PRACTICAL FARMER 



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ing the wool from head to tail and pouring such a 

 quantity as may cause some of it to run down tlie 

 sides of the sheep, observing to keep the mixture 

 incorporated, which will be effected by often 

 shaking the bottle. 



With wishes for an extensive circulation of thy 

 paper, T am thy friend. — J. C. Fuller, in the Gen- 

 esee Farmer. 



PRESERVATION OP BUTTER. 



Mr Fessenden — 



Dear Sir — Will you inform me which is the 

 best kind of salt to be used in making butter? — 

 Also how to pulverize rock salt, and oblige yours, 



A Subscriber. 



By the Editor. — There have been some differ- 

 ences in opinion expressed by agriculturists and 

 economists relative to the kind of salt, which is 

 best to be used for preserving butter. John 

 Prince, Esq. procured eight samples of different 

 sorts to be analysed by Dr Webster, Professor of 

 Chemistry of Harvard University, and the kinds 

 of salt and the results of their analysis are given 

 in the New England Farmer, vol. xi. p. 336. Mr 

 Prince draws the following conclusion from the 

 process alluded to, viz : 



" After the examination of the different salts 

 usually for sale in our market, I trust there need 

 be no longer any fear in using them, on account of 

 any bad proi)erties they may have been supposed 

 to possess; only bearing in mind that they should 

 be used by iveight, not measure. If for butter / 

 have no doubt the fine Liverpool* (or Eastport) is as 

 good as any other, provided the butter be well 

 made and thoroughly worked. 



" I have for many years had no other used, till 

 the past year I purchased the best Turk's Island I 

 could find, and had it well washed and ground 

 fine. We do not perceive the least difference in 

 the butter, having used precisely the same iveight. 



" There is no doubt for packing meat and fish 

 the coarsest salt should be used, as keeping the 

 meat separate and being longer in dissolving." 



* Some writers in the New England Farmer had expressed an 

 opiiiiun that Liverpool salt was unwholesome and unfit for use. 



As the sheep are now destitute of their fleeces the 

 lambs ought to be all caught and snuffed in this 

 way, as they will be kept poor by the ticks which 

 will now leave their mothers and take to them for 

 a warmer shelter. S. 



Stockbridge, July 11, 1835. 



[From the New England Farmer.j 

 Mr Fessenden, 



Dear Sir — I have seen several receipts re- 

 recently in your useful paper for destroying ticks 

 on sheep, but if the following simple remedy is 

 tried it will be found more efficacious, than any 

 tobacco ablutions which have been recommended 

 Catch the sheep and open the wool on the back of 

 the neck and down the shoulders and sprinkle in 

 about a teaspoonful of Scotch snuff and every tick 

 on the sheep will be dead in twentyfour hours. 



Recipe for destroying Veriuln of all kinds 

 tvliich. infest Plants, > 



Take of black soap (common soft soap) two and 

 one half pounds, flour of sulphur, two and one 

 half pounds, mushrooms of any kind two pounds, 

 water sixteen gallons ; divide the water into equal 

 parts, put half the water in a cask with the 

 soap and mushrooms, after having bruised them fi 

 little : the other half of the water is to be boiled in a 

 kettle with the sulphur enclosed in a bag and fixed 

 to the bottom, with a stone or any other weight, 

 during the ebullition of about twenty minutes. 

 The bag must be stirred about with a stick the 

 better to impregnate the water, (by augmenting 

 the ingredients the effect will be more sensible) ; 

 the water that has been thus boiled, must then be 

 poured into the cask and daily stirred with a stick, 

 until it acquires the highest degree of rankness, 

 caie being always taken to cover up the cask 

 after the water has been stirred. This composi- 

 tion is to be sprinkled or injected on the plants 

 infested, and it will at the first injection destroy the 

 greater part of the insects, but will require fre- 

 quent repetitions to destroy those that live under 

 ground, especially the ants. Two ounces of nu.x 

 vomica added to the above composition, and boil- 

 ed with the sulphur, will render the recipe still 

 more effectual, especially when ants are to be de- 

 stroyed. From experience I can say that nothing 

 I ever tried has proved so efficacious in destroy- 

 ing insects, and at the same time it makes the 

 plants grow luxuriantly. S. 



Stockbridge, July 11, 1835. 



: By the Editor. — We are much obliged by the 

 receipt of the above, and the more so on account 

 of the efficacy of the prescri])tions having been 

 tested by the experiments of the gentleman who 

 is so good as to communicate them. Further favors 

 from the same hand would be gratefully received. 



HIGH GROUND FOR MULBERRY PliAJVTA- 

 TIONS. 



Capt. A Hblcomb, of Sterling, Mass., has a fine or- 

 chard of mulberry trees 40 years old, upon which he 

 is this year feeding his silk worms, which are very 

 thriving. Capt. Holcomb's farm is situated on high 

 lands, and the white mulberry and Morus Multicaulis 

 have withstood the severity of the last winter extreme, 

 iy well, while in low grounds tliey have been cut off. — 

 .Y. E. Farmer. 



