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General Notices. 



make this important article as general as possible, I have a quantity of its seed 

 for sale; and, for the convenience of the English agriculturists, I have made 

 an offer to Mr. Charlwood to undertake the sale of it in England.— Stuttgard, 

 Dec. 30. 1838. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



A Stoneware Churn, of which Jig. 24. is a perspective view, has lately been 

 invented, or brought into notice, by Mr. Daniel Chambers, of Carey Street, 



London. In form, and in the manner 

 of using, it is in every respect the same 

 as the patent box-churn figured in 

 page 1040. of the second edition of our 

 Encyclopedia of Agriculture ; but the 

 great advantage of the present inven- 

 tion is, that being made of earthenware 

 it is much easier kept clean and sweet 

 than when made of wood. The size of 

 that of which we have given a figure, 

 is the smallest that is made ; and it will 

 churn so small a quantity as half a 

 pound of butter at a time. As this 

 churn from being made of earthenware 

 is rather too heavy for being lifted up 

 and emptied, there is a small hole on 

 one side near the bottom (indicated 

 in the figure), to let off the butter- 

 milk ; which hole is easily stopped 

 with a common cork. The lid has a 

 rebate, as shown at a in the figure, for the purpose of preventing the milk 

 from splashing over during the operation of churning. 



We have much pleasure in noticing this invention, because it will not only 

 greatly contribute to cleanliness, and to the sweetness of the butter produced, 

 but also to lessening the labour of the dairymaid in scalding and scouring. 

 In Germany, there are small churns of the common plunge kind, made of china- 

 ware, in which a small quantity of butter may be churned ; but the labour in 

 churning with a plunge churn is much more disagreeable than that of churning 

 with the patent churn, whether formed of earthenware or wood. — Cond. 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 

 NORTH AMERICA. 



Philadelphia, Nov. 4. 1838. — You will receive with this a root and some 

 seed of the Kuhm'a eupatovioides, a very scarce plant in this vicinity. I have only 

 seen a few in a location about two miles above the city, on the immediate north 

 bank of the river Schuylkill. The plants that I obtained the seed from, I grew 

 in pots, and they flowered well. This is the first time I have seen the flower. 

 Dr. Torrey says the flowers are white ; with me they were cream-coloured, 

 which appears to be the difference between them and the eupatoriums. It 

 would make a good border plant, though rather coarse, yet of some con- 

 sequence to a botanical collection from its scarceness. It grows on a dry 

 gravel, which has very little soil amongst it. 



