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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



To MAKE Ec.G Pone. — Beat until light one 

 egg; add a pint of milk, half a tea-spoonfuli of 

 Bait, half a table-spoonfull of lard, and one pint of 

 corn-meal. Stir until perfectly smooth ; grease 

 well the pan, and bake three-quarters of an hour. 

 Corn bread requires much stronger heat than 

 iclical. 



This same mixture baked on a griddle gives 

 us the batter-cakes, with the addition of more 

 milk, making the mixture thin, to bake which 

 successfully, the griddle must be hot ; gi*ease it 

 and put a spoonfull in a cake. 



Effect of various Manures on Wheat. — 

 Wheat grown in a field manured with cow- 

 dung yielded in 100 parts only 12 parts of gluten; 

 whereas, 100 parts grown on laud manured with 

 human urine yielded 35 parts, arising from the 

 different quantities of ammonia contained in the 

 manures. The following Table exhibits the va- 

 rious substances contained in wheat on which 

 nitrate of soda was used, and on which nitrate 

 was not used : 



Used. Not used. 



Bran 25 



Gluten 23i 



Starch.... 49^ 



Albumen I5 



Extract, loss, and water.. 1 

 Total .100 



24 

 19 



551 



100 



Potash. — The following Table contains a 

 statement of the quantity of potash contained 

 in 10,000 parts of some of the common trees and 

 plants : 



Oak 15 Poplar 7 Wormwood. .730 



Elm 39 Thistle 53 Vetches 275 



Beech 12 Fern 62 Beans 200 



Vine 55 Cowthistle ..196 Fumitaiy 790 



Lime. — The following method of using lime 

 stands so high in our estimation that we repeat 

 it every year : 



Break the stones small before being put into 

 the kiln to be burnt, and not larger than a goo.se's 

 egg ; lay them in a hot state on the land, which 

 should be in a half wrought condition ; spread 

 out the lime shells very evenly ; the subsequent 

 operations of plowing and harrowing, not less 

 than twice performed, will cover and distribute 

 the lime, and the land will be benefited by the 

 moist heat and damp exhalations that will be 

 evolved during the dissolution. This is by far 

 the most preferable mode of using lime that is 

 yet known. [British Farmers' Almanac. 



English Government Prices for Pro- 

 visions. — The Government of Great Britain, in 

 October, 1846, contracted for the following pro- 

 visions at the annexed prices : say 18,000 tierces 

 of pork at the average price of £7 lis. 2d. per 

 tierce of 400 lbs., equal to 36,000 barrels of 200 

 lbs. — reduced to our money, say $4 80 per 

 pound sterling, is at par $18 12 per barrel of 

 200 lbs. Also for 8,000 tierces of beef^ at the 

 average price of £7 3s. 3Jd. per tierce of 400 

 lbs., equal to 16,000 barrels of 200 lbs.— equal, 

 in our money, to $17 19 per bbl. A tierce of 

 beef or pork is 400 lbs. net of meat ; a pound 

 sterling is $4 80 at the Custom-House. 



"King of Vermont" — A Merino ram owned 

 hy General Rawson Harmon, of Wheatland, 

 N. Y. Said buck is a pure descendant of the 

 Spanish Merinos imported in 1812. He was 

 bred by S. W. .Tcwett, Wcybridge. Vt., and got 

 by his buck " Fortune." He dropped in April. 

 1845 ; in December, same year, tupped over 80 

 ewes ; was wintered on hay and roots ; was 

 (190) 



washed and sheared by Mr. Harmon in June 

 last ; his fleece weighed nine pounds ! and the 

 buck over 100 pounds ; he will now weigh 130 

 pounds. General Harmon has a flock of over 

 one hundred pure Merinos. 



The Horse. — I will state a few things that 

 I have learned, and they may be of benefit to 

 your readers. A horse that is driven on hard 

 roads is liable to get stiff in the joints. In 1833 

 I had an animal which after driving 3 or 4 days, 

 got quite lame. An old Baltimore teamster told 

 me to wash the mare's legs in a tolerably salt 

 brine, which was done, accordingly, three times 

 a day for the balance of the journey. The stifl- 

 ness disappeared in a few days, and I drove the 

 mare 1,400 miles afterward, and there was no 

 more trouble on that account. What pleased me 

 most was, the mare had a very poor foot to hold 

 a shoe, when I started. It was very brittle and 

 hard. It would break out when a nail was put 

 in. But it grew together at evei-y shoeing. A 

 blacksmith in New-England remarked to me 

 that her foot had a singular appearance ; where 

 he pared it was soft and tough. I account for 

 it in this way ; salt will attract moisture from the 

 atmosphere, which keeps the foot moist all the 

 time; and salt has nearly the same effect that 

 grease has on a foot or a piece of timber. The 

 drippings from salt on a floor if continued long, 

 cannot be got off; the wood becomes moist and 

 tough, and so with a horse's foot. After wash- 

 ing the legs, turn up the hor.se's foot, clean the 

 bottom, pour the hollow full of brine and hold for 

 a few minutes to soak the bottom. The practice 

 of ra,sping the foot all over to toughen it is abom. 

 inable. [Farmer and Gardener. 



Quantities of Seed suited for a Cot- 

 tage Garden. — Allowing for loss or accident 

 in garden seeds, we believe the following quan- 

 tities for sowing a common cottage garden to 

 be nearly correct : 



One pint of peas will sow fourteen yards of 

 drill ; one pint of beans will sow twenty-two 

 yards of drill ; one ounce of onion-seed will sow 

 ten square yards; one-half ounce of leek-seed 

 will sow six square yards ; one ounce of caiTot- 

 seed will sow ten square yards ; one ounce of 

 parsnip-seed will sow twelve square yards ; one- 

 half ounce of cabbage-seed will sow three or 

 four square yards. 



Greasing Carriage-Wheels. — The best 

 composition that can be prepared to relieve car- 

 riage-wheels and machinery from frictiqji, is 

 composed of hog's lard, wheat-flour, and black 

 lead (plumbago.) The lard is to be melted 

 over a gentle fire, and the other ingredients — 

 equal weight — may be added, till the composi- 

 tion is brought to a consistency of common 

 pa,ste, without raising the heat near the boiling 

 jioint. One trial of the paste will satisfy any 

 one of its superior utility. [Exchange paper. 



|^P° Unusually large breadths of com have 

 been planted this spring, and our supply of 

 Pondrcttc fell greatly behind the demand. We 

 regret that so many should be disappointed and 

 unable to obtain it. We began the soa.son witli 

 a large stock on hand, but it was cxhau.sied to- 

 ward the clo.se of last month. We are now, how- 

 ever, prepared to meet any calls. The poudrette 

 has been heretofore considerably used, and to 

 good purpose, to put around the corn-hills just 

 previous to the first harrowing or plowing, 

 when it can be covered from the sun. 



