'OI_ XXI. NO. SO. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



205 



it bids fair to lieconie a formidable competi- 

 o tlio whale oil of llie Atlantic States, 

 re have stated that of good lard, C'2 Iba. in 100 

 ■ oil, and the remainder stearine ; but this pro- 

 ion, it must be recollected, will not be obtained 

 le process of ordinary manufacture, where the 

 ils cannot be as accurate as in the laboratory 

 le chemist. Tallow contains about three-fourths 

 leiglil of stearine, which in the best specimeni 

 h resembles wax in purity and burning. It is 

 able that more simple and cheap methods of 

 rating stearine and olein will be discovered, 



those now used, as the whole manufacture 



he considered in its infancy. 



CLOVER FOR M.4NURING LAND. 



member of the United Society of Shakers, of 

 terbury, N. H., who are noted for their good 

 landry, communicates to the editor of the Far- 



9 Monthly Visitor, the following " Directions 

 ising Clover for Manuring Lands" : 



If your soil is poor and wants enriching for 

 ge, seed well with clover and timothy, when 

 1 with wheat, barley or oats, and give it a good 

 sing of plaster. After harvest, be careful not 

 ave it pastured until the following suuimer. In 

 turn in any kind of stock you please, and pas- 

 it the remainder of the season. The next 

 ig plaster it again, and turn in your cattle as 

 do in other pastures. In the fall, say Octo- 

 turn over the land for another crop. The 

 ng following harrow first lengthways the fur- 

 : then sow your wheat, barley or oats, and 

 ow twice, crossing the furrow. Before the 

 harrowing sow your grass seed. Then follow 

 some process as before another two seasons ; 

 r which it is presumed your land will be strong 

 jgh to bear taking off two or three crops be- 

 lt is again seeded. And by continuing a ro- 

 )n of crops, say corn, oats, wheat or rye — then 

 er as before — it will be rather improved than 

 Twise, provided plaster will produce clover on 

 r land as it does on some lands in the State of 

 V York. 



"rom four to six quarts of clover seed per acre 

 four quarts of timothy do well in this case ; 

 in seeding for mowing we should vary (increase?) 

 proportion. 



'rom one and a half to two bushels of plaster 

 bout right for an acre. 



'he plaater may be sown when the land is first 

 ied with clover, or it may be omitted till the 

 Dwing spring; but as it is a protection to the 

 ng clover against drought, it is generally sown 

 n and the following spring too. 

 iVhich is preferable, to pasture or plow in the 

 fer, our experience does not enable us to de- 

 e." 



3n this last point (says the editor of the Visitor,) 

 nust be inferred that the plowing in will sooner 

 more effectually effect the object than pasturing, 

 t inasmuch as in the process of pasturing there 



10 loss of crop for a single season, so if by 

 t process the land can be enriched, it would 

 !m to be the better way of accomplishing the 

 act. 



CALCULATION FOR THE PEOPLE. 



Few people are aware of the comforts that may 

 be procured for a poor family by tlio aggregate 

 savings of even four-pence-hnlfpenny a day for 

 one year ; in other words, there are very few who 

 are practically acquainted with the essential prin- 

 ciple, as it relates to the frequent disbursing or 

 withholding of small sums of money, often wasted 

 ill trifling indulgences, which neither profit the 

 mind nor the body. 



We would neither advocate nor defend parsimo- 

 ny, but simply illustrate some of the rudiments of 

 economy, and make some suggestions that may 

 pass for what they are worth. If they benefit none, 

 they will certainly harm none. Most people in- 

 dulge themselves and their children, in various lit- 

 tle matters, involving more or less expense, and 

 they are certainly not to blame for doing so to the 

 extent of their ability ; but there are certain ex- 

 penditures in which many grown people indulge, 

 amounting to but little in detail, the aggregate of 

 which, if saved, would amount to a considerable 

 sum, and go far toward purchasing a snug little 

 farm or comfortable dwelling. Suppose for in- 

 stance, a man who had been in the habit of spend- 

 ing four-pence-half-penny a day for liquor, or any 

 unnecessary and unprofitable indulgence, were to 

 deposit that sum in a box, and not use it till 365 

 days had elapsed, he would then find he had 

 $22 81 1-4. If at the end of the year, times should 

 be hard, this sum would be a great help to him, in 

 supplying his fiimily with necessaries. Suppose, 

 however, he should lay by from his earnings 12 1-2 

 cents a day, that is to save it, let us see what it 

 comes to in a few years, if placed at interest, to 

 gether with the continued daily amount saved, to 

 be added to the principal sum annually, and all 

 kept drawing interest, by which it would be com- 

 pounding itself — at the end of the first year he 

 would have the simple amount saved, that is, 

 $45 73— at the end of the 

 2d year 

 3d « 



Good Stnlimenls Mr A. E. F.rnest, of Bibb co., 



Geo., informs us that for several years past, he has 

 been experimenting in the culture of silk, and has 

 been cmiiienlly succesaful. The closing remarks 

 of Mr Ernest's paper, contain so much truth and 

 good sense, that we are unwilling to withhold them 

 from our readers. — j-'llb. Cult. 



