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ing every reader to ascertain the cost, according to the value of the food in his 

 ovi'Q neighborhood, or on his own estate : 



9 pounds of oatmeal furuisli one pound cffieth. 



7 1-10 poands of barley-meal 



7 4-10 .. of bread 



7 4-10 .. of flour 



3 1-2 .. of peas 



3 2 JO .. ofbeaiw 



25 pounds of milk furnish one pound of flesh. 

 100 .. of turnips 

 50 .. of potatoes 

 50 .. of carrots 



4 .. of butclier's meat, free from fat or 

 bone, furnish 1 lb. of flesh 



Table showing the approximative value of various kinds of food as fuel to 

 sustain animal heat: 



4 lbs. potatoes contain 1 lb. carbonaceous fuel. ( 1 1-2 lbs. oatmeal 1 lb. carbonaceoos fueL 



10 lbs. carrots 

 1 1-2 lb.s. flour 

 11-2 .. barley-meal .. 



11 7-10 .. turnips 



MODE OF CULTIVATING CELERY. 



The trench must be made, and the bottom of it well manured with old farm- 

 yard manure, in the usual way ; a day or two after the celery is planted let a 

 man walk on each side of the plants, just measuring the length of his foot oa 

 each side ; then slack 4 lbs. of guano in 30 gallons of water, stirring it well 

 every 3 or 4 hours for 24 hours. This will be about the quantity for 20 yards 

 of celery, wiiich must be gently put on immediately around the plants. In a 

 day or two, a slight sprinkling of salt may be put on the plants and on the earth 

 about. The slight salting may be repeated every 10 or \i days. When the 

 plants are sufficiently grown to be earthed, repeat the guano as above, previously, 

 after earthing, treading the plants on each side. After this, no more guano must 

 be used, but every 12 or 14 days a slig:ht sprinkling of salt must be repeated. 

 Celery is very fond of soap-suds, and so it is of salt. Hence we find it growing 

 spontaneously along the salt-water shores of the Patuxent and of West River, at 

 hish-water mark. 



JEWISH MODE OF SLAUGHTERING CATTLE. 



This mode is so humane and considerate that for that, if nothing else, the dis- 

 graceful impediments and liabilities which prevent their full enjoyment of all 

 political rights ought to be expunged and done away with forever. A sharp 

 knife — so sharp, in fact, that the least notch in the blade would render it unlaw- 

 ful to use it for the purpose, is drawn across the throat of the beast, which, 

 causes instantaneous bleeding to death. The rabbinical laws as to the smooth- 

 ness of the blade are remarkably stringent, lest any bluntness may cause the 

 animal unnecessary pain. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



There is assuredly an opening for a farther trial of Spring Wheat than has beea 

 made in our country. It might offer a means of escaping the fly, and afford em- 

 ployment for labor and for land, that could not be conveniently put in requisitioa 

 in autumn. 



We find the following remarks at a late meeting of the Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety of England. Ought not measures to be taken by Societies and Institutes to 

 import all the highly recommended varieties of wheats, and the seeds of new 

 grasses and vegetables abroad ? Suppose they should, in general, not prove valu- 

 able, yet in a single case, ample compensation might be found. 



Of what avail is an ostentatious display of translations at Farmers' Clubs 

 about new varieties of the " crucifera:,^^ if no measures are taken to import 

 them or their seed for practical trial and use by those whose peculiar business 

 it is to do it, and who have in their hands, lying idle in " 5 per cent, slocks," 

 ample means, placed there by a generous and confiding public ? 

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