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add fresh ones; repeat this operation for a 
week; we expect, at the last straining, the fat 
will have become very highly perfumed, and 
when cold maybe justly termed pomade a la 
heliotrope. To turn this pomade into an extract 
fit for the handkerchief, all that has to be done 
is, to cut the perfumed fat into small pieces, drop 
it into a wide-mouthed bottle, and cover it with 
highly rectified spirit, in which it must remain 
for a week. When strained off the process will 
he completed. 
Good Method of Planting Strawberries. 
In transplanting, it is of importance to the 
immediate growth of the plant, that the roots be 
properly spread out, and not crowded together 
in the hole prepared to receive them. Mr. To¬ 
bias Martin, a nurseryman in Franklin Co., Pa., 
sends to the American Agriculturist a description 
of his method of accomplishing this, in plant¬ 
ing out strawberries—it 
is equally applicable to 
other plants which have 
spreading, fibrous roots. 
The illustration shows 
the manner of operating 
quite plainly. In the 
center of the hole, a lit¬ 
tle cone of earth, (not 
so regular or smooth as the one shown in the 
engraving,) is raised nearly level with the edges 
of the opening; the plant is set on the top of 
this, with the roots spread about its sides, and the 
bole filled with earth. It requires little addition¬ 
al trouble to transplant in this way, but it would 
seem to be worth the extra labor. We have 
practiced this method for a number of years, 
and have already advised our readers to adopt 
a similar plan. 
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Another Simple Fruit Gatherer. 
In the last number of the London Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, just at hand, w r e find a sketch of a 
home-made Fruit Gatherer which we re-engrave 
for the Agriculturist. It is very simple, and can 
be made in a few minutes by any person. We 
believe a similar implement is used in Germany 
for gathering apples, pears, and other large fruit. 
a is a round or oval piece of wood, say an inch 
thick, into which are inserted a number of round 
pegs, b, near enough together to catch the fruit, 
and fiir enough apart to admit the limbs or 
branches. Nailing the board to a pole, c, of any 
desired length, completes the apparatus. If the 
pegs are laffe, round, and smooth, they will not 
bruise the fruit. They will need to be five or 
six inches long to hold the fruit, and a curved 
handle would perhaps be preferable. Probably 
it would be better to slant the outer end of all 
the pegs a little inward. It is certainly prefer¬ 
able to shaking the fruit upon the ground, 
where it can not be hand-picked. 
Simple, Cheap, Unpatented Mode of Venti¬ 
lating or Purifying the air of a Room. 
Take a glass jar or other vessel, fill it with 
water, and invert it, placing the mouth in a pail, 
or tub, or pan of water. With a tube blow air 
from the lungs under the mouth of the jar, so 
that it will rise and displace all the water. 
Slip a plate, or piece of glass with a wet paper 
on it, under the mouth of the jar and turn it right 
side up. Bend a wire in the form of a hook, and 
attach a small piece of candle to the turned up 
end. Light this, and removing the plate or glass 
a little, let the candle down into the air that has 
been caught from the lungs. The flame and 
even the burning wick will be extinguished as 
effectually as if it had been let down into water. 
Or drop a mouse into the jar, covering it at once, 
and the mouse will die amost as soon as if in 
water. This simple experiment auy one can 
try with no other apparatus than a jar, and a 
large straw, or a tube of any kind. The exper¬ 
iment is important as showing that the air 
breathed from the lungs is so impure that it will 
not support life, nor even the burning of a can¬ 
dle or lamp. 
In a room 12 or 14 feet square, and 8 or 9 feet 
high, three or four persons will soon breathe 
over all the air. More or less air is constantly 
admitted through cracks and crevices, but in a 
tight room warmed by a stove, the change of air 
is far from rapid. With the good old fashioned 
fire-place, having a wide-necked chimney, the 
change of air was more rapid, and the occupants 
of rooms so warmed were healthier and strong¬ 
er than those dwelling in the modern, tight, 
stove heated rooms. 
Mr. David Lyman, ofMiddlefield, Ct., inform¬ 
ed us some years since that he had devised a 
cheap simple plan for ventilating close rooms, 
in which he had great faith: and now after four 
years’ trial in his own house, and in the dwel¬ 
lings of several of his neighbors, he has become 
so thoroughly convinced of its utility, that he de¬ 
sires to throw it open to the public, untrammeled 
by any patent. Any tin or sheet-iron worker 
can make the required pipe. [The engraving 
here shown was made by Mr. Wm. Howland, 
229 Broadway, N. Y., and duplicate copies can 
be had of Mr. Lyman by all editors desiring them, 
at the mere cost of making the duplicate plate.] 
The ventilator is essentially a tin or sheet iron 
pipe, open at the top and set against, or near the 
chimney, and connected with it at the bottom by 
an elbow joint or a side pipe. Fora room oc¬ 
cupied by three to six persons, he recommends 
a pipe 7 inches in diameter if round, or 5 by 10 
inches if oval or flattened. For a larger num¬ 
ber of occupants, he recommends an 8-inch 
round pipe, or better, an oval one 5^ by 11 inch¬ 
es. The cost varies from $21 to $4, according 
to form, size, and length. 
The action is represented by the arrows in the 
engraving. The cold air comes in through the 
windows, doors, or cracks, as indicated by the 
arrows not having feathered ends. Being heavy, 
it settles downward as shown by these arrows. 
It is warmed both by being breathed, and by 
coming in contact with the floor and furniture, 
when it rises upward as shown by the arrows 
with feathered ends. The rarified air in the upper 
part of a room, which has been rendered most 
impure by exhalations from the body and the 
lungs, is drawn off by the draft of the chimney, 
down through the pipe, and is carried away. 
The object of this arrangement is, to take off the 
air from the upper part of the room, and at the 
same time avoid spoiling the draft of the stove 
pipe by any opening above the entrance.-In 
rooms warmed by basement furnaces, where the 
pure warm air first rises to the Top, before being 
used, the upright pipe is not needed, but simply 
an opening or short pipe at the bottom of the 
chimney flue. 
Such is Mr. Lyman’s plan, which he esteems 
of great utility, and claims that it has given the 
highest satisfaction in some forty dwellings whero 
he has induced people to try it, or to let him pul 
up one for them at his own expense. We must 
certainly give him credit for his unselfish efforts 
to induce people to use pure air, and we shall 
not call in question his belief that this is one 
of the best means of securing it. 
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Preserving Eggs. —W. R. Handy, Iron Go., 
Mo., writes to the American Agriadturist that 
eggs may be preserved fresh a whole year, as 
follows: Enclose as many eggs as convenient in 
a piece of mosquito netting or other thin cloth, 
plunge them in boiling water for twenty seconds, 
