MOOEE’S EUEAI NEW-YOEKEE: AN AGEICULTUEAL AND FAMILY JOUENAL. 
SCIENCE AS APPnCABLE TO AGRICULTURE 
Tjie following sensible remarks upon this 
subject are from the Farmer's Ghiide, a 
work which we have noticed on several oc¬ 
casions ;— 
“ Agriculture may perhaps be considered 
one of the experimental sciences, as its prin¬ 
ciples are no doubt demonstrable by the 
test of experiment, although farmers have 
not yet attempted to deduce principles from 
practice. The necessity for such a deduc¬ 
tion is, no doubt, the less urgent, that hus¬ 
bandry is usually pursued as a purely prac¬ 
tical art; and the facility of thus pursuing it 
successfully, of course renders practical men 
indifferent to science, as they consider it un¬ 
necessary to burden their minds with scien¬ 
tific results, whilst practice is sufficient for 
their purpose. Could the man of practice, 
however, supply the man of science with a 
series of accurate observations on the leading 
operations of the farm, tjie principles of these 
might be truly evolved; but the greatest ob¬ 
stacle to the advancement of scientific agri¬ 
culture is to be sought in the unacqumntance 
of men of science with practical agriculture. 
Would the man of science become acquainted 
with practice, much greater advancement in 
scientific agriculture might be expected than 
if the practical man were to become a man 
of science; because men of science are best 
capable of conducting scientific research, 
and, being so qualified, could best under¬ 
stand the i-elation which their investigations 
bear to practice; and, until the relation be¬ 
twixt principles and practice is well under¬ 
stood, scientific investigation, though impor¬ 
tant in itself, and interesting in its results, 
would tend to no practical utility in agricul¬ 
ture. In short, until the facts of husbandry 
are acquired by men of science, these will 
in vain endeavor to construct a satisfactory 
theory of agriculture on the principles of in¬ 
ductive philosophy.” 
Inmestic (Icontraiq. 
INDIAN CORN LUXURIES. 
Indian Corn Pudding. —Take two doz¬ 
en ears of well filled corn—the sweet vari¬ 
ety is preferable. Pass a sharp knife 
through each row from end to end, and 
with the back of the knife force out the en¬ 
tire nutritious part. Add one quart of milk, 
four eggs, one teaspoonful of salt, and thick¬ 
en with a little flour. Bake in pans until it 
it is well browned on the top, and it is a 
dish for the sweet tooth for an epicure. It 
may be eaten with butter, or butter and 
sugar sauce. 
Drying Green Corn. —It is said to be 
altogether the best method for drying green 
corn, to take full grown ears and in a stove, 
baker or oven, to roast them as if for eating. 
•When cold shell off the kernels and give 
them a few days drying, and bag away for 
winter use. A boiling of eight or twelve 
hours renders it a valuable. ingredient for 
soups, or for eating with meats, and is a 
wholesome and nutritious, food. 
Salting Green Corn. —Strip off half 
the husks, and immerse in a brine about the 
strength used for pickling hams or beef, 
and keep it by a weight entirely covered 
till winter. When wanted for use, either 
freshen in water, or boil in a quantity suf¬ 
ficient to perform that requirement, and 
eat as green corn—or it may be cut from 
the cob and cooked in the ordinar}^ manner. 
Corn Starch.— Take thirty ears of corn 
fit for eating; grate off the kernels into a 
pail of water; pass the whole through a 
wire seive, or cloth strainer. Let it settle, 
and change the water two or three times 
—pour off the water—cut in cakes and 
dry. If well prepared it is of the finest 
quality. An Old Housekeeper. 
To Prepare Fruit for CniLDRkN. — A 
far more wholesome loay than in Pies or 
Puddings. —Put apples sliced, or plums, cur¬ 
rants, gooseberries, &c., into a stone jar, and 
sprinkle among them as much Lisbon su¬ 
gar as necessary. Set the jar in an oven, 
or on a hearth, with a teacupful of water to 
prevent from burning; or put the jar into 
a saucepan of water till its contents be per¬ 
fectly done. Slices of bread or rice may 
be put into the jar, or served to eat with 
the fruit. — Jl/r5. Rundel. 
CHURNING. 
