Eds. New-Yorker:— In offering this 
communication I have two objects under 
consideration—one of which I would solicit 
your views, scientifically presented, to the 
patrons of your valuable paper. 
The first is the value of corn, sowed for 
farm stock or pasture, at the time when 
they most need it—July and August. I 
sowed, about the 8th day of June last, 16 
acres to corn—about one bushel per acre 
—with Fitch, Barry & Co.’s wheat drill, 
every othor tooth being raised from the 
ground, which left the rows eighteen inch¬ 
es apart. About the middle of July, when 
the tassel began to be exhibited, I turned 
my stock into it. My stock consisted of 3 
horses, 7 cows, 5 two year olds, 2 yearlings 
and 8 store hogs. About the first of Au¬ 
gust, 4.00 sheep and lambs were turned in 
with the other stock. 
Near the middle of August 200 sheep 
were taken from the lot; the remainder 
were kept in until the first of Sept., at 
which time I turned the last of the corn 
under with the plow. I think 20 head of 
cattle might have been kept on the premi¬ 
ses, more than has been during the time 
mentioned above. About the middle or 
20th of August, I commenced plowing the 
lot .to sow to wheat. I presume that six 
acres that could not be eaten off was plow¬ 
ed under. 
Now for the second object under consid¬ 
eration. My cows were turned from a clo¬ 
ver pasture into the corn. At the time 
they were turned into the corn the butter 
made was about like that of the neighbors, 
being soft and pale. About the first of 
August we found, on using the butter dai¬ 
ly, that it was becoming very hard like tal¬ 
low. The butter made about the 20th of 
August was as hard as the hardest beef’s 
tallow. A specimen of about 20 lbs., that 
was presented at the County Fair, we now 
have on hand, laid by for winter use. 
Since the first of Sept, the time the corn 
was disposed of, my cows have been kept 
in a clover pasture; and our butter is as 
soft as before they were turned into the 
com. The butter began to soften about 
the middle of September. 
AH things considered—the cows having 
free access to water the whole season—the 
milk having been set in the same cellar— 
butter made by the same hands (and ladle) 
and the same kind of salt made use of— 
the result is worthy of notice. 
Now, sir, we look to you to give us the 
came that has produced the effect described 
Many acres will be sown to corn for pas¬ 
ture and winter-use next season, in this 
Coimty. Many farmers examined the crop 
and the product and declare they will be in 
for it next season. 
Yours, &c., o. M. B. 
Gaines, Orleans Co., N. F., Sept. 30, 1850. 
Remarks. —The facts exhibited by the 
above experiment, we deem worth consid¬ 
eration and trial. It is well known by dai¬ 
rymen, that rich red clover pastures pro¬ 
duce the least i..iu poorest butter of any 
herbaceous food, and that dry and cured 
coarse fodder is favorable to its production. 
As a summer process, preparatory to 
wheat, we think it may be a very profitable 
course, especially where the farm stock is 
large and the pasture scarce. We should 
expect but little benefit, however, from the 
remains of the com turned under, as an 
improver^f the soil. 
INQUIRY. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
CORN FOR STOCK PASTURE-A VALUABLE 
EXPERIMENT. 
SEE TO YOUR MANURE HEAPS. 
The droppings and compost matter accu¬ 
mulated in your barn yards should be care¬ 
fully scraped up, and protected from the 
wasting influence of the rains and winds, 
in order that the fructifying ingredient may 
be preserved for future use. There is a 
great diversity of opinion as to whether it 
passes off by evaporation or descends into 
the earth. Now, it is my candid behef that 
both questions may be answered in the af¬ 
firmative. If you come in close proximity 
to manure exposed to rain, you will notice a 
disagreeable odor proceeding from it, and 
this is, without douM, some of the most 
valuable portion of the manure escaping in 
the form of gas. On the other hand, anoth¬ 
er portion is at the same time leaking into 
the ground, as an examination under a ma¬ 
nure heap which has laid for some time 
will conclusively show. Hence the prac¬ 
tice of carting out manure in the fall is 
highly injudicious and deserves a severe 
condemnation; for it is self-evident that 
some of the most valuable and nutritive 
particles are wasted while lying exposed. 
But, to return to the yard. As soon as 
you have scraped up the manure and form¬ 
ed your manure heap, cover the yard with 
several inches (say six or even ten inches,) 
of straw, muck, sods, or whatever is suita¬ 
ble for the purpose, in order to absorb and 
preserve the liquid portions of the manure. 
Farmers, do not delay to put these plans in 
force, for you will undoubtedly be the gain¬ 
ers by the operation. Leonade. 
Philad’a. Co., Pa., Sept., 1850. 
