No. 6. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



F5 



Cniuiles IVom Castor Oil. 



[Extract of a letter from HiltsbotUi, Illinois.'\ 

 " I wish it was in my power lo give jou some in- 

 uiinmtion in regard to the ninnurociiire of Candles 

 li.'iii Castor Oil, which I noiice you ask for in a late 

 i'ainier. I have oade many inqniries about tliem 

 and learn on goud amhorily, that they burn a little 

 longer than epcrm candles, give quite as good o light, 

 end ore harder ; also that when the beans are worth 

 ■ono dollar per bushe', the candles can be JiimibUed at 

 ^5 cents per pound. Oiir farmers are quite content 

 With a dollar per bushel for the beans, which is the 

 price they have borne for a number of years. Although 

 the last season wae so dry, beans about us produced 

 well, giving as much os twenty bushels front an acre ; 

 and as thiy were the only ariide which brought nion 

 ey reodily, every one was on tiptoe (or raising them. 

 One man, 1 heard of, who bad never raised one in his 

 life, or even seen them raised, was going to plant a 

 hundred and fifty acrss with them. The price of oil 

 being reduced from one doUar to eeventy five cents per 

 gallon, has very much allayed this bean fever which 

 began to rage." 



This certainly prornises lo be a profitable article of 

 tiultivatiDn. The beans are planted in .-ows, and re 

 quire only n clean cuiiivotion ; but we do not feel 

 gufTicienity acqttainted with th« culture to give spe- 

 cilic directions. SVe rejoice in every r.ew production 

 of articles of ute, necessity, or comfort. True inde- 

 pendence cortsista in the power of supplying our own 

 wants from our own resourceo ; and the best of all 

 rules in domestic economy is for the farmer to obtain 

 .from his own farm, every article of necessity, which 

 the farm cap. be made to yield. What with the en- 

 .couraging prospect of oil and candlea-from corn, lard, 

 .«hd the castor bean, there is some reaconable chance 

 that tbe sovereignty of the ocean may he again sur- 

 rendered to the kinar of fishes. 



Cnllnre of the Cucnmber. 



Weltnow Bothins; of the advantages crutHily of the 

 method of caitivalmg Cuctmiters reoommeiided be-' 

 Jow, but oive it on the credit of our conespondent. 

 On a small scale, if cflectual, it is an easy way of get- 

 ting rid of the enemy, toscent them out with perfumes. 

 Kn old and eminent physician in Boston used to re- 

 tom.mend as the best preparation of cucumbers for the 

 ■table, to cut them in thin slices, salt and pepper them 

 well, sppiv a .sutTicicnt quantitj- of the bet* wine vine-' 

 .gar, and then throw them out of the window. We 

 iiiow the favoritism with which many persons regard 

 them, but we never see a plate of iliem an the table' 

 without at kail thinJ.-ing of the Cholera. We have 

 luiown some persons who preferred to cat them afker 

 they became, as they termed it, dead ripe, and as yellow 

 *s a custard pudding. In this way they were not 

 ^uite as likely to injnre the teeth as cracking walnuts. 

 Mr. EaiTPR — I wish you to publish the following, 

 written by Mr. James L. Enos, if you have room in 

 your valuable paper. O. O. 0. 



Calture ofthe Cncamber, by James L. Esios. 

 " The best and most sure way to raise cucumbers, is 

 to dig holes in the ground about one foot in depth at 

 the distance required &r tho hilis, then fill these holes 

 nearly full of leached ashe.s ; cover luem over witli 

 about one inch of fine light earth, sow on your seed, 

 {but not until your land is dry anil your seed well 

 soaked in wafia water ormilk,) and cover it over light- 

 ly with fine dirt. 



'■ The ashes will prevent the worms from eating the 

 seeds or the young vines. As soon as the leaves begin 

 to start, and the striped bug begins to oat the leaves, go 

 and pick a handful of Tansy and lay two or three 

 spears around in each hill, they will soon move off for 

 some other place and will not trouble you any more. 

