NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



other two were in the parlor. The gentleman, like 

 Franklin, possessed a discriminating mind — was a 

 close obseiver of the habits of the young ladies — 

 watched an opportunity and whispered something 

 in the ear of the industrious one, and then left for 

 a time, but revisited the same family, and in about 

 one year the young lady of the kitchen was con- 

 veyed to Boston, the wife of the same gentleman 

 visitor, where slie now presides at an elegant man- 

 sion. The gentleman whose fortune she shares 

 she won by a judicious deportment and well-directed 

 industry. So much for an industrious young lady. 



TO PRESERVE! HAMS THROUGH SUBf- 



MER. 



Make a number of common cotton bags a little 

 larger than your hams; after the hams are well 

 smoked, place them in the bags; then get the very 

 best sweet made hay, cut it with a cutiing-box or 

 knife, with your hands press it well around the 

 ham in the bags, tie your bags with good strings, 

 put on a card of the year to show their age, and 

 hang them up in your garret, or some dry place; 

 and my word for it, you let them hang for five 

 years, they will be better tlian on the day you put 

 them up. I have kept them for seven years. This 

 method costs but little, as the bag will last for 

 years. The only loss is the hay, and that the cat- 

 tle will eat, if given to them in the winter. The 

 sweating of the hams will be taken up by the hay, 

 and it will also impart a very fine flavor to the 

 meat. — Genesee Farmer. 



COLORING GREEN TEA. 



Large portions of the tea imported under the 

 name of green, are made so by throwing into the 

 pans at the last heating of the leaves a mixture of 

 finely powdered indigo and gypsum, in proportion 

 of three of the former to four of the latter. For 

 every 100 lbs. of green tea us(;d the consumer will 

 swallow from 8 to 12 oz. of the latter. But the 

 same persons who will exclaim against the celes- 

 tials for munching rats, cats, and bow-wows, will 

 swallow indigo and gypsum, or what is much 

 worse, prussic acid or verdifrris, both deadly poi- 

 sons, and which are furnished us outside barbarians, 

 simply because our market demands it, as it did an- 

 nattoed cheese a few years since. 



Cookery. — Never buy potatoes that have been 

 waslied many days and exposed to the air. Never 

 peel them before boilinj, as a large portion of the 

 substance is thus lost; but before boiling make an 

 incision all round throufrh the peel, and another 

 cross ways; this allows the steam to escape and 

 makes the potatoes mealy; if it is not done and the 

 skin does not crack, they will be waxy. 



To Remove Grease Spots from Furniture, 

 Wood or Marble. — Make a paste with fuller's 

 earth, soft-soap, and pearlash, and spread over the 

 spot, and let it dry for twenty-four hours, and then 

 wash off the paste. 



Purple Dye. — Put on logwood chips in a cop- 

 per kettle and let it boil about fifteen minutes. — 

 Take it off and strain off the chips, and put in some 

 alum while hot to set the color; when dissolved, 

 put in your wool or cotton, and set it on the fire to 

 boil a few minutes to take the dye. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



Farmer's Guide to Scientific and Practical Ag- 

 riculture, by Henry Stephens, assisted by J. P. Nor- 

 ton, Professor of Agriculture in Yale College, New 

 Haven. Stephens is allowed to be the best writer 

 in England on practical farming, and his work, from 

 which this is a reprint, is the most approved stan- 

 dard. Prof Norton's plain and familiar articles on 

 scientific agriculture are well known throughout 

 this country. His remarks are intended to adapt 

 the work to American farming. The 17th and 18th 

 nuiTibers are just received; the former contains Prot. 

 Norton's appendix on summer, which is vecy in- 

 teresting. The last number contains 32 pages 

 more than usual, 96 instead of 61, and the remain- 

 ing five numbers will contain 96 pages each; a lib- 

 erality not usually met with in publishers, as they 

 too often fall short of their promises. We would 

 recommend this as a very valuable and cheap work, 

 embracing over 1600 pages, 200 more than was 

 promised, at only $5. Published by Leonard Scott 

 & Co., New York. Sold also by Redding & Co., 

 State Street, Boston. 



Report on the second annual exhibition of the 

 New England Society for the Improvement of Do- 

 mestic Poultry. Boston: PL L. Devereux & Co., 

 printers. This is a very neat pamphlet, embellished 

 with fine engravings of fowls and scenery. It con- 

 tains the names of exhibitors, and the fowls shown 

 by them, with remarks on several varieties of fowls, 

 a list of officers and members of the association, 

 &c. &c. 



0° The New England Farmer is published every other 

 Saturday Ity .John Ravnolds and Joel Nourse, at Cluiucy 

 Hall, Siiutii Market Street, Boston. 



Terms, $1,00 per annnni in advnnce. 



The Farmer, under the editorial charge of S. W. Cole, is 

 devoted exrhisively to Agriculture, Horticulture, and their 

 kindred Arts and Sciences, making a neat octavo volume of 

 416 panes, emiiellished with numerous engravings. It maybe 

 elegantly bounil in muslin, embossed and gilt, at 25 cts. a vol- 

 ume, if left at this otiice. 



fnr Also puhlished at the same office ei^rry Saturday, on a 

 large hmidsome folio sheet, the New England Farmer and 

 Boston Rambler, nn independent .Ifuirnal, devoted to Agri- 

 culture, Domestic, Foreign and Marine liUelligence, Congress 

 ioual and Legislative proceedings, Temperance and Religious 

 Intelligence, and the usual variety of Literary and Miscellane 

 ous matter, adapted to family reading. Letters from Home 

 and P'oreign Correspondents will appear from week to week, 

 together with a variety of contributed and selected articles of 

 a Literary, Scientific, Historical, Hiographical, Humorous and 

 Juvenile character, short Moral Tales, &c.; containing more 

 reading matter ihan any other Agricultural Family Newspaper 

 pulilished in New England. Every thing of a hurtful or even 

 doubtful tendency will lie carefully excluded from our columns. 



Terms, $i!,0() per aT;nuni in advance. At the close of the year, 

 the jiublisliers will bind the semi-monthly Farmer gratis for 

 any jierson who subscribes for both publications, paying one 

 year in advance for each. 



0= All papers will be forwarded, until an explicit order for 

 discontinuance is recei-ved; and whether taken by the subscri 

 her or not from the place where they are ordered to be sent, 

 he will he held accountalile until he orders a discontinuance, 

 and pays nj) all arrearages. 



fl3- When subscribers wish to change the direction of their 

 papers, or when they return a copy to this office, they will 

 p\v!\s{', he particular to name the Post Office, and State, to 

 which it has been sent, as well as the one to wliich they wish 

 it directed; as it often happens that two or more of our sub- 

 scribers are of the same name, and annoying mistakes have 

 occurred in consequence. 



(Jj= All letters and communications should be addressed 

 post-paid to Raynolds & Nourse, Quincy Hall, South Market 

 Street, Boston. 



