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Pickled Eggs.- 



-Exlraordinary Calf. 



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millions, they create and provide for other 

 institutions, and how few have been enacted 

 with express reference to the claims of the 

 plough, either by means of establishments 

 to diffuse agricultural science, or by the con- 

 struction of public works and facilities to 

 enhance the quantity and value of its pro- 

 ducts. True, after appfopriating many hun- 

 dred millions for the support of particular 

 establishments, Congress, whose constitu- 

 ents are agriculturists in the proportion of 

 more than three to one, has at last set aside 

 for the collection of agricultural statistics, 

 the prodigious amount of $1000'. Even the 

 munificent bequest of a noble minded for- 

 eigner is locked up or wasted, instead of 

 being put in trust with those who would ful- 

 fil his dying wish, to benefit our country by 

 the "diffusion of useful knowledge among 

 men." Can such laws and proceedings be 

 regarded as the embodiment of the will of 

 an enlightened agricultural community, com- 

 posing at least three-fourths of our popula- 

 tion, and animated, as such a community if 

 well instructed would be, by a clear under- 

 standing of its own rights and interests — of 

 the principles of public justice and the true 

 guarantees of national prosperity! Even 

 •since the war in 1815, in the mere appre- 

 hension of, or it may be wisely to prevent 

 the recurrence of war, that pastime of des- 

 pots and scourge of the human race, there 

 have been levied chiefly on landholders and 

 expended out of the public finances, more 

 than $300,000,000 on account of our two 

 military departments. Now who shall esti- 

 mate the great results of any sum approach- 

 ing that amount, to further improvements 

 in all sorts of knowledge and machinery, 

 and works connected with American hus- 

 bandry, such as roads, bridges, canals, har- 

 iours, and other facilities for external and 

 internal trade and manufactures, the great 

 helps and handmaids of the plough : works 

 which, white they bring interior and remote 

 regions within reach of sustaining markets, 

 constitute in themselves the best of all mili- 

 tary defences, and, what is better, tl>e surest 

 cement of the Union ; in proof of which, 

 note the recent declaration of a British 

 Quarter Master General, that an army 

 could be taken from London to Manchester 

 in nine hours by railway, while to march 

 (there would require seventeen days! Bring 

 your sons up then to frame their legislation 

 on the wiser J3.nd more benevolerit theory, 

 that the true glory and safety of a country 

 of boundless resources, and far removed from 

 contact with dangerous rivals, consists in 

 knowledge diffused among the masses, and 

 especially among those who live by rural 

 labour — in clear, well instructed minds, as 



well as strong arms, to discern and culti- 

 vate our unequalled natural advantages. 

 For after all — 



What constitutes a Ptate? 

 Not lii!;h rai^'cl battlement or labourM mound, 



Thick wall or moted gate; 

 Not cities proud with spires and turrets crown'd, 



Not bays qiul broad-armed ports. 

 Whore laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; 



Nut starrd and spangled courts. 

 Where low-browd baseness wafis perfumes to pride: 



No! Men, high minded men; 



Men who their duties know. 

 But know their right-s, and knowing dare maintain: 



These constitute a State. 



Pickled EGGS.-:-Among the numerous 

 pickles in comi:non use, it very rarely occurs 

 that pickled eggs are to be witnessed, either 

 in oil-shops or upon th,e table. Nevertheless 

 in the counties of Hants xtnd Dorset pickled 

 eggs constitute a very prominent feature in 

 the farm-house store-rooms, insomuch that 

 the latter would be considered, by the indus- 

 trious house-wife, unfurnished v.'ithout them. 

 The mode in which the good dames pickl.e 

 the eggs is simply thus:^At the season of 

 the year wh.cn their stock of eggs is plenti- 

 ful, they cause some four or six dozen to be 

 boiled in a capacious saucepan until they be- 

 come quite hard. They then, after removing 

 the shells., lay them carefully in large mouth- 

 ed jars, and pour over them scalding vine- 

 gar, well reasoned with whole pepper, al- 

 spice, a few races of ginger, and a few cloves 

 of garlic. They then, when cold, bung them 

 down filose. In a month they will be fit for 

 use. Where eggs are plentiful the above 

 pickle is by no means expensive, and., as an 

 acetic accompaniment to cold meat, it can- 

 not be outri vailed for piquancy and gout 

 by the generality of pickles made in this 

 country. 



Extraordinary Calf.— Mr. W. W. Bal- 

 lard, of Southport, Chemung county, N, Y., 

 has a Durham bull calf, named " Victor," 

 aged four months and 29 days, which, for 

 weight, beauty of limbs, and symmetry of 

 form, is an object of great curiosity. His 

 length from his horns to the but of tail, is 

 6 feet. 



Girt behind fore legs, 5 " 2 inches. 



Around brisket, 6 «' 1 » 



Breadth across shoulders, 1 " 6 " 

 " " hips, 1 " 7 ^' 



His weig-ht is 588 pounds, being only 12 

 leps than 600 pounds. His weight six hours 

 after he was calved, was 98 pounds. His 

 weight ROW shows a gain, on an average, of 

 three and a quarter pounds per day since 

 his birth. His' food has been milk and grass. 

 Bent this who can. 



The dam of " Victor" is the finest cow, 

 probably, in this vicinity. — Elmira Rep. 