€j\}t dDrcfiarii iinb dnrimi. y^tt\mt Mb ^ IriEnct. 
UNFAVORABLE LOCALITIES OF BRUITS. 
S. W. Cole of the N. E. Farmer makes 
the following objections to a part of the se¬ 
lect list of fruits adopted by the American 
Pomological Congress, so far as they have 
been tried in parts of New England:, 
Early Harvest. —Slow grower, poor bear¬ 
er, fruit liable to crack and blast. 
American Summer Pear main. —Very li¬ 
able to blast. 
Early Strawherry.—^oo small for mar¬ 
ket, sometimes affected with blight. 
Fall Pippin .—Very liable to blast, far 
less profitable than some others. 
Fameuse .—Does not succeed well in 
warm locations, not of high quality, beauty 
its greatest excellence. 
Winesap .—Too small for marked better 
for cider and cooking than for the table. 
, Lady Apple .—Very small, very beautiful, 
tolerably good, often imperfect. 
Winter Apple of Cexe. —Tolerably good, 
but others better for the same season. 
Vandevere. —Hardly known in New Eng¬ 
land, believed to be liable to blast and bit¬ 
ter rot. 
Swaar. —Fine in New York, but in New 
England light and corky at core. 
LARGEST GRAPE VINE IN THE U. STATES. 
Caution to Horse Shoers. —In the 
Marine Court, in New York, last week judg¬ 
ment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff 
for $100 damages, for alleged injury by the 
defendant, for the unskillful shoeing of a 
horse, which resulted in the death of the 
animal. 
lomMtit d^ranoraq. 
APPLE DUMPLINGS. 
Take large, fine juicy apples. Pare 
them, and extract the cores without divi¬ 
ding the apple. Fill each hole with brown 
sugar, and some chips of lemon peel. Al¬ 
so squeeze in some lemon juice. Or you 
can fill the cavities with raspberry jam, or 
with any sort of marmalade. Have ready 
a paste, made in the proportion of a pound 
of suet, chopped as fine as possible, to two 
pounds and a half of sifted flour, well mix¬ 
ed, and wetted with as little water as possi¬ 
ble. Roll out the p^te to a moderate 
thickness, and cut it into circular pieces, al¬ 
lowing two pieces to each dumpling. Lay 
your apple on one piece, and put another 
piece on the top, closing the paste round 
the sides with your fingers, so as to cover 
the apple entirely. This is a better way 
than gathering up the paste at one end, as 
the dumpling is less liable to burst. Boil 
each dumpling in a small coarse cloth, 
which has first been dipped in hot water. 
There should always be a set of cloths kept 
for the purpose. Tie them tightly, leaving 
a small space for the dumpling to swell.— 
Plaster a little flour on the inside of each 
tying place to prevent the water from get¬ 
ting in. Have ready a pot of boiling water. 
Put in the dumplings and boil them stead¬ 
ily for an hour. Send them to table hot, 
in a covered dish. Do not take them up 
till a moment before they are wanted. 
Apple dumplings may be made in a 
very plain manner with potato paste, and 
boiled without cloths, dredging the outside 
of each dumpling with flour. They should 
boil about three-quarters of an hour when 
without cloths. 
Under this head the Natchez Free Tra¬ 
der, of the 10th inst, has the following par¬ 
agraph:— 
Mr. William Casey, corner of Union and 
State streets, in the city of Natchez, can 
boast of a grape vine which is, undoubtedly, 
the monarch vine of the United States. It 
rises from the ground in a single trunk of 
some three inches in diameter, nearly straight 
and well proportioned, to the height of about 
nine feet, when it spreads into branches, and 
covers and embowers the trellis work of 
([uite a large garden, besides climbing a tall 
tree. The weight of the immense clusters 
of grapes hanging upon it, now about half 
grown, is estimated at a ton. To stretch out 
any of the branches in a direct line, they 
would measure from three to four hundred 
feet The variety of this grape is not natu¬ 
ral to the countiy, but was brought up to 
Natchez in the old Spanish times. It is 
called the “ Jack Grape,” from “ Spanish 
Jack,” the nickname of the Spaniard who 
planted it. Some years ago, Madame Bing- 
aman, now dead, offered Mr. Casey $500 
if he would remove the vine safely to her 
garden in the environs of the city; but no 
sum of money whatever would induce the 
owner to part with it. It produces a wine 
which has the taste of Hock. 
