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SILK MANUAL, AND 



And yet, we have in our mountains both iron 

 ore and coal, ef the best quality, and in quantities 

 sufficient to yield iron for the whole world. — Penn. 

 Tel 



A Broom Corn mania is geuing up in this re- 

 gion, and the coming spring, from apjicarances, 

 little else will be seen in meadows. Broom brush 

 is unexampled in price, selling readily at fifteen 

 cents, and ashes to put on broom corn land, sell 

 now at twentyfive cents per bushel in this village. 

 The produce of an acre of Broom corn was sold 

 the otberday in this town for $130! — ih. 



Sewing Silk is selling in Northampton at $10^ 

 per lb. It is becoming a scarce article, and al- 

 ready we feel the necessity of having our North- 

 ampton Silk Company in operation. It has been 

 ascertained by a careful computation, that not loss 

 than $'15,000 worth of silk stufts were sold in this 

 town during the year 1835. One firm sold $4000 

 worth. Only think of that! Fifteen thousand 

 dollars sent out of this single town to purchase the 

 one luxurious article of Silk ! when if our farmers 

 had had the business of silk growing in their eye 

 five years since, this comfortable amount could 

 have just as well been put in their own pockets. 

 What one item of produce is there raised in the 

 Northampton meadows which furnishes an income 

 of $15,000 ?— Courier. 



The Beef Cattle in this region are thinning out 

 fast. A number more superior animals from 

 South street, left for Brighton on Monday. The 

 Republican says, there are about eighty head 

 remaining in Northampton, three hundred in Hat- 

 field, one hundred and eighty in Deexfield, and 

 sixty in Greenfield. In Northfield, IJadiey, and 

 Amherst about one hundred. The drovers fron. 

 abroad have been through the neighboring towns, 

 but the cattle are held higher by the feeders than 

 they are willing to pay. — ih. 



Earlt Frugality. — ^lu early childhood you 

 lay the foundation of poverty or riches, in the 

 habits you give your children. Teaeh them to 

 save everything ; — not for their own use, for that 

 would make them selfish — but for some use. — 

 Teach them to share everything with their play- 

 mates ; but never allow them to destroy anything, 

 I once visited a fitmily where the most exact 

 economy was observed; yet nothing was mean or 

 uncomfortable. It is the character of true econ- 

 omy to be as comfortable with a little, as others 

 are with much. In this family, when the father 

 brought home a package, the older children would, 

 oi their own accord, put away the paper and twine 



neatly, instead of tlirowing them in the fire, oi 

 tearing them to pieces. If the little ones wanted 

 a piece of twine to spin a top there it was in 

 readiness, and when they threw it upon the floor, 

 the older children had no need to be told to put 

 it again in its place. 



Curing Hams. — A subscriber hands us the fol- 

 lowing receipt as a superior one for curing hams, 

 which has until recently been held as a secret, and 

 now for the first tune published. Take 2 oz. salt- 

 petre, and one large teaspoonful of pearlash to 16 

 lbs. of ham, add molasses in the proportion of gne 

 gallon to thef hogshead. Make the salt pickle as 

 strong as possible, dissolve all the above ingredi- 

 ents, put them in the pickle, and pour it on the 

 hams. Let them, remain in the pickle under 

 weight, for six weeks, and smoke them during tlie 

 cold weather. They will keep an indefinite period, 

 and equal in flavor to any in the world. — Huron 

 Reflector. 



To RESTORE Tainted Beef. — In the last fall 

 I procured an acqiiaintance of mine in the country 

 to put up a barrel of fat beef for my family's suse 

 during the winter. The barrel of beef was sent 

 to me agreeable to contract ; but before I had 

 used one quarter part of it I observed it tainted, 

 and so much so as to smell quite offensive. The 

 beef being' very fat and fine I was loth to throw it 

 away. I made the Ibllowing experiment : I pro- 

 cured a half bushel of charcoal, and after taking 

 out the beef and throwing away the olTensive 

 pickle, 1 repacked it in the barrel, laying the piece.s 

 of charcoal l>etween the pieces ; and making a 

 new pickle, and adding a little saltpetre, I covered 

 the beef, and in about sixty days found it as sweet 

 and good as it was when fii-st put up. 



Salt a Manure for Cotton. — x\lexander 

 Jones, M. D., recommends, in the American Fai'- 

 mer, the use of salt as a manure to improve the 

 staple of cotton. He says, if sea island cotton be 

 planted for several years in succession in the inte- 

 rior of the country, it degenerates into the short 

 staple cotton. In support of the benefit from salt, 

 it is said that cotton in the vicinity of salt springs 

 and licks is of a larger staple. 



Gold Coinage. — The select committee in the 

 House of Representatives have reported in favor 

 of coining gold pieces of the value of one, two and 

 three dollars. 



Important to the Ladies — A letter from an 

 American lady in England says, that during her 

 stay of some tnonths, she had not yet seen a lady 

 with earrings ! and this is the very centre of 

 fashion — London ! 



