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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Sept. 



CafrW apartment. 



Domestic Accomplishments. — In the domestic 

 relationship there ought to be no selfishness. What- 

 ever elegant acquirements we may chance to have 

 made, instead of being reserved for rare occasions, 

 should be suffered to shed their softening influence 

 on every-day experience. The prints should not be 

 carefully kept out of sight of the children of the 

 family, and turned over only for the benefit of the 

 stranger; the picture should not be curtained except 

 when there is company; or the piano be dumb because 

 there is "no one but ourselves" to listen. There 

 may be less triumph, but there is surely equal if not 

 greater happiness in singing by the fireside than in 

 warbling in the saloon; and though the thanks of the 

 father or brother be homely in expression, there is 

 more sweetness in them than in all the studied com- 

 mon place of society. A sadder sight can scarcely 

 be conceived than that of the spirit of dulness taking 

 possession of the family circle. We see it in the 

 husband, who, hour by hour, gazes moodily by the 

 fire; in the wife, who occupies herself with her me- 

 chanical employment, without seeking to break the 

 enchanted silence. Neither entertains the intention 

 of injuring the other, and yet they are mutually de- 

 frauded of the happiness they ought to enjoy. 



How to make Imitation Wax Candles. — Throw 

 a quantity of quicklime into melted mutton suet; 

 and when the lime has settled in the bottom, so as 

 to leave the suet pure and clear, dip off the suet very 

 carefully. To every pint of this suet add the same 

 quantity of real wax, and you will have a pretty 

 white and firm candle. The candle may be improved 

 by adding a double quantity of wax. The wick of 

 these candles should be harder twist and not so large 

 as those used for common beef tallow candles. 



Tomato Catsup. — First bake your tomatoes, then 

 squeeze them through a sieve. Add to six quarts of 

 juice an equal quantity of wine vinegar; boil slow 

 until it begins to thicken; then add cloves, allspice 

 and pepper, half an ounce each, cinnamon, one-fourth 

 of an ounce, and two nutmegs, all finely powdered. 

 As it thickens, add four spoonfuls of salt, and when 

 done, pour out in an earthern dish to cool. Bottle, 

 cork, and seal, and it will keep years in a warm 

 climate. 



Boiling. — Dr. Webster, in his Encyclopedia of 

 Domestic Economy, directs that meats for boiling 

 should be put into cold water, and heated together 

 with the water. Liebig gives a different mode, viz: 

 that they should be put into boiling water, in the 

 manner as directed for vegetables. The reason given 

 is, that if put into cold water, the juices of the meat, 

 on which the flavor depends, will be gradually solved, 

 and go to enrich the soup instead of being- retained 

 in the meat. All authorities recommend the use of 

 hard instead of soft water for meat, unless soup is to 

 be made. 



The neatest way to separate beeswax from a comb 

 is to tie it up in a linen or woolon cloth or bag with 

 a pebble or two to keep it from floating; place it in 

 a kettle of cold water, which hang over the fire; as 

 the water heats, the wax melts and rises to the sur- 

 face, while the impurities remain in the bag. 



Sops' ©spavttmnt. 



A Text for Young Men. — A better subject for 

 young men to discourse about, and to medidate upon, 

 was never written than the following by Swift: "No 

 man ever made an ill figure who understood his own 

 talents, nor a good one who mistook them." 



Young men do not fail in the pursuits of life be- 

 oause they lack ability to succeed, half as often as 

 from a misdirection of talents. A right use of a 

 moderate capacity will accomplish much more than a 

 wrong application of the most brilliant qualifications. 

 Study therefore yourselves. Aim to find out the ac- 

 tual talents you possess, and then endeavor to make 

 the best possible use of them, and you can hardly 

 come short of making a good figure in the world, 

 and what is more, being one among those who lived 

 not in vain. 



Importance of Study in Youth. — If it should 

 ever fall to the lot of youth to peruse these pages, 

 let such a reader remember, that it is with the deep- 

 est regret that I recollect in my manhood the oppor- 

 tunities of learning which I neglected in my youth; 

 that through every part of my literary career, I have 

 felt pinched and hemmed in by my own ignorance; 

 and I would this moment give half the reputation I 

 have had the good fortune to acquire, if by so doing 

 I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foun- 

 dation of learning and science. — Sir Walter Scott.' 



Aiming at Perfection. — There is no manner of 

 inconvenience in having a pattern propounded to us 

 of so great perfection as to be above our reach to attain 

 to; and there may be great advantages in it. The 

 way to excel in any kind is to propose the brightest 

 and most perfect examples to our imitation. No man 

 can write after too good and perfect a copy; and 

 though he can never reach the perfection of it, yet 

 he is likely to learn more than by one less perfect. 

 He that aims at the heavens, which yet he is sure to 

 come short of, is like to shoot higher than he that 

 aims at a mark within his reach. 



Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the 

 body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. 

 As the beams to the house, as the bones to the micro- 

 cosm of man, so is order to all things. — Southey. 



Rochester Commercial Nursery, 



No. 3 EAST AYENUE, ROCHESTER, N. YORK. 



THE Subscribers respectfully inform the public that their 

 stock of FRUIT TREES for sale this Autumn is very large, 

 and comprises all the varieties that are really desirable. They 

 leave to others the task of cultivating and selling worthless va- 

 rieties, vnd intend to propagate none but such as have been well 

 tested and approved. 



To those who wish to buy to sell again, wo can offer great in- 

 ducements. 



(tr3=--Priced Catalogues furnished to post-paid applicants. 



Sept. 1,1849. [9-4m] BISSELL &• HOOKER. 



ORDERS FOR EUROPE. 



Mr. H, E. Hooker, of the firm of Bissell & Hooker, sailed for 



Europe Sept. 1, and will spend the winter in France and England, 



selecting trees and stocks. Orders forwarded to B. & H., at 



Rochester, before Oct. 1, will be sent to Mr. H. Sept. 1. [9-ltJ 



Cherry and Pear Stocks for Sale. 



THE Subscriber offers for sale at his Nursery at Big Stream 

 Point, Yates county, N. Y., 100,000 CHERRY SEEDLINGS 

 of good growth and assorted, at $5.00 per M. Also 10,000 Pear 

 Stocks, from 8 to 17 inches in height; they are in perfect health, 

 free from leaf blight, and will be sold at $10 00 per M. All orders 

 directed to the subscriber will be promptly attended to. 

 [It*] ' ISAAC HILDRETH. 



