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DEC. 33. IBlSi' 



nOSTO.N', WEDNf:sDAY EVENING, DEC. 23. 1833. 



O" We ha- ,g received tlie Report of tlie Committee of 

 The iWnssacl^,,^^,,, Agricultural Society, containing the 

 award of V-Temiiims for Butter and Cheese ; but it came 

 1" li.md j,j^ |jj,g j-Q^ publication in the present number. 



*■ '"' be inserted in our next. 



■ .IMARKS ON COOKING FoOD FOR CaTTLE, THE ECON- 



" if OF Heat, ^c.— In our last, p. 182, under the above 

 jead, we addu('ed some facts, notices of experiments, 

 and the results of common processes in cookery, which 

 shewed that water is capable of being converted into soXU 

 Jnod for man or beast. We now propose to adduce fur- 

 ther proofs of the same position, and suggest .some hints 

 for deriving beneficial results from the prnctieal applica- 

 tion of this important principle in ihe economy of na- 

 ture. 



A writer for the American Farmer says, " I have had, 

 •since the first day of December an actual experiment 

 going on between raw corn and meal made into good 

 thick mush ; two pigs of about one hundred weight each 

 have been eating sevin pounds each of raw corn, per 24 

 hours; and two others of near the same size have had 

 ex.ictly seven pounds of meal made into good mush be- 

 tween them. These seven pounds of meal, made into 

 good mush, weigh from 28 to 33 pounds. I weighed my 

 pigs accurately at beginning, and weighed again two 

 days since, to mark tlie progress. The two eating four- 

 teen pounds of corn per day had increased seventeen 

 pounds in sixteen days; the two eating seven pounds of 

 cooked meal per day, had incre.-ised twentyfour pounds 

 in the same time." 



This gives a difference of nearly three to one in favor 

 of the cooked meal or mush. 

 , The following are the results of certain experiments 

 to ascertain the comparative advantages of preparing and 

 using by various processes, and in different forms, several 

 kinds of grain, &c. for food for hogs and cattle, &c. com- 

 municated to the Trustees of the Maryland Agricultural 

 Society. 



Indian Corn. — Five ounces of corn (avoirdupois) just 

 shelled from the ear, were put into 1 1-4 pounds of boil- 

 ing water, and boiled for ten hours. As the boiling 

 evaporated the water, the vessel was filled up with half 

 a pound of cold water as often as appeared necessary. 

 .Six pounds two ounces were used ; and when the boiling 

 was done, there were eight ounces of liquor, five of 

 which were thick and rich, drained from the corn. Thus 

 drained and brought to the state of hominy, tolerably 

 well cooked, the mess was found to weigh 15 ounces. 



This experiment was made with two views : first to 

 find what would be the increase of weight, and secondly, 

 whether the process of boiling would not produce every 

 desirable effect, without the trouble and expense of hav- 

 ing the corn ground into meal. 



Corn Meal. — Five ounces of unsifted corn meal were 

 mi.xed with one pound ten ounces of scalding water. 

 Before it had boiled long, fearing it might burn, one 

 pound ten ounces more of water were added. The meal 

 was well cooked in one hour; but the mess being thin- 

 ner than was wished, the boiling was continued for some 

 time to evaporate the water ; but the meal appeared to 

 hold the water by a powerful attraction, and parted with 

 ,it very slowly. When the process was stopped the mix 



thicker than gruei, and was in an excellent state to give 

 to a sow suckling a farrow of pigs, the mess was again 

 put into the scales, and the five ounces of meal were 

 now found to weigh oyer thirty ounces. 



The meal may be cooked with one-fifth part of the 

 fuel necessary to cook the corn. 



Lady Pras.— Five ounces of lady peas were next 

 cooked. The mess, when thoroughly done and drained, 

 weighed fifteen ounces; but they yielded no rich liquor, 

 and appeared like a very inferior food to the boiled corn. 

 jiyf —Five ounces of rye were put into one pound ten 

 ounces of boiling water, and the boiling was continued 

 for five hours, in the course of which one pound more of 

 water was added. The mess was now thoroughly done, 

 and was enveloped in a rich looking gelatinous substance, 

 of which only two ounces would drain off". This mess 

 which had every appearance of "rich, nourishing food, 

 weighed twcntythree ounces, besides the two ounces of 

 jelly. 



Rye Shorts.— Tive ounces of rye Shorts were mingled 

 with one pound ten ounces of boiling water. They 

 were boiled very gently for two and a hall hours, in the 

 course of which time fourteen ounces more of water was 

 added. It was now a thick rich gruel, and apparently in 

 a fine stale for a mess for a milch cow. In this state it 

 weighed forty ounces. 



(To lie continued.) 



Mammoth Apple Tkee. — The Romney (Va.) Intel- 

 ligencer states, says the Genesee Farmer, that there is 

 an apple tree, growing on the farm of Capt. Daniel Mc- 

 Neill, of ihat county, the dimensions of which are as fol- 

 lows : — Height, by careful and accurate measurement, 

 45 feet; width, 85 feet; circumference of the trunk, 9 

 feet, 4 inches ; about 7 feet from the root there are 11 

 branches, the average size of which is 3 feet, It) inches. 

