"VOl^.'XIV. NO. l4. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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Salt your corm. — Mr Urowu, of this vicinity, 

 conimtinicatLHl some inCoriniition to iis, in n ooii- 

 vei-sation recently lipid «-itli liini, in regard to the 

 use of sek iu com which is put away in the husks, 

 which may be interesting to the public. He sta- 

 ted that he received last year u quantity of corn, 

 which he had purchased, in so wet a state, that he 

 was apprehensive that it would spoil. He reniem- 

 bercd that it was a common practice in Pennsyl- 

 vania, when hay- was put away somewhat damp, 

 or not fully cured, to sprinkle salt on it, and that 

 such hay generally kept well, and that horses and 

 cattle were very fond of it ; he therefore concluded 

 to try the experiment on Jiis corn. He according- 

 ly, as his corn was thrown in a pile on a large 

 floor sprinkled it with salt, using from a half a 

 bushel of salt to five or six hundred bushels of 

 corn. The corn kept well, never became musty, 

 and never had any weevil in it. ftlr B. still hail 

 of this corn when he communicated this inform- 

 ation to us ; and he stated that the bread which it 

 then made is so sweet and good that it was esteem- 

 ed preferable to new corn. He also stated he was 

 not under the necessity of purchasing any fodder 

 for his working oxen last winter, they fed upon 

 the husks of this corn .so freely ; and he added 

 that they kept in excellent order. Mr B. was so 

 well pleased with this experiment, that he is ])Ut- 

 ting up all his corn this year in the same manner, 

 using about half a bushel of salt to five hundred 

 bushels of corn, -which he thinks is enough. — .4/- 

 bany Cultivator. 



A >'EW ALIMENT OF THE CLASS OF ARROWROOT, 



SAGO, &c — A paper has recently been sent to the 

 Society of Practical Medicine, at Paris, relative 

 to the new kind of aliment, to which the name of 

 Indostane has been given. ]t is formed from the 

 medullary part of the trunk of a particular kind 

 of palm tree in Hindostau, and bears a strong an- 

 alogy in its component parts to those of sago, sa- 

 lep, arrow root, and tapioca ; and in addition to 

 the nutritive qualities of these substances, the iu- 

 dostane contains a mucilaginous property, pro- 

 duces a softening affect on the aninjal economy 

 hitherto unknown. It appears, according to the 

 experiments made by the principal medical men 

 in Paris, that the ludostane is highly usefid as 

 food for infants, facilitating the development of 

 their strength, and in case of need, serving as a 

 substitute for a mother's breast, an inajipreciable 

 advantage, often superseding the necessity of wet 

 nurses. The Indostane is said to be not less pre- 

 cious in cases of exhaustion, of j:ains and weak- 

 ness in the stomach, and jjulmonary affections, 

 colds, &c. — -Christian Register. 



TiJF. TOMATO. — The following recipe for the 

 preservation of the flavor of this capital vegetable, 

 is found in Dr Dekay's valuable work on Turkey. 

 The receipt is now written from memory, but it is 

 believed to be the true one. — .V. Y. ./Inter. 



" Strain the juice of the Tomato through a fine 

 cloth, and l)e careful that none of the seeds or rind 

 pass with it. Evaporate the juice in the shade 

 upon shallow plates or dishes — first, however, 

 mixing salt ad libitum with the liquid. A [laste 

 is left, which will kee|i, and preserve the true fla- 

 vor of the fruit for several years. When intended 

 to be used, a very small quantity is sufiicient, the 

 essence only being left after the evaporntion. 

 This preparation is in universal use in Turkey." 



Economy. — The great art of acquiring wealth 

 consists in saving, and in sacrificing some present 

 enjoyment for the .sake of future ease. Wasteful 

 and extravagant people snmctimrs get rich, hut 

 the e.xam])les of success of such are the mere ex- 

 ceptions to a general rule. We are not the advo- 

 cates of a mean and jiarsimonious systein of ex- 

 penditure. A rational particii)ation in thecomfiirts 

 and luxuries of life, as far as they can he pru- 

 dently indulged in without going beyond one's 

 income, is legitimate and proper, whilst a rigid 

 self-denial of ordinary indulgence from a spirit of 

 aval ice, is clearly culjiable. There is, however, 

 one species of economy which no one should ever 

 lose sight of, whether he be rich or poor, or in 

 moderate circumstances. It is that nothing should 

 be tvasted that can be applied to use. The late Ste- 

 phen Girard was eminently remarkable for his 

 attention to small matters. At his farm below the 

 citj', which he used to visit almost every day in 

 summer, not in a coach and four, but in an old 

 shabby chaise with a rustic looking horse, all his 

 arrangements were conducted with the strictest 

 regard to economy. We are told that in the fall 

 season, when he used to kill his cattle for making 

 the beef with which he provisioned his shij)S, not 

 a particle of the animals was lost. After salting 

 the meat, and selling the hides to the tanners, the 

 horns to the comb makers, and the hoofs and the 

 paunch to- the venders of cow-heels and tripe, he 

 sold the blood to the sugar refiners. Many a gen- 

 tleman farmer would have thought attention to 

 such small matters beneath his notice, just as 

 many a female liousekeeper thinks it beneath her 

 notice to see that her servants do not put more 

 wood on the fire than is necessary to produce the 

 degree of heat that is required, or throw into the 

 street meat, vegetables and bread, as is done in 

 some families almost every day, enough to feed a 

 a small family Phil. Gaz. 



