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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Aug. 



Cables' Department. 



TO PRESERVE TOMATOES. 



Six pounds of tomatoes first carefully wipe, 

 Not fluted nor green, but round, ruddy and ripe; 

 After scalding, and peeling, and rinsing them nice — 

 With dext'rous fingers 'tis done in a trice — 

 Add three pounds of sugar, (Orleans will suit,) 

 In layers alternate of sugar and fruit. 

 In a deep earthen dish, let them so nd for a night, 

 Allowing the sugar and juice tou.iue i 

 Boil the sirup next day in a very clean kettle, 

 .Not iron, but copper, zinc, brass, or bell metal,) 

 Which having well skimmed, till yon think 'twill suffice, 

 Throw in the tomatoes, first adding some spice — 

 Cloves, cinnamon, mace, or whate'er you like best — 

 'Twill add to the flavor, and give them a zest. 

 Boil slowly together until they begin 

 To shrink at the sides, and appear to fall in; 

 Then take them up lightly, and lay them to cool, 

 Still boiling the sirup, acording to rule, 

 Until it is perfectly clear and translucent — 

 You skill will direct you, or else there"s no use in t — 

 Then into the jars, where the fruit is placed proper, 

 Pour boiling the sirup, direct from the copper. 

 After standing till cold, dip some paper in brandy, 

 Or rum, or in whiskey, if that is more handy; 

 Lay it over the fruit with attention and care, 

 And run on mutton suet to keep out the air; 

 Then tie a strong paper well over the top — 

 And, " now that I think o'nt. the story may stop." 

 If you'll follow these rules, your preserves, never fear, 

 Will keep in good order till this time next year. 

 Washington, October, 1848. A. B. 



Who is this Fair Lady ? — A late number of the 

 Horticulturalist contains the following sketch of a 

 paragon: — "In the midst of the richest agricultural 

 region of the Northern States lives a lady — a young 

 unmarried lady, mistress of herself, of some thousands 

 of acres of the finest land, and a mansion which is 

 almost he ideal of taste and refinement. Very well. 

 Does this lady sit in her drawing room all the day to 

 receive her visitors ? By no means. You will find 

 her in the morning either on horse back or driving a 

 light carriage with a pair of spirited horses. She 

 explores every corner of the estate ; she visits her 

 tenants, examines the crops, projects improvements, 

 directs repairs, and is thoroughly mistress of her 

 whole demesne. Her mansion opens into the most 

 exquisite garden of flowers and fruits, every one of 

 which she knows by heart. And yet this lady, so 

 energetic and spirited in her enjoyment and manage- 

 ment of out-of-door matters, is in the drawing-room 

 the most gentle, the most retiring, the most refined 

 of her sex." • 



Home. — The ordination of Providence, says a dis- 

 tinguished writer, is that home should form our char- 

 acter. The first object of parents should be to make 

 home interesting. It is a bad sign when children 

 have to wander from the parental roof for amusement. 

 A love of home is one of the strongest safeguards 

 against vice — not to children only, but to men. Men 

 who delight in their own firesides, are never seen 

 lounging about bar-rooms and oyster saloons. Make 

 home attractive to your children — so that they will 

 leave it with regret, and return to it with joy — for this 

 is a mighty preservative against vice. 



Mulled Wjne. — One pint of wine and one pint 

 of water. 



Beat eight eggs and add to the above while boil- 

 ing, stirring rapidly. As soon as it begins to boil 

 it is done. 



Boys' ^Department. 



Correct Speaking. — We advise all young people 

 to acquire in early life the habit of using good lan- 

 guage, both in speaking and writing, and to abandon 

 as early as possible, the use of slang words and 

 phrases. The longer they live, the more difficult the 

 -ition of such will be; and if the golden age of 

 youth — the proper season for the acqusition of lan- 

 guage — be passed in its abuse, the unfortunate vic- 

 tim of neglected education is very probably doomed 

 to talk slang for life. Money is not necessary to pro- 

 cure this education. Every man has it in his power. 

 He has merely to use the language which he reads 

 instead of "he slang which he hears, to form this 

 taste from the best speakers, writers and poets of the 

 country; to treasure up choice phrases in his memory, 

 and habituate himself to their use — avoiding at the 

 same time that pedanic precision and bombast, which 

 bespeak rather the weakness of a vain ambition, than 

 the polish of an educated mind. 



Reading. — A proper and judicious system of read- 

 ing is of the highest importance. Two things are 

 necessary in perusing the mental labors of others: — 

 namely, not to read too much, and to pay great atten- 

 tion to the nature of what you do read. Many people 

 peruse books for the express and avowed purpose of 

 consuming time; and this class of readers form by 

 far the majority of what are termed the "reading 

 public." Others again read with the laudable anxie- 

 ty of being made wiser; and when this object is not 

 attained, the disappointment may generally be attri- 

 buted, either to the habit of reading too much, or of 

 paying insufficient attention to what falls under their 

 notice. — Selected. 



Spare minutes are the gold dust of time; and 

 Young was writing a true as well as striking line 

 when he affirmed that " sands make the moun- 

 tain, moments make the year." Of all the portions 

 of our life, the spare minutes are the most fruitful 

 in good or evil. They are gaps through which 

 temptations find the easiest access to the garden. 



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THE AMERICAN FRUIT CULTURIST, 



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To prevent confusion in a numerous list of varieties, careful at- 

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