50 Lard Oil. — Clover. — Starting Children in the world. Vol. VII. 



Lard Oil. 



The following account of this interesting 

 manufacture is from the Cincinnati Gazette. 



" Lard Oil. — We are glad to find that the 

 manufacture of this article is beginning to 

 attract public attention. 



" We have in our city three manufactories 

 for making this oil ; and, on inquiry, we learn 

 that they are unable to supply the demand 

 for it. R. W. Lee & Co. shipped, last week, 

 fifty barrels of it (averaging 2,000 gallons) 

 to New York ; and another firm informs us 

 that they cannot fill their Eastern orders. 



"This new manufacture is destined, we 

 think, to exert a very beneficial influence 

 upon the West. It has already enhanced the 

 price of lard, and must hereafter increase the 

 value of swine. A reference to a few proofs 

 will best illustrate these facts, and show the 

 great importance of this manufacture to our 

 city. 



" R. W. Lee & Co. use, every twenty-four 

 hours, sixteen barrels of lard at their lard 

 oil establishment. It requires portions of two 

 hogs to make a keg of lard, and portions of 

 ten hogs to make a barrel. We killed, last 

 year, about one hundred and eight thousand 

 of these animals in the city, and the calcula- 

 tion is, that about the same number are killed 

 out of it ; so that we may put down the num- 

 ber of them brought to our market, at two 

 hundred and sixteen thousand. From these 

 data, it will be seen, that one manufactory 

 uses up the lard of one hundred and sixty 

 hogs every twenty-four hours ; or one thou 

 sand one hundred and twenty a week; or four 

 thousand eight hundred a month; or fifty 

 eight thousand two hundred a year! So 

 that a few manufactories of this kind, would 

 consume portions of all the swine that the 

 farmers in our neighbourhood could raise ! 



" Sperm oil has heretofore commanded a 

 good price, and found a ready sale. In 1840, 

 according to the returns, the quantity of sperm 

 and whale oil exported was about five mil 

 lions of gallons, while the consumption at 

 home amounted to about six and a quarter 

 millions. But, from a statement in the Jour 

 nal of Commerce, we find that this trade has 

 almost f ceased, owing to the fact, that '(lie 

 hogs have run the whales fairly out of mar 

 ket.' Nor is there any reason to doubt, from 

 the quantity of swine which the West has, 

 or can raise, that lard oil can be made to take 

 the place of the sperm and whale oil, both at 

 home and abroad. If so, what a new and 

 wide field of wealth is opened to our agri- 

 culturists !" 



It is said, that all wine stains in silk or 

 cotton, can be speedily removed by the ap- 

 plication of common table salt. 



Clover. 



It has been asked, perhaps a thousand 

 times — Why will not clover succeed in Mis- 

 sissippi? It has been tried, perhaps by every 

 farmer in the state who ever had a notion of 

 stock raising ; and although in a few places 

 we have seen it succeed, yet generally it is 

 well known that no treatment it has yet re- 

 ceived has prevented its totally failing. The 

 true cause of this failure, we think, is brought 

 to light in Mr. Ruffin's report to the state 

 board of agriculture of Virginia. He there 

 says, that in that state it was almost impossi- 

 ble to raise clover, until the application of 

 lime was adopted. Even on the richest and 

 lightest natural soils and on heavily manured 

 lots and cowpens, clover was only a precari- 

 ous and short lived crop. Field culture of 

 clover, except on a few peculiar soils, so as 

 to make it valuable as in other states, as a 

 fertilizer in rotation, was altogether out of 

 the question. "But after liming or marling, 

 clover," he says, " grew much better on the 

 few places on which it only could be raised 

 at all before ; and it also became a crop as 

 sure as any other and naturalized, as it were, 

 on the before foreign and altogether unsuita- 

 ble soils." Even on very poor land, the ap- 

 plication of lime enabled the farmers to get 

 a good stand of clover ; and though on such 

 soils it would not grow very rank, yet the 

 lime enabled it to keep possession of the 

 ground, so that by the application of putres- 

 cent manures, the heaviest crops could be 

 realized. — South Western Farmer. 



Starting Children in the World. 



The following extract from the works of 

 a living writer, is replete with sound philo- 

 sophy and common sense. It is well worth 

 the attention of parents. 



" Many an unwise parent labours hard 

 and lives sparingly all his life, for the pur- 

 pose of leaving enough to give his children 

 a start in the world, as it is called. Setting 

 a young man afloat with money left him by 

 his relatives, is like tying bladders under 

 the arms of one who cannot swim; ten chan- 

 ces to one he will lose his bladders and go 

 to the bottom. Teach him to swim, and he 

 will never need the bladders. Give your child 

 a sound education, and you have done enough 

 for him. See to it, that his morals are pure, 

 his mind cultivated, and his whole nature 

 made subservient to the laws which govern 

 man, and you have given what, will be of 

 more value than the wealth of the Indies. 

 You have given him a start which no mis- 

 fortune can deprive him of. The earlier 

 you teach him to depend upon his own re- 

 sources, the better." 



