Vol VIII.— No. 3. 



AMD HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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tion. Tliey would suggest the propriety of 

 ing tliat portion of it relating to tlie above pub- 

 "lied with tliis Report. 

 Per order, 



ASA T. NEWHALL, Chairman. 

 West .Yewbury, Sept. 25, 1828. 

 [To be continued.] 



From the American Fanner. 

 BEET SUGAR. 



" Freiicli Chamber of Deputies, ) 

 Silling 1 jlh May lSi9. ) 



The makers of sugar from beets, at Pont a 

 uson, petitioned that the duties on foreign 

 ars should remain, at least for some time, in or- 



that they might prepare for tlie alteration. 



W. Thouvare, desired to present some obser- 

 ions upon the petition, the principles of which 

 advocated ; the making of sugar from beets is 

 hly useful to the country. If we continue to 

 ^ ,'ance in its manufacture, as we have done for 

 ae time past, we shall augment the productive 

 alth of France, to an amount that will approxi- 

 te 80 millions of livres, or in round numbers 

 lut $15,000,000. The manufacture of beet 

 ar renders other services to agriculture ; but, 

 t which is next important to the human mind, 

 hat it occupies and sustains a numerous popu- 

 on at a period of the year that there is a de- 

 eucy of other labor. It also puts into circula- 

 1 many articles of great value. 



M. de Marmier said the cultivation of the beet 

 f the highest agricultural importance. It pre- 

 es the ground for wheat. It nourishes a large 



ulation. Protection and encouragement are 

 ! to the manufacturers which sustain this pop- 

 tion, and which has produced to us one of the 

 3t valuable articles of provisions." 

 kfr Skinner, I translate the above from a French 

 er, merely to show in what agricultural light 



subject of beet sugar is now viewed in France. 



IP B appUcation to the Chamber is likely to fail ; 



, as to the encouragement of domestic manu- 



;ures, without legislative aid, there is no ques- 



. I flatter myself the hints may prove of some 



to the American Farmer. 



AMPHICON. 



Domestic Manufactures. — We have been pra- 

 ted with two pair of cotton stockings, manufac- 



d by the JVewbitryport Hosiery Manufacturing 

 ipany, from yarn spun by Mr Uriah Benedict, 

 yentral Falls, in this State. The stockings are 

 al to those imported, in appearance, and we 

 uld judge vastly more durable. We are pleas- 

 to see our enterprising manufacturers turning 

 r attention to this useful branch of domestic 

 ustry. 



L few days since we saw some cotton bagging, 

 le within a few miles of this town, of refuse 

 on, which surpassed that made of hemp. In 



ry short time we shall be able to furnish our 

 ihern friends with bagging for their use, made 

 a the raw material itself, at a very reduced 

 Providence Journal. 



Aghtning. — A heavy thunder storm was expe- 

 ced at Wilton, last Wednesday afternoon, dur- 



which the electric fluid struck the ground, 

 r the residence of Mr David Bennett, and 

 le, according to the statement of a correspon- 

 t, teiTible havoc with the earth, stones, fences, 



trees, which came within its range — spUnter- 



ing rails, heaving the fence, removing from their 

 beds stones and rocks of nearly a ton weight, and 

 throwing dirt to the tops of the highest trees. — 

 The persons in the houses of Mr David Bennett 

 and Mrs Polly Bennett were stunned with the 

 shock, and from the smell of sulphur and the ap- 

 pearance of fire at the moment, it was thought 

 that both houses had been struck — their narrow 

 escape was indeed, as it is by the inmates consid- 

 ered, a providential deliverance. 

 A^orwalk, July 21. 



From the Boston Cenlinel. 



STRAW PAPER. 



Messrs Adams & Hudson — Having just re- 

 ceived from a friend residing in Burlington, Ver- 

 mont, a sample of paper made ofstraiv, I send it 

 to your office for the inspection of those who take 

 an interest in the improvement of the arts of our 

 country. It will recommend itself. I shall only 

 add that my correspondent informs ine that there 

 is a considerable manufactory of this useful article 

 established in Burlington ; and that it can be af- 

 forded at half the cost of the common paper made 

 of rags. Respectfully yours, &c., 



Pearl Street, Jil!^^2S, 1829. B. R. 



GRAPES. 



The native grapes, (and particularly the Isabel- 

 la grape) are very fine in the gardens around 

 Brooklyn. We cannot speak so well of the for- 

 eign grapes, although it is possible that time may 

 be wanting to mature them, there being very few 

 which are more than five or six years old. 



An extraordinary fine Isabella vine, in great 

 bearing may be seen in Poplar street, between 

 Hicks and Henry streets. It entirely covers the 

 end of a two-story house, and is also brought in 

 front, over the street, and under the second story 

 windows. The fruit and vines overshadow the 

 window, and give a fine evidence of what may be, 

 and is done by good cultivation. — Brooklyn, JV*. 