Most men are much inclined to mutter, 
When urged to turn the cream to butter: 
One inode will save such irksome labor — 
Sell all your milk to some good neighbor •, 
Another mode will do as well — 
Use upjthe milk you cannot sell; 
But if you must have food that’s richer, 
To fill your firkin — not your pitcher ; — 
By agitation would you tlirive, 
Just warm tlie cream to 65°, 
Then persevere in your vocation, 
Keep up a constant churn gyration, 
Till the rich mess divides in two — 
Part for the pigs, and part for you. 
dDrtjiatii anii darbra. 
JAPAN LILIES. 
The Japan Lilies introduced into this 
country within a few years past, are among 
the richest and most desirable floral gems 
yet brought to the notice of the American 
public. They possess a most striking and 
beautiful combination of colors, with a fine 
perfume, and are quite hardy—rendering 
them of easy cultivation, either in the open 
border or in pots in the house. The high 
price of the bulbs has heretofore prevented 
many from obtaining these choice flowers; 
but being generally of easy culture, the 
price will no doubt soon be within the means 
of all lovers of the novel and beautiful in 
floraculture. 
Our engraving represents one of the 
most beautiful among some twenty kinds of 
Lilies discovered by Dr. Von Siebold, du¬ 
ring his researches in Japan, in the years 
1831 to 1833. We copy the engraving 
from the Jlorcidturist; also the following- 
description as given by the Hon. M. P. 
Wilder: 
LILIUM SPECIOSUM. 
Skotcnj Crimson Japan Lily. 
Flower, ground color, clear rose, shading 
to white, covered with numerous projections 
of bright crimson and which gives it the ap¬ 
pearance, as Dr. Lindley remarks, of being 
“ all rugged, with rubies and garnets and 
crystal points;” a plant of two to three feet 
in height 
We presume that the above and other 
choice kinds can be obtained of the princi¬ 
pal florists and nurserymen. While taking 
a cursory view of the extensive collection of 
flowers, shrubs, &c., at the “ Old Rochester 
Nursery” of S. Moulson, Esq., a few days 
since, we noticed several beautiful varieties 
in flower. Among them we particularly 
observed and greatly admired some choice 
kinds imported by Mr. M. last spring, from 
Van Houtte of Holland. Of these we 
will mention two or three which attracted 
our attention as being among the most nov¬ 
el and splendid we had ever seen. They 
were— 
Lilium Lancifolia Rubra—(^ ecmsa 
flowered) —Flower crimson, spotted—fra¬ 
grant ; red tubercles or glands; oval leaves, 
lancet shaped. 
Landfolium Punctatum .—Flower white, 
spotted with rose; a fragrant variety. 
Longiflorum. —Flower white; blossoms 
in July, here; height two feet; native of 
China; fragrant—fine. 
Lilium Tigrinum— (Te'yer spotted Lily.) 
—Beautiful; flowers from July to Septem¬ 
ber : usually four to five feet high when well 
grown; native of China; perfectly hardy 
here. _ 
PEAR BLIGHT. 
“Our attention was called, the other day, 
to a pear tree that had been nearly destroy¬ 
ed by the blight It is now in a healthy 
and vigorous condition. The cure of the 
disease is attributed to the use of pork brine. 
The farmer remarked to us, that he had 
about two pailfuls of brine, which, because 
unfit for use, he poured about the roots of 
said pah- tree; and the result is, the tree is 
now both vigorous and productive. 
We give this as a fact As to what 
agency the brine had in producing the cure 
we do not undertake to say. The remedy 
is a simple one, and may be easily tried.— 
A little caution may be necessary in the ap¬ 
plication, lest the remedy should prove as 
fatal to the tree as the disease. w.” 
We cut the above from our valuable ex¬ 
change paper, “ The Rural New-Yorker,” 
published at Rochester, N. Y. 
There are empirical practices among hor¬ 
ticulturists as well as irregular physicians. 
It does not follow that they are necessarily 
either inert or dangerous from the fact that 
they are not scientifically pursued. Many 
an article of medicine was first called into 
use by observation made upon its powers, 
by persons nowise skilled in the profession, 
and subsequently scientific investigations 
have established the correctness of its use. 
The ashes of burnt sponge were empirical¬ 
ly employed for ages as a remedy for scrof¬ 
ula—modern chemistry has pointed out the 
rationale of its powers. 
