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Turneps— Butter — Poultry. 



Vol. II- 



hollow or cavity, that will cause its dissolu- 

 tion, in consequence of there not being a suf- 

 ficiency of earth in contact with the roots to 

 sustain life. The earth should be completely 

 pulverized, and thrown on in small quantities 

 at a time, without neglecting- to give plenty 

 of water during the filling in, for the purpose 

 of washing or conveying the earth among all 

 the fibres: and when tiie business is finished, 

 leave the surface near the tree a little lower, 

 for the advantage of watering, from time to 

 time, which should not be omitted. 



Sylva. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 I!utter« 



The business of making butter, for sale in 

 the market, is a primary concern with a very 

 large proportion of farmers who reside within 

 a reasonable distance of towns or cities, and 

 to obtain the best price for it, is, of course, an 

 object of much importancein this money-mak- 

 ing age of the world. Yet it is not a little 

 surprising that, notwithstanding every body 

 knows how to make butter, so small a pro- 

 portion of what is taken to market commands 

 the price of a first rate article. I think it may 

 safely be said, that not one-fourth part of it 

 can be assumed as first rate in quality, and, 

 of course, much the larger part of it is sold at 

 inferior prices. This, in many cases, must 

 be ascribed to carelessness, inattention to 

 neatness and cleanliness, and, perhaps, in 

 many cases, to the impurities of the cellar or 

 milk-house in which the milk or cream is 

 kept. The atmosphere of the apartment where 

 milk is kept, should be entirely pure and free 

 from all contamination. No decaying vege- 

 tables, barrels offish, saurkraut, musty casks, 

 or other articles which tend to render the air 

 impure, ought to be permitted to remain in 

 the same apartment with milk or cream. 

 Fluids absorb the noxious vapors of the air in 

 a remarkable degree. A pitcher of water 

 being permitted to stand over night in a room 

 where a segar has been smoked, in the morn- 

 ing will be found to be strongly impregnated 

 with it. 



It will be found to be impossible to make 

 butter of good flavor, and of tirst rate quality, 

 if the apartment in which the milk is sec 

 is not kept entirely free from all smell of 

 what kind soever. It will receive a taint 

 from foul air, of which it can never be divest- 

 ed, by any process whatever ; therefore, if you 

 desire to obtain the highest market price for 

 your butter, keep your milk-houses'and cel- 

 lars as sweet and clean as your parlors, and 

 let the exhibition of it in the market place be 

 so perfectly neat and tidy as to attract the 

 admiration of purchasers, and be sure never 

 to attempt to sell a pound of butter with a 

 segar in your mouth. S. 



For the Fanner's Cabinet. 



Raise istorc Poultry. 



Since the time that Esop wrote the history 

 of the country maid and the milk pail, poultry 

 jand eggs liave not sold foe a better price, or 

 at a greater profit, than they have within 

 I these few years. This is believed to have 

 Igrown out of the immense amount of travel- 

 ing, which has been increased and promoted 

 jby the fleetness and cheapness of rail road 

 I cars and steamboats. But whatever may be 

 ;the cause of it, it is our interest to sell an 

 I abundance of eggs and poultry, so long as we 

 can get a good profit by it. I was pleased 

 with the suggestion made by your correspon- 

 dent Q.., in the last number of the Cabinet, 

 for feeding poultry with boiled potatoes, inas- 

 much as it is a cheap food, and may be always 

 at hand. A farmer near Liverpool, England, 

 keeps a large stock of poultry of various kinds 

 in the same enclosure, with singular success. 

 He has nearly an acre of land enclosed, with 

 a close fence, about seven feet high. Within 

 this enclosure are put up sheds for the differ- 

 ent kinds of poultry, to secure them well from 

 the rain, which is of great importance. There 

 is a small stream of water which passes 

 through the lot, to which they all have access, 

 and they are regularly fed, three times a-day, 

 with boiled potatoes, v;hich is their only food, 

 excepting what grass, insects, and worms, 

 they pick up in their movements through the 

 lot. 



All young poultry require to be kept dry, 

 and most old ones are the better for it, and it 

 is said that young turkies, during their tender 

 age, are the better for having a small quantity 

 of red pepper occasionally mixed with their 

 food, to stimulate their digestive organs to 

 greater activity when they gormandize too 

 much. 



The practice of cutting up chives, garlic 

 or onion tops, and mixing them occasionally 

 with the food of young poultry, is well known 

 to most good housewives, and is thought to 

 be very serviceable in promoting their health. 



Pequea. Lancaster Co., .June 25tli, 1838.' 



Tiirnep Seeds. 



We can recommend, with great confidence, 

 our farmers who wish to procure turnep seed, 

 of all the various varieties, to the seed store 

 of George M. Coates, 41 Market street, where 

 genuine seeds of all kinds may be obtained. 

 Would it not be well for our farmers, after 

 giving their corn a last dressing, to sow tur- 

 neps among it ] 



Less judgment than wit, is more sail than 

 ballast. 



