editor’s table. 
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Eattor’s gialile. 
German Method of Making Flowers Grow in the 
Winter. —We saw off such a branch of any shrub as 
will answer our purpose, and then lay it for an hour or 
two in a running stream, if we can find one. The 
object of this is to get the ice from the bark, and soften 
the buds. It is afterward carried into our warm rooms 
and fixed upright in a wooden box or tub containing 
water. Fresh burnt lime is then added to the water 
and allowed to remain in it about twelve hours, when 
it is removed, and water added, with which a small 
quantity of vitriol is mixed to prevent its putrifying. In 
the course of some hours the blossoms begin to make 
their appearance, and afterward the leaves. If more 
lime be added, the process is quickened, while if it be 
not used at all, the process is retarded and the leaves 
appear before the blossom.— Farmers’ Gazette. 
Production of Hemp. —In 1841 and 1842, the entire 
receipts of hemp at New Orleans were only 1211 bales; 
in 1842 and 1843 they rose to 15,000 bales, and in 
1843 and 1844 they reached 38,000 bales, or about 
5,000 tons—the increase being almost exclusively from 
Illinois and Missouri. It will not be long before hemp, 
and also wool, will become important articles of export. 
Exportation of Indian Corn. —We learn that the 
quantity of Indian corn shipped from this port to Eng¬ 
land during the first eight months of 1844, was 190,000 
bushels. Same months in 1843, only 35,000 bushels. 
To Destroy the Curculio. —A correspondent of the 
Cincinnati Horticultural Society says, that the experi¬ 
ment of saturating the bark of the plum tree “ for a 
short distance” with spirits of turpentine, and tying 
a rag dipped therein around the tree, has been found to 
protect the fruit completely from the ravages of the 
curculio, when all other plums not so protected were 
destroyed.— Dollar Farmer. 
To Make Yellow Butter in Winter. —Put in yolk of 
eggs just before the butter comes, near the termination 
of the churning. This has been repeatedly tried, and 
it makes very fine sweet butter. It is kept by many as 
a great secret, but its great value requires publicity.— 
Boston Cultivator. 
Heavy Yield of Wheat. —Mr. James M. Underwood, 
of the town of Middlesex, in this county, cut fifty-two 
bushels and fifty-six pounds of wheat upon one acre of 
ground, selected from about thirty, which he thinks will 
yield nearly the same amount.— Pen Yan Democrat. 
To Preserve Butter without Salting .—The Arabs 
melt their butter over a slow fire, which expels all the 
watery particles; it will then keep without salt; and 
the Irish have adopted, with success, a similar mode for 
exportation to the East Indies.— South Western Farm. 
Linseed Oil. —The Cincinnati Gazette states, that 
there are five linseed oil mills in that city, and another 
one in the course of erection. They are capable of 
making, in the aggregate, 900 gallons of oil per day. 
Cincinnati supplies the whole west, including New Or¬ 
leans and Mobile, with the article. The manufacture 
of linseed oil for export is a new business in the west. 
It is only a few years since it was obtained from the 
east in large quantities, for western consumption. 
Clay on Trees. —Mr. Timothy Hill of Wrentham, 
who has much experience in grafting and in nursing 
trees, tells us he finds clay an excellent article to apply 
to the bodies of apple-trees after scraping off the moss 
and the rough bark; he prefers this to a wash with 
potash water. 
He also says he has killed all the lice, called aphides, 
that are so very troublesome on the extremities of young 
trees, by one application of clay. We hope our friends 
in great numbers will make trial of this remedy, as ley 
can not be used on the tender twigs and leaves of 
trees.— Mass. Plowman. 
We can not see how clay can be applied to the tender 
twig either, without great labor and perhaps some 
injury. 
Medical Power of Ash. —It is known to some of our 
readers that liquor from white ash bark is used for 
sheep that have been poisoned by eating lambs-bane. 
Mr. Adam Capen of Stoughton, tells us there are on his 
farm two kinds of white ash nearly resembling each 
other. That the bark of one is valuable, and the liquor 
from it is certain cure for poisoned sheep; while the 
bark of the other is worthless. Will some of our read¬ 
ers give us a hint on this subject, and a description of 
the true medical kind 1—Ib. 
Biography of an Extraordinary Porker. —We give 
below from the New England Farmer an extract from 
a report of the committee on swine at the late meeting 
of the Essex Agricultural Society. We presume it is 
from the pen of the chairman, F. Poole, Esq. If the 
tribe of sus aper don’t get immortalized, it will not be 
for want of comic humor in the histories and descriptions 
of him by the wits of old Massachusetts. It is appa¬ 
rent now that the lamented Lincoln left his mantle 
behind him. 
“Linn, too,has her share of swinish honors, derived 
from the extraordinary merits of a single individual of 
the race, of whom the committee have it in their power 
to present a biographical sketch. We are indebted to 
Mr. John Alley 3d, under whose patronage this indi¬ 
vidual was reared and educated, for some particulars of 
his life. 
“ Of his origin we know but little, except that he was 
the son of his mother , who died suddenly when he was 
a few months old and left him an early orphan. He 
became remarkable for his rapid growth and the excel¬ 
lence of his appetite, and soon arrived at that middle 
age of swinehood when his porkship appeared a living 
epitome of good nature and good living. He continued 
to expand in size until he became a Daniel Lambert of 
the race, and possessed great weight in swinish society. 
He was a solid character, and his specific gravity was 
only equalled by the gravity of his demeanor: indeed, 
there was nothing waggish about him—but his tail . 
He now became a worthy member of the I. O. of Fat 
Fellows, and attained to their highest degree. His cor¬ 
pulency prevented him from travelling, and although he 
had never been to roam (Rome), he was familiar with 
the rich stores of ancient and modern Grease. The 
state of the money market gave him no concern, and 
he cared little for the rise and fall of slocks— except 
corn-stalks , which he always appeared anxious to get 
down. He early acquired a disgust for party politics, 
by observing the greediness with which some partisans 
have thrust their snouts into the public swill pail. He 
even thought that some aspiring individuals had much 
better have a sty in their eye than the White House at 
Washington. In his political views there seemed to be 
something like inconsistency. He was in favor of pro : 
tection, and was a ravenous advocate of home consump¬ 
tion. He also favored, large corporations, and at the 
same time was a strong advocate of retrenchment, and 
delighted in cutting down celleries. He never was a 
candidate for any public station, and it is believed that 
his modesty would have prevented him from accepting 
the offer of any office, from that of Committee on 
Swine down to the President of the United States. 
« Notwithstanding he was ten feet long , from extrem¬ 
ity to extremity, the event proved he was not long for 
this world, and in his last extremity no friend was found 