 Hoe th«Qi three or four times, as n«<eisity requires. 



I'ry this inuniicr of procedure and reap your rich re- 

 ward." 

 Etiil China, Wy oming Co., \lay 3, Iftli^. 



Wesiei'u Manners. 

 Extract from, a frimtc letter from a frutvi at 'Via 

 West. ' . 

 " Wo are very much jjeascd with our nearest neigh- 

 bor, Mr. They visit us often and treat us with 



much kindness and attention. His fiimily consists of 

 eiglit daughters, the oldest 10 years of age, good, suli- 

 stantial girls, who ask no odds in knitting, spinning, 

 weaving, niHking and hou-iework. When planting 

 comes, they take the (idd, armed with their hoes, and 

 go right ahead without any narasol or shoes." 



There's for yon! Look here, young men! we were 

 about lo say ; but tlic truth is that there is scarcely one 

 young man in twenty among us, a parcel of dandified, 

 segarsiuoking, watch-chain-sporting, whiskered and 

 mustachioed monkics, there is hardly one in twenty 

 that has even the sliadow of a ciaim to such a blessing 

 from Heaven as one of these eight girls must be to any 

 industrious, clever fellow, whose only capital is his 

 hands, and who wishes to get an honest living by his 

 own labor. Such a wife would he a fortune in her- 

 self; and such a man had better have one such wife 

 than to marry a. whole boarding school of your namby 

 pamby, sliky-milky trash, that too often passes under 

 the name of accomplished; poor irresponsible butter- 

 flies ! who pretend to faint at the sight of a cow as 

 though it were s6rae foreign wild beast escaped from 

 a travelling menagerie, and, dear souls I don't know 

 whether the milk comes dttt of the udder or the horns. 

 What are sttch women good for, excepting to [Hit in a 

 glass case. Eke a beautiful piece of alabaster statuary, 

 to ornament a mantel piece or a chiiia closet; we mean 

 solar as concerns getting a 'living, taking care of a 

 family, or the honest accumulation of wealth. We 

 acknowledge, old and srur as We have grown, that 

 some of them are as pretty as the sweet fairy humming 

 lirds, the era'bd:1iment of every thing that is beautiful 

 and poetic in form and motion, that haunt the flower- 

 garden at the close ofthe da'y, receiving and imparting 

 an exquisite delight ; but to v^'hat sub.stantial -use can 

 such things be put 1 Now we don't object to accom- 

 plishments, the most intellectual and tho most polite ac- 

 complishments; but we maintain that there is no in- 

 compatibility between physical la'oor and intellectual 

 labor- that the exertion and increase of the physical 

 strengthens the intellectual powers ; that a woman 

 ought to understand as well the use of her hands and 

 her limbs as of her mitid ; that no Iruman being, unless 

 in case of disrase or deformity, is justified in living 

 without some useful labor; that while we should feel 

 as av€rsi3 -p^ possible to siihjecting woraeir to any severe 

 and degrading toil, wetlii-nk that there aire many kinds 

 of out-door labor on a farm, which women might per- 

 form in company with th^ir fathers and brothers, with 

 sicnal adv.vntage and improvement to their health and 

 persons, provided only that they will lay aside their 

 iron armor. In this age so preeminent for its frippery 

 and foppery in education and manners, it is quite a re- 

 lief to find one sensicle man, who knows iiowto bring 

 them up, Wi ssed with e i-^iit daughters to bring up. 

 We have heard much of late years ofthe want of wives 

 at the West. But if this accoimt is at all a fair indi- 

 cation of the state of things there, the demand will 

 soon be supplied by the home growth ; and if our own 

 girls in these high tariff times will allow us to say it, 

 we must either produce a bettor article among our- 

 selves, or be jiemiiitcd to import from the West duty 

 free. But we begin to bo alarmed at our own temerity 

 in so much as hinting these things; and as the alma- 

 nac makers say, running down a whole page, we shall 

 " look out for a storm about these days." 



Western AtMunttsnntl t'ontiasts. 



