NO. 7, 



THE farmers' cabinet. 



Ill 



qnented them, and brought dilTercnt kinds 

 of seed from other places, whose growth and 

 <3ecay still continiTed to add to the soil, till 

 at length it became of sutVicient depth and 

 substance to olfer a resting-place to some en- 

 terprising fishermen.* 



Kroiii till' I'lttsljufjer. 



Ca,iitioii lo tlic Public. 



Mr. Editor — Sir: Will "you permit me 

 to acquaint the public, through your valuable 

 journal, that there is a kind of Crockery 

 Ware, manufactured in almost every city in 

 the Union, which is dangerous to use — and 

 which the public will understand by the term 

 Common Red Pottery. This ware is made 

 of common clays from the brick yards, and 

 when formed, is coated with a liquid called 

 "Glaze, which is nothing less than a coat of 

 lead. The clays being of the commonest 

 kind, cannot be subjected to any heat in the 

 burning that will make them safe for family 

 use — being porous — and it is very unsafe to 

 deposit any articles of family use in them, 

 suckas milk, butter, or in fact water, as a 

 portion of the Lead Glazing will be extracted, 

 and the article will, in consequence, become 

 dangerous to use. I have noticed no fewer 

 than ten instances within the last twelve 

 months, of families sustaining injury by the 

 use of such ware. 



In selecting the article of crockery that is 

 suitable for family use, it is only necessary 

 to ascertain that the body of the ware — the 

 clay — lias been hard burnt, which any person 

 can understand by the sound of it — it well 

 burnt, it will have a clear sound. The poorest 

 kind will not ring at all, and therefore can be 

 easily detected. An article of this kmd will, 

 in the course af a month's use, become very 

 foul. Let any one who doubts this break the 

 vessel, and they will ascertain the fact. There 

 is a kind of ware, however, that is manufac- 

 tured in almost every city in the Union, 

 called stone ware, which is perfectly good 

 for family use. This ware is formed of strong 

 and superior clays, and undergoes a great 

 heat in the burning, — and moreover, the 

 glazing is not a thick coat of lead, but is 

 accomplished by throwing salt into the kiln. 

 All kinds ofLivcrprol ware are adapted to 

 all purposes of family use, being made of 

 pound clays and well burnt. As a preventive 

 IS better than a cure, if I should be the means 

 of preventing any person suffering from the 

 use of the poisonous article — lead — this ad- 

 vertisement will answer the ends I design. 



C. S. 

 [Glass may be used in all cases, and is the 



;most beautiful 

 manufactures.] 



and safe article extant in 



*\Ve rommend this ileparlinonl lo the attention of 

 youth ; it will iiiToril them iiislriiction. while to those of 

 /jjaturer ycare it will not be uiiinteiisting. 1 



Independence of the Farmer. — The mer- 

 chant or manufacturer may be robbed of the 

 reward of his labor, by changes in the foreign 

 or domestic market, entirely beyond bis con- 

 trol, and may wind up a year, in which he 

 has done every thing which intelligence and 

 industry could do to insure success, not only 

 without profit, but with an actual diminution 

 of capital. The strong arm of mechanic 

 industry may be enfeebled or paralized by 

 the prostration of those manufacturing or 

 [commercial interests to whose existence it 

 so essentially contributes, and on whom in 

 turn it soesseniially depends. But what has 

 the intelligent and industrious farmer lo fear? 

 iHis capital is invested in the solid ground ; 

 he draws on a fund which from time imme- 

 morial has never failed to honor all just de- 

 mands ; his profits may be diminished 

 indeed, but never wholly suspended ; his 

 success depends on no mere earthly guaran- 

 tee, but on the assurance of that great and 

 beneficial Being, who has declared that while 

 the earth endureth, seed time and harvest 

 shall n ot cease. ^^ 



To make Tomato Ketchup. — For half a 

 gallon take a gallon of skinned tomatoes, 

 four table spoonfuls of salt, four of black 

 pepper, half a spoonful of alspice, eight pods 

 of red pepper, three table spoonfuls of mus- 

 tard ; grind them finely, and simmer them 

 slowly in sharp vinegar, in a pewter basin, 

 three or four hours, strain it through a wire 

 sieve, and bottle it closely. Those who like 

 the article may add, after the ingredients are 

 somewhat cool, two table spoonfuls of the 

 juice of garlic. 



Black Oats. — The editor of the Macon, Ga., 

 Messenger, says he has examined a sample 

 of Black Oats, raised on pine land of com- 

 mon quality, and found them to contain two 

 hundred and forty-eight grains to the head, 

 whereas the heads of the common oat, on the 

 same land, yielded but eighty-four. This is 

 a very great difference in product, and if the 

 former contain as much farinaceous matter 

 as the latter, it is certainly an invaluable 

 variety. 



Palm Leaf Brooms, are becoming an ex- 

 tensive article of manufacture. The high 

 price of broom brush, and consequently corn 

 brooms, has set the ingenious onescontriving 

 a little, and they have got up a nice article, 

 made from the palm leaf. They sell from a 

 shilling to twenty-five cents, and are said to 

 be a good article. Three loads from New- 

 Hampshire for New-York, passed through 

 this town the other day. 



Northampton {Mass.') Courier. 



