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Fatting Sioine. — Cheap paint. — Editorial Notices. Vol. VI 



beneficial to the Eastern States, as having a 

 tendency to keep Western corn from their 

 markets, and giving employment to thou 

 sands of emigrants, as well as others, in the 

 legitimate pursuits of agriculture — a manu- 

 facture which, unlike many others, will be 

 found productive in a most remarkable de- 

 gree, of the means of renovating the soil, 

 not simply and singly, by affording manure 

 to the land, but in first affording food of the 

 most valuable quality, for almost every kind 

 of stock ; while the cultivation of the crop 

 itself, will insure the most perfect system 

 that can be introduced into the field, as 

 there is no doubt the repetition of the same 

 may be followed with impunity for any 

 length of time, the ample returns of manure 

 being sufficient for the perfect renovation of 

 the soil for ages. 



I have been favoured with a view of some 

 samples of sugar made by Mr. Webb, the 

 present season ; it is sweet, clean, and well 

 grained — the only requisites with those who 

 are acquainted with the fabrication of sugar 

 It has been objected, that the grains are not 

 large and fully developed — it is only a won 

 der that any grains at all should be made to 

 appear, from the manner in which the granu 

 lating process had been compelled to be car- 

 ried on ; Mr. Morgan, with his 10,000 gal- 

 lons of liquor at 45°, would soon be able to 

 give a better account of the matter. H. C. 

 Newcastle, Delaware, January 2nd, 1843. 



Fatting Swine. 



The food of swine is as much better for 

 being cooked as the food of man. It is more 

 palatable, more healthy, and much more nu- 

 tritive. The digestive powers of swine are 

 not as easily deranged as those of man, and 

 the former can digest food which the latter 

 cannot. Yet there is great economy in fat- 

 ting swine on cooked food. Like man, they 

 require a change of diet for health and thrift. 

 From our own experience we have come to 

 the conclusion, that there is a saving of one 

 quarter of the food — more particularly in the 

 article of corn. Some farmers have said that 

 there is a saving of one-third in soaking it for 

 horses. But instead of grinding, scald your 

 corn until it becomes soft, and salt it to your 

 own taste. If your hogs lose their appetite, 

 as they frequently do, by feeding steadily on 

 one sort of food, give them a change for a 

 few times, and they will eat greedily of the 

 old dish again. Let their trough and feed be 

 kept clean, and their lodging dry and warm, 

 so that, as Cobbett says, you would be wil- 

 ling on a pinch of a stormy night, to turn 

 into it yourself, if you could not find a better 

 place. This mode of fatting is very agree- 



able to the swine, and economical for tl 

 feeder. If every farmer in our country wi 

 adopt our directions, what, an immense a; 

 nual saving would it be to the nation. 



Exchange Paper. 



Plvm Pudding. — Beat eight eggs vei 

 light, add one pint of milk, one quart of flou 

 and three quarters of a pound of butter afti 

 it has creamed ; cut and stone your raisin 

 rub them in flour and mix them in the batt< 

 with half a nutmeg, wet your cloth, flour i 

 tie it up tight, and shake it frequently 

 prevent the plums from settling at the bo 

 torn ; put your pudding in when the wat< 

 is boiling; have a plenty of water; two hou 

 will boil it well. The sauce used is mac 

 of sugar, wine and nutmeg. — Souther 

 Planter. 



A Cheap Paint. — Take one bushel of ui 

 slacked lime and slack it with cold watei 

 when slacked, add to it 20 lbs. of Spanis 

 whiting, 17 lbs. of salt and 12 lbs. suga 

 Strain this mixture through a wire seive, ar 

 it will be fit for use after reducing with co' 

 water. This is intended for the outside 

 buildings, or where it is exposed to tli 

 weather. In order to give a good color thre 

 coats are necessary on brick, and two c 

 wood. It may be laid on with a brush sim 

 lar to whitewash. Each coat must have su 

 ficient time to dry before the next is appliei 



For painting inside walls, take as befor 

 one bushel of unslacked lime, 3 lbs. of suga 

 5 lbs. salt, and prepare as above, and appl 

 with a brush. 



I have used it on brick, and find it we 

 calculated to preserve them — it is far prefe 

 able to oil paint. I have also used it on woa 

 and assure you that it will last longer o 

 rough siding than oil paint will on plane 

 siding or boards. 



You can make any color you please, 

 you wish a straw color, use Yellow Ochr 

 instead of whiting: for lemon color Ochr 

 and Chrome Yellow ; for lead and slate colo: 

 Lampblack; for blue, Indigo; for greei 

 Chrome Green. The different kinds of pair 

 will not cost more than one-fourth as muc 

 as oil paints, including labor of putting or 

 Ontario Freeman. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



AMERICAN HERD-BOOK. 



Philadelphia, First Month, 1843. 



We have lately received the last number of the firf 

 volume of the " British American Cultivator," edite 

 by Win. Evans, and published at Toronto, in Canad; 

 We looked over this paper with much satisfaction, an 

 should anticipate from its tone and general appearand 



