No. 6. 



Mode of Refining PVine and Cider. 



197 



and givinj^ them the water to drink. It is 

 iiio>t satisfuctorily ascertained, that thnje 

 hii-^hels of oats or barley fo prepared, will 

 ki'cp a horse in better condition than double 

 llie quantity in a crude state. 



RlUCiC TRENCni.NG. 



(larden grounds lyino- unemployed durinof 

 the winter, may be jjreatly benefitted liy 

 rido'o trenching. In this state the winter 

 tVost will meliorate and improve the soil ; 

 and, in the hurry of business in the garden 

 in the spring, the ridges can be most expe- 

 ditiously levelled tor spring crops, 



SLUGS — MME. 



In old garden grounds, infested with 

 slugs, the application of lime is found by ex- 

 perience, the best expedient for their de- 

 struction. 



BEANS 



Can be transplanted with as much safety 

 and success as the cabbage, or any other 

 vegetable. 



RHUBARB. 



This is one of the many plants which a 

 farmer may have in his garden, and which 

 may be made to contribute to the delicacies 

 of his table, and to the health and comfort 

 of his family, with very little expense or la- 

 bor. The plant is perennial and much re- 

 sembles in its habits, the burdoc, though the 

 leaves and stalks may be somewhat larger in 

 a good soil. A dozen good plants will sup- 

 ply a family. The leaf stalks are the parts 

 used. The skin or cuticle is pealed ofT — 

 they are then cut into quarter or half inch 

 pieces, and used without further preparation, 

 with sugar and spices, like unripe gooseber- 

 ries, for pies and tarts, which fruit it very 

 much resembles in flavor. It may be used 

 in spring, and until mid-summer. Medical 

 men ascribe to it a salutary influence on 

 health, particularly to children, when used in 

 this way. Tiie seed ripens about mid-summer, 

 at which time it may be sown. — Yankee 

 Farmer. 



TO SALT BUTTER. 



Beat very well up together in a marble 

 mortar, halt a pound of common salt, four 

 ounces of powdered loaf sugar. To every 

 pound of newly made butter (the milk being 

 well drawed off by beating) put an ounce of 

 the mixed powder; incorporate it well, and 

 put the butter in pots for keeping. In about 

 a month — not before — it will be fit for use ; 

 and it will continue for ten years as good as 

 butter newly salted. 



THE HESSIAN FLY. 



A respected friend, an intelligent and prac- 

 tical farmer residing in Lancaster county, 

 Bays ; " ThinUino^ tl^at you would like to hear 



of something new, I requested the youn<^ 

 man who farms for me to reduce to writing 

 what he knew concerning tiie Hessian Fly. 

 His reply is enclosed.* In my future efforts 

 or attempts to destroy this pernicious insect, 

 I design to pursue the following course ; to 

 have a roller made with six scpiare sides. 

 When drawn over my grain field in the 

 spring, when the ground is moist and in a 

 sofl state, this roller must come down with 

 the force of a pounder, and will most proba- 

 bly destroy the egg of the fly, which is very 

 tender. I hope some of our intelligent and 

 investigating farmers may improve upon this 

 idea, and give us the results in the Farmers' 

 Cabinet. 



BRAND. 



Every farmer or gardener should procure 

 a brand, containing the letters of his name, 

 with which to mark all his implements or 

 tools ; it will cost from a dollar and a half to 

 two dollars, according to the number of let- 

 ters on it. Those who are in the habit of 

 loaning tools will soon find that a brand will 

 save its cost in a short time. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Mode of refiuing^ Wine and Cidera 



The secret revealed at last. 



To refine wine or cider, take new, sweet, 

 skim milk, that drawn at night and skimmed 

 the following morning, or morning's milk 

 skimmed at night ; one pint to a quarter 

 cask; pour it into the liquor to be refined, 

 the coldest weather of winter, and stir it up 

 thoroughly to incorporate it completely ; let 

 it settle and your work is done. The liquor 

 will be pure and fine, and will have a pecu- 

 liar rifhness imparted to it by the process. 

 This mode of refining cider and wine has 

 been long in use amongst extensive dealers 

 in these liquors, and was obtained from a 

 gentleman who had long practised it with 

 great success and profit. 



R. 



The value of ffreen vegetables as manure 

 was strikingly proved by me in the spring of 

 183;}. I had a trench opened of sufficient 

 length to receive six sets of potatoes; under 

 three of these sets I placed green cabbage 

 leaves ; but the other three had nothing but 

 the soil. When the crop was dug up, the 

 plants over the cabbajre leaves yielded about 

 double the produce of the others. 



J. D. Parkes. 



Dartfort Nursery, January, 1834. 



Use well the moments which decide your 

 fate. 



* The enclosure received and will be attended to. 



