VOL. XV. NO. 13. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



BREAD STIFFS. 



The cry of the " failure of the crops " is as old 

 for auglit we know, as the time when Adam went 

 out of Eden. It performs its annual revolution 

 with as much regularity as do the Seasons. It is 

 true, however, that the lamentation is not always 

 an unmeaning one, and prohahly there is more truth 

 in this year than in theffenerality of seasons. We 

 believe, and not without evidence, that the com- 

 munity is unnecessarily alarmed by the declara- 

 tions that all kinds of Bread Stuffs will he scarce 

 and prices high the coming winter. The corn. 

 It is true, has been much injured in many places 

 by the frosts ; but not to the extent apprehended ; 

 and we have recently seen a ^nain grower from 

 western New York, who admits that the crop of 

 wheat this year will equal two-thirds of the pro- 

 duct of a good year. If, however, we would be 

 independent of speculators, who at present con- 

 trol prices to suit their interesis, we must l)ecome 

 more of an agricultural people. 



The following remarks by the Journal of Com- 

 merce are timely and pertinent — fVorcesUr Pal- 

 ladimn. 



"We would not needlessly interrupt the enjoy- 

 ment of those who look forward to the next win- 

 ter as a time of general starvation. But lest their 

 dreams should be too suddenly broken, we must 

 call their attention to ihe facts contained in the 

 last news from Europe respecting the prices of 

 bread stuffs there. We happen to know of an op- 

 eration in Liverpool, by which fifty thousand 

 bushels of wheat are to be immediately forwarded 

 to this country, and by the prices which are pub- 

 hslied, there is little doubt that ujuch larger sup- 

 plies will be soon forthcoming ; for the long con- 

 tinuance of high prices, the successful isjue of the 

 recent importations, and the fact, well ascertained, 

 that our domestic supplies ate inadequate, will give 

 new confidence to future operations. Let us see 

 at what prices we can be supplied. 



In Paris the price of bread is about two cents, 

 and in London three cents per pound. We found 

 a shilling loaf in New York yesterday to weigh 

 two pounds three ounces, which is near six ceins 

 per pound. The price of wheat in Paris is 112 

 cents a bushel, and the price of flour .$5 a barrel. 

 In London, flour is $8 a barrel. In the ports of the 

 Mediterranean and the Baltic, bread stufis are much 

 cheaper than in either London or Paris. The 

 price of good wheat at Naples is 2s lOd sterling a 

 bushel, or 67 cents. From any of these places 

 freight might be obtained at 33 cents per barrel 

 on flour, and 12 1-2 cents per bushel on wheat, or 

 about half the rate charged on transportation of the 

 same articles from Rochester, and one-fourth of 

 what is charged from Ohio. Fifty thousand bush- 

 els of corn have lately been received here from 

 Ohio by one house, at a freight of 49 cents. The 

 duty on flour is $1 a barrel, and on wheat 25 cents 

 a bushel. Wheat, therefore, can be imported from 

 Naples and laid down in New York at 125 to 135 

 cents a bushel, all charges paid, and from a hun- 

 dred other places at the same or a. less price. Corn 

 and rye are not burdened with a duty, and may be 

 imported to great advantage. The countries of 

 Europe and Asia afibrd stores of bread stuffs al- 

 most inexhaustible, so that the supplies for this 

 country if they should run to the highest possible 

 quantity, could only affect prices in a very small 

 degree. Free trade will supply all our wants, and 

 the cost, with a liberal mercantile profit, will not 



carry prices above 150 cents for wheat, 100 cents 

 for rye and Indian corn, 50 cents for oats per 

 hushel, and $7 50 for flour per barrrl. So let the 

 <les|,onding cheer up, for no one who is industri- 

 ous and frugal need starve in 1836 or 1837." 



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Hard Times. — High rents and prices for every- 

 thing we eat and wear, are themes of universal 

 complaint. Bacon, beef, veal, lamb, poultry, 

 eggs, butter, and all the little etceteras of the ta- 

 ble, are double former prices.— Under such cir- 

 cumstances economy should be the word with all 

 those who have to gain their livelihood. Cut 

 down every useless expense and useless indul- 

 gence ; get up an hour sooner in the morning, and 

 go to bed an hour later at night ; work in a little 

 additional elbow grease during the day, and it 

 blessed with health, the poorest among us may 

 soon bid defiance not only to high prices, scarcity 

 of money, and prospective starvation, but in due 

 time, to debts, duns, ai:d difficulties in the bargain. 



— Live light and live cheap; it is easily done. 



Rice and molasses is an admirable dish fjr chil- 

 dren ; salt herrings for breakfast or tea, three times 

 a week, are enviable luxuries for grown folks, 

 middling bacon and fried apples are both healthy 

 and palata le, veal shin soup well made is excel", 

 lent; and a fish stew, brewed according to rule is 

 superlative. 



