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young ; allow them every favorable opportunity 

 for free exercise, and we shall have what every 

 sensible man or woman admires, good horses. — 

 Cor. N. E. Farmer. 



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Dutch Cheese. — The " farmer's girl," who 

 can make "tip-top Dutch cheese;" and tells 

 how it is done, is no doubt an adept in the art. 

 I know a farmer's wife who has made " lots of 

 it, and thinks none can make better. She pours 

 boiling water over thick milk in thp pans. The 

 curd phould be moved gently with a large spoon, 

 that the water may reach the bottom of the pan. 

 The curd and whey will separate in a few min- 

 utes ; pour off the whey, and if the curd is too 

 tender, pour over it hot water the second time, 

 and move the curd about as at first ; then pour 

 off the water, and put the curd in a thin, course 

 cloth, and hang it up to drain an hour or two ; 

 then add salt, a little butter or cre^m, or both ; 

 work it in or make into hallp. This way is pre- 

 ferahlo to heating the milk over the fire, or upon 

 a stove, and is much less work and trouble. Try 

 it and see if you do not like it better. 



Mrs. Lymak. 



To Destroy Wakts on a Cow's Teats — In 

 answer to your East Btidgewater " Subscriber," 

 I would say that I have a voung cow whose teats 

 last spring were covered with warts. I took the 

 water that baking beans, (common pea beans) 

 had been soaked or boiled in, and washed the 

 teats twice a day, for a week or so, using a shal- 

 low three-pint pan, so I could wet all the teats at 

 once, leaving the water to dry on them. The 

 warts all disappeared in two or three weeks, and 

 the teats are now perfectly fmoothe and free 

 fron- warts. — Oor. N. E. Farmer. 



The Tomatoe — lis PaopERHES.— Dr. Bennet, 

 a professor of some celebrity, considers it an in 

 valuable article of diet, and ascribes to it very 

 important medical properties : 



1. That the tomatoe is one of the most power- 

 ful aperients of the Materia Medica, and that in 

 all those affections of the liver and organs, where 

 calomel is indispensible, it is probably the most 

 effective and least harmful remedial agent known 

 to the profession. 



2. That a chemical extract will be obtained 

 from it which will altogether supersede the use 

 of calomel in the cure of disease. 



3. That he has eucoeeBfully treated diarrhea 

 with this article alone. 



4. That when used as an article of diet, it is a 

 sovereign remedy for dysjpejpsia and indigestion. 



6. That the citizens in^prdinary should make 

 use of it, either raw, cooked or in the form of a 

 catsup, with their daily food a£ it ia a most 

 healthy article. — Repository. , 



Cottonized Flax. — During the past year a 

 series of experiments, mechanical and chemic al 

 combined, have been made in Rhode Island, the 

 object of which was to provide, as a substitute 

 for cotton, a material that could be manufactured 

 without any alteration of machinery now in use. 



The object has been attained by the production 

 of a material properly named cottonized flax. 



The flax is pulled in the field by a machine 

 which does the work of forty men. Either ma- 

 tured flax or flax not in seed may be used. As 

 flax is cultivated for the seed a double crop may 

 thus be produced — a crop of seed ae well as 

 of flax. 



The dried flax, as gathered from the field, is 

 first cut by machinery into suitable lengths, rep- 

 resenting the staple of upland cotton about pne 

 and one eight inch long. This process is per- 

 formed by automation machinery with great fa- 

 cility and a little cost. The material is subjec-, 

 ted to a steaming process in large vats, is then 

 dried by machinery, rapidly revolving. 



Next it passes through what may be called a 

 ginning process, whereby the woody husk or 

 chives is separated from the fibre.* By chemical 

 process fhe fibre is then exploded longitudinally, 

 and assumes the required fineness of cotton. 

 Thie whole process is rapid, simple and cheap. 



In this form the material is successfully carded, 

 spun and woven. Beautiful specimens of flax 

 cotton, drawing?, rovings, yarn and cloth, and 

 also of flax mixed with cotton, have been exhibi- 

 ted to the Secretary of the interior and others 

 by ex-Gov. Jackson, of Rhode Island. a,^, > 



As a material for mixture with wool the cot^cja- 

 ized flax is vastly preferable to cotton. It com 

 bines in the carding process with greater facility. 

 The yarn is stronger. The cloth is more dura- 

 ble, even more so than if made wholly of wool. 

 The lustre of the cloth is improved. Flax wool 

 also receives a dye with the same facility as wool 

 itself. — National Intelligencer. 



Plowing. — J. H. S. writes to the " Boston 

 Cultivator:" 



•• Few are aware to what extent ploughing 

 land when wet injures the crops, to say nothing 

 about the land. Last spring I plowed three back 

 furrows on cord-stubble ground, when the ground 

 was hard and dry. The remainder of the field 

 I plowed soon after a heavy rain, when the 

 ground was wet. The consequence was, I had 

 nearly twice as much broom corn, and that too 

 of a superior quality, on the land that was 

 ploughed when dry. 



" I also tried billing potatoes when wet, but I 

 shall never attempt it again. It is rather an ex- 

 pensive way of economizing time. It is said 

 there is a time for every thing, but the time for 

 ploughing is not when the land is wet." 



J®"The world is twice a^ long from east to 

 west, as from north to south. All maps of the 

 world show this. .. v ■ ..' \. !■• 'i 



father was winding his watch, when be 

 playfully said to his little girl. " Let me wind 

 your no?e up." "No," eaid the little girl, I 

 don'^ want my nose wouijd up, for I dont want it 

 to run all day." .. ^ ,>'■ 



