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A Brilliant Whiteivash. — Editorial Notices. 



Vol. XL 



A Brilliant Whitewash. — " Take half 

 a bushel of nice, unslaked lime, slake it with 

 boiling water, covering it during the process 

 to keep in the steam. Strain the liquor 

 through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to 

 it a peck of clean salt, previously dissolved 

 in warm water; three pounds of ground rice, 

 ground to a thin paste and stirred and boiled 

 hot; half a pound of powdered Spanish 

 whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which 

 has been previously dissolved by first soak- 

 ing it well, and then hanging it over a slow 

 fire, in a small kettle, within a large one 

 filled with water. Add five gallons of hot 

 water to the whole mixture; stir it well and 

 let it stand a few days covered from the 

 dirt. It should be put on quite hot; for this 

 purpose it can be kept in a kettle on a port- 

 able furnace. It is said that about one pint 

 of this mixture will cover a square yard 

 upon the outside of a house, if properly ap- 

 plied. Brushes more or less small, may be 

 used according to the neatness of the job 

 required. It retains its brilliancy for many 

 years. There is nothing of the kind that 

 will compare with it either for inside or out 

 side walls." 



THE FARMER§' CABITVET, 



AND 



Philadelphia, Ninth Month, 1846. 



The Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture, 

 it will be remembered, holds its Annual Exhibition at 

 the Rising-Sun Tavern, some three miles from this 

 city, on the Germantovvn road, on the 30th inst., and 

 the ploughing match will take place the next day. A 

 list of the premiums offered, &c., will be found in our 

 No. for the Seventh month last. We anticipate a large 

 gathering of our friends, as well as a fine display of 

 cattle, &c., &c. 



Our Horticultural Society is busy in its preparations 

 for the Exhibition which commences to-morrow, as 

 does also the Annual Show of the New Castle County 

 Agricultural Society, near Wilmington, Del. The 

 New York State Society commences its Exhibition 

 to-day at Auburn, and continues to-morrow and next 

 day. 



George S. Appleton, No. 148 Chesnut street, has 

 published for 1847, Everijbodifs Jlhnanac and Diary 

 which, besides the usual calender, list of the United 

 States officers, &,c., has a diary with room for memo- 

 randa for every day in the year. It is a very conveni- 

 ent Almanac for the business man. We think it a 

 mistake, not to have given the Dominical letter. It 

 may often be made use of when an Almanac is not at 

 hand. We have them constantly for sale, price 37i cts 



The Horticultural Society of New Jersey will hold 

 its Annual Meeting and Exhibition at Princeton on 

 the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th inst., when premiums will be 

 awarded for a great variety of fruits, flowers, &,c. 



We refer our friends to the advertisement of Ezra 

 Stokes. Catalogues of his trees may be obtained here, 

 and orders forwarded to this office will be promptly at- 

 tended to. 



Agency for the Purchase & Sale of 



IMPROVED BREEDS OP CATTLE & SHEEP. 



The subscriber takes this method of informing his 

 friends and the public, that he will attend to the pur- 

 chase and sale of the improved breeds of cattle, sheep, 

 swine, poultry, &c., for a reasonable commission. All 

 letters post paid, addressed to him at Philadelphia, will 

 be attended to without delay. 



AARON CLEMENT. 



Sept. 15th, 1846. 



FOR SALE, 



A BEAUTIFUL FARM, 



Nearly adjoining the city of Annapolis, Maryland, 

 containing 350 acres of land, naturally of good quality, 

 and during the last four years, I have had it highly 

 improved with clover, plaster, ashes, lime, and other 

 manures to the amount of upwards of fifteen hundred 

 dollars. The fences and buildings are all in good re- 

 pair, and divided into ten departments, including one 

 peach orchard, containing upwards of 1500 trees, in 

 fine health of three summers' growth, and an apple 

 orchard in full bearing. About 150 acres of this land 

 are covered with the best sort of building timber. 



I have a good wharf, where a large schooner can lie 

 and receive or deliver produce. This farm is very 

 pleasantly situated, high and dry, and about rolling 

 enough to cast off extra rain water,— also has good 

 spring water in several of the fields. The buildings 

 consist of a good dwelling, nearly new, two brick ser- 

 vant houses, one house for the manager, two large to- 

 bacco houses, 30 by 70 feet each, one is used for a barn ; 

 stabling, corn, milk, and hen houses. From the above 

 dwelling I can go to the Annapolis market in about 

 fifteen minutes, where we have a tolerably good mar- 

 ket for hay, peaches, sweet potatoes, milk and butter. 

 Of milk about $2000 worth may be sold annually. 

 Freight is cheap to Baltimore, which is an excellent 

 market, with which we have daily intercourse, both 

 by steam and otherwise. But few farms have the same 

 opportunities of doing business to profit, being now in 

 good order to make money, and only on account of ad- 

 vanced <ige, infirmities, and residing at a distance, am 

 I induced to part with it. It will be sold cheap. Per- 

 sons desirous of seeing the place, will please call on 

 me, near Baltimore, Md., and I will go and show it. 

 ROBERT SINCLAIR, Nurseryman. 



Aug%ist Wth.—Al. 



