MISCELLANEOUS. — NOTICES. 5l5 



Dirty painted wainscots may be cleaned, by wetting a sponge in 

 the liquor, then dipping it into a little tine clean sand, and after- 

 wards rubbing the wainscot therewith. 



[Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts ^ %-c. 



RECIPE FOR PICKLING BEEF, 



which from experience we can recommend. 

 Soak the beef 24 hours in fresh water ; 1-2 lb. Saltpetre ; 1 lb. 

 Brown Sugar ; 1 qt. W. 1. Molasses ; 8 galls, water; Salt enough 

 to make the brine bear an egg lightly ; Skim the brine. 



[Am. Farmer. 



For the Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal. 



REMEDY FOR RHEUMATISM, &c. 

 Mr. Editor, — T have, for many years, been in the constant 

 practice of applying a plaster of common Shoemaker's Wax, for 

 the Sciatica, or Hip Gout. Rheumatic lameness, &c., and in all 

 strains, whether old or new, I have never in one instance failed of 

 finding relief, and elFecting a cure in a much shorter time than 

 could reasonably be expected. A neighbor of mine, from Nova 

 Scotia, I found had adopted the same plan, and with equal success. 



RUMFORD. 



NOTICES. 



A NEW VARIETY OF BARN-DOOR FOWL; 



THE SINGING COCK. 



It has been our good luck, (says the Editor of the American 

 Farmer,) through the agency of naval officers, our consuls abroad, 

 and merchants and other liberal citizens at home, to have been in- 

 strumental in introducing a great variety of vegetables, grains, 

 fruits, fowls and animals, which had never before been reared in 

 America. Another is added to the list of dung-hill fowls by the 

 kind attention of our consul at Rio, W. H. D. C. Wright, Esq., 

 who has been for fourteen months discharging the duties of Charge 

 d'Atlaiis at that place, during a somewhat critical state of our re- 

 lation with that government. The fowl which has been sent us by 

 Mr. Wright, may be regarded, we suppose, rather as a curiosity^ 

 than as an useful addition to our stock of poultry. It is called in 

 Brazils, the "• Canta Galla," or singing-cock, from its crow being 

 spun out, as in the new style of singing, until you begin to fear the 

 fuie lady will spin out all the breath she has in her body, leaving 

 not enough to recover upon. Mr. Rebello, the liberal distributer 

 of the " Rebello Premiums," at our Cattle Shows, was the first to 

 mention to us tiie existence of the " Canta Galla." 



" Rio de Janeiro, July lAth, 18 28. 



" Dear Sir, — 1 could not obtain any of the musical cocks hero ; 

 }» sent to a friend at St. Paul's aad he sent onlv cocks. I send two: 



