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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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DUTCHMAN 'SZ BREECHES-(Dielitra.) 
Don’t smilo, for we shall not write an es¬ 
say on any portion of Mynheer’s wardrobe. 
Oar title is designed for another article— 
ono of Flora’s choicest vernal gems. Why 
it should boar such an uncouth name, is 
hardly explainable; perhaps from the quaint 
concoit of somo very quaint person. Its 
botanical namo is Dielitra, so-callod from 
two Greek words signifying doublo wing 
case—in allusion to the curious shaped spurs 
of the flower. It is ranked in its natural 
affinities with the Fmneworts; Fumariacece. 
The characteristics of this family are her¬ 
baceous plants, with brittle stoms; leaves 
very finely dividod, often furnished with 
tendrils and irregular purplo, white or yel¬ 
low flowers. There are 15 gonora and 110 
specios, many of them dolicatoly beautiful. 
They generally love moist, shady thickots. 
Their homo is in the temperate regions of 
the northern hemisphere. 
The Dielrjtra is common in the Northern 
and Middle States, in moist woods. Its roots 
aro bulbiforous or tuberiferous, thoso of the 
D. Canadensis being of a bright yollow and 
as largo as peas—and known among school 
boys as “ squirrel corn.” It is a low, ten¬ 
der plant, somo six and eight inches high ; 
the loaves, which aro all radical, aro very 
finely divided ; this, with their lively greon 
alone makes thorn objects of much boauty. 
The flowers, which are ranged on a stalk 
springing from tho root and rising a little 
above tho leaves, aro really pretty, though 
very odd looking. In color they aro pure 
white, but sometimes tinged at tho summit 
with light yellow. The corolla is composed 
of four potals, two of which aro narrow and 
internal. The other two aro compressed 
and equally spurrod or gibbous-like at tho 
base, and enclosing in the upper portion 
tho other parts of the flower. These are 
arrayed on alternate sides of tho scapo, and 
present a nodding appoaranco. In ono 
species, tho Cucullaria, tho spurs aro about 
as long as tho corrolla. In tho Canadensis, 
the spurs are shorter and more obtuse.— 
Anothor species, tho Eximia, is moro rare, 
is larger, and somewhat branched. Its 
flowers are purplish. This is a very fine 
species—flowering in tho summer months. 
The others bloom in May and Juno. 
We have among our native flowers, a great 
many equally worthy a place in tho ama¬ 
teurs list with more high sounding ones.— 
Whether tho Dielytra would bear tho 
change, we are not aware. At all events, it 
is worthy a trial, and might bo found to sur¬ 
pass many that now recoive attention. For 
delicacy it certainly has but few superiors. 
t. e. w. 
Muslin for Hot beds. —I have used it 
two seasons by the sido of glass and liko it 
bettor. It has no scorching forco, and by 
doubling at night, I have obtained healthier 
plants than under glass. It is much cheap¬ 
er, saving sash entirely. I attach mine to 
a rollor, in tho form of an awning. I like 
it better than sash frames.—J. G. F., War¬ 
saw, lad. 
WASHING FRUIT TREES. 
Washes for trees should havo powor and 
virtue enough in them to kill all tho insects 
and grubs which harbor on them, and all the 
moss which gathers on the trunks 
If potash water, just strong enough to bear 
an egg, is thought to be too strong for tho 
bark of applo trees, it may bo very easily re¬ 
duced by adding water—but nothing should 
bo added to make it into a paste, for that 
will not leave the pores opon. 
Potash water, ono gallon of water to a 
pound of potash, will kill tho grubs and 
moss with which it comes in contact, and 
will not injuro tho bark of an applo tree one 
year old. This has been so long and so 
often tried, that thoro is no quostion about 
it among people of experience. 
Now is tho time of tho year to find tho 
eggs and tho young maggots of tho bororat 
tho root of tho applo troo. Old trees will 
boar a strongor wash than any wo have 
recommendod. Swab tho treo woll at tho 
root, whorever borer maggots or borer eggs 
aro found, with strong loy, and you kill 
thorn.— Mass. Ploughman. 
CURE FOR ROSE BUGS. 
