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the cheese. A new Stilton cheese treated in this 

 way, and well covered up from the air for a few 

 weeks, becomes thoroughly imprefrriatud with the 

 mould, and generally with a flavor hardly to he 

 distinguished from the ohl one. I have sometimes 

 treated half a Lancashire cheese in this way, and 

 have left the other half in its natural state| and 

 liave hoen much amused with the remarks of my 

 fri.:nds on the striking superiority of the English 

 over the Scotch one." If this ingenious plai"i he 

 found really successful on repeated trials hy others, 

 Mr. Rohiusun will deserve our thanks for hriu<:ing- 

 it forward. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



BUTTER 



— Seaso.\ed with hrown sugar and saltpetre in 

 place of conunou salt, is said to be much supe- 

 rior to that prepared in the common mode. Sixty 

 firkins, prepared in this manner, lately commaud- 

 ed a considerable advance in the Waterford mar- 

 ket. 



A TRIED RECEIPT FOR BURKS. 



Keep on haml a saturated solution of alum (four 

 niuces iu a quart of hot water), dip a cotton cloth 

 n this solution, lay it immediately on the burn. 

 \s soon as it shall have become hot dry, replace 

 t by another, and thus continue it as often as it 

 Iries, which it will, at first, do very rapidly. The 

 lain iunnediately ceases, and in twenty-four hours 

 inder this treatment the wound will be healed 

 specially if the solution he ap|)lied before the blis- 

 3rs are formed. The astringent and drying-cpial- 

 ty of the alum completely prevents them. The 

 eepest burns, those caused by boiling water, 

 rops of melted jthosphorus, gunpowder, fulmi- 

 atmg powder, &c. have all been cured by this 

 pecific. — Middklown Smiind. 



CHLORINE GAS. 



The following instruction for extracting Chlo- 

 ne Gas, and purifying the air, is taken from a 

 tmphlet written by Dr. Sanders of Edinburgh, 

 id It IS strongly recommended to householders' by 

 e Board of Health ; at the cost of a shilling a 

 eek fimdies tnay protect themselves from Chol- 

 a.— Four parts by weight, or eight jiarts by 

 easure, common sea salt ; one of deutoxyde o'f 

 anganese, called in the shops manganese— mix 

 ese together with « stick or staff; add water to 

 listen the mixture thoroughly ; then pour iu 

 ■ong sul()liuric acid, commonly called oil of vit- 

 )1, and stir the mass with a staff. The steams 

 II mstantly fly up, and in like manner from time to 

 ie let the acid be added till the fuming will have 

 ised, and let water also be added if the mixture 

 3 become too consistent. A common herring bar- 

 sawed through the middle, will make two excel- 

 it tubs ; put the materials into them, and proceed 

 above directed, place one in each narrow lane 

 close, and let the inhabitants open their win- 

 ivs. In houses where the disease is, a cont- 

 n porter tumbler will do very well, and if the 

 ell he distinctly perceived, that is enough to be 

 H up. For each street let one or more tubs 

 itaining the salt and manganese mixed, be put 

 'n a cart, along with a jar full of the oil of vit- 

 , and a man with a rod in his hand, and his 

 k to the wind, and while he is pouring in the 

 1 and the steams are rising let the cart move 

 ivly along just as carts do when the streets are 

 el-ed, and at a cheaper rate than streets are wa- 

 ll! will cities be saved — Acadian Recorder 



BAD AIR 



Although we are all, from the moment of our 

 hirths, immersed in a fluid which is necessary to 

 our existence every moment while we live, yet 

 how Ctiw of us take the pains to know lu.vj and 

 why this fluid is necessary to life ! Upon the pu- 

 rity of air we breathe depends the firm, elastic 

 tread of health, the keenness of the «p|)etite, and 

 tlie proper digestion of our food. Sound sleep by 

 night, as well as a pro])er buoyancy and flow of 

 spirits while we are awake, depend likewise upon 

 the purity of the air we breathe. The atmosphere 

 m us ordinary state, contains two or three constit- 

 uent priuciph^s, which we should all understan.l 

 ui order to know how to judge of good or bad air 

 These principles are called oxygen, nitrogen and 

 .■arboD, which are held in a rarefied state hy a 

 portion of heat. About 78 parts of nitroL^en, about 

 -1 of oxygen, and one or two per cent, of carbon 

 compose the atmosphere in all parts of the earth 

 Oxygen is the lightest, and carbon the hfiaviest of 

 these principles ; oxygen is the chief supporter of 

 .■inmial life, while carbon is the proper foo.l of 

 vegetables ; oxygen is the proper supporter of 

 combustion, while carbon extinguishes combus- 

 li^on, and will almost instantaneously destroy life. 

 From these facts we are authorized to draw the' 

 lollowing conclusions relative to the art of pre- 

 serving health. 



Firstly—Never to suffer a candle or a lar^e fire 

 to burn in a bed-room after night; for the process 

 ot combustion in both cases tends to consume the 

 oxygen, which is essential to healthy respiration 

 and gives out in the place of oxygen, a lar-e pro- 

 portion of carbon, which is highly iujurious\o life, 

 feecon.lly— The practice too common, of placin.^ 

 children to sleep on low bedsteads, cannot be too 

 much deprecated ; as carbon being the heaviest por- 

 tion of the air, is always found nearest the surface. 

