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editoe’s table. 
Lard Oil. —-The firm of R,. W. Lee Co., manufac¬ 
tures eighty kegs of lard oil every twenty-four hours. 
The product in winter is one third elaine and two 
thirds stearine; in summer the proportion is exactly 
the reverse. The oil thus manufactured is equal to 
two hundred gallons per day. The value of the oil 
and stearine shipped from this single establishment du¬ 
ring the last sixteen months, is over $100,000. 
In the pork season the oil is made directly from the 
hog, the whole of which is used for the purpose, except 
the hams and shoulders. 
Sperm oil, prior to the manufacture of lard oil, was 
sold at from $1,25 to $1,50, according to quality. The 
corresponding qualities of lard oil are now 50 to 62| 
cents. But this comparison does not fully exhibit the 
difference in saving to the community; for it is a de¬ 
monstrable fact, that lard oil goes farther as a means 
of light, and the difference must be great in other uses. 
There is the same difference, and from the same 
cause, between summer and winter lard oils as in sum¬ 
mer and winter sperm oils. The article made in sum¬ 
mer holds more or less stearine in solution, which the 
access of cold weather readily detects, and renders ne¬ 
cessary that the winter supply should be made as that 
season approaches. 
Messrs Lee & Co. forward the article to every sec¬ 
tion of our country, and even beyond the Atlantic. In 
New York and still farther east, it sells side by side 
with its great rival, sperm, and is steadily winning its 
way into public favor. As to the western market, it is 
rapidly driving out of use all other oils, either for light 
or machinery. 
Lard oil is made in Cincinnati in twenty-two estab¬ 
lishments, which manufacture an aggregate of 600,000 
gallons per annum, value at 50 cts., nearly one third of 
a million of dollars. The value of the stearine and 
other residuum, must be at least as much more, these 
articles having steadily advanced in price since the in¬ 
troduction of the lard oil manufacture. 
We copy the above from the Cincinnati Advertiser, 
which cautions the public upon the matter of all sorts 
of grease sold as lard oil, greatly to the prejudice of the 
pure, well-manufactured article. We hope that people 
here will also take heed to the caution ; for nothing is 
more common, even in this market, than vile grease 
hawked about as “pure, genuine, unadulterated lard 
oil of the first quality.” 
Potato Pot.—-In the Utica Daily Gazette, Geo. R. 
Perkins, Esq., makes the following valuable observa¬ 
tions on this alarming disease : “ For several days past 
I have been making a few observations, in order, if 
possible, to determine the cause of this disease. I find 
the vines of those potatoes which are rotten, to be 
hollow for four or five inches above the surface of the 
ground; they bear the appearance of having been eaten 
out by an insect, and in many cases I discovered a small 
green colored maggot in the cavity. On scraping off 
the outer bark from the vine I discovered that the leaf¬ 
let buds had the appearance of having been eaten out, 
leaving holes through which I conjectured the insect 
had passed. Those vines attached to a sound and ripe 
potato were solid and partially green. Is it not possi¬ 
ble, and highly probable, that all this evil may thus be 
caused by an insect ? 
Farm Architecture. —We shall be obliged to our 
jocose cotemporary of the Maine Farmer, if he will 
Send us the “jack-knife” cut of his Quoddy wigwam , 
and he may be assured that we shall reciprocate the 
favor in an Omahaw lodge , “ corn-stalks and all,” the 
moment we obtain possession thereof. If he can add 
a charming aboriginal to adorn the wigwam, and to 
cook the Quoddy blue potatoes which we have con¬ 
tinued to raise in large quantities from the seed he sent 
us some years ago, we shall esteem his gift then as 
beyond price. Let the said person be as light com¬ 
plexion ed and rosy as convenient, with as many good 
points, moral, intellectual, and physical, as can be found. 
Green Corn Pudding. —The Louisville Journal say.'; 
that the following recipe will produce one of the rarest 
delicacies ever brought to the table: Take of green 
corn twelve ears, and grate it. To this add a quart ol 
sweet milk, a quarter ol’ a pound of fresh butter, fou? 
eggs, well beaten, pepper and salt, as much as suffi 
cient; stir all well together, and bake four hours in a 
buttered dish. Some add to the other ingredients a 
quarter of a pound of sugar, and eat the pudding with 
sauce. It is good cold or warm, with meat or sauce; 
but epicures of the most exquisite taste declare for it, 
we believe, hot, and with the first service. 
CheapManure. —By mixing at the rate of one cask of 
unslaked lime to a cart load of straw, potato tops, and 
corn stalks, and heaping them all together, Mr. Barton 
converted the above materials into good manure in 14 
days.— Maine Farmer. 
The Cockle Burr Poisonous to Hogs. —The South¬ 
western Farmer says that whenever hogs are turned 
into a pasture where cockle burr grows, they invariably 
die. 
Twenty-seven Crops of Rye in Succession. —We find 
in the Boston Cultivator, that Mr. Mark Cooper, near 
the village of Enterprise, Lancaster co., Pa., had a 
very fine crop of rye the past season, being the twenty- 
seventh in succession on the same field, and what is 
most extraordinary, the land has not received a spade¬ 
ful of manure for 27 years. We are confident it must 
have had something else then, to give food for the rye. 
There are instances where lands have grown a contin¬ 
uation of grain crops without apparent diminution, for 
years; but these were the rich bottom lands of rivers 
or lakes, where food had been accumulating for the 
crops for centuries, and could not consequently be soon 
exhausted. 
The Prune. —This tropical fruit has been success¬ 
fully cultivated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.— South. Cult. 
Agricultural Society Shows for October.— 
Cayuga county, 
at 
Auburn, October 9 and 10 
Tompkins 
ee 
ee 
Ithica, “ 
4, 
5 
Green 
ee 
ee 
Cairo, “ 
16, 
17 
Lewis 
ee 
ee 
W. Martinsburg, 12, 
13 
Otsego 
ee 
ee 
Cooperstown, 
2, 
3 
Madison 
ee 
ee 
Cazenovia, “ 
1, 
2 
Wayne 
ee 
ee 
Lyons, “ 
2, 
3 
Cortland 
ee 
ee 
Homer, “ 
2, 
3 
Chemung 
ee 
ee 
Havana, “ 
2, 
3 
Orange 
ee 
ee 
Goshen, “ 
23, 
— 
Montgomery 
■ ee 
ee 
Fonda, “ 
11, 
12 
Monroe 
ee 
ee 
Rochester, “ 
8, 
9 
Wayne 
ee 
ee 
Lyons, “ 
28, 
— 
Niagara 
ee 
ee 
Lockport, “ 
9, 
10 
Pennsylv. State Show 
Philadelphia, “ 
16, 
17 
Mass’etts 
ee 
ee 
Worcester, “ 
9, 
10 
“ Hampden, 
Springfield, “ 
16, 
17 
To Correspondents. —H. T. of Ohio, with a pack¬ 
age, is received. The contents will appear from month 
to month, and all inquiries answered in due time. The 
suggestions will be carried out in our next volume. 
The plans of farm buildings by L. F. A. are in the 
hands of the engraver, and will appear in the January 
No. for 1845, if not previously. We are promised the 
prize ones for our two next. With so many things as 
are continually charged upon our memory, we had 
entirely forgotten the latter. We are in receipt of 
several other communications which we have not room 
to notice. 