A subscriber wishes to know if any ono 
can suggest a method of preventing tho 
yoarly incursions of tho roso bug, and hav¬ 
ing heard considerable complaint among our 
neighbors of having their cucumbers, grapes 
and other fruit destroyed by thoso insocts, 
I will suggost a remedy. Plant in tho con- 
tro of your gardon damask roso bushes, and 
they will novor light on any thing elso.— 
Wo havo a large garden with almost overy 
kind of fruit, vines, shrubbery, and flowers, 
with several kinds of roses, and in tho cen¬ 
tre wo havo four bunches of damask roso 
bushes, and 1 novel’ saw in tho wholo garden 
a roso hug on any thing but the damask 
roso. When thoy aro in blossom I go into 
tho garden once a day with a pan of hot 
water, and get about a pint at ono time; 
this I practice for a few days, and then thoy 
will disappear.— Boston Cultivator. 
ORNAMENTS FOR THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
There is a mode of increasing the attrac¬ 
tions of the flower garden during the sum¬ 
mer months, which may be carried to a 
much greater oxtent than wo see it intro¬ 
duced, and that at very small cost. We al¬ 
lude to tho use of vases and rustic work, for 
placing upon lawns, at the extremities or 
corners of walks, in the center of large flow¬ 
er beds, and many other situations which 
tho particular localities of a place may pre¬ 
sent as suitablo for the purpose. Those 
may bo oithor of stono, earthen ware, or 
wood, and none are more effective than 
thoso formed of rough lopping3 of timber 
with tho bark on ; and. they are of oasy con¬ 
struction, as they admit of any diversity of 
form that may strike tho mind of the con¬ 
structor. For largo conservatories, or 
grounds into which statuary is introduced, 
marble, or other stone vases, are the most 
appropriate, because they best sustain the 
character of those situations; but for the 
gardon or pleasure grounds of a strictly ru¬ 
ral nature, the rustic wood work is the most 
desirable. Thoro aro few adjuncts to a gar¬ 
den which will givo moro variety than thoso 
we are recommending—because, by placing 
in somo plants of a rigid growth, such as tho 
Agave, (or Aloo,) and tho Yucca, and in 
others trailing plants, as Nasturtions, Lobelia 
gracilis, Mignonette, and things of a similar 
description, a contrast is croated with the 
horbaceous plants of tho parterre, which is 
ploasing to tho eye, and indicative of refine¬ 
ment in taste. Contrasts of color may also 
bo rendered particulai'ly effective by the ju¬ 
dicious selection of difforont varieties to fill 
a vase or tazza—for instance a scarlet ge¬ 
ranium in tho center, with a purplo or bluo 
plant round tho odgo, such as Ileroino or 
Mrs. Mills verbenas. 
The varieties of tho verbona alono, plant¬ 
ed in a rustic basket or vase, and arrayed in 
circles, each ono of a different color, pro- 
sent a beautiful object for sovoral months 
together, and numerous other families, both 
annuals and perennials, may be advanta¬ 
geously employed in the same way.— Coun¬ 
try Gentleman. 
HEADING THE CURCULIO. 
Last spring I had two plum trees in my 
garden (and only two) that blossomed; 
about the time thoy were in full bloom I 
made a ring of tar around one, at a conven¬ 
ient distance from tho ground, and then 
kept up a daily watch of the plums as thoy 
increased in size. When they had attained 
about tho size of of a largo pea, I discovered 
upon one or two, that the curculio had com¬ 
menced its work. I then spread a sheot 
upon tho ground, and gave two or throe 
sudden jars upon tho treo, and brought 
down two of tho depredators, possum liko, 
which I immediately despatched. Upon 
looking at tho ring of tar, I found it had be¬ 
come sufficiently hard to admit any insect 
to walk over it with impunity. I then re¬ 
newed tho tar and kept it moist during tho 
remainder of tho soason. I found no moro 
curculios upon that troo, and tho entire fruit 
(save the one or two plums injured by the 
insect) camo to full maturity. Tho other 
troo (having dropped its fruit the year bo- 
foro, in consequence of tho operations of tho 
curculio) died before it was out of blossom. 
Tar is probably the best thing that can bo 
used to prevent their ascont, and in apply¬ 
ing it, it would bo well to first tie something 
around tho body of tho tree of sufficient 
size to prevent tho tar from running down 
as much as possible, and to keep it moist 
and sticky during the season of tho insect. 
It should be applied to overy plum treo in 
tho neighborhood, or tho insect, after it has 
attained a sufficient sizo, can and will fly 
from ono troo to another.— Michigan Far. 
CURIOUS DEVICE IN GRAFTING. 
