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liesuscitatiou of Worii=3ut Liaiitl. 
Four years ago, Itvo gentlemen of this city, 
(Baltimore,) bought each a ten acre lot, adjoin- 
ing eadr other, on the road leading through the 
Canton property to Patapsco neck. At the 
lime of the purchase, these lots were the very 
pictures of poverty personified, slightly covered 
with sedge-grass of a stunted growth. Some 
years previous we had seen them in corn, with 
stalks about the thickne.ss of a man’s thumb ; 
as to ears, there were none — of nubbins even, 
the produce was scarcely worth gathering. 
The first spring after these lots came into Ihe 
pofsession of itieir present owners, they each 
plowed his respective lot as deep as strong dou- 
ble horse teams and good plows could plow it, 
then put on thirty double horse cartloads to the 
acre, of compost formed of street dirt and sta- 
ble manure; then cross-plowed the manure in 
some 4 inches deep, spread 100 brnshels of soap- 
boilers’ ashes to the acre, broadcast; harrowmd 
and rolled their ground, listed it 4 feet by 3, and 
planned it in corn, putting a handful of piaster 
and ashes on each hill. The product was 86 
bushels of good sound shelled corn to the acre. 
The cultivation of the corn, after the fi'st 
plowing, was with the cultivator ?nd hoe, Ihe 
object ol'the proprietors being to maintain aflat 
surface, with the view of seeding the lots down 
in grass. In August, after the corn had been 
laid by, the harrow was passed through the 
rows, and a peck of timothy seed and § lbs. of 
clover seed, sown upon each acre, which was 
harrowed in with a light harrow. 
The grass seed took well, and has produced 
from two and a half to three tons of excellent 
hay to the acre last year and the year before. 
We saw these lots a fe w weeks since, and from 
their luxuriant appearance, we should judge 
that their yield the present year will be equal to 
that of I’ae two preceding years. 
To enable the uninitiated to understand what 
is meant by soap-boilers’ ashes, we will remark 
that they are spent ashes, and generally contain 
about two-fifths of lime in their composition; 
so that he who uses them, both ashes and limes 
his land at one and the same time. 
A great horror is generally entertained at buy- 
ing worn-out lands; and, indeed, where means 
and plenty of money are not at hand to improve 
them, this horror is very justly entertained; for 
no amelioration can be produced until you re- 
store to the soli the elements of fertility of 
vvliich it may have been deprived by long con- 
tinued and improvident culture— but where the 
soil has been once good, it is an easy matter, 
with the proper kind of manure and plenty of it, 
to restore its wonted fertility. That such is the 
case, the lots in question offer the strongest evi- 
dence. For, from a state of abject poveny, 
they wmre brought up, by a single manuring, to 
a state of the highest fertilization, and have 
now, for the third year thereafter, (naintained it. 
The facts presented by this instance of restor- 
ing lands, once good, after being impoverished 
by an improper course of culture, should not be 
without its rrinral, as they hold out inducements 
to the^owners of such lands to exert themselves 
by all possible means, to accumulate manures 
and apply them to their exhausted fields, as 
there are none so poor but may be brought up 
by proper applications, in sufficient quantities, 
of vegetable, animal and mineral manures— 
and they point too, with unerring certainty, to 
the propriety of undertaking the improvement 
of no more land at a time than can be well im- 
proved. We are very certain that neither of 
these lots, unaided by manure, would have pro- 
duced more than 15 bushels of corn to the acre, 
and yet we see these poverty-stricken soils 
brought up in a single season, to the capacity of 
yielding 86 bushels, being over five times that 
quantity, and continuing their fertility for four 
years in succession, with every prospect of a 
thorough restoration having been effected. 
To Cook TomatvIEs. — He that does not love 
tomatoes is an object of pity. Every art ol 
cooking should ba employed to inveigle the ap- 
petite of every man to love a vegetable L 
wholesome. 
Peel a dozen ripe tomatoes and fry them in a 
little sweet butter, (which nine Hoosiersout of 
ten will understand to mean a little clean lard,) 
together with two or three sliced green peppers ; 
sprink.e on a little salt, and finally slice up an 
onion or two, and let the whole cook thorough- 
ly. This is the Spanish method of preparing 
them. 
Another method, which, from a long experi- 
ence we know will wear w^ell, is as follow's. 
The directions are for a mess of tomatoes 
amounting to about three pints when cooked : 
Begin by parboiling two onions. While 
this is doing peel the tomatoes, which is easily 
done after hot water has been poured over them 
—cut them up and add the onions, also a tea- 
cupful and a half of bread crumbled fine, a ta- 
ble spoonful of salt, a heaping teaspoonful of 
black pepper, a lump of butter of the size of a 
turkey’s egg, or about four table spoonfuls. 
Beatthe.se thoroughly together and set them 
over a slow fire to stew. They should cook 
slowly and for a long time ; never less than 
three hours, but the longer the better. About 
fifteen minutes before they are to be used beat 
up six eggs and stir them in, and put them on 
fresh coalk and give them one grand boil up, 
stirring them all the time. "When so cooked no 
directions will b-e needed how to eat them. 
The art of cooking the tomato lies mostly in 
cooking them enough. They should be put to 
work the first thing after the breakfast things 
are out of the way, even if you do not dine till 
three . — lactmna Farmer. 
The ignorant man is dead even while he 
walks upon the earth — though he is numbered 
with the living. 
