846 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
A YANKEE OF THE RIGHT SORT. 
The National Magazine for February we have 
received, and read with abundant pleasure. It 
contains many valuable and very readable arti¬ 
cles. One of these, which especially delighted 
us, is entitled “Editorial Jottings at the West.” 
In this number the writer, arriving at Detroit, 
gives a brief description of the city, including 
the residence of General Cass; who, though a 
millionaire, lives in an unpretending cottage in 
the “back part” of the city. After a pleasant 
chat with the old statesman, he leaves him, and 
continues his narrative as follows: 
Pressing our way through the throngs of men 
and freight that crowd the grand railroad depots 
of the city — depots which cover acres — we 
found ourselves again on board a steamboat bound 
for Lake Huron. We were hardly on board, 
when my friend introduced me to a passenger, 
who, I saw at a glance, was a “ character.” He 
wore a hat that certainly had not been brushed 
for six months, and might have been as many 
years old; it was high, and, falling slightly 
aback, disclosed as genuine a Yankee contour 
as ever the London Punch or Yankee Notions 
portrayed—that prominence of the nasal region, 
outpointed if not uppointed, those lines radia¬ 
ting from the eyes and extending to the very 
ears, those thin but tough integuments, and 
that indescribable expression of easy self-pos¬ 
session, of mingled “ cuteness” and good humor, 
which have become the moral and physiogno¬ 
mical characteristics of Brother Jonathan the 
world over. His shoes were rough, heavy 
clumps of leather, that certainly had never 
known “blacking;” his coat and pantaloons 
were black woolen, of the coarsest, strongest 
texture; his shirt bosom and collar were un¬ 
starched coarse cotton, and he wore no stock. 
He evidently did not relish the delectation of 
shaving, and his speech was the very perfection 
of the nasal drawl. He might defy the best 
Yankee “Shaker” of Enfield to beat him in the 
last respect. And yet there was something ex¬ 
ceedingly interesting about him. He announced 
himself to me, when introduced, as a “ loafer of 
the seventh distillation;” he seemed to be con¬ 
scious of his appearance, and to enjoj r the prac¬ 
tical joke it was playing upon the fashionable 
dilettanteism of the world. For after all, he 
stood before us a genuine man—a man who had 
nobly fought with misfortune and won the day, 
who was religiously upright, whose energies are 
expended in doing good in the noblest way, by 
promoting education and virtue, whose name is 
on an important literary institution of the West, 
and who was now actually on his way to the 
Chippewa camp-meeting, to obtain two or three 
young Indians whom he wished to educate at 
his own expense, for the benefit of their race. 
We learned that he was in fact a real Con¬ 
necticut Yankee, from Litchfield County—that, 
Yankee like, he started in youth to teach in the 
South; that finding it rather poor business for 
both health and pocket, he returned destitute 
and sick, not to hang upon the “ old folks,” but 
heroically to marry a Yankee girl of like mind 
with himself, and then, armed with his ax and 
accompanied by his bride, to march bravely 
into the western woods. Here he located about 
twelve miles south of Cleveland, and putting 
down his stakes rejoiced with his young wife, 
thanked God, took courage, and “ shook his 
stick” at fortune with manly defiance. In brief, 
he has formed a village, (the well known Berea 
of the West,) has given it the buildings and 
necessary annual income of a floui’ishing board- 
ing academy; has opened a grindstone quarry 
from which is paid this income, and also $500 a 
year to the Missionary Society; has built a rail¬ 
road (of which he is sole proprietor) connecting 
the village with the Cleveland and Columbus 
road; has built cotton and woolen manufac¬ 
tories, in which all his own clothes are manufac¬ 
tured ; and, being a genuine Yankee, (that is, a 
thoroughly practical man,) he has, last of all, 
erected a large stone edifice for another academy 
—a sort of manual-labor school, on a plan of his 
own. In this institution he has placed a steam- 
engine and apparatus, for the manufacture of 
cloth and for knitting- under-garments and hosi¬ 
ery, by which he is to furnish employment to 
female pupils; while a farm, fi'om which he 
hopes to draw full subsistence for the school, is, 
together with a stone quany, to afford labor and 
manly muscles to the male pupils. The design 
is to affoi’d education to young men and women 
who are under the necessity of “ working their 
way.” No one not dependent upon such efforts 
is to be admitted. Several students are already 
there and at work. God bless you, John Bald¬ 
win, with your old hat and rough shoes, your 
big heart and generous deeds! 
The narrative continues with the trip round 
the lakes, up Saginaw bay and river, and then 
through the woods to an Indian camp several 
miles beyond the Titbewasse river. The writer 
does not fall into the usual routine of a dull 
joui - nal, but desci'ibes objects and incidents in 
so life-like a manner that the reader follows him 
with intense interest through several pages, and 
at the end regrets that he must wait another 
month for the next number.” That the de¬ 
scription of the camp scene is a faithful one we 
can testify, for we have witnessed those like it. 
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For the American Agriculturist. 
TO MAKE YELLOW BUTTER. 