The gardenors of Italy sell plants of jas- 
minos, rosos, honeysuckles, &c., all growing 
togethor from a stock of orange, myrtle, or 
pomegranate, on which they say thoy aro 
grafted. But this is a mere deception ; tho 
fact being, that the stock has its centre bored 
»ut so as to bo inado into a hollow cylinder, 
through which tho stoms of jasmines and 
other flexible plants are easily made to pass 
their roots intermingling with thoso of the 
stock. After growing for a time, tho in¬ 
crease in tho diameter of tho stoms, thus in¬ 
closed, forces them together, and they as- 
sumd all the appoaranco of being united to 
ono common stem. 
Apples for milch cows. —Five minutos 
ago a gentleman, who deals in facts and fig¬ 
ures, as woll as fino cattle, informed us that 
ho had fed out last winter more than two 
hundred barrels of swoot apples to his milch 
cows, and that tho increased quantity and 
richness in quality of tho milk paid him bet¬ 
tor than any othor use to which ho could 
hauo applied them. Ho states that ho is 
raising troos annually, for tho purpose of 
raising apples for stock. Anothor impor¬ 
tant statement of his, is, that since ho has 
fod apples to his cows, thoro has not been 
a case of milk fever among thorn.—JY. E. 
Farmer. 
Young Trees. —Trees coming into blos¬ 
som for tho first time, should not bo allowod 
to perfect much fruit. If it grows on tho 
ouds of tho limbs it bonds them out of 
shapo and directs tho sap from making 
wood into tho fruit, while tho growth of tho 
treo is what is desired. 
The Curculio. —Sift lime-dust over tho 
plum and apricot trees whon the dow is on 
them, and this little plaguo will not sting 
tho fruit. Two or three sprinklings, at in¬ 
tervals of sovoral days, will probably be suf¬ 
ficient. Try the same remedy on somo of 
your applo troos.— JY. E. Farmer 
To oach Heaven gives tho placo ho bost 
can fill. 
DON’T TAR YOUR TREES. 
Don’t tar your trees, or do any other fool¬ 
ish and unreasonable thing to them, because 
you have seen a neighbor do it—or because 
some anonymous, as woll as enormous, fool 
may have recommended it in the “ agricul¬ 
tural ” department of some newspaper.— 
Last summer, we saw, one day, from our 
sanctum window, a man with a kettle of tar 
and a brush in hand, daubing with the dirty 
stuff the sprightly young Elms in front of 
the Biddeford House,—and on ho went, with 
his kettle or brush, playing tho same filthy 
trick with overy treo up Adams Street.— 
Soon after, in looking over tho fences of two 
or three of the fine gardens in tho village, 
we noticed that young honest upright Fruit 
trees had been subjected to the same vile 
treatment. But wo guess tho owners saw 
whore thoy “ missed it,” for it was not many 
weeks boforo wo noticod tho gardeners, with 
soap and cloths busily at work in cleaning 
the trees. 
Whitewashing is another wrong practice, 
often inflicted upon trees. The effect of 
the lime upon the tree is docidedly bad— 
and an orchard, with all the tree trunks of 
a glaring white, has the impudent look of a 
fool. The color which nature has given a 
young apple tree, is the very best for the 
purpose, and all attempts at improvement, 
are futile. But above all else, dear reader, 
we beg of you never to “ Tar your Troos.” 
—Biddeford Journal. 
PEARS ON THORN STOCKS. 
The present system of dwarfing fruit 
troes, which is said to bo applicable to the 
pear as well as other varieties of cultivated 
fruits, removes, in a great measure. tho ob- 
joctionsjurged against tho thorn, by nursery¬ 
men. It has gonorally beon assorted, and 
no doubt truly, that while tho scion of pear 
does remarkably woll, and makes a rapid 
growth on tho thorn, the lattor is not large 
enough to secure a good sized and healthy 
tree. But in dwarfing, tho sizo is a second¬ 
ary consideration. Very productive trees 
are obtained by this method, and they aro 
very generally preferred in consequence of 
their being less liable to injury from winds, 
more oasily managed, and requiring far less 
ground. Thorn stocks, also, are easily ob¬ 
tained, whereas quince stocks and pear stalks 
are expensive, and obtained only with diffi¬ 
culty, and from a distance, of thoso who 
grow them for salo, and at an exhorbitant 
price.—JY. E. Farmer 
Lawns and Grass Plats should bo mown 
as often as once a fortnight, if it is desired 
to secure a fino, smooth turf.— Ohio Cult. 
Jpmncsitt (btoiioiinj. 
THE WAY TO DRY HERBS. 
