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THE GENESEE FARMER 



August 12, 1831, 



HUSBANDMAN'S SONG. 

 'Midst yellow crops of waving grain, 

 My God, I raise the humble strain — 

 These spicy gales, how soft they blow, 

 How sweet the murm'ring waters flow,— 

 Yonder blue skies, how bright they shine 

 How rich their tints — and now divine! 

 Earth groans beneath her ponderous load, 

 The bounty of a gracious God ! 

 What unbelief my heart betray'd, 

 When I beheld the tender blade ! 

 My throbbing bosom heav'd with fear, 

 Lest aught sbould taint the golden air — 

 But mercy kept the precious grain, 

 Nor suffered man to toil in vain — 

 Bade the soft gales breathe gently forth, 

 And curb'd the fury of the North. 

 Wake every soul — with rapture sing 

 The praises of a bounteous King — 

 For lo ! the God of Nature pours 

 In Earth's soft lay his golden showers. 

 See where the loaded boughs appear, 

 See Eshcol's vine transplanted here — 

 And Canaan's fruits luxuriant grow, 

 While streams of milk and honey flow. 

 Jesus ! the smiling scene around. 

 Owns not a spot of barren ground 

 So shall my soul, if thou be there, 

 Fruits of the finest flavor bear. 

 Sow the blest seeds of grace divine, 

 And thou, dear Sun, arise and shine, 

 Ripen the crop, new strength impart, 

 And reap a harvest in my heart. 



Recipes. — Artificial Port wine. — The 

 Russians make their port wine thus: — 

 Cider three quarts, French brandy one 

 quart, gum kino one drachm. And the 

 French restaurateurs imitate successfully 

 old hoc, by the following mixture ; Ci- 

 der three quarts, French brandy one 

 quart.alcoholized nitre either one drachm. 



POTATOE PUDDING. 



Take half a pound of butter, and half 

 a pound of powdered sugar, and stir them 

 together till very light. Have ready a 

 pound of boiled potatoes, which must be 

 quite cold. Grate the potatoes, and 

 beat four eggs till very thick. Stir the 

 fteaten eggs and the grated potatoes al- 

 ternately, into the butter and sugar, with 

 a gill of cream or rich milk. Add a ten- 

 spoonful of mixed spice, and a glass of 

 wine, brandy and rose-water, mixed. — 

 Having stirred the whole very hard, put 

 it into shells of puff paste and bake it 

 half an hour. This quantity of the mix- 

 ture is sufficient for two shells the size of 

 soup plates. 



Sweet potatoe pudding may be made 

 in the same manner. 



RHUBARB P'E. 



For one pie, take four of the small 

 bunches of green rhubarb stalks that are 

 brought to market in the spring, or six if 

 they are very small. Peel the stalks, 

 cut them into little pieces^ and stew them 

 till quite soft in a very little water. — 

 When done, mash the rhubarb with the 

 hack of a spoon, and make it very sweet 

 with sugar. Set it away to cool. Make 

 a pun" paste, and when the rhubarb is 

 quite cold put it into the pie, which may 

 either be a shell or with a lid. Bake it 

 about half an hour. 



French Cake. — Take five common- 

 aized tumblers full of sifted flour, three 

 rumblers of powdered white sugar, half a 



tumbler of butter, one tumbler of rich 

 milk or cream,and a teaspoonful of pearl- 

 ash dissolved in as much lukewarm wat- 

 er as will cover it. Mix all well together 

 in a pan. Beat three eggs till very light, 

 and then add them to the mixture. — 

 Throw in a teaspoonful of powdered cin- 

 amon or nutmeg, and beat the whole ve- 

 ry hard about ten minutes, butter a deep 

 pan put in the mixture, and bake it in a 

 moderate oven. 



Intelligence of Birds. — A gentleman a 

 few doors from us, relates the following : 

 — A son of his, in the early part of the 

 season,put up a cage in his garden, inten- 

 ded for the blue-bird. Soon after it was 

 completed, a pair of wrens paid it avis- 

 it, and being pleased with the tenement, 

 took posses -ion, and commenced build- 

 ing a nest. Before, however, the nest 

 was completed, a pair of blue-birds arri- 

 ved — laid claim to the cage, and after a 

 hard battle, succeeded in ousting the 

 wrens, and forthwith completed a nest 

 on a plan of their own. But the male 

 wren was a bird of spirit, and not dispo- 

 sed to submit tamely to the injury ; some- 

 days after, watching his opportunity 

 when his atagonist was away, he entered 

 the cage, and commenced rolling the 

 eggs out of the nest. He had thrown 

 out but one, when the blue-bird discov- 

 ered him and with loud cries made an 

 immediate attack. The wren sought 

 safety in a neighboring currant bush, and 

 by his activity in dodging about among 

 the branches and on the ground, succee- 

 ded in eluding his enraged adversary. — 

 The blue-bird gave up the chasn, and re- 

 turned to examine the condition of his 

 nest. The egg had luckily fallen on a 

 soft bed, and was not broken. After a 

 careful examination, he took it in his 

 claws and returned it safely to the nest. 