Then for side dishes, what can match well boil- 

 ed or fried potatoes, pickled beets and onions 

 " smothered," not in " cream," but in hot water 

 and drawn butter? A dozen or other little knick 



Weight per bushel avoirdupois. 

 lb. oz. 11 pj 



42 lbs. produce in meal 25 2— do in husk 16 14 



38 " " " 21 12 " " 16 4 



36 " .; .' 20 3 .. .. 15 ,3 



32 " « « 17 5 " " 14 11 



Thus It will be seen that the beast which is fed 

 upon oats of the latter description, (which abound 

 m our markets,) is the loser of about one-third of 

 the nutrunent which be would obtaiu if supplied 

 with those of good quality. 



[If oats betaken at the price of sixtyfour cents 

 the bushel of thirtytwo pounds, giving seventeen 

 pounds and five ounces of meal, what price should 

 he given per bushel for oats weighing fortytwo 

 pounds and giving twentyfive pounds two ounces 

 of meal? The answer will almost astonish one 

 — say nearly ninetysix cents.] 



knacks might be named, but these will suffice for 

 the present. So much for cheap summer living ■ 

 now for cheap wearing.— Brush up and repair the 

 old shoes and stockings; pull the faded waistcoat 

 and pantaluons ont of the closet and try them on 

 again ; they don't look so well as new to be sure, 

 but they fit loosely and pleasantly, besides they 

 are paid for. Get last year's rt^inter coat from the 

 garret, have the elbows patched, the missing hut- 

 ton replaced, the dust brushe.l off, the grease spots 

 taken out, and slip it on ; then have the old hat 

 brushed and ironed up, and look in the glass at 

 yourself, reader, if you have heeded and followed 

 our counsel and see how you like your personal 

 appearance! The patches on the elbows are ob- 

 jectionable ; true, they are not very slightly, but 

 which is the best, a patch on the elbow of your 

 coat by a tailor, or a tap on your shoulder by a 

 sheriff^s officer .'— Petersburg Constellation. 



Potatoes WANrRED with pine Boncns. A 



farmer in New Jersey relates to us the following 

 experiment : 



Having a large number of young pine trees 

 growing near his potato grounds, he o-athered a 

 sufficient quantity of the boughs to form a consid- 

 erable covering to a row of potatoes which he was 

 planting in drills. In the drill on one side of this 

 he used lime for manure, and on the other he put 

 in marl. They were all covered with earth in 

 the same manner, and received the same culture. 

 On digging them, those that were manured with ^ 

 the pine were twice as large as the others, and 

 double in quantity. 



Planters in the Southern States estimate pine 

 leaves, gathered early as among the best of ma- 

 nure. — Southern paper. 



(From an English Paper.) 

 On Horse Food.— People generally imagine, 

 when they hear the quality of oats mentioned, that 

 their only desirable properties consists in the 

 brightness of color, purity of scent, and freedom 

 from all appearances of having been damp or heat- 

 ed ; but they rarely advert to the fact, that, when 

 these objects have been attained, their main value 

 yet rests in their weight ; and a material differ- 

 ence may be found in samples, which, to the hand 

 and eye of one who is not a good judge of the ar- 

 ticle, may appear to be of nearly the same sort, 

 though the bushel of the one kind may be several 

 pounds lighter than the other. The following ta- 

 ble will show the quantity of meal which, in or- 

 dinary seasons, is usually extracted from certain 

 weights of grain, and on which the nourishment 

 to be obtained from it depends : 



Preserving Potatoes — Chance has led to 

 the discovery of a method of preserving potatoes, 

 which is both simple and attended with little or no 

 expense. A house keeper had placed in his cel- 

 lar a quantity of charcoal. Having removed it in 

 the autumn, without removing the dust that cov- 

 ered the ground, he caused a large quantity of 

 potatoes to be laid on it. Towards the spring 

 these roots were preserved, had thrown out no 

 shoots, and were found as fresh and well flavored 

 as new. 



MoRus Multicaclis. — We yesterday received 

 from the nursery of A. Brownell, Esq. of West- 

 port, a Mulberry leaf of this species, the stalk of 

 which was engrafted into the common white Mul- 

 berry last spring. Within the six months past it 

 has grown upwards of six feet in height, and th« 

 leaf before us is twelve inches in length and elev- 

 en inches in width. We understand that Mr 

 Brownell has about fifty thousand of the White 

 Mulberry tree now in his nursery. — JVcw Bed- 

 ford Gaz. 



The Northampton Courier celebrates a radish 

 twenty-three inches in length, and ten inches in 

 circumference, and weighing live pounds. 



Subscriptions have been commenced in ^few 

 York for the erection of a chain bridge over the 

 Niagara river, near the Falls. 