There are few persons who would not be 
occasionlly benighted by a cup of good herb 
tea. I do not mean such as is made from 
herbs dried in tho sun, and boiled for half 
an hour in an old tin cup. Such a mess as 
that would mako oven a well person sick, 
who had ever known a bottor plan. 
By attending to tho following directions, 
all country peoplo can have good horbs; and 
if thoy wish to give a city friend somo ac¬ 
ceptable trifle in return for their dinner 
when thoy go into the city shopping, let 
them ro up and carry a good bundle of 
various kinds of herbs, for in the city oven 
a very small package costs sixpence, and a 
large proportion of stems at that. 
All kinds of herbs should bo picked as 
scon as they begin to blossom, tho dust 
rinsed off, tho leaves and flowers stripped 
from tho stems and spread on tins or clear 
paper and exposed to a moderate artificial 
heat till perfectly dry and crisp, then put 
away in a clean dry place. When required, 
mako the tea just as you would green tea 
for the table. Horbs are better dried in the 
shade than in tho sun, but a moderate heat 
from tho stove or oven is still better. 
ante fats, fa. 
Gum Arabic Starch. —Wo havo often 
heard ladies expressing a desire to know by 
what procoss the fino gloss observable on 
now linens, shirt bosoms, et cetera, is pro¬ 
duced, and in order to gratify them, wo sub¬ 
join tho following recipe for making Gum 
Arabic starch: 
Tako two ounces of fino whito gum Arabic 
powder—put it into a pitcher, and pour up¬ 
on it a pint or moro of boiling water, accord¬ 
ing to the degroo of strength you desire, 
and thon having covered it let it sot all 
night. In tho morning pour it carefully 
from tho dregs into a clean bottle, cork it, 
and keep it for use. A tablo spoonful of 
gum water, stirred into a pint of starch that 
has boon made in the usual manner, will 
givo to lawns oithor white or printed a look 
of nowness, when nothing can restore them 
after washing. It is also good much dilutod, 
for whito muslin and bobinet. 
To Keep Horseradish. —If you want to 
keep horseradish, grate a quantity while tho 
root is in perfection, put it in bottles; fill 
tho bottles with strong vinegar, and keep it 
corked tightly. You may thus havo a sup¬ 
ply at all seasons. 
To Remove Sunburn. —Of scrapod horse 
radish, tako as much as will fill a tablespoon. 
Pour on it half a pint of warm milk, use it 
beforo washing, allowing it to dry on tho 
skin, beforo applying tho water. Tho milk 
may bo cool, but will not keep fresh so long. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending May 24, 1853. 
Hiram Berdan, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provements in machines for pulverizing auriferous 
quartz and amalgamating the gold. 
Samuel R. Brick, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in gas burners. 
John B. Blair, of Alton, Ill., for improvement 
in an engraving machine. 
Thomas H. Dodge, of Nashua, N. H., for im¬ 
provement in kettle bails. 
John C. Fletcher, of Burlington, Iowa, for im¬ 
provement in radiators for stoves. 
John Hartin, of New York, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in water meters. 
Lewis Lupton, of Winchester, Va., for improve¬ 
ment in the construction of harrows. 
Stanislas Millet, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in meat cutters. 
Thos. Nelson, of Troy, N. Y., for improvement 
in watches and chronometers. 
Jephtha A. Wagener, of Pultney, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement iD clover harvesters. 
Alexander J. Walker, of New York, N. Y., for 
improvement in spirit lamps. 
Madison Page, of Williamsburgli, N. Y., assign¬ 
or' to Samuel W. Hawes, Chelsea, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in processes of distilling resin oil. 
RE-ISSUE. 
Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago, Ill., for im¬ 
provement in Reaping machines. Patented, Oct. 
23, 1847. 
DESIGN. 
Samuel D. Yose, of Albany, N. Y., for design 
for a parlor stove. 
NEW WASHING APPARATUS. 
A writer in the Boston Transcript gives 
an account of a now mode of washing, which 
is well worth tho attention of thoso who 
havo largo establishments to wash for. In¬ 
deed it would be convenient for little ones, 
too. If it does up tho business as well and 
as rapidly as ho says it will, it would bo a 
good plan for neighbors who live near to 
each other, to club together and set up an 
apparatus for this business. Tho operating 
agent is steam—ho says, that in tho base¬ 
ment story of tho St. Nicholas Hotel in New 
York, is a steam washing machine which 
operatos in tho following manner : 
Four hundred pieces aro thrown into a 
cylinder. This is thrown into rapid revolu¬ 
tion by a small steam engine. Steam is 
then let into tho cylinder under tho water 
and clothes, which raises them out of the 
water, passing through tho pores of the fab¬ 
ric, and out at tho top of tho cylinder. The 
clothes are then thrown down by the press¬ 
ure of steam into tho suds, and so on.— 
(Wo prosume tho steam must bo let in, and 
lot off alternately.— Ed.) 
