Vol. IX. — Nn. 30. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



237 



IJaniitz, the iiilulligi-iit inventor of a new proeess 

 ofcrnsiiing ami ex|)i«s.sing tlie secil, recoiiimends 

 llie proiliR-er to enisli tlio seed ami express liis 

 own oil. There is no d< iibt bnt oil mills will 



To tin Committee appointed to view and award Pre- 

 miums on Locust Trees. 



Ge.ntlemex — .As the reg-ulations of the H. P. 

 md 11. Agricultural Society reipiirc a detailed ac- 



jouiitof the mode of cultivation, i therefore pre- 1 soon be established, at which the seed nniy be 

 lent you with the mode which I pursued. Four | sold, for this oil is too iniportant nn addition to 

 fears since I procured some seed and sowed in my | our resources to l>e lost. Cliarles A. 15arnitz of 

 fardoti at the usual time of making it— only a few ( York, Pa. will give any information that may ' be 

 f wliioh vegetited. I then supposed tlie seed I required. 



'as not good ; buthavinc: stated my failure to gen- The mass which remains after pressing out the 

 emen residing in difterent parts of the U. States, oil is useful as feed for hogs and poultry. This 

 lund that before sowing some baked the seed, plant gives out great quantities of oxygen or vital 

 ther-s steeped it in boiling water. I adopted the | air, and it has been cultivated in unwholesome 

 .tter mode in my subsequent sowings in my j places. . 



irsery, and through fear of injuring" the seed 

 the hot water, did not steep long enough 



soften the seed, and of course lost many. In 

 y first trial, without steeping, should think nine 

 nthsof the seed failed. In after trials, by par- 

 dly steeping, about one third failed ; but the pre- 

 nt year, by pouring over the seed boiling water, 

 d steeping 48 hours in a warm place, I have suc- 

 eded in saving perhaps nine tenths of the seeds. 

 Last autumn (1829.) I transplanted about 1100 

 iDtsof one, two and three years' growth, and set 

 ;r about three acres of land ; some have failed ; 

 ! size was ordinary for the age, having been hoed, 

 y occa.sionally just to subdue the weed?. But 

 )se transplanted in 1830, on about one acre, 

 /e frequently been hoed, perhaps about once each 

 rek, and the earth kept loose, and always when 



dew was on the ground. The soil was light 

 I not manured, but the plants are from one'^to 



feet each in height. They are set at a dis- 

 ee of about 4 to .5 feet each way. I have set on 



parcel of land over 1200 trees, and contemplate 

 ering several acres, say five to si.\, composed of 



and gravelly knolls. 

 All which is humbly submitted, by 

 Hampshire Gaz. D. STEBBINS. 



'uiijlower Oil. — The American Farmer reeom- 

 uls the culture of the Sunflower for the sake 

 soil, and states that the cultivation of the Sun- 

 respect from that of corn, 

 for 



To destroy Jf'eevils among Corn. — Lay fleeces of 

 svool, which have not been scoured, on the grain; 

 the oily matter attracts the insects among the wool 

 where they soon die, from what cause is not ex- 

 actly known. M. B. C. Payrandeau related to 

 the Philomathic Society of Paris, that his father 

 had made the discovery in 18 11, and had practised 

 it on a large scale since. — Bull, des Sciences. 



Butter. — The Journal des Connaissances Usutlles 

 gives an account of the means used in the canton 

 d'Isigny to procure excellent butter in Winter. 

 The cows are warmly clothed, so as to cause them 

 to calve in the autumn, as it is found that the milk 

 after this process of nature at that time, becomes 

 more abundant and richer quality ; and during 

 the severest weather in the winter, they were 

 constantly kept clothed, and fed in the open air as 

 the taste of the butter is said to be much injured 

 by confinement in the stal)le. The butter of this 

 district is superior to any other on the continent. 



er ditfi 



the soil a<lapted to the latter is proper 

 brmer. The sunflower thrives in all our va- 

 3 climates. Under proper cultivation, and 

 a meilium soil it yields from 60 to 70 bushels to 

 acre. The machinery for crushing and express- 

 will costaboiit $300. One bushel of the seerl 

 yield about 3 quarts of cold, and one of 

 iressed oil. 



The uses to which this oil is adapted are va- 

 It is equal to olive oil for table use, and 

 ior m many important respects to sperm for 

 !, while fur paints and machinery it is well 

 ted to supersede the oils now used in them, 

 burning in lamps, the sunflower ojl possesses 

 ^vantage which has been an object of deep 



Dandelion Coffee. — ' Dr Harrison, of Edinbiirg, 

 prefers dandelion coffee to that of Mecca; and 

 many persons all over the Continent prefer a 

 nuxture of succory and coffee to coffee alone. 

 Dig up the roots of dandelion, wash them well, but 

 do not scrape them, dry them, cut them into the 

 sizeof peas, and then roast thetn in an earthen 

 pot, or coftee roaster of any kind. The great 

 secret of good coffee is, to have it fresh burnt and 

 fresh ground. 



A THRIVING TOWN. 



On this point we have some statistics of our own. 

