VOIi. XI, NO. 44. 



AND Horticultural journal. 



USEPUI. IMPROVEMBNT. 



A PATENT has been procured at Paris, a goUl 

 medal granted, and other honorary distinctions 

 conferred, for the discovery and practice, on a 

 larn-c scale, of preparing from potatoes a fine flour 

 or sa^o equal to ground rice, and a semolina or 

 paste of which oue pound is equal to one and a 

 half pound of rice, one pound and three quarters 

 of veiinicelli, or, as it is asserted, to eight pounds 

 raw potatoes. Larjje engagements have been made 

 for the French marine, and for the niihtary and 

 general hospitals, whore it is found serviceable as a 

 nutritious aid with wheaten flour, for biscuits, pas- 

 try, soups, gruel and pavada. — Count de Chabrol 

 states that 40,000 tons of potatoes are annually 

 manufactured into flour, in a circle of eight leagues 

 round Paris. The manner of preparation is not 

 known. But Blr. M'Innes states in the Quarterly 

 .Journal of Agriculture, his method of preparing 

 tapioca, which is presumed to be somewhat simi- 

 lar to the French mode. The potatoes are grated 

 into water, and the mass is passed through differ- 

 ent strainers and waters, until it is ;3e;-fectly pur;- 



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[■oot high on Sept. 1, awarded to Mason Shaw of 

 Belchertown, having almost 115 trees, $15; 

 Charles Hooker of Northampton, $10 ; George 

 Dickinson of Deerfield, $5. For the greatest 

 length of white mulberry hedge set for division 

 fence, to Charles Hooker of Northampton $6 ; 

 Theodore Lyman of Amherst $4. 

 Per. order of executive committee, 



D. Stebbi-ns, Cot: Sec^y. 



SALT. 



There are many countries on the habitable 

 globe where salt has never yet been found, and 

 whose commercial facilities being extremely limit- 

 ed, the inhabitants can only occasionally indulge 

 themselves with it as a luxury. This is particu- 

 larly tho case in the interior of Africa. " It 

 would," says Mr. Parke in his Travels into the In- 

 terior of Africa, " appear strange to an European 

 to see a child suck apiece of rock-salt as if it were 

 sugar. This, however, I have frequently seen ; 

 although the poorer class of inhabitants are so 

 very rarely indulged with this precious article, 

 fied from the fibrous matter, and the starch be- 1 that to say a man eats salt with his provisions, is 



comes pure and clean. It is then exposed to dry, 

 after which it is dried over a heat of the tempera- 

 ture of 150 degrees, and made into cakes tillneed- 

 ed for use. It is used in bread, puddings, &c. 

 generally with a portion of wheaten flour. — Sec 

 qr. Jour. .1g. vol. U, p. 68. 



From the Portla.r.d Advertiser. 

 Since we published the communication from 

 the New England Farmer in reference to the 

 HIGH BUSHED CRANBERRY, a gentleman has called 



at our ofiice, and informed us that this bush grows; the expense sometimesofabroksn neck orothercon 

 in great abundance in some 



the same as saying he is a rich man. I have suf- 

 ferec' great inconvenience myself from the scarcity 

 of this article. The long use of vegetable food 

 creates so painful a longing for salt, that no words 

 can sufliciently describe it." 



MASraAIi liABOR SCHOOL. 



Sfeaktng of gymnastics as adopted in our col- 

 ■ege, the Newburyport Herald says ; " It may oc- 

 casionally re-invigorate muscles, which have been 

 relaxed.by indolence and sloth ; but this it does at 



county, and that no inconsiderable quantity of it is 

 to be found in Dover, the town in which he re- 

 sides ; and that he has used it more or less as a 

 medicine for several years. It has proved a very 

 effectual remedy in cases of spasmodic contractions, 

 and is found to be excellent in all cases of weak- 

 ness or general debility, when taken in stro^ig de- 

 coctions of the bark, or as a syrup made of the 

 decoction, which is preserved by adding brandy 

 and loaf sugar in quantities sufiicient for the pur- 

 pose. Our informant states that he has made a 

 great number of gallons of it during the past year, 

 which has been used not only by himself, but by 

 others, and that its good effect never failed to be 

 realized. It has also proved beneficial to those 

 who are troubled with dyspepsia. The gentleman 

 alluded to left his name with us, so that if any one 

 should wish to obtain the bark or syrup, it can be 

 done on application to him. He is, we believe, 

 actuated by no other motive than a desire to assist 

 those who are afflicted with the ills that flesh is 

 heir to. 



parts of Penobscot vcuicatm?raber,aada;theexpensetooof much good 

 time, which might be otherwise improved. The 

 true Gymnastics are the Schools for Mental and 

 Manual Labor. These unite in their perfection all 

 that is promised, but can never be performed by well 

 meaning teachers in their talk of Gymnastics, Calis- 

 tl'.enics, and other Greek derivatives. Besides, la- 

 bor, hov.'ever humble should be made honorable, 

 by being participated in from principle, by those 

 who do r.ot work from necessity. 



agricuIjTuuai. premiums. 



The Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin Agri- 

 cultural Society have awarded the following premi- 

 ums for the cultivation of the White Mulberry. 



Premiums on Uliile Mulberry. For the year 

 1831, awarded 1833 to Philemon Rice of Charle- 

 mont, having over an acre set with 2000 pits, to 

 acre, $20; Roswell Rice, do. one acre with 1500 

 do. $15; Joseph Field, do. best 3-4 acre with 1000 

 plants, $10 ; Eugene Field, do. 1-2 acre 750 do. 

 .$6 ; Wm. Clark Jr. Northampton, 1-8 acre 300 

 do. $4. 



For the year 1832, premiums ofiered for the 

 greatest number of white mulberry trees over 1 



CO'W TREE. 



We know of no example of the power and fe- 

 cundity of nature, stronger than that mentioned 

 by Humboldt in his description of the Cow tree. — 

 The fluid flows most freely at sunrise, and the 

 blacks and natives assemble from all quarters with 

 large bowls to receive the milk like a company of 

 shepherds. 



The Cow tree occurs most plentifully between 

 Barbula and the lake of Marycabo. It grows on a 

 rocky soil and its foliage is parched and leathery. On 

 exposure to the air, this juice presents a yellowish 

 cheesy substance. It is perfectly free from smell, 

 and is devoid of acrimony. 



Preserving Bees in Winter. — Mr. Ethcridge, of 

 Montrose, Penn. who keeps a considerable quanti- 

 ty of bees, buried seven hives in the ground 

 last fall by placing them on the ground, cover- 

 ing them first with straw, and then burying 

 them in tho earth to the depth of about ten 

 inches. About the first of this month he took 

 them out, and found them to be in excellent con- 

 dition. Some of the hives when buried were poor- 

 ly provided with honey, and Mr. E. is of opinion 

 that they could not have been preserycd through 

 the winter in the ordinary way. 



RBPINEMEBIT. 



This is the age of improvement. You hear of 

 a man's having been ' buried in the watery deep' 

 instead of being simply drowned — of a house 

 having been ' consumed by the all-devouring ele 

 ment,' in lieu of being burnt down. — This refine- 

 ment of language is increasing upon the New York 



journalists. We have an instance before us. A 



criminal who was sent to the Penitentiary, by the 

 New York authorities, is represented as having 

 been ' sent to the country seat of the corporation.' 



A WARNING TO SMOKERS; 



It said, — but ibr its correctness we do not vouch, 

 — that a vender of wooden ware, &c. stopped at a 

 house in a neighboring town, last week, to obtain 

 some refreshment for himself and horse ; and 

 having sufliciently satiated his longing appetite, 

 he drew out his pipe, and with no unbecoming 

 dignity, puffed away while he exhibited his 

 Yankee notions to the eager multitude ; but as ill 

 luck would have it, a s[)ark from his pipe conceal- 

 ed itself in the rags he had received for his valu- 

 ables. The cart was safely locked up, and he re- 

 turned to the house. When he next observed it, 

 'twas all in flames, and only one wheel, which 

 he succeeded in detaching from the carriage, 

 was preserved. His pocket book, too, containing 

 some $30, which was snugly locked up, was like- 

 wise consumed. — Yankee Laborer's Journal. 



Letters from Washington, state that Mr. Liv- 

 ingston will soon leave the State department for 

 the Blission to France — that BIr. McLane is to be 

 transfered to the department thus vacated, and that 

 W. J. Duane of Philadelphia, is to preside over 

 the Treasury. Another rumour is that Mr. Spea- 

 ker Stevenson has been tendered the Mission 

 to England. 



We learn from Washington that President Jack- 

 son will leave that city on the first of June, on hie 

 tour to the East, and will proceed as far as Port- 

 land. He intends to be in Washington again pre- 

 vious to the 4th of July, not wishing to mingle in 

 the bustle and jiarade which his presence would 

 occasion on that day in one of our large cities. — 

 JV. Y. Jour, of Commerce. 



The proprietor of the Arhngton estate, near 

 Washington, (G. W. P. Curtis) has published in 

 the National Intelligencer a very good humoured 

 advertisement addressed to '< gentlemen sheep- 

 stealers," advising and requesting tliem hereafter 

 to steal only the male lambs, as, otherwise the flock 

 now reduced from a large one to 46, may be 

 entirely destroyed. 



Early Cucumbers. — Cut from the garden of 

 John T. Norton, Esq. in this city, on the 6tli May 

 inst., one brace of full gro^vn cucumbers. — Al- 

 bany Argus. 



ANOTHER STEAMBOAT I.OST. 



The steamer Guiandotte, whilst ascending the 

 Ohio last evening struck a snag a few miles above 

 this city, and sunk almost immediately. No lives 

 lost. She was the U. States mail packet from this 

 place to Guiandotte. AVe have heard no further 

 particulars. — Cincinnati Herald, April 30. 



Interesting to Editors. A case has been decided 

 in New York Daily Sentinel against Lee, Powel & 

 Co. wherein the principle was confirmed, that per- 

 sons receiving a .Yewspaper, without ordering it to be 

 discontinued, are liable in all coses for the payment 

 of the same. 