Remarkable instance of presence of mind. 

 — We have he.-u-d of a remarkable instance of 

 presence of mind exhibited a few days since by 

 an intelligent boy of eight or nine years of age in 

 Pittsfield, N. H. which is worth recording. He 

 was alone on the banks of a small jiond, when he 

 unfortunately slijjped and fell in. 'J he water was 

 deep, mid he knew not how to swim — and on 

 coming to the surface he found himself at the dis- 

 tance of several feet from the shore. At that mo- 

 ment it occurred to him that it was stated in Par- 

 ley's Magazine, a work which he had read with 

 great care and delight, that if persons in such a 

 predicament would throw themselves on their 

 hack, and kick witli their feet, at the same time 

 keeiiing their hands perfectly still, thijy would be 

 able to keep their heads above water for a long 

 time. He tried the experiment, which was suc- 

 cessful beyond his hopes, for his head being to- 

 wards the bank, after kicking manfully for a few 

 moments, he was enabled to grasp a bush on the 

 borders, and gain terra firma! So much for Par- 

 ley's Magazine and presence of mind. — Boston 

 Merc. Jour. 



Selfishness — A thoroughly selfish man re- 

 sembles those insects who, instead of the social 

 senses of hearing and seeing, which connect one 

 sentient existence with another, are furnished with 

 feelers that make their own bodies the focus of all 

 sensalioD, — Miss Sedgwick. 



Silk manufactuuk in enoland,— The extent 

 of thr) silk manufacture in England, and the num. 

 her of persons dependent upon it is astonishing 

 anil almost incredible. From the minutes of cvi, 

 dei.ce taken hy committees of both Houses of 

 Parliament, on the subject of the silk trade and 

 silk manufacture, in the yi^ar 1821, it appears that 

 nearly two millions of pnumls weight of raw and 

 thrown silk are annually imjiorl.'d. The manu- 

 facture of this gives employment to 40,000 hands 

 in throwing it for the weaver, and their wa^es 

 amount to £350,000, Half a million pounds soap, 

 and a large proportion of the most costly dye stuffs 

 are consumed at a further expense of' £300 000 • 

 and £365,000 more are paid to winders to prepare 

 it. The number of looms is estimated at 40)000, 

 and the weavers, vvarperi*, mechanics, &c. emplov 

 80,000 more jjcrsons, and their wages amount to 

 .£300,000. Including infants and dependents 400,- 

 000 mouths are filled by the silk iiianullicture.-l 

 Silk Cullurist. 



A BEEF stealer CAUGHT STEALING A BEEF BY 



THE BEEF ITSELF — All auuising piece of thievery 

 took place not long since, near Logansport, N. Y, 

 Two persons undertook to steal a piece of beef 

 from a neighbor who had killed an ox and left it 

 over night iu his barn, suspended with a stick 

 between the flanks, in the usual way. Thev 

 agreed that one should mount the cross stick and 

 cut away, whilst the other kept watch. He had 

 scarcely commenced operations, when the sticks 

 slipped from under him, the ribs closed and fairly 

 locked him inside the carcase, his arms extending 

 beyond his head, and his feet projecting from the 

 neck of the animal ; his companion fled, leaving 

 the prisoner to be released from his confinement 

 by the owner of the ox, who, upon opening his 

 barn at sunrise, greeted him with a hearty " good 

 morning." 



Specifics, — It is said that a dry bean will ex- 

 tract the poison from a wound made by a rustj 

 nail. The bean must be split, and one half, the 

 flower side, applied to the wound, letting it remain 

 until it drops oft', when the poison will be extract- 

 ed. Rubbing a wart with a green bean is said to 

 be a certain cure for these ugly excrescences. The 

 Newark Messenger avers that in both instances, 

 the bean is much more potent than witchcraft, 

 which we do not doubt. 



Two hundred and fortyfoiir thousand nine hun- 

 dred and fortythree tons of Coal, have descended 

 the Schuylkill the jiresent season, carried in five 

 thousand four huiulredand fiftyfive boats. Should 

 the navigation continue open as long as usual, say 

 to the 15th December, about eleven weeks from 

 this date, the amount will exceed three hundred 

 thousand tons. 



The city of Mobile has voted to subscribe one 

 hundred thousand dollars towards making a rail 

 road from the waters of the Chatahoochie to those 

 of the Alabama ; and five hundred thousand dol- 

 lars towards making a rail road to connect the wa- 

 ters of the Tennessee and Alabama. 



Professor Green, of Philadelphia, has imported 

 a powerful magnet from London, the electric 

 sparks from which decompose water, and heat 

 platina wke red hot. 



A gentleman in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, will, 

 it is said, realize by his peach crop this year, from 

 $10,000 to $12,000. 



