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meat and chopped suet, well kneading it together 

 with a clean hand, throwing in the sifted sage, 

 and pepper and salt from a coarsish pepper box 

 during the operation, so as to let them impreg- 

 nate the whole mass without being predominant 

 in any part of it. 



Press the whole when w T ell mixed together 



into a wide mouthed jar, and keep it from the 

 air in a cold place. 



Roll the sausages on a flour board and use 

 very little grease in frying them, as they will be 

 almost fat. enough to fry themselves with the 

 aid of a frying pan. 



PLOUGH CULTIVATOR 



The above is a perspective view of an imple- 

 ment we saw at the North, which we heard 

 very highly recommended for the cultivation of 

 corn. The Editor of the "Central New York 

 Farmer" says it is superseding the common corn 

 cultivator wherever it is introduced, and gives 

 the following description of it : 



"It is very simple in its construction, works 

 freely in the soil and does the work much more 

 thoroughly than the small teeth in common use. 



"There is little or no improvement in the 

 frame except that it is shorter and higher than 

 the common one. 



" The improvement consists in the use of three 

 teeth of about four times the size of those in 

 use — with false points; the front tooth cuts and 

 turns the furrow both ways ; the hind teeth each 

 have a land side and false points — for the first 

 time dressing of corn the two back teeth are set 

 to turn the furrow inwards, that is from the corn, 

 and at the second dressing, they are transposed 

 so as to turn the furrow towards the corn." 



This cultivator is styled "Wood's patent." — 

 We do not. know in what the claim consists, nor 

 do we exactly see that there is novelty in the 

 implement sufficient to sustain a patent. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 

 NUTRITIVE QUALITIES OF CHARCOAL, 



Though the importance of mixing charcoal 

 with the food of animals, particularly that of 

 swine, has been generally acknowledged, and 

 its benefits extensively tested, still it has been 

 supposed that it only acted as a corrective to the 

 acid tendency of food, and facilitated fattening 

 by improving the health of the animal. Some 

 experiments are, however, on record, which 

 would seem to show ihat charcoal acts a more 

 important part in the matter than has been usu- 

 ally assigned to it. 



In 1793, a family being driven from New 

 York by the fever, were absent six or eight 

 weeks before it was deemed prudent to return. 

 A number of fowls confined in a loft to the 

 workshop of the house, were forgotten at the 

 time of leaving, and as it was known that there 

 was nothing provided for their subsistence, it 

 was expected on the return ihat they would be 

 found starved to death. To the astonishment 

 of all, the fowls were found alive and fat, though 

 there was nothing upon which they could have 

 fed, except a quantity of charcoal and shavings, 

 water being supplied from the grindstone trough. 



These facts coming to the knowledge of a 

 gentleman in New York, as we learn from the 



