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THE ILLIISrOIS F^HMER. 



and climate fleem to be just ffhit are 

 needed, and the wine produced we know 

 to be as palatable as anj sent out from 

 the famous vats of Cincinnati. Mr. C. 

 has realized as high as $1,100 from the 

 product of » single acre. Last year 

 the grapes of the Island sold at 7 cents 

 a pound and the juice at $1 per gallon. 

 He is constructing, out of a solid rock 

 of the Island, an immense cellar, and is, 

 in other ways, preparing to enter largely 



upon the grape and wine culture. 



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Bread and Biscuit. 



The following directions are copied 

 from the Transactions of the Chen&ngo 

 County Agricultural Society for 1859. 

 They are the statements of the ladies 

 who received premiums for the best 

 bread exhibited: 



Brown Bkead, (Mrs. J. Shattuck.) — 

 One quart rye meal ; two quarts Indian 

 meal ; two table spoons full of molasses; 

 mix thoroughly with sweet milk ; let it 

 stand one hour, then bake in a slow 

 oven. 



White Bread, (Mrs. E. Hart.)— One 

 spoonful of hop yeast; two potatoes 

 boiled; one pint of water, and make a 

 sponge, and when light or sufficiently 

 raised, mix hard and let rise, and when 

 it is light again, I mould it over and 

 bake when light. 



White Bread and Biscijit, (Mrs. 

 O. L. Crowell.) — For bread, grate one- 

 half dozen potatoes; jam; add one 

 quart of water ; one cupful of hop yeast 

 at night ; and in the morning, when 

 light, add three tea-spoonsful of sugar 

 and flour to form a dough. Let rise ; 

 when light, put it in tins ; let rise again, 

 and bake one-half hour. For biscuit, 

 take some of the bread dough in the 

 morning, as much as would make a loaf 

 of bread, add one cup of butter ; mix 

 well; let rise, then make into biscuit; 

 let rise, then bake. Tea rusks, one- 

 half pint new milk ; one cupful of hop- 

 yeast; set the sponge at night; add 

 flour to the above to make a batter ; 

 in the morning add one-half pint of 

 milk, one cupful of sugar, one of but- 

 ter, one egg,. one nutmeg, flour to make 

 it sufficiently stiff ; let rise, then roll it 

 out and cut it out ; let rise, then bake. 



Molasses Cup Cake, (Mrs. E. H. 

 Prentice ) — Two cupfuls of molasses ; 

 two cupfuls of butter ; three eggs ; one- 

 third cupfal cold water; one table- 

 spoontul soda, and bake. 



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Usefol Reeeipls. 

 A Valuable Secret. — The unpleas- 

 ant odor produced by perspiration, is 

 frequently the source of vexation to 

 ladies and gentlemen, some of Vtliora 

 are as subject to its excess as their fel- 

 low mortals of another color. Nothing 



is simpler than the removal of the odor 

 at much less expense, and much more 

 effectually, than by the application of 

 such costly unguents and perfumes as 

 are in use. It is only necessary to pro- 

 cure some of the compound spirits of 

 ammonia, and place about two table- 

 spoons full in a basin of water. Wash- 

 ing the fac**, head and arms with this, 

 leaves the skin clean, fresh and sweet as 

 one could wish. The wash being per- 

 fectly harmless, and very cheap, we rec- 

 ommend it, on the authority of one of 

 our most experienced physicians, to our 



readers. — Petersburg Qazette. 



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Summer and Crops in Egypt. 



Floril Hill, Union County, Aug. 26, 1860. 



The three months called summer are 

 nearly gone, and all visible nature gives 

 promise, that as obtrusive summer drove 

 out young spring before her time will 

 spread her beauties far into autumn. 



We have had a lovely summer-day, of 

 out-door life, and the social intercourse 

 that comes from a direct contact with 

 the harmonies of nature. Memory 

 sweetly whispers of the past. Faith 

 and hope demand largely for the future. 



