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THE GENESEE FARMER 



December 10. 1831 



Fortunate Discovery. — Our neighbor Mr. 

 Cuius) who owns the Distillery at Nail Creek 

 in this village, in the process of distillation 

 from corn, perceived an oil which rose upon 

 the surface of the liquor. He took pains to 

 collect it and make a trial of its properties. 

 It has been determined by repeated exper- 

 iments by various persons, that the oil an- 

 swers as well for burning as the best speruia 

 ceti oil. It is equally pure and as free from 

 any offensive smell, and it ill burn as long. 

 Further experiments are making of its use 

 in painting, and it is alledged (although a 

 fair trial has not yet been made) that it an- 

 swers all the purposes of linseed oil. Mr. 

 Curtis procures a little less than a quart from 

 a bushel of corn, and from 9 to 12 gallons 

 per day, from the quantity of om he works 

 up. This oil is worth one dollar a gallon. It 

 is also a clear profit to the distiller, as it does 

 not diminish the quantity of liquor or whis- 

 key . Utica paper. 



Brtom-Cortt Whiskey. — The efforts of 

 the friends oftempeiance appear to be met 

 at every progressive step with seeming ef- 

 forts at counteracting their benevolent in- 

 tentions; scarcely one source of iniquity 

 is exposed, and its practice abandoned, be- 

 fore another rises, Phoenix like, from its 

 ashes, and perpetuates and strengthens the 

 evil which had previovsly been abandoned. 

 The distillation of Cider Brandy has been 

 a crying evil in this region, but the scarcity 

 of apples and the force of public opinion, 

 has reduced the quantity made and the a- 

 monnt drank, until, apparently, the worst 

 and most brutalizing speices of intemper- 

 ance has subsided. But a new source of 

 obtaining stimulating liquid has just been 

 found out through the inventive genius of 

 some queer yankee, and the land will yet 

 he flooded with Brown Corn Seed Whis- 

 key; the seed of Bro m Corn this year 

 yields abundantly, and it is used as a sub- 

 stitute for oats for horses,and also for man- 

 ufacturing Whiskey; we are t >ld it can be 

 had in abundance for thirty cents per bush- 

 e , the very best, and that me bushel of 

 s ied yields ten quarts ol' pure Whiskey] — 

 Tins distillati.n has already begun, and ihe 

 cultivation of Bro m Corn may yet pn.ve 

 a curse to the soil, and a ruinous scourge 

 to those who raise it. — Northampton Cour. 



SCHOOL DISTRICT SYSTEM. 



The recommendation of the New-York 

 State Temperance Society, to the County 

 and Town Societies to organize a temper- 

 ance society in each school district in the 

 state, is a measure of vast importance, and 

 officers of societies cannot give it too much 

 attention. The plan can easily be carried 

 into operation, and in a very short time, if 

 the officers of town societies will feel its 

 importance and commence the organiza- 

 tion without delay. Let some one bo ap- 

 pointed in each town as agent to visit each 

 school district, and 1>\ seeing the instruct- 

 or of the school in the morning, and re- 

 quest him to direct the children to inform 

 their parents aid others, that a meeting is 

 to be held in the school house on that eve- 

 ning, to organize a District Temperance 

 Society ; all the inhabitants in the district 



might in this way have notice. The agent, 

 during the day might visit as many families 

 as possible to give information on the sub- 

 ject, and meet them at the appointed place 

 m the evening. By adopting this course, 

 persons undertaking an agency, might 

 form a society each evening, and every 

 district in a town would soon be under com- 

 plete organization. It will be at once per- 

 ceived, that in meeting in small districts, 

 where most if not all the inhabitants are ac- 

 quainted, there would be a harmony of feel- 

 ing, and an energy of action, not to be 

 found in societies embracing a larger 

 range. 



I hese district societies should be under 

 the direction of the town societies and re- 

 port to them, in the same manner that the 

 towns report to the counties. There are 

 nearly ten thousand school districts in this 

 state ; an organization in each would bring 

 this blessed work home to every individual 

 and effect the entire expulsion of ardent 

 spirits from our state, in a much shorter 

 period than the most san uine have antici- 

 pated. 



The plan purposed is so simple, that it 

 is doped the town societies will commence 

 the work without delay. 



Already the counties of Albany, Schen- 

 ectady, Rensselaer, Monroe, Ontario, 

 Cayuga, (and it is hoped others) are adopt- 

 in it. and in no single instance has there 

 been a failure; and should the whole state 

 gain in the same ratio, as those districts al- 

 ready heard from, we shall be enabled to 

 repon 500,000 pledged members to total 

 abstinence in a short period In most ca- 

 ses ihe district meetin -s nave been better 

 attended than town meetings. 



Until this organization can take place, 

 the cause wiil not advance. The town so- 

 cieties exercise only a limited influence , 

 it is felt in the principal village and its im- 

 mediate vicinity, but ihe great body of the 

 inhabitants living remote have not had the 

 subject placed before them. 



Reuben H. Walworth, 

 Edward C. Delavan, 

 John F. Bacon, 

 John T. Norton, 

 Henry Trowbridge, 

 Richard V. De itt, 

 Archibald Campbell, 

 Joshua A. Burke. 



