PRACTICAL FARMER. 



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MAKtJFACTURG OF CHEESES. 



Mr EniTOR :— If you think that the following method 

 of securing Cheeses from access to the skipper fly, so 

 troublefome during the manufacturing season, will be 

 of imv service to your Cheese-manufacturing subscri- 

 bers, you are at liberty to publish it in your valuable pa- 

 per. — It is simply to form a firm coating of paper on the 

 flat surfaces or ends. (I allude to those of cylindrical 

 shape.) The kind of paper I use is a species of straw 

 paper, of a smooth, yet a very firm texture. When this 

 cheese is about to be put to "the press for the last time, 

 the paper is cut to the size of the surface to be covered. 

 It is then wet or moistened, and spread smoothly upon 

 the cheese. By this means it will fold a little over the 

 edges upon the circular surface. The pressing cloth or 

 envelope is then carefully applied, and also the hoop or 

 mould. When the cheese is taken from the press, this 

 paper will be found conipletely embedded in tl c surface 

 by the texture of the cloth, which will separate from it 

 with perfect exactness. Nothing further is necessary 

 than to turn the cheese once a day, till the coaling shall 

 have acquired sufficient firmness by drying. 



Lard or butter should be applied only upon the circu- 

 lar surface, to prevent the Cheese from cracking — as 

 cheese if properly pressed, will swell or crown a little 

 upon the surface. Hence the difficulty of applying the 

 same coating to this part of the cheese likewise. Lar<l 

 should be applied to the surface upon which it is to be 

 used for a fi'.w days, until the cheese has got its 5ci, oth- 

 erwise the cheese while swelling, might crack. Cheeses 

 shduld also be turn 'd often while new and regularly, 

 otiierwise they acquire an irregular siiape. There is 

 no necessity for keeping them in a dark place, as no fly, 

 with the aid of all the light, can possibly find a crack or 

 crevice for its deposites. Respectfiilly yours, 



C. Coleman. 



February 13, 1837. 



Preserving and Pruning Muleerrv Trees. — Mr 

 Editor — Will you be so kind as to inform nle, what is 

 the best mode of preserving young Mulberry Trees that 

 have been brought from a distance at this season, until 

 the proper time for setting them out.'' 



Also, ihe besttime for pruning mulberries that have 

 been some time transplanted and shamefully neglected? 

 How a month or two months hence .' Yours, &c. 



Nkophyte. 



By the Editor. — The above would have received ear- 

 lier notice, had it not been accidentally mislaid. With 

 regard to preserving younu' mulberry trees brought from 

 a distance, and received in the winter time, we should 

 suppose that the plants may well be set out in flower 

 pots, the roots embedded in light loam, and tlie pots 

 placed in a green-house or cellar ; or perhaps they may 

 be set out in trenches in tlie bottom of a cellar, to be 

 tr«nsplanted as soon as the sap begins to rise in spring ; 

 and the ground in which it is intended tlie mulberry 

 plants to grow, can be properly prejiared. 



With regard to pruning, it is directed so to manage 

 that branch of the culture, as to remedy any imperfec- 

 tions which may exist in the form of the trees. Prun- 

 ing should be performed once in two or three years. — 

 June is the proper season for pruning, and the young 

 branches which are taken oft', will afford leaves for the 

 •worms. 



Agency in Halifax. — We take great pleasure in an- 

 nouncing to hur numerous and respected friends in the 

 province of Nova Scotia, that an arrangement has been 

 efft;cied with Mr Edw:ird Brown, Halifax, to act as 

 agent for the New England Seed Store. We have been 

 induced to make this appointment, from a knowledge^of 



the "rowin<^ interest which is felt there to obtain seeds, 

 and'every "article necessary in Agricultural operations, 

 from the"United Slates, and not depend as formerly, al- 

 together upon the mother country for supplies. Agri- 

 culture is improving in that province with a rapidity not 

 equalled by the most favored part of this continent.— 

 We hear of every indication of most prosperous success, 

 in the eff'orts of its libeial citizens, and the government 

 to arouse and encourage the people to agricultural pur- 

 suits. A late geological report, shows that the province is 

 not poor in mineralogical possessions, and the soil is 

 abundantly rich for yielding most of the staple produc- 

 tions of the earth. In the lighter and more plea.sant 

 branches of cultivation too, they aje progressing. Ex- 

 peiimental gardening is held in estimation by many en- 

 terprising gentlemen, who spare no pains to introduce 

 new plants'and flowers, for the floral garden, and new 

 vegetables and roots for the kit( hen garden. To show 

 how far they have succeeded in this, we will cite from 

 a letter written by a gentleman residing in Halifax, da- 

 ted last 12th July. He says : " Yesterday we had caul- 

 iflowers, early cabbages, and early peas ; the first in 

 tJie market, and earlier than I recollect in any previous 

 season. My experiments are succeeding beyond expec- 

 tation." Despite of cold climate, and short seasons, 

 science and industry will plant an Eden in that prov- 

 ince, and frugnlity and contentment will [lenple it. 



At Mr Brown's Store m-iy be found a general iissort- 

 ment of seeds, and our friends, who are now at considera- 

 ble expense, trouble and delay, to send to Boston, can be 

 accommodatfd there with our seeds, &c., including ma- 

 ny new varieties of flowers, and any order intended, for 

 li"'! from distant parts of the province for Trees, Shrubs, 

 Plants. Grass and Field Seeds, if directed to Mr Brown, 

 will nu'Pt with the same prompt attention, as though di- 

 rected i-nmediately to our a(idress. 



We trust that this arrangement will meet with satis- 

 faction, and result beneficialK' to all concerned. 



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Vamiabi.e Improvement.— We have been pleased in 

 the examination of a highly important improvement of 

 the Pump, invented by Mr Albert Cisbee, and manufac- 

 tured by Mr Oliver Edwards, a mechanic of the north 

 part of this city. It is a double acting suction and force 

 pump, of wonderful power; with a cylinder two inches 

 in diameter, and seven inch stroke. It is worked like 

 a common pump, and by its double action, throws a con- 

 tinual stream It has a capacity for discharging fifteen 

 o-allo7is per minute, and with a pipe attached, will force 

 water upward of seventy five feet perpendicular. Its 

 structure is very neat, we may say beautiful. The valves 

 are less liable to get out of order than in any ot.ier pump, 

 find when disordered, its construction is so simple that 

 the merest tyro in mechanics can take it to pieces. 



It can be Stied for any well, and is admirably calcu- 

 lated for factories, hotels and other large buildings.— 

 With leading liose, water can, be conveyed into every 

 room in a house, be it ever so extensive, and in case of 

 fire, in sufficient quantity to prevent many times, a ter- 

 rible conflacration. What a safeguard it would be, at- 

 tached to any building, especially in a large and com- 

 pactly built city, where fires are so frequent. No build- 

 ing ought to be considered complete without it. It is 

 also well adapted for a garden or fire engine ; none oth- 

 er with which we are acquainted combines so many 

 advantages. It is with pleasure that we chronicle this 

 invention, and call the attention of our citizens to it.— 

 We believe that the benefits accruing to the city, by its 

 general introductiort, will be very great. A destructive 

 fire often sweeps away our buildings and thousands of 

 property, win n a timcdy afid steady application of wa- 

 ter at its first out-breaking \)vou!d have saved them. 



The lump may be seen and (uither explained at the 

 Agricultural Warehouse, 51, North Market st. 