The season has been hot and dry, 

 grain crops not as good as usual. The 

 smaller fruits good. Apples, peaches 

 and pears not quite as large as form- 

 erly ; but an abundant crop, and of a 

 delicious quality. Large quantities are 

 daily sent North. I am going to say 

 (and 80 be it spoken for it speaks not 

 well of the temperance principles of our 

 people,) not a small amount is being 

 transformed into brandv. 



Our hills are gradually growing in 

 beauty and wealth ; every day some 

 new improvement is being made an old, 

 gnarled, crooked apple or peach tree is 

 being rooted up to give place to one 

 more beautiful and refined, and occa- 

 sionally a northern man comes attracted 

 by the genial climate, to beautify an- 

 other hill. 



Here we are in a land where the sea- 

 sons touch gently, where the Good Fath- 

 er has placed within our reach a rare 

 selection of delicious fruits, to tempt 

 the appetite, has spread to feast the eye 

 a landscape full of magnificence and 

 beauty. Nature's work is so perfect 

 and always beautiful ; everywhere we 

 see the necessity that labor harmonize 

 with nature, everywhere we see the need 

 of the educated scientific hand, a hand 

 that labors wisely and well, a hand that 

 cultivates, purifies and refines. 



Maria. 



Remarks. — We are glad to hear of 

 progress of fruit culture on the grand 

 chain; those old time sand stone hills 

 have a charm for us, laden with their 

 rich offerings of peaches and apples, 

 and anon they will be cloth'd with the 



vine, the apricot, the pear and the boun- 

 teous small fruits of early summer. 

 Thus will the invalid from the North 

 drink in health from the pure air of these 

 romantic hill-sides and gather strength 



from ths gifts of Pomona. 



Ed. 



IProm the ChloaRO Deroocrnt.] 



Fairbanks' Scales. — A new scale 

 for weighing stock before loading in 

 cars, has lately been put up, we notice, 

 at the Cattle Yards of the Pittsburg & 

 Fort Wayne Railroad in this city, with 

 platform some thirty feet or more in 

 length, and of a width sufficient for 

 weighing a full car load at once. This 

 must be a very convenient and economi- 

 cal arrangement, where large quantities 

 of stock, as here, are to be weighed 

 for shipping. 



The scale bears the name of "Fair- 

 banks," which has long been familiar 

 wherever scales are used, and is always 

 the highest guaranty for excellence. — 

 It seems to be so constructed in all its 

 parts as to combine the greatest possible 

 strength, accuracy and durability, and 

 has a shallow pit, as have various other 

 modifications of Fairbank's large scales, 

 many of these requiring only twelve 

 inches of extreme depth, which adapts 

 them to locations where greater depth 

 would be an objection. 



[From HuDt's Merchant's Magazine.] 



Fairbanks' Scales. — Weighed in the 

 balance of a just criticism, all are 

 obliged to admit that the scales of Fair- 

 banks k Co. are, without exception, the 

 best ever invented. We know whereof 

 we affirm, because we have tested their 

 value, and are fully satisfied of their su- 

 perior merits. The introduction of these 

 scales has wroufiht a revolution in the 

 transaction of various business, and their 

 accuracy is such that a uniformity in 

 weights has been established all over the 

 country, thus making them a nationaly 

 legalized standard. Nor are they con- 

 fined to the United States ; they have 

 found their way to almost every part of 

 the civilized world, and are adapted to 

 the standards of all countries, so that it 

 may be said, all nations, if not "weighed 

 in the balances,'' at least weigh by them. 



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[From the ScUntlflc American, Sept. 3, 1859.] 



Spauldinq's Prepared Glue. — We 

 have received several samples of Pre- 

 pared Liquid Glue, put up in small 

 bottles, by Mr. H. C. Spaulding, 30, 

 Piatt street New York, and have tried 

 it in mending old furniture. It is a 

 very convenient article for domestic use, 

 and deserves to be kept constantly on 

 hand in every household. It is also a 

 convenient article for pattern-makers 

 and inventors in constructing and re- 

 pairing their models. 