The farmer W. is a man of correct obser¬ 
vation. Brine will, under certain circum¬ 
stances, accomplish the purpose of restoring 
health and vigor to diseased pear trees. So 
will any other solution of common salt 
(chloride of soda.) It exerts its powers in 
two or three different ways: 
1 . By affording essential inorganic ele¬ 
ments, The ash of the pear tree contains 
1.34 per cent, of soda, and 0.31 of chlorine, 
and the ash of the bark 1.70 of chlorine. 
2 . By acting as a solvent on the phos¬ 
phates existing in the soil. They frequent¬ 
ly abound in considerable quantities in an 
insoluble state, in which they cannot be ta¬ 
ken up by the roots. Common salt or am¬ 
monia will act on them as solvents. 
It is possible that salt also acts by retain¬ 
ing about the roots of trees extra quantities 
of moisture. In this case it must be recol¬ 
lected that fruit trees may have “ too much 
of a good thing.” An excess will prove de¬ 
structive. 
The blight of the pear may yet be found 
to result from a deficient supply of some 
essential element of nutrition. We will not 
stop to theorize on this occasion.— Family 
Visitor. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
The Ohio Cidtivator says:—“The best 
time for planting strawberries, is during a 
rainy spell, or when the ground is wet—in 
August or September; then the plants be¬ 
come well rooted before winter, and will 
produce considerable fruit the following 
summer. Or, they may be planted early 
in the Spring, so as to produce a full crop 
the next year. 
The soil for strawberries should be of a 
medium betwixt sand and clay—though 
they will do well on any good common soil. 
We think a clayey soil is preferable to sand, 
or to black loam. The ground should be 
worked very deep, by spading or deep plow¬ 
ing ; and if poor manured, with well rotted 
manure: but too much manure is not favor¬ 
able for a good crop of fruit 
The after culture of strawberries consists 
of keeping the beds clear of weeds, and 
cutting oft' the runners frequently, if young 
plants are not desired. The runners will 
need trimming oft' about three times during 
a season, and the spaces between the rows 
frequently hoed. If young plants are de¬ 
sired, a part or all of the bed may be left 
untrimmed till the plants are well rooted, 
and taken out, but care must be taken to 
keep clear of weeds.” 
Consumption in Horses.— Mr. Percival, 
the great English veterinarian, says, "pul¬ 
monary disorders carry off more horses 
than all other diseases.” Though this is 
probably an over-estimate of mortality from 
that ‘source, when we consider how much 
sudden changes of temperature and check¬ 
ed perspiration injure man, why may we 
not suppose that many horses are killed by 
it; and hence we should perceive and act 
upon the propriety of attending more to 
the condition of the horse when turned out 
or otherwise exposed to sudden change from 
heat to cold. The Spaniards have a saying 
that a draft of air “ that will blow out a 
candle will kill a man;” but we think noth¬ 
ing of putting a horse, however much heat¬ 
ed, into a stable with a draft of cold air 
coming on him from without 
Mnljmt Mi ^ Iritnct 
HORSES IN PLACE OF STEAM FOR RAIL¬ 
ROAD CARS. 
We observe by our foreign papers, that 
an Italian by the name of Masserano, has 
introduced on the English railroads a ma¬ 
chine, called an Impidsoria, in which hor¬ 
ses are made to impel a train of cars with 
great success. The one on the Great Wes¬ 
tern Railway, though only calculated for 
two horses, ran up their heaviest grade at 
seven miles per hour, and on a level attain¬ 
ed the rate of 20 miles—and it was thought 
that a machine for four horses, would equal 
the ordinary engine. 
The horses work on an endless platform, 
not unlike Emery’s and Wheeler’s Horse 
Power, and the driving wheels are put in 
motion by belts. 
If this project succeeds—and we see no 
objection to it as a power, especially for 
freight trains, and short branch lines, and 
all working machines for the laying and re¬ 
pairing roads—it will be an immense sa¬ 
ving to the companies and to the public; 
as the cost cannot be one quarter of the lo¬ 
comotive engine, and the keep of the hor¬ 
ses but a small item compared with the 
continual consumption of fuel, oil, and the de¬ 
lay for wooding and watering. The public 
would be gainers by a cheaper rate of pas¬ 
sage fees—safety against explosions—of fire 
in the cars, and on road sides, fences and 
forests—and the saving the wood of the 
country, which is now disappearing at a 
fearful rate. 
PAINTS AND OILS-INQUIRIES. 
Ed. New-Yorker: —Permit me, through 
your paper, to ask a few questions with re¬ 
gard to Paints and Oils. 