In an article i-elative to making yellow butter 
by the addition of the yolk of eggs, found on 
page 200 of the Agriculturist, I notice an inquiry 
to those who have “repeatedly tried it;” 
whether the yolk of eggs, mingled with butter, 
really improves its rich flavoi - , &c. I have not 
repeatedly tried it, once ti’ying being sufficient 
for my purpose. It is true, the yolk of eggs 
added to a batch of white butter produced a 
tolei’able fair specimen to the eye. I caught 
the idea from an article in its round in the pa¬ 
pers some two or three years since, but did not 
get sufficiently into the secret to succeed in 
mixing it, so as to make what we would call 
very fine butter when it came to be tested by 
the palate; and particularly so, after it had 
been kept a few weeks. Indeed, we would pre¬ 
fer the eggs on one plate, and the butter on an¬ 
other. The best method we have found to 
make yellow butter in winter is as follows : 
We keep our cream in a stone jar, and al¬ 
though it is believed best to keep the cream or 
milk at as near as possible to a temperature of 
about 60 to 62 or 65 degrees, yet as we are in a 
log cabin, without the convenience of a good 
cellar, we take no particular pains to prevent its 
freezing. When we are ready for churning, no 
matter how cold the weather may be, even if 
the cream is frozen solid down to the zero point, 
we set the jar in a kettle on the stove, with wa¬ 
ter sufficient to l'ise as high on the outside as 
the cream within. The jar should be put 
in before the water becomes so hot as to en¬ 
danger cracking it. The cream should be kept 
stii'ring to prevent any portion of it from be¬ 
coming too hot, before the whole i - eaches the 
desired temperatui-e of 62 or 63 degrees; it is 
then introduced to the churn. With this pre- 
pai’ation of the cream, the butter will come about 
as readily, and with properly washing and work¬ 
ing out all the buttermilk, will compare favor¬ 
ably in color, richness, and keeping qualities, 
with that made at any other season of the year. 
It is believed that the yellow color, as well as 
much of the richness of a large portion of the 
butter made in wintei-, is destroyed, not by 
freezing, but b} r ovei’heating the cream pi-evious 
to churning. 
We find the double zinc-bottomed thermome¬ 
ter churn veiy convenient, both in winter and 
summer. A Lover of Good Butter. 
Milk for Manufacturers. — Milk has hitherto 
been used chiefly for the manufacture of butter 
and cheese, or, mingled with water, as an article 
of city diet. As the age progresses, however, 
new and unexpected uses arc being found for 
almost every substance, and it has been dis¬ 
covered that milk, among other things, may be 
applied to a variety of purposes. The London 
Medical Journal says that it has now become a 
valuable adjunct in the hands of the calico 
printers, who find it a valuable auxiliary in 
laying the colors upon the face of the goods. 
The insoluble album n of eggs was formerly 
used for this pui-pose, but it is found that the 
required insoluble article can be obtained much 
more economically from buttermilk. The woolen 
manufacturers, also, who have been in the habit 
of using oil in their business, find that the oil 
answers their purpose much better when mixed 
with milk — the animal fat which exists in the 
globules of the milk evidently affording an 
element of more powei-ful effect upon the woolen 
fibres than the oil alone .—Boston Journal. 
Boots and Shoes in Mass. —The aggregate 
value of boots and shoes made last year in 
Massachusetts is $37,000,000, or more than all 
the other States combined—and far exceeding 
that of any other manufacture in the Common¬ 
wealth. 
MANAGEMENT OF AZALEAS. 
The following article on the management of 
the Azalea, from the English Floricultural Cali- 
net, gives the details of the treatment pursued 
in the production of the splendid specimens 
which have been justly admired at the Horti¬ 
cultural Exhibitions in the vicinity of London. 
Similar treatment will pi-ove successful in our 
climate, by making allowance for difference of 
temperature at the various seasons, and a slight 
alteration of the materials used in making up 
the compost. Use river, instead of silver sand, 
and a mixture of loam and vegetable mould for 
bog earth. These, and other aiTangements, will 
suggest themselves to the intelligent American 
gardener. 
As soon as the plants have done flowering, if 
shifting is necessary, prepare some compost 
mould for them in the following proportions 
two-thirds bog earth, one-third well decom¬ 
posed tree-leaf mould, and one-twelfth sharp 
silver sand; they must not be sifted, but well 
chopped and bi-oken with the spade; any lumps 
remaining may be bi-oken with the hand. 
Having a pot a size larger than the one the 
plant to be shifted has been growing in, and 
washed clean inside and out, then proceed to 
pot the plant, taking care the drainage is well 
attended to, for upon this depends, in a vei-y 
great measure, the success of the plant. In 
potting, I think it an advantage to place the 
center of the ball rather lower than the mould 
at the outside of the pot, and form, as it were, 
a little basin inside, as by this means the whole 
mass of roots is benefitted by the water given 
from time to time ; and if the di-ainage is effec¬ 
tually performed, the water will pass through 
as fi-eely and quickly as when the plant is potted 
high in the pot. The plants being potted, place 
them in the stove, where attention must be paid 
to watering when necessary. They will be very 
much benefitted by being syringed all over at 
least once a day; and in sunny days they will 
requii’e to be syringed three or four times each 
day. With this treatment they will grow 
amazingly; and in the course of six or eight 
weeks, will have made shoots from three to nine 
inches in length. They must be kept in the 
stove till the flower-buds for the following year 
have attained the size of a small pea, which can 
be easily ascertained by feeling the ends of the 
shoots; they shoTxld then be placed in the green¬ 
house for ten days or a fortnight to harden, 
when, if the weather is suitable, they may bo 
