VOL. xiri. NO. 3. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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ITEMS OP ECONOMY. 



The receipt below for making small Beer for 

 this hot weather is too good to remain as little 

 known. If you are disposed to insert it in your 

 paper, you may promote the comfort of your 

 frionds and the cause of temperance. 



For making 3 gallons of Beer or 1 pail full, — 

 Take 1 quart West India Molasses, 

 20 drops Oil Spruce, 

 15 " Oil Wiutergreen, 

 10 " Oil Sassafras, 

 Fill the pail with hot water — mix them well — let 

 it stand until it has become lilood-warni — then 

 add one pint yeast — let it remain 10 or 12 hours 

 — liottle it — and in three hours it is fit for use and 

 first rate. Yours, W. Chester. 



Thermometer at 95 in the shade, July 8. — Fre- 

 donia Censor. 



JVeaninf; Calves. — Of the patience and attention 

 requisite in teaching calves to drink, a very inad- 

 equate idea only can he formed by those who 

 have never witnessed this tedious process. When 

 the animal has fasted two or three hours, the first 

 and second finger of the right hand, being previ- 

 ously well cleaned, are |)resented to its mouth ; of 

 these it readily takes hold, sucking very eagerly. 

 In the mean time a vessel of lukewarm milk is 

 placed and supported by the left hand, under the 

 calf's mouth, and while it is sucking, the right 

 hand is gradually sunk a little way into the ujilk 

 80 that it may lap a sufficient quantity without stop- 

 ping its nostrils, wliich will necessarily compel it 

 to cease for want of air. Should, however, either 

 from accident, or from too sudden precipitation of 

 the hand into the milk, the calf let go his hold, 

 the attempt must be repeatedly renewed till it is 

 crowned with success. 



The time of weaning calves varies from one 

 fortnight till they are seven weeks old ; hut the 

 latter period is preferable on account of the weak 

 and tender state of the calves, if separated from the 

 dam before they are three weeks old. 



Seeds. A dozen seeds which are perfectly ri- 

 pened and good, are worth any quantity of those 

 that are green and defective. 



Cure for the Bolls or Grubs in Horses. If you 

 will excuse the subject, (for allhovgh graceless, it 

 is valuable not only to agriculturists but to all 

 classes, using that valuable animal the Horse,) I 

 send you a remedy I used while our coals were 

 brought to market in road wagons, which obliged 

 U3 to use a great number of horses; and I never 

 knew it fail of giving relief, in one to five minutes, 

 viz : Pour out half a gill of spirit of turpentine in- 

 to the hand, and rub it on the breast of the horse 

 while suffering ; let it be applied to the hollow or 

 pit of the stomach, just at the point where the 

 neck joins the breast, on a space six or eight in- 

 ches in diameter. The relief is certain, if the 

 grubs have not already cut through the coats of 

 the stomach. — Farmer's Register. 



Cattle Food. — We learn from our traveller, that 

 during the winter months, cattle are fed in Ohio, 

 on Indian corn, cut up with the stem and foliage, 

 before the grain has beeome hard, and placed upright 

 in moderate sized shocks ; that in this way it 

 dries without mouldiuess ; and makes one of the 

 most succulent and nutritious articles of food ; and 

 that thousands of acres are cultivated for this pur- 

 pose. — Silliman's Journal. 



Of 1,396,000 persons who have travelled by the 

 Liverpool and Manchester Rail Road, one passen- 



ger only has lieen hurt !! The nett profit of that 

 road for the last six months was $49,884. 



To keep off or drive aivay Bed-bugs. — Make n 

 strong decoction of red pejiper, when ripe, and 

 apply it with a conmion ])aint brush to the joints 

 of the bedsteads, wainscoting, «SiC. where these 

 odious insects usually resort, and it will speedily 

 kill or expel them. 



Composts. — Sir John Sinclair says, " it has been 

 found that an excellent compost can be jirepared 

 by collecting all sorts of weeds, as thistles, docks, 

 nettles, fern, &c. before they have formed seed, 

 an<l laying them up with alternate layers of rich 

 earth. A great heat is soon raised, and by turn- 

 ing the heap over, the next spring the whole will 

 be resolved into a soft pulpy mass, the etleots of 

 which upon the soil are no way inferior to dung. 

 Thus a great nuisance may be converted into a 

 valuable manure." 



To preserve Vines from bugs, &;c. — Glauber's 

 Salts, (Sulphate of Soda) an ounce dissolved in 

 about one quart of water and sprinkled on the 

 plants or vines is recommended as a preventive 

 against insects. 



Cheap .Antidote. — There is not a house in the 

 country, (says an English Magazine) that does not 

 contain a remedy for poisoning if instantly admin- 

 istered. It is nothing more than two teaspoon- 

 fuls of made mustard mixed in warm water. It 

 acts as an instantaneous emetic. Jlakingthissim- 

 ple remedy known, may be the means of saving 

 many a fellow creature from an untimely death. 



Hints to Houseu'ives. — Do not wrap knives and 

 forks in woollens. Wrap them in good strong 

 paper. Steel is injured by lying in woollens. 



