atmosphere 

 would he considerable." Engines are now made 

 with eight times the power of the Rocket, yet with 

 little more weight resting on each rail, the load 

 being equally divided upon six wheels, and the 

 machinery placed in a more advantageous situation 

 than formerly. The tubes of the boiler arc made 

 smaller and more numerous, and of brass instead 

 of copper. — The last engine put on the railway 

 ran 23,000 miles with the most trivial repairs, 

 taking every day four or five journeys of thirty 

 miles each. . 



The great Pyramid of Egypt cost the labor of 

 one hundred thousand men for twenty years ex- 

 clusive of those who prepared and collected the 

 materials. The steam engines of England worked 



REDUCTION IN PRICES OF TREES, &c. 



WM. PRINCE & SONS have determined in consequence 

 of the pecuniary pressure, to reduce die prices of a great varie- 

 ty of Trees and Plants, where orders an- sent for a considera- 

 ble amount : and all persons who desire Fruit and Ornamental 

 Trees; Flowering Shrubs and Plants; Greenhouse Trees and 

 Plants ; Splendid Dahlias ; or Seeds — will on applying to llrem 

 direct by mail, with a list of the ariicles wanted, he promptly 

 furnished with a printed sheet explaining tin? reduced rates. — 

 The Chinese Mulberry, or Moms mulliennlis are now reduced 

 io J25 per 100, and $44 per dozen. — Apple trees in great va- 

 riety .■.'.'iii.i $25 per 100. — Pears <?37.J per mo. an. I oxira large 

 .Into on cents each ; and 50,000 are two, three, and four years 

 grafted. — Peaches $20 and 25 per 100.— Large Orange Quinces 

 830 per 100.— English and Spanish Filberts §25 pel loo— Fine 

 Red Raspberries $6 per 100. — Large Red and Vol low Antwerp 

 §16 per 100. — Gooseberries. finest Lancashire varieties $20 per 

 100; and Large Red While and Black English Currants 816 per 

 100.— Isabella Grape, 3 years old vines $25 per 100, ami 2 

 years ditto $'20 per 100. — Catawba, Alexander. \\ nine, York 

 Claret, York Madeira, and Scuppernong, 825 per lull. — Her- 

 bemont's Madeira, Troy and Elsinghurgh, $30 per 100.. — Nor- 

 ton's Virginia Seedling $35 per 100, — The collection of choice 

 European Grapes is unrivalled. — Chinese Ailanllms, 4 feet 

 high, $U per dozen and larger sizes in proportion.— A reduc- 

 tion is made on a great many kinds of Roses, Poeonies, Chry- 

 santhemums, &c. — Double Dahlias of such tine assorted kinds 

 as have been most increased, will be supplied at $3, $4* and 

 5*J per dozen, according to excellence, and selected by our- 

 selves. The roots can be sent to any distance. — The now va- 

 rieties of Flemish and English Pears having been introduced by 

 us and greatly increased, the prices of the greater part have 

 been reduced, and the trees are mostly of line size and three 

 years ingrafted. — The Ornamental Trees and Shrubs of most 

 kinds are large and thrifty, and of double or treble the value of 

 smaller ones, which is a most decided advantage, being a gain 

 of several vears in embellishment. 



N. B. Having no Agent at Boston, the Commission of 10 

 per cerrt. usually allowed for Agency, will be credited to lire 

 purchasers, and' be deducted from the amount of the bills ren- 

 dered. Tire stock of Dahlias being so very large, they will be 

 furnished on the most favorable terms possible. 

 Linna?an Botanic Garden and Nurseries, ) 



Flushing, near New-York, Feb. 10, 1834. 5 



FRUIT TREES. 



Ornamental TREES. ROSES, FLOWER- 

 ING PLANTS, &C. Nursery of WILLIAM 

 KENRJCK in Newton, 5,r miles from Boston, 

 by the City Mills. 

 This Nursery how comprises a rare and extra ordinary collec 

 lion of fruit trees, Trees and Shrubs of Ornament. Roses, &e. 

 and covers the most of 18 acres. Of new ceiebrott <i Pears atone, 

 150 kinds, a part of which, having already been proved in our 

 climate, are specially recommended. — < »l Apples 200 kinds — 

 Peaches 115 kinds — Cherries, 55 kinds — Plums, Nectarines, 

 Almonds, Apricots, Quinces. Grape Vines, Currants, Raspber- 

 ries, Gooseberries, Strawberries, Figs. &c. &o.— selections 

 from the be.st varieties known — a collection in unequal propor- 

 tions of S00 varieties of fruit. 



White mulberries for silk worms — lire fruit poor. Also the 

 Morcs Mui.ticaui.is or Neiv Chinese Mulberry, a beauti- 

 ful fruit tree, so superior for silk worms to all others. 



Of ROSES. A superb collection of from 300 to 100 hardy 

 and China varieties ;, selections from numerous importations, 

 and lirst rate sources. White Flowering Horse Clicsnnts. 

 Weeping Willows, Catalpas, Mountain Ash. Silver Firs. Ve- 

 netian Sumach, Allheas, Honeysuckles, Azaleas, &c. &c. — 

 in all, of Ornamental trees, and shrubs, 660 varieties. Ol 

 Herbaceous flowering plants. a choice select, <m ol J,:ii varieties, 

 including the Paeonies, Moutan <>nd Papawraci << — and 2 1 other 

 kinds — and 83 splendid varieties of double Dahlias. 



Gentlemen are invited to forward their orders early Address 

 io WILLIAM KEN'RICK. Newton. Trees, dtc. delivered in 

 Roston free ot charge for transportation, and suitably parked, 

 and from thence when ordered duly i.,ru arded . by land or sea.. 

 Or orders will receive the same attention if left with Geo. C. 

 I ', \ i, rett, who is agent, at his seed store an. I New England 

 Farmer Office, Nos.ol & 52, North Market Street, Boston. 

 Catalogues gratis on application. Jy I? 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



A new importation of superior kinds, just received, of all 

 colors.by WM. KENRICK, Newton. 



THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



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 sixty days from the lime of subscribing, are entitled to a deduc- 

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