 In the third place— Bed-rooms should be well 

 ventilated during the day, and should generally be 

 the largest rooms in the liouse, instead of bein.' 

 the smallest as they generally are. ° 



85 



MULBERRY TREES. 



The successful cultivation of the Chinese Mul- 

 berry, Moriis Multicaulis, is exceeding even the 

 sanguine expectations of its friends. The plants 

 which are growing from cuttings in this town, are 

 now from four to six feet in height and covered 

 with foliage almost us large as cabbage leaves. 

 Many of them are eleven inches long and nine 

 broad, and some have been seen as large as II by 

 14. The plant seems adapted by nature for the 

 very use to which it is applied, the feeding of Silk 

 Worms. It rarely exceeds ten feet in height 

 grows with rapid growth, and puts forth its Im- 

 mense leaves the moment the stem rises above the 

 ground. When propagated from ' the seed, the 

 first year they are not so large as from cuttings. 

 But even from the seed they almost stagger credu- 

 lity. The Secretary of our Agricultural Society 

 has some plants growing about three feet hi"b 

 with leaves eight inches long and six and three 

 quarters broad. Some plants cultivated by anoth- 

 er gentleman from the Chinese seed sown this 

 spring, are higher and with leaves even larger, 

 and if the season continues favorable, will %et 

 measure twelve inches long and nine inches broad 

 I he leaves of the common Mulberry every body 

 knows are diminutive in size, and compared with 



the Chinese, are not worth cultivation JVorth- 



ampton Courier. 



From Ike Louisburg Alleghanian. 

 ON DESTROYING THE INSECTS WHICH IN- 

 FEST FRUIT TREES. 



It is of the utmost importance to the success 

 and general well being of all fruit trees, that they 

 be kept perfectly clear from all insects, parasites 

 of all sorts, and all extraneous matters. Winter 

 is the best season in which to operate for effectin"- 

 this object; and, with regard to fruit trees trained 

 against walls, we ought to commence by loosening 

 all of them from the wall, and giving them regular 

 and judicious pruning. After this, begin upon 

 the mam stem, even below the surface of the 

 earth, by removing a portion of the soil, and dili- 

 gently scape or pare, if the case be such as to re- 

 quire it, every part, even to the extremity of each 

 branch. YVfterwards wash the whole of the wall 

 inost completely with the following preparation: 

 Take strong lime-water, after it has settled into a 

 perfectly clear state, (so that none of the lime re- 

 mains, farther than what it holds in solution), and 

 mix m It about a fourth part of strong tobacco 

 liquor; some soft soap, 1 lb. to a gallon ; and about 

 1 lb. of flour of brimstone, or of sulphur vivura 

 either will answer: if some black pepper, ground 

 very fine, be added, it will be an improvement. 

 I his preparation will clear the wall most com- 

 pletely from every kind of insect. After the trees 

 are again dry, have a mixture ready, composed of 

 the above ingredients, but in stronger proportions ; 

 and, instead of the lime water, use chamber lye 

 or the strong drainage of a farm-yard ; and, lastly,' 

 thicken It to the consistence of good thick paint, 

 "ith quicklime dissolved in it. Take painter's 

 brushes of different sizes, and coat the trees com- 

 pletely over with the mixture, not leaving a chink 

 or the axU of a bud, without working the mixture 

 well into it. Use the whitest lime you can get for 

 the purpose, that when dry you may readily see 

 where the brush has missed. It is best to coat 

 every part completely over two or three times, and 

 It will kill every thing that is not concealed in the 

 bark. In pear trees, the insects of the last class 

 are our greatest pest. I wish some one would be 

 kind enough to inform us how to get rid of the 

 warty pest, which does not, I believe, commit its 

 greatest ravages in that state. Will Rnsticus of 

 (.odahning be so kind as to give us the history of 

 this destructive insect ? I think we have no ene- 

 my so resistless as this ; all others fall beneath the 

 above dressing. A Farmer and Gardener. 



NEW MECHANICAL POWER. 



An ingenious mechanic at Brussels has just ap- 

 plied a new power to mechanics, from which great 

 results appear to be expected. This new power 

 is galvanism. Across a fly-wheel which is to give 

 motion to the machine, he has placed a metallic 

 bar, previously magnetised by a galvanic pile, and 

 within the attraction of two very powerful mag- 

 nets. The moment that the bar arrives in a rota- 

 tory course at the limit of the attractive power, 

 and where it would necessarily stand still, the in- 

 ventor, by the application of galvanism suddenly 

 converts the attractive into a repulsive power, 

 which continues the motion iu the same direction,' 

 and by those alternations, well managed, the wheel 

 acquires a rapid rotation. The experiment is said 

 to have been completely successful, and the ma- 

 chine worked for a whole hour. 



The first white frost in the vicinity of Washing- 

 ton city, was on the 12th inst. 