'The condition of our country certainly requires 

 that we should all be doing what we can to relieve 

 it from its present unhappy state. The distresses 

 of the country have cloarly been brought about, by 

 our consuming more than we have produced ; and 

 it can be relieved by producing more than we con- 

 sume, and in no other way. It is folly, or worse 

 than folly, to expect relief in any other way. No 

 single individual can do much, but each one can 

 do something. Any person can in himself furnish 

 an example of industry and economy, if they will, 

 and this is precisely what is wanting. If I can 

 throw $1000 or $10,000 worth of silk into market 

 every year, I shall do something ; and so with any 

 other articles which we can produce, but for which 

 we now depend on foreign countries. The con- 

 tributions of each may be small, but the aggregate 

 is large ; and it is productive industry that tells on 

 the nation's prosperity." 



4th 

 5th 

 ()th 

 7th 

 8th 

 9th 

 10th 



$94 30 

 145 55 

 200 05 

 257 78 

 318 98 

 383 85 

 4.52 71 

 534 50 

 602 76 



Bees. " The best place to put bees in is a dry, 



cold, and dark room or out-house. The colder the 

 winter the better, if the air is dry. Damp cold 

 gives bees the rot. Put your bees there the last 

 week in November, and let them sleep quietly till 

 the flowers begin to come out in the spring. In 

 Switzerland a whole village club together, and 

 hire a cold dry room, which they darken and put 

 all their bees in." 



We find the above in an excliange paper, and 

 think the system recommended at least plausible. 

 So long as bees remain torpid they do not eat ;aQd 

 to keep the.^l in this state, the temperature of the 

 place where they are kept must be low ; it must 

 also be dry, or the mass of bees and comb will be- 

 come mouldy. Bees die in multitudes by being 

 enticed out of their hives in sunny days, before 

 they are able to obtain food, or get back to their 

 hives Mb. Cult. 



This may serve to give some idea of the aggre- 

 gate increase by interest and deposit of savings. 

 If the calculation be extended to ten more years in 

 the same way, the sum will amount to about $1670. 

 And how many there are, complainingof their pov- 

 erty, who might, by a little self-denial, save 12 1-2 

 cents a day. 



We may all be assured that there is no alchymy 

 like economy. It will be found that almost all 

 those who are, or have been noted for their wealth, 

 began with little or nothing, and however different 

 in other respects, have agreed in that of strict 

 economy. — J^ewburyporl Herald. 



There is this difference between happiness and 

 sdom ; he that thinks himself the happiest man, 

 illy is so ; but he that thinks himself the wisest, 

 generally the greatest fool. — Lacon. 



^ppetUe — A relish bestowed npon the poorer 

 classes, that they may like what they eat ; while it 

 is seldom enjoyed by the rich, because they may 

 eat what they like. 



Breath — Air received into the lungs by many 

 young men of fashion, for the important purpose 

 of smoking cigars and whistling a tune. 



Aeio England CaH/e.— Speaking of the Cattle 

 Show of the Hartford Co. Agricultural Society, the 

 Albany Cultivator says: 



" We have long been of the opinion that no part 

 of the world can show such numbers of fine work- 

 ing cattle as New England ; and the shows of this 

 year have given ample proof of this fact. A bad 

 day will it be for NeH*EngIand when she substi- 

 tutes horse for ox labor on the farm, as many other 

 parts of the U. S. have done, where no particular 

 necessity for this course existed."' 



Sugar from Corn. — We are gratified to see from 

 papers in various parts of the country, that experi- 

 ments are making to test the practicability of mak- 

 ing sugar from corn, and that so far they all ap- 

 pear to have been successful in producing good 

 molasses at least. The great richness of cornstalk 

 juice, when the plant is prevented forming ears, is 

 truly surprising, and far exceeds that of the cane. 

 Mr Goodrich, of Terre Haute, la., finds that eight 

 gallons of such juice makes two gallons of molas- 

 ses, pronounced by competent judges equal to su- 

 gar house molasses, and other experimenters have 

 arrived at the same results. — Alb. Cult. 



