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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



of veal not cooked, chop it fine, put a small 

 quantity of beef, salt, some crumbs of bread, say 

 half as much as meat — season the mixture 

 highly with sage, sweet herbs and pepper, nut- 

 meg and salt, roll the balls round and then flatten 

 them and fry thern in butter a light brown, and 

 when the soup is ready to be served drop thern 

 in : either celery tops or parsley in small quantity 

 is an improvement to the soup ; they must be 

 cut very small. 



RECIPE FOR TOMATO CATSUP. 



Put ripe tomatoes in a pot with only enough 

 water to keep them from sticking to the bottom 

 of the pot. When they have boiled sufficiently 

 to split the skins and make their juice, strain 

 through a sifter. 



To one gallon of juice put two pounds of 

 brown sugar, two table-spoonfuls of flour of mus- 

 tard, a good handful of black pepper, (allspice 

 and mace, if you wish, may be added in small 

 quantities,) let it boil until it thickens. Just be- 

 fore you take it off pour in a quart of sharp 

 vinegar and salt, to your taste, 



GINGER BEER. 



Lump sugar § a pound. 

 Cream of tartar ^ an ounce. 

 Bruised ginger 1 ounce. 

 Boiling water 1 gallon. 

 Ferment 24 hours with yeast. 



MANURE, 



It is well known that in a close stable, where 

 there are a good many horses, there is a very 

 pungent smell affecting the eyes and nose, more 

 particularly when the stable is being cleaned 

 out. This smell is occasioned by the flying off 

 of ammonia, which is the essence and value of 

 manure and which volatilizes or flies off at a 

 very low temperature: even the warmth of the 

 manure in a stable will send it off, and it goes 

 off in great quantities by the common heat of 

 the manure in a farm-yard whether thrown up 

 in heaps or not. There is, however, a very 

 cheap and simple remedy for this. Before you 

 begin to clear out your stable, dissolve some 

 common salt in water; if a four horse stable 

 say four pounds of salt, disso.ved in two buckets 

 of water and poured through the nose of a wa- 

 tering pan over the stable floor an hour or so 

 before you begin to move the manure, and the 

 volatile sabs of ammonia will become fixed salts 

 from their having united with the muriatic acid 

 of the common salt, and the soda thus liberated 

 from the salt will quickly absorb carbonic acid, 

 forming carbonate of soda, thus you will retain 

 with your manure the ammonia that would 

 otherwise fly away, and you have also a new 

 and most important agent. — JV. E. Farmer. 



EDUCATION. 



The following brief but beautiful passage oc- 

 curs in a late article in Frazer's Magazine: 



"Education does not commence with the al- 

 phabet. It begins with a mother's look — with 

 a father's nod of approbation, or a sigh of re- 

 proof — with a sister's gentle pressure of the 

 hand, or a broiher's noble act of forbearance — 

 with handfuls of flowers in green and daisy 

 meadows — with birds' nests admired, but not 

 touched — with creeping ants, and almost imper- 

 ceptible emmets — with humming bees and glass 

 beehives — with pleasant walks in shady lanes — 

 and with thoughts directed in sweet and kindly 

 tones and words, to nature, to beauty, to acts of 

 benevolence, to deeds of virtue, and to the sense 

 of all good, to God himself. 



For the Southern Planter. 



REAPING MACHINE. 



Mr. Editor, — I saw in one of your back ma- 

 gazines, (March, I think,) an account of a 

 " Reaping Machine," patented by Mr. M'Cor- 

 mick. Can you mention in your next Planter 

 whether this machine can be used on hilly, un- 

 even, or stony ground, and with what success? 

 I also read an advertisement of Mr. M'Cormick's 

 in one of the Washington papers, in which he 

 guarantees his machine to reap from fifteen to 

 twenty acres per diem. Can you let me know 

 the results of your experience in the above ? as 

 reaping season will soon be at hand, and oblige 



Agricola. 



JYew York, July 21, 1844. 



Experience is the best teacher, and the unani- 

 mous approbation of those who have thoroughly 

 tested them has satisfied us of the efficiency 

 and duration of M'Cormick's reaper. We con- 

 fess we were a little afraid of this machine at 

 first, and were rather inclined to give the pre- 

 ference to Hussey's. But all inference must 

 yield to facts, and we are now satisfied from the 

 testimony of some of the most judicious farmers 

 in the State, that our fears were entirely ground- 

 less. It is only necessary to refer to the nume- 

 rous certificates in the Whig and Enquirer from 

 ihose who have used them, which are too long 

 to be transferred to our columns, to satisfy us of 

 the utility of this machine. 



In answer to our correspondent, we have to 

 say, that the machine can be successfully used 

 upon hilly, uneven, or stony ground, provided the 

 hills are not too steep, and the stones too large. 

 The knife cuts a swath of about six feet in 

 width ; any obstacle projecting more than nine 

 inches from the surface would present an impe- 



