Vol.VIII.— No. 11. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



85 



We may coinu to the coiKtliision, if those pre- 

 lises are coirect, that green timber put into the 

 round will soon decay — and that timl)er cut in 

 jnuner, and immediately divested of its hark, or 

 theruise having its surface of ?iaierf,\vood ex- 

 osed to the air, will remain sound a long scries of 

 sars, and become as " hard as horn ;" or if it be 

 jt in winter, to soak it in water some days, and 

 i soon as the season will admit, to strip off the 

 'jrk — that iirobably with tliis jh-occss, but little 

 Ivantage or disadvantage will be derived by cut- 

 Jug timber at any particidar season of the year ; 

 at that much, very much, depends on the mail- 

 er of preserving it afterwards. Yours, cfcc. 

 J\'-ewton, September 19, 1829. D. 



MOSS. 

 (Lichen.) There are various kinds of this — 

 me grows on trees, on stones, on the shingled 

 ofs of houses, on the surface of the ground ; and 

 me of a very minute kind, which is commonly 

 ,lled mould, on the surface, and in the crevices 

 id cavities of almost every substance which is 

 et or moist. 



Moss is i)articularly injurious to the growth of 

 ics and of grass. Its growth is encouraged on 

 jit trees, where the soil is either too cold or too 

 et, too sterile and dry, or too thickly [ilanted. 

 here the soil is too cold and wet, the best remedy 

 hollow draining, and manuring with sand, sheep 

 ng, and other manures suitable to the soil, 

 here it is too sterile and dry,dig awaj' the earth 

 >m about the roots, and supply its jilace with a 

 xture of earth aud mud, from ponds or creeks, 

 some other rich earth, that is better calculated 

 retain moisture. Where the trees stand too 

 ck, cut part of them away, rub the moss off 

 ; rest, and apply Forsyth's method of heading 

 VH, if necessary, making use of his composition 

 preserve the wood. 



VVhere raoss prevails in grass grounds, apply a 



avy, sharp, iron toothed harrow to it ; scarify 



top of the soil till it is sotiiewhat raw, strew 



lie seeds of herds grass, or other good grass, 



, ;r it, and give it a good dressing of a mixture 



sheep dung and sand, or other warm manure 



it is suitable to a cold soil. This is for grounds 



liciently dry ; but if the moss be occasioned by 



much wetness in the soil, although the above 



thod may prove beneficial for a while, yet no- 



hort of hollow draining will ever prove ef- 



tual for any con>;idcrable length of time. 



pjum will also eradicate moss on dry loams. 



experiments, says Mr Dcanc, it is found that 

 common yeilow moss is a good tnanure for i)o- 

 It would seem to be best, however, when 

 ;ed with stable dung, or rather laid on top of it. 

 3 said to be very good to mix with lime in 

 iposts, as the lime is best calculated to dissolve 

 oil it contains ; and oil is known to be an in- 

 dient in the food of plants. It is akse recom- 

 ided to be mixed in (by sandy, or gravelly soils, 

 the purpose of enabling such to retain a due 

 ree of moisture. — Farmer^s Assistant. 



From llie Sleuhen Meisenger. 



CHEESE MAKING. 



am induced to make the following communi- 

 on, the principles of which will be found in 

 imsoii's Chemistry, with the hope that it may 

 )f use to some of the readers of the Messen- 



nnd as this is the season for testing its utility. 



if you think it will be useful, you arc at liberty 

 to publish it. A Lover ok Good Cheese. 



IMiLK is well known to consist and is easily 

 separated into three parts — cream, curd and 

 whey. 



The cream is an oily, rich, and sweet substance, 

 difliised through the others, and easily separated 

 from them by standing,- but can never be harden- 

 ed or curdled with rennet. 



Curd may be separated from the whey, by heat- 

 ing it a litfle more than blood or milk heat wlien 

 it comes from the cow, and adding a little rennet, 

 and its richness depends upon the quantity of 

 cream that may be diffused through it, and which 

 may be easily pressed out. 



Whey is the remaining fluid, and its richness, 

 color and taste depend upon the quantity of cream 

 it may contain. 



Cheese, itis well known, is made from the curd, 

 and the cheese is the better the more it contains of 

 the cream, or of that oily matter which consti- 

 tutes butter; its goodness, therefore, depends in a 

 great measure upon the manner of separating the 

 whey from the cOi'd. 



If the milk be much heated, the curd broken 

 in pieces, and the whey forcibly separated or 

 pressed out with heavy weights or patent presses, 

 as is the practice with many, the cheese is scarce 

 good for any thing, but the whey is delicious, es- 

 |)ecially the la^t pressed out, and butter may be 

 obtained from it in considerable quantities. A full 

 proof that nearly the whole creamy part of the 

 milk has been separated from the cheese and is in 

 the whey. 



