24 FARMERS' CREED — SULPHUE — APPLE MOLASSES AND APPLK BUTTER 



tion, thus furnishing nearly all the value as well as 

 the bulk of our foreign commerce; suggesting there- 

 by tlie irresistible conclusion that agi-iculture is the 

 great transcen Jent interest of our country, and upon 

 which all other interests depend. 



The amount of registered and enrolled tonnage is 

 4,407,010 tons. The amount of capital invested in 

 mamilactures is $600,000,000. The amount of its 

 foreign imports in 1853, was $267,798,947 ; and of 

 exports .$230,975,157. The annual amount of its 

 internal trade is $600,000,000. The annual value of 

 the products of labor (other than agricultural,) is 

 $1,500,000,000,000. The annual value of the in- 

 comes of its inhabitants is $1,000,000,000. The 

 value of its farms and live stock is $5,000,000,000. 

 Its mines of gold, copper, lead and iron are among 

 the richest in the world. The value of the gold 

 produced is $100,000,000 per annum. The surface 

 of its coal fields is 133,131 square miles. Its re- 

 ceipts from customs, lands, &c., in 1853, was $61,- 

 327,274, and its expenditures $43,543,263. Its 

 national domain consists of 2,174.188 square miles 

 of land. Its national debt is but $50,000,000. The 

 number of its banks at the present time is about 

 1,100, with a capital of $300,000,000. Within her 

 borders are 81,000 schools, 6,060 academies, 230 col- 

 leges, and 3,800 churches. Only 1 in 22 of its white 

 inhaljitants is unable to read and write, and JO of its 

 21,000,000 of white inhabitants are native born. 



FABUERS' CBEED. 



I BELIEVE in small farms and thorough cultivation. 



I believe that the soil loves to eat, as well as its 

 owner, and ought, therefore, to be manured. 



I believe in large crops, which leaves the land bet- 

 ter than they found it, making both the farmer and 

 the farm rich at once. 



I believe in going to the bottom of thmgs, and 

 therefore, in deep plowing, and enough of it, all the 

 better if with a subsoil plow. 



I believe that every farmer should own a good 

 farm. 



I believe that the best fertilizer of any soil is a 

 spirt of industry, enterprise and intelligence. With- 

 out this, lime and gypsum, bones and green manure, 

 marl and guano, will be of little use. 



I believe in good fences, good barns, good farm 

 houses, good stock, good orchards, and children 

 enough to gather the fruit. 



I believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a 

 spinning piano, a clean cupboard, a clean dairy and 

 a clear conscience. 



I disbelieve in farmers that will not improve their 

 farms, that grow poorer every year, starving cattle, 

 farmers' boys turned into clerks aud merchants, and 

 farmers' daughters unwilling to work; and in all, 

 farmers that are ashamed of their vocation, or who 

 drink whiskey till all honest men are ashamed of 

 them. 



I will also add — I believe in supporting our Coun- 

 ty and State Agricu tural Societies. 



I believe in having a well filled agricultural library. 



I believe in supporting the agricultural papers of 

 our State, paying for them, reading them, and circu- 

 lating them among my neighbors. — Ohio Cultivator. 



Tms mineral product is the key which opens the 

 door to chemical manufaotulea. From it we make 

 sulphuric acid (oil of vitrol), and without sulphuric 

 acid many of the largest factories would eeu.-e tu 

 exist. By its aid we are enabled to produce so iiiauy 

 substances, that the bare nicntion of them would fill 

 the whole paper. Bleaching, dyeing, soda-making, 

 metal-refining, electro-plating, electro-telegraphing, 

 &c., are primarly indebted to tiiis acid. Many of the 

 most valued medicines could not be made without it 

 — such as ether, calomel, &c. Sulphur being the 

 chief ingredient in gunpowaer, modern warfare could 

 not go on comfortably with it. A people that does 

 not possess lucifer-matches, stands beyond the pale of 

 civilization; yet matches cannot be made without 

 sulphur — not because matches are dipped into melted 

 brimstone before they are ' tipped' with the ]>ho9- 

 phoric composition which ignites them, but because 

 this very material could not be made without the in- 

 direct use of sulphur. In England, we consume 

 60,000 tons of sulphur annually, which is imported 

 to this country from the volcanic regions of Sicily. 

 For political reasons, the king of Naples has recently 

 prohibited the export of sulpher to any of the king- 

 doms now at war. Reckoning the vudue of sulphur 

 at £5 per ton, implies a loss of £300,000 — a pretty 

 liberal "peace oflbriiig," from Hie king of the Sicilies! 

 This lo.?s of sulphur will be very severely felt for a 

 short time in England; but eventually it will be of 

 great service, as we have as much brimstone in this 

 country as commerce requires — a fact that will soon 

 be made manifest by the demand for it; and when 

 it is seen that our resources are sufficient, the king 

 of Naples must never expect us to go to his shop 

 any more. It was thus during the last wars that we 

 prevented the French peojjle from eating Jamaica 

 sugar; so they set too and made sugar from beet 

 root, and we have lost so much trade ever since. — 

 Chambers' Journal. 



APPLE MOLASSES AND APPLE BUTTER. 



The juice of the sweet apple, it is probably well 

 known to most of our readers, makes an excellent 

 molasses. The article, when properly made, is pure, 

 possessing a vinous or rather brandied flavor, which 

 renders it greatly superior for mince, apple, or tart 

 pies, to the best West India molasses. If it is made 

 from sour apples, a small quantity of imported mo- 

 lasses may be added to modify the flavor. Beer made 

 with it, possesses a brisk and highly "vapid flavor 

 which common molasses does not impart. Four and 

 a half barrels of good cider wiU make one barrel of 

 molasses, costing in ordinary seasons, about $5,50. — 

 One who has had considerable experience in manu- 

 facturing this article, says: — 



"I make little cider; ray apples are worth more 

 fed to my hogs, than for cider: but I make a practice 

 of selecting my sweet apples, those that furnish the 

 richest, heaviest liquor, and make a cheese from them, 

 using the cider thus obtained for making apple or 

 quince preserves, boiling down for molasses, and 

 keeping two or three barrels for drink or ultimate 

 conversion into vinegar. When new from the nre^^ 



