VOL,. XV. NO- 35. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



275 



Siis:ii-, frum having Uocii ronsulerfd a liixmy, 

 is uovv an imlespensible article of sulisistence I'ur 

 the poor and for the rich. Its ;)roiin!-tinn, rhcap, 

 and in ahundatice, from having heen confined to 

 the sontii, is now held out to the north ; and shall 

 we not with gratitude, aiccjit the hoon so unex- 

 pectedly offered us hy a kind Providence, and aid 

 its immediate culture, and secure its iminediate 

 benefits ? or shall we leave it to the care of indi- 

 vidual effort, and its benefits to those who succeed 

 us in the active duties of life, if they shall be so 

 fortunate as to possess the eneriry necessary tn 

 achieve its suc-c-essfnl introduction ? 



The policy of giving encouragement for the in- 

 troduction of a new staple, pronrising so much Jo 

 enlarge the resources of our agriculture, can hard- 

 ly he questioned, or its necessity doubted. The 

 farmer must depend upon the manufacturer for 

 tlie sale of his beets, and the establishment of 

 manufactories is a work of time. Experience, 

 skill and implements, in the first place, must come 

 from abroad, and be imported at considerable o.x- 

 |)ense, or a course of experimenting adopted, like- 

 ly to he still more expensive if not ruinous. The 

 various obstacles incident to, and almost insepara- 

 bly connected with every new enterprise, and 

 which in this case may be neither few nor small, 

 must be overcome by the pioneers. This is well 

 known at the outset; and under these circum- 

 stances, multitudes might believe, that eventually, 

 this would he a great and profitable business, and 

 not an individual be foimd ready to break the ice 

 and commence the manufacture ; — .--o likely is it 

 to be prosecuted more successfully by those who 

 stand by and take first lessons from the experience 

 of others, who run the risk and lead the way. 



On the other hand, however umcli this culture 

 may promise of success and profit, and however 

 well those ))romises may be fulfilled ; is it on that 

 account less worthy the patronage of the govern- 

 ment ? Surely not. It cannot be the policy of 

 an enlightened government to extend liberal pat- 

 ronage oidy to those objects which promise a 

 donb'tful issue, but rather, if any are encouraged 

 liberally, it will be those which promise to repay 

 liberally. 



Ill accordance with these views, the following 

 Bill is submitted by order of the Committee. 



WILLIAM CLARK, Jn. Chairman. 



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opor-Uioii, 1 biy the hog down, feel for the 

 then cut it length .vise carefully, until I split the 

 diseased lump, which will he known by its dis- 

 charging dark blood. I then put in the above 

 mixture, and the hog will be well in a few days. 

 In several cases the hogs were so far gone, and 

 their throats swelled so much, that I could not 

 pn^cisely find the lu:np ; I then cut a ga* abciut 

 three inches lengthwise, on each side of the ti.roat, 

 MS deei> as I thought s.fe, and put in the mixture. 

 All have got well or on the mend ; I am indiu:ed 

 to believe, that if fiirmers would open the throats 

 of their hogs as soon as they commence swelling, 

 they might be cured in every instance. 1 would 

 describe the sym|)toms, but the disease is so com- 

 mon, that I think it unnecessary, only to state that 

 the swelling may be discovered by close examina- 

 tion aliout a week before the hog stops eating ; 

 then if not relieved the hog lasts but a few days 

 longer. — Gen. Far. 



TiiK Sti-am Whistle. — Mention has been 

 made, several times lately, of the new contrivance 

 for giving the alarm to people who cannot be 

 trusted to their own eyes and caution, in the vi- 

 cinity of rail roads. Its effect is thus described 

 in one of our papers: 



"The locomotive has one contrivance of a most 

 peculiar character. It carries a brass whistle, 

 vvh:ch is b!ovvn by the steam, whenever any ani- 

 mals come Upon the track or a cross road is pass- 

 ed. No words can describe the shrill, wild and 

 unearthly sound produced Iny this arrangement. 

 In going through the woods, the noise is peculiar- 

 ly startling, and it can be heard for miles.' 



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MiscELLANEOUS Reckipts. — Short Cakes. — 

 Rub with the hand two poun>ls of butter into four 

 pounds of sifted flour, two pounds of currants, two 

 pounds of moist sugar, two eggs, mixed altogether 

 with a pint of milk, roll it out thin, and cut in in- 

 to round or sipiare cakes with a cutter ; lay them 

 on a clean baking sheet, and bake them about 5 

 minutes in a middling heated oven. 



Superior Jomvj Cake. — The following receipt 

 will make a Jonny Cake, fit for an alderman, a 

 mayor, an editor, or any other dignitary in the 

 land. Take one quart of milk, three eggs, one 

 te:i-spoonful of saleratus, one cu|) of wheat flour, 

 and one of Indian meal, sufficient to make a batter 

 of tlio consistency of pan cakes. Bake q'uick in 

 pans i>reviou8ly buttered, and eat warm vvith but- 

 ter or milk. The addition of wheat flour will be 

 found a great improvement in the art of ntaking 

 these cakes. 



