LAKGB AND SMALL SEED POTATOES — FATTEN' I X<} TUIiKVY 



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and before feruientation commences, that which I in- 

 tend for boiling is brought to the house, and boiled 

 ill br;is3, to the proper consiistence; taking care not 

 to burn it, as that gives the molasses a disagreeable 

 flavor, and taking otf all the scum that rises during 

 the process. The quantity to be boiled, or the num- 

 ber of barrels required to make one of molasses, \\ ill 

 depend greatly on the kind of apples used, and the 

 richness of the new liquor. Pour or four and a half 

 are generally sufiSdcnt, but when care is not used in 

 making the selection of apples, five barrels may be 

 necessary, but let it take more or less, enough must 

 be used to make the molasses, when cold, as thick as 

 the best West India. When boiled sufBciently, it 

 should be turned into vessels to cool, and from thence 

 to a new sweet bari'el, put into a cool cellar, where 

 it will keep without trouble, and be ready at all 

 times.'' 



But the making of molasses is not the only impor- 

 tant use to which sweet apples may be applied as 

 connected with cnhnary affairs. Apple butter, as it 

 is made by the Germans in Pennsylvania, is a most 

 excellent article. The 7Hodus opermidi pursued by 

 those who are most expert in the manufacture of it, 

 is the following: — 



Having selected six bushels of fine ripe fruit, and 

 divested them of the rind, quarter and carefully core 

 them. Boil down two barrels of sweet cider, to one, 

 and deposit the apples in the boiled down cider. — 

 Keep up a brisk fire under the kettles, and stir the 

 contents continually to prevent burning. The boiling 

 and stirring must continue uninterruptedly till the 

 whole mass is reduced to a pap about the consistency 

 of thick hasty-pudding. It is then allowed to cool, 

 and may afterwards be deposited in jars for future 

 use. When thoroughly made, it will be nearly as 

 solid as first rate butter, and mil keep many years; 

 indeed it improves by age. The Pennsylvauiaus 

 make it only once in seven years. It is so much 

 superior to the ordinary apple sauce, that no one who 

 has fairly tested its value will afterwards, we are con- 

 fident, willingly be without it. The flavor is superior, 

 and there is a neatness and soUdity about it greatly 

 superior to that of the ordinary apple sauce. Its 

 price in the market is also higher. — liepub. Journal. 



The total consumption of cotton by England, for 

 the vear 1853, was 3,042,000 bales. To this add 

 700,000 bales for the United States, which will make 

 the total consumption for the 3,742,000 bales, being 

 an increase of 14,283 bales over the previous year. 



The supply of 1853 wa^, stock in Great Britain 

 657.,520 bales, stock on the Continent 89,461 bales, 

 stock in the United States ports 91,176 bales. Crop 

 in the United States 3,262,882 bales. Imports from 

 Brazil 132,443 bales. Imports from the West Indies 

 9,236 bales. Imports from Egypt 105,398 bales.— 

 Imports from the East Indies 485,587 bales. Being 

 a total supply for the year 1853 of 4.733,646 bales, 

 being an increase of 534,208 bales over the previous 

 year, more than half of which increase was in the 

 crop of the United States. 



LABGE AMD SMALL SEED FOTATOES. 



By an experiment carefully cnnchu'ed at the North 

 American Phalanx, the following results were ob- 

 tained: — 



1. Large whole seed, 29 ft 13 oz., produced 174 8). 



2. Large potatoes cut in halves, 15 ib 15 oz.. pro- 

 duced 124 ft. 



3. Large potatoes cut in quarters, 7 ft., produced 

 98 ft. 



4. Medium potatoes, whole, 19 ft 3 oz., produced 

 146 ft. 



5. Medium potatoes cut in halves, 9 ft G oz., pro- 

 duced 88J ft. 



6. Medium potatoes cut in quarters, 4 ft., pro- 

 duced 67 ft. 



7. Small potatoes, whole, 9J ft., produced 117 ft. 



8. Small potatoes cut in halves, 6 ft., produced 

 81ft. 



Repetitions of the experiment have all been in 

 favor of large uncut potatoes for seed. — JY. Y. Trib. 



Fattening Turrets, &c. — Much has been pub- 

 lished of late in our agricultural journals in relation 

 to the ailmentary properties of charcoal. It has 

 been repeatedly asserted, that domestic fowls may be 

 fatted on it without any other food, and that too, in 

 a shorter time than on the most nutritive grains. I 

 have recently made an experiment, and must say the 

 result surprised me, as I iad always been rather 

 skeptical. Four turkies were confined in a pen, and 

 fed on meal, boiled potatoes and oats. Four others 

 of the same brood, were also at the same time con- 

 fined in another pen, and fed daily on the same articles, 

 but with one pint of very finely pulverized charcoal 

 mixed with their meal and potatoes. They had also 

 a plentiful supply of broken charcoal in their pen. 

 The eight were kiUed on the same day, and there 

 was a difference of one and a half pounds each in 

 favor of the fowls which had been suppUed with the 

 charcoal, they being much the fattest, and the meat 

 greatly superior in point of tenderness and iiavor. — 

 Germantuwn Telegraph. 



Without contentment there Ls no joy, of aught, 

 there is no profit, no pleasure in anything. 



AoKiruLTURAi, Statistics. — We are indebted to 

 F. R. Garden for the following interesting statistics: 

 It is, I believe, authentic (coming from one of the 

 oldest, best, and most respectable farmers in Dela- 

 ware, and one whose word can be relied on,) that the 

 fir.'^t timothy and clover seed sown in the United 

 States, was sown in Delaware on the banks of the 

 Brandywine, in the year 1790, and that in the year 

 1775, a field of some 20 acres was sown with gariic, 

 for hay and pasture, the seed being imported from 

 Germany and sold in this country for .?17 jier bushel, 

 anil that all grass hay made (at that datc,).was from 

 n natural blue or green grass, grown on the marshes, 

 or on upland meadows, which were fertilized by irri- 

 gation. Also, (to show the different value of land,) 

 a lot of marsh was bought at that eariy date, for 

 which .§150 was paid per acre, the same lot was, a 

 short time ago, sold for $40 per acre. The butchers 

 of that date would not buy a bullock that was not 

 fc-d on the marshes, so great wa'^ the prejudices for 

 urtiicial feeding. — Register ^' Examiner. 