 We know a town, in .size about the third rate in 

 New England, wlieie schoolmasters receive five 

 dollais and u half a nionlb, and the clergyman is 

 disnnssed because the people are too poor to sup- 

 port him. This generation of paupers, gives an 

 ample support to two dancing schools, each of 

 which costs them, directly ami incidentally, a thou- 

 sand doll us. These thrifty people are of course 

 too poor to paint their houses, or replace a glass 

 broken in the windows, or a hinge on the doors; yet 

 they kave the ability to take several sleigh rides in 

 a winter, at the expense of two dollars each, and 

 to call three times a day at the tavern, at the ex- 

 pense of six cents a time. It may be said that 

 this is but one town, and an extreme case ; but 

 perhaps the reader may know many such towns, 

 though it is hoped that be lives in a better. 



How tnany towns in New England pay, col- 

 lectively, one thousand dollars to support a tavern, 

 that would not give fifty, to found a Lyceum. 

 Yet where would be got the most instruction and 

 rational amusement.' Young men will jiay five 

 dollars at an assembly— a sum that would, for a 

 year, pay more than their proportion to an institu- 

 tion, that would not only advance themselves in 

 knowledge, but have an increasing bearing on the 

 itiqjrovement of all the yomig in the coimnunity. 

 Has not the reader himself, honest man as he ia, 

 sometimes paid two dollars to ride on the sabbath, 

 tliough he now feels too poor to give one to a Ly- 

 ceum, for a course of intellectual pleasure and in- 

 struction. 



This principle of ours is uniform and invariable. 

 Economy never stands in the way of improve- 

 ment, which is itself the best and most lasting thrift. 

 Th«re is no saving to be made in vice and igno- 

 rance. It will save money, and character, and 

 crime, and punishment and remorse, to advance 

 the moral and intellectual culture of our nature. 

 This is the way to make us, indeed, lords of the 

 lower creation, rising in intellectual dominion and 



perfection towards the Being who ordained it 



Jour, of Education. 



Honey Locust Beer — Recipe. — Take one bushel 

 of honey locust seed and pods, when about ripe, 

 break them, put them into a barrel, and fill it with 

 boiling water; let it stand until milk warm, then 

 add a pint of good yeast. Put in the bung lightly 

 until fermentation is nearly over, then rack off, 

 as with cider ; when clear bottle it and wire the 

 corks. When kept a few months it is equal to 

 sparkling Champaigne. It can be used in two days 

 after it is made. — Western Tiller. 



The cultivation of trees. — ' Jock, when ye hae 



tilde ever since sperm oil came into use it I ""thing else to do, ye should be aye sticking in a 



tree ; it will be growing, Jock, when yere sleep- 

 ing. My father told me sae, forty years since, but 

 I ne'er found time to mind him.' — Heart of Mid 

 Lothian ; the Laird of Dumbedike's dying address 

 to his son. 



Sir Walter has added the following note to the 



o perceptible smell, hence sick persons and 

 s, to whom the smell of sperm oil in lamps is 

 fensive can use the sunflower oil with per- 

 •eedom. Its advantages in this respect have 

 fully tested in Philadelphia, where it is re- 

 nended by some eminent |)hysicians, and is in 

 ant use by their patients. It has another 

 riant advantage over sperm oil — it affoiils 

 lone tbinl more light, that is sunflower will 

 ne third longer than sperm, both while burn- 

 ffording the same quantity of light. 

 to a market for the seed and the price, at 

 nt there is none of either. At present Mr 



fflnter in Halifax. — Merchandise of all descrip- 

 tions begins to arrive, and not the leas; singular in 

 appearance are the wagon-loads of frozen pigs. 

 These ' are exposed for sale, quite bard and stiff 

 and in a fit state to keep till the spring. They 

 had an unusually uncouth appearance; for their 

 mouths were generally open, and the last services 

 seemed never to have been properly paid to the de- 

 funct. Their limbs were not arranged with decent 

 regularity and they appeared to have given up 

 the ghost in the act of squalling and at full gallop. 

 Some were placed standing at the doors in the 

 streets like rocking-horses before toy-shops, upon 

 their four legs, as if they had been alive. This 

 iiiode of keeping a pig for a winter without giving 

 him a grain of anything to eat, or being subject to 

 his noisy, unmannerly conduct— nay, to be enabled 

 to eat him piece-meal is indisputably one advantage 

 of a cold climate. But frozen meat on the other 

 hand, disappoints the epicure, being always tasteless 

 and bad.' 



new edition of his novels. ' The author has been 



flatteretl by the assurance, that this uaivee mode .4 j^„rf,,„;, Salary.-W^ find by a document 



ofrecomending arboriculture whtch was actually ,,„b,i,hed in the MotUreal Gazette fhat the "rarj 



delivered m these verv words, by a IIi"hland 'ctu^ m ■ rv 17 i "'i^eiie mat me salary 



Laird, while on his d^ath bed, to lis sonj h d °'^;^''S!,f*%V'"l ^ iT.^ '""i ^T 



uch weigiitwithaSco,tUEarl,as;;iead F^it;"""^ ""^^ '^' 

 • . . '. I rrencn government was cJOOO hvres per annum, 



to his planting a large tract of country.' 



' equal to £125 currency. 



