No. 4. 



A Trifle. — Discovery in Vaccination. 



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and butter, which are prime in quality and 

 abundant in quantity even in the midst of 

 winter when frost and snow pervade the land, 

 put us entirely to shame ; instead of having 

 a few thin slices of well salted butter at 

 the breakfast or tea table, as is so general 

 in this country (England) through the winter 

 season, the markets of Normandy as well as 

 those of the more southern parts of France, 

 afford ample supplies of the most delicious 

 fresh butter imaginable, at less than half the 

 London price. The cream is churned twice 

 a week, this only being put into a churn, and 

 it is owing in a great measure to the short- 

 ness of the interval which it is allowed to 

 stand that the butter is so finely flavoured. 

 The cows yield from eight to twelve quarts 

 of milk per day during the whole year, sel- 

 dom going dry any portion of the time. Nor 

 is the excellence of the butter effected by 

 any artificial feeding, unless hay be consider- 

 ed such, for except very partially beets are 

 not cultivated for cattle, and potatoes, turnips 

 and corn are never given to those cows which 

 yield this fine butter. It is there considered 

 that dung imparts in spring time valuable 

 qualities to dairy pasturage, but the grasses 

 in summer give, on dunged land, a rank fla- 

 vour to the butter." Joseph Dawson. 

 29th October, 1841. 



For the Farmers' CaDinet. 

 A Trifle. 



Mr. Editor, — It is said that economy may 

 be shown in trifles — here is one which I offer 

 to your readers' acceptance. I found, at the 

 commencement of last winter, that the bot- 

 tom of the iron coal-scuttle belonging to my 

 family was eaten into many holes by the rust, 

 and instead of sending it to be newly bottom- 

 ed, I cut a perfect circle, the exact size of 

 the inside of the scuttle, out of | inch elm 

 board, placed it close to the old bottom inside, 

 and fixed it there, by a row of small flat-head- 

 ed nails driven into it through the sides ; and 

 there it still remains, as perfect as the day 

 when it was placed, having already served 

 time enough to rust out a new sheet-iron bot- 

 tom. And why may not the wooden bottom 

 be substituted for the iron one at first, I should 

 be glad to know ; it would be cheaper and by 

 far more lasting. 



Every housekeeper knows that the flue, or 

 smoke-pipes of a stove when taken down and 

 packed away for the summer, are often found 

 at the commencement of another winter, 

 eaten into holes with rust, having, probably, 

 suffered more in this way by lying out of use, 

 than they would have done had they been in 

 constant service; this arises from the acid 

 and corroding nature of the soot, which is 

 often packed away in them, and the evil is 



augmented by the dampness of the air in the 

 cellar, the place to which they are generally 

 consigned for the summer. Now, I have 

 often thought, that if all smoke-pipe (except 

 a length or two immediately in connexion 

 with the stove) were to be made of the tin- 

 ned sheet-iron which is used for roofing, they 

 would be found to last very much longer un- 

 der usual circumstances, than if made of iron 

 of so thin a substance as it is customary to 

 construct them ; would our friends put the 

 idea to the test of proof. G. 



Philadelphia. 



Our correspondent G. is fortunate if he have met 

 with domestic help that can be trusted with a coal- 

 scuttle with a icoodcn bottom; some of us would soon 

 lie burnt in our beds by fire originating from such a 

 cause, for every one must have observed how custom- 

 ary it is to take away the ashes from the grate or stove 

 in the coal-scuttle, without inquiring or even caring, 

 if it have a wooden bottom. The arrangement is eco- 

 nomical certainly, but then there is such a thing as 

 "saving at the tap and letting run at the bung"— a 

 coarse proverb, but nevertheless true, as has often been 

 proved, to many a man's cost. — En. 



Interesting Discovery in Vaccination. 



An English paper mentions that Mr. Gree- 

 ley, a surgeon of Aylesbury, has demonstrated 

 the important fact, that small pox and cow 

 pox have the same origin, the latter being 

 small pox communicated to the cow. Mr. 

 Greeley inoculated cows with small pox mat- 

 ter ; the vesicle produced in the animal had 

 every appearance of the vaccine pox. To 

 ascertain the point, children were inoculated 

 with the matter taken from the cow thus ar- 

 tificially infected : the result was a fine, gen- 

 uine vaccine vesicle. To establish the fact 

 satisfactorily, these children were submitted 

 to small pox disease. Twenty-five successive 

 inoculations have now been performed with 

 this new virus, which may truly be named 

 variola vaccina, and it continues to produce 

 the most satisfactory vesicle ; the matter has 

 been employed in Bristol with perfect success. 

 The importance of this discovery cannot be 

 too highly appreciated. Small pox often breaks 

 out in countries where cow pox cannot be pro- 

 cured ; now, it is only necessary to inoculate 

 a cow with the small pox, and this virulent 

 morbid poison, so fatal to human life, will be 

 converted into a mild fluid capable of pro- 

 tecting all inoculated with it from that dread- 

 ful malady, the small pox. 



For the Skent or Looseness in Calves. — 

 Break two eggs into a basin, beat them up, 

 and pour them, by means of a tin funnel, 

 down the calf's throat : repeat this twice or 

 thrice — it has been found an almost infallible 

 cure. 