Why are we furnished with so much poor 
oil and paint, this year? What destroys 
the taste of flax seed, and gives a strong, 
bitter, unnatural taste and smell to all the 
oil put in market this year, or for the last 
three or four months? Why does white 
paint turn yellow out side of buildings in a 
short time, when the utmost care is used in 
its preparation ? Why does not paint dry 
hard, as in former years ? Why does paint 
prepared with one-half or two-thirds tur¬ 
pentine remain soft and sticky ?—with good 
paints it has not been so formerly. 
If some of our paint dealers, or some 
other person, will give a solution—furnish 
the why and wherefore—they will confer a 
favor on the Painters of Western New 
York. A Painter. 
Le Roy, N. ¥., August, 1850. 
A PATENT MILKER. 
Whoever thought of seeing a patent 
machine or apparatus for milking cows ?— 
And yet we have had the pleasure of exam¬ 
ining a very ingenious and neatly construc¬ 
ted one for that purpose and we have no 
doubt, judging from the principles of its ac¬ 
tion, is a very efficient contrivance to effect 
the purpose. It is the invention of a Ken- 
nebecker. Dr. Cyrus Knapp, who obtained 
a patent for it last fall. The tubes used are 
made of silver, and there is a neat India 
rubber cloth clasp that embraces the teat 
and holds it in its place while in use. We 
examined several certificates in regard to 
the use of it, one of them from a person 
who has a large dairy, and who has used 
the invention for the last six months, and 
highly recommends it as being a valuable 
labor-saving invention. Where the cows 
teats are sore, or where they milk hard, "^Sr 
the cows are in the habit of holding up 
their milk, those who have used them say 
they are excellent to obviate all these 
troubles. 
We have given it one or two trials, and 
find it empties the udder very freely and 
easily, after the rate of about a quart per 
minute.— Ber kshire Cidturist. 
New Ink. —S. French, corner of Nassau 
and Spruce streets. New York, has shown 
us a newly invented ink, by which a copy 
of a letter written with it can be taken in a 
short space of time without the aid of a 
copying press. We saw the operation per¬ 
formed and really commend it as a’ great 
desideratum for business men, and to all 
who desire to keep copies of their corres¬ 
pondence. It has been secured by letters 
patent in England, and measures are about 
to be taken to secure it in this country.— 
Ib. _ _ _ _ 
Consumption of Gas in England. —In 
Great Britain and Ireland there are 730 
public gas establishments, besides 45 pri¬ 
vate ones. More than fifty millions of dol¬ 
lars are invested; nine thousands millions of 
cubic feet of gas is consumed, and 1,125,- 
000 tons of coal are required to produce 
this vast amount 
259 
SSiim sa LIST OF} PATENTS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending July 30, 1850. 
To M. B. Ashley, of Watertown, N. Y., for im- ) 
provernent in directing water upon water-wheels. ( 
To A. Everett, of IVIiddlefield, Alass., for im- ; 
provernent in machinerv for turning out wooden ' 
bowls. ‘ } 
To G. W. Hatch, of Parkman, Ohio, for im- ) 
provernent in stanchions for cattle. ^ 
To E. Kershaw, of Boston, Mass., for improve- > 
ment in the attachment of pinion locks. ) 
To P. Kirkharn, of Waterbury, Conn., for im- ^ 
provernent in attaching hooks and eyes to paper ) 
cards. ) 
To J. Marsh, of Petersburg!!, Ill., for'improve- ^ 
ment in churn dashers. " ; 
To C. J. Meinicke, of New York, N. Y., for < 
improvement in distilling spirits of turpentine. ) 
To G. B. Milner, of Houston, Texas, for im- ) 
proved valve gear for steam engine. s 
To A. Olcott, of Millstone, N. J., for improve- ) 
ment in rubbing and polishing stone. ? 
