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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July C, 1827. 



partially if not wholly secured from frost would 

 no doubt prove useful for preserving roots in, 

 either in warm or cold weather. " Henderson of 

 Brechin," (says Lomdon) makes use of the ice 

 house for preserving ■' roots of all kinds till the 



vessels about ten days before they were wanted 

 for use, and being kept in a warm room ; for 

 warmth at this as at other periods accelerates the 

 maturity of the pear. .The same agent accelerates 

 its decay also ; and a warmer climate cannot con- 



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return of the natural crop. By the mouth of tribute to the superior success of the French gar- 

 April" he says " the ice in our ice house is found doners ; which probably a,rises only from the cir 

 to have subsided four or five feet ; and in this cumstance of their fruit being the produce of 

 empty room I deposit the vegetables to be pre- 1 standard or espalier trees." 



Carpeting of excellent quality is made near 

 Hartford : and a Portsmouth paper states that 



that the merchants could hardly believe they were 

 of home manufacture 



served. After stuffing the vacuity with straw, 

 and covering the surface with the same material, 



I nlace on it cas3-boxes, dry ware casks, baskets, , . , - • r „., 



&c and fill them with turnips, carrots, beet there are for sale m that town, specimens of car- 

 foo't , celerv, and in particular, potatoes. By the pets manufactured at the Great Falls Factory in 

 'o?d ^f the^^lace, vegetation is so much suspend- Somerswor.h, of so firm and even a texture, and 

 ^d that all these articles may be thus kept fresh! with figures .=>"d colours^ so varied and beautiful, 

 and uninjured, till they give place to another cr(Jp 

 in its natural season." 



" In Poland they preserve cucumbers, &c. by 

 salting and then immersing them in casks at the 

 bottom of a deep well, where the water, preserv- 

 ing nearly the same temperature throughout the 

 year, impedes their decay. 



Some English writers on horticulture recom- 

 mend to preserve pears by placing them in jars 

 between layers of dry moss, inserting a plug, and 

 sealing it with melted rosin. The Edinburgh En- 

 cyclopedia, art. Hort. says, " James Stewart pre- 

 serves his choice apples and pears in glazed 

 earthen jars, provided with tops or covers. In 

 the bottom of the jars, and between each layer of 

 fruit he put some pure pit sand, which has been 

 thoroughly dried on a flue. The jars are kept in 

 a dry, airy situation as cool as possible, but se- 

 cure from frost. A label on the jar indicates the 

 kind of fruit ; and when this is wanted or ought 

 to be used, it is taken from the jar and placed for 

 some time on the shelves of the fruit room. The 

 less ripe fruit is sometimes restored to the jars, 

 but with newly dried sand. In this way he pre- 

 serves Colmars and other fine French pears till 

 April; the Terling till June ; and many kinds of 

 apples till July, the skin remaining smooth and 

 plump. Others who also employ earthen jars, 

 wrap each fruit in paper, and in place of sand, use 

 bran." , 



Apples which are intended for use, according 

 to Deane's New England Farmer, should be suf- 



MILK. 



" An easy method of removing the taste of ga. 

 or of turnips, from milk, and thus preveiitin^ 

 in butter. 



" As the dairy is found of much importance 

 the agricultural interests of this country, the ft 

 lowing is offered to the public through the raei 

 ym of your miscellany. The object of the present 

 essay, is to avoid an inconvenience to which out 

 dairy is subjected, and to convert it into an ad- 

 pantage. The following plan is recommended, ai 

 a method of removing the garlicky taste from 

 milk, and producing sweet good butter, in place 

 of that which is generally considered so disagreea- 

 ble. 



"When the milk is new from the cow, pour one 

 qunrt of boiling water into every gallon of milk; ' 

 stir it through and put the whole into broad shal- 

 low dishes, so that it will not be above two inch- 

 es deep. Let these dishes be placed on an opei 



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 at! W 

 1 the silt 



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A specimen of the JVew Zealand Flax plant, 5 



feet 3 inches in length, h^^^f "^f' f,^^^^ fj^"' shelf, that the vapour may pass freely and en« 

 England Farmer office, by Mr Robert^ Wyattor^.^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^,_^ ^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ .^ ^,^.. 



iuiu.vi u...^-, -J . r ■■ tire.y away. When the milk (ins stood in thlj 



An account of this plant may be found in , J^^^ ^^^^,^^ ^ .^ ^^ .^^^ ^^^ ^^^.^ 



England Farmer, page 340 of our cur- ^,^,^^^j^^,^_ „^ ^„,y j^, „4„_ '^^ ^^^ ^e mo* 



Boston 

 the New 



rent volume. 



A writer in Loudon's Gardener's Magazine 

 states that the roots of couch grass are regularly 

 washed and sent to market, at Naples, as food for 

 horses. The writer had some of these roots sent 

 from Naples, which proved to contain more nutri- 

 tive matter than the roots of English growth. — 

 Dogs eat the leaves of this species of grass to 

 excite vomiting 



11 Deirlf 



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Salt In the state of New York $2,000,000 are 



invested in salt works, and 600,000 bushels, weigh- 

 ing 75 lbs. to the bushel, are annually made. In 

 the interior this manufacture is carried on by boil- 

 ing the water of the salt springs, and on the sea 

 coast by the process of evaporation from the sea 

 water. The duty on imported salt is 20 cents a 

 bushel, and yields a revenue of $000,000. 