UsKFUL I.NVENTiorJ. — The new machine in 

 Great Britain, for planing rough masses of rock 

 as if they were i>icccs of timber, by the help of 

 steam is exhibited in London. It is complex, but 

 perfect in its construction, and works beautifully. 

 The following is a descriiition : " The moving 

 part of the model docs not exceed one hundred 

 weight ; but of the machine itself, which is in use 

 at the qua! res near Arbroath, the moving part 

 weighs two tons, and may be compared to a vast 

 hand plane, 01 feet in length, traversing beds of 

 stone with as much ease, apparently, as the tool in 

 the grasp of the hands of a carpenter. During 

 the last summer tliere were at the Leysmill's quar- 

 ries six of these machines at work, which |ilaned 

 upwards of 170,000 feet of pavements ; and the 

 whole number of the machines were propelled by 

 one steam-engine of six horse |Ower, which be- 

 sides worked two inclined planes, upon one of 

 which the stones are dragged from the quarry to 

 the mndiine. Where stone i.-s plenty, and not 

 (■xceedingly valuable, the inventioo must be of 

 (jreat advantaf 



SwKLLKD Throat of Hogs. — A disease com- 

 monly called by this name, attackeil my hogs a 

 few weeks since, and carried off three fat hogs 

 before my attention was called to it. On exam- 

 ining all my hogs, I found about twenty had the 

 disease. Being then an entire stranger to the dis- 

 ease, I made inquiry among my neighbors, but 

 found they knew but little of it,except that it was 

 fatal to nearly all that took it. Shortly after, I 

 took a fat bog which had died of the disease, and 

 skinned the throat, then cut out ail of the swelled 

 part in one large piece, and then cut it up into 

 small pieces, at each cut finding the pores filled 

 with a slightly colored water until I cut to a gland, 

 which was filled with a subsunice which looked 

 like cheese, or white corn meal dough, and about 

 as large as a hulled walnut. I then concluded 

 that, if the throat of the bog was opened to the 

 diseased gland as soon as it was found to have the 

 disease, it might then be saved ; and 1 lufe since 

 fully proved the fact, by opening about 20, and 

 putting into the incision a mixture of corrosive 

 sublimate and red precipitate. In performing the 



: to the proi)rietors of quarries." 



Bake your ow.\ Bread. — The following ex- 

 periment was tried by a house-keeper in this city, 

 for the purpose of testing the economy of baking 

 bread at home : 



He bought a loaf of his baker for ten cents, 

 which weighed one pound and three ounces. lie 

 then bout; lit seven pounds of flour for six cents 

 the pound, an<l paid one cent for yeast. From 

 this he made eight loaves, equal in weight to that 

 bought of tlie baker, and eight ounces over. The 

 whole of the bread beinii ten pounds, and the 

 whole cost forty-three cents, the cost of each loaf 

 being four cents and four mil's. To this must be 

 add»;d labor and fuel, which could not exceed one 

 fourth of the cost of the flour. Thus his bread 

 could not have cost more than half of the price 

 that would be paid to the baker for the same quan- 

 tity. — Phil. Ledger. 



Potato Bread. — We have had the pleasure of 

 eating the past week, as good biscuit as ever 



gratified our taste, made of nearly half jiotato. 



It is necessary to knead the dough a little stiffer, 

 than if it was made of all flour. Mealy potatoes 

 are of course the best. They should be left as 

 dry as possible after boiling ; then peal them, and 

 mash them fine, or rub them through a wire sieve, 

 ami work them into the flour after the manner of 

 'shortening.' — Hamp. Gaz. 



The Shakers have fil'teen societies in the United 

 States and about six thousand members. 



Anothir Marine Life Preserver has-recent- 

 ly been invented in England, which has bc^en ap- 

 proved by the Royal Humane Society, and tiio 

 Triuty House, and an honorary prize awarded to 

 the iriventor, wJio has generously paid it to the 

 Missionary Society., It consists simply of an oak 

 plank, nine or ten feet long, two or three inches 

 thick and six or eight inches broad — upon each 

 end of which is an empty barrel or water cask of 

 the capacity of 35 or 40 gallons, which are lashed 

 to the plank. A rope passes from one end of the 

 plank to the other round the outer heads ( f the 

 casks about 6 or 7 inches above the planks — thus 

 enabling persons to sit securely on the plank and 

 row with their hands and feet. This looks like 

 .■m improvement, and will probably find favor with 

 mariners on both side^ of the Atlantic. 



Maine Flour.— We have used some of the 

 flour from the China Steam Mill and find it very 

 good. The br ad seems to us more s>veet and 

 [lalatable than Genesee, perhaps because we wish 

 to liave it so. The |iroprietors of this steam mill 

 deserve well of community. There can be no 

 doubt that China and the surrounding tovvns can 

 stock the mill well another year. Will they not 

 do it ? We ought to have a gteat flour mill or 

 two, of the best kind, here on tiie Kennebec Dam. 

 Augusta, Va-ssalboro' and Sidney might supply >t 

 with wlieat enough to turn out 10 or 15 thousand 

 barrels of flour in a year — Ken. Jour. 



As soon the s|)ring opens and the frost is out of 

 the ground, put your fences in order. 