To J. O’Neil, of Xenia, Ohio, for improvement S 
in atmospheric churns. > 
To C. Perley, of New York, N. Y., for jigger \ 
windlass. s 
To E. P. Rider, of New York, N. Y., for im- ? 
provernent in apparatus for sizing and drying cot- ) 
ton batting. ) 
To J. A. Sabbaton, of Albany, N. Y., for im- I 
provernent in purifying coal. s 
To E. S. Scripture, of Green Point, N. Y., for \ 
improvements in connecting hubs with a.xles. s 
To C. A. Spring and P. Boon, of Kensington, ; 
Pa., for improvement in the arrangement of pres- < 
sure and feed rollers in planing machines. ) 
To J. Stout and J. T. Stanton, of Waynesville, ) 
Ohio, for improvements in machines for forming ^ 
tubes of sheet metal. \ 
To W. F. Ward, of Portchester, N. Y., for im- c 
proved bolt and rivet machine. ^ 
To T. E. Warren, of Troy, N. Y., for improve- / 
ment in car-seat backs. ' ) 
To Jesse Whitehead, of Manchester, Va., for ) 
improvement in the counter-twist speeder. ) 
To G. Wode, of Elizabethport, N. J., for im- ( 
provernent in fastenings for bureau drawers. ) 
DYEING WOODS. ^ 
For dyeing wood a fne black color, have > 
a chairmaker’s copper fixed, into which put s 
six pounds of chip logwood, and as many ( 
veneers as it will conveniently hold, without ^ 
pressing too tight; fill it with water, and let ) 
it boil slowly for about three hours; then s 
add half a pound of powdered verdigTis, ( 
half a pound of copperas, and four ounces ) 
of bruised nutgalls, tilling the copper up as ) 
the water evaporates; let it boil gently two \ 
hours each day till you find the wood to be < 
dyed through, which, according to the kind, \ 
will be in more or less time. s 
Fine Blue. —Take a clean glass bottle, > 
into which put one pound of oil of vitriol; > 
then take four ounces of the best indigo, s 
pounded in a mortar; put them into a vial, ? 
(take care to set the bottle in a basin or ) 
earthen glazed pan, as it will ferment;) af- ^ 
ter it is quite dissolved, provide an earthen ^ 
or wooden vessel, so constructed that it will ) 
conveniently hold the veneers you wish to 
dye; fill it rather more than one-third with ^ 
water, into which pour as much of the vit- \ 
riol and indigo, stirring it about, as will make > 
a fine blue, which you may know by trying I 
it with a piece of white wood; put in your < 
veneers, and let them remain till the color ( 
has struck through. > 
The color will be much better if the solu- ^ 
tion of indigo in vitriol is kept a few weeks s 
before using it; also the best trough you ) 
can use, is one made of stone ware. I 
Fine Yellow.— Take of the root barber- 
ry four pounds, reduce it, by sawing, to ^ 
dust, which put into a copper or brass trough, ^ 
add four ounces of turmeric, to which put < 
four gallons of water, then put in as many 
white veneers as the liquor will cover; boil !' 
them together three hours, often turning ') 
them; when cool, add two ounces of muriate I 
of tin, and you will find the dye strike thro’ | 
much sooner. ^ 
Fustic and quercitron will also dye good ^ 
colors, the former with alum, the latter with \ 
muriate of tin. ^ 
V 
Bright Green. —Proceed, as in the above ( 
recipe, to produce a yellow with fustic, and / 
add the vitriolated indigo, as much as will ' 
produce the desired color. 
Bright Red. —Take two pbunds of genu- 
ine Brazil dust, add four gallons of water, \ 
and after putting in your "sneers, boil them ^ 
well for at least three hours; then add two ) 
ounces of alum and a little salts of tin, and ^ 
keep it lukewarm until it has struck entire-. < 
ly through. 
Purple. —Take two pounds of chip log ^ 
wood and half a pound of Brazil dust, add < 
four gallons of water, and after putting in ) 
your veneers, boil them well for at least ^ 
three hours, then add six' ounces of pearlash ( 
and two ounces of alum, and let them boil ^ 
two or three houi*s every day till you find ^ 
the color struck through. : 
The Brazil dust in this recipe is perhaps 
superfluous, as it only contributes to make ^ 
the.purple of a red cast; use muriate of tin > 
very little. • 
Orange. —Let the veneei-s be dyed, by ^ 
eitlier of the methods given, of a fine deep y el > 
low, and while they are still wet and satura- ^ 
ted with the dye, transfer them to the bright > 
red dye, till you find the color has penetra- ) 
ted equally throughout. j 
Oil Cloth Manufacture. — There is a ) 
factory now in full operation at Cleveland, \ 
Ohio, which turns out five hundred yards I 
of oil cloth per day. The article is said to } 
be of the most durable quality and beauti- ) 
ful texture. ( 