The changes thus produced by tho rapid 
revolution, and by tho passage of steam 
through the clothes, washes them perfectly 
clean in tho space of ten minutes. Tho 
clothes aro then thrown in a body into an¬ 
other cylinder, and wrung by the revolution 
of tho cylinder, and then, by lotting in hot 
air, which passes through the clothes, they 
are perfectly dried and ready for ironing in 
seven minutes. 
Tho wholo timo occupied in washing, 
wringing, and drying, is seventeen minutos. 
Tho writer says tho advantages of this ap¬ 
paratus are—first an immediate saving of 
timo and oxponso in washing ; socond, the 
finost cambrics can bo washed without wear¬ 
ing them out or injuring the texture, as is 
necessarily dono by rubbing in the usual 
way.— Me. Farmer. 
NEW SAFETY LAMP. 
The number of accidents occasioned by 
the use of fluid lamps has induced a variety 
of inventions to prevent the explosions 
which have heretofore been by far too com¬ 
mon an occurrence. A most effectual meth¬ 
od for accomplishing this object has been 
invented by C. J. Conway, of New York 
City ; for his invention Mr. C. forms a reser¬ 
voir at the base of tho lamp, into which the 
fluid is poured without bringing the fluid 
can near the burning lamp. This reservoir 
is then closed and the fluid conveyed by a 
small air-tight tube up to a chamber or small 
reservoir near tho top of the lamp, from 
which thoro is no external opening except 
for the wicks. The upper end of tho tube 
is bent in tho form of a syphon with tho 
curved portion placod in the top of the 
smaller chamber, so that the fluid cannot 
pass from the upper to the lower reservoir, 
but may pass from tho lattor to tho former 
by simply inverting tho lamp. The receiv¬ 
ing reservoir being quite largo, tho upper 
reservoir may be filled several times without 
any now supply by tho same process of in¬ 
verting the lamp. The arrangement forms 
a very cheap, safe, and convenient article, 
and is also quite ornamental. Gustave Sel¬ 
im, No. 27 Bowery, is the agent for manu¬ 
facturing and selling, of whom further in¬ 
formation may bo obtained. 
Machine for Making Paper Bags. —This 
machine is of French invention and manu¬ 
facture. It is very compact, occupying a 
working spaco of only 5 foot by 4. With a 
small amount of power expended upon its 
working, and with a slight additional of 
manual labor, it will turn out complete, no 
mattor what tho strength or rosistanco of 
tho paper, 20 largo (in trado language 7 lbs.) 
bags per minute, and 12 large (from 12 lbs. 
to 28 lbs.) por minute. With tho super¬ 
intendence of two persons, after being put 
in motion, it will do the work of ton, tho 
bags superior to those constructed by hand, 
inasmuch as they will stand open and up¬ 
right. 
GIGANTIC STEAMERS. 
A contract has been made in England 
for the construction of a mammoth steamer 
ot upward of six hundred feet in length, 
and measuring 12,000 tons. Tho idea of a 
monster ship liko this is not original with 
John Bull. Mr. Burden, of Troy, in this 
State, a man ot wealth and a mechanic of 
original genius, some years ago suggested 
tho construction of a steamer of 700 feet in 
length, and ot corresponding depth and 
width, to run to Europe. Mr. Burden’s 
idea was that it is practicable to construct 
a steamer which would go across the Atlan¬ 
tic with as little motion as our Broooklyn 
ferry steamers run to our sister city. IIo 
pioposod that bis stoamor should draw 
seventy-five feet of water, and her top bo 
an hundred foot above the water lino. Tho 
maximum hight of the waves of the ocean 
from tho bottom of tho sea trough to tho 
crost of tho wavo is estimated not to exceod 
thirty-five feet; hence Mr. Burden conclud¬ 
ed that a vossel of soventy-five foot draught 
would always run on a nearly ovon keel._ 
There aro but few ports where such a ves- 
.sol could enter. On our coast, Newport of¬ 
fers tho greatest facilities of a good harbor, 
with oaso of access and abundance of water, 
and here Mr. Burden proposed to establish 
tho head-quarters of his ship. No steps 
were over taken to carry out tho majestic 
idea of our countryman, and it is now 
broached on the other side of tho Atlantic, 
and measures aro taken to secure its re¬ 
alization. The proposed British ship is to 
bo propelled by two sets of sido-wheols and 
a scrow at tho stern, having, we presume, 
three independent engines and sets of ma¬ 
chinery. Tho experiment of running a 
steamer of such gigantic proportions will be 
watched with intenso intorest, and, if suc¬ 
cessful, will mark a new era in navigation. 
