fo. 7. 



Editorial Notices. 



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rains, Tlie former requires ten per cent, 

 roof whiskey, and the latter fifteen or twen- 

 jr per cent. 



When a person makes his own vinegar 

 ccording to the directions here given, he 

 light, if he chose, siibstitnte for the stock 

 lade of whiskey and water, — sour beer, 

 ider slops, the washings of cider barrels, 

 :,c., &c., and instead of working the stand 

 ourly, or every two hours, as when it is 

 lade a business, the vinegar would be drawn 

 ut and poured up every time any new ma- 

 srial is added to it; and in this case the air 

 oles, instead of being bored eight inches 

 rom the bottom, should be at or above the 

 ulge of the lower cask, so as to allow of 

 oom for the vinegar to be kept on hand, 

 n this case, the size of the holes for supply- 

 Dg air should be one-eighth of an inch in- 

 tead of one-half an inch. It may be re- 

 narked, that these directions are sufficient 

 jr the purposes of the farmer or any one 

 I'ho desires to make his own vinegar, but 

 hey are not critical and minute enough for 

 tie manufacturer. Much skill and experi- 

 nce are requisite to compote with those 

 Iready in the business. For it is a distinct 

 nd large business, especially in the neigh- 

 iourhood of New York, where not less than 

 ifteen or twenty thousand gallons are daily 

 nade in and about the city, consuming some 

 ifteen hundred or two thousand gallons of 

 •roof whiskey. — Eureka. 



We have never seen any vinegar manufactured in 

 his artificial,— ox if our readers would rather,— this 

 cientific manner, at all to equal the genuine article 

 lade from good substantial cider. This it is true, 

 3 not made in one day, nor in a hundred: it requires 

 ime. In order to procure a good article, we have 

 itterly been in the habit of obtaining from our 

 rocer, say a couple of gallons of his best cider vin- 

 gar, and mixing that with another gallon of wine 

 inegar. This makes a condiment worthy of any 

 nan's cabbage, and we recommend the city lover of 

 ;ood vinegar to try it. — Ed. 



IIOW TO TRE.4T BREAD WHEN TAKEN FROM 



rHE OVEN. — Never set it flat on the table, 

 is it sweats the bottom, and acquires a 

 3ad taste from the table. Always take 

 it out of the tins, and set it up end way, 

 leaning against something. If it has a 

 :hick, hard crust, wrap it in a clotli wrung 

 3ut of cold water. Keep it in a tin 

 30X, in a cool place, where it will not 

 freeze. 



THE FARMERS' CABIIVET, 



AND 



ATSII1B.1CAN SERB-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Second Month, 1847. 



The distresses in Ireland and Scotland, on account 

 of short crops, do not by any means appear to abate. 

 We who are here in the midst of plenty, and pros- 

 perity, cannot realize the horrors of neighborhoods 

 suftering for lack of food, or of individuals dying with 

 starvation. In her speech from the throne at the 

 meeting of Parliament on the ]9th ult , the Ciueen 

 calls the attention of her legislature with the deepest 

 concern, to the dearth of provisions which prevails 

 in Ireland, and in parts of Scotland. In Ireland es- 

 pecially she says, " the loss of the usual food of the 

 people, has been the cause of severe sufTciings, of 

 disease, and of greatly increased mortality among the 

 poorer classes." Louis Philippe, also in his addresses 

 at a late opening of the Chamber, adverts to "the 

 suffer! tigs which this year press upon a portion" of the 

 French population, and asks that every facility may 

 be attbrded to his government, to administer the 

 needed relief. 



Bread stuffs and provisions, generally, have taken a 

 still further rise in our markets, and large amounts 

 arc continually shipped to England. Contributions 

 throughout the country are liberally handed over to 

 be transmitted for the alleviation of the necessities 

 of the destitute and perishing. Wheat flour is worth 

 $G to $7— wheat, $1,20 to $1,40 per bu.— corn, 80c. 

 to inOc, while pork and beef are from $5,50 to $7, 

 per hundred, according to quality. 



We have seen it stated, that ten thou- 

 sand barrels of onions are annually raised 

 in the adjoining towns of Salem and Dan- 

 vers, in Massachusetts. 



We would invite attention to the article on the 

 improvement in carriages— more particularly in so 

 far as the axles are concerned. See p. 212. 



A month ago we published Morris Longstreth's an- 

 swers to certain inquiries made by the State Agricul- 

 tural Society of South Carolina. In our present num- 

 ber will be found an Address delivered bj' the same 

 individual on the 11th ult. before the Jeffersonville 

 Agricultural Association. The Society requested a 

 copy for publication, and one was kindly forwarded 

 for insertion in the Cabinet. We copy from the JVor. 

 ristown Register On comparing it with the article 

 referred to above, a little repetition may be observed, 

 but we concluded it were a pity to diminish its value 

 as a whole, by any omissions: it is therefore given 

 entire. 



Since the publication of our last number we have 

 been advised by the Chairman of the Committee, 

 whose names appear to the Report on Manure on page 

 192, that that Committee do not endorse the senti- 

 ments expressed in that Report— that they never saw 

 it before its publication— and that their names were 

 used without their authority or consent. We look it 

 from a pamphlet containing the transactions of the 

 New Castle Agricultural Society. 



The quantity of rain which fell in the 1st month, 



1847, was 4.73 in. 



I Penn. Hospital, '2nd mo. 1st. 