Extracts from n letter from the West.—" I wish you 

 could upend a monlh with ua now. I don't think our 

 place would eeein so forloi n and out of huinsnity's reach 

 as it did when you woe here ; travelling wdl soon be eo 



cheap that you can bring with you. (Heaven 



forcfend that we thoidd ever venture again without 

 our bnggnge!) Our nearest neighbor has large oreh- 

 ords of opple, pench and cherry trees. I put four 

 acres in whCLt aet fall, which is now looking finely ; 

 this spring I have sowed five acres with oats ; and 

 just finished eight acres for corn and three for cattor 

 oil benns ; if the weather continues favorable, I in- 

 tend to plant ten acres more in corn." 



This is ccrminly oil bright and beautiful, and we are 

 sorry that there should be n cloud even so big as a man's 

 hand in this western sky but what earthly draught is 

 unmixed ; eo we reod farther on, 



•' C has not had nny fever and ague for a long 



time and seems to think he has got rid of it. Mr. 



H hae bad the fever and ague pretty bad this 



8pring--he isbetternow" — &c. &c. 



We shall add nothing obout the currency or money 

 ague, which has been upon them for some time ; and 

 in respect lo which they arc, we believe, past tbe 

 shaking and have actually become Blifl'. Wheat 45 

 cents per biiahel. Pork 1^ cent per pound, Corn 10 

 cents per bushel, and no money ; eo as an Ohio far- 

 mer informed us it required only eighty bushels of 

 corn to buy one pair of boots. But then oil such lux- 

 uries may be jdispensed wiiii, as there are no stones 

 upon the prairies ; and they are every where carpeted 

 with flowers. 



Tbe pnssisna tie goad eetvants but terrible masters. 



Sale of Mr. Wcddle's Stock, on the 29th and 

 30th of March. 



We were prercnted from attending this sale, 

 but a friend has furnished us the following account 

 of the prices and purchasers. 



Cow Gazelle, 4 years old, sired by Eover, to 

 JohnB. Dill, Auburn, SGOO- 



Cow Hebe, 2 years old, by American Comet, J. 

 M. Sherwood, Auburn, S500. 



LtKilla, i year old, by American Comet, to 

 Calvin Ward, Bristol, -$200. 



Ma-tilda, 1 year old, to Geou Hentig, Geneva, 

 $100. 



Bull American Comet, to Geo. Hentig, Geneva, 

 S325. 



About thirty Cows, halfaad three quarter blood 

 ed, sold from 25 lo 55 dollars each. 



About twenty-five Heifers, two years old, sold 

 for from 20 to 30 dollars each. 



About thirty Calves and "Wearlings, with other 

 young stock of various grades, sold at an average 

 of about 15 dollars each. 



Stud C-ult, .3 years old, sired by imported Turk, 

 to J. Clark, $,iOO, 



Stud Colt, 3 years old, sired by imported Turk, 

 to T. AA^eddle, S323. 



Klud Colt, 3 years old, sired by imported Turk, 

 lo H. Paddock, $225. 



1 Mare, 10 years old, to G, Fordon, $120. 



1 do. 6 years old, to G. S. P.appleye, $110. 



1 do. 4 years old, by Alfred, to G. S. Rap. 

 pleye, $152,50. 



1 Span of Mares, 6 andS years old, to G. Hentig, 

 $312. 



About 30 Leicester Bucks and Ewes, sold for 

 from 3 to 20 dollars each. 



Some fine flocks of half and three quarters 

 blooded Ewes and AVelhers, brought from $3 to 



$3,50 eac h. _^ 



Shij meut of Impjoved Stock to Canada. 



The steamboat America, on th:: 16th v.lt., took on 

 board at this plate a fine three year oid find eolt, 

 bred by Tbos. Weddle, and sired by his imported 

 h'lrse Turk. Also, n very lino Durham bull, 9 yfii^s 

 old, and a Durham calf: nil purchased of Mr. Wed- 

 dle, for tho Northumberland Agr.culturol Soi;)ety, by 

 two gentlemen s«m over lot ihai purpose, 



