1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



409 



Esq, Slide well was quite as inattentive to the 

 conditien of his buildings, as to his farming opera- 

 tions ; he made no repairs so long as he had a 

 room in his house that would protect him from 

 ?rind and stenns -, if the rain disconaiaoded his 

 family in one ra>;a, they retreated to another, 

 where it rained let-s, aad by the help of shingles 

 4ind old huts they kept their windows in re-pair 

 as long as there was glass enough left in the sashes 

 to give sufficient light te distinguish day from 

 night. 



Thus time, that reconciles all events sooner or 

 later, carried them along with but little grumbling 

 so long as rich relatives one after another were 

 called to a better world, and on their departure 

 left them the means of supplying their tables 

 bountifully frOm the stores of a good Providence. 

 Thus the Squire, in his eventful life, instead of 

 improving by experience, rather grew more negli- 

 gent as he grew older, wasted or wore away, prop- 

 erty which would h*ve made any prudent isan 

 independent, while preaching theories to others, 

 and neglecting the praetisai application of them 

 to his own affairs, A repetition of the course de- 

 scribed, "with but little variation," was annually 

 pursued while he lived. Silas Beowx, 



Wilmington, 1854. 



pounds of the very best white sugar, (the finer 

 the quality the better,) and to this add as much 

 water as will, with the Juice and sugar, make a 

 gallon. Put the mixture into a keg or demijohn, 

 leaving it open for two weeks, or until the fer- 

 mentation subsides ; then cork it up tightly, and 

 and let it remain quiet for five months, when it 

 will befit for use, and may be racked off into bot- 

 tles, — P«, Farm Jour. 



A gentleman who has had much experience in 

 uaaking currarnt, raspberry, and grape wines, says 

 the above recipe is a good one, but that clear 

 wine cannot be made in a demijohn. It should be 

 put in a keg or cask which it will just fill, so that 

 as it ferments the scum will run off. When the 

 fermentation ceases, cork it tightly and let it stand 

 five or six months, and then draw it off for bot- 

 tling by tapping near the bottom, being careful 

 not to disturb the sediment. — Eds. Rural. 



THE WHITE BAISY. 



Of all the pests that afflict the farmer, none I 

 deal with better deserves the appellation, tpJoI- 

 erable^ than the White Daisy, The seed is long, 

 ■slender, brown, -and the rapidity with which it 

 spreads demands of the farmer the most untiring 

 diligence in its extermination. The mowing of 

 iiay in winter, has seeded the road-sides of this 

 town, and they now present, for miles, a border- 

 ing of daisies. From a few seed sown when lay- 

 ing land down to grass, we have whole acres now 

 thickly in Moseom. 



The rapidity with which the daisy increases, 

 may be seen from the following. I to-day pulled 

 an my meadow a stool probably three years old, 

 from which had grown 26 stalks, bearing fifty-one 

 blossoms- I counted 300 seeds in one blossom. An- 

 other stool ^ad sixty stalks, and at the above rate 

 over one hundred blassoms. Putting the number 

 of seeds per blossom at 200, we have for the last 

 stool 20,000 seeds ; and for the first 10,200, From 

 a little plot of ground, about four feet by five, I 



Eulled 050 stalks, giving at above rates, 1,000 

 lossoms, and 200,000 seeds. 

 Need more convincing proofs be added, to prove 

 to the most oegligent farmer the necessity of being 

 wide awake in the work of eradicating these 

 pests ? — and yet we see farmers resting in quiet 

 ease, year after yea.r, while they are gaining a 

 foothold, and inci'casing in a ratio of unexampled 

 rapidity- 



CURRANT WINE. 



Here is a recipe for making currant wine, worth 

 to any of our subscribers who have a bushel cf 

 warrants, at least two year's subscription to the 

 Journal. We had an opportunity of tasting wine 

 Blade after it, which was of such excellent quali- 

 ty, that we could not resist the temptation of pul> 

 iisliing the recipe. Here it is ; try it and report 

 the results: 



To one quart of ripe currant juice add three 



FEEDING OF ANIMALS. 



FORKS IN WHICn TaE SOLID MATTERS OF THE TISSUES 

 ESCAPE IX THE CRINE. 



The lungs throw off, in the form of gas or va- 

 por, a large proportion of the matters which, after 

 being taken into the stomach, have already served 

 their purpe.ie in the body. The kidneys remove 

 the greater part of that v^hich is derived from the 

 destruction ef the tissues. The solid excretions in 

 man amount only tea fourteenth or an eighteenth 

 of the whole food consumed. 



In a state of health, the Haline substances of the 

 food escapes for the most part in the urine. The 

 nsineral matter ccntained in that part of the solid 

 excretions which has undergone digestion, consists 

 chiefly cf earthy salts and of iron. 



In man and in our domestic animals, the nitro- 

 '^en ef the food and tissues is also separated from 

 the blood by the kidneys, and is found in the 

 urine. It is chiefly in the form of a substance to 

 which the name of urea is given. In birds, ser- 

 pents and insects, it is separated in the form of 

 uric acid. The urine voided by a healthy man in 

 24 hours, averages about 4<1 ounces, and con- 

 tains about 150 gi-ains of solid matter, which 

 has served its purpose in the system. Of this 

 solid matter, about 270 grains consist of urea, 8 of 

 uric acid, and 170 of mineral or saline matter. 

 The urine ef the horse is richer in urea than that 

 of the cow, and that 3f the cow than the urine of 

 man. It is this urea which, during the fermenta- 

 tion or ripening of urine, becomes changed into 

 ammonia. 



The urea and uric acid discharge<l daily in the 

 urine of a healthy man, contains about half an 

 ounce of nitrogen — to furnish which requires 3 

 ounces of dry gluten, albumen, or flesh. If so 

 large a proportion of that which is most valuable 

 in food, and which has been derived from tiie de- 

 cay of the tsssuee of the body, is contained in the 

 urine, it ought to be an important object to the 

 farmer to contrive some method ef returning it 

 \vithout less to the soil, tnat it may aid again in 

 raising new vegetables as food for other animals. 



GENERAt BAX.ANCEOF rv)0D AND EX€RE1'I0NS IN MAN. 



The general balance of the food tivkcn into the 

 human body and of the excretions of various kinds, 

 has been thus represented by M. Barral : 