 F. paper. 



FIGS. 



We have seen some fine figs, perfectly ripe, 

 which were raised in a garden in this village. — 

 They were very soft and exceedingly sweet, and 

 even sickish and unpalatable. It is said they can 

 be raised in abundance in this climate ; and, if so, 

 we should be glad to hear of the fact from some 

 of our horticultural readers. — Ibid. 



To Husbandmen. — Our enterprising farmers 

 should remember, that the committee o{ Middlesex 

 Jlgricultural Society must be notified on or before 

 the first Monday of September, if their Farms 

 ar^ to be inspected for a premium. The premi- 

 um offered for the best cultivated farm is $40 ; 

 for the next best $25. Independent of the bene- 

 fit which the owner always derives from good cul- 

 tivation of his farm, we should think the chance, 

 of obtaining these sums of money, would be a suf- 

 ficient motive to induce every farmer to attempt 

 winning the reward. — Yeoinan's Gazette. 



DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



Amongst the most useful and nutritious sub- 

 stitutes for wheat, and which has the advantage 

 of correcting the unwholesome properties of bad 

 flour, in rice. During the scarcity of wheat in 

 July, 1795, one of the measures adopted in the 

 Foundling Hospital, with a view of lessening the 

 consumption of flour, was the substitution of rice 



puddings for that of flour ; which by the table of diet, 

 were used for the children's dinner twice a week. 

 The flour puddings, for each day, have taken about 

 1(J8 lbs. weight of flour ; the rice puddings sub- 

 stitute, in their place, rerjuired only 21 lbs. of rice 

 to make the same quantity of pudding; the result 

 of the experiment being that, in a baked pudding 

 made with milk one pound of rice would go very 

 nearly as far as eight pounds of flour. Rice con- 

 tains a great deal of nutriment in a small compass, 

 and does not pass so quickly ofi^ the stomach, as 

 some other substitutes for wheat flour do. It 

 is a good ingredient in bread. Boii a quarter of 

 a pound of rice till it is quite soft : then put it on 

 the back part of a sieve to drain it ; and when it is 

 cold mix it with three-quarters of a pound of 

 flour, a tea cupful of yeast, a tea cupful of milk, 

 and a small table spoonful of salt. Let it stand 

 for three hours ; then knead it uj), and roll it in 

 about a handful of flour, so as the outside be dry 

 enough to put it into the oven. About an hour 

 and a quarter will bake it, and it will produce one 

 jiound fourteen ounces of very good white bread. 

 It should not be eaten till it is two days old. — 

 Companion to the British Mmanack. 



Cheap Glass. — We hear frequently of the win- 

 dows in houses being broken by hail and rain, I 

 consider that it is owing to the glass being too 

 thin which is so often used ; when I formerly di- 

 rected a man to set a square of glass, it was sel- 

 dom I could have any but thin, 4)ut of late I have 

 made a rule to always keep glass of the best — and 

 of the thickest kind, and since I have adopted this 

 plan, I do not have a quarter part of the glass 

 broke which I formerly had. Let any man test 

 the experiment once and he will find that a 

 thick square will last three times as long as com- 

 mon or thin glass. I consider it a heavy tax on 

 the community to have so much ordinary glass 

 used. — Boston Cenlinel. 



COCKROACHES. 



An alarm has been sounded in various newspa- 

 pers in different parts of the country, summoning 

 the liege citizens of New England to unite their 

 efforts for the su[)pression of cockroaches. The 

 locust plague of Egypt, it is supposed, would not 

 be more terrible than the unchecked inroads of 

 these creatures, which are saiil to be more numer- 

 ous during the present season, than at any pre- 

 vious point of time. We are happy to be able to 

 announce ths discovery of a method of destroying 

 these intruders, at once simple and effective. It 

 is as follows : — Procure from the herb woman, or 

 apothecary, a moderate quantity of that odorifer- 

 ous vegetable called poke root : Boil it in water 

 until the juices are extracted, and mingle the 

 liquor \fith good West India molasses, or if the 

 spirit of patriotism be extravagant, with molasses 

 from New Orleans ; spread the liquid in large 

 platters or soup plates, in the kitchen, pantry, 

 closet, or watch house, or whatever apartment 

 may have been the subject of invasion, and the 

 enemy will be found slain in heaps, lying by hun- 

 dreds, and fifties, before the following morning. — 

 A gentleman, to whom we are indebted for this 

 information, states that he slaughtered 575 cock- 

 roaches in a single night, by means of the poke 

 root and inolasses, and that the root which had 

 been boiled being thrown into a closet, thickly 

 invested by the enemy, the place was quitted en- 

 tirely in a few days, great numbers being left dead 

 upon the field. — Boston Gazette. 



