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:ii oucli arc well beaten, mix tliein with tijo to- 

 u — put tlicin ill a pan and beat tliciii up ; yuti 

 C a lino oiiiek't. 



Ta Ktrp Ihern Iht Ytnr Jtuund. Take thcin lull 

 , and Hcald in liot water, to facilitate the opcrn- 

 of takinr; off the skin; when skinned, boil well 

 little iiU);ar and salt, but no water, and then 

 ^ad ill cakes abuiit an ei^'hth ut' an inch thick 

 ho sun. Tiicy will dry enough in ihree or fiiur 

 » to pack awcy in bag;), wiiich should hang in 

 y room. 



/' ir (o PUklc TonaUes. Pick them when they 

 ripe. Put them in layers in a jar, with garlicks, 

 lard seed, horse radish, spice^j, &.c. as you like, 

 ii; up the jar ; occasionally putting a little fine 

 proportionally to the quantity laid down, and 

 :h is intended to preserve the tomato. When 

 |ar is lull, pour on the tomatoes cold cider vinc- 

 (it must be pure) till all is covered, and then 

 ; up tight and set away for winter, 

 "o Makt Tomato Pnscrrci. Take them while 

 e small and green — put them in cold clarified 

 p. with an orange cut in slices to every two 

 ids of tomatoes. Simmer them over a slow 

 for two or three hours. There should be ci)ual 

 ,'ht3 of sugar and tomatoes. If very superior 

 erves are wonted, allow (wo fresh lemons to 

 3 pounds of tomatoes — pare thin the rind of the 

 ins, so as to get none of the white part ; squeeze 

 he juice, mix the parings, juice and cold water 

 .;ieiit to cover the tomatoes, and put in a few 

 h leaves and powdered ginger tied up in bags. 

 the whole gently for three fourths of an hour, 

 up the tomatoes, strain the liquor, and put 

 it a pound and a half of while sugar for each 

 id of tomatoes. Put in the tomatoes and boil 

 1 gently till the syrup appears to have entered 

 In the course of a week, turn the syrup 

 them, heat it scalding hot, and turn it on to 

 ■omatoes. Prepared in this way, they resem- 

 i^est India sweetmeats. 



iE CELEBR.\TED COW "BLOSSOM." 



le Editor of the Fiitmcr's Cabinet ; 



EAR Sir — At your request, I send you a state- 



of my Durham cow Blosso.m, her milking. 



Unfortunately, her calving so late as she has, 

 last year and this, has thrown the trial into 

 1 weather, which is against her, particularly in 

 ield of butter, as, for want of a spring house, 

 lave to keep our milk in a cellar. Vou will 

 ;ive there is a great gain over last year in the 

 •r, more than the increase of milk would war- 

 whicli 1 consider mainly attributable to the 

 being made rather earlier in the season and 

 leather cooler at the time : you may remember 

 ited last year, that with cooler weather or a 

 g house, I had no doubt there would have 



several pounds more butter. 

 LSt year, one month from calving,' Blossom 



for the week '.i-17 i -2 quarts, being over 3.> 

 .3 per day, which made l:) 1-1 lbs. well-worked 

 r. This summer, near two months after calv- 

 she gave in one week '^53 1-"J quarts, being 

 liO quarts per day, which yielded 17 1-4 lbs. 

 perior butter, which was well worked before 

 hing ; the milk, also, was never measured un- 

 ter the froth settled. 



3 satisfy myself os well as a number of my 

 ds, I had intended to try her for a week in the 

 nonlli from calving, but the intense heat and 

 ght coming on, I considered it would not be 



doing her justice to give her a trial at that liiiio : I 

 had her milk measured mi the l.'lth of July, (bein;; 

 the -Itli nidiitli from calving,) mnl tliu yield was a.i 

 tbilowa : — Morning, V2 l-'J quarts — Noun, 11 I'-i do. 



— Evening, II do 'i'otal, 35 (pmrls. Which 



quantity I have not a doubt she would arorago for 

 a week, if the trial could be nmde earlier in the 

 se-ason ; and if nothing occurs, 1 hope to provo it 

 next year, as she will calve earlier in the spring. 

 During her trials, 1 never nwikc any diU'erence in 

 her keep ; she is fed as usual, and runs in the same 

 pasture with the other cows. Wo were as unsuc- 

 cessful as usual in ntteniptiiig to get her dry last 

 winter, as she gave lli quarts per day u|>to calving. 

 She had her first calf in April, 18.'W, and her sixth 

 on the 12th of last April, (having twins twice,) and 

 has never been dry during that time. 

 Very respcctluUy, 



SAMUEL CAiN BY. 



Blossom's Yietd of Milk for One ffttk. 



1811. Morn'g. Aoon. Evtn'g. Total. 



June 2d, V^\ qts. l'> qts. 10^ qts. ;!(j qts. 



• 3d, 131- ' 12 ' II ' .3(U ' 

 ' 4th, 134 ' 12.L ' 104 ' ,3f;I ' 

 ' 5th, t3l ' 12" ' 11" ' \M:\ ' 



* 6th, 134 ' 12 ' JO^ ' St;' ' 

 ' 7th, 134 ' 22 ' 104 ' 36 ' 

 ' 8tl>, 134 ' 12 ' 10| ' 30 ' 



Total, 2.534 ' 

 Being on an average over 36 quarts per day. 

