\. I. IX.— No. 43. 



AND IIOIITICULTURAL JOURNAL 



JMl 



PRESERVING EGGS, 

 t this season, cirsrs are plenty and cheap but 

 llecl that next Febrnary anil Marcli they may 

 s ilear as they have been the past season, viz. 

 gliteon to twentyfive cent.s per dozen. It 

 be irood economy therefore, to lay down egsrs 

 he seasiin of scarcity. For thi-i pnrpose, take 

 ssel of snffioiont size and till it with strong 

 water in which put fresh eggs ; let them be 



perfectly covered by keeping a piece of board 

 ed with sufficient weight upon them to keep 



an inch or two below the surface. In this 

 ner ejrss may be kept two years. — Another 

 lod is to dip them in melted bees wax, tallow 

 irnish, or a solutinn of gum Arabic, by which 

 pores of tlio shell are made tight. Either 

 lOil as niay suit the convenience of the house 



will render them suitable for long kee|iing. 

 id. 



PUMPKINS. 



'e believe this crop is more neglected than 



ght to be. Whether this is owing to the 



nt phrase of ' Broihcr Jonalhan and Piitup- 



lie,' 'used by our transatlantic hrethreu we 



not. But this i^ certain, that a given weight 



asure of Pumpkins contains more nutritious 



;r than the same quantity of turnips, and they 



ot as dirticult to keep. For feeding to milch 



in the fall, we do not know of a better arti- 



icording to tlieir cost ; fur feeding to heef cat- 



ey are excellent — and when boiled, and a 



Indian meal added to ihem, for feeding hogs 



most kinds of food. — We hope therefore 



linstead of running Tnad about raising Ruta 



our farmers will look carefully to raising 



kins, for without them the emigmnls from 



lectlcnt would make but sorrowful work 



Thanksgivins.— /6. 



\ts of Bacon. — One establishment at Cincin 

 lha<l on hand 100,000 pounds of hams and 

 tiers; another had ' barrelleil and haconei , 

 thousand hog-s during the last winter. 

 '.sapeake and Delaware Canal. — One hundred 

 ilghty vessels, recently passed through tl 

 in one week. 



Joseph A. Baron, on the 21st ult. present- 

 ■J editor of the Norfolk Va. Herald with a 

 lof green peas. 



elegant schooner called the ' Pipe r,' has 

 launcheil from the yard of Win. Lewis, Esq. 

 ttable, being the 68th vessel built under hi 

 ion. 



Samuel Dare, of Salem county, N. J. slnugh- 

 a hog, 11th ult. which weighed when alive, 

 lbs. and when dressed 954. 

 Rowell, Esq. of Madison, killed six hogs last 

 •, weighius; 427, 436, 449, 4S3, 492, and 



n all 2825 lbs. 

 :ciE. — About $55,600, gold and silver, ar- 

 in the ship Florida, from Lima, on the 14th 

 t New York. 



merchants of Portland are taking active 

 ires to have a good road built through the 



of the White mountains. 

 thing for the Grand Jury. — At a late conr' 

 llianisburg District, South Carolina, it ap- 

 i that the Grand .Tury had nothing before 

 Judge Huger remarked, ' Gentlemen, I 

 ive there is not much Whiskey drank here.' 

 i^ias right. Take away the fuel, and the fire 



goes out — druidvcmicss ami qiuirrels will die. — 

 Portsmouth Journal. 



.SVii'/< Litters. — .'V New York paper states that 

 16,000 ship letlers were received at the Post 

 Office, in that city in si.\ days. This gives some 

 idea of the immense business done there. 



The Census. — The whole population of the U. 

 States, according to the recent census, is about 

 12,821,181 souls. Of this number Ihero are up- 

 wards of 2,000,000 slaves. 



§12,000 worth ofcloverseed has been prepared 

 at one mill near Cbambersluirg, Pa. this season. 



'Decline of Boston.'' — The amount of duties 

 atthisport for the (piarter ending April 1, 1831, 

 is estimated at one million of dollars ! iieing an ex- 

 cess over the corresponding quarter of 1830 of 

 $500, 000. The duties for the [u'esent month up 

 to this day, amount to about ,§600, 000. 



In addition to the above, we are gratified to 

 state that preparations are making to build ex- 

 tensively, anil that the prospect is, that tnechanics' 

 as well as every other kind of busine.ss will be in 

 active and profitable operation. 



We learn that the Liverpool Packet Company 

 will continue their operations, and that they have 

 ordered the keels of two first rate sliijjs to be 

 laid. 



The nmnber of arrivals from foreign ports up 

 to the 20th inst. exceeded that for the same time 

 last year hyffti/six. 



IMezzotinto was invented by Prince Rupert, in the time 

 of Charles 1st, 1649. It was suggested by a fusil, which 

 had rusted in the night-dew, and gave the idea of produ- 

 cing a smooth black iinpiessioii by means of a steel roller 

 with projecling points, to cover the plate with an inbnily 

 of small holes. The rough surface thus produced, being 

 scraped away at pleasure, leaves the various gradations 

 of light. Mass. Jour. 



