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Flour, Butter^ and Cheese Trade. 



Vol. XII. 



without any soap, as it effectually eradicates 

 spots of all kinds. The clothes, however, 

 should afterwards be rinsed in clean water. 

 The nuts, when ground into flour, and mixed 

 in the proportion of one-third witli the flour 

 of wheat, are said to add to the strength of 

 bookbinder's paste; and when steeped in hot 

 water, and mixed with an equal proportion 

 of bran, it makes a nutritious food for pigs 

 and poultry. M. Vergaud has proposed to 

 change the starch contained in the flour into 

 sugar, and afterwards employ it in distilla- 

 tion. 



In Europe and America, the horse-chesnut 

 can only be considered as an ornamental 

 tree. It produces a splendid effect when in 

 flower, either singly, in avenues, or on the 

 margins of plantations. Gilpin objects to 

 this tree, as being " lumpish in its form;" 

 but in saying this, he evidently judged of 

 the tree merely with reference to pictur- 

 esque beauty, to which it has but few pre- 

 tensions till it becomes very old ; whereas, 

 in point of floral beauty, it is unequalled by 

 few other trees. "To the painter the mag- 

 nificence of its stature" and the richness of 

 its drapery, especially when clothed in the 

 beauty of its broad palmated leaves, and em 

 broidered with its profusion of silver flowers, 

 "scarcely atone for the exceeding regularity 

 of its form, terminating, as it invariably does, 

 when left, to the hand of nature, in an exact 

 parabola." And in addition to these beau- 

 ties, its massive and luxuriant summit con 

 trasts well with those of trees of a more airy 

 character, and thus produes that breadth of 

 light and shade so essential to landscape 

 scenery. — Browne's Trees of America. 



Flour, Cheese, and Butter Trade. 



The Rochester Democrat of Tuesday, 

 furnishes a review of the flour trade at that 

 place, which we copy in an abridged form 



The following table shows the amount of 

 flour shipped from Rochester for three years 

 past, during the season of canal navigation 



Total, 



1845. 

 518,318 



184G. 

 540,232 



1847. 

 588,080 



To ascertain tlie whole quantity manufac 

 tured in the place, it is necessary to add to 

 the above amount the 20,000 barrels forward 

 ed east by rail-road during the suspension of 

 navigation — 30,000 for home consumption, 

 and a few thousand barrels exported by lake 

 This w 11 show an aggregate of about 050,000 

 barrels turned out by the Rochester mills thi 

 year, yielding, with the bran, shipstuffs, &c., 

 to the State, a revenue of $200,000. 



The supply of wheat is derived from the 

 Erie canal, Genesei; Valley canal, Tonawan 

 da rail-road, Lake Ontario, and wagons from 



the country adjacent. The following will 

 show the receipts by canal. The column for 

 1817 is brought down to December 1st, since 

 when a few thousand bushels were received: 



Total, 



1845. 1846. 1847. 



1,042,426 1,034,006 1,879,110 



The receipts by the Erie canal have in- 

 creased this year, 25 per cent., while there 

 is a considerable falling off in those by the 

 Genesee canal. 



The receipts of wheat by rail-road are es- 

 timated at 1.50,000, and those by the lake at 

 60,000 bushels. 



The mills, to manufacture 6.50,000 barrels 

 of flour, require 2,825,000 bushels of wheat. 



Amount necessary to supply the mills, 2,825,000 

 Receipts by canal 1,879,110 



By railroad, 150,000 



By lake, 60,000 



Amount supplied by team. 



The Cheese Trade. 



2,089,110 

 835,890 



The Western Reserve Chronicle says: 

 By a reference to the books at the cana 

 office, we are enabled to state the amount 

 cleared for market during the last six years, 

 viz: 



The Albany Jouftial gives the following 

 statement of the amount of cheese received 

 at Albany and Troy during the past twelve 

 years : 



1836, pounds, 14,060,000 



1837, 15,.500,000 



1838, 13,810,000 



1839, 14,530,000 



1840, 18,820,000 



1841, 14,170,000 



1842, 19,004,000 



1843, 24,331,000 



1844, 26,677,500 



1845, 27,542,861 



1846, 35,-560,180 



1847, 40,014,000 



Cheese and Butter. 



The following are a part of the exporta- 

 tions of cheese from the State of Ohio: 



Trumbull, pounds. 



Portage, 



Geauga, 



Madison, 



Ashtabula, 



Five counties. 



4,000,000 



2,000,000 



2.50,000 



200,000 



5,000,000 



11,450,000 