AN INSECT SCOURGK 
Messrs. Editors :—I have just lost my 
best Cow. She calved 6th inst., in a pas¬ 
ture where there is plenty of water. I 
found her within two hours, and followed 
directions of April 4. She cleaned well, 
appeared well at noon Vth, and at night 
could hardly walk. She died morning of 
8th. Some called it milk fever, others the 
mess I gave her. The food in the mani¬ 
folds was perfectly dry. 
Can you or others give any instructions 
as to the proper management of Cows com¬ 
ing in at this season, so that others as well 
as myself may not suffer a like loss ? 
Yours resp’y, D. R Barker, 
Versailles, N, Y., Sept. 10, 1850. 
Will some of our readers, who have 
experience in such casses, advise our cor¬ 
respondent through the columns of the 
New-Yorker? 
The apples for dumplings should always 
be whole, (except the cores;) for if quar¬ 
tered, the pieces will separate in boiling 
and break through the crust The apples 
should never be sweet ones.— Miss Leslie. 
; r Brave actions are the substance of life, 
\! i and good sayings the ornament of it 
Conserve of Tomato.— The German¬ 
town Telegraph furnishes the following reci¬ 
pe, procured from Capt Engle, U. S. N.: 
Take Tomatoes that are well ripe, press 
them and repress them, pass them through 
a seive, throwing away the skins, seeds, &c., 
which remain in the seive. Take that 
which passes through the seive, place it in 
a bag of white linen, rather coarse, hang it 
in the air, so that the watery liquid may 
drain through; then press the bag by 
placing a weight over it When the watery 
substance has been ejected, take that which 
remains in the bag and place it in an ear¬ 
then jar and fill it adding a little salt and 
olive oil. When the jar is full of thick 
conserve, press it down with a spoon; take 
again a little fine salt and oil, and cover 
the surface of it; and as often as you take 
any out of the jai- replace a little oil, so as 
always to cover the conserve. It will keep 
for years. 
A FAT Wtchen makes a lean will. 
LIST OF PATENTS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending September 24, 1850. 
To John Batchelder, of Boston, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in Sewing Machines. 
To E. B. Bigelow, of Clinton, Maes., for im¬ 
provements in Looms for weaving Tapestr)’ and 
Brussels Carpets. 
To J. C. Booth, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in processes for refining gold. 
To G. W. Bowers, of Leitersburgh, Md., for 
improvement in grain-cleaning machines. 
To D. S. Brown, of Surrej% Eng., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for fumigating plants. Patent¬ 
ed in England Sept. 13, 1849. 
Henry Evans, of New Bedford, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in machines for making ropes. 
To Elijah Hall, of Cabotville, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in stop-motion of Looms. 
To D. W. Harris, of Yorkshire, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in the construction of Threshing Ma¬ 
chines. 
To Ephraim Howe, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for 
improvement in Burning Fluids. 
To O. S. Leavitt, of Maysville, Ky., for im¬ 
provement in machinerj' for drawing hemp and 
parting its fibres. 
To Jason M. Mahan, of Philadelphia, Pa., for 
improvement in casting stereotype plates. 
To R. S. McCulloh, of Princeton, N. J., for 
process of reducing gold bullion. 
To Joseph Metcalf, of Worcester, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in removing electricity from wool in 
the process of manufacture. 
To P. A. Palmer, of Le Roy, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in heating elevated ovens. 
To C. A. Read&. T. Cotter, (assignors toChas. 
A. Read,) of New Hartford, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ments in machinery for fulling cloth. 
To Timothy Rose, of Cortlandville, N. Y., for 
improvement in Water Wheels. 
To George Wright, of Washington, D. C., for 
improved machine for forming and charging caps. 
chemist will be able to tell when this should 
be done by the common tests of sugar of 
lead and turmeric paper. The exhausted 
purifying liquor contains salammoniac and 
sulphate of soda in solution, and sulphuret 
of iron. Another way to use these mate¬ 
rials, is what is termed “ dry purifying.”— 
For this purpose the same quantity of cop¬ 
peras and salt are mixed with two bushels 
and a half of broken charcoal—all moisten¬ 
ed with water, to a soft consistence. The 
gas is passed through this in the same way 
as by what is termed the “ dry purifying ” 
already mentioned. 
The salt is what is new in this invention, 
as combined with the copperas, but the lat¬ 
ter has long been used as a purifyer. To 
remove all the carbonic acid gas, lime wa¬ 
ter must be used, so the above must only 
be employed for the removal of ammonia 
and sulphur. We state this plainly, to let 
those of our readers know what is new, and 
what it can, and cannot do. 
