No. 9. Recipe for Making Bread. — SfC. — Editorial Notices. 



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Recipe for Making- Bread. 



James Roche, long celebrated in Balti- 

 more, as a baker of excellent bread, having 

 retired from business, has furnished the Bal- 

 timore American with the following recipe 

 for making bread, with a request that it 

 should be published for the information of 

 the public: 



"Take an earthen vessel larger at the top 

 than the bottom, and in it put one pint of 

 milk-warm water, one and a half pounds of 

 flour, and half a pmt of malt yeast; mix 

 them well together, and set away, — in 

 winter it should be in a warm place until 

 it rises and falls again, which it will in from 

 three to five hours — it may be set at night 

 if wanted in the morning; then put two 

 large spoonfuls of salt into two quarts of 

 water, and mix it well with the above 

 rismg; then put in about nine pounds of 

 flour, and work your dough well, and put it 

 by until it becomes light ; then make it out 

 in loaves. New flour requires one-fourth 

 more salt than old and dry flour. The wa- 

 ter should be tempered according to the 

 weather; in the spring and fall it should 

 only be milk-warm; in hot weather, cold; 

 and in winter, warm." — Southern Cultiva- 

 tor. 



Raising early Cucumbers. 



H. G. DicKERSON, of Lyons, Wayne co., 

 N. Y., one of the most successful cultivators 

 of garden vegetables, adopts the following 

 mode of raising early cucumbers. He makes 

 his hot-btjd at the usual time, and when the 

 soil is placed upon the stack of manure, 

 pieces of turf are placed just below the sur- 

 face, on which the seed are planted. If the 

 grass of tliis turf is alive, it is to be put 

 upside downward. On the arrival of warm 

 weather, and when the soil in the open air 

 becomes fit for cultivation, these pieces of 

 turf are removed entire, with the young 

 plants upon them, and placed in highly ma- 

 nured ground where they are finally to 

 grow. In this way the roots are taken up 

 without the least mutilation, consequently 

 no check is given to their growth. After- 

 wards, whenever there is any probability of 

 a night frost, each hill is covered with a bell 

 glass. These glasses have a small opening 

 at top, which prevents the sun scorching 

 the plants in case they are not removed in 

 time ; they are obtained at the glass-works 

 in the neighbourhood, for four cents a piece; 

 but where they cannot be had, boxes with 

 panes inserted, will answer nearly as well. 



By this means, cucumbers fit for tlie table, 

 were raised the past season, by the first of 

 June. — Cultivator. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



AlVtERICAIT HERD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, Fourth Month, 1845. 



The slaughtering of sheep for their tallow, is a great 

 business in the northern part of Ohio. Hollister & 

 Boalt, at Sandusky, killed last fall, upwards of 5,000, 

 averaging about nine pounds of tallow each. The 

 whole carcass was boiled up, except the hams; the 

 pelts were shipped on a contract, and the tallow, we 

 suppose, was intended for an eastern market. Proba- 

 bly more than 50,000 were slaughtered and tried up 

 last autumn at Cleveland. To get an estimate of the 

 value of sheep for this operation, the Collector of Cus- 

 toms at Cleveland, says in Ellsworth's Report, he made 

 inquiry of a friend who purchased 20,000, and who had 

 by last new years, killed ]5,000of lhem,and he learned 

 that their estimated cost was about $1 12i each; ex- 

 pense of butchering and rendering, 10 cents, making 

 in the whole $i 22^. The average of tallow was eight 

 lbs., worth at SJ cts., 44 cts.— wool, say three lb.*., at 

 33 cts.. 99 ets., and the hams 5 cts., making the yield 

 $1 48, leaving a gain of 25f cts. on each sheep. 



The " American Agricultural Association" has been 

 organized in New York, by the election of Luther 

 Bradish for president, and twelve vice presidents, 

 among whom we notice the names of Theodore Fre- 

 linghuysen, Vice-Chancellor McCoun, &c. 



The objects of the Association are to collect and 

 diffuse correct information throughout the United 

 States, in Agriculture, Horticulture, and Arboricul- 

 ture, and to promote the introduction of scientific 

 knowledge into these arts. These objects it proposes 

 to accomplish by the following means: 



1. The discussion at stated meetings of topics in 

 these arts. 



2. The procuring of original, practical and scientific 

 experiments in these arts, and of essays, papers and 

 lectures for publication, in a series of transactions. 



3. The establishment of a laboratory, for the exami- 

 nation of manures, composts, and marls, and the in- 

 vestigation of the mineral food of plants, fruits and 

 seeds. 



4. The establishment of an interchange of fruits, 

 seeds and scions, with other societies, and among its 

 own members. 



5. The establishment of an Agricultural Library. 



G. The founding of a Museum of seeds, fruits, speci- 

 mens of choice varieties of plants, models of imple- 

 ments and buildings, pictures of improved animals, 

 together with a collection of geological specimens, 

 fossil manures, and other objects relating to agricul- 

 ture. 



The initiatory fee is $5— and $5 annually— or a life 

 subscription of $.50, to entitle to membership. 



It is feared the unusually cold weather of last 

 week has greatly injured, if not destroyed, the peach 

 crop. 