 — [Catskill Rec. 



Steam Engines. — One of our late Lon- 

 don papers says, ''that it has been ascer- 

 tained that there are in England not less 

 than 15,000 steam engines at work, some 

 of them of almost incredible power.' 

 There is one in Cornwall of a thousand 

 horse power ! Taking it for granted 

 that, on an average, these engines are 

 only of twenty-five horse power each, it 

 would be equal to 375,000 horses. — 



New Metal. — A block of plat'ma weighing 

 20 lbs. has lately been dug up in one of the 

 mines of Russia : the largest specimen before 

 existing weighs only 10 lbs. This metal is 

 now appropriated to the circulating medi- 

 um of Russia, as nearly the whole quantity 

 which the mines produce is converted into 

 money. It is heavier and more durable 

 than silver, though hardly distinguishable 

 from it in color. 



Pliny says that bleaching by means of sulphur, 

 was employed as early as the first century. A- 

 puleius, also tells a story of a gallant, who, by 

 tluurig refuge Under a wicket coop where, cloth was 

 bong to whiten by this process, came near being 

 suffocated 



CITIES. 



A late German production gives the following 

 census of 15 largest cities in the world ; it is re- 

 markable that there axe only three of these in Eu- 

 rope: — 



Jeddo, in Japarv, 



Pekin, 



London, 



Hang-tcheou, 



Calcutta, 



Madras, 



Nankin, 



Canton, 



Paris, 



Vou-tchang, 



Constantinople, 



Benares, 



Kio, 



Sou-teheou, 



HoanjMcheou. 



1,680,000 



1,500,000 



1,300,000 



1,100,000 



900,000 



817,000 



800,000 



800,000 



•717,500 



600,000 



597,000 



530,000 



5-20.000 



500,000 



500,000 



Of the hundred of the largest cities, 53 are in 

 Asia, 32 in Europe, and 10 in America and Af- 

 rica. — Rochester Daily Advertiser. 



STEAM BOAT EXPLOSIONS. 



Silliman's Journal contains some interesting 

 data respecting steam boat explosions, from which 

 we collect the following : 



On No. Explosions. Killed. Wounded- 



Hudson River, 4 28 16 



N. Y. Harbor, &c. II 41 5 



L. I. Sound, 2 4 



Waters Mid. States, 5 7 10 



" Southern do. 5 21 6 



Ohio River, 6 66 55 



Mississippi River, 14 78 36 



Buffalo, on L. Erie I 15 



48 260 130 



There does not appear, that there has been any 

 blowing up of steam boats on the Great Lakes, ex- 

 cept that at Buffalo, last year. — lb. 



ROSES, DAHLIAS, STRAWBERRIES, 

 and Quicks. 



THE proprietors of the Albany Nursery have 

 printed a classification of 140 of their finest 

 Roses, according to color, to enable purchasers to 

 select p, variety with certainty and economy, with 

 characters indicating the size of the flower and 

 habit, and the prices annexed. This may be seen 

 at the office of the Genesee Farmer. 



They have imported and propagated many var- 

 ieties of the finest double Dahlias, which may hi 

 selected by the flowers, at the Nursery, until lire 

 frosts of Autumn. 



They will have for sale from this time forward 

 plants of the Methven Strawberry, at S- 50 per 

 hundred. Forty-seven of these berries haveweigh 

 ed a pound. They are good bearers and of fine 

 flavor. Also, most of the other esteemed varieties. 

 Sec catalogue. 



They have likewise for sale, 50,000 plants of 

 the three thorned Locust, (GUditschia triacanih 

 us) two years old, and of good size to be planted 

 for hedges, at $5. per 1000. 



Orders for any articles from the Nurrery, on 

 be sent by mail, or addressed to the care of L- 

 Tucker, Rochester. BUEL& WILSON. 



Alb any Nursery, July 16' ftt 



ESSAYS ON AMERICAN SILK, 



WITH Directions to farmers for raising Silk 

 Worms— by J. D. Homerguc and Peter j9 

 Duponceau. Also, 



Phc American Gardener, 

 Dcanc's Sen-England former, and 

 I: tier's Farmer's Manual, for sale by 



IIOYT, PORTER & CO 

 Prince on thf Vine, a few copies for sale as 

 above July 23 



