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SILK MANUAL, AND 



MoRus MuLTiCAULis. — We yesterday received 

 from the nursery of A. Brownell, Esq. of West- 

 port, a Mulberry leaf of this species, the stalk of 

 which was engrafted into the common white Mul- 

 berry last spring. Witliin the six months past it 

 has grown upwards of six feet in height, and the 

 leaf before us is tweh-^e inches in length and elev- 

 en inches in widtli. We understand that iMr 

 Brownell has about fifty thousand of the White 

 Mulberry tree now in his nursery. — JVeiv Bed- 

 ford Gaz. 



Hard Times. — High rents and prices for every- 

 thing we eat and wear, are themes of universal 

 complaint. Bacon, beef, veal, lamb, poultry, 

 eggs, butter, aud all the little etceteras of the ta- 

 ble, are double former prices. — Under such cir- 

 cumstances economy should be the word with all 

 those who have to gain their livelihood. Cut 

 down every useless expense and useless indul- 

 gence ; get up an hour sooner in the morning, and 

 go to bed an hour later at night ; work in a little 

 additional elbow grease during the day, and if 

 f-dessed with health, the poorest among us may 

 soon bid defiance not only to high prices, s( arcity 

 ol money, and prospective starvation, but in due 

 time, to debts, duns, and difficulties in the bargain. 

 — Live light and live cheap ; it is easily done. — 

 Rice and molasses is an admirable dish f3r chil- 

 dren ; salt herrings for breakfast or tea, three times 

 a week, are enviable luxuries for grown folks, 

 middling bacon and fried apples are both healthy 

 and palata le, veal shin soup well made is excel- 

 lent; and a fish stew, brewed according to rule is 

 superlative. 



Then for side dishes, what can match well boil- 

 ed or fried potatoes, pickled beets and onions 

 " smothered," not in '* cream," but in hot water 

 and drawn butter? A dozen or other little knick- 

 knacks might be named, but these will suffice for 

 the present. So much for cheap summer living; 

 now for cheap wearing. — Brush up and repair the 

 old shoes and stockings ; pull the faded waistcoat 

 and pantaloons ont of the closet and try them on 

 again ; they don't look so well as new to be sure, 

 but tliey fit loosely and pleasantly, besides they 

 an; paid for. Get last year's winter coat from the 

 garret, have the elbows patched, the missing but- 

 ton replaced, the dust brushed off, the grease spots 

 taken out, and slip it on ; then have the old hat 

 brushed and ironed up, and look in the glass at 

 yourself, reader, if you have heeded aud followed 

 our counsel and see how you like your personal 

 api)earancel The patches on the elbows arc ob- 

 jectionable ; true, they are not very slightly, but 

 whicii is the best, a patch on the elbow of your 

 coat by a tailor, or a tap on your shoulder by a 

 siierifF's officer ?—^ Petersburf.;; Constdlaiion. 



(From an English Paper.) 



On Horse Food. — People generally imagine, 

 when they hear the quality of oats mentioned, that 

 their only desirable properties consists in the 

 brightness of color, purity of scent, and freedom 

 from all appearances of having been damp or iieat- 

 ed ; but they rarely advert to the fact, that, when 

 these objects have been attained, their main value 

 yet rests in their weight ; and a material differ- 

 ence tnay be found in samples, which, to the hand 

 and eye of one who is not a good judge of the ar- 

 ticle, may ap]>ear to be of nearly the same sort, 

 though the bushel of the one kind maybe several 

 pounds lighter than the other. The following ta- 

 ble will show the quantity of meal which, in or- 

 dinary seasons, is usually extracted from certain 

 weights of grain, and on which tlie nourishment 

 to be obtained from it depends: 



Weight per bushel avoirdupois. 

 lb. 

 42 lbs. produce in meal 25 



4Q « (( (I 



38 " " « 



36 « <( (« 



34 " " " 



32 " " ' 



Thus it will be seen that the beast which is fed 

 upon oats of the latter description, (which abound 

 in our markets,) is the loser of about one-third of 

 the nutriment which he would obtain if supplied 

 with those of good quality. 



[If oats be taken at the price of sixtyfour cents 

 the bushel of thirtytwo pounds, giving seventeen 

 pounds and five ounces of meal, what jirice should 

 be given per bushel for oats weighing fortytwo 

 pounds and giving twenty five pounds two ounces 

 of meal .' The answer will almost astonish one 

 — say nearly ninetysix cents. ] 



Preserving Potatoes. — Chance has led to 

 the discovery of a method of preserving potatoes, 

 which is both simple and attended with little or no 

 expense. A house keeper hail placed in his cel- 

 lar a quantity of charcoal. Having removed it in 

 the autumn, without removing the dust that cov- 

 ered the ground, he caused a large quantity of 

 potatoes to be laid on it. Towards the spring 

 these roots were preserved, had thrown out no 

 shoots, and were found as fresh and well flavored 

 as new. 



The Northampton Courier celebrates a radish 

 twenty-three inches in length, and ten inches in 

 circumference, aud weighing live pounds. 



Subscriptions have been commenced in New 

 York for the erection of a chain bridge over the 

 Niagara river, near the Falls. 



