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reason that the writer thinks a European would | 
not; that is, because it is so sweet and rich. 
But we can assure him that all Europeans soon 
acquire the taste, and do like “green corn 
boiled or roasted.” The writer says its flavor 
resembles green peas. According to our taste, 
of half a century standing, the resemblance is 
in nothing except that both are sweet. “ Amer¬ 
icans are amazingly fond of it.” And so are the 
Africans, Asiatics, Europeans, and the inhabi¬ 
tants of the forests and mountains, and islands 
of the sea, including birds and beasts that walk 
on land, swim in the water, or fly in the air. 
All are fond of Indian corn, and some of them are 
very destructive to the farmer’s crops. “ Indian 
corn is sown in hills.” No, the universal term 
is planted; and as much is grown in drills as 
hills. “ We have seen stalks ten or twelve feet 
in height.” And we have often seen them fifty 
per cent, higher. Some specimen stalks were 
exhibited at the state fair, at Syracuse, that 
were grown in Illinois, eighteen feet long. 
Much of the corn of the northern portion of 
our country does not exceed five feet. 
“ Pumpkin pie is considered a great treat.” Is 
it? Perhaps so, to an Englishman. Certainly 
not to a Yankee, as they understand the term 
treat , which means something extra and out of 
the common every-day line of fare—some 
costly luxury, while that most rich, and in one 
sense, luxurious dish, pumpkin pie, is one of the 
most common articles of food in autumn, in all 
the northern states. 
The writer speaks in glowing terms of the 
quantities of wild berries, and the common cus¬ 
tom of giving them with sugar, as a sort of 
desert to “ farm servants,” with almost every 
meal—a name by-the-bye that is given to all 
laborers upon English farms, who have perma¬ 
nent situations, and a very good and appropri¬ 
ate one, but very unpalatable to some of our 
democratic, all-men-are-equal sort of people. 
We wish the writer could have seen some of 
the sights of blackberries that we have met with, 
particularly in “old clearings” along the Ohio 
River, where we have seen at one view, hun¬ 
dreds of acres covered with this rich fruit in 
such abundance, that a thousand hands could 
make but little impression upon the quantity. 
Of another wild fruit he says*“ Nothing can 
surpass the beauty of the hanging clusters of 
wild grapes to be found, in the woods. In some 
places, they are amazingly plentiful; above and 
around, on all sides, the graceful pendants are 
seen. They are, however, very small, and ex¬ 
ceedingly sour.” So said the fox in Aesop’s 
time. But we say the time was, when we were 
young, and used to climb after these graceful 
pendant-hanging clusters along the banks of 
the Q,uinebaug, we found them neither small 
nor sour. What say our friends who fatten 
upon the Scuppernong and Catawba wild grapes 
of America ? Are they “ very small and ex¬ 
ceedingly sour,” or is this writer just a little 
mistaken in his description ? 
“ In the state of Ohio, the hazelnut trees arc 
found in the woods in amazing quantities. 
They grow very low, not much higher than our 
gooseberry bushes, but they are very prolific.” 
“ In the state of Ohio,” and by inference the 
idea is conveyed to English readers that they 
grow nowhere else, while in fact, they are as 
common as blackberries in half the states of 
the Union. 
If the writer or any of his readers are 
troubled with indigestion, we hope they wont 
eat many “ dried apples ” cooked after the 
following recipeApples for domestic use 
are first peeled, or pared, (by a machine in most 
cases,) and cut up into four or six pieces, and 
strung upon ends, and hung up to dry. They 
keep for any length of time. By putting these 
dried parts of apples along with a little boiling 
water and sugar, a delicious dish is readily ob¬ 
tained, equal in every respect to stewed apples.” 
To cook dried apples so as to render them at 
all fit to eat, requires several hours of gentle 
stewing, instead of merely adding “ a little boil¬ 
ing water and sugar.” When well cooked, they 
are delicious, either as a sauce or in pies or 
dumplings; but when ill cooked, or only spoiled 
with a little hot water, they are no more fit to 
eat than raw tripe. 
There are several errors in the following 
statement which we will endeavor to point out. 
“ The wages of farm servants vary in different 
states and localities. We here give a statement 
regarding them. In a large state, such as New 
York, wages will vary considerably in different 
sections; the average is endeavored to be 
given 
Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Conneeticu 
New York, 
New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania and Ohio, 
Maryland and District of Columbia, (whit 
^Virginia, North and South Carolina, > 
Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, > 
(White,) $ 
(Colored,) 
Alabama and Mississippi, 
Louisiana, Florida, and Arkansas, 
Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, 
Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri, 
The states marked thus* are grouped together, 
as they present very similar features of position 
Per day. 
Per month. 
Cents. 
Dollars. 
02 
12 
t, 75 
12 to 15 
50 
10 to 12 
75 
12 
50 
10 
e,) 50 to 75 
10 
50 
10 to 12 
25 to 40 
5 to 10 
25 to 30 
12 to 15 
50 
15 
50 to 75 
8 to 13 
75 to 91 
10 to 15 