Do not let coffee and tea stand in tin. — Scald 

 your wooden ware often ; and keep your tin ware 

 dry. 



Barley straw is the best for beds ; dry corn 

 busks slit into shreds are far better than straw. 



Straw beds are much better for being boxed at 

 the sides; in the same manner upholsterers pre- 

 pare ticks for feathers. 



Brass and irons should be cleaned, done up in 

 papers and put in a dry place, during the suujmer 

 season. 



If you have a large family, it is well to kccji 

 white rags separate from colored ones, and cotton 

 separate from woollen ; they bring a higher price. 

 Paper brings a cent a pound, and if you have plen- 

 ty of room it is well to save it. " A penny saved 

 is a penny got." 



Freneh Method of making Mortar for Buildings. 

 The method used by the masons in some parts ol 

 France, is to put lime in a sort of a trough raised 

 on four legs, about eighteen inches from the 

 ground, and then to [JOur in sufficient water to 

 slake the lime, adding when properly slaked, more 

 water, and stirring it until it is about the consis- 

 tence of thin milk. At one end of the trough is a 

 hole four inches square, covered with a wire grat- 

 ing, and closed with a wooden slide or shutter; 

 when the lime has been rendered liquid as above, 

 the shutter or slide is withdrawn, and the fluid 

 runs out through the wire grating into a reservoir 

 formed on the ground by the well sifted sand or 

 drift, with which sand or drift the fluid lime is 

 subsequently mixed to make the mortar. Is not 

 this a cleaner way than our clumsy one of sifting 

 the lime in the streets or roads through a coarse 

 sieve, covering with a destructive white powder 

 every thing near, and putting out the eyes of the 



passer by ? It also makes a better mortar. — Lon. 

 Mec. Mag. 



Hints and Receipts (from the A'urthcrn Farmer). 

 If a wound bleeds very fast, and there is no phy- 

 sician at hand, cover it with the scrapings of sole 

 leather scraped like coarse lint. This stops blood 

 very soon. Always have vinegar, camphor, iiarls- 

 horn, or something of that kind in readiness, as 

 the sudden stoppage of blood almost always makes 

 a person faint. 



Bulm-of-Gilead buds bottled up in N. E. rum, 

 makes the best cure in the world for fresh cuts 

 and wounds. Every family should have a bottle 

 of it. The buds should be gathered in a peculiar 

 state ; just when they are well swelled, ready to 

 burst into leaves, and well covered with gum. 

 They last but two or three days in this state. 



Plantain and house-leek, boiled in cream, and 

 strained before it is put away to cool, makes a 

 very cooling, soothing ointment. Plantain leaves 

 laid upon a wound are cooling and healing. 



Half a spoonful of citric acid, (which may al- 

 ways be bought of the apothecaries,) stirred in 

 half a tumbler of water, is excellent for the head 

 ache.— F. Jl'. 



Veal Olives. Cut long thin collops : beat them, 

 and lay on them thin slices of fat bacon, and over 

 a layer, or forcemeat seasoned high, with the ad- 

 dition of shred shalot and cayenne. Roll them 

 tight, about the size of two fingers, but not more 

 than two or three inches long ; fasten them round 

 with a small skewer : rub egg over and fry them 

 of a light brown. Serve with brown gravy. 



Calfs Liver. Sliced : seasoned with pepper 

 and salt, and nicely broiled. Rub a bit of cold 

 butter on it, and serve hot and hot. 



Roasted. Wash and wipe it : then cut a long 

 hole in it, and stuft'it with crumbs of bread, chop- 

 ped anchovy, herbs, a good deal of fat bacon, 

 onion, salt, jiepper, a bit of butter, and an egg. 

 Sew the liver up ; then lard or wrap it in a veal 

 caul, and roast it. 



Serve with a good brown gravy, and currant- 

 jelly. 



Citler (says the Farmer's Assistant) may be kept 

 for years in casks, without fermenting, by bury- 

 ing them deeply under ground, or immersing them 

 in tipring water ; and when taken up the cider will 

 be very fine. 



Fermentation of cider may also he prevented by 

 first strongly fumigating the cask with burnt sul- 

 phur; then put in some of the cider, burn more 

 sulphur in the cask, stop it tight, and shake the 

 whole np together ; fill the cask, bung it up tight, 

 and put it away in a cool cellar. 



A TEMPERANCE MAN. 



HowABD, the celebrated philanthropist, was a 

 thorough-going temperance man. He abandoned 

 even the use of wine and malt liquors. In his 

 Memoirs, by Brown, will be found many notices 

 concerning strong drink. In his excellent house 

 at Ghent, their use was prohibited. A similar 

 regulation was introduced into the Parisian jails. 

 He found the English jails full of intemperance, 

 and despaired of their reform in other respects till 

 that evil was banished. He bequeathed five pounds 

 each to the poor cottagers at Cardington, who 

 should not have been to the ale house for twelve 

 months preceding his death. A pretty good testi- 

 mony on the question respecting the use of malt 

 liquors. 