Whereas if the milk be not too much heated, 

 just sufficient to curdle, if the curd be allowed to 

 remain unbi'oken, and the whey be separated by 

 very slow and gentle pressure, the cream is re- 

 tained, and the cheese is excellent, but the whey 

 is almost transparent and nearly colorless. 



Black Cherry Tree. — A medical correspondent of 

 the Cooperstown Watchtower, says, that the bark 

 of this tree is poisonous. He relates the case of 

 a young lady to whom he was lately called, and 

 who, in consequence of drinking about half a pint 

 of cider, taken from a closely stopped bottle, filled 

 the evening previous with cherry bark fresh from 

 the tree, was seized with vertigo, stupor and syn- 

 cope, followed by greatdifficulty in respiration and 

 vomiting. Similar effects were jnoduced in a 

 slighter degree, upon another person, who took 

 from the same bottle a smaller draught of the ci- 

 der. He says that the French chemists have re- 

 cently ascertained that the deleterious principle of 

 the cherry, laurel and the kernel of the peach, is 

 very analogous to prussic acid. This acid in its 

 concentrated state, if a feather be dipped into it 

 and drawn across the eye of an animal, produces 

 instant death. Two drops, says the writer, have 

 been. known to kill a vigorous dog in a very few 

 minutes. — Ontario Repository. 



Middlesex The annual Cattle Show and exhi- 

 bition of Manufactures, in Concord, will take 

 place on the 7th instant. The Address is to be 

 delivered by John P. Robinson, Esq. of Lowell. 



Cure for Hydrophobia. — The late foreign Medi- 

 cal Journals state, that Coster, a French surgeon 

 of great eminence, has discovered that chlorins 

 has the wonderful power of decomposing and de- 

 stroying several of the most deadly animal poisons, 



and among others the saliva of the mad dog. 

 The mode of applying it is, to make a strong wash 

 by dissolving two table-spoonf(dls of the chloruet 

 of lime, iu a half a |)int of water, and instantly, 

 and repeatedly bathe the part bitten. It has 

 proved successful when applied within six houre 

 after the animal has been bitten. 



From ihe Richmond Enquirer. 



Cattle cured. — One of my oxen was taken a few 

 days ago very suddenly with very singular symp- 

 toms, such as I had never before seen. He ap- 

 peared perfectly ileprived of the use of his limbs, 

 and was taken in very rapid succession with con- 

 vulsions. They came on by a wild gaze of the 

 eye, and very apparent sensations of liorror, last- 

 ed generally from two to three, and sometimes as 

 long as five minutes, and during the intervals the 

 animal gave evident symptoms of weariness. Up- 

 on examination I found his horns perfectly cold, 

 which induced me to bore them, and into the 

 holes(made 4 or 5 inches from the head,) I poured 

 a strong mixture of black pepper, salt and vine- 

 gar. Not more than fifteen minutes elapsed be- 

 fore the convulsions ceased : in less than an hour 

 he fed as usual, and at this time, (three days since 

 his attack) is apparently as well as any animal on 

 my farm. I am induced to make this public, as I 

 apprehend the complaint(from the extreme damp- 

 ness of the season,) will not be very uncommon, 

 and also because of the simplicity of the remedy, 

 and the fair promise it gives of efiicacy. 



A PLANTER. 



To measure the contents of Pipes. — Square the 

 diameter of the pipe in inches, and the product 

 will be the number of lbs. of water, avoirdupois, 

 contained in every yard's length of the pipe. If 

 the last figure of this product be cut off or con- 

 sidered as a decimal, the remaining figures will 

 give the number of ale gallons in a yard's length 

 of the pipe: and if the product consist only of 

 one figure, this figure will be the contents of an 

 ale gallon: divided by 282, will give the number 

 of cubic inches in every three feet of the pipe, 

 and the contents of a pipe of greater or less 

 length may be found by proportion. 



The Northern editors who have noticed the re- 

 marks ujjon cooking rice, \jill do still more good 

 by extending the important infiirmation, that, for 

 the actual uses of life, the low priced rice is equal- 

 ly as good as that which is termed prime. In 

 fancy articles, appearances go a great way — but 

 it is strange, that in an article of food, so great a. 

 mistake should still prevail. Prices depend very 

 much upon the wholeness of the grains of rice ; 

 a matter wholly indifferent for all useful purposes. 

 — Traveller. 



Charcoal. — A correspondent of the National In- 

 telligencer, states that Charcoal is an effectual re- 

 medy for Intermittent fevers. It is to be used in 

 the form of toasted or burnt bread, as a more 

 convenient and agreeable form than the prepara- 

 tion from wood coal. — ibid. 



Dr David Hosack, of New York, has relin- 

 quished his profession, which he has pursued for 

 thirty-eight years, in his native city, and has re- 

 moved to Hyde Park, in Dutchess county, having 

 purchased the splendid situation of the late Dr 

 Bard, on the- margin of the Hudson, with a view 



