No. 1. 



Peaches. — Strawberries and Milk. — Pattern Farmer, 



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Fresh Peaches in Winter. 



Early in April we had the pleasure of 

 receiving from Samuel Wyman, Esq., of 

 Baltimore, two tin cans, hermetically sealed, 

 holding about two quarts each, bearing the 

 following printed label : 



"■Fresh Peaches, put up in the natural 

 state, without sugar, and suitable for a des- 

 sert, to be eaten witli sugar and cream, etc. 

 Warranted to keep twelve months in any 

 cliynate. Put up by Edward Wright, 16 

 Hill street, Baltimore." 



Mr. Wyman informs us that these peaches, 

 which were of large size, were grown by 

 himself; that he has made repeated trials of 

 this, Mr. Wright's mode of preserving, with 

 the details of which he is unacquainted; and 

 adds, "I feel constrained to say that this pro- 

 cess of preserving, whatever it may be, main- 

 tains the natural taste and flavor of the fresh 

 fruit, in a degree far superior to any other 

 with which I am acquainted." 



On opening the cans, we found the peaches 

 halved, and apparently lying in their own 

 juice. When cut up with sugar, they are 

 as nearly as possible like the fresh fruit in 

 appearance and flavor, and to our own palate 

 infinitely more delicious than any "pre- 

 served" fruit, as the term is usually applied — 

 that is, to fruit "embalmed in sugar," and 

 which retains none of the freshness of the 

 natural state. 



The process we should imagine to be a 

 simple one, and is no doubt much the same 

 as that employed by the French in preserv- 

 ing trufl^es, etc., though we think the speci- 

 mens much more completely preserved than 

 the so-called fresh fruit which we have seen 

 sent from France. 



We'understand quite a business is carried 

 on in this preserved fruit in Baltimore. The 

 secret would, if as easily carried into prac- 

 tice as we should suppose, be worth a good 

 deal to the country at large. — Downing^s 

 Horticulturist. 



Strawberries and Milk. 



A LETTER from H. C. Seymour, Esq., su- 

 perintendent of the New York and Erie 

 Railroad, to Mr. Marsh, the Secretary, says: 



"The milk train of Tuesday night — 22nd 

 instant— took to New York 8(»,000 baskets 

 of strawberries. These baskets are intended 

 to contain one pint each; but say that three 

 baskets contain one quart, which is quite 

 within bounds. Then we had 26,667 quarts, 

 or eifrht hundred and ihirly-three bushels. 

 These strawberries will no doubt weigh 65 

 pounds to the bushel, but say 60, then we 

 had twenty-Jive tons of siraivberries alone. 



The boxes and baskets weigh as much more, 

 so that the freight was at least fifty tons. 

 By the same traiii we had 28,000 quarts of 

 milk, which weigh — a pint a pound — twenty- 

 eight tons, and including cans, 35 tons; 

 making a freight of eighly-fve to)is of straw- 

 berries and milk. The milk by both our 

 trains equals fifty tons — 50,000 qts. — daily; 

 and including cans, 63 tons. The Rockland 

 county people receive nearly $3,000 a day 

 for their strawberries." 



The New York Journal of Commerce re- 

 marks — "The value of such an avenue of 

 communication to the city, can scarcely be 

 estimated. It gives us the good things of 

 the country in cheapness and abundance." 



On Thursday, the 24lh, 52,492 baskets of 

 strawberries were received in New York by 

 the Erie Railroad. 



Tioenty-eight thousand quarts of milk 

 per day is ten million, two hundred and 

 twenty thousand quarts a year, which, at 

 six cents a quart — the average price previ- 

 ous to the opening of the New York and 

 Erie Railroad — amounts to $613,200 per 

 year, for an inferior article; but since the 

 opening of this road the average price of 

 good milk has been four cents — making an 

 annual saving of $204,400 to the people of 

 the city on milk alone!', to say nothing of 

 the " strawberries.''' 



If such advantages result to the city from 

 one item of provisions, when the road is 

 only one-fifth completed, what may not be 

 anticipated when the communication is open- 

 ed to the lake and to the fruitful west? Who 

 can estimate them? The economy of living 

 and of transportation alone will be equal, in 

 five years, to the entire cost of the road, 

 even if it exceeds ten millions of dollars. — 

 Rail Road Journal. 



Pattern Farmer in Belmont County. 



A correspondent of the Ohio Cultivator gives the 

 following description of a new mode of fencing which 

 he had lately met witli in his rides, and we think it is 

 so rich, that our readers should not be deprived of it. — 

 Ed. 



The owner is a young man whose father 

 died a year or two since, and left him a good 

 farm; he has built a new house in a field 

 close to the State road, and the fence en- 

 closes the yard and garden. The modus 

 operandi is this: at the two front corners of 

 his house, which is one story high, the logs 

 project out about two feet; on these he lays 

 a pole or two, pointing towards the road, and 

 at the outer end he drives a dogwood fork in 

 the ground, some three feet high, and on it 

 lays the other end of the pole, and so on till 