— Tribune. 
STEREOTYPE MOULDS. 
At a lato meeting of tho Scottish Socioly 
of Arts, Daniel Wilson, LL. D., described 
and exhibited the new process introduced 
by him to tho notice of tbo Society, which 
consists in taking tho casts of the types, not 
in gypsum or stucco, but in blotting papor, 
overlaid with a thin layer of whiting, starch 
and flour paste, covered with a sheet of tis¬ 
sue paper, and impressed on the types by 
means of beating it with a fine brush. It 
is then dried on a hot steam-chest, whilo 
still adhering to tho typos; and by this 
moans a matrix is produced, and tho types 
aro again ready for distribution by tho com¬ 
positors within an hour. Tho advantages, 
he said, of the new process, are,—1st. Tho 
gieater certainty of the process; tho new 
matrix not being liable to warp or break, as 
the stucco is, or to remain in tho smaller in¬ 
terstices of the types, so as to l’equiro re¬ 
vision by tho picker. 2nd. Tho greater ra¬ 
pidity. the process being completed in ono 
hour by it, which could not bo dono in less 
than six by tho other. 3rd. Tho practica¬ 
bility of using tho matrix in certain cases 
for casting several plates ; whoroas, the 
stucco mould is always destroyed in a sin¬ 
gle casting.—4th. Tho much greator sim¬ 
plicity of the apparatus required; which, 
added to tho economy of time, and the con¬ 
sequent diminution of tho quantity of typo 
required for tho compositors, givo tho im¬ 
portant economic results which form tho 
great morit of tho now plan. A mould was 
made, and a cast taken, in presence of the 
meeting.— Edinburgh Courant. 
GRAIN SEPARATORS. 
An improvement in grain separators has 
been invented by John Bean, of Hudson, 
Mich. The improvement is made upon the 
common wind or fanning mill, whereby tho 
coarse foreign materials are extracted from 
the grain beforo being subjected to the blast 
of tho fan wheel, thus the grain is better 
prepared for the action of tho air and screen 
sieve. The moans by which this object is 
effected is by placing in the centre of the 
upper sieve a forked guide, with its point to¬ 
wards tho hopper containing tho chaff and 
grain, and two spouts, one near each of the 
outer corners of the upper sieve, and plac¬ 
ing beneath the sieve a thin metallic plate, 
corresponding in sizo with tho size of the 
sieve, so as to prevent the current of air 
striking tho grain until it has passed from 
tho upper sieve and plate to tbo screen sieve, 
thus effectually cleaning tho grain, first by 
sifting and separating, and afterwards by 
thoroughly expelling tho dust and finer 
particles by tho air blasts. Tho inventor 
has taken measures to secure his improve¬ 
ment by patent. 
GUM FROM STARCH. 
The Annals of Science gives tbo follow¬ 
ing as the process of manufacturing tho gum 
that is used for sticking lettor stamps : 
Take wheat starch, (not corn,) and pulver¬ 
ize it thoroughly, so as to mako it as fino as 
possiblo : placo this in a cloan iron vessel 
over hot coals, sufficient to raise tho tem¬ 
perature to about 400 deg., Fahrenhoit, and 
stir tho starch to prevent its burning or ad- 
horing to tho iron vessel. In a few min¬ 
utes it will be seen that the starch has be- 
como of a very light grey color, resembling 
in appearance, powdered slippery elm bark, 
or pulvis Ipecacuanha. Tho process is now 
completed, and tho preparod substance may 
bo put up in jars for future use. This sub¬ 
stance is called by Chemists, Leiocome. 
To make the gum or paste, mix this pow¬ 
der intimately with water and raise tho 
temperature gradually to a boiling point.— 
The mixture then becomes semi-transparent 
and is fit for use. It is much moro adhe¬ 
sive than any of the gums, and is tho bost 
article for pasto that I have over seen. 
He that would eat the kornel, must not 
complain of cracking the nut. 