Etm^ sj5j(a-2»iisriD a>iv.s:ias2i2a 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY II, 1831. 



POULTRY. 



ConllnUPd from page 3.'i4. 



The Goose. — This species of birds, is divided 

 into two varieties. 



1. The ferus, Gray Lag, or Wild Goose, that 

 inhabits the fens and lakes of the northern parts 

 of America, Europe and Asia. 



2. The matisuetus, or Tame Goose, or the Gray 

 Lag in a state of domestication. 



The flesh of the goose is stimulant, hard but 

 palatable, and a favorite dish with the epicure. 

 But it is not proper food for those who lead seden- 

 tary lives, whose digestive powers are not in the 

 most eflncient state, or are troubled with eruptions 

 or diseases of the skin. The fat of the goose is 

 thought to he peculiarly penetrating and useful in 

 softening and discussing tumors, &c, and is gen- 

 erally, caiefully preserved for domestic applications. 

 The goose attains to a great age, and there are 

 well authenticated instances on record of their 

 living to the extent ^of 70 and 80 years. 



A new breed of geese, called Bremen Geese 

 has been introduced from Germany into the United 

 States, which we are told is decidedly, and consider- 

 ably superior to any heretofore known in this 

 country. They were first imported by Mr James 

 Sisson of Warren, R. I. who received a premium 

 from the Rhode Island Society for the encourage- 

 ment of Domestic Industry, for the exhibition of' 



geese of this breed. Tlii-y are said to possess the 

 liillowiiig advantages over any other animals of 

 their kind : — They grow to n greater size, maybe 

 raised with more facility, are fiittened with less 

 grain, and make more delicious fi)od. 



The last Philadelphia edition of milich's Do- 

 meslic Enci/clopedia, stales that ' There is a valua- 

 ble breed of this fowl in the southern states, from 

 a mixture of the largest Gray Goose with the Wild 

 Canadian Goose, {.'Inas Canadensis.) They are 

 much larger than any sort of tame geese, and in 

 their cry and manners resemble the Canadian 

 Goose. 



Breeding. — ' One gander' according to Loudon, 

 'is generally put to five geese ;' but Willich says 

 'three of these birds are usually allotted to a gan- 

 der; for if that number were increased the eggs 

 would prove abortive. The nest should be pre- 

 pared as soon as the female begins to carry straw 

 in her bill. The niiitdjer of eggs to each goose for 

 setting should be about twelve or thirteen. While 

 the goose is setting, some writers direct to place 

 corn and water near her. Loudon, however, ob- 

 serves that ' feeding geese upon the nest is seldom 

 required.' The gander should at this time, have 

 free access to the goose to guard and accompany 

 her. The nest should be made of straw, and so 

 constructed that the eggs will not roll out, as the 

 sitting goose, it is said, turns her eggs every day 

 during the period of incubation ; a period, accor- 

 ding to Loudon, of from 25 to 30 days. It is un- 

 necessary to take any of the goslings from the 

 mother as hatched ; but pen the goose and her 

 brood a', once on dry grass well sheltered, putting 

 them out late in the morning or not at all in severe 

 weather, and always taking them in early in the 

 evening. The first food may be similar to that 

 recommended for the duck, such as barley meal, 

 bruised oats, or fine pollard, with some cooling 

 green vegetables, as cabbage or beet leaves inter- 

 mixed. 



Rearing. — At first sotting at liberty the pastur- 

 age of the goose should be limited, otherwise, if per- 

 mitted to range over an extensive common, the 

 goslings will become tired and cramped, and 

 some of them will fall behind and be lost. As 

 the young become pretty well feathered they also 

 become too large to be brooded beneath the mo- 

 ther's wing, and as they will then sleep in groups 

 by her side they must be well su|)plied with straw 

 for beds, which they will convert into excellent 

 dung. Being able, says Mowbray, to frequen 

 the pond and range the common at large the 

 young geese will obtain their living, and few peo- 

 ple, favorably situated allow them anything more, 

 excepting the vegetable produce of the garden. 

 But it has been his constant practice always to 

 dispense a moderate quantity of any solid grain or 

 pulse at hand, to the flocks of store geese, both morn- 

 ing and evening, on their going out and their return 

 together, in the evening more especially, with 

 such greens as happen to! be at command : cab- 

 bage, iTiaiigel wurtzel leaves, lucerne, tares, and 

 occasionaly sliced carrots. By such fidl keeping 

 his geese were ever in a fleshy stale and attained 

 a large size ; the young ones were also forward 

 and valuable breeding stock. Geese managed in 

 that manner, will he speedily fattened green, that 

 is at a iriontb or six weeks old, or after the run of 

 the corn stubble. Two or three weeks after feed- 

 ing on stubble land must be suflicient to make 

 them thoroughly fat. A goose fattened entirely 

 on the stubble, is to be preforred to any other ; since 