We believe the composition to be a good 
one, and we see wherein its application may 
be improved. For example:—let the so¬ 
lution be kept in a “ purifyer ” containing 
wool or hair, and let there'be a connection 
with a reservoir above, containing the pure 
dissolved composition, so that a dropping 
supply may be kept up from above, and 
the sediments be allowed to percolate 
through a false bottom into a receiver; this 
would make a constant purifyer. The gas 
should pass from this first purifyer into a 
lime purifyer, and in this way, gas of the 
utmost purity would be obtained—some¬ 
thing we do not always get in New York, 
— Sci. American. 
RULES FOR RAILWAY TRAVELERS. 
To Walter Bryaut, of Bo»toii, Mass., for design 
for a Blower-stand. 
To C. F. Tuttle & J. S. Bailey, of Williams- 
burgh, N. Y., for design for plates for Registers, 
Ventilators, &c. 
To R. J. Blanchard, (assignor toB. P. Learned 
& G. H. Thatcher,) of Albany, N. Y., for design 
for Stoves. 
To J. G. Lamb, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for de¬ 
signs for two Stoves. 
To Wm. Savery, of New York, N. Y., for de¬ 
sign for Stoves. 
PUMPING A LAKE DRY. 
Galignani’s Messenger says:—One of 
the finest valleys of Savoy has just fallen 
under a devastating scourge. A host of 
insects, which are confounded by the people 
with locusts, alighted lately in the valley of 
the Isere, near Saint Piere d’Albignl— 
These herbiverous insects are a thousand 
times more destructive than the locust; 
they are crickets {acidium^ Their presence 
has been already marked by deplorable rav¬ 
ages in the crops of maize, which were at 
first remarkably promising. They increase 
and multiply in a frightful manner; each of 
the females deposits in little holes in the 
ground several thousand eggs, which are 
soon hatched. When they have cleared 
one spot of every vestige of herbage, they 
proceed to another, and, unless efficacious 
measures are adopted, the whole of Savoy 
will be devastated. These insects are as 
much to be dreaded when dead as when 
living; for, if killed by^ a cold rain, then- 
bodies exhale an infectious miasma, which 
causes epidemical diseases. 
New and Economical Mode of Forcing 
Vegetables.— It has been suggested by a 
foreign paper, that the waste steam of man¬ 
ufactories may be advantageously applied 
to the roots of plants; and without any ex¬ 
pense for artificial heat, large quantities of 
tropical fruits and vegetables may be raised 
at all times, besides such of our own, as we 
can otherwise have in perfection, only du¬ 
ring the summer months. A series of com¬ 
mon draining tile, laid within suitable dis¬ 
tances underneath properly prepared beds, 
containing the plants, which should admit 
or shut off the exhausted steam by cocks, 
would be all that is necessary for the un¬ 
derground arrangements. Moisture would 
be thus communicated as well as heat, and 
a slight covering of wood, or brick, and 
glass, to protect the plants from frosts or 
cold air, would be all that is essential to se¬ 
curing the most prolific growth. 
Dr. j. V. C. Smith, the editor of the 
Boston Medical <& Surgiced Journal, who 
is now on a visit to Europe, gives an inter¬ 
esting description, in his editorial coirespon- 
dence from Holland, of the manner in 
which the lake of Haarlem is being drain¬ 
ed by steam engines and its waters sent to 
the sea:— 
“ Six miles from Amsterdam is the inland 
lake of Haarlem, 21 miles long by 11 wide, 
which three hundred years ago was found 
to be perceptibly increasing by shooting its 
waters further and further, and covering 
up the land, threatening the first commer¬ 
cial port of the realm with destruction by 
flowing in upon its back. Various schemes 
at that remote epoch, were devised by able 
counsellors to stay the threatening danger. 
Three Dutch engineers, of acknowledged 
ability, proposed draining off the water, 
first raising it by wind-mills. They are en¬ 
titled to remembrance, from having suggest 
ed the very plan adopted in 1849 for avert¬ 
ing an impending c^amity. Seven years 
since, delay no longer being safe, a canal 
was dug around the whole circumference 
of the lake, averaging 200 feet in width by 
19 deep. Three monster steam engines 
are housed on the sides of the lake, some 
six or eight miles apart, each moving eight 
monstrous iron pumps. All the pistons are 
raised at once, at every revolution of the 
machinery, raising 25,000 gallons of water, 
which is emptied into the canal, whence it 
is hastened on by a fourth engine faster 
than it would otherwise move to tl^e Zuy- 
der Zee, and it thus reaches the sea 15 
miles distant In April, 1849, the pumpS 
worked by three of the mightiest steam en¬ 
gines perhaps ever constructed, were set in 
motion; and up to this date, July 25th, 
1850, have lowered the contents of the 
lake seven feet. By next April, it is an¬ 
ticipated that the bottom will be fairly ex¬ 
posed, and all the water conveyed away 
from its ancient basin. All this is executed 
at the expense of governmenL” 
The Scientific American is responsible for 
the following hints to travelers:—Never 
attempt to get out of a railway carriat/e while 
it is moving. Never attempt to get in a 
railway carriage when it is in motion, no 
matter how slow the motion may seem to 
be. Never sit in any unusual place or pos¬ 
ture. Never get out at the wrong side of a 
railway carriage. Never pass from one side 
of the railway to the other, except when it 
is indispensably necessary to do so, and then 
not without the utmost precaution. Ex¬ 
press trains are attended with more danger 
than ordinary trains. Those who desire se¬ 
curity, should use them only when great 
speed is required. Special trains, excursion 
trains, and all other exceptional trains on 
railways are to be avoided, being more un¬ 
safe than the ordinary and regular trains. 
