THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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TO THE LADIES. 



There is so much good sense iu the following 

 remarks (not written for publication, but merely as a 

 suggestion to the editor], that we give them as the 

 best introduction there can be for a " Ladies' Depart- 

 ment " in the present volume: 



• "I have always been an admirer of the Farmer> 

 and thought it took al)out the course for an agricul- 

 tural journal ; yet there is one thing which I notice 

 in the present volume that I hardly like, and about 

 which my sister — M'ho is no less assiduous in perusing 

 the Farmer than myself — complains a gi'cat deal, and 

 that is, the absence of the ^Ladies' Department.' 

 Although it may be notliing that concerns me, yet I 

 venture to suggest that you again devote a portion 

 Df each number of the Farmer to the interests of the 

 adies ; for verily, is it not as essential that woman 

 je instructed in all that appertains to the home, and 

 he management of a house, &.C., &$ it is that man 

 should know how to improve the products of the 

 arm and the orchard ? Surely, when I think of the 

 ru<h of the adage, that ' a woman can throw more 

 )ut of the window with a tea-spoon than a man can 

 hrow in at the door with a shovel,' and see so many 

 ffactical illustrations of its truth, I am convinced 

 hat as much depends on the skillful management of 

 he women as the men. And how shall woman be 

 kihiul, unless she be instructed ? and how shall she 

 le instructed, unless there be some portion of our 

 tgricultural journals devoted to her interests? In- 

 leed, I believe you could take no course that would 

 le more gratifying to the majority of your intelligent 

 ubscribers, than to again insert a ' Ladies' Depart- 

 nent' in the Farmer. With every wish for your 

 access, I am Truly yours, 



J. S. Woodward. 

 Hess Road, N. Y., Feb., 1854." 



' Now, ladies, the columns of this Rural Journal are 

 ipcn for your mutual instruction; and you are re- 

 pectfully in\ated to write for its pages, and you shall 

 lave the editor's best efforts to assist in rendering 

 ■our homes models of rural taste, refinement and 

 lappiness. 



Although the following note was not intended for 

 he press, we trust that the excellent lady who wrote 

 t will pardon its publication, as we believe it calcu- 

 ated to encourage agricultural reading in families : 



" Gates, Monroe Co., N. Y., Jan., 1854. 



Mr. EniTOR : — I notice in the Farmer for this 

 nonth, an inquiry for the 'earlier volumes of the 

 jenesee Farmer.' Being a constant reader of the 

 tap'T from its commencement, and ever feeling a 

 le ■p interest in its prosperity, I have filed all the vol- 

 1111 ■-. iind have them now, with the exception of a 

 i-w \ohimes my husband has presented to friends 

 iviii-- at a distance, with a view to promote the wider 

 ■iicuUition of the paper. 



If I hive any of the volumes you wish, you can 

 lave them, except the first. That I would retain as 

 I specimen of the agricultural enterprise of the U cue- 



see country in 1831. But if there are any statistics, 

 or other information in that volume, that would be 

 of interest either to yourself or the public, I will 

 gladly copy it, or you can have the loan of the vol- 

 ume if you choose. ^ 



That you may be successful iu convincing Ameri- 

 can farmers of the real dignity of their vocation, 

 and live to see Agricultural Schools and Colleges 

 crown your efforts in their behalf, is the wish of 

 Yours, respectfully, 



Theda Garritt" 



VALUABLE RECIPES. 



Thickened Milk. — Put a quart of milk over the 

 fire to boil; put a tea-cupful of wheat flour into a 

 basin ; sprinkle over it enough water to make it 

 damp; then work it between the hands until it forms 

 in small smooth rolls ; put a tea-spoonful of salt to 

 the milk, and when it is boiling hot stir in the flour ; 

 let it boil gently for ten or twelve minutes, and then 

 turn it into a tureen; add sugar and nutmeg if liked, 

 or without either. This is very light and nourishing 

 for invalids or children, except in cases of constipa- 

 tion, which boiled milk increases. 



Milk Porridge. — Make a quart of milk boiling 

 hot ; make a tea-spoonful of wheat flour a smooth 

 batter with cold milk; add a tea-spoonful of salt, and 

 stir it into the boihng milk ; continue to stir it for 

 five minutes, then put it into a basin or tureen ; 

 sweeten to taste ; flavor with nutmeg or cinnamon. 

 This is very nourishing and agreeable either for chil- 

 dren or adults. Sweetened with loaf sugar, and nut- 

 meg grated plentifully over it, it will make a most 

 excellent remedy for looseness or dysentery. Or, 

 boiled milk without the thickening, sweetened with 

 loaf sugar and flavored with grated nutmeg, has the 

 same effect. 



Buttershlk Pop. — Make a quart of buttermilk 

 boiling hot ; wet a table-spoonful of com meal or 

 wheat flour, and make it a smooth batter with water, 

 and stir into the milk, with a tea-spoonful of salt ; 

 continue to stir it for five minutes when wheat flour 

 is used, or fifteen when it is made with corn meal. 

 Sweeten to taste with sugar or syrup, and add nut- 

 meg or ground cinnamon, if liked. This is eaten 

 with bread broken into it. 



How TO Make a Blue Wash for Walls. — Take 

 a pound of lump blue vitriol, pound it in a mortar aa 

 fine as possible, and dissolve in two quarts of raia 

 water. Slake three quarts of lime, and when cold 

 pour in the blue water by degrees, and you can make 

 the wash of any tint you may desire. Stir with a 

 metal spoon, and use not a wooden, but an earthen, 

 vessel for mixing the vitriol water and lime in, aa 

 wood affects the color injuriously. To cover smoke 

 and other impurities, first apply a coat or two of com- 

 mon white wash. 



A Yellow Wash for Walls is made by taking 

 a quarter of a pound of chrome yellow, a quarter 

 of a pound of gum Senegal, and two pounds of 

 whiting. These, dissolved in pure rain water, and 

 treated as above described for blue vitriol, will form 

 uu excellent yellow wash. 