Tough. — A writer i.i a St. Clairville 

 (Ohio) paper tells the following story as eve- 

 ry word true : — 



" In November, 1827, then living in Har- 

 rison county. Ohio, I killed a small hog and 

 dressed it on the face of a large red oak 

 slump. In Ihe March following, I observed 

 most of the bristles left on the stump from 

 dressing the hog, to be sticking into the wood 

 endwise — and on pulling them out, 1 found 

 to each bristle two or three roots from 1-2 to 

 S- 1 (dan inch long, having actually com- 

 menced a vegetable growth 



The writer of tin curious piece of natural 

 history must be the same of whom it is told, 

 that on a certain time when slaughtering a 

 hog in the woods, he lost Ins jac knife, which 

 dropped among the dried leaves : and in the 



following summer happening to pass the 

 same place he was surprised to see a large 

 bush covered with jarlinives, which hung de- 

 pending from the stems like fruit. 



PA TEN! ZINC HOLLO) 'WARE, S! 



MANUFACTURED by John Westfield & 

 i '(. . No. 111::. aIuii street, i" ew-York. 

 ROSSITER & KN( IX, No. 3, Buffalo street. 

 Rochester, having been appointed agents for the 

 sale of the above ware, are now receiving an addi- 

 tional supply , which they offer for sale at the man- 

 ufacturers' price. 



Tlys ware will be found not materially to exceed 

 in price Tin and Iron : yet as durable as Iron, not 

 subject to rust, giving the article conked or kepi in 

 ii no unpleasant taste, not col tabling in itself, nor 

 forming with the materials c< oked in it. am dell - 

 terious properities, as do Co] per, Brass or Lead. 



Zinc Kettles, tor cooking Rice, Homminy, and 

 all kinds Sweet Meats, will be found well adapt- 

 ed, neither discoloring, nor varying the flavor of 

 the sul st, nee cooked ; for these purposes, and to 

 avoid the corrosions of ( opper, Brass and Lead, it 

 will long be substituted for these metals. 



Zinc Pans for the 1 'airy, will be found an ob- 

 ject worthv ol attention from tin following consi- 

 derations; that Milk in Zinc Fans of the same 

 size, will produce from 20 to i.'5 per cent more 

 cream or butter, and that of superior flavor ; will 

 keep milk sweet longer by a mimlter of hours, af- 

 fording the cream more time, besides iis chvmical 

 effect, to separate from tie milk, (for this reason, 

 cream from those pans will not admit ol being 

 chorned as soon as that from other pans, in a 

 much as no cream should be churned till it is 

 soured,) and greatly outlast m\ pans in use. 



Zinc Jars and Firkins for preserving butter 

 sweet for family use, possess equallv superior ad- 

 vantage for butter, as do the pans for milk. Ex- 

 periment and results safely warrant the above 

 statement ; and the orders of wholesale and rata il- 

 ing merchants as well as those ol families and 

 large dairies daily supplying from different parte 

 of the country, arc ihe consequence ol successful 

 results in the use of this ware. 



Zinc ware is clei Qa d with Brick Dust, with 

 Soap and Sand, or with Hot Ashes. 



NOTICE. — Letters patent for manufacturing 

 these artieb s exclusively by the subscribers, hav- 

 ing been obtained, we would advise the Pi 

 gainst any encroachment of the Patent Right ;— 

 and the person who shall jive information of any 

 violation of this Patent Right, will be liberalK re 

 warded, by JOHN W ESI I 111 I & CO 



The following recommendation from thespro 

 prietor of one of the largest houses of ReJ reh 

 mint in the United States,must bi perfectly sat. 

 isfactory as respects the utility and advantage of 

 using the Zinc Hollow Ware 



To J. Westfield & Co. 



Gentlemen, — I hare for some time past , in 

 my establishment, made use of your Hollow II a i r 

 manufactured J rum Zinc, and Ihuvc no hesita- 

 tion in saying that they completely answer my ex- 

 pectations, being fatly as durable as iron or cop- 

 per, and not as easily corroded by rust, gi 

 the articles cooked in them nu unpleasant taste, 

 and being more beautiful in appearance, and 

 much mure easily cleaned than utensils manufa* 

 tared from anyuiha metal at present made use 

 of in cooking apparatus. / utith eram- 



mend them for general use, and hare no doubt 

 that whoever will give them a fair trial will fnd 

 that they fully answer his expectations. 



S I I /'///. \ HOLT. 



We have also received the following recommen- 

 dation from Dr. A. (i. Hull. 



.1. Westfield & Co. 



Gentlemen,— H ith great pleasure I can assure 

 you of my i at ire satisfaction, as to the superiority 

 of your Zinc Hollow Ware, for the purposes of 

 the Diary and Kitcfu i 



The perfect prcserrution of Milk in ?ny Diary 

 during the warmest days of the past season, in- 

 duces mc to give you rs a decided pre it rence to a- 

 ny others previously used, and recommend them 

 as a happy combination of neatness anddurabili 

 ty. Yours, if-c. A. G. HULL, U: Fulton 

 nov 23 street, yew- York. 