If the train in which you travel meet with 
an accident, by which it is stopped at a part 
of the line, or at a time where such stoppage 
is not regular, it is more advisable to quit 
the carriage than to stay in it Beware of 
yielding to the sudden impulse to spring 
from the carriage to recover your hat which 
has blown off, or a parcel dropped. When 
you start on your journey, select if you can, 
a carriage at or as near as possible to the 
centre of the train. Do not attempt to 
hand any article to a train in motion.— 
When you can choose your time, travel by 
day rather than by night; and if not urgent¬ 
ly pressed, do not travel in foggy weather. 
Putting the Flies to Roost.— In one 
of the Toledo hotels, a stuttering little wait¬ 
er and the black cook were at sword’s points, 
and the only end for which Jack, the waiter, 
lived was to pester the cook. A few days 
since, when the air was scorching, and flies 
in the dining room were more plenty than 
candidates at a political convention, word 
was sent to the cook that Jack wanted him. 
He hurried up with, “ Well, sah, what do 
you want ?” 
“Why, cook,” replied Jack, “you se* She 
f-f-flies b-bother me s-s-so I c-cant set the 
t-t-table, and as you-you’re s-s-so d-deuced 
b-black, I want you to c-c-cast a sh-sh;ide 
oyer the r-room, and they’d th-think it was 
night and g-g-go to roost!” 
IMPROVEMENT IN THE PURIFYING OF GAS. 
Plowing and Planting for Orchards. 
—If you design to plant out a young or¬ 
chard, either this fall or next spring, the 
ground should now be twice thoroughly 
and deeply plowed, when not too wet, turn¬ 
ing under at the second plowing a liberal 
coat of compost, formed of swamp muck, 
charcoal, wood ashes, and oyster-shell lime. 
At the extreme north, the trees may be plan¬ 
ted towards the close of this month, agree¬ 
ably to the directions given in our sixth vol¬ 
ume.— Ag. 
We learn by our excellent exchange the 
London Patent Journal, that a Mr. W. Cor- 
mack, of Haggerstone, near London, has 
secured a patent in England, for a new im¬ 
provement in purifying gas, which is well 
worthy of being known in America. He 
takes 140 lbs. of copperas and 74 of com¬ 
mon salt, and dissolves them in 150 gallons 
of water. This is placed in the purifyer— 
a vessel for that purpose. The gas passes 
through this sulphomuriate of iron solution, 
and in doing so, it is freed from all ammo¬ 
nia and sulphur. The sulphur and ammo¬ 
nia are absorbed by the solution through 
which it passes. When the purifying liq¬ 
uor is exhausted, it must be changed. A 
A Dangerous Beverage. —Water is 
composed of certain gases, one of them 
quite explosive. The other night, when 
Prof Howland, in Pittsburg, was decom¬ 
posing water, and causing terrific explosions 
of its component gases, a rather free liver, 
in the audience, exclaimed, as he held his 
hands to his ears,—“ Catch me putting wa¬ 
ter in my brandy after this—I might be 
blown up, like the boiler of a steamboat!” 
A Rub. —A gentleman jocosely observed 
to a young lady, that he was about to be 
married; but as his affections were divided 
between Miss May Brickdust and Miss Prime- 
stuff, he was at a loss which to choose. 
“ I advise you by all means,” said the 
lady, “ to take Miss Brickdust—you want 
polishing.” 
Amusing, Certainly. —It is rather amu¬ 
sing to see a fellow with white kids on his 
small delicate hands, with an enormous 
moustache hanging over his mouth, and im¬ 
mense sandy haii- covering his whole face, 
prating about the rights of workingmea — 
How many office seekers “ take ?” 
An ;^dication. —When a man attempts 
to tie his cravat around a lamp-post, he may 
be considered in a rather “ how came you 
so” condition. 