 This remarkable tree bore, the past season, nearly two 

 hundred bushels of large sized apples. What is very 

 singular of this tree is, that it never bore any fruit until 

 after twenty years of age. It grew spontaneously where 

 it now stands, and, though foily years old, it still contin- 

 ues to grow. 



Immense Lumbkr business. — We are assured that 

 upwards of twelve millions superficial feet of lumber 

 have been carried to the Baltimore market this season, 

 from the Susquehannah river, all of which met an imme- 

 diate sale, at an advance of from 12 lo 15 per cent over 

 former prices. One float contained six acres in measure- 

 ment, as it rested, raft-stowed, on the water ; and anoth- 

 er upwards of eight acres I — Jforfolk Herald. 



Extbaordinarv Crop. — We understand that Mr 

 Christian Brackbill, of Strasbury township, in this coun- 

 ty, raised this season fortyone bushels of turnips, and 

 Iwentijjive bushels of potatoes on the 16lh part of an 

 acre of ground. — Lancaster Herald. 



NEW VARIETY OP WHEAT. 



We have received a specimen of Spring Wheat raised 

 on the Farm of the Hon. D. Wilder, Leominster, which 

 was imported some years since from Odessa. It appears 

 to be a valuable variety, weighing 62 lbs. to the bushel, 

 and makes very excellent Flour. We hail with pleasure 

 the introduction of new varieties of Wheat, fully per- 

 suaded, that by the change of seed and other improved 

 modes of husbandry, we shall avoid the insect and blast 

 which attack the old varieties in New England. 



There will, we understand, be some for sale in small 

 quantities at the Agricultural Warehouse. 



Great Fire in New York.— On the 16th inst. a 

 great conflagration took place in New York. Details of 

 this calamitous event having already been given in all 

 our newspapers we shall not repeat them, but merely 

 state that the loss, according to the lowest computation, 

 is estimated at about fifteen millions of dollars. Six 

 hundred and seventyfour tenements were destroyed. 

 The greater part occupied by large shipping and whole- 

 sale dry goods merchants. The whole space burnt over 

 is said to be fiftytwo acres. 



Explosion. — On Thursday last, about 10 o'clock, A. 

 M. three powder mills at Lowell, owned by Oliver M. 

 Whipple, Esq. were blown to atoms. Eli Wentworth 

 and John Philbrick, were killed — both have left fami- 

 lies. Those make seven mills blown up within six 

 months, owned by the same gentleman. 



Severe Cold. — Wednesday, the 16th inst. was the 

 coldest day of which we have any record. In some 

 places in I5oslon the thermometer stood at 11 dcg. below 

 ; and in the vicinity at 16 deg. below. 



A traveller was found frozen to death at West Cam- 

 bridge, and another on the Ncwburyport Turnpike. 



A young man going lo Lynn, with a party, was nearly 

 frozen to death. He was taken from the sleigh about two 

 miles from the town, carried into a neighboring house, 

 and, by judicious management, happily resuscitated. 



The engineer on the Worcester rail road, from West- 

 boro', had his ears and face badly frozen. 



One of the Providence stage drivers came near perish- 

 ing. He was nearly insensible when he arrived at Ded- 

 ham.and was obliged to abandon his scat to another. 



The Connecticut river is, with the exception of a few 



glades, entirely frozen over in this vicinity, (says the 



•jure wiia thinner than mush or hasty pudding, but rather I Hampshire Gazette,) and is passable with loaded teams. 



AvAHNcHES. — Several accidents of a somewhat se- 

 rious nature occurred on Monday by the falling of ava- 

 lanches. Mr Tliomas C. Bell was knocked down by 

 the snow from the roof of the New England Bank, and 

 was taken up senseless. He received considerable in- 

 ternal injury. A lad was buried by an avalanch? in 

 Washington street, and was taken out seriously injured. 



It has proved very dangerous to leave horses, unattend- 

 ed or untied in the public streets. There were three, 

 that frifihtened by an avalanche in Merchants' Row, 

 started at one time, full tilt, on a race, and were with 

 difficulty stopped and secured. — Trans. 



On Monday, just before six o'clock, fourspirited horses 

 attached to a large covered sleigh, belonging to one of 

 the Roxbury Omnibus Companies, started from the S. 

 E. corner of City Hall up State street, turned into Wash- 

 ington street, and proceeded south at great speed. They 

 struck several vehicles as they passed, came in contact 

 with and demolished a single sleigh just before reaching 

 Essex street, by which they were separated from the 

 body of the sleigh. They went on until they were op- 

 posite Boylston Market, where they came in contact 

 with a hackney coach just coining upon the stand. The 

 coach was somewhat injured, and most of the horses 

 were thrown down, when they were secured. Some of 

 them were much hurt. — Pat. 



CoRious Fact. A late article in Silliman's valuable 

 Journal says that in Potter county, Pennsylvania, wilh- 

 in the space of five miles, are found the head waters of 

 the Alleghany, Susquehannah and Genesee rivers, the 

 first flowhig into the Gulf of Mexico — the 2d into the 

 Chesapeake, and the 3d into Lake Ontario. 