 Il'oodaide, Jug. 5, 1841. 



From the Farmer's Caliinel. 



ROTATION OF CROPS. 



The importance of a rotation of crops is indeed 

 a subject of vast moment. Do Candolle, the cele- 

 brated botanist, has discovered and verified by sat- 

 isfactory e.xperiiiient, that of the nutriment which 

 nil plants receive and digest, they exude an incon- 

 sumable or innutritivo portion by their roots, and 

 that this excreinentitious matter unfits or poisons 

 the soil for a second crop of the same kind, until it 

 is either consumed or neutralized by cultivation; 

 this very matter, however, proving nutritious to 

 other and different kinds of plants. And from 

 thence he argues that one crop of grain should not 

 be succeeded by another of the same description 



wheat after wheat, oats after oats, &c. ; nor, 

 reasoning from analogy, ought wheat to follow oiits, 

 as they are too nearly allied in their natures, and 

 are supposed to feed on the same pabulum, both 

 al.';o coveting the same description of soil — that 

 which is cool and rather heavy. The fact above 

 stated fully accounts for the failure of the clover 

 crop, if sown often on the same land. The fibrous 

 rooted plants always succeed best after those that 

 arc tap-rooted ; hence arises the incalculably pro- 

 fitable system of the turnip husbandry in England, 

 by which they are enabled to raise crops of grain 

 of the finest quality and in almost double quantity ; 

 at the same time corrying forward the improvement 

 of the soil to an almost indefinite extent, to which 

 might be added, the means of supporting double 

 the quantity of stock of all kinds, by introducing 

 the different varieties of the roots, green crops for 

 soiling, forming a link in a system by which the 

 farmer is enabled to pay in rent, tithe, and taxes, a 

 sum which in almost every other country would be 

 found absolutely insupportable. 



It is n rhnnixe ofrrnpa that we want — and by it 

 I sincerely belime tint we (•hould ho relieved from 

 one half the evils which now oHsnil us in the shape 

 of blight, smut, rust, iiiildow, ruutrot, stiMU, and a 

 dozen others, whoso very names would then bo 

 forgotten — a henllhij crop beinjr oftentimes proof 

 ugaiiiHi this host of pestilences ; and such a crop 

 goncrully springs from a well-cultivated, unexhaust- 

 ed soil, not, however, made rich by tlio immediate 

 application of. large quantities of rank inonure ; 

 lor, valuable as these may bo in forcing <in green 

 crops to be mown for hay or fodder, I am convinced 

 they are of great injury to the production of all 

 kinds of grain. J. SAUNDERS. 



HEN-HOUSES. 



To the Eiliior oflho New England Farmer : 



Sir. — Will you, or some of your currcepondcnts, 

 who have had experience and iinderstaud the sub- 

 ject, bo so good as to give the public some infor- 

 mation through your valuable paper, as to the best 

 mode of constructing and arranging hen-houses and 

 their appurtenances, so that the fowls will lay free- 

 ly, and prefer the place fitted for them to stoleu 

 nests .^ SUBSCRIBER. 



[We would be obliged to any one of our corres- 

 pondents or friends who will answer the above in- 

 quiries. — Ed.] 



POULTRY. 



When, says M. Bose, it is wished to have eggs 

 during the cold season, even in the dead of win- 

 ter, it is necessary to make the fowls roost over an 

 oven, in a stable, in a shed where many cattle are 

 ke|)t, or to erect a stove in the fowl house on pur- 

 pose. By such methods, the fiiriiiers of Auge have 

 chickens fit tor the tabic in the month of April, a 

 period when they are only beginning to be hatched 

 in the farms around Paris, although further to the 

 south. It would be desirable that staves in fowl 

 houses were more commonly known near great 

 towns, where luxury grudges no expense for the 

 convenience of having fresh eggs. It is worthy of 

 remark, that the Irish peasantry, whose poultry oc- 

 cupy at night a corner of the cabin, along with the 

 cow, pig, and the family, frequently lay very early 

 in consequence of the warmth of their night quar- 

 ters; and there can be no doubt that this is the 

 chief secret for having new laid eggs in winter, 

 paying at the same lime due attention to protect 

 the hens from wet, and to have them young, or at 

 least early in moulting. — From the Poultri/ Yard, 

 by Pder Roswell. 



CURE FOR WARTS ON COWS. 

 I had a cow that had a large bunch of warts 

 grown under her udder, as large as the back of my 

 hand, and it kept increasing. I made a strong de- 

 coction of alum and water, and washed the part two 

 or three times a day ; in a short time it was as 

 clear as any part of the udder. I likewise have 

 had cows' loats so covered with warts that it was 

 difficult to milk them ; by applying the above de- 

 coction to the teats after milking morning and night, 

 tho warts soon dispersed. — English paper. 



It should be a fixed principle, never to sufPcr the 

 soil to deteriorate; for, as it costs as much to cul- 

 tivate a soil producing only half a crop as a full 

 one, it is perfectly clear that it is the interest of 

 the cultivator to keep his land always in good heart. 