JYorth American Review. — The July number of 

 I his work contains articles on the following sub- 

 jects : — Krusenstern's Voyage and Researches — 

 Greece and the Greek Frigates — Baltimore and 

 Ohio Railroad — Milton's English Prose Works — 

 fered'toVang onThe°trec as long as they are safe 1 Insurrection of Paez in Colombia— M'CuUoch's 



from frosts. 



Mr Knight says " the most successful method 

 of preserving pears and apples, which I have hith- 

 erto tried, has been placing thera in glazed earth- 

 en vessels, each containing about a gallon, and 

 surrounding each fruit with paper ; but it is proba- 

 ble that the chaff of oats, if free from moisture or 

 any offensive smell, might be used with advantage 

 instead of paper, and with much less expense or 

 trouble. These vessels being perfect cylinders, j Price 

 about a foot each in height, stand very conven- 

 iently upon each other, and thus present the 

 means of preserving a large quantity of fruit in a 

 very small rootn; and if the spaces between the 

 top of one vessel and the base of another be filled 

 with a cement composed ol two parts of the curd 

 of skimmed milk, and one of lime, by which the 

 air will be excluded, the later kinds of apples and 

 pears will be preserved with little change in their 

 appearance from October till February and March. 

 A dry and cold situation in which there i:= little 

 chant;e of temperature, is Uie best for the vessels ; 

 but I have found the merits of the pears to be 

 greatly increased by their being taken from the 



Political Economy — Spoliations of the French 

 prior to 1800 — America — Novel Writing — Mor- 

 ion's New England's Memorial — Gadsden's Ad- 

 dress to the Florida Institute — Dwiglit's Oration 

 on the American Revolution — Tillinghast's Ad 



agreeable to the taste or practice of the operator; 

 Millt from cows that have pastured on garlic, wheB" 

 maiaged in this way, will be quite sweet. ThS' 

 plan here proposed is founded on analogous ex- 

 pedence. 



' The feeding of cows on turnips communicates' 

 a dsagroeable odour and taste to the milk aad< 

 buter ; but in many parts of Britain they make« 

 ex;ellent butter from turnip-fed cows, by a pli 

 sinilar to the foregoing. The bad taste of tl 

 turnip consists in some volatile substance whicji'! 

 is evaporated by the hot water. Garlic is much' 

 of the same nature, but probably more volatile.— 

 Biscuit, baked from garlicky ilour, has no tastft^ 

 of garlic ; but soft bread or a pudding of the sam* 

 flour, retains it strongly, having both experiencej| 

 an imperfect evaporation." 



Should you think the above worth the insertiol 

 and would favour it with one, perhaps it might ba4 

 the means of giving instruction to some who mayi 'j'J'J. 

 profit. [Monthly Mag.] ^ 



Voyage to Green Bay — The steam boat Hen^ 

 Clay has lately sailed from Detroit on a trip 

 Mackinaw, Green Bay, &c. Among the passen-^ '^^ 

 gers were Gov. Cass, Generals Scott, Brady, Col}| 

 M'Kenny of the Indian department, and sovettf 

 gentlemen and ladies. 



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Great Emigration. — A petition has been 

 dress on Domestic Industry — Common Schools in I warded to London, signed by 2310 heads of fam^ 



New York Jackson's New Method nf Teaching lies, praying to be sent out to the British coloniei 



Languages — Exhibition of Pictures at the Boston 



Alheneum — Memoirs on Adams and Jefferson — 

 00 per annum. 



PLUMS, PEACHES, &C. HOW KEPT^FRESH THROUGH 

 THE TEAR. 



Beat well up together equal quantities of honey 

 and spring water ; pour it into an earthen vessel, 

 put in the fruits all freshly gathered and cover 

 thera quite close. When any of t/ie fruit is taken 

 out, wash it in cold water, and it is fit for imme- 

 diate use. [English publication. 



The water broke into the Thames Tunnel on 

 the 18th May. About KiO men were at work in 

 making the excavation when the alarm was giv- 

 en. They were all fortunate enough to make 

 their escape, although some of them wore neat 

 being drowned. Large quantities of clay, a great 

 proportion of which was in bags, were lowered 

 down into tlie river to stop the opening into thw 

 tunnel, which was at last effected. On -the 24tfi 

 the water of the tunnel, which had been filled tff 

 the level of the river, was pumped out, and the 

 brick work, although it had been so Ion? exposed 



Measures are now in operation to obtain the i to the ebb and flow of tlic tide, was found entire 

 active co-operation of the Wool Growers, and anil uninjircd. Mr. Brunei, the manager «f the 

 Manufacturers throughout the Northern and Mid- I works, thought that in a day or two the cscava- 

 die States, in an appeal to Congress for relief. j tion would be resumed. 



