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ted if brick dust, or even fine sand, be substituted 

 for whiting. 



Pruning apple trees may be advantageously 

 performed any time during winter. — Genesee 

 Farmer. ♦ 



Economy i.\ Furl. — i here is a prodigious 

 waste of coal, occasioned by the width of the 

 opening in the grates, by whicli a large portion 

 of the heat escapes up the chimney. The best 

 remedy is a register so contrived as to diminish 

 the draft after the fire is ignited. A simp!(; bar 

 of iron will answer the purpose of diminishing 

 the aperture, and any one v.ho will take the trou- 

 ble of -trying the experiment, will be astonished 

 at the aditional heat throvvn into the room by one 

 of extraordinary thickness. A bar of iron that 

 will cost twenty-five cents, will produce twenty 

 percent more heat. — Boston Traveller. 



From the Georgia Telegrapli. 



Cotton Seed Oil, — A Gentleman of Upson 

 county whose two sons have there a spinning 

 Factory of six or eight hundred spindles, is now 

 constructing in the same neigh!)orhood, under 

 water {)Ovver, a set of machinery l"or cleaning and 

 hulling Cotton Seed, and for expressing the oil, 

 which for lamps has been found at the Petersburg 

 Va. Factory, to be su|)erior in more than one res- 

 pect, to most of the Sperm oil. It burns witli a 

 clear brilliant light without odor, and is less affect- 

 ed by cold weather than the oils genei-ally used. 

 It is said to have been tested in New York as a 

 paint oil and found good, and the Cold Pressed 

 pronounced by a French gentleman to be equal 

 to Olive oil for salads, &c. 



Tiiis manufacture is quite S desideratum to our 

 Planters as well as the 'oil maker, as from each 

 bale of cotton come about thirty bushels of seed, 

 and every three bushels of seed yield at least two 

 gallons of oil. Rating the seed at twelve and a 

 half cents per bushel, etich bale will produce to 

 the grower $3, 75 more than at present. The oil 

 expressed will be twenty gall ns, worth at least 

 Slh cents or one dollar per gallon, supposing the 

 Sperm oil to cause a reduction in its price. 



C. 



To PREVENT BRASS VESSELS FROM CONTRACTING 

 VERDIGRIS AFTER BEING USED. luStCad of wip- 

 ing them dry it has been found, that by constantly 

 immersing them in water, they are kept perfectly 

 innoxious, and wi 1 remain for years, fully as clean 

 and nearly as bright as when they first came out 

 of the hands of the workmen. 



Microscopic view of Milk. — If you submit 

 milk to examination by the microscope, you will 

 observe that it consists of a nundier of globular 

 particles which float in a serous fluid. — Raspail 

 says they appear strong'y colored, and black on 

 the edges, on account of their minuteness. They 

 are not more than half the size of the globules 

 of human blood ; their diameters, therefore, will 

 be about one ten thousandth of an inch. They 

 are comjtosed of a fatty matter — butter — and a 

 coagiilable substance of the nature of albumen, 

 but v.'hich slightly differs, and, in fact, is caseum, 

 constituting the basis of cheese. These globules 

 being si)ecifical!y lighter than the liquor in which 

 they are separated, easily sejjarate by standing, 

 and form cream. We cannot help being struck 

 with the remarkable analogy which exists between 

 milk and an emulsion (as that made with almonds.) 

 Both have a wiiitish apj)earance and a sweetish 

 taste ; both, on an examination by the niicroscoj)e, 

 are found to contain an innnense number of oily 

 globuies, held in suspension by an albuminous 

 matter and sugar, and both are intended for the 

 nourishment of young living beings. — PercivaVs 

 Lectures. 



A BIG PoT. — A potter, in Austria, by the name 

 of Ignatius Carlier, finding it difficult to procure 

 employment, though not from any want of skill 

 in his art, resolved to do something which should 

 bring him into public notice. He resolved, there- 

 fore, to make a pot whi(;h should' astonish all be- 

 hohlers ; and aft(T laboring three months, he 

 produced a vessel capable of containing 4000 

 measures, or' a quantity of soup sufficient for 

 12,000 men. 'i he sides were ornamented with 

 garlands, the imperial eagle, and a representation 

 of the temptation of Adam and Eve. This stu- 

 pendous pot being exhibited, procured him the 

 requisite notoriety, and orders from all quarters 

 poured in upon him in such profusion that he is 

 now in a fair way to make his fortune. 



Important to Hop growkrs. — It has been 

 found that the substitution of iron rods in place 

 of hop-poles exerts a most favorable effect upon 

 the growth and amount of crop. The plants are 

 not troubled with mould, rust or the fly ; they 

 grow much more weighty and luxuriant and ripen 

 much quicker. This effect is supposed to be ow- 

 ing to the electric fluid attracted by the iron con- 

 ductors. 



The daily increase of population in the United 

 States is about one thousand. 



Pork. — The price of Pork will range this season 

 in the State of Ohio generally, as far as we are 

 able to learn, from $4, $4 60, to $5 per cwt. — 

 Ohio Farmer. 



