THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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MOLASSES FROM APPLES BY STEAMING. 



The following excellent method for making 

 use of apples, for the twofold purpose of making 

 molasses from them and converting the remain- 

 der into excellent food for farm stock, has just 

 been discovered to us by a friend. The apples 

 are placed in a hogshead made tight, for the pur- 

 pose, and subjected to the operation of steam. 

 The saccharine juice soon begins to ooze from 

 them, and drops down to the bottom of the hogs- 

 head into the vessel covering the bottom, placed 

 there for the purpose, from which it passes off 

 to proper receivers. The juice is subsequently 

 evaporated by boiling. Sour apples only have 

 been operated upon in this way. The quantity 

 of molasses obtained from them is ten gallons 

 for every fifteen bushels of apples, or a gallon 

 from a bushel and a half. This molasses differs 

 from sweet apple molasses in possessing a pe- 

 culiar tart flavor. The apples remaining in the 

 hogshead, being softened and well cooked, are 

 mixed with bread or meal and this constitutes an 

 excellent article of food for cattle. 



Boston Cultivator. 



For the Southern Planter. 

 CURE FOR POLL EVIL. 



As soon as the place comes to a head cut it 

 open and place in the wound a small lump of 

 arsenic. This will entirely destroy what is de- 

 nominated proud flesh. This being removed, 

 rub the sore with some simple healing ointment. 

 This is a certain cure. W. 



AN IMPORTANT INVENTION. 



We have been much interested in the effects 

 of a small instrument having the appearance of a 

 child's whistle, but performing the important 

 office of inflating and distending the lungs, and 

 giving them a healthy action. It almost per- 

 forms miracles. A friend who has just returned 

 from Philadelphia and who has used one of these 

 tubes for a fortnight, measures about four inches 

 more around the chest than when he commenced 

 its use ; his voice is fuller and stronger, and there 

 is every indication of permanent improvement. 

 This important little agent in removing consump- 

 tion is formed on very simple principles ; the pa- 

 tient breaths entirely through a tube for four or 

 five minutes, inhaling the air through one aper- 

 ture, and exhaling it through a smaller aperture, 

 thus retaining one quarter of each inspiration, 

 which tends to expand the lungs. This instru- 

 ment is the invention of Dr. S. S. Rose, of Phi- 

 ladelphia, a man of great talents, who makes 

 that wide-spread disease, consumption, his sole 

 study, and who, if his directions are followed, 

 promises almost to banish from the land this bale- 

 ful and inveterate foe to human life. He has 



written a treatise on consumption which all who 

 have weak lungs should procure and read. 



Boston Evening Journal. 



SODA BREAD. 



A correspondent of the Neivry Telegraph gives 

 the following recipe for making "soda bread," 

 stating that " there is no bread to be had equal 

 to it for invigorating the body, promoting diges- 

 tion, strengthening the stomach, and improving 

 the state of the bowels." He says, "put a 

 pound and a half of good wheaten meal into a 

 large bowl, mix with it two teaspoonsful of 

 finely powdered salt, then take a large teaspoon- 

 ful of super-carbonate of soda, dissolve it in 

 half a tea-cupful of cold water, and add it to 

 the meal; rub up all intimately together, then 

 pour into the bowl as much very sour butter- 

 milk as will make the whole into soft dough (it 

 should be as soft as could possibly be handled, 

 and the softer the better,) form it into a cake of 

 about an inch thickness, and put it into a flat 

 Dutch oven or frying-pan, with some metalic 

 cover, such as an oven-lid or griddle, apply a 

 moderate heat underneath for twenty minutes, 

 then lay some clear live coals upon the lid, and 

 keep it so for half an hour longer (the under 

 heat being allowed to fall off gradually for the 

 last fifteen minutes,) taking off the cover occa- 

 sionally to see that it does not burn. This, he 

 concludes, when somewhat cooled and moder- 

 ately buttered, is as wholesome as ever entered 

 man's stomach. William Clacker, Esq. of Gos- 

 ford, has ordered a sample of the bread to be 

 prepared, and a quantity of the meal to be kept 

 for sale at the Markethill Temperance Soup and 

 Coffee Rooms. — Farmers' JMagazine.. 



EMBOSSING ON WOOD. 



The following method of embossing on woocf ? 

 invented by Mr. St raker, is extracted from the 

 Transactions of the Society of Arts ; it may be 

 used either by itself or in aid of carving, and 

 depends on the fact, that, if a depression be 

 made by a blunt instrument on the surface of 

 wood, such depressed part will again rise to its 

 original level by subsequent immersion in water. 

 The wood to be ornamented having first been 

 worked out to its proper shape, is in a state to 

 receive the drawing of the pattern ; this being 

 put in, a blunt steel tool, or burnisher, or die, is 

 to be applied successively to all those parts of 

 the pattern intended to be in relief, and at the 

 same time is to be driven very cautiously with- 

 out breaking the grains of the wood, till the 

 depth of the depression is equal to the subse- 

 quent prominence of the figures. The ground 

 is then to be reduced by planing or filing to the 

 level of the depressed part, after which the piece 

 of wood being placed in water, either hot or 